skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most of the products they have in the pipeline are based on generating resistances to various crop diseases/insects. They try to do this in a variety of ways.

"In the pipeline" as in "the stuff that they still don't sell." They'll get better, eventually. Until then, they lobby for the laws like:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmer_Assurance_Provision

Commonly referred to as the “Monsanto Protection Act” where "even if a court were to determine that a particular product might be harmful to human beings or harmful to the environment, the Department of Agriculture could not stop the production of that product once it is in the ground."
ماكينات طباعة مستعملة
ماكينات استعمال خارج
شركة الحسينى لماكينات الطباعة ومستلزمات الطباعة وآلات الطباعة المستعملة والمستوردة من اوروبا .
شركة الحسينى لماكينات الطباعة ومستلزمات الطباعة وآلات الطباعة المستعملة والمستوردة من اوروبا .
شركة الحسينى لماكينات الطباعة ومستلزمات الطباعة وآلات الطباعة المستعملة والمستوردة من اوروبا .
Yeah... so far my Go stuff has had exceptional reliability, I verified I handled all error known conditions with errcheck (https://github.com/kisielk/errcheck) and just generally took the slow and plodding approach of handling everything explicitly. My app handles hundreds of thousands of concurrent connections, each one often using and/or spawning 4 or more goroutines.
My only fear is that people will abuse
a single style guide to no end and code
will become generic and timeless.

Wait, what? This is a bad thing?
> What exactly is the reason these shipping companies seem to go into a kind of hibernation over the weekend? Surely there are people out there who would be willing to work weekends (if the pay was right)? How much more would it cost them?

This disturbs me, just like forcing shops to open on the weekend. People need a break, and should have a break, just because you can't wait an extra day?

Sure, they have a choice to work, just as shop workers have a choice to work, they can always get a job somewhere else.
The problem with his letter (and those against Monsanto) is that it is a huge corp with a long history. It (as far as 'it' can be applied, Ship of Theseus territory here.) has done terrible things that anyone can cherry pick to make it the most evil company in the world; but it does great things that people can cherry pick to make it seem great!

So people arguing about The Climate Corporation joining Monsanto will never agree because they each have their picked samples and there is no "Evil formulae" for determining the overall evilness of a company.

Having said that, the fact that he is being offered $1 Billion before knowing about the company does make one wonder how much research he did into the dark sides of Monsanto of if he avoided / rationalized it to support his bias, even if subconciously. He comes out overall positive it is easy for people to accuse him of not researching the bad things.
Sorry didn't found the old discussion in my (extremely short) search.
what are you developing?
I'm old enough to remember when it was digital cameras that were crap but obviously going to supersede non-digital.

I also remember that this was obvious for phones (not even smartphones), long before the iPhone. The first two generations of iPhone were a step back in quality compared with rivals and a common complaint was the lack of MMS which feature phone used to share images.
"In addition to “reading your emails” [when google introduced gmail, and funded it with ad-sense], Google was accused of storing all your email for the Federal government to read, and Google now CONTROLED ALL YOUR INFORMATION."

Well, thankfully, that never happened!
I confirm that my inline C-code was written pretty sloppily... But obviously you clearly understood my intention :-)
A visual, blocks based programming language inspired by Scratch - Written in JS
In French train stations, there are installations which allow you to charge your electrical devices by pedaling. I'm sure these must have been installed in other countries as well.
if you are running latest versions of Ubuntu or Linux kernels, it is a PITA to get Docker running because of its dependence on AUFS - which is deprecated on the kernel side.

The better (but unknown) way of running it is to install Docker 0.7-RC4 through curl http://test.docker.io | sudo sh.

Just FYI.
At your age, open source is the best way to learn.
That way other developer will be able to point out some of the mistakes. And point you out on the right way to do something.

Besides this is not something that any developer cant do in a couple of hours of work. So not releasing your code doesn't really have any impact.

