skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Farmers in the UK inject cows with estrogen and antibiotics to make them grow faster and bigger.

This is not true. EU rules ban the use of growth hormones and antibiotics as a growth agent in livestock. Antibiotics are still (overused) for disease prevention but there is a realisation that this needs to change (whether it will is a different matter).

I can't find more recent data, but here are figures from 2011 on antibiotic use in livestock in countries around the world, including New Zealand, the US and the EU.

https://amr-review.org/sites/default/files/Info%204%20bar%20...

Also, some British supermarkets are now publishing farm antibiotics data from their supply chains:

http://www.fwi.co.uk/livestock/waitrose-asda-ms-publish-farm...
This is all true, but it's not unique to CMS software. Everything you write here is true of operating hosted software in general.

Hosting a Drupal site on Pantheon or Acquia does NOT relieve the site owner of testing and applying patches, fixing the site when a patch breaks something, etc.

In terms of hosting, the LAMP stack itself is very stable; setting Linux, Apache, and MySQL to auto-apply stable updates is very unlikely to break Drupal. Even in PHP, going from 5.x to 7.x required some careful testing, but minor updates are generally fine.

The security advantage of open-source CMS software is that the community update process reminds site owners to do this stuff, and gives them the code to do it.

In contrast, a custom-developed CMS can sit there with security holes in it for months or years, and the owner will have no idea until their site is hacked.
> - But there are no tigers in Los Angeles!

Except that there are, and are kept from terrorizing the population by very effective devices: iron cages.
(iirc there is at least one Sumatran tiger in the LA zoo)
My default is DDG, but I append !g so often that I am practically using Google at this point.
> data on the other hand is a much more diverse & fluid asset that travels via a million unmonitored/encrypted channels and can be copied easily

Securities are quite diverse. And people regularly try to get around securities regulation by calling their securities "stamps" or "tokens" or "coins" or whatever. A regulator for social media companies over a certain size might not be a bad idea. (My preference is consumer controls with strict penalties for non-compliance, à la how Illinois governs biometric data [1].)

[1] http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-facebook-taggi...
That doesn't really make sense. Facebook is a large advertising platform for journalists and media that have existed for a very long time. It's not exactly a space for creators like Youtube.
Segue: part 2 of why most unit testing is waste [pdf]
Looks like Amazon made a supplementary video about this, but it's pretty short:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57P_dCEPtRw
This doesn't sound right. As far as I heard they make something like 20% or more profit on sold cars but due to constant heavy investment they burn through cash reserves.
To me it became obvious during the 90s that they must all be doping. It's simply not possible that a lot of top 10 guys get caught while the others don't engage in doping. This stuff is just too effective. I have seen people take steroids and putting on 30 pounds of muscle within a few months after stagnating for years of hard training. You simply can't compete cleanly against that. As far as I know the benefits of epo are also spectacular.
Building resilience in Large scale distributed systems
> Hmm...you can't choose how you dress?

I was commenting this about "hackers generally don't care what you look like". Not "based on choice" part.

> Hmm...I'd humbly suggest that the primary problem here is not the "based on choice" part, but rather the killing part.

Personally I'm uncomfortable with killing or oppressing anybody. Some people feel that oppressing or killing "based on choice" is fine. I'm not comfortable to split traits by choices or immutable.
Scientists Reveal the Inner Workings of Yellowstone Supervolcano
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16633986
The fact that google assistant won't even work without enabling web&app activity really pisses me off. Most of time I use the voice controls to set timer or notes. Why does it need my web history to do that?
> Trust your engineers to do the right thing on their own and they might just surprise you.

I mean - trust but verify. While I largely agree with you it's always demotivating for the team to realize one dev is doing no actual work and getting away with it. Obviously not good for the business either.
Public health hazard.

[Edit] The author, Gary Klek, is a firearm-ownership supporter.
There's a certain difference between acting upon rational and irrational beliefs.

And all those decades, while Western broadcasts were being furiously jammed by the USSR, Soviets were broadcasting just as much on their own propaganda channels. Which weren't being jammed either.
I don't think any clean athlete has won a top cycle race in a long time. You can't compete against dopers.
I’ll add a thought:

The great irony in Facebook’s situation is that it is purely the result of hubris. In 2010, Zuckerberg saw FB as the next great platform. The API was released to much acclaim. But the API essentially gave away the keys to the kingdom!

Facebook either 1) didn’t realize that they weren’t a platform and the social graph was the most valuable information they possessed, and were blinded by ignorance, or 2) didn’t want to be “just” an advertisement business, and was blinded by hubris.

