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I see several comments are decrying this interesting commentary article from Scientific American for not providing detailed citations for such basic facts as

"Humans began genetically modifying plants to provide food more than 10,000 years ago."

(This has been well understood ever since the Young Earth Creationism view of the age of the earth was set aside.)

"For the past hundred years or so plant breeders have used radiation and chemicals to speed up the production of genetic changes. This was a genetic shotgun, producing lots of bad changes and a very, very occasional good one."

(One example of this that is very familiar to me is the variety of sweet, pink-fleshed grapefruit grown in Texas, which was developed by irradiating grapefruit seeds.)

"Most early alarms about new technologies fade away as research accumulates without turning up evidence of deleterious effects. This should be happening now because scientists have amassed more than three decades of research on GM biosafety, none of which has surfaced credible evidence that modifying plants by molecular techniques is dangerous. Instead, the anti-GM storm has intensified."

If someone wants to disagree with this aspect of the article, the thing to do would be to cite evidence that there is any danger to GMO technology. As I type this, no one commenting in this thread has yet done so.

"Insect-resistant GM corn also decreases human and animal exposure to mycotoxins, highly toxic and carcinogenic compounds made by fungi. The fungi that produce mycotoxins follow insects into plants; insect-resistant plants have no insect holes for fungi to enter and therefore no mycotoxins."

This is a fact new to me that I learned from the article kindly submitted here. All living things are in biological competition, and most living things are toxic, by natural selection, to some or many of the other living things that might eat them. GMO technology allows human eaters to enjoy safer food.

"Farmers don't have to buy Monsanto seed, nor is anyone preventing them from saving and replanting any seed they want, except for patented seed they've signed an agreement not to save and plant. Farmers buy seeds from Monsanto and other ag-biotech companies because their costs decrease and their profits increase. If they didn't, farmers wouldn't buy them again."

Most of my uncles and cousins are farmers. The quoted statement is true. Farmers buy products if the products offer a good safety and effectiveness profile for sustainable farming. Agricultural products that don't work don't get a lot of repeat business from farmers. The people who are still farmers in the United States feed the entire country they live in and have enough surplus production to feed much of the rest of the world. Farmers in other countries have also enjoyed increased productivity as a result of agricultural research and free enterprise in agricultural products. The whole developed world is seeing rising life expectancies and reduced disease burdens at all ages,

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=longevity-w...

so whatever is new about agricultural practices in the developed world seems to working well so far.
Very good point--abstentions and absences should also be listed.
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/04/digitalocean/?c...

I'm not seeing how this is a record superior to Linode. That said, I use DO due to its price point for hobby/testing projects and dropped Linode completely.
It's frustratingly difficult to find a high-storage VPS at an affordable price. This announcement by Linode is a start. But I think the market has a ways to go yet.
Localisf (a cafe in San Francisco) will accept Bitcoins through Coindega
Actually, on RHEL, after an upgrade, a conditional restart of the mysql service happens.

You can examine those scripts with "rpm -q --scripts mysql-server".
Including the taxes, it works out to a bit under $5US. A Starbucks coffee is around $2.
I saw that. Apparently issue is with self-monitoring. Also, would only be allowed for emergencies.
Your comment leaves much to be desired.
>"I recently enrolled in a local Uni as a freshman."

Same here.

>"I was curious what kind of structured plan you have, is it just you daily schedule or something more long term?"

It's mostly longer term on a scale of months to one year or several in the case of the degree.

For example, one goal is working through the entirety of Introduction to Algorithms [0]. I've set out dates by section for reading, completing problem sets and reviews. I've written these dates out along with my reasons for pursuing the goal and how I believe I will benefit from achieving it.

That might sound simple, but taking the time think these things through, and articulate them into something concrete was certainly useful to me.

This isn't the kind of thing I'd have done historically, but I've been trying to stay very open-minded to anything that might help me reach the goals I've set. I follow the same process for any significant new goal.

I make a point to take (hand written) notes on everything I work on. At least once a week, I whiteboard what I've been reading or working on. There are going to gaps or things I completely blank on which become items for further review in the coming week.

I have yet to settle with a calendar or to-do app which I really like, for the moment, all these dates and tasks are either in a notebook I use daily or on my whiteboard for emphasis.

As much as possible, I try to create "artifacts" from the way I'm spending time. This can be notes, a quick summary of what I got from reading a chapter or article or an attempt at implementing something I read about.

I have a solid routine for my days made pretty necessary between my job and small child, but each day isn't entirely planned. I keep a shortlist of things that I work on in the same set of windows (early morning, commute, at work in the gaps, before bed) each day. I've cut out most anything that isn't family, work or study.

