skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People do it organic and especially local vegetables because they are more nutritious. But "more nutritious" doesn't mean "more vitamins". First of all, which vitamins? Surely they didn't test for every single vitamin found in all vegetables, not to mention other nutrients.

Second, it's dubious whether the nutrient theory of nutrition completely describes our body's relationship with food. Many people eat organic food because it eliminates the unknowns. We know that industrial farming has a negative effect on food quality, but the negative effect could be even larger than we are capable of measuring, so better to play it safe.

This echoes Europe's policy on GMOs, which is that if there is any risk of catastrophe, that risk is not worth taking. There is a name for this sort of policy, but I've forgotten the term and can't seem to find it.

Another reason that I personally avoid industrial agriculture is because it is fundamentally unsustainable: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/a-banker-bet.... I get all of my vegetables from a local farm mainly for this reason and another that comes from taking a sort of Marxist perspective on the issue. Industrial farming creates a lot of repetitive, unfulfilling jobs. I'd rather support people that live with and love their land, who get to engage with the challenge of optimizing all of the energy and nutrient flows in their farm. Running a farm can actually be a very interesting design/engineering problem.
This, and its immediately preceding item, indicate an interesting race condition in news.arc – quick double submissions seem to be able to sneak through.
This seems to have been written before the Apple v. Samsung verdict was handed down.
I would say that if you're running a startup as a solo founder, don't bother wasting time and mental capacity on hosting your own blog - just use Tumblr or Wordpress.com. Unless you're in the blog platform business, it's really a no brainer (at least until you grow and have too much money and/or turn into a control freak).

But bravo OP for having the courage to launch your own business! Good luck.
Look, if you really want to debate this, I could try to defend what he said, but I will have to assume you actually believe that andrew -- a fellow intelligent human being -- was trying to put business owners on an equal footing with soldiers in war. I think that would say more about you than it would about him, and I don't want to think that you're that dumb. I'd prefer to believe that you're much smarter than that, that you recognize how pointless such an argument would be because there's no way that a reasonable person would really believe that business owners are just like soldiers at war.

Or, we can leave my comment to stand by itself as a simple plea for more civility.

So which would you prefer? That we leave this alone and make HN a slightly better place by assuming a charitable reading of what a fellow person wrote, or that we get into a stupid argument that makes us both look increasingly foolish until pg has to step in to admonish us to knock it off?
What is the exact setting you need to change? Since you say that an alternative is using something ligher weight, does this mean that nginx can handle this kind of load out of the box?
Woah waoh, high yields aren't free. Fortifying that soil to produce those yields has a cost -- both economic and ecological. Synthetic-N is just the beginning.

And the "0-50%" sounds ballparkish to me. If you have any cites I'd love to take a look.
nice. will check it asoonas re-awake
First, this is cool! Good job!

Would you run this or would you run htop? I'm not sure when I'd use one over the other.

Maybe someone less dense than I knows more and can tell me what the differences are?
I find this discussion increasingly irrelevant. It's hard to make the case that companies like Samsung or Dell are not pushing Linux more just because MS may increase their Android requirements.

Even a hint of any such thing will result in a multibillion dollar fine paid to the OEMs and injunction against MS in the courts. What about the fact that there is little interest in the general public for Linux(due to many reasons including Wintel and Office monopolies) and the OEMs are hampered more by that and the reasons in my OP above rather than your weak reasoning?

Have you seen how few Chromebooks have been sold? Do you really think MS hampered them with their patent licensing deals(there have been a couple) or do you think there are much bigger reasons that ChromeOS/Linux hasn't taken off ? What about new companies like System76? Why don't you start a new company that sells Linux PCs? Do you know how Dell or Compaq started? It was just one or two people in a garage assembling PCs and throwing DOS on them. The difference was that people bought a lot of them.

http://www.zdnet.com/chromebook-looks-like-another-googleflo...

