skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And I've always been skeptical of GMOs for different reasons."

In a way, this is nothing new. When Norman Borlaug was working to save the couple of billion lives with his green revolution, also his plant breeding methods (which we now see as traditional, totally natural and acceptable) were often seen a unnatural and potentially dangerous:

"Throughout his years of research, Borlaug's programs often faced opposition by people who consider genetic crossbreeding to be unnatural or to have negative effects."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug#Criticisms_and_h...

"I also think the issue of patents and self-reproducing organisms is a legal hell-hole."

There actually exists plant breeder's rights for traditional (non-GMO) varieties, so the situation with patents may not be so much different:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_breeders%27_rights
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I disagree that ... the "ruling class" sat down to decide most people should work bullshit jobs.

But the author denies this explicitly.

The phenomenon is more elegantly explained by pure economics ... more energy is absorbed by the zero-sum, gimmicky game of selling and marketing them.

It's sort of odd to appeal to economics on the one hand and then characterize sales/marketing as zero-sum on the other. I wouldn't spend any energy defending sales/marketing as positive-sum myself, but economists do.
My first thoughts too, doesn't seem the like the the best/most appropriate place to publish a public announcement notice.
Use of Weapons, Player of Games or Excession.

The fairly recent Surface Detail was also pretty good, although somewhat horrific in that it deals with the idea of virtual reality hells.
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While I'm not convinced this is "python" vs "go" (see other comments) what everyone seems to miss is that this is 9 lines vs 23, as well. Ok, so in this test, the performance/line is off by a factor of five (2 times the lines, ten times the performance) -- but it looks to me like the performance could be made up by sticking something like Varnish in front -- so there's really no "real world" performance difference, just more complex code.

I may be wrong, but that's all I see from this. (Assuming architecture >> micro benchmarks)
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Well part of that is how the NSA's mission. NSA is charged with both defense and offense. Defense side has brought us AES, SHA1, etc. etc. Offense side is well... the current controversy.

Anyway, your words are unfortunately generic, and can be applied to any federal government agency. Centralizing resources is almost always going to be either more efficient or more effective. It is important that the NSA is technically a military organization (with tons of civilian supporters). It is run by a 4-Star General, and their primary targets are military enemies. It is imperative for the NSA to be as powerful as possible from a collections standpoint.

The key therefore, is in the laws that restrict the NSA's behavior. The NSA is an outstandingly useful tool to the military... run under the same executive branch that the rest of the Military is run (Department of Defense). Unlike the CIA, which competes with the DoD for budget material, the NSA is most certainly a military tool.

A nation's citizens need to be comfortable with its military. Squadrons of F16s are almost never deployed against citizens, and the massive war machines (Fleets of Carriers, Napalm, etc. etc.) are similarly not to be used against one's own citizens. The NSA is on that list of extremely powerful, but useful tools of the Military's toolbox.
Here is what happens on Go Read's end:
https://github.com/mjibson/goread/blob/master/goapp/user.go#...

Here is the information that Go Read stores per user:
https://github.com/mjibson/goread/blob/master/goapp/types.go...
already posted:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858
The crypto.stackexchange.com forum has some traffic and isn't focused on any specific technology.
This seems to be a habit with Microsoft - Spot, MSN Music, PlaysForSure, etc, all no longer work because Microsoft insisted on being the only service provider, then later on decided that they couldn't be bothered to continue providing the service.
I started with "Consider Phlebas" after a suggestion here on HN (that I read Iain Banks), and I don't recommend it as the starting book, it was bit of a letdown (though it's an ok book).

I'm now reading "Player of Games" and it's far better, though maybe the introduction to the "Culture" universe was worth reading the first book.

It seems "Use of Weapons" is the best one, I haven't read it yet.
And corporate defense: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/nsa-investigates-na...
Sadly this is like any standard in the IT world.

Just look how long C++11 took to finish or the features that are being discussed for C++17.

Or the first C standard 1989, when the language existed since 1972. Or how many C compilers, commercial and open-source, implement C11.

Many many other examples are possible.
If Hacker News is a leading indicator, interesting to see that JavaScript is becoming so dominant, while the dynamic languages continue to be in strong demand. You can view direct comparisons too.

Ruby vs Python vs Node vs PHP [1]
Angular vs Ember vs Backbone [2]
iOS vs Android [3]

[1] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/?comp...

[2] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/?comp...

