skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Long term:

Have a look at websites like this, and see if you can make them better. http://reliefweb.int/ Better means lots of things, but "easier to use with very low or intermittent bandwidth"; "easier to use for an international audience" etc.

Take the most important Wikipedia articles (where "importance" is about STEM education) and polish them into the very best they can be, with clear easy to understand text and nice examples and best diagrams. Translate these to different languages. (Whatever is used in areas that need them, so I guess Spanish, French, Portuguese, and whatever.) This might require a form from WP.

Investigate charities that do good work. Donate to those charities. Good work means different things to different people, but probably includes "doesn't spend too much of its funds on luxury offices and big wages" and "makes a change, doesn't just continue cycles of deprivation".

Research and promote low power computing. Most people have huge computers for what they actually do. Really, using social media, watching a few cat videos, and writing the occasional letter do not need gigabytes of RAM and 3 GHz quad core processors. Help with low resource Open Source projects. Never mind LXDE and XFCE, most people would be fine with JWM or IceWM. Moving people from 100 Watt desktop machines to 8 W arm (or similar) nettops would be useful for climate change.

There's bound to be some interesting but difficult to access research work around distribution - distribution of money and resources within organisations and from those orgs to the places where they're needed. Stuff crossing boundaries is an opportunity for loss. Those boundaries include geographical borders but also include regulatory boundaries for organisations. Visualisations of the journey of a donated dollar through the bureaucracies to the final endpoint would be fascinating, and possibly enraging, for many people.

Vote for people who don't do stupid things to developing nations.

Be careful when donating hardware to charity recycling. Often anything usable is sold off, with the junk being sent to places like the e-waste dump in Agbogbloshie, Accra, Ghana. Here's a programme and a clip about that dump. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00sch78) (http://videobam.com/rcEUM)
Taking a day out now and then is the best advice I think you can give - if you're the sort of person that's always hustling you sometimes get guilty about it, but that one day on the sofa playing video games a month will keep you sane. (Or watching films, reading, whatever you use to take your mind off things)
To be clear: it ended for maize, because that's the only crop routinely grown with hybrid seeds. Seed saving is still done for everything else.
Huh. The Visual Studio Immediate window [1] has existed since the days of Visual Basic [2]. What are you guys seeing as a REPL that I'm not?

[1] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/f177hahy(v=vs.71).as...

[2] http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa716276(v=vs.60).as...
I've just tried to install crosstool-ng on Mac OS X 10.6.8 (i386), and building it just never works.
> 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.)

I'm not sure what you're trying to say, I suspect a typo? (I gather the
gist is that there used to be roughly three species of grain in the US,
in the past 50 years -- down from what was introduced with the
colonization some four hundred years ago (note, I'm not being snarky
about the colonization, but AFAIK there didn't "use" to be any grain
grown in most of what is the US today (not sure about California (old
Mexico))).

Note, I said corn in my original post (which I gather means the same in
Scottish English, as it does in the Norwegian (almost) homonym) -- I
meant grain.

> The amount of seed diversity that have been introduced by this breeding is actually substantial,

I thought Monsato generally sold Roundup. Are you saying they've
increased the variety of corn (or grain) that is grown in the US
substantially (and how much of that is patent encumbered)?

> Monsanto is more or less combing the earth for diverse varieties of corn.

Sure they are. And they patent it (which is a failing on so many
governmental and international levels I find it painful to think about --
I'm all for cataloguing species and genes, but granting patent on
something you literally found -- that's even worse than software
patents).

Now, if all they did was donate some to the world seed bank, and
allow everyone to share in their (non gmo) discoveries -- I'd have no
problem. But the idea that you might be committing a felony by planting a
carrot you bought at the market is revolting.
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> followed by stickers, which make up another 20 percent of their sales

That's a shitload (approx 20m USD) of stickers

edit: a line
Thanks, yes I'm always very happy to get feedback, especially from paying customers :)

The current pricing is partly an experiment to see if people will pay, and it turns out that 1 in 30 of those who sign up do at the moment. It's also to ensure that if the site explodes in popularity I won't lose money through Google Translate API costs. I plan to increase the price at some point (but not for current subscribers) although not sure what it should be exactly. What would you think of $4/month or $30/year options?

I'll think about increasing the 20/day phrase limit, I really need to dig into my analytics a bit more to see what the usage patterns are on this. Roughly how long did it take you to reach the limit and how much longer would you have liked?