This whole blame MS for everything regardless of real issues attitude is getting old.
Not many tech startups being started in countries without governments (e.g., Somalia). Google was started by a couple of Stanford grad students who surely were being funded by DRAPA or NSF while they were coming up with their big idea.

I think what the parent poster wants is something like radical feudalism, where your patrons and infrastructure comes from rich land owners (i.e. lords), rather the government, like it was in the good ole days (i.e. medieval times).
This particular garden has legal walls: 4G radio frequencies are licensed. Transmitting on them without a license can (depending on circumstances) result in jail time.
Not sure how this would work from a UI perspective but it'd be nice if you could add other servers to be monitored. So instead of me having 20+ terminal windows open, ssh'd into each box and running this app, I could run this app from a central server that's showing all of them together.

Again, I have no idea how to present that nicely.
Organic foods for increased vitamins seems like an expensive alternative to vitamin supplements. But I feel like people who eat organic foods would rather not eat manufactured vitamin supplements, leaving the main benefit of organic food to be the fact that it's less processed and more "natural". I prefer to eat cows that don't eat cows, and chickens that don't eat chickens.
>Which is a problem they without doubt did not inherit from the kernel team.

Interesting point, Windows, OS X, iOS etc. get derided for having internal private APIs that they try to prevent external devs from using, and not doing the same thing is now a 'problem' for GNOME and KDE? Isn't the whole point of Linux for developers, freedom to use it as you see fit?
A car does one job. A computer does many jobs. Learning to do each job a little differently, adds up to a lot of learning. I don't know what "you should" has to do with it - I'm just pointing out that for all desktops that currently exist, you have to learn how to use it.
The Value of Bosses
What I think the guy is getting at is a holistic view here. That the manure from animals raised in healthy conditions-- meaning low density, no antibiotics, natural diet--is a safe and ecologically sound fertilizer. It is, after-all, how farming developed over thousands of years.

Sorry if that sounds too Michael Pollan for you but I think it passes as both common sense and historically accurate.
I havent looked at the source code, but it might be a difficult overhaul to fix this issue. There is plenty of theories floating around on how to fix this, but they seem to be pure speculation.

I dont think you can compare this to the downfall of IE, since you yourself could pull the chromium code and fix the issue yourself.... When i see some actual real code fixes in the comments, and the Chromium team STILL hasnt fixed this bug, then i'll call shenanigans.

Until then, everyone in that thread needs to submit patches or GTFO.

If its so easy to fix in theory, then why dont I see someone just submiting a patch, or forking Chromium w/ the correct behavior?

I think its stubborn of them to leave the issue as "WONTFIX" but people whining about it without real-world code example fixes isnt really any more useful.
Well that is what Ubuntu is doing now. So we don't really have to imagine it. Maybe we could imagine it being more complete, or more successful.
Keeping WordPress up was a black hole of my time and talent, despite having shipped applications with substantially higher performance requirements than "Serve 20,000 visitors mostly static content over an eight hour period." This is totally orthogonal to programming skill or creating things that solve problems for customers.

The optimizations you need to make are fiddly black magic ("Your blog goes down too often? #1 culprit: a performance optimization called KeepAlive", "How many worker processes fit in 1 GB of RAM if each take ~20 MB on average? Did you answer 48? Crashes a day later. Did you answer 36? Crashes a week later. Did you answer 24? Crashes sporadically. Did you answer 20? Hasn't crashed... yet." "Blog still going down? OK, let's break with every quickstart guide on the Internet, throw out all the work you did for Apache, and switch you to Nginx. Now we'll have new failure modes!", "You incompetent nincompoop! You just need to add caching. Oh, you already cache everything? The KeepAlive issue can kill a blog hosting a simple static .txt file? Hmm, good point... put Varnish in front of it! A nice, simple solution! And if that doesn't work add cache to your caching so you've got caches for your caches!").

There's no point at which WordPress announces "OK, I'm ready!" -- you just pick your optimizations in advance then discover new requests-per-minute numbers or access patterns or what have you which cause it to degrade or bloom into a timed-out fireball of death.

