skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK. Would you do the work to make your product SUPPORT 2% of the market?
One of my favorite conversation prompts is to ask people, "what have you read recently that changed your mind about some issue?" People happily reinforce their own cognitive dissonance with internet "news bubbles" and echo chamber forums. Letting your mental guard down to fairly reevaluate your own beliefs is an unfortunately rare event.
>I don't mean the cost of weaponry. I mean that you have to pay thugs well, mostly because of the inherent risk I mentioned earlier. There is also risk of massive retaliation which can end up causing a lot of damage to humans and property.

If that were true people wouldn't be killed over pocket change today.

It seems to me that your position is only maintainable if you take many questionable assumptions as a given -- here are a couple:

-People are rational actors.
-People will operate in an environment with good enough information available to make good decisions. (This would be tough to begin with but with overlapping rules in place this could really be a crippling burden in your purely market driven world.)

Keeping just those two assumptions intact seems...improbable.
I like the idea but I couldn't get it running on my localhost, I'm guessing it has to do with the fact yours was in a subdirectory and mine was at the root. I even tried fiddling with the .htaccess file removing the hardcoded reference to the subfolder.

Anyways I am curious why you choose to write the whole base of the CMS from scratch instead of building on top of a framework like Laravel, Yii, CI, or one of the countless ones out there. One that could have given your CMS 90% of what you needed and allowed you to build your idea faster and more efficiently?
Clearly GMO advocates have never seen Jurassic Park.
A protein is added that adversely affects the gut. Think gluten.
I wonder the same thing. It seems like Google is trying to make Windows attempt to enter the market as painful, and played out, as possible. (I'm talking about Windows Phone 8, obviously they've been players for a while).
Just because you never heard of him doesn't mean the kings in Africa who banned GMOs have not.
> nobody outside the Android team bothers contributing anything

Do you have any figures to back this claim? Somewhere above or below a guy said he did send a patch.

> less developers and less features than it would if it were truly open

Very unlikely. Were it fully open (say, the Linux-way), it would not be pushed forward so steadily by Google, it would not have so many high-end apps (many written by Google), it would not have such a big piece of the market, it would not be the solution of choice for manufacturers, etc.

I also wish Android to be more open, and I hope we will see soon emerge a "Landroid" that will be to Android what Linux is to Unix, and probably Cyanogenmod is paving its path, but this is no reason to spit in the soup: Android is a giant step forward and without it we would be all sandwiched in a MS-Apple cross-fight.

> Why would new phones be 'spoiled' if their source code was released?

Suppose the most recent feature developed by Google on Android reveals that their next phone will have two-faced screens, wouldn't you think Google might prefer to decide when and how this new phone will be announced? As a result, we have a slightly lagging opening of the source code. It is sad, but better than nothing.
I take it you didn't read it.
> Current techniques may be more risky, but generally speaking it should be hard for plants to produce a horrid mutation based on natural interbreeding mechanisms.

What about the (widespread) practice of mutation breeding? [1] Blasting seeds with X-rays and gamma rays in an attempt to generate new cultivars is a genetic wrecking ball compared to performing genetic engineering.

Conventional breeding has given us plenty of Oopses. The modern kiwifruit, whose progenitor (the smaller and less tasty Chinese gooseberry) may have been safely snacked upon by many folks who would today suffer a lethal allergic reaction after eating a kiwi. In the 1980s, a mutant variety of zucchini began producing enough cucurbitacin toxin to hospitalize a number of people. [2]

> If such transfers have occurred in nature for a long, long time, then it's safe to say that nature has created pathways that are safe. Our pathways are new.

We're still playing by nature's fundamental biological rules, and nature has had hundreds of millions of years to develop resiliency inside that same framework. One example: bacterial mechanisms to mitigate the damage from undesirable horizontal gene transfers by recognizing and deactivating to foreign genetic material: [3]

> I'm making a Talebian argument here. Nature is a VERY complex system. When we mess with it, we make incremental visible gains, and run the risk of large, invisible losses.

I think "incremental" is a bit of an understatement if we can, for example, feed tens of millions of humans in parts of the world where conventional crops cannot (yet?) provide reliable and sufficient nutrition, a critical step in reducing poverty.

Having said all this, I think crop monoculture is a serious problem, but I think it's an issue that needs to be solved through sound policy, not just through science.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation_breeding

[2] http://books.google.ca/books?id=Jcq1wTe_93UC&lpg=PP1&...

[3] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17575047
Is the majority of the DoD employees going to use touchscreen computers? If not, the Metro interface will just get in their way, and they'll need some retraining, too. If anything they should've gone with Windows 7. I think it's supported at least until 2020 (and if Windows 8/9 doesn't catch off, probably longer).