But 15 years old and coding is impressive. I was rotting day and night playing Civ 3 at that age :) Wish i didn't :)
I doubt it. It would take days, even weeks to unload a ship, using lots of people, as opposed to hours and a few people.
The elderly and the disabled already get discounts or free transportation. Do you find it discriminating against young / able people?
There's no mining happening in the browser. My inspiration was CSI's "visual aids", where a computer will look like it's grinding through a database but not actually be doing any work.

So the red "random" hashes are exactly that: random numbers. The site just listens out for broadcasts on the Bitcoin network, and displays them when they show up.
People need a break. People should get a break. They should also hire extra weekend help. Spreading the load out by hiring part-time but weekend-bonused workers would benefit society as a whole. It's not just going to be overtime, it's going to be more interesting and flexible work hours - And society will benefit.
I found this remarkably unpersuasive -- one irrelevant factoid after another.

Tellingly, the word "glyphosate" does not appear in it. And the part about the Monsanto Protection Act -- yes, I know that's not its official title -- is just a gem:

protecting [farmers] from emerging state propositions that aren’t based on science or research

... because we've assumed the conclusion, that there couldn't be objections to GMOs that are based on science or research.

I understand that GMOs have to be evaluated individually -- GMO technology per se is not necessarily dangerous. That said, I think there's sufficient evidence of the toxicity of glyphosate -- and that it remains in food grown with it -- that I strongly prefer not to eat such foods.

Also -- we're talking about our food supply. Doesn't it stand to reason that the burden of proof should be on those who claim the resulting foods are safe, rather than on those who claim they are dangerous?
Does a chart without a y-dimension say anything at all?
Why you may hate the Silicon Valley (FAZ)
they didn't do that just for the sake of being evil.

No one ever does. Nobody wakes up in the morning and decides, "Today I will strike a blow for evil!"

No, everybody has their own narrative in which they are the hero. Evil is simply the by-product of being so focused on your own narrative that you forget that other people have their own narratives in life.
Granted, but do you plan to carry half a dozen batteries with you to compensate for that, or just find somewhere to plug in?
A common place to publish and share your own API specifications
When I had first heard about this, it was the only anti-MSG argument that sounded even remotely plausible, but it seems that nowadays commercial MSG is made by bacterial fermentation, which means that they would also have the preference for L-oriented amino acids.

Wikipedia confirms this

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monosodium_glutamate#Production

The referenced papers on the process (from 1957!) indicates that they were reporting L-glutamate producing bacteria specifically:

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jgam1955/3/3/3_3_193/_article

Here is an overall history of MSG production, including chemical synthesis (now obsolete). Even when they were doing this, they screened out the D-glutamate and re-synthesized it to maximize L-glutamate production (might not have been 100% effective, as apparently it involved doing optical screening of the crystals)

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/90/3/728S.full

Disclaimer - I am Japanese American, so grew up with Ajinomoto MSG, dashi, tomato sauce, parmesan, Doritos, etc. as part of my diet, so am biased toward skepticism on this topic.
What? No one said anything about taking away breaks. People work Saturday and Sunday and take their breaks during the week.
Star Wars effects studio working on Warcraft film: Orcs vs. Humans origin
I work remotely for one company for a year and a half. I found my current employer in a bar on a tropical island partly by luck, partly by my desire to speak about my work with random people.
To give you a tangible example, GrantTree's mission has been, from day one, to help UK startups, by being one of the better players in the UK startup ecosystem. It's a tangible positive difference which we can all feel we're making.

Of course, making money is also important, if only because money allows us to hire better people and do a better job, and it was also a primary reason of starting GrantTree... but it's not a good enough reason to put all the energy to grow it past the stage where it is an extremely profitable hobby, to the stage where it is a genuine business.
Thank you, and great point. Another option would be to teach them how to install linux on their machines, or go all the way to the Pi. In this way I believe it would be accessible to many more people.
Yeah, for code, "timeless" is definitely something you want to strive for.