Maybe it was a bit of both, but given how engineering driven FB is, I’d guess there was a healthy dose of #2, and probably still is.
I’m waiting for an answer to this: will the least invasive platforms end up the least intelligent?
Why would google ever sell data? Surely it is their greatest asset?
This has been my stance for about five years now. I don’t want to give all this info to companies I don’t trust. Apple devices might cost more, but Apple only makes money from you when you give them money. Google and Facebook make money when you give them money and then make money when you give them information too. There’s a perverse incentive, they want you to use it more and give them more information because they make more money from selling you rather than selling to you.

If you want that to change, you have to be willing to offset that price difference from your own wallet.
Hard drives definitely have proprietary blobs on them. You just have even less visibility on them.
We're learning that good is relative so do no evil can't mean anything good for us, long-term, unless we're Google.
For those who didn't actually get to the end of the article, he hasn't given up yet -- he made the decision to, and then the overwhelming support he received changed his mind. He's still "fighting the good fight" for the sake of kinder treatment of cows and letting them stay with their calves.

More info (and you can also support him) here: https://www.happycowmilk.co.nz/
"To continue reading this interesting article, pay us a shit ton of money, thank you"
Epidemiologist study epidemics
At least the targeting is advertising and not drone strikes.
range, speed, acceleration, comfort, brand recognition, design.

On range, Tesla Model 3 only has a slight advantage over the Chevy Bolt, 20 miles based on third party test. Tesla isn't remotely close to 2x on range unless you're comparing the Model 3 to a first generation Nissan Leaf.

Speed? Definitely not 2x, unless you're actually claiming Model 3 can do >180 mph (Bolt is rated a 91 mph max speed, and the first generation Nissan Leaf had a max speed of 93 mph. Model 3 is rated at 140mph max speed).

Acceleration? Chevy Bolt is 7 seconds 0-60, while the Tesla Model 3 is 4.6 seconds. Not 2x.

Comfort? Almost tied. Advantage? Bolt, considering that the most expensive Bolt (with all options) is still several thousand $$$ cheaper than the cheapest Model 3 available for the foreseeable future.

Brand recognition? Depends on where you are. Everyone has heard of Chevrolet. Not everyone has heard of Tesla.

Design? Depends on what you're looking at. If you mean just the lines of the vehicle as they were intended, sure, the Tesla wins. If you mean the lines of the vehicle as put into production, the Bolt wins, hands down. The Model 3 is already infamous for misaligned panels, large gaps in the exterior between panels, misaligned window panes, misaligned handles, etc, and these are all signs of poor design failing to account for manufacturing tolerances. You won't find a Bolt with any of those problems.

So...basically what it boils down to is that Tesla is evolutionary at best in some categories and a step backwards in others.
How a NASA Team Turned a Smartphone into a Satellite Business
March for the Ocean T-Shirt
Technically those other two filed the incorporation papers and started noodling around. It’s easy to imagine Tesla with Elon but impossible without. The “founders” didn’t get very far and the future was bleak.
I'm 72. I don't need much space. During the summer I live in an 8 foot by 11 foot camper and spend considerable time sitting outside in what could be a common space. I would love to live in San Francisco. This might make it possible, however I expect the price would be jacked up so even that would be impossible. This needs to be some sort of coop to work.
To a first approximation, a type is an equivalence class of expressions such that the set of valid programs is closed under substitution of one of these expressions for any other (compare with the definition of a part of speech in grammar). In a typical dynamic language, anywhere the syntax requires an expression, any expression will do, so there is only one equivalence class.

This is in contrast to, say, Java, where (2/3) can be part of a valid program, but ("abc"/3) cannot, so 2 and "abc" cannot belong to the same equivalence class.
Do they do something like: http://fireless.cs.cornell.edu/publications/dtp_sigcomm16.pd... ?
> Armstrong was hardly the first to dope in cycling.

I don't think he's claiming he's the first. I think he's claiming he's the worst.
When looking at something like joining yc, wouldn't the prestige make it more valuable, because of the extended network and the increased reverence shown to it by outsiders?
Not dissing Munro & Associates, they seem highly competent - but i was amused that they literally have the conjoined triangle of success as their logo.
Btw. for Germany it' 10.1 and 10.2 here: https://www.eventbrite.de/support/articles/de/Troubleshootin...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXebEeGwn0

Here's a video of another blind dev. What I find fascinating in both cases is the speed at which they use voice assistance. I can barely make anything out.
I’ll second Miyoko. My wife’s vegan and I mostly can’t stand vegan cheese but that one is pretty good as a spread on crackers.
That’s basically the same for the users, though. I’m currently planning a new release for one of my own apps, and I’ve got a similar problem.

And still, I’d rather wait a few weeks with a release myself before I’d ever release a version that deletes a user’s settings, or, much worse, their actual data.

If I have time once I’m done with my releases, maybe I’ll be able to take a look at the issue you’re having in VLC, and maybe I can fix it.
> The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the leading national public health institute of the United States. (source: wikipedia).