Also, the deal makes it to about $2,000 per user per 3 years. Isn't that...expensive? How much would the taxpayers have saved if they had gone Linux?
As far as pure software development (not using at that point integrated custom hardware) as an idea to form, I haven't seen anything in over twenty years that deserves a patent. That includes audio, video and other compression systems that build on algorithms that are over two decades old. Those systems that tightly work with specialized hardware are a bit of a different story.

As far as any system that is defined only in software, and capable of running on a generic computer, with generic input/output devices of today are not, imho, patentable. Anything that involves an obvious idea implemented in an obvious way is not patentable, of which the incredible majority of software is. Again, exception to interfacing specialized hardware...
You could say that about any new product. Here! Use this cellphone! What? The battery can explode when it overheats? Don't worry about it! Almost never happens!

And with cellphones ... that's already happened. Yet you still have one in your pocket.

> Does it cause problems when you eat these types of bananas for 20 or 30 years?

Bananas didn't evolve with "being good for you 20 or 30 years from now" ethos. That doesn't help the spread of their seeds. They just needed to taste sweet, so you would eat them now and spit out their seed somewhere else.

Is there even a plant out there that has harmful side-effects two decades after you eat it? If we make one, that would be one hell of an achievement.
How Deloitte Made Learning a Game
This guy got his stolen iPhone back with OkCupid and hammer
A minimal Lisp (the bare minimal) does not require sexprs

Really? Why not? I realize that McCarthy's original spec used recursion equations, but that notation is more complicated than s-expressions.
So was this guy also involved in hosing food irradiation? The insane campaign against food irradiation -- thanks to which we continue to eat all kinds of unnecessary preservatives -- was what led me to abandon Greenpeace.
300,000 Indian farmers have committed suicide in the past 15 years because of the monopoly that GMO companies have over seeds with patents. What used to be previously free now costs farmers a huge amount of money with promises of great returns. However, in the past few years, these GMO crops have had tremendous crop failures, and have instead bankrupted the farmers that used them.

Hundreds of thousands of farmers taken advantage of by a monopolistic GMO company and ruins the lives of countless families sounds like a real-life disaster scenario to me.

http://www.newstatesman.com/world-affairs/2012/11/why-are-in...
AFAIK, IE10 on mobile has the same JS engine as the desktop one. What data you have to say that it is slow? This benchmark says its the fastest:

http://crockford.com/javascript/performance.html

Besides how do you explain the uk site that was working already that then got blocked?
Warning: his whole site is an incredibly wonderful time sink :)

I can recommend his extensive research on Nootropics [1] for actionable advice.

[1]: http://www.gwern.net/Nootropics
It works fine today. No work is needed by Google. They did more work to redirect the traffic.
Where do old supercomputers go to die? New Mexico
Their seeds are known to mingle with domestic corn varieties creating corn that is unusable for consumption. That to me seems like a legit reason to be careful around them.

Basically if you a corn farmer, have people around you start planting Monsanto Corn, you have two options: change to Monsanto or switch professions.
> If we go on that, then you'd have to find another event that occurred at similar rates in similar geographic areas.

There are lots of events that correlate with income (thus, with the geographical distribution). And lots of them correlate with the fall or raise of crime in the article.

Getting an event that correlate with both raise and fall of crime, like lead intoxication does, will be harder. But I doubt it's impossible.

The thing is, we have a causal nexus, we have the correlation, but we have no idea how strong the nexus actualy is, so we can't conclude the correlation is caused by the nexus. And we won't discover, because we won't conduct the kind of experiments needed for it.
Not generally, because few would define a market in terms of a single day since it's not very useful. Usually a period of one year is assumed but can commonly be a quarter or a month.

But technically, if you defined it that way, sure it had the biggest market share for that day.
Dropbox offers a Send Link feature.

Have you seriously never used it before ?
Technology May Bring New Industrial Revolution
Cloudfront can vary objects by using a different uri stem, query params, or cookie contents. As noted in the article you can also route uri prefixs to your image sizer origin. So yes, I'd expect most image manipulation to be cachable using query strings for size/format/quality and a sane default for the base uri.
The reason chrome was not supported earlier is probably because OWA possibly used some arcane and non-standard IE features that were lacking in chrome. Also AFAIK it never blocked the OWA outright (by redirecting to some other url instead)
What work? They can just let Windows Phone users access the site and fend for themselves. I would say writing the code for the redirect is more work.
The classified systems will still use Linux, luckily.
You would think these folks could write their own OS for that kind of money.
I take it you didn't actually read his paper.

"What you don’t have the right to do is to stand in the way of others who hope and strive for ways of doing things differently, and hopefully better. Farmers who understand the pressures of a growing population and a warming world. Who understand that yields per hectare are the most important environmental metric. And who understand that technology never stops developing, and that even the fridge and the humble potato were new and scary once."

http://www.ofc.org.uk/files/ofc/papers/mark-lynas-lecture-ox...
A million first dates -- technology, dating, and looking ahead
There's a huge middle ground between "proven safe" and "proven unsafe". People in this debate seem to forget that.

