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I assume you assert that out of ignorance. Modern pesticides are extremely toxic in small quantities, some with immediate and easily observed effects, others with delayed and long-lasting effects.

Regulatory limits are often based on immediate observable effects. Delayed hard-to-observe problems tend to be ignored. See the toxicity of organophosphates and COPIND, and the history of its regulation (when regulations were enforced; when the upper limit was revised to consider the problems of COPIND). There are research results that suggest some Americans have a sufficiently high dietary intake of pesticides to affect their lives.

Furthermore, for many pesticides, there's no way for the policy makers and public to estimate its toxicity, because research is often suppressed, dissemination of toxicity information is often suppressed, policy change is often suppressed, etc. It's a well-established problem with the political-economy of America.

In many less-developed-countries, MNCs like Monsanto and Bayer have used aggressive and deceptive sales techniques and misrepresentation of product toxicity to persuade farmers to use pesticides far in excess (over 100 times the level of) of regulatory limits in the US. These products do get exported. Search for such news and policy discussions in India and China.

Lastly, pesticides don't "often" break down into chemicals similar, in biological activity, to estrogen. Pesticides can cause quick death, physical deformities in fetuses and young children, autism, epilepsy, mental retardation, cancer, organ failure, rashes, ulcers, can be used in biological warfare, etc. Some pesticides take decades to breakdown; Some pesticides have metabolites that are extremely toxic. Do refer to toxicity and metabolism research and data when evaluating the health risks of pesticide exposure and consumption, and/or consult an expert with little conflict of interest.

PS: Organic farm allows the use of (some classes of) pesticides as well.
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She makes an interesting point of an almost Nozickian demoktesis precursor going on here in the Marxist irony...
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As head of the Church of England she quite literally represents God in the UK political system...
One of the interesting things about lifehacking is that it seems to be one of those things where "a little knowledge is a dangerous thing" - kind of like the kid who takes Philosophy 101, learns a little bit about syllogisms and formal deductive fallacies like ad hominems, and goes around being obnoxious while never realizing that actually, most deductive fallacies are valid inductive arguments. (If a Nobel physicist claims something about a random point in quantum mechanics, he really is more likely to be correct than a guy sitting next to you on the bus, even though if you wrote this down on a syllogism test, this would be flagged as an 'argument from authority'.) We might call this "the valley of bad rationality" http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Valley_of_bad_rationality

In the case of lifehacking, it's more a case of "the valley of bad economics": of knowing just enough economics to understand that saving time is valuable and worth paying for upfront, but not being good enough to take the analysis any further and consider things like 1) how much time you are actually saving on net, 2) how long you are likely to be using any system and receiving the gains you paid for, 3) and whether you might not be overestimating both figures.

Frequently, you find that even large apparent gains are not actually justified solely on the basis of saving time because of the uncertainty and discounting of future gains you need to do.

To give some examples I recently worked through some numbers on various self-experiments I've done: http://lesswrong.com/lw/cih/value_of_information_8_examples/

The striking thing is that even the most dramatic self-experiments like using melatonin to improve my sleep did not justify very time-consuming (and more reliable) experiments, and the most efficient thing to do would just take melatonin on the strength of my background information and subjective impressions of efficacy.
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I work in this business. Lawsuits against big banks do happen all the time for stuff like this, you are right about that. But "They can settle for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars without batting an eye." is absolutely not true.

These big banks are very aware of their legal exposure and do a lot to minimize it. A bank (even a big one) would not authorize a legal reserve in the 10s of millions without lots of people very high up in management being involved. Big reserves like this are routine, but significant.
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How are they different from Kinvey (Techstars company at http://www.kinvey.com)? I'm not a developer, so I'm judging solely on the tagline and design I saw in the first 30 seconds of being on both sites.
>so they have to make money selling information about you.

What does this mean? Who have they sold information to? There is a big difference between selling ones information and using said information to better target ads. I was under the impression they do the latter, which seems perfectly legitimate to me.
Goodhearted? Why this looks like merely a calculated PR move for me?
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get smart

get bend

get cake and meet me

get lucky:

get me some abc

get this: These were ones that came to mind in 2 minutes.

get it?

edit: These lines give my comment a weird tone. Not intended, I just thought of random common examples.
I am having a hard time finding a comment on this thread criticizing Mr. Ive's achievements.
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I think you misunderstood. Fred is suggesting that Mark is smart for cashing out at $37 because the price is now $31. He also thinks that if Mark buys stock at $31 that will be a strong enough signal to send the price to $45. That seems a bit of a stretch to me but it's just a hypothetical situation, not a statement of fact.
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Which is extra confusing, because it's in the capital city.
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This is a good question. I don't know what the answer is, but there's a good chance http response objects aren't it.
> updated their growth estimates downward to reflect the fact that Facebook made less money in Q1 2012 than in Q1 2011

Was that only an estimate on their own personal analysis? Or did they divulge any additional internal numbers that wasn't made public before?
> Sure I have to close/re-open with sudo but its prompting me up front that I won't be able to save it.

