skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would've been pretty easy to see what sort of health impact cigarettes had if there had been much rigorous study at the time. The common pesticides used on farm goods, quite to the contrary, have been very rigorously evaluated by numerous bodies, especially the FDA. The rigor is likely largely a result of the public's learned suspicion of everything.

While it's good to anticipate that there are lots of things that can cause cancer, it's not a scientific approach to take to assume that all goods are guilty until proven innocent. Nor is the naturalistic fallacy scientific--you fall into it with your comment on things close to the natural food chain being more likely to be healthy, if I take you to be referencing goods that can cause long-term health problems like cancer.

While you're right that it doesn't have to be a binary choice, it actually essentially is. More or less all GM/pesticide-treated goods have literally no observed downside, and so while we will continue to monitor long-term population health performance to ensure that nothing is causing any issues, right now we find that it is only a choice between more or less starvation; higher or lower food prices; better or worse produce quality; and higher or lower rates of crop damage, which can lead to health issues in those who consume tainted crops.
Interesting that one of the original "noSQL" databases that is still going strong today, Pick and its variants, was not mentioned in the article at all.

Universe and JBase are both well supported on Linux and there are several multi-billion dollar (revenue) companies running their core business on it - I work for one of them.
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Can someone explain what he means?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoonosis#Partial_list_of_zoonos...

Click through a few of these and note how many of them are spread by animals in living in a low density, no antibiotics, natural diet environment.
Except some research shows that cooking foods allows us to reach calories that would typically be unavailable due to denaturing things like plant cell walls.

There is also research that shows a correlation between exposure to pesticides and both birth defects and cancer.

Until more conclusive evidence exists that proves otherwise, why take the risk?
I cannot for the life of me see what Qubes has to do with Apple.
How many things can you mark as private in an application GUI toolkit like Gnome or KDE/Qt and make them available to your own applications? Private/public API doesn't really make sense for GUI or sound libraries.
Such as?

I'm far from an expert but this has been an interest of mine for years -- deeper than just watching Food, Inc.

You're right that livestock in feedlots carry awful diseases. But in proper conditions--you could even say humane conditions--they don't inherently carry any more diseases than you or I.

I mean, what are you arguing for exactly? That we shouldn't use natural sources of NPK? Try your hand at explaining that.
I didn't read whatever he's referring to either. It looks like Textmate is receiving regular (almost daily) updates so I assume his initial opinion of Textmate 2 was not very good.
That has more to do with the cultivar than the method of growth.

Standard supermarket vegetables are bred to withstand shipping and handling, not for taste.
TextMate 2 was just sent to retire on a farm upstate, kids.

http://www.marco.org/2012/08/09/textmate-2-open-sourced
The people who think that non-organic foods are low in vitamins are probably also likely to be afraid of far worse health issues that could potentially come from consuming the "chemicals". So while it certainly makes economic sense to take vitamin supplements like you described if non-organics are just lower in nutrition content, I think there's worry about worse negative health problems coming from eating non-organics.
Joanna Rutkowska is famous in computer security circles and highly credible on this particular topic.

The "black hat sorts of exploits" attributed to her tend to be things like, "abusing odd, barely-documented corners of x86 chipsets to bypass hardware-encrypted trusted boot roots". Thinking less of a professional in my field for having exploits attributed to them tends to be a bad idea, but it's a uniquely bad idea in Rutkowska's case.

Outside of conference presentations, Rutkowska doesn't have much peer-reviewed work in the literature. That's because Rutkowska is originally from the malware/rootkit/virus part of the industry. For obvious reasons, antivirus doesn't generate a lot of peer-reviewed academic research. One of those obvious reasons is that they're too busy printing money hats to bother. (This to my chagrin; I am very much not from the AV/malware part of the field).

I'm not vouching for Qubes or even saying that I think the approach (of semi-transparently allocating secure VMs for each application or trust domain on the system) is viable. But Rutkowska is worth taking seriously.
Invisible Things is pretty well respected in the trusted computing space (at least among the hacker world, not the DoD certification world)

SKPP pretty much sucked off all the "paper-writing industry" folks a few years ago into a kind of boring niche. Mark Miller is a big exception to that, but it's not a really vibrant research area compared to other parts of security now.
My understanding from attending an Airbnb tech talk last week is that while this meetup takes place at Airbnb, it is not a part of their tech talk series (http://www.airbnb.com/techtalks), so this post's title is incorrect.
Not the OP: My personal and business blog is on a cheap host but my product is on linode.

I do this for two reasons:

#1 - I don't want my blog to have anything to do with my service. I don't want it near my service. I don't want some WP-0-Day-Exploit to impact my application stack.