One thing I aim to stay strictly consistent about is waking (5:00). This gives me a little "extra" time before I wake my child up.

0: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0262033844/
I expect few complaints will elicit less sympathy than the plight of the poor put-upon baby boom generation.
It could be that a few savvy people always want a reservation or two on deck. They queue up reservations, say one table per week for two months. When that week comes up, if they don't want the table they cancel it. If they do end up having a need for it, how cool does it look to be able to tell your date that you can get a table at their favorite hot restaurant tomorrow?
This article chronicles some fun I had boosting DMD's speed by doing some simple changes.
I don't think abolishing the state is ideal now. Hierarchical structures and violence are far too ingrained in people and passed on to their children. We really need a philosophical awakening to move beyond institutionalized violence. Abolishing the state swiftly would have the opposite effect as there are too many people dependent on it. Too many lives would be lost. This is a process that needs to happen at a local level, over generations.

And I don't have any proposals for how those services will be provided. People will just figure it out and create solutions organically, as they have for numerous other problems throughout history. We didn't need to know how cotton would be picked before we abolished slavery.
A small suggestion (and boy I do not have this all figured out yet)

Charge by feature, estimate in your head how long a feature will take, multiply by your secret hourly rate, and say that will cost X dollars and be ready at the end of iteration one.

This is good for several reasons

It ties the billing cycle to a feature a client wants instead of to your time which they could care less about.

It focuses on the clients features - so you are always talking their language. I am trying to get client to write a press release for the feature (think scrum story but more visceral)

The aim is to break down the project into chunks the client cares about and thinks about in their terms and then to charge for it in increments that are of value or interest to the client. Usually this is on the order of days - this way you are charging very small fixed cost projects - reducing your risk whilst getting off the per hour billing mindset

It also allows you to find any way, some way to measure business value from the feature (hits per day, minutes saved per sales call - whatever)

Being the person who talks in their ideas, and shows how they brought in more revenue or higher kPI is a good place to be.

Then raise your secret hourly rate, and features just get more expensive. Instead of arguments about hourly rates and full time salaries
Maybe I'm being overly fussy. But I think they should polish their UI.

For example https://www.libreoffice.org/assets/Uploads/EN-Project_images... — the "Properties" button and "Line Type" drop down are completely misaligned.

These design issues add up and end up giving a poor impression of the software, regardless of its features.
The top commenter on the article writes "What liberal hogwash." I have no idea why a scientific matter has become part of political orthodoxy and debate. People on the right would like to trivialize the matter like you do. Are you all being paid directly by oil companies and if so, how can get some of that action?
I can understand their tactic. Competing on price isn't always the best strategy and it tends to attract poorer quality customers that are harder to maintain. In any event, why shouldn't they charge a price that helps them remain profitable and fiscally healthy, rather than engage in a race to the bottom in terms of price? A race to the bottom almost always results in poor quality service -- think airlines. Plus, competing on support at a "premium" price is generally a good idea; not everybody wants the cheapest.
With all the outcoming gov scandals, with government forcing you to vaccine your kids...

All other points aside for a moment: the government should force each and every parent to vaccinate their children. Herd immunity is a key factor in protecting most of the population from many awful diseases, and herd immunity is only effective if the vast majority are vaccinated. There's no credible evidence that vaccination causes autism or any other malady.
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The idea of separating overhead from donations is a important idea that needs to be emulated more in the charitable community.

Most already do, but that's actually a problem for most charities, since they can't figure out how to scale or operate more efficiently because their budget is tied so directly to services.

For more than this, see the reasoning and extensive examples in Ken Stern's book With Charity For All. I wrote about it here: http://blog.seliger.com/2013/06/02/with-charity-for-all-ken-... , and anyone interested in how the charitable subset of nonprofits actually operate should read the book.

(I'm a consultant who does grant writing for nonprofit and public agencies and have heard a million laments on this issue.)
That's the problem with working too many hours: you don't have any time to go look for other work and potentially charge more. It's very hard to get an existing client to pay more.
I've been having issues with steal time recently, but what I'm seeing isn't adequately explained by any of the articles and documentation I could find. Here is an example from one EC2 node:

19:26:19 CPU %usr %nice %sys %iowait %irq %soft %steal %guest %idle
06:04:05 PM all 14.85 0.00 5.94 0.00 0.00 0.00 14.85 0.00 64.36

For me, when the machine was under load, %steal was almost always very close to %usr. It wasn't always the same, sometimes more and sometimes less. Can anyone explain how these numbers are related to each other?
I just funded a pregnant women's medical care and it only cost $215??? In the USA it cost tens of thousands of dollars. Amazing.