Now I write a check every month for $200 to my hosting provider. Best money I ever spent, because this has lead to a 100% decrease in me having to wake up at 3 AM in the morning because Jimmy Wales decided to tweet a link to my blog.
France also, you will be unsurprised to hear, has cell phones, and laws regarding them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Telecommunicatio...
Chickens eat other chickens in the wild - what's wrong with that?
Fair point. I've noticed G+ doesn't work at all for live event updates, so expecting them to build a Facebook-like "heartbeat" thing on the side at some stage.

At the same time, I can say I've moved a lot of link sharing to G+, so for that use case, it's a fairly direct substitute. The rich embedding is better and I can say what I want without having to cram it. It's like that Pascal quote about not having time to make it concise...G+ just lets you write a couple of sentences, or more on whim, without having to then manicure it into 140 characters.
Individual persons can't deploy their own LTE base stations, unless they've got a couple million in their pocket for the radio frequency licenses. The only way this will be available to the consumer is if a telco produces it.
I don't think this "printed" in any recognizable sense of the term. From the picture, it was a non-electronic device which had one-directional communication with the console by mechanically pressing buttons on a standard controller. So presumably, you had to operate the thing by hand, and it would use the NES to give you feedback about what to do at each step.
So what did you end up picking?
Previously:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1246990

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2645170

This story won't see much traction on HN. The cult of Mac is too strong, and HN users generally aren't interested in secure operating systems.
Keep in mind he was writing to an audience who had been hired for possessing those skills.
"Posted on Sunday, August 19 2012 by esr"

yep
> Dell does not currently distribute any consumer laptop with Linux as an option,
>However, don't you think it's weird that NOBODY is pushing it? Not even as an experiment? No smartbook running Android?

Wrong. It's funny you're commenting on this so vehemently with so much anger against MS in this and previous threads and you haven't even heard of Dell's Sputnik?

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/259229/dells_u...

They do sell in places where there's more demand, and the Windows tax is high in relative cost of living terms.

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/06/ubuntu-dell-laptops-go-on...

They did try a while ago in the US and they didn't sell well and now they're making a dev ultrabook.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2012/07/dell-l...

http://www.zdnet.com/dell-re-enters-high-end-linux-laptop-ma...

Microsoft is plenty evil, but there's no need to make up things.

Edit: How many would buy Dell's laptop? Most devs would prefer their own choice, perhaps a Macbook Air or throw Linux on a Thinkpad. How does Dell get a leg up on Lenovo(with Windows) here without making 20 laptops with Linux?
The operative phrase is "antibiotic-resistant bacteria", bacteria is around us all the time, this is in-escapable, the antibiotic-resistant variety is what is bad.
>an expensive alternative to vitamin supplements

I'm not sure that's true, it depends on absorption.

It seems reasonable to assume that human bodies are built to extract nutrients from whole foods most efficiently.
Isn't the whole point of Linux for developers, freedom to use it as you see fit?

I've yet to hear of a philosophy that allows you to both 1) use everything as you see fit, even things marked as "internal" or "private" and 2) give you the right to complain about your software getting broken because you relied on things marked as "internal" or "private".

In other words, you can either restrict yourself to the published APIs and demand compatibility or you can use the guts of the system and have no expectations of stability when the guts change.
I would love to see links to human studies that prove pesticides have no effects on the human reproductive system.
I assume, from your claims, you have some great controlled double blind studies to point me to?
Craigslist Wins 'Referee' as eBay Litigation Bogs Down
Show HN: nonpartisan.me, browser extension to hide politics from FB and Twitter
For me, vim-powerline gives a much stronger visual indicator of the current mode. Changing the color of the whole statusline really stands out.
The owner downthread mentioned that he's getting traffic from Reddit right now too.

While it might be good to have a conversation on HN about when it is and isn't smart to try to do it all yourself (versus spending a little bit on a knowledgeable server guy, if you aren't one), I really wish yours wasn't the top comment in this thread right now.