[3] http://www.ryan-williams.net/hacker-news-hiring-trends/?comp...
A wiki like wiki.ubc.ca
Hi, I am totally amazed how ubc.ca integrated mediawiki and wordpress - I wonder, is there anywhere a fork of the whole? Or any better alternatives? Either way - I think this is a great demo of what is possible with open source software / technologies
I've been working on a "Send a note to Basecamp" extension for a bit. It (currently) reads the content of your open email in Gmail, and lets you send an arbitrary note to a Basecamp project. Useful for people who like to stay in the browser while they are cleaning out their email. Also, makes my email inbox actionable.

I will share it here whenever it's ready to show off.
My bad. Thank you my friend :)
already posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6229858
the real reason why he wont be rewarded, is because the guy who found the bug, is an arab from palestine, who was being ignored on purpose. facebook is jewish. simple.
Yeah, but OP said I could remove as many "buffalo"s as I want and the sentence would still make sense. "Buffalo Buffalo Buffalo" does not make sense. Unless OP was ignoring case which makes it all rather contrived.

...even more contrived.
Social justice as a hammer is exactly the idiocy I was pointing at. Nitpicking a comment taken out of context as an affront to an oppressed group is exactly that.
Bullshit jobs certainly exist, and in great numbers. The proof is in the fact that many of the people who "do" these jobs actually goof off a significant part of their working day and yet things still march on as if nothing is different.

In places I've done contracting work I've seen vast offices full of these folks, and it almost feels to me as if their bosses are sort of covering for them. Cubes full of people browsing Facebook at least half the day.
FWIW In NYC there is an HF station at the NYC Resistor hacker space!
It's not just government employees. . .this also happens in private industry. . .especially in those companies that provide services to the government and have cost-plus contracts with the government.
If it is trivial, can you disprove it? Quacks like a plutocracy...

We need better democracies.
I was convinced before by experience of running a small web server with python using flask and nginx. Go was shown to be 10 time faster for a simple web server, not 100 and I don't think Go is better than python for everythig.
Only 1.2% of the American labour force is in the agricultural sector. The remaining 98.8% of workers are not directly involved in food production.
Still, even those are performed by "amateur magicians" that don't know and have no way of knowing the long term effects of such additions to the ecosystem -- they just know that short term, they benefit commerce, ie. more money faster.

Nature, animal and insect life, is far too chaotic a process involving too many interactions, for them to know what long term effects "weeds that glow in the dark" will have (Let's adopt GMOs! It's from the guys that brought us Thalidomide!). So they mostly experiment in real life, with government regulatory bodies that are easily bought or swayed.

(And no, the "overpopulation that needs to be fed" defense that's often used is mostly BS. For one, they could not care less: they patent their work to death and charge a premium for the seeds to poor third world farmers -- as drug companies do with AIDS drugs etc. Second, the main use of those techniques it to make food for the first world, sold to the same people that always had food, have higher profit margins).

As for the reason a lot of people in the tech etc community are pro-GMOs, I think it's two-fold:

For one, they react to some rather poor arguments from the anti-GMO crowd, that, as any large crowd, also contains ignorant people, neo-hippies, etc. So they throw the baby (caution and scepticism) with the bathwater (ignorant claims).

Second, they confuse engineering (including GMO engineering) with science, and think that by defending any random money-grabbing work of engineering they are defending "science" against the ignorant masses. They make an ego conpensating psychological mechanism out of science, like religious people do with religion.
Which is why they revoked your math license, we know the story.

No, when you say 2 + 2 = 5, you can put it off as "He can't be serious", and then it's off your mind. But if the person keeps asserting it till you can't brush it off anymore, that's when heads tend to roll. It goes against what you believe, and subconsciously, that goes against you as a person.
.NET is a fine alternative in 80% of the use cases. Honestly, in half of the projects I see coming through, the only reason java is a requirement is because everything else is already in java; the only hang up is DB2/MSSQL/Oracle drivers.
And get heckled instead for blogspam, with a high voted comment asking why we don't just point at the original source instead.

Catch 22.
Around 2007ish they pledged their loyalty to Microsoft and the Oracle users became the redheaded step children. I was at the user conference in 2008 and the few Oracle related demonstrations were poorly attended. Even my organization moved to SQL server around 2011. I left shortly before that.
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> no need to move faster, please participating companies, take your time debating BS pedantic distinctions until the spec is finalized.

OTOH if things are rushed then you end up with underdefined oddities and weird effects of things that seemed sensible: http://wtfjs.com/page/13
Would you say the same for cars. For example, whenever government pay for a new car fleet, car designs should become open source and be available to all other members of the society free of charge. See the point? Why should only software vendors and developers be expected to provide the outcome of their hard work as open source?
Yes, ignoring case. There’s no case in spoken language, so that’s quite reasonable, really.
This is one of the better essays arguing against "learn to code" because it actually acknowledges that there are real benefits to learning coding that don't relate to working in an IT job, just as there are real benefits to learning to write that don't relate to being a published author.