On a separate note, this is an AWESOME idea and service. Trust the private sector to take on poverty, where the government has failed to date.
"Completely", sure. That's too much. "Completely plausible", on the other hand, means something else altogether. Completely plausible means it could conceivably happen. It's entirely within the realm of possibility. Not saying it will happen, but I wouldn't be surprised if it did.

At any rate, I think you and I are in violent agreement and aren't actually disagreeing, so we'll leave it at semantics.
> The whole developed world is seeing rising life expectancies and reduced disease burdens at all ages

the article is about Monsanto. Are you postulating we have Monsanto to thank for increasing life expectancies and decreasing disease worldwide? That would need some serious evidence wouldn't it ?
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The other thing about DigitalOcean is they haven't rolled out IPv6 or private IPs yet. They did seem to promise a release date for the former several months ago. I asked them about this yesterday and after I pressed the issue the rep snapped at me and told me that I didn't understand how difficult it is!

Linode it is!
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Just freaking tremendous, guys. You're doing something magical: directly connecting philantropy to tangible results.

How can we help you spread the word? What's your media strategy? What's the pinnacle- the Today show? Somebody paying for a primetime ad?
> Instead I find this as a shill article complete void of data or any other information whatsoever.

I don't see any data in your comment either. Shall we classify it as a shill as well?

It's pretty clear that the article has a single argument. We have been genetically modifying foods for thousands of years and there is no fundamental difference between what we're doing now and what we did before, other than the tools we're using to do it.

How can you provide data for that?

> You label your food as GMO ... In the US you can't choose

WholeFoods is advertising all over their paper bags that they will begin doing this. That said, everything consumed by human beings in the last few thousand years is GMO. Especially our livestock, which has been forced down an evolutionary path that is not sustainable in nature in the slightest. If we become extinct for whatever reason, you will not find chickens and cows roaming about. They will be gone and they will be gone very quickly.
Fantastic but I am a bit concerned here. You seize my equipment if it is being used to violate some trademark? This may have been used good in this case but I shudder at the thought of how it might be abused.
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They are different in degree and method, but fundamentally they are the same thing. In the end they are both humans causing the genes of a good crop to change over time. Direct genetic engineering is going to be faster, but the end results could still be the same as indirect breeding and hybrids.
That article is in agreement with the National Academy of Sciences.
I've used prgmr.com for a while now and am pretty content with it. That being said, I am not running anything mission critical on it, so the occasional hiccups are a pretty easy price to pay for a super cheap VPS. I pay $8 a month for 256MiB RAM, 6GiB HD, and 40GiB transfer. As far as price points go on the larger plans, Linode currently has the advantage in transfer and disk space. I'll be interested to see if prgmr increases it to compete.
It means it costs producers a lot of money to not be labeled as GMO, making GMO default. That seems silly. I really don't see the problem with labeling GMO foods.
Really? Because I'm kind of building the entire product. He can't code at all. I need to determine a fair signing bonus.
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sciam didn't mention it, but the last two authors are the same guys who modernized wireless cellphone charging (Tesla's coils were deemed too dangerous)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WiTricity
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Yes, meaning they were made to compete with ARM makes more sense, not the ipad (non-existent att) specifically. It was Intel's bet on mobile. The cortex processors used in the iOS line have only caught up recently regarding performance.
For finding any kind of freelance work: make lots of friends. The online clearinghouse sites are a great way to end up doing too much work for too little pay for a shitty client. Everyone needs work done or know someone who needs work done. Work the networking.

And I mean friends. You're not going to get business out of a guy you just met. You're probably not going to get business out of many people the first time they ask you. Never ask them if they have work they need done, let them complain about not being able to find someone, then mention you do that sort of work (whatever it is, if you're smart you can figure it out well enough to do better than the majority of people). Don't back down on rate, they might balk at first, but when things get dire for them and they still can't find anyone, they'll remember you.

Avoid debt like the plague. It'll make you a slave to a constant, regular income. I have constant, regular income, but I also know I have urges to take 3 months off at a time. Debt is the mind killer. It's a lot easier to face the prospect of losing a contract when you know you have 3 months before you need more money, not 1 week.

EDIT: and definitely lie to your in-laws about how much you work. A) Few people my own generation can get over "not having a good job", fewer still of the older ones. And B) they might think not working for a cluent means you're not busy and they can make demands of your time.
> the article is about Monsanto.

The title is about Monsanto. The article is not.
With regards to the term free software, the definition is opaque to most people, however it's likely construed as such:

* The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

* The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

* The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).