No, you don't, and yes, you will:

:w !sudo tee %
Given the odd make up of the Lords I don't necessarily object to religious leaders being part of it, just that there are quite so many of them and that they all come from one religion.
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...is apparently posting to Hacker News.

My GMail account has been disabled.

"Unusual Usage - Account Temporarily Locked Down"

"To keep our systems healthy, Google has temporarily disabled your account. This primarily occurs when we detect unusually high levels of activity on your account. In most cases, it should take one hour to regain access. In rare cases, it can take up to 24 hours for access to be reinstated."

It's been at least 10 hours (Gmail app on my iPhone shows "last updated: 5/22"), and going "welp, you're fucked, wait a day to get your email" is not an acceptable answer. All of the "help" forms have no contact information and no other way to get in touch with someone, so I'm putting out the "hey, Google employees who read HN, tell me who I can talk to about this" bat signal.

I haven't changed my email use patterns at all in months; the message occurs on a browser in incognito mode, I don't use any extensions, etc.

On a more general note, on what planet is "you don't get any email for a day and have no recourse, and we won't tell you why, or let you do anything to fix that" an acceptable action?

UPDATE

At 10:20, my account magically unlocked itself (I did nothing between posting this thread - my iPhone started dinging like crazy and then I could log back in) and is now working again, without anyone waving the magic wand. So, if you run into this, just know you only have to go 10 hours without email, instead of a whole day. I have been using my personal domain for most mail for a while, and this has just prompted me to accelerate that process to at least be able to maintain backup ways to send/receive mail.

I do still hope this thread stays up for a while, primarily so that the workflow around these account lockout messages gets better. It's fine to lock accounts out for security reasons, and I understand that algorithms have problems. That said, there should be more details of what they think triggered the algorithm, and a way to remediate it. If they think it is unauthorized access, try to auth with n+1 factors instead of the n normally required, etc.
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FDA requirements for electronic data transmission (21 CFR Part 11) are a hassle to implement even for devices starting from a blank slate. That being said the sooner NTP standards are universally required, the better. As the article mentions it will be very resource-intensive to retrofit devices for this standardization - an EMR consultant's dream project.
Not stating an opinion either way, but describing what the lawsuit is actually about here. Morgan Stanley's analyst, Scott Devitt, adjusted their estimates and they then gave that information to high-end MS customers, but not to the public. The question is whether or not MS has a responsibility as an underwriter to disclose that information to an audience broader than its own clients as material information about the company, or if they had any additional material information about the company that led them to cut that estimate.

More: http://dealbreaker.com/2012/05/even-the-underwriters-were-si...
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Power to the democratic shareholder masses! Down with monarchism in the board room!

Seriously. If the founders don't want shareholders mucking with their property, then don't go public. Stay private.
Bill Gates is hardly "dabbling" in philanthropy, though. When you try to eradicate a major disease as the first step of your long-reaching plans, you get to use nicer words than "dabbling".
I just bumped up the sampling rate to 11025Hz and that seems to have helped.
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I agree with you on the orthogonality, and wish you luck in getting a very wide base of feedback.

I think Python could be the best language for the web and for any programming anywhere: in the future, if it lives up to its potential, there will be a time when no one should even consider learning anything else as a first or only language. But, for a web developer, I don't think that time is now.

I hope you take fundamental redesigns very seriously moving forward. Good luck.
The word Go is far too overloaded in the English Language, and the difference is not always clear from context.

This title could easily have refferred to the correct meaning of 5 weeks with the programming language Go, 5 weeks playing and studying the game Go, or in a slightly colloquial usage, 5 weeks of constantly doing things and going.

And those are just the meanings that make sense in this context. It is also a verb with a wide variety of (related) meanings and forms a command part of a command in multiple computer languages (T-SQL uses Go, goto is infamous in Basic, etc).
Ah, nothing like solving those pesky first world problems.

I have always got the plastic bottle of ketchup. For the final third you just leave it upside down. The ketchup pools by the cap. Fancy tech not required.
The "penalty", as I understand it, is neither a fine nor a record of wrongdoing, as paying at the end of the year is not illegal. The penalty is the IRS saying that it would like to have the interest back that it otherwise would have earned if you had paid earlier.