Timeless code is code that you can look back on years later without saying "WTF was I thinking???"
Also, accq stated (my emphasis):

> their patented plants

Levering patent law to deny farmers the right to manage their own seed corn is akin to privatizing water tables or charging for oxygen. Sure, it's a great business model, but it's also immoral, evil and hard to see as something that brings us as a global collective to a better place.

From the letter:

> Humans have genetically engineered seeds for 11,000 years, primarily through seed breeding, where we “got rid of” the traits we didn’t want and introduced the traits we did.

That doesn't mean that it's a good idea to do so, without a lot of thought towards the common good. We're down a few hundred species of corns that can be used to make flour -- and among the problems resulting for that is that we don't have as many hardy species that can grow in subarctic regions. Another problem of this "natural" monoculture is vulnerability to insects, pests and diseases.

GMO, in and of itself, isn't evil -- it may be dangerous (messing with biotopes is a risky business) -- and leaving it up to a for-profit multinational seems like an extraordinarily bad idea.
I am mostly for the ostensible removal of YouTube comments, all of them and the ability to comment too.
I would not miss youtube if it were to be closed down tomorrow and the whole world would receive an increase of productivity as a result.
Not trying to strawman you, but are you arguing that if we removed the social safety net, more people would have to engage in sex work out of necessity?
What yahoo social network? I mean, my flickr login is a yahoo account, but I don't think they're stupid enough to try and auto set me up a tumblr account with it.
Just use goimports which is removing/adding imports automatically based on your source code: https://github.com/bradfitz/goimports
Code style shouldn't change the value of code in any way. If it does something went horribly wrong :)

For me code's value comes from what the code does and how elegant the overall implementation is. Code's value definitely doesn't come from formatting or "style".
So where does the $6B loss come from? It turns out that the overwhelming chunk of USPS expenses are due to a 2006 Congressional mandate that forces the agency to prepay for 75 years of benefits.

So do all private sector businesses. You can't promise employees $X in future benefits without putting $X into a pension fund. This requirement is uncommon in government, which is why many municipalities have unfunded pension obligations, but it's completely reasonable. The scary fact is that we only require the USPS to do this.

You are also misrepresenting the 75 year time horizon. The USPS is required to make the following (wildly oversimplified) spreadsheet:

year #living employees # earned costs/employee
2014 1000000 50000
2015 900000 51000
etc

The pension fund needs to have SUM(column B x column C) dollars in it (again, wildly oversimplified - it's actually the Present Value of Future Benefits). The 75 year requirement means the spreadsheet must have 75 rows. This prevents the fund from cheating by cutting off the calculation early and failing to account for payments they promised to make. Changing 75 years to 100 years wouldn't change anything.

The number "earned costs/employee" is the fraction of the pension costs that have already vested. I.e., if the employee has earned a pension of $100/month so far, but will have earned a pension of $5000/month at retirement, their earned costs are $100/month, not $5000/month.

This is the same calculation that ERISA requires of all private sector companies.

(Certain grandfathered companies in the private sector are also allowed to escape ERISA, and this will be a problem if any of them go out of business.)
What I have read (and granted, that's in main stream news) are two things 1) the unsure long term effect of the particular techniques Monsanto use 2) the forcing of farmers to use the products they make. For 2) there seem to be laws passed (in EU recently) for farmers to only allow Monsanto (and a handful of other vendors) their seeds; they cannot use their own seeds anymore.

Is that correct? Because 1) is a choice (IF 2 is not true that is); for instance I grow my own vegetables and fruit year round with my own seeds (by now) so I don't particularly care about 1) unless it would jump to my plants. I'm not sure what the chance is of that as all my neighbors for miles and miles around use their own seeds.

But if 2) is, even slightly, true then they should just boycot / eradicate this company and all Climate Corp employees should leave this instant imho. That's why I think it cannot be true or at least not the total truth; who would allow that to happen? So I guess it's a media-enhanced dark side which happens but is not common? I cannot really find objective info on that.
Stop optimising start killing - let's free the Internet from ads
Holding farmers hostage over the weather? I think the weather does a fine job of holding farmers hostage already.