#2 - It is cheap and easy. At least it was when I started it five years go. If I could do it again I'd just use github for blogging/announcements like this. I could pay to manage this myself on another linode vps, but really, for 99.9% of the time it just doesn't matter.

With that said, if I was ever to post to HN about my business I'd probably cache the announcement on its own server (just raw html) and have all other links to my blog still remain at -big hosting provider- since 90% will just click on the link and 10% may dig deeper into the blog itself.

Personally I don't think it's a big deal that the blog is hosted on some big provider. I'd be more concerned if the service was there as well.
How to get people to pay for content and apps online?
I don't know what he's specifically referring to, but there was a lot of talk that open sourcing Textmate 2 was a sign the project was basically dead.
Another option: Use tumblr with a custom blog.yourdomain.com subdomain
Whilst I agree to an extent in that I used to be a Unity basher and now I use it as my main desktop and think it's by far the most polished Linux desktop UI, I can totally understand why it doesn't fit a lot of people's workflows.

It has a very opinionated approach to things and throws away a lot of customisation options (focus follows mouse, you can't move the launcher or go back to a standard taskbar etc).
You didn't get a lot of blow-back from companies that were looking for full-time hires?
Somewhat of a correlation there.
Regardless of what you think of them not having a stable "external" ABI, it is something they did not get from the kernel team.
The screenshot isn't exactly readable, but it appears that TexMate2's source code was put on Github on August 10th. Since then, there have been substantial changes as evidenced by release notes for changes being made several times a week since the release of the source code. Most notable I think are the August 26th release notes for changes since the previous notes on the 22nd and the August 19th release notes for changes since the previous notes on the 15th. If this kind of activity continues, it will prove false his prediction when it was open sourced that it would be abandoned.
I can't speak for Marco, but I suspect he feels a bit like I do.

I used TextMate for a long time. I switched to TextMate 2 as soon as the beta hit. Over the last year, more and more of my peers have switched from TM/TM2 to Sublime Text in large part because it's better maintained than TextMate.

When Allan announced he was open sourcing TM2 I thought the writing was on the wall: TM2 was all-but-dead. I even shelled out for Sublime Text, resigned to learning a new text editor.

Every so often I'd open TM2, though, and each time there were a handful of updates. There were at least 3-4 updates per week!

My expectations were totally dashed. Rather than spelling the end of TM2, open sourcing it resulted in a new-found momentum for the project. I've since switched back from Sublime Text to TM2, just to see how it'll shake out.
What was the response rate for you?

Because I tried this, and it turned out to be pretty low - like 1 - 2% (which was on the high-end).

So just to get a response, I had to send 50 - 100 emails. Maybe I am misremembering, but it is something like that.
He is simply listing the challenges any designer would face to make a simple yet obvious feature that just works. It is NOT describing a reason to "go back to buttons" or do something in the traditional way. This is where home electronics need to go - where you can interact with them directly instead through some button interface. If I direct my phone at the TV, both the phone and the TV should know that this is happening and depending on context, do something or offer a choice. Another example is touching your phone to your computer, etc.

The challenge, apart from making the design intuitive, is for the devices that take part in this form of interaction to understand the intent of the user.
The former name was Gnome-App-Install, which has basically been around since Ubuntu started in 2004.
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I stopped reading at

As these peaks eventually become norms, based on Bitcoin’s upward trend, we’ll see $52.5 billion being moved per year.
Cant find the release notes he is referring but TM2 is highly active on github.
https://github.com/textmate/textmate/commits/master

Will be interesting to watch how far this will go looks like TM2 gets a new upspring.
>That is already the case. To sideload apps home/pro versions you need a valid developer license. To sideload on Windows Enterprise the domain IT admins can do it. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsstore/archive/2012/04/25/depl....

Not really a windows guy, so I didn't know it had gotten that bad. Wow.

>Err, what about Android?

Android is far too rigid in it's current iteration to use as a general purpose OS.

There's just too much you can't do with it. Google has it's vision of what it should be and you have to fight to fight the OS to break away from that (try removing the navigation bar on 4.1).

Android could work as a general purpose OS, but it would require a major fork.
""nobody uses that apart from geeks lol". Well I'm a geek"

Exactly. I cannot count the number of times I have had the discussion: "You should use [MacOSX/Windows].", "Why?", "My grandmother can use [MacOSX/Windows] all by herself."

It is hard to physically restrain myself when people think that is an insightful thing to say.
Thanks for your long answer!
I agree that Wall St. is not an option. I wouldn't want to develop risk analyses or the next ultra fast trading bot anyway. Not that I don't like thinking about finance, but not all day :)

I don't want to make this a "please hire me" post. But since you mentioned specific skills: I would say that I have a higher affinity to software development than most of my colleagues. For example, I am currently the "offline analysis coordinator", and it that role I wrote pretty much the entire analysis framework. I also dabbled into web applications: Our slow control, i.e. the experimental control software, is a web application with postgresql backend written in Python (Flask). I kind of liked that, and I think I will wrap this up and put it on github.