As far as I understand, it's perfectly kosher to wait until the end of the year to make payments; you just have to make sure you have the money to actually pay then.

Disclaimer: I am not an accountant nor do I have expertise on this matter.
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> Yes, but everyone I know who does real work with Objects knows that the
> textbook definitions aren't what people do with real systems. That
> makes it sound like the author only knows the textbook definitions.

Phrases like 'who does real work' and 'people do with real systems' makes it sound a bit like a 'no-true-scotsman'. I imagine that was not your intent.

Anyway, I think the point is that the common perception of object systems are likely those commonly used in Java, C++, and C#. I say 'likely' simply because I am guessing that those are the more popular by volume of code written. Go has a different approach than those.
It makes sending a direct message a lot easier than wading through the web UX. It's great for power users
It's useful, not "usefull"
will be there! Thanks for organizing :-)
"..it's perhaps useful to remember that d accountname Some message here will send a direct message to accountname, even if entered in the public tweet box or via another client"

d, and and dm as well.
A couple of things to note about Jony Ive. One, he's from Chingford, a painfully unfashionable suburb of London in Essex, the brunt of most geographically targeted UK humour.

And two: he studied at Newcastle Polytechnic (as I believe it was then), about as far as you can get from the hallowed halls of Oxford and Cambridge (both physically and metaphorically) whilst still staying in higher education in the UK.

In short - it's not where you come from, it's what you do.
While the regulation on GMO labels is evident, it's hard to decide whether GMO is good or bad, and whether it is right or wrong to encourage or discourage GMO.

Bacteria in beef is problematic to justify because the bad outcomes tend to be low-probability events, and the events can often be attributed to other causes, so it's hard to pin it down on food safety practices.

Try something more clear-cut, like the history of trans-fat regulation as compared to when the adverse health-effects of trans-fat were identified, and whether trans-fat was allowed as a food additive with compelling evidence for its safety (by appeal to long-term epidemiological data or otherwise). Trans-fat is also clearer because the government has encouraged (with marketing dollars) its consumption over other kinds of fat.

I'm sure there are many better examples than GMO labeling and bacteria in food.
I don't know what competition you have, but you've priced at several times higher per card than I would expect to pay - and regularly do pay - for (nice quality) business cards..

edit: And in terms of use case, I don't quite get the whole "business card for your app" idea. Business cards are about sharing contact details, sure the aim is often to make a sale, but it's not to directly drive a sale. I just can't personally (I'm not an apps guy, but I am in marketing) think of a time when these would be more useful than a business card, or on the other side more useful than a small flyer/leaflet.
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Apparently "get" is a twitter command and hence cannot be displayed as twitter tries to execute a command rather than display a message. Strange that it cannot pass the message as a string to avoid it being caught as a command?

There a few other twitter oddities. You can actually tweetmore than 140 characters.

Face book has a thing with certain numbers representing users in status updates.
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I don't know, but I guess that the compiler itself has been seriously tested on Mac OS X, and WWDC is June 11-15. Esepcially if they want/dare to use this for compiling Mountain Lion, I expect there to be some kind of release around that time.
Here's me addressing it: I don't care.

They aren't locking other browsers out (my FF 11 on Linux is working adequately). They're going to market regardless, I'd rather see things like this than raw ads.

I assume you never use Google since they just use search to push their ads?
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it's a little too agressive. for example, i set it so firefox automatically handles all web links, and that means it is impossible to use the stock browser anymore. opening the browser and loading the homepage triggers an intent to load a webpage, so android opens firefox and loads the homepage there.

also, it can get a little annoying to constantly be asked what app you want to use to do things, but this annoyance goes as you click the "don't ask me again" checkbox for more and more intents.
Yes and no. I think he is a visionary CEO that knows how to get things done, but he's an engineer, while jobs was not.

I think that Jeff Bezos is more Jobs than Zuckerberg is, but who knows.
To seed the discussion, and partially answer my own question, there's some good stuff in this Quora question:

http://www.quora.com/What-are-the-best-books-in-English-on-c...
Yes! I'm waiting for a free day when I have the time and motivation... I have been waiting for some time, and the list keeps growing, to the point where it is now daunting.

A terrifying amount of fun awaits.

Perhaps we need a HN book club?
Founders are not forced to make this choice as exemplified by the GP.