Personally, I want pretty good evidence that something is safe before putting it in my body. If the mere lack of evidence that it's unsafe is sufficient for you, well, that's your choice.
nothing funny. Windows phone already has nice bing maps and nokia maps integration so nobody needed Google maps. But that's not the point...
Finally, verbatim.. I was tired of always needed to include it.

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You could make a mold (the inverse or negative space of your form) using a 3D printing service, or carve it from styrofoam, or wood, or whatever, and then fill it with expanding foam or inflatable PVC by hand yourself.

Cosplayers (hobbyists who make costumes of and play as fictional or media characters) use these techniques all the time, as do those in the replica prop communities.
No, what I mean by that is in order to use mixins, in any example I've seen, you need to inherit from a class someone else provided that gives it.

Assembly provides all the mechanisms for the dynamic keyword, I wouldn't say it is a feature of x86.
Companies do things that hurt their competitors all of the time. Often, consumers are the beneficiaries (at least in the short term) -- as is the case when a new entrant into a market is able to provide a better or cheaper service, and supplants an older or less efficient competitor. There's nothing inherently wrong with this. Other times (like now, or when Google announced it was ending support for ActiveSync), the decision is a little more ambiguous. But in both cases, there's a potential cost for Google that's being avoided -- and that aligns nicely with competitive considerations. I don't think we want to live in a society where anyone can be legally compelled to provide a service at a loss to a small number of users.

The rules change, of course when we're close to a monopoly situation. But Google isn't at that point for either maps or mobile devices -- so at least legally, there's really no issue here.

I think that what people are really reacting to is that this is a decision which (at least superficially) is at odds with the way that Google markets themselves to us tech folks. And as such, it's a good reminder not to consume marketing messages without at least a few grains of salt.
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Just tried out StreamingHttpResponse and it's looking great. The User model should work well w/ the MongoEngine project (for MongoDB and Django), I'll look at upgrading it to support that.
Library Of Congress Twitter Archive Nears Finish, Yet Remains Unusable
you're assuming that you wouldn't experience a broad range of views unless you went to college. what about working at a couple companies, and using that money to travel twice a year?
Great example, and I believe complementary to my observation. If talk show interviews are to be believed then when Hugh Laurie began on House he wasn't famous in America, and most people didn't have any idea he was British. The show was a hit, everyone loved him, and then it's far too late for anyone to erroneously pick apart his flawless accent.

It's almost impossible to imagine, but if Hugh Laurie had been popular in America, and his natural voice widely known, then the reception to that series could have been very different, purely from unfounded criticism of the accent. And if this is starting to sound a little far-fetched, let's not forget it all began with someone saying "British actors trying to do American accents, which never fool me".
If that is the logic involved then why is iOS not affected?
> It's not about "fanbois" (whatever the hell that means)

I suspect you know exactly what that means, but you're being intentionally dense in order to make a point, although you have ended up doing so in a very transparent fashion.
I left out the comments and points on purpose. I'm not interested in any of the social stuff, I just wanted a feed of all the great projects that make it to HN's front page.
Me too. I've used a different ssh port for eight years. Not a single log entry from ssh brute forcing idiots during this time.
Samsung backs Linux-based OS to rival Android
What evidence is there that they have? This person is not the cult leader he claims to be.

These kings in Africa you mention generically with no specifics, perhaps they read journals? Even if it is established these scores of kings each met with this fellow personally, went elephant or cheetah hunting together and had some laughs, it indicates little about the motivations of these supposed and possibly fictional kings in passing their dictates, edicts and proclamations.

Vazquez et al. Intragastric and Intraperitoneal Administration of Cry1Ac protoxin from Bacillus thuringiensis induces systemic and mucosal antibody responses in mice. Life Sci. 64, no. 21 (1999): 1897–1912.

Vazquez et al. Characterization of the mucosal and systemic immune response induced by Cry1Ac protein from Bacillus thuringiensis HD 73 in mice. Brazilian J. of Med. and Biol. Research 33 (2000): 147–155.

Vazquez et al. Bacillus thuringiensis Cry1Ac protoxin is a potent systemic and mucosal adjuvant. Scandanavian J. of Immunology 49 (1999): 578–584.

Burns, J.M. 13-week dietary subchronic comparison study with MON 863 corn in rats preceded by a 1-week baseline food consumption determination with PMI certified rodent diet #5002. (Monsanto Co. report, Dec 17, 2002).

Assessment of additional scientific information concerning StarLink corn (FIFRA scientific advisory panel report, No. 2001–09, Jul 2001).

