skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I don't see how Monsanto would ruin family farming -- family farming existed centuries before Monsanto was founded. You can still buy non-GMO seeds"

Traditionally farmers would save a portion of their crop to plant for the next year. There is even a special machine that prepares seed for planting called a "seed cleaner". Enter patented GMO seed which gets planted in a field next to regular seed and is cross pollinated by nature. Now the farmer who didn't plant GMO seed has a crop that contains the GMO patented gene. So if he cleans that seed he is at risk of being sued the next year for patent infringement by monsanto. In fact they have been systematically been suing seed cleaners to to get their client lists and then sue the farmers. Since it is nearly impossible to ensure your crop hasn't been cross pollinated with a GMO crop Monsanto has essentially shut down the traditional way farmers have worked. additionally they are reportedly very aggressive in pursuing farmers and frequently trespass on their fields to take seed samples. That is why they say that they have "ruined" family farming.

Food Inc. is one good documentary where this is discussed in detail among other food related issues.

http://www.slowfoodsanfrancisco.com/blog/policy/monsanto-des...
You can't use the language without the implementation. They're bound together. Unless you're suggesting someone's going to write a C# compiler that creates native binaries?
We're assuming here that EdgeRank takes outliers into account in a positive way. It's entirely plausible that they work with medians for example.
Video of Federal Govenment mass Red Snapper kills during demolitions
We know newspapers have made the decision - every so often, they delay reporting on sensitive matters. Wikileaks should be willing to say whether they'd do the same thing.
Video website: http://billmoyers.com/segment/susan-crawford-on-why-u-s-inte....

The link uses a YouTube video that's been made private, from what I can tell. Hence the Vimeo link.
Sure. Sometimes it beats the alternative.
I tried that on a laptop touch pad. Didn't work.
SmoothMouse for OS X
However, Phil Z did get harassed over strong crypto, but that was in the bad old days.
I think this does a good job at explaining what pixel art is and isn't: http://www.pixeljoint.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=11299...
If you want, you can have your academic titles added when you apply for a renewed ID card, but it's neither required, automatic or free :-)!
Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica
People can learn in other ways too.
I'd go with a combination of pro-democracy Islamic youth groups, MB, and AQ -- the countries being Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and...Syria?
Incorporating in Delaware is standard practice for any US corporation. Not only are there tax and legal advantages, but since everyone else incorporates in Delaware, Delaware case law is extraordinarily mature, so legal risks are minimized. It may seem dishonest to the uninitiated, but the people who specialize in such things are well aware of Delaware.
Words Beta now supports Instapaper, Readability & Pocket.
I like to use the MDN re-introduction to JavaScript as a starting point:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/JavaScript/A_re-int...
"What if Wikileaks does leak out documents that could escalate a conflict?"

First of all, keep in mind that Wikileaks itself does not leak anything, they just publish information leaked by others.

That being said, there is already a case of Wikileaks publishing information that escalated a conflict: the Arab Spring. Wikileaks was not the sole cause of those revolutions or protests, but the material published by Wikileaks did contribute to the anger that drove people into the streets. It is likely that over the next few decades, there will be continued conflict stemming from the Arab Spring, and that a large number of people will die or be driven from their homes as a result.

Of course, Wikileaks is not the first organization to publish information that caused or escalated a conflict:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmerman_telegram#Effect_in_t...
If aliens decided to use our resources, they would probably do something like build a Dyson Sphere around the sun, which would mean there would be nothing left for us. It wouldn't matter how big they were, because they would use the resources we need. Look at it this way - we don't notice or mind the presence of insects or flowers, but that doesn't help them when we pave or plow their habitats. A lot of wild things escape us because we aren't that good at harvesting every possible resource, so there's a lot left over, but presumably aliens would be more efficient.

Because of the properties of exponential growth, there would be nothing left over for us. If two organisms double their numbers 250 times, their numbers would roughly equal the number of atoms in the observable universe, which means there would be none left for anyone else.