If you don't like founders keeping control, don't buy their shares.
by "sold information" he did not necessarily mean they offer it to anyone to buy on a free market: hey Joe, pay us $10 for 1,000 real-life users and their full info, likes, geos, photos, etc etc.

But they took money (sold themselves?) to shady individuals like DST, where Milner worked with individuals such as the now jailed tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. I would assume, if you put $200MM into company like Facebook, you have an admin-root access to their databases. With so much cheddar you willing to pump into it, I cannot imagine it to be otherwise. Who knows what they really did with all users information.

edit: to make it more clear, I give you an example. Long time ago I have registered for Facebook with my developer email. I am limited with places I've given this email to. But now and then I see emails popping up in my spam mailbox that are extremely closely related to the output I've been given to FB wall, likes etc. Now, I have no proof whatsoever, but I dont see a "problem" why they wouldnt put $200MM into company and have access to all the email addresses organized by what people like, want and then just sell it to spammers (or actually, having your own spam cannon in the net).
Then how do they get your money?
However, it's fairly clear what one of the downsides would be: media manipulation. Allowing Rupert Murdoch and his media empire an even tighter grip on UK parliament would be nothing but a terrible thing.
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There's a list of approved food additives for most developed countries.
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He is also trustee of the "Openness Trust"! Kind of ironic when you know what he thinks of people who "Trust" him.
> In short, they're using JS as a middle language because there's no other way to do it. JS is a terrible language, but because of how the web historically developed, we're forced to use it.

Like any language, some people like it and some people hate it. I love it. If you stay away from the bad parts, it's a cool, flexible dynamic language. And it is pretty good to compile to, benchmarks of C compiled to JS for example are quite good.
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Every large database is of interest to certain groups, be it law enforcement, secret services or criminals (or any combination thereof).

Therefore, even with the cleanest privacy record, FB still can be forced to give away your information. This can only be prevented by using decentralized systems, which pose a smaller target to the above groups, or by quitting FB and forbidding all your friends to ever mention you there.
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Thanks for the comments. I take your point about OO, but I was aiming at producing a broad overview of Go which necessarily means simplifying in some parts. To 90% of developers today brought up on strongly typed languages such as Java and C#, OO means single inheritance type hierarchies.
I haven't been on HN for as long as most folks here. What is the policy on grammar correction? I know personally I want to be corrected if I make an error, but I don't think everybody feels that way...

Just curious so as to not rock the boat.
It's still the same fundamental selection method, though. It's less bad if elections are staggered, but it's still skewed by the the same forces - for instance, public opinion can be consistently wrong about a lot of things. A purely random selection process would be better, but I've got no idea how that would work in practice.
There may be some pressure for this, but in most high schools in America it simply isn't needed. You can get A's and B's mostly by showing up if you are reasonably intelligent. Even getting all A's wasn't that difficult.
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I was with you until the "extra U$ 1000 on your salary" :) .

I've got great plans for those (getting married, buying a house, having kids).
Whoa, I didn't know about being able to import packages from a URL. That is pretty slick.
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I even made a cheesy video ;-)
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You speak of "going public" as if it's somehow turning over power to the general public. It's not. It's a colloquial term for a series of regulatory steps required to permit non-accredited investors to invest in a business. These steps are primarily designed not to exercise control over the operations of the company or its ownership and power structures, but to ensure a certain level of disclosure to investors whose resources and influence are limited.

There is nothing about going public that implies a general relinquishment of control of the company, nor is there anything about going public that mandates a particular ownership or power structure. Companies have "gone public" by selling only a few percent of their stock. Split voting rights are very common. None of this is even remotely illegal or unethical so long as it is disclosed, as it has been here.

If you do not like a company's control structure, you do not have to invest in it, whether the company is "public" or "private". As a shareholder, your relationship to the company is the same whether it's public or private.
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FWIW there's already a library called Objectify that's a Java-based ORM (lite) for AppEngine:

http://code.google.com/p/objectify-appengine/

If you want your project to be found easily (on search engines) I always suggest:

1. Prefer a made up word to a non-English word (or a word in any live language for that matter); and

2. Don't choose a name that something else in the same or similar space shares. They've been around longer. It's just going to make your life harder.

YMMV.
>> And even though Mr. Zuckerberg has a controlling interest in Facebook, it now has to be accountable to stockholders. The tension between user privacy and monetizing data in service of stock price is a real one—and seems unlikely to fall on the side of users.

That's the thing that botters me the most in this whole thing. If things were already very bleak on the privacy side, that concern has just been blown to smitherings with FB going public. The data mining aggressiveness will only gain momentum as the company is pressured into delivering results to stockholders.