Thanks again!
Wow, he's such a unique snowflake.
The invisible helmet
Computer Science: How does a computer chip work?
Not to mention why patent the pesticide if you can patent the seed that's resistant to the pesticide? Especially when your granted the ability to enforce that patent against "future generations".
Haha yes I remember running Calmira II on a Windows 3.1 486 SX25 with very little RAM (or was it a 386 monoscreen laptop?) in the desire to get the functionality of Windows 95. How little I knew!

Happy days.
I would definitely go with ASUS Zenbook. I have the 13.3 Zenbook (i5, 4gb, 1080p) and I can code very comfortably on it. The IPS screen is great and even better once calibrated. It's very sleek too, solid aluminum build. ASUS is a big brand, Zenbooks are popular for their nice quality/price ratio.
Don't worry, it's not better in Europe, VHDL is also weird.
I'm surprised by how relatively little machine learning research they have. Microsoft, Google, IBM and Yahoo seem much better represented at the core ML conferences like ICML and NIPS.
it looks like a problem with your xcode project file. Try to create a new project with your code and run it again.

After that; diff your project files and you can see what the issue is.
Were you unhappy about the acquisition by Monsanto before you read the letter, and did you feel differently having read it? If so, or not, why?
Can someone figure out if they are selling more in digital stickers than traditional stickers.

If they sell $80 worth of stickers per year (If they keep up $20M per quarter in sticker revenue) I wonder what the output for all USA sticker sales would be.
If you count Russia there have been a number of recent stories about Russian spies.

They seem comically bad at getting any intel - much of what the captured spies were caught with were publicly available documents. They had "gained access" to some organisation, but that org had open public access anyway.

I'd be amazed if GCHQ was not listening in to US politicians. I suspect that's why Obama had so much work done to his mobile phone before he was allowed to use it.

Really, governments spying on other governments is not news. The spies get found and expelled by one country, the other country expels a diplomat or two. Everyone expresses outrage. More spies get sent in.
So should we be giving kids state sponsored school breakfasts or not?
>Well then, tell us about the system YOU built to batch process millions of images that doesn't use something "weak sauce" like NFS.

dmourati was being a jerk but boy, this particular response is hilarious. I suggest Googling his name with some image processing terms if you feel like eating crow.
They have 49MM users in Japan alone, and Japanese users are famously loose with digital goods spending (their mobile gamers spend many times that of counterparts abroad).
I don't think that using single quotes will ruin the diversity. This code style guide is all about some minor stuff, which is rather meaningless. After all this kind of things does not instant make code base good or bad.
Get a degree in EE?
I just had the same, asking me for photoID or my passport. There is absolutely no way I trust anyone with my credit card information plus photoID / passport. It's like I'm trying to enter the USA. Surely they will keep the digital copy if they really did take us to court?

A real shame, specially as I heard a lot of good things with DigitalOcean.
See also "The Heavy Lifting Mule Women of Melilla".

If you can carry goods over the border between Melilla and Morocco on your back you don't have to pay import duties. So, women queue up to carry the goods over for you, for a small fee.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24706863
Google supports Java 7 features on Android
Moscow doesn't strike me as the best place for that, at least during the winter.
There are plenty of excellent good books, but the entry barrier is somewhat higher. You simply need at least a basic understanding of calculus if you are to actually understand any of the processes that occur in semiconductors, and some basic knowledge of electromagnetism is required to grok issues like signal integrity.

Sauce: I'm an EE.
It stops working at "Tell me when you're 'done'".
I went to Moscow in 1986. I was yelled at by one of those little old ladies because I made the mistake of trying to take a photo of the (beautiful) underground station.

I hope someone (Google maps?) will eventually get around to documenting these and other stations.
He is not upset about Merkel being spied upon. He is upset with her finding out.
http://selectivizr.com/
> You never hear about a new team successfully making a high-performance microprocessor.

Not on Hackernews, but this does happen. Microprocessors do get less spotlight because the costs involved in developing and producing them are huge. You also don't hear too often about a team successfully making a high-performance compiler.
> Edit: I'll be back around tomorrow to answer questions.
"2 hours ago "
(other questions asked "1 hour ago")

Seeing as how you replied to my other post "38 minutes" ago, I suspect you're picking and choosing questions to reply to.

I hope I'm wrong, but it looks like it, as these other questions here have been left without comment.
Creating a life that reflects your values...
I won't argue that constraints can lead to innovation. All art exists in some medium. Constraints are therefore inherit.