But I disagree with the notion that, as the OP states, that learning to code is futile because "most who “learn to code” will end up learning anything that sticks."

One of the most common niche phone apps I've seen used day-to-day, among my peers, are apps used to calculate tips from a bill. Even though the math needed to do so is trivial: it's literally a concept mastered by fourth or fifth grade. Yet these tip-calculating apps are popular. Obviously, math is not something that "sticks" in a practical way with most non-STEM people...yet, why do we bother spending roughly one-third of the K-12 curriculum teaching and testing it?

Well, from my layperson's viewpoint, I'd argue that while many people lose the ability to do math, they at least understand that it exists. They may not be able to multiply 0.15 or even 0.20 against a whole-dollar amount in under 30 seconds, but they at least get the concept of percentage of a whole, and, if there are multiple diners, the concept of division and order of operations (you want to divide the bill after adding the tip).

Would they understand this without any education in math? I'm just a layperson but I'm guessing that such a concept could be totally foreign to someone who has never learned division. At the very least, if such a person were given a malicious app that incorrectly calculated the tip (on the order of 2 to 3x, in favor of the server), that person would have no idea that they were being fleeced.

So I think that it's too early to give up on coding just yet...there's a middle ground between baking out a skeleton Rails app and having done enough code to understand logic and computational thinking for the rest of your life.
If twitter is ignored because it's all noise, what's the point?
Blog posts. Hm.
Should I write about my market research? Interesting people I've met (Without naming names) who've taught me something about the field I'm working in?
Features for the website and how/why they do what they do?
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<sarcasm>Well, when I see Go-promoting pieces like this I somehow feel around Google's love ...you know?</sarcasm> If you don't agree with me then you may blame me for talking without strong and direct facts (without down-votes I hope, but I'll take them if they will), and I'll accept that and stand down for a while. After all, this Go thing got in my attention only recently and I didn't bothered to gather Go/Google "having to do with" material.

If you are however, a Google-related person, notice that there is much too much Go around, at least here on HN. Maybe it's better to tune it down a little bit, otherwise it might induce a negative effect.
> The reason we don't work less is because we clearly want (and can have) more stuff than we had in the 1930's

I wouldn't blame entirely blame consumerism for why we won't work less.

A lot of things have gone up drastically in price in the '30s: higher education (which "everyone" is encouraged to get, from "every" adult figure in their life, from about 6th grade on. Wasn't like that in the '30s); housing; medicine.

In the '30s my great uncle was given a house as a wedding present. His siblings also got houses when they got married. Can you imagine something like that today? Gifting your children something that, in today's age, costs $100,000 (and sometimes 2x-3x more)?!

Of course we buy more things, and I know my grandparents didn't spend money on a smartphone every 2 years or have a $100/month cable bill. But blowing $2K on a TV is a drop in the bucket when you have a $200K mortgage (aka: debt).

I'm willing/able to live cheaply, and buy less things, but my creditors (the big three, above) want their bills paid. So I can't "just" work half time at the code factory and get paid 50% less, because I have debts the like which people in the '30s would have no idea about.

("You mean going to the doctor could be 1-2 months worth of take home pay, even with this 'insurance' that costs 10% of your take home pay??")
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kind of like an asymptotic line, optimizing for efficiency - we spend more and more time making less and less of a difference. The problem is, with companies the size we have nowadays, even a small percentage improvement leads to runaway success, so every company is incentivized to continue optimizing.

Maybe we should limit the maximum size of a company?
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I had to look up who Carl Icahn is (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Icahn); he's a large-scale investor which is why the quoted tweet about plans to invest further in Apple caused Apple's stock to become more valuable.
Dart is excellent in few cases on the client. First, if you can forget about older browsers, and second if you don't need to use a lot of pre-existing JavaScript libs in your app, and third if you don't need to use the web control on iOS. Dart as a Chrome Packaged App should shine. I really enjoy developing in it. I don't have any experience with it on the server, so couldn't say there.
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> The MIT professor lays out how the majority of U.S. policies are opposed to what wide swaths of the public want

This is a feature of the design of the U.S. federal government. The framers of the Constitution were very familiar with the history of governments and knew that direct democracy was a disaster. It devolves into mob rule, and let's face it, most people don't know much about most things.

Chomsky says that the lower 70% of the population has no effect on policy, but there is plenty of evidence to the contrary. The U.S. system of income taxation is progressive and refundable, meaning that there is substantial transfer of wealth from the richest people to the poorest. The upper income brackets pay a disproportionately large percentage of all income taxes.