The only hope would be that they either don't reproduce, which seems unlikely since they would be the survivors of a process of Darwinian evolution just like any other critter, or that they're Space Vegans with a moral code against exterminating other species. We really don't know how they would think.
Looks nice, apparently supports Vim and Emacs too.
Although it only works for Rails so far... there is a whole world out there that's not Rails. And they are only planning to support NodeJS, Django and some other frameworks.
The only type of ads I think look good on blogs are the ones from networks such as http://decknetwork.net and http://carbonads.net

Why do you refuse to make money with your blog?
A real scandal would be if someone was hounded out of office or blocked from attaining it due to their religious beliefs.
This is another argument for using cloud storage as much as is feasible, with the files stored in the cloud themselves being encrypted by encryption software you trust (no relying on the cloud provider to do your encryption for you). They can't order you to give up a password to a file that's not on your laptop. Working this way adds some effort to your workflow, but nobody ever said security was easy.
What I have never understood is why he feels that Sweden would turn him over but that the U.K. (where he had been staying before) would not?

If the U.S. can gin up a fake rape case in Sweden of all places they can certainly do it in a country with which they have a "special relationship".
I believe Play and SpringMVC are both great frameworks and it will be hard and probably too early to compare Micro with these two. I designed Micro's functionality from outside-in, and tweak it for performance from inside-out; small memory footprint, light and fast, .yml for config, extensions, routing and REST support without Java annotation, scripting support for fast prototyping, template engines for clean dynamic content manipulation. I am trying to bring in as much as I learned from my experience as a Sinatra/Merb developer.

Working with Designers for so many years, I was trying to build something that a Designer can use in minutes and use it for publishing his work with the littlest effort possible; all these without writing a single line of Java code. I am sure Play/SpringMVC can do that too?!

For Micro, the separation of roles and concerns is adamant.
Micro (like jpublish.org) is about helping the publishers taking their dynamic content to the web as easy as possible, while allowing the Developers to bring in as much business logic power as possible but without interfering with the content publishing concern; the true separation of roles and concerns. Please have a look at Micro's documentation web site: http://micro-docs.simplegames.ca/ (source on Github too); hosted at Heroku, it is a Micro web app and its entire content is written in Markdown. This is an example of what most of the web Designers and the small publishers will like to have, I think/hope?! Speaking about the Heroku, the compiled slug size, for a standard web app using Micro, is 11.7Mb. Micro is micro :)
Even if you are correct, all that computation still needs to be done in some sort of unit. Money is good because it is abstracted from actual stuff. Joules are actually a bad unit, because how do you value an information product in terms of the energy of the computation it does? Hmm.
I was profiting $1k/day in high school and still managed to finish (and do a good about job to get into a couple top tier universities). I had similar thoughts in high school and understand the predicament, but I know I absolutely made the right decision to stay in school.
> those two variables are not equal and should be treated as such.

In that sense. Don't get me wrong: I'm not saying it fixes other problems with nill pointers, and yes, it introduces an extra possibility for dereference problems. Just like you're allowed to call methods on nill pointers if it's a nill pointer to a type that has these methods.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!searchin/golan...
MoviePile - cross-platform all-in-one desktop video app
This could be a good solution for the problem of what to do with old phones. I have a couple of old phones just sitting in a shoe box, if I could convert one into a print server or something... would be rather satisfying.
Certainly DDR3 memory (as a type of main memory) has less permanence than hard disks (i.e. secondary storage). It's a side effect not a desired goal.

Especially if you're bit-flipping sensitive stuff, there's probably a good hope for protection from recovery at normal temperature after what, 30-60 seconds? So reset is an issue, but "keep sensitive things in RAM vs. on disk" is still a reasonable security precaution.
This. One of the most important things I've learned over the years is fail early and verbosely. My code is always littered with pre and post condition checks. As a side effect, we discover 99%+ of bugs before production every time.
A cheaper (and possibly better) Text Expander app
>You keep using this word "forward". I don't thing it means what you think it means.