Here's a simple question: what spurred Picaso's decision to paint in Blue? Was it adherence to a protocol describing blue as the answer to his expressive woes, or was it his own internal experimentation with the color blue?

Did Picaso paint in blue because he felt like Blue, or because someone said "any work 'submitted' to this gallery must be blue"?
You alter the activity for different disabilities. Someone unable to use their legs could do some lifting. Someone unable to use their legs or arms could do some encouraging yelling to other people.

Don't let diversity scare you away from doing things - do them, but make best efforts to be inclusive.
Amazon does grocery delivery in Seattle and parts of Los Angeles via AmazonFresh, and it is pretty awesome.
Probably the lack of recognition is due to it making money.
Being profitable is so "old economy".
Engineering is a philosophy. First principles applied to real-world problems.

I'm not a Civil Engineer. So what? What does a Civil Engineer have in common with an Electrical Engineer or a Chemical Engineer? Very little day-to-day.

Or an Engineer on an oil rig? They'd laugh that Engineering means getting it right every time.

I can also tell you a Civil Engineer has very different problems if you're building a skyscraper in Asia, somewhere waterlogged, as opposed to somewhere geotechnically active. If you picked up your average skyscraper and dropped it in New Zealand, you'll have problems. Saying the techniques are the same is a gross generalisation.
I don't think he meant to cast any doubt on the work Climate has been doing so far. I think he's worries about what Climate might become in the hands of Monsanto.

I hope Friedberg is correct in Climate remaining independent in its operation.
Good question. I once saw a documentary about this topic. They pointed out a lot of the kids went to school without breakfast at home, because their parents were poor. After implementing a sponsored breakfast at school grades improved a lot. Unfortunately I don't remember the name of the documentary.
Seed saving never ended. A lot of farmers all over the world still rely on it.
The whole problem could have been avoided if the agnostic had just added a simple comment stating that the code intentionally only handles strings of 3 or 4 digits.
Zooming "way" in to the Universe
The GUI I use everyday is very much like that. I have been using windowmaker as a my window manager of choice for at least six years, if not more. There is literally zero integration with any social networking stuff -- save for the occasional Facebook surfing (which I keep at a low profile), there's only the occasional IRC chat that happens in a terminal. Save for the applications (which use GTK themes, indeed -- but they also respect those -- or whatever settings I have in ~/.Xdefaults) which have their own settings, WM pretty much has the colors and fonts I tell it to. There's no skeumomorphism in it, no hidden corners and so on.

To be fair, I do need to be relatively picky with the applications I use to get a reasonably clean experience. There are some tools for which I really have no working alternatives. I eventually graduated from mutt to Thunderbird, but it's fairly overloaded. The only RSS feed reader I found to be reasonably useful is newsbeuter.

But in any case, I can still stay away from the flashy crap that has invaded the UI world recently. I kind of feel like a dinosaur at times, but I can do my work perfectly well, so I'm happy.
Not sure... But there is a Unicode symbol for it:

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/299e/index.htm

P.S. thanks for the new term - steradians! It's amazing how many terms are in the mathematically universe :-)
If it worried me particularly I'd simply not have a Google device. If a distrust in a G+ account was enough to put me off then letting their code handle my phone and tablet in general would be a no-no for me too.

I'm under no illusions that there is much I can do to stop Google tracking me, occasionally pushing stuff at me addverts and so forth), and trying to "lock me in" where possible, as I use my stock Android devices. I'm sure both MS and Apple either d the same sort of thing or will as soon as opportunity presents itself.

I'm not saying it is right of course, just that if it is a particular problem for you then it should inform your decisions before buying a device. Also I suspect buying and returning devices as a form of protest is not seen the same on relevant internal reports, and is likely to inconvenience your retailer more than the manufacturer, so if you wish to protest the behaviour you will find simply not buying to be more effective.
Yes, a style guide "ruins" diversity. That's the whole point.
To get knowledge about some basic facts please read at least

http://earthopensource.org/index.php/reports/gmo-myths-and-t...

if you want to understand better, take some time and dig into http://gmwatch.org
Migrations are about data, not schema. You don't need migrations with a "schemaless" database at the beginning, but as soon as you have data you care about, you're gonna need to ensure some sort of consistency.
straight C++ is just too hard to use for GUI. Trolltech at least bite the bullet, and decided that you need some kind of preprocessor (moc) to get around dynamic objects and exposing their properties, signals/events/connections/etc.
Interview with Scott Lohmann - Division Sales Manager at Groupon
Is it true the Monsanto's approach is threatening the genetic diversity [1] as @e12e mentioned?