U.S. states fund universal public education through high school; a policy that benefits the poor and middle class far more than the rich, who can afford to send their children to private schools. Health care funding like Medicare and Medicaid

I'm not saying that these are bad! Just that they demonstrate the extent to which U.S. policy does benefit a broader swath of the population than you might think from reading this essay.

Ironically, some of the things that Noam Chomsky likes the least are in fact popular with a majority of the U.S. population. Pew reports that 61% of American citizens approve of the drone assassination program, for instance [1].

[1] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/07/25/big-gender-g...
I’m not sure what this has to do with the pumping lemma for DFAs, as English isn't a regular language.
Not having enough money to sue them, so the alternative was praise.

From James Gosling himself,

http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/my_attitude_on_oracle...

> Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade, which annoyed a lot of folks at Sun.
Stop licking the boots of power for a second and think about what you've said: literally, that imagining questions one might ask of misbehaving public servants is worse than the original misbehavior of those public servants. What color is the sky in your world?
Because classful networking went out the window 20 years ago.

Case in point: 11.5.0.0/16 is not a Class B network and never was. (11.0.0.0/8, however, was/"is" a Class A network).

/16 != Class B network.
or hacker news </zing! I'll just take my hat as I leave>
If I read this correctly, Schneier is saying that "increasing key size will be enough to stay ahead of the advances in factorization for the foreseeable future." I hope this is true. But I think I'll stick to my guns, saying that RSA will be broken (with)in 5 years.
Go seems to be gaining traction. Does it matter if that's because of where it came from? Maybe in a cultural, I-want-to-think-about-why-some-languages-get-adopted sense, sure, then it can matter. And I think it's worth having those discussions. But I get the impression that people think there's some absolute injustice in the idea that people are adopting a language, and it's partly because it's from Google. Consider:

"Yes, C would be hardly mentioned here if it wasn't being developed at Bell Labs."
And water has no chemical meaning. But you see it in chemistry papers all the time...
> How do you legally notify someone if all you know is their IP? (serious question, IANAL)

That is a great question, but the case you linked had zero such ambiguity, and in fact is one of the more straightforward CFAA rulings I've ever seen on HN.
No, what I said was that the actions being speculated are blackmail. Blackmail of the POTUS. Not a very moral or smart decision.

The fact that you instantly jump to 'licking the boots of power' indicates to me that you don't tolerate any dissent from your views.
Another way to do "fog of war" is to imitate Warhammer Quest / Hero Quest where floor tiles are placed on the table. Might be a bit much for a 5 y/o given the articles points about the greatness of magnets.
"Silicon Valley" (as a euphamism for our industry) has a chance to lead the culture here, and also to respond to an emerging criticism of itself in a way that is socially positive.

I'm seeing more and more articles to the effect that high-tech destroys jobs. Our response should be: "good, now we should move to a four-day work week." If high-tech work destroys jobs, it should leave people more time for friendship, family, art, learning, play, ...

Attack the Puritan bullshit-work ethic and the associated economic broken window fallacy directly. Make it a "culture war" issue if necessary.

That would be the first step: a four-day work week, a three-day weekend. More jobs for those who don't have them, less work for those who do. The energy savings in transportation would also be immense.

Tech industries would be largely unaffected. Why? Because our work is largely intellectual in nature, and intellectual work does not come in continuous streams. It comes in bursts of productivity. I bet removing one day from the work week would negligibly impact productivity in our field. It might even increase it in some cases.
I also live on a boat, in France, and the pressure on mooring places is unbearable in many places, including all of those conveniently close to "good" jobs. This is worsened by the waterways administration's Kafka-like madness. For instance, a boat which has mooring rights in Paris will cost about €600K more than the same one in an unremarkable place (mooring rights are effectively attached to a boat, and non-transferable).

So more extensive evidence shows that when living in a boat becomes popular, prices (in money and inconveniences) do skyrocket.
Large monitors are a huge productivity benefit. As are multiple monitors. That's why they're considered a status symbol at many places.

It used to be you could tell bad places to work by the power of the chips on the machines they would give employees. Now it's monitor size that's more important.

Tying back to the original story, I think this is highly underrated in learning. And also to their point why it's hard to learn in a coffeeshop.
I assume you didn't read the article? 3taps used a proxy to show up to the website from a completely different IP.

Either way it's easy enough, just see if 3taps has data from the craigslist website that was after the effective date of the IP block and C&D letter being received.
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Isn't this a problem on any os with cpu "speed stepping" ?

We lose seconds each day on our linux servers and have to use ntpd to stay in sync.
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