So you are the voice inside my head? Please, help me out dude. Since you can read my thoughts...waffles or frittata for breakfast? :)

>companies don't rush on making apps suitable for the tablet form specifically

My experience is that companies are not shy about investing in better tools if they provide a true strategic, financial or technical advantage. The shape, format or nature of the tools is only of importance if that itself constitutes an advantage. In other words, a tablet will only be favored if it makes sense to do so. Let's see what the free market decides.
The problem is you have a person who constantly has more and more amazing stories like this that he pushes everywhere with no proof. Logs or the hostnames or anything is pretty simple proof but require work to make up beyond a story. He put so much effort into detailing it why leave them out? That is why I want to see some sort of proof before I just believe his claims.
So what? They're still commercial entities using and contributing to GPL software, which is what the post I replied to claimed doesn't happen.
Looks, very nice. I tried some basic Mathematica functions (D[], Plot[], ...) and at least that subset all worked as expected.

I couldn't find a full table of compatibility with Mathematica though, anyone know where one is?
Lung Cancer and the Power of Suggestion
Ngen is useless if you're deploying to IIS. Think of views, asp.net pages etc. You're to going to put them in the GAC are you. Ir makes pretty much no sense to ngen anything other than stuff exposed to com or core framework bits. All you do is fuck yourself at deploy time.
Sure, it's the developer being a retard. Not WinRT's fault for a model which pushes more complexity onto the apps than more straightforward multitasking would, in addition to the behaviors being difficult to test and discover.
My New project: A geolocated Dropbox - Exclusive content in exclusive places
Need feedback for new project in Barcelona. What you think abou get a geolocated content (audio, photos,videos, files in general...) just if you are in a place? Yo have your own storage where can be transfered all the data from other people or companies just if you are physically in a place with your mobile. We are working on a app and a web. Pretty sure it's a good idea! Thanks guys!
Co-Founder of action.io here, we have python, node.js and go boxes already and many more in the pipeline. And in the future, the ability to create your own custom dev environment.

if you'd like an invite, please email me at arun <at> action <dot> io
Show HN: spur.py: A simplified interface for SSH and subprocess in Python
There was a quote from .NET authors about roughly 50% of the field issues with .NET code being Null Pointer exceptions.
This is one of the things that I was wondering about. Why isn't the UK willing and able to extradite him, when Sweden apparently is? What makes Sweden different?

The UK does appear to have some strict-ish rules regarding extradition, and only appears willing to extradite people when the matter would also be considered criminal under British law. (I'm not entirely sure whether Assange's publishing of leaked documents would be considered a criminal act that meets the standard in the UK.) Maybe there's something different about Swedish law that would make it easier?
The left 25% of the page is useless, and has a flashing corporate logo, FFS! The page is also setup so I can't zoom the page. If your site design is crippled for tablet users, to the point I'm forced to use "Reader," this is an interesting symptom and datapoint, but not one I'm sure you'd like.
> most people have either no internet or shitty internet outside of their home and work

we think this is a situation of "skating to where the puck is going to be, rather than where it is", but we do have plans to build a bridge between an offline/online dev environment. If you'd like an invite, please email me at arun <at> action <dot> io
dropwizard looks very cool.

I believe more and more that Micro is talking to a specific audience, where the non-Java users have an important role too in the development of the site; Designers, Content managers, etc. With Micro they can prototype quickly before even calling for dev support. I am glad that when I compare Micro with similar frameworks, I realize how small Micro is:) And I truly like it this way. Sure Micro is lacking the persistence support for now (many other features too, probably) and it will be hard to compare it with other frameworks from this perspective. However, Micro is modular and can be expanded easily! (I am searching for a light ORM that I could add as an optional extension; activejdbc, maybe?)