If it's true, we're going to rely on a much smaller gene pool for food production in next decades, which will cause severe genetic information loss and more vulnerability to new crop diseases. Another potato famine disaster but in global scale?

Do we have any measure to protect the gene pool? Do we need something like Gene Tax to curb the genetic convergence? I've no idea how Carbon Tax helps solving the global warming issue, but it seems a good idea to invest some money to protect those 'useless' genes and make all reserved natural seeds open for public access.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_diversity
I facepalmed at "Imagine if when Picasso was learning to paint, we told him what style he should paint in. Would we have cubism?". The answer is not only yes, but yes, and that is exactly what happened.

This is the style Picasso was told to paint in when he was learning to paint:

http://mesosyn.com/pp-early.html

It was only after he had mastered this conventional style of painting that he went on to discover cubism.
I think they are trying hard to localize their emoji to crack into the States, based on this blog post: http://www.oneskyapp.com/blog/secret-monetizing-messaging-ap...
The "last" class he mentioned is a better solution. His only reason against it was "complex template logic is bad". If you're using a sufficiently powerful system for managing the Dom it's usually much easier to manage the complexity of the "last" class. It's fast and easy to tell at first glance which styles will be applied, and refactoring is easy as a result.

His mention of separation of concerns is, IMO a common misunderstanding of what that term means. The coupling has to be made somewhere after all and it's better to choose the more performant and more explicit way.
Sorry Bill, but connectivity trumps vaccines
This is wrong. Actually costs for farmers are higher.

http://earthopensource.org/index.php/reports/gmo-myths-and-t...
I'll admit I don't know much (anything) about labor laws in Sweden. From what I've read legal migrant workers are afforded access to the welfare state and rights such as collective bargaining. Which is awesome, but what's the enforcement like for companies who hire undocumented workers?

From what I've read so far enforcement seems to be aimed at deporting workers and not punishing the companies. Seems like a case for punishing the perpetrators and not the victims.
The big problem with charging money for the approval of all kinds of seeds, is that it makes large scale commercial seeds a lot more attractive than smaller scale "heritage" seeds, and that creates a drive towards monoculture.

If you ask me, projects to preserve seed diversity should be subsidized, rather than being charges the same costs as big commercial seeds.
I think there are benefits to us all having breaks at the same time, so we can see friend and family. I think we can survive without everything being available every day of the week.
I really doubt that was the point of the essay. I have seen many a times where different programmer rewrite the entire system and it is not for the lack of proper documentation.
No, they licensed the existing GEM graphical environment. You could also get GEM for PC;I saw a DOS program shipped with an embedded GEM runtime.
The central limit theorem, explained with bunnies and dragons
"improve yields" is another myth. This is just marketing blah.
I have no idea what I am reading, where do you learn this sort of things? computer science? math? or else... how long would it take for someone to understand this topics?
PlanMy.Travel wants to solve travel planning woes with human expertise
But it's not recurring revenue. I can't imagine someone keep buying 10+ packs of stickers. Only stickers, no game credits?
There's something I fail to understand here.
Will definitely attend!
Sleep habits and susceptibility to the common cold.
An undocumented and unvalidated schema, you mean. A database without a schema is a contradiction in terms.
What are the best ways to find a house to rent like this in Bangalore?
"Not on Hackernews"

Well last week there was a this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ashleyf/archive/2013/09/21/chuck-moo... about a 144-core, ultra low-power chip.

So important stuff gets posted ;)
Im from neighboring provice of laguna and i think storm signal for batangas only reach signal no. 2
Hey! First, Great idea! Quite impressed by it. How do you guys differentiate from other players?
Nope.

Edit: I guess I should elaborate. Developmental delay is an indicator of a problem. It's not meant to be a final diagnosis - where possible, a reason for the delay is sought out. 'Developmental delay', like 'mentally retarded' is a symptom - it's just in olden days it was left there; the root cause was rarely sought.

Yes, the term can be misleading, and I don't like it for that reason. But it's not 'feel-good' nor incorrect in fact. It's an accurate description of what is happening.
NOTE: As the spokesman has made a public claim the insects are NOT harmed by the product, you are at liberty to take up complaints via trading standards bodies / regulators and sue. I would encourage everyone to do so.

We had a company like that over here - huntingdon life sciences (UK) which as awareness of their activities spread, had regular potests at their offices, preventing workers from working. Once scientists addresses started making public appearance, things very quickly escalated.