Seralini, G., Cellier, D., & Spiroux de Vendomois, J. New analysis of a rat feeding study with a genetically modified maize reveals signs of hepatorenal toxicity. J. archives of Env. Contam. and Toxicology (Springer, New York).

Malatesta, M. et al. Ultrastructural morphometrical and immunocytochemical analyses of hepatocyte nuclei from mice fed on genetically modified soybean. Cell Struct. Funct. 27 (2002): 173–180.

Vecchio, L. et al. Ultrastructural analysis of testes from mice fed on genetically modified soybean. Eur. J. of Histochem. 48, no. 4 (Oct–Dec 2004):449–454.

Oliveri et al. Temporary depression of transcription in mouse pre-implantion embryos from mice fed on genetically modified soybean. (48th Symposium of the Society for Histochemistry, Lake Maggiore, Italy, Sept 7–10, 2006).

Ermakova, I. Genetically modified soy leads to the decrease of weight and high mortality of rat pups of the first generation. Preliminary studies. Ecosinform 1 (2006): 4–9.
The trilled 'r' sound at 0:29 is definitely not American English. Native English speakers from America can hardly pull that off, which is why it's funny to hear them try speaking spanish.
I imagine there's a good market for a meta-mapping app that lets the user easily switch their views from various mapping services and providers. It would essentially be a webview that kept each map open on a different tab but with a smarter custom ui and animations for switching.
Apparently, 617 million dollars.
> That, ladies and gentlemen, is how it’s done.

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you get yourself killed.
Imagine if the CDC had access to all of your email, Facebook posts, credit card transactions, and location data from your phone and photos. It could do a reasonable job of finding the infection vectors for large populations (an unsanitary restaurant or school cafeteria, for example, or a friend who never washes their hands, or an infected spinach batch from country X, or a MRSA outbreak from hospital A, wing B). This information could be used to warn people to be extra careful in specific situations. Sadly, this is unlikely to happen in the near future.
Of course it's anti-competitive! They took something that was working on a competitor's phone platform and intentionally caused it to stop working. It's probably not illegal, but if it's designed to harm a competitor it is by definition anti-competitive.
I've never understood this argument. It basically amounts to "yes, there are advantages to GMOs, but we haven't found any disadvantages yet, therefore they are unsafe!"

You've got the wrong thing after "therefore". The argument you're trying to paraphrase would probably advocate the Precautionary Principle instead:

"... if an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing harm to the public or to the environment, in the absence of scientific consensus that the action or policy is harmful, the burden of proof that it is not harmful falls on those taking the action."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precautionary_principle
>You could say that about any new product. Here! Use this cellphone! What? The battery can explode when it overheats? Don't worry about it! Almost never happens!

If the battery explodes you will know about it. Each explosion will be an independent, isolated event. They will not all blow up at once. A better analogy would appeal to concerns over EM radiation from cell phones. In that case, it turned out to be harmless - at least in terms of cancer risk. And that single, highly-controllable factor took years to validate for safety.

>Is there even a plant out there that has harmful side-effects two decades after you eat it?

Gluten sensitivity can take years to show up, and months to get better after you've cut it out of your diet. For years doctors dismissed patients who claimed to be suffering from wheat allergies. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
You can never prove something is safe. The only indication that something is safe is lack of evidence of unsafety multiplied by time.

What would be evidence for you that something is safe enough to put into your body?
Do you have an idea of how much an IT project costs a Government?
The firearm registry in Canada, a country much smaller than the US and with a lot less firearms, costs 66M a year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Firearms_Registry

I don't see where the big deal is. MS is an American company that employs a lot of people. That money will come back to the government in taxes and spending someday.
I'm quite familiar with Docco having helped implement something similar for Clojure.[1] I wanted to use org-mode. Sorry it's not readable.

[1]: http://github.com/fogus/marginalia
Or hell: pay a team of 6,170 developers $100,000 for a year to make all their apps run beautifully under WINE and/or port the source to Linux outright.
This is clever. I'll look into this. Can you recommend any good DIY-links for this? Does this technique have a commonly used term?
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Using Play framework to implement a feature in 15 minutes
They have no obligation to do so. But then why not be honest about refusing service to users of a competing platform, rather than claiming that it's about the technical capabilities of the browser? This is something that was working on WP devices until today and has been intentionally disabled.
Play 2 vs. Grails 2 Smackdown
for var i in 1 upto 15 do
println$
match i % 3, i % 5 with
| 0,0 => "Fizz-Buzz"
| 0,_ => "Fizz"
| _,0 => "Buzz"
| _ => str i
endmatch
;
done

Did I get the job?
But will it be dynamically or statically scoped? :)
If Android's growth is X times the iPhone's growth, and Android had a bigger "market share" a year ago (according to the article's chart), shouldn't iPhone's share be lower than Android's?
> The world doesn't face a food shortage. We already have enough food

due to GMOs...