People dying is a health issue, and it's CDCs job to investigate how to prevent / minimise deaths. Doesn't matter if the health issues come from viruses or guns. They also investigate deaths related to motor vehicle crashes etc.

And IIRC they can ask about anything, just not publish it themselves (what a stupid law the americans came up with). So other people getting their hands on those numbers and publishing themselves, why not…
Cows and other animals involving factory farming are the least endangered species on the planet. There is literally zero effort to eliminate cows from the gene pool, except by activists who want to see these animals fend hilariously ineffectively for themselves in the wild. Their predators and their reliance on humans would ensure the genocide you speak of would actually happen.
TRY Not TO LAUGH I DARE YOU
The "main goal" of the CDC "is to protect public health and safety through the control and prevention of disease, injury, and disability in the US and internationally" [1]. Guns cause injury and disability.

The CDC's work around guns has been an area of "partisan dispute" [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_an...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centers_for_Disease_Control_an...
Where do these appear? If it's in the Recommendations, you can delete them, then a link appears called "Tell Us Why", and in that dialog you can see which video in your history influenced that recommendation (and tell it to stop recommending stuff based on it).

It's always worked quite well for me. I have zero crap in my recommendations.
Why not just compromise on the plastic jugs? I don't understand why he was so hung up on the plastic jugs. The humane milking part seems much more important, and more people would probably buy it in that form.

Why would customers who didn't recycle the plastic bottles be more inclined to recycle the glass jugs? Just to get a tiny deposit back?
After the Damore ousting I've been doing all semi-risky searches on Bing. I treat Google as the safe-for-work search engine. I guess I had this epiphany - before Damore I trusted them with everything. Post Damore, I saw that Google was run by a new kind of explicitly political people. That's scary.

(That is to say: I now only trust Google with pedestrian queries.)
Do you think that this would have happened even if Hillary had won the election?
Why would you hire a bunch of critics? “Experts” are stuck in the past. It’s hard to find experts willing or able to let go of their baggage and apply their expertise to a current situation.
Exactly. After I read the last sentence, I thought an apt title would be: I failed... NOT (yet)
There is a group of people in our Open Source community that is getting together to build a Facebook replacement, and mentioned this $100K prize. Open invite to anybody interested in wanting to join their team :) I myself am too busy working on the underlying libraries for it.

None-the-less, here is our progress:

https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/lanz4e6z (update 1, idea)

https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/gfqglxvd (update 2, accounts)

https://d.tube/#!/v/marknadal/ganoayt8 (update 3, private messages)

Here is the docs for the End-to-End Encryption library (a wrapper around the Browser's Native WebCrypto API)

https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/SEA
Probably 99% of bookmarks I am not ever going to see again, but finding that 1% is such a lifesaver.

As in I am doing a research on some topic and I already have a whole bunch of links nicely tagged and ready to go.

The problem is that you do not know which 1% are going to be useful again.
Coinbase acquired Cipher, a competing “decentralized app browser”
Just because something is free/volunteer doesn't mean it doesn't have any responsibilities to its audience.

If an organization volunteers to give free food to people, they can't just give them any crap, or stale food, etc, and shun it with "hey, it's free".
The rachelbythebay.com new_blog_post auction:

1) Navigate to rachelbythebay.com and refresh until new blog post appears
2) Submit new rachelbythebay.com new_blog_post to HN
3) Crosseth fingers and hope that your HN post is the one that gains HN traction, out of the five or ten others that have also just posted the rachelbythebay.com new_blog_post.
4) Profit, as yours is the one! Receive much HN points!

I'm ready for my downvotes now, but this is a fairly good illustration as to how popular almost any rachel post is on HN. Her articles are actually quite good and usually engaging to the reader, and have that certain knack/quality that endears itself to the HN readership.
Finding a job that gives you a sense of purpose
Launch your satellite to orbit from €25k
I implemented the HTTPS-only Pages feature in this release.

I just wanted to say that GitLab is a great project to contribute to, with a very friendly and professional community! Definitely recommend to anybody interested in contributing to a project themselves.

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/16273

[2] https://about.gitlab.com/contributing/
Most of the waste resulting from disposable packages isn't the investment to create them, it's the waste that's left over and has to be disposed of.
>No actually, jbk is being honest and realistic.

Nope, he was being sarcastic.

What he essentially said is: "We put in the actual work, so we can put out whatever crap, and you either chime in, or put up with it".

Which would be good, if they didn't also promote their project as good to people.
> References are opaque handles for values, you can just deference them and compare them for equality. Pointers are not opaque, their values are address and you can perform arithmetic on them.

What about Go?

It claims to have pointers. You can't do arithmetic on them, but you can take the address of a pointer so you can do all the cute double dereference list and tree algorithms.
I'm still not sure what you're trying to do...
I believe the author was being as pedantic as they were in order to avoid having the discussion you just brought up.