Honestly, I see all the other similar frameworks as options, not as competitors. Let the users compare and choose based on what they want to accomplish. Maybe they'll use ... I don't know ... Play, to randomly pick one, for building an awesome e-comm web site, but would they use it for developing a .. blog, or a fast REST service front-end layer let's say?! The Ruby world is full with good examples where devs/designers are swinging between the fat Rails and the slimmer Sinatra/etc., shouldn't we be glad we can start doing the same in Java?

;)
Can't Stand Sitting
You use the natural units of the activity. Tonnes of ore or raw material. Hours of factory time. Joules of energy consumption. Production line machinery MTBF. So on and so forth. It's a lot of data, but nowadays we have tools to work with a lot of data.
Maybe that's good.

Maybe that will make the US and Israel less inclined to commit the war crime of aggression against Iran.

Maybe if foreigners stopped attacking Iran it might have snowball's chance in hell of becoming a normal country.

You do realize that the Islamic Republic is the blowback from the US's covert ops in 1953 that destroyed Iran's democracy don't you?

You do realize that Iran hasn't attacked anyone in modern history don't you?

And you do realize that Iran has been under constant attack, covert or overt, for more than 100 years don't you?

Or maybe you want to keep attacking Iran until you turn it into North Korea.
Black and yellow: 2014 volkswagen beetle GSR
Way back in 1973, Volkswagen decided it was high time to take the loveable air-cooled Bug racing. No, it wasn't painted in Herbie colors – Volkswagen called its sport-tuned machine the Beetle GSR, "Gelb Schwarzer Renner" or "Yellow Black Racer." Hence, the somewhat shocking paint scheme.

VW is bringing its sporty black and yellow Beetle back for 2014, and you can see live photos of it above. It's got a 210-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine under the hood (that'd be the hood up front, unlike the car's forebear), and a six-speed manual or DSG automatic transmission sends those ponies to the front wheels. Note that this car's output is up 10 horses on other turbo VWs, and the Jetta GLI and Beetle Turbo for 2013. The 0-60 run takes 6.6 seconds, and top speed is limited to 130 miles per hour.

Besides the in-your-face black and yellow paint, the GSR is outfitted with a large rear spoiler and 19-inch wheels shod with 235/40 tires. The bee-like hue carries over inside, with yellow stitching on black leather. Only 3,500 will be produced, each with its own unique plaque. Pricing has not yet been announced, but you're free to read through the press release below all the same.
Direct YouTube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki_Af_o9Q9s
I don't see how this matters anyway. After they question him, they will still want him to go to jail in Sweden pending trial, and he will still be in the Ecuadorean embassy pretending to be a political prisoner.
There are some really amazing ideas in this article -- Direct public offering being the most intriguing. I imagine a local, kickstarter platform that would enable local businesses to raise funds and issue DPO shares. The main challenge seems to be that local businesses fall into the high-risk, low-return part of the risk-return graph. But then every WalMart, Microsoft and Google did start out as a local story. This is indeed revolutionary.
'Spots the Space Marine' Back Online
(Thinking outloud) Wow, I'm an ass. This would have to work with github for me to use it.
Well, it's like the ultimate genetic defect. So basically relying on the technological solution alone isn't going to last, because of all the billions of seeds... the ones which can reproduce will be the ones which do.
You mean just a like a hoodie?
You do not need a certificate or education to do office work. In fact, the German employment agency specifically points to office work as a type of job where it's easiest to find employment without prior education [1].

It can be difficult to find competitive jobs without a tertiary education (college or apprenticeship). But that has little to do with a title fetish and much with the fact that tertiary education is heavily subsidized (both college and apprenticeships), so the vast majority of Germans have one. Note in particular that German apprenticeships are not internships; they are accredited forms of education in the dual system [2].

Without such an education, you will almost always compete against a person who has it, so even though it may not be strictly needed, it may be difficult to impossible to get a job without one (especially in jobs that do require experience or training).