But I digress.
You made an interesting comment about relationships, and you are certainly right there. On the other hand, academia doesn't make it easy there too. You are guaranteed to move a lot, and especially in experimental nuclear science, a lot of the places are in less than stellar areas.

What made you come back to make your PhD?
> I would actually urge any westerner to go study a semester or two of Japanese language (not culture), purely for the calm insight it can provide into the alternatives to our way of seeing, understanding, and acting upon the world.

I have to agree with this. The first foreign language I studied was French, and it taught me almost nothing - everything was so similar to English that most things were just a matter of memorization and one-to-one conversion. I quickly lost interest.

But Japanese has been entirely different. When you speak in Japanese, the way you think is different from when you speak in a Western language, such as English. The culture is inextricably tied to the language, and if you learn the language and then get a chance to actually visit the country and use it in real-life situations, it all clicks - why the language is structured how it is, and how it shapes all of Japanese society into its unique form.
This picture proves the existence of a conspiracy.
"they don't inherently carry any more diseases than you or I."

I don't eat crops fertilized with human feces, either.

"That we shouldn't use natural sources of NPK? Try your hand at explaining that."

I don't like famines that kill millions of people.
Link should be http://linuxtutorialblog.com/post/ssh-and-scp-howto-tips-tri...
Something like screen or byobu?
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Actually, it's pretty well established that it's going to take industrial agriculture to feed the world's population in the coming years. Unfortunately it is organic farming that will ultimately turn out to be unsustainable.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=organic-far...
Oh yeah, this is great! Also interesting: Traveling Wave Reactors (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traveling_wave_reactor). Bill Gates invested quite a lot in TerraPower.
People read it, they just ignored it because it was the hot new thing, and now they're getting their comeuppance.
Apparently Samsung disagrees with Dean Harding and sent an email apology for the "misunderstanding":

http://thenextweb.com/mobile/2012/09/03/samsung-we-regret-mi...

Here is the emailed apology that Samsung sent Clinton Jeff, one of the bloggers:

“I would like to reach out to you and deeply apologize to you for your experience in Berlin at IFA. We put you through undue hardship and we are trying to rectify the situation.”

Screenshot: http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/...

Here is what Clinton Jeff said he was threatened with:

“We got a call from Samsung India saying ‘You can either be a part of this and wear the uniform, or you’ll have to get your own tickets back home and handle your hotel stay from the moment this call ends…

A few minutes later, we got a call from the Samsung India guy who said that our flights on the 6th have been cancelled, and that they’re bringing us back on the 1st instead. But this is only if, and only if, we agreed to wear atleast the samsung branded shirt at the unpacked event, and not blog about any of this incident.

“None of this should leave Berlin. Or Reach India”

Even if as Dean Harding alleges this was a misunderstanding on the part of the Indian bloggers, it wouldn't change that this sort of "prize" in my opinion is PAYOLA and it is a disgusting practice.
Right, but the point of this (I think) is to be able to be a "compartment mode workstation" -- a single X server which runs x clients themselves executing in multiple Xen VMs, with guarantees about isolation and how the windows are managed.

There's a continuum of security and usability between having (a) N machines in N rooms for N tasks to having (b) 1 machine on a single desk running N tasks. You can have a KVM switch and multiple computers sharing a keyboard/mouse/monitor, which gives you a high degree of isolation (very close to (a)), or you can have compartment mode, where windows themselves have security labels, but then you need an advanced system to protect apps in one window from other windows, including window masquerading attacks. If you do it well, it's ideally close to (a) as well.

The problem with virtualization on a desktop is that certain resources (video/keyboard drivers) don't like to be virtualized, so you end up running them in the system host area. Applications also tend to want pretty low-level access to those resources. It used to be the performance overhead of all of this was very high, but now it's not as big a deal (at least for normal 2d type apps).

The last good Compartment Mode Workstation I remember was Trusted A/UX (built on apple's first UNIX operating system) from the early 1990s. It wasn't particularly good.
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>I would love to see links to human studies that prove pesticides have no effects on the human reproductive system

What you're looking for doesn't exist, since you can't prove a negative. But the FDA, which exerts a very high level of scrutiny over the food industry, has a very large database of studies if you look at their website under "food". Specifically, their pesticides page [1], and their Residue Monitoring Report, a very comprehensive analysis on pesticide levels consumed by the population and their effects [2].

[1]http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodContaminantsAdulterat...

[2]http://www.fda.gov/Food/FoodSafety/FoodContaminantsAdulterat...