This guy built something really cool, that hopefully will be useful to the "hackers" here -- I know it'll be useful to me, at least. It would be nice if we didn't shit on him here for having the page go down for a bit.
Pivot time.
Compare organic to non-organic carrots. Double blind yourself all you want, hands down organic carrots (things labeled as) are x10 better than the woody sticks they are compared to.
> pesticides are found to have no health impact

There was a time not too long ago when cigarettes were found to have no health impact.

We have only just begun to understand how to treat cancer with gene therapy.

It's paranoid to say that pesticides cause cancer. It's arrogant to say they absolutely don't. And I think it's reasonable to say that farming as close to the naturally evolved food chain as possible is a good thing.

I recognize that without today's increased yields we'd have a lot more starvation and hunger in this world. But it's not a binary choice. It's not hippy pastoral-era farming vs post-modern industrial farm. We can find a balance.
It's not as extreme as something life-threatening like war or cancer, but it's a lot of stress to endure for an extended period.

And the stakes are pretty high: lose lots of money and possibly your spouse divorces you.
I quit my job 9 months ago with similar goals - I want to build products that people love. I want to build a company that I can be proud of. I went through a short period of excitement to a period of shock. I've since hit my groove and am now growing my first product. It's been quite the roller coaster.

Stay focussed. Give yourself small goals and take it one day at a time. You'll come out of this a changed man. Good luck!
I've never golfed before, but I'm a huge bowler. During league, we have a lot of side-bets going on between individuals. High game pots, high series, brackets, etc. Is golf league similar? In bowling, it's obviously very easy to keep track of the current score and standings throughout the night. Would a live scoring tool enable, or improve, this aspect of league?
The primary reason is that you want keep two wallets. One you treat like a safe-deposit box, keeping the secret keys strongly encrypted or on removable storage and only loading them onto very trusted computers to make transactions and then wiping them. The second you treat more like the eponymous 'wallet' and use for day-to-day stuff where the constant security measures would be impractical. Thus, you occasionally need to transfer money to/from your two accounts.

There is, of course, the additional measure of creating yet additional accounts to which funds are transfered for the sake of making payments that you want more anonymized (read: not traceable back to an account you use more commonly for possible more legit stuff).
I've been using it for a few months and becoming more and more upset with it. I have very high inertia and so I've stuck with it to give it a chance, but the deal-breaker is probably going to be that sliding my mouse to a new window ought to result in me immediately being able to type in the new window.
Deploy? I just edit it live, I mean what could go wrong?
What prevents S3 from being used as a highly scalable NoSQL key-value store?
Not exactly a security guy (I'm actually a mathematician/statistician not exactly a computer engineer) how do these compare in security terms to sandboxing applications or using lxc from the linux kernel?

As far as I remember you could use different kernels for Xen VMs and the physical hardware, then the only way to compromise the system would be if I could escalate privileges on the hypervisor, right?
If you do get involved in such projects, let me know where a double background as a clinician and a hacker might help (and that's open for anyone in the thread!)

I see many topics where a proper mix of IT and medicine could make a real difference - for example, improving WorldVista, adding IA agents to mine the data and suggest things.

Then I see the sorry thing that calls itself Health-IT and which is just a new way to put government stimulus money into dull uses and overpriced software.
>But Apple almost never breaks binary compatibility of the public APIs.

Technically no, not binary compatibility. But practical compatibility? Woo boy do they ever.
I'm starting to think the concept of "intellectual property" is more trouble than it's worth. A lot more trouble.
According to this post, questions and comments about the spec are invited on the ubuntu-devel mailing list.

http://mhall119.com/2012/09/how-the-appdevuploadprocess-was-...
>That depends on how far Microsoft and Apple go with the tabletization of Windows and OS X in the next few years.
>We need Linux as a third (and 4th, 5th...) option for all of us edge cases that don't fit the standard consumer mold.