That's not to say that forms of rent-seeking do not occur within this system, but they generally occur at higher levels of qualification (such as requiring a "Meister" -- not to be confused with a master's degree -- to run certain kinds of businesses).

[1] http://www.arbeitsagentur.de/nn_419854/Navigation/zentral/Ve...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_education_system
Probably the same path. I am experienced, and I found Crockford's book not right for me for a learning resource.
The argument was that the example given wasn't necessarily a Pareto improvement, even if one was trying to put aside issues of social justice by invoking economics.
> The premise is that by picking and choosing which stories to cover you can make the world better for your world view.

Wikileaks seems to operate on this premise already. They aren't a wiki anymore, they're selective about what they publish, and what they do publish is usually editorialized. The real question is whether Wikileaks' agenda is positive or negative.
I could learn plumbing, but I choose not to. It's not interesting to me. Not everyone is like you; in fact, I'd guess the majority are more like me in that respect. So regardless of the fact that plumbers may eventually disappear in Western Australia, that's a regional quirk if anything.
Some ideas matter, just not the ones you think
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/261958/a-z_programmi...

Anders estimates 50% of the bugs in C# and Java are due to null dereferences.

Your example illustrates the unsafety of undefined, not the unsafety of nulls/Nothing. And you can of course grep for use of partiality in Haskell code and get warnings about partiality in your own functions.

I've seen NULL causing a lot of trouble in production in every setting I've been.

It is very rare to see people mis-handling a Maybe value in Haskell, simply because you have to be explicit about ignoring the Nothing case.

Also, in Haskell, if you get a Maybe value it is a very clear indication that the Nothing case actually exists and you have to handle it. In C, C#, Java, Go, when you get a reference, it is unclear whether it could be null or not in practice. Checking for null when it isn't warranted is dead code you never test. Avoiding checking for null risks missing checks in cases you actually need to check. All of this is simply not a problem when the types don't lie.
This is irrelevant to your main point, but if you’re going to make the picture look more realistic with a filter, the HQX scaling filter (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx) works a lot better on pixel art. Here’s the original picture scaled down and then scaled up again with HQ2x: http://i.imgur.com/w9RIK1p.png. I think that looks a lot better than your median-filtered version, though I’m not sure whether I like it more than the original.
It matters because it is believed the Swedish prosecutor does not have enough evidence to actually bring charges. After questioning she will either have to bring charges or drop the case. On the other hand, as you say, questioning Assange in the UK has no obvious downside for the prosecutor.
As someone who recently reached out to Danielle for advice about some things she "Used to do" I am now even more grateful for her reply, though short and almost reminiscent of a Steve Jobs-like answer it made tons of sense to me and I was able to develop a strategy around what she told me.

I was thankful for the advice then, but now I'm glad I asked when I did, fleeting moments happen every day I suppose.

Danielle, Good luck with Referly, I'm rooting for you.
More "secure" from single bit errors, but not for recovery -- kind of the opposite goal. The big difference is DRAM (mostly the same, including DDR3) vs. SRAM (of several types -- relevant due to use in HSMs, cpu cache, etc.). DRAM has been getting worse/longer duration as it becomes lower power, so arguably DDR3 (being relatively new) would be worse than 1985 RAM.

CPU registers are the safest place against this attack (hence stuff like TRESOR where AES keys are held in CPU registers), but are by necessity limited (especially on x86; SPARC was better, and some of the new extensions to x86 help (SSE, etc.)

Most of this has been mitigated to some extent by periodic inversion of sensitive strings in main memory (keys, usually) -- this has been implemented in ~all crypto libraries.

SRAM's huge advantage is you can clear it faster than DRAM, but that doesn't help if you can somehow prevent the clearing from happening.
It would only run a subset of Haskell since there is some divergence between the 2 implementations. Frege has a lot fewer advanced features but has also made some improvements on the base Haskell language.
It's

typedObj, ok = something.(type)

just like it is with maps, or any other ", ok" thing.

http://play.golang.org/p/I-5kD88knC