But to make it easy, I quote:

>Results in these reports continue to demonstrate that levels of pesticide residues in the U.S. food supply are well below established safety standards.

The FDA and EPA establish these standards, so if you want the science supporting those standards, you'll have to ask them. I'm aware that you're referring to a specific study about birth defects, which is why you requested studies specifically referring to the reproductive system; but I defer again to the FDA and EPA. They monitor these things very closely, and if there is sufficient scientific support for pesticide-borne issues, they will have taken appropriate action. If not, that just means that the science is inconclusive, as is usually the case when one or two outlier studies make new or exotic claims. In this case, I also wouldn't be surprised if there was some strong selection bias in choosing the studies commonly presented due to the alarmism of news media, and the industry/FDA will be aware of further subtleties.
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That's not the only mouse-related thing it does poorly. The workstation I use at work came with Unity as the default. I decided to give myself a week to get used to it but gave up after only 3 days. Using Synergy with Unity is a complete pain in the ass with that menu thing that is on the left side of the screen. It was constantly activating when I moved my mouse to the other computer or not activating at all when I wanted it to.

After 3 days I just installed Awesome and went from there. Unity provides me absolutely nothing that I want that Awesome doesn't. The only thing it does for me is get in the way.
"Various occasions" do not prove anything. Sample sizes need to be much larger, and even then, the mechanics of the treatment must be uncovered.

Also, there is no reason to use "scientific" as a qualifier for proof. There is either sufficient evidence to constitute proof, or not, but there is no distinction between "scientific" proof and other proof.
That method doesn't work for kiosks, because they reappear whenever the user touches the screen.

I think there is a way around this (keep them hidden even on user interaction) in ICS, but they have removed it in Jelly Bean, i,e, apps that hide the on screen nav permanently in ICS no longer work in Jelly Bean.

Google has a specific use case for android (single mobile user) and deviating from that is like swimming upstream.
He means that instead of becoming open-source and dying, it became a Mozilla/Firefox situation.
That was very interesting, thank you!

You mention this "wasting" thought, which I have too. But it's good to know that despite this, you are still very happy with your choice. I always wonder whether this thought is real, or implanted by interaction with all the people in academia. For them, of course, academia is "better". At least I hope it is :)
Sigh, sneering and snark and also downvotes on my GP comment. That's HN I guess. Must.. resist.. temptation.. to be snarky myself.

Anyway back to the point...

>Oh boy SxS. So now you have seperate DLLs for every application.

No, only if the application uses a different version that explicitly is marked as NOT being compatible. If the version used is the same, you do not have separate DLLs for every application.

>How about just linking it in statically and make the applications standalone?

That will needlessly bloat up the application.

Assume 10 applications need library X version 2.3 and one application needs 2.2. With SxS, you will have one 2.3 DLL and one 2.2 DLL. If you link it statically, the same code will be duplicated in 10 EXEs. Multiply this by all applications and DLLs used across applications.Not to mention waiting fot 10 apps to update to fix a security bug.

You think that's good?
Android is certainly far from ideal, but in life we very rarely get the ideal. At least with Android I can take my business to another vendor if I disagree with a policy. And it may not be as open as I might like but there is still a world of difference between AOSP and what it enables and what is possible on iOS only through illegal hacks.
Yes on learning new skills, but the nuance is that you quickly identify which of those are not
core to your business and offload/delegate them as soon as possible.
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Follow up question: Anybody here managed to have both? That is, a career in academia, and some participation in startups?
A small embedded Linux distro and embedded Qt.
Animal dung when fresh can carry all that, sure. But you are supposed to compost it first, and mix it into soil.

Both of which will kill the harmful organisms.
To the contrary, I think startup experiences brings profound changes in the way you live. At least that happened to me in the following ways

1. Your free time is limited. You try to make the most of it. Something like work hard and play harder

2. Your emotions go through a sine curve. You can deal with stress better than most others. That could also mean you get numb to common day problems. You stop working yourself up for small issues. And on the other extreme, you start to think anything is possible if you start applying yourself. Almost everything looks like an optimization problem with 2 or 3 variables.

3. You can no longer say things like "Oh, I don't do that, a sales/PR/designer person does that". You get to do other stuff and realize you might like doing them too.

4. People fail you or you fail people - deals don't go through, you miss dinners/meetups etc etc. It hurts you in the beginning but you get used to that.

May be most of it applies only to young startup people like myself but I sure did learn and change a lot over my time at startups.
Definition of anecdota:

https://www.google.com/search?q=define%3Aanecdotal&sugex...

"Best friend" has nothing to do with quality of data, in fact it might taint it. Also, causation must still be established, i.e. uncovering the mechanics of the treatment.

Also, your last few sentences are difficult to understand.