* The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others (freedom 3). By doing this you can give the whole community a chance to benefit from your changes. Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

Source: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Furthermore, Mark Shuttleworth is doing an AMA on reddit right now and someone asked about binary blob drivers (rather than full-source drivers), and this was his response:

> There may be blobs in the first generation device. The way to a blob-free future is to show demand from folks who care about that, not to be ideological about it.

Source: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1j166z/hi_im_mark_shut...

Suffice to say that the Edge's OS will not be composed of only free software.
> I think they should polish their UI.

Probably. They may need help though - it's a big project with a lot of code that runs on various platforms.

Did you file a bug report, or, if nothing else, drop them an email?
Damn ... They could have bought 24 more Instagrams with that :(
Librato Raises $3.8 Million 
Librato, Inc. announced today that it has closed a $3.8M Series A round of funding to enhance its product offerings and build on strong momentum with customers. Since the company launched its monitoring data analytics service in March of 2012, it has grown to over 500 customers, processing billions of data points each day.<p>Librato is a Software as a Service company dedicated to delivering beautiful, easy to use tools that make managing your operations more fun and efficient. It’s flagship product is the “Metrics” time series data platform.<p>“Operations Analytics has become a mission critical function in organizations. Leading companies like Coursera, Heroku, Moz, and Wooga to use Librato because they need a highly available and easy to deploy solution for analysis and storage of the massive volumes of data they collect to track the health of their services,” said Steve Anderson, founder of Baseline Ventures, who has joined Librato’s board. “Librato has built a strong following for its unique approach, and we’re excited to help accelerate the expansion of its service and its community of contributors, partners and customers.”<p>Link: Librato.com
We've had some other partners ask for a way to automate donations. We have a plan for that, and we'll be working on it next.
Also make sure you read Eddie Kohler's LaTeX usage notes:

http://www.read.seas.harvard.edu/~kohler/latex.html
Netboot enables you to boot in a rescue environment. From there, you can usually mount your disk, do some basic tests, and fix mistakes.

Not as efficient as a direct console access, but for the occasional "Oh , I just firewalled myself" moment, it's enough.
Pandas 0.12 released
I am not saying that we should eliminate genetic research. I am saying that we need to isolate genetic modification from the general genetic pool until we understand what we are doing. Until half a year ago "we" (geneticists) thought that upwards of 80% of the genome was junk DNA... oops, I guess not. I think that we have to be a little more cautious. A lot more cautious.

If (as I feel is the case) genetic material is code, and we (all Earth based life) is a production environment... I just cannot express how sloppy I feel we have been in the last 20 years. Policy, research, implementation... its not like we don't know how to run a clean software environment, how to do safe development... but in the genetic world? Hack, reverse engineer, install trap doors, holy fuck, we brought down a root level dns server? Cool! We are awesome! We must be geniuses!

We are 13 and loving it.
I was disappointed that it hadn't been closed. The first answer is a backhanded dig at non-angular developers saying that angular is about architecture and implying that the others aren't.

I like angular but "angular architect" rolls off the tongue too easily.
Will Ubuntu Edge commit to using only free software
Can anyone comment on using Ractive as a replacement to Backbone.View? I'd think that making Ractive the view layer in a Backbone app would go a long way in augmenting a lot of the things that Backbone refuses to do in views (binding, smart DOM management/manipulation, actual templating support)
You can back your way into one at Dreamhost. Their shared hosting plans are unlimited disk/unlimited bandwidth for web-related data. Then add a VPS to that. You still get the same disk/bandwidth allocation. If you get really big, there's probably some throttling, but it works well for me. I have over 500GB of data stored there.
Counterpoint: Linode is incompetent at security. $228,000 worth of bitcoins were stolen because Linode's admin interface was compromised by an attacker. The reason you probably haven't heard about it is because Linode never publicly acknowledged that it happened, as far as I know. Those are two serious black marks against the credibility of Linode. Use at your own risk.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/03/bitcoins-worth-22800...
Looking through the change log, clearly they are doing, and clearly it's a big job of work which isn't finished yet.
I had been a Linode customer for years, but I had to drop them when I lived through two security incidents where there was an almost complete lack of response by the Linode staff. They've completely lost my trust. I work in the information security industry, and I know the reality that almost everyone will get hacked eventually. I don't blame them for getting hacked. I blame their poor incident response plan. For my purposes, I just can't depend on an infrastructure provider who isn't brave enough to tell me up front that they made a mistake, or if they tell me "don't worry, the attackers weren't after your information!"

Because next time, they might be. You're going to have to do better than incremental upgrades to convince me to come back.