Java doesn't do "object assignment" so you cannot say

Foo d = new Foo(...);
Foo c = d;

And get two objects, you have two references to the same object. If you invoke a method on c or d it will be dispatched to the same code. So c.SetVaueX(10) and print d.GetValue(x) will show you the same value of 'x'.

In C++ or other pointer languages you could have

*d = *c

which would do an assignment of the bits from one to the other, then manipulating d would manipulate its copy of the bits and manipulating c would manipulate its copy of the bits.
Tesla has had billboards all over LA and SF for many years now, so your definition of advertising must be very different from the normal definition. Any company following GAAP (standard accounting practices) would also consider stunts like the "flame thrower" and the Roadster in space to be marketing activities.

The only marketing activity Tesla hasn't actually used is paid TV commercials, unless you include Hulu or online streaming, in which case... Tesla has actually used every mode of advertising commonly used by its competitors.

The fact that Tesla doesn't actually categorize its marketing activities as marketing in its financial statements just means that Tesla isn't following GAAP.
Troll me once shame on you, troll me twice shame on me.

What if the older, available version, which he just claimed had 2000 bugs, had 2000 bugs that resulted in data loss? How can you legitimately argue that he's not looking out for his users?
How Blind People Type and Dial Numbers on a Touchscreen
I did something like this for 2 years using MTN as well to pay a farmer family in rural Uganda every month but I had met them first through a friend, wouldn't trust Olx and other sites though a few times I sent money randomly that way. It was literally spare bitcoin change I had in various wallets that inflated to a ridiculous price and I exchanged them directly to mobile money, then transferred it for 24mos.

As other posts point out, it is a risk to flood a foreign market with capital though, you could help one family but screw over people you don't know about who's income ceases because you interfered and your patronage displaced their daily hustle somehow. When I discovered another large bounty of old coins I was hesitant to try this again since I know jack about the local economy. Paying for education seems a better plan, through somebody you know to take a pro makeup/hair course or some other trade. Pro training they can then start their own small business and train an assistant, there's no work in any of these countries like Uganda.

Edit, there's a Gambian newspaper where people can go to their office and request help that's published. Better than random CL/Olx giving http://foroyaa.gm/category/those-who-need-help/
The book to read is entitled "Caffeine blues" - which you will not need to read completely to be cured of coffee forever.

Finding tons of papers stating something or another about one of the most lucrative 'non-banned' drug in the world in the period of greatest drug illiteracy to information ratio is no great feat, my friend. Certainly, one can find tons of papers on the web on the merits of perpetual motion machines.
Stateful JWT Sessions for API
The answer is decentralized event ticketing obviously
I'd give them the benefit of the doubt here. It's probably just because of the voice control, which can be presumably used for web search. And they personalize the web search with your history.

It looks more like poor engineering than a dark pattern.
Simply using the terminology used by the OP and being refuted by the comment above.
Usually the "Up next" queue where it supposedly suggests related videos. I don't pay much attention to the recommendations on the main page or anything.

And some have been ads. One that sticks out was selling some crazy deep state book, but the ads was mostly just selling a conspiracy theory about the FBI.
>* Gmail

Protonmail. Encrypted, ad free, and no one reading your email.

>Search

Duck Duck Go. Google is actually well past it's prime on this front. Their per-customer result filtering is now so aggressive that the filter bubble they apply to you is now an active impediment to web use. I generally find that I cannot replicate a google search on a different computer with the same search term, and about 20% of the time it is impossible to find the same result on a second computer. DDG's results are much more accurate to your search terms as written.

>Docs

Any desktop office suite, be it libre- of microsoft-. Unless multiplayer documents are a core component of your work (my commiserations if they are), google docs is objectively less capable as a professional grade editing suite than any of the major desktop based options, due to its considerably smaller and web-ui centric feature-set.
>The fast/slow distinction is roughly comparable to the unit/integration distinction

I think you answered the question yourself. Speed is also shown in the table that defines the types of tests.

You can name the categories foo tests and bar tests if you wish.

Anti-pattern 1 - is companies that have only the "fast suite" you are talking about and anti-pattern 2 is companies that have only the "slower suite".
This happened to me today as well. I also run 2FA. Did not see any suspicious devices or activity in the log, other than the sent emails.
I'm highly suspicious that every time there is one of these threads, agile-consulting companies simply monitor the web for them and send a bunch of posters over to make up fictional srories about how agile is going great where they work.

I've never been in an environment where you could say no to the b.a.'s under agile either. And I've tried being more articulate as well and that just results in the same claims to your manager as "no" does that you're not being cooperative, a team player, etc.

I'm pretty sure after working several places that did agile that most of these "worked great for me" stories are made up.

I've never met another dev in real life who did something other than agile and preferred agile.