It's hard to see how providing more information about weather and corresponding farming best practices (i.e., what Climate does) could be used to hold anybody hostage. If you don't like their products, you can simply not buy them next year. They are certainly not actively manipulating the weather (which is barely effective, anyways).

Disclaimer: I work for Climate.
Real World OCaml: Functional programming for the masses
Technical debt, just like traditional debt is fine, as long as you understand what you are getting yourself into

Mortgages are debt, are they bad?
Yes! As it's licence says, it is open source.
GoPro on 60 minutes
Give the bad news first: Apple's Missed Opportunity To Set Expectations
Well, maybe a message more along the lines of "Hey, this game isn't built to run on so little RAM, you're going to have a terrible gaming experience, so don't you dare blame us and tell people our game sucks."
You did make a judgement: You compared the entire output of global shipping's carbon costs to just one (admittedly car-loving and industrious) country's intracontinental transport costs. You thought that this was somehow relevant and interesting to the conversation. You phrased it in such a way to make it out as a travesty. Yes, you made judgement.
Heap-free and lock-free parallelized C "for" loops
Well, i really like those posts, they are great.
Just yesterday i read all those and afterwards i read the Pull Request comments and the sources and then some more rust stuff, just because i found it very interesting, so thanks for those "this week in rust" posts!

For someone eagerly awaiting a stable release this is a great way to keep track of what is changing and where Rust is heading!
While I agree with the premise that css preprocessors are overused, I can't stress enough that the use of complex css selectors is a really bad idea. Not only can it kill performance (or at least make it hard to reason about) it encourages tight implicit coupling between the style sheet and the document which generally leads to hard to maintain front ends.
>Adding torrent abilities to the PortableApps.com Platform, even if we custom wrote it to work with our app store, would encourage places to block our whole platform.

>Like it or not, even with all the legitimate uses torrent has, to many people it's about stolen software, stolen music, stolen movies, and porn.

I think that's a little far-fetched, nearly all open source projects utilize torrents for distribution with noone blocking them. Torrents are just the default way of providing high-speed software mirrors these days.
> 2) there seem to be laws passed (in EU recently) for farmers to only allow Monsanto (and a handful of other vendors) their seeds; they cannot use their own seeds anymore.

I would love to see some references for this.

I know that there is a list of seeds that can be used for commercial purposes. That means that people cannot sell "heritage seeds". One way to work around that is to set up a subscription club. Membership gets you a newsletter and membership of the club. And they send free heritage seeds every month.

http://www.gardenorganic.org.uk/hsl/

Until now the rules have been relaxed for amateur seeds so other places just sell the seed direct. http://www.realseeds.co.uk/

Here's some information about the EU law, and about proposed changes to it. The source is obviously biased. http://www.realseeds.co.uk/seedlaw2.html
Californians should be ashamed of the “tech gold rush” exploiting their courts
Russian Nuclear Plant Internal Network Infected with Stuxnet
... Except for anyone doing business involved in shipping.

When I was reselling used books, USPS was the best ROI for shipping (packages and media).
The same company which makes RoundUP tolerant seeds also suing farmers in the US if they use their own seeds not bought from Monsanto also made Agent Orange pesticide agent during the Vietnam war.