Err, what about Android?

>I don't think that Microsoft will ever manage to completely force the app store on everyone--solely because of enterprise customers--unless maybe they force you to use it on home/basic and make it optional on business/enterprise

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...
> eating as close to the naturally evolved food chain as possible is a good thing.

Where does the "naturally evolved food chain" end? Right before Agriculture? Is baking bread "unnatural"?
Microryza, https://microryza.com we're different in that we don't follow the Kickstarter model of tangible rewards.
What I call organic is way more healthy and nutritive:

I call organic not only to those that are natural but also to food that I could trace, e.g eggs that start with 0 or 1 in Europe had expiration rate witch is a fixed date from the egg laying. The fruit from my friends house is picked the same day I visit them.

As a general rule the levels of antioxidants and vitamins in food decay exponentially with time and temperature. Some fruit is stored in cold and anaerobic rooms for months. It looks like fruit but had degraded. Fortunately it is easy to taste the difference(It taste like nothing).

Antibiotics and hormones in meat certainly affect humans for the bad. In USA(money is everything there) and some parts of Europe is totally out of control. I have friends that are doctors and had problems as microbes develop resistance to antibiotics, and they have to use much more aggressive ways to fight them. People die because the treatment is not as effective as it was in the past.

"Organic milk and chicken may also contain more omega-3 fatty acids"
That is exactly what we want. Food has a tremendous unbalance between omega3 and omega6 because omega6 is so cheap to industrial manufacture so we have to consume natural fish(not farmed) or wild animals(like wild boar, deer or grass eating cow) to compensate.

I had seem tremendous abuses of synthetic pesticides in Spain, where I worked installing greenhouses. It too easy for some people to add too much to be sure they don't lose money. Some people continue using DDTs and other forbidden chemicals because it is effective.

Nothing to see here, just another PR article from the food industry to fool consumers.
if you intend to work for a startup, I would go for FLiBe Energy, a startup devoted to developing a thorium reactor. That's where I'm hopefully headed after I graduate with a Chemical Eng. degree. To learn more about thorium reactors, you can go here http://energyfromthorium.com/. The story of thorium reactors could be made into a movie, it's that amazing.
Out of curiosity, which language?
latency (and costs)
'Manually' probably means not using a package manager - either with the configure/make dance, or with a binary installer like Google Earth used for a long time. In those cases, you still need to sort out dependencies manually.
The mouseover anti-aliasing might be affected by the GPU rendering on your device. Some browsers don't re-render text after a scale transform.
I'd imagine it's a slightly smaller proportion of their diet than in an industrial feed lot.
> it seems Intel doesn't feel a need to push their performance.

Then why does the new HD4000 have twice the performance of the previous version? :)

Intel is trying its best. It just takes time to catch up to the lead of ATI and NVidia. With the HD4000 it's quite a bit closer.
> why would anyone spend a penny making the desktop look better?

Why don't you ask Canonical?
Or WP Engine, which I'm happily using. That being said, it's unfortunate this discussion has devolved into such irrelevance.

To the OP: Congrats on a great start and good luck with everything!
Appreciate the tip -- sincerely.
SSH and SCP: Howto, tips & tricks
This tutorial is about SSH and SCP. You will learn how to connect to a remote host and how to copy between hosts. This tutorial also documents a few important differences between the commands.
S3 has been around for a much longer time than Dynamo has been. Dynamo is a very recent introduction by Amazon. In fact, Dynamo did not even exist when this article was published. (Dynamo came out early '12, the article is from '10).

And when you think about it, S3 is just a massive distributed key-value store with simple key querying and an HTTP api.
Airbnb Meetup/Tech Talk: Distributed Systems / Mesos - Thu 9/6
This week we're kicking off the Mesos User Group here at Airbnb. Ben Hindman, lead engineer Mesos at Twitter will dive into the Mesos design and outline how it's used at Twitter. Airbnb will provide food and drinks.