http://www.ibtimes.com/monsanto-named-2013s-most-evil-corpor...
ERISA forbids unfunded (PAYGO) pensions in the private sector. A private sector employer must put the PVFB of your pension into the fund as you earn it.
The movie is about "some absurd country", which was a laugh at Soviet Union. A country that is developed enough to send shuttles to space, but on the other hand is an empty desert with overpowered police(in the movie they are called "ecilop"), dumb leaders that people worship etc.
Movie is definitely a must-see.
Yep, that is a good point.
Messaging App Line Now Brings in Nearly $100M a Quarter
Keep in mind, of course, that the solution there is highly specific to Java. You need to know how your language of choice responds here. (Is `n >> 31` valid if n is negative? does it sign-extend? Is that guaranteed by the language, or your box? Are integers even 32 bits?)
To the best of my knowledge farmers can buy whatever seeds they want - it's an open market. If you want to learn more about GMOs there has been balanced, good faith reporting recently by Nathanael Johnson at Grist (not exactly a pro-big Ag news outlet): http://grist.org/author/nathanael-johnson/
It's search volume. The values are 0 at the origin to 100 at the highest point. But there are no units, I presume Google knows but doesn't give real numbers.
Aren't you basically describing a current 15" MacBookPro? You can't do a post-purchase ram upgrade on it - but it hits both your price-point and your list of hardware requirements otherwise, including the ability to run Ubuntu either dual boot or in a VM (and you _can_ up spec to 16G ram at purchase, for +$200).

(Which doesn't help if you're avoiding Apple products for moral, ideological, or fashion reasons…)
You might want to move to France or Germany.
6k... thats quite a lot
One place Go won't be replacing python (or perl) is in the "smarter shell-scripts that don't suck" space. Being able to write a 10 line script, dump it on the server and point cron at it, and then open it in situ to see what it's doing is invaluable. Also, when things get a bit edgy, to copy the file, edit 2 lines, and run it to fix something that the original didn't cover...

It may be better than Python for some kinds of large applications programming, I don't know. But since a lot of apps do need the simple scripts and the application logic, it's kind of nice to have them all in the same language - which is one place where javascript may take over more, I suppose, if ever they can convince OS designers to build node.js tools into the default installs...
Ye good stuff. Prefer line over the spying app Viber
Yos - the "true killer" of Unix
> The same company which makes RoundUP tolerant seeds also suing farmers in the US if they use their own seeds not bought from Monsanto

Yeah, that actually never happened and is a persistent urban myth.
Are Node.js and Go used in separate systems or do they have their own special places?
Update on Sourceforge.net for opensource test and document automation utalm
Yes? Is the idea that poverty and sex work are linked contentious? Seems like a case of direct causation to me.

http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/kenya_46571.html

http://www.iasociety.org/Abstracts/A2190151.aspx

http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~jejackso/Poverty%20and%20Prostitut...

http://www.leftfootforward.org/2013/08/prostitution-and-pove...
ISO/IEC 5218: Codes for the representation of human sexes
I would argue, any regulation and taxation actually add to the price, making slave labor an attractive option.
Relatively recently, almost all of the corn grown in the US was about 3 from one of 3 common "immortal" varieties (~40/50 years ago.) The amount of seed diversity that have been introduced by this breeding is actually substantial, Monsanto is more or less combing the earth for diverse varieties of corn.
Oh god. Don't they realize that "ninjas" was replaced by "badasses" around 2011, officially supplanting "rockstars" (which first appeared in 2009).

There is no indication of what language is expected, but presumably it's java, because companies that do this shit, are entirely java.

I feel the urge to click on the button, but I've been doing Dan Grossman's Programming Language MOOC (https://www.coursera.org/course/proglang) lately, so I'm all about functional programming languages, which I suspect this particular programming test does not grok.. and the button looks like it's entirely about product managers and their conception of what programmers do. Which rhymes with "fuck you."
Let's not conflate the two issues here:

1) GMO or anti-GMO

2) the question of Monsanto's evilness (which has really nothing to do with the science of GMO's but their heavy-handed tactics and lobbying).

Personally, I am on the side of the scientific consensus when it comes to GMO.

But that doesn't mean that that gets Monsanto off the hook for being one of the vilest organizations on the planet right now.
It disturbs me that you seem to think that Saturday and Sunday are the only two days a week that someone can not work.
Err, did you read the thread? We talked about reporting crimes, not policing neighborhoods.
How Google May Be Planning To Make Android Apps Faster With ART
How can we help this disaster as software engineers? Any ideas?
Is there a better way to solve the problem presented? Because I think the author does it with about the least amount of coupling possible, and that's to be applauded.
How many of those tasks represent some real-world problem?