skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't find the citation right now, but last time I looked into this case I found that the court intended to set an explicit precedent that accidentally planting Roundup-ready plants does not constitute "use" of the patented gene ("use" happens when you use Roundup to select for Roundup-resistant plants). The language is not odd when considered in the context of setting such a precedent.
In a way, yes. All settings can be controlled through CSS, so tweak to your liking!
The fight continues. http://www.twitter.com/marcoarment/status/445294785772142593
From Tesla to Dunkin' Donuts, One Firm's Quest to Fine-Tune the World
He's not "bait[ing] even more clicks to his blog". He's reacting to a HN comment from his previous post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405846. He even linked to it in the footnote.

Obviously you've already made up your mind about Marco and consider anything he ever writes to be garbage, but claiming that a title like "and" is click-baiting is completely nonsensical. As is complaining about his writing without even paying the slightest bit of attention to it.
Customer-preneur
If you don't do it, someone else will.

Especially true in a (relatively) free society. Also see, "Parable of Fisherman"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6602351
I wonder if benefits obtained by many of the behavior changes prescribed are simply wiped out by sitting too much. It seems sitting wipes out benefits of even strenuous exercise.

But how many employers will pay for treadmill desks?
Maybe some thing like s/dialog\([^u]|$\)/dialogue\1/g

Or use variable renaming in an IDE that actually parses the code.
> But who checks for the long term effects?

I'm becoming more and more convinced that in aggregate as a species nobody ever checks for the long term, and nobody ever actually cares about the long term. Even today, any environmentally friendly actions come off to me as being more social than logical - it is great we got green to be somewhat "cool", but the fact that is the driving force in adoption (people usually buy Teslas and hybrids because they are "cool", not because it vastly reduces their carbon footprint) leaves a bad taste in my mouth.

And it always happens throughout history. Depressions, wars, and famines are caused by perpetual short term thinking coming back to bite you the long term that eventually catches up to you.
Splendid. Makes one feel right at home.

However, transparency: 0.5 -> opacity: 0.5 is a very poor example. One would assume that transparency: 1 = opacity: 0.

It's like putting an example date of 01-01-2014.
The title is a direct response to a(n) HN comment made in response to the last front-page hitting post.

See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7405846

It was even linked in a footnote to the article (if one reads that far).

So the title is intentional, non click-baity and a humourous riposte. Care to change your analysis?
Wow, can someone explain this story? Its hard to follow if you are not a forth hacker.
I doubt it, Google went public in 2004.
Yea, soon as I heard it, I noped outta there. Not worth muting... Just, nope.
The modern world was invented in a cosmopolitan Europe. I think we should recognize that and preserve the best parts of that legacy, and yes, even be proud of it.

I don't buy into the whole white-guilt complex
The full story behind Mattermark
(Puts on troll overcoat)

Marco is someone who would say a coffee warming metal pebble is a requirement. Adjust your perspective accordingly.
Not the parent commenter, but for me Apt-get is irreplaceable, as is the ability to apt-get source any package on the system.
Foundation: Secret’s David Byttow Talks Privacy, Security, and Company Origins
Jesus, this is fantastic. As others have pointed out OCR isn't so hot but you should be able to nab topics and names.
Plenty of people are doing click fraud. It takes some effort, its not just push button receive ill gotten gains, but it works.
It is just not nearly as lucrative as other methods of driving illegitimate traffic nowadays, because most people dont do pay per click.

I dont have a spam website to push, but I know people who were making anywhere from 1-3k a month based on exploiting different advertising rings looking for traffic. Usually they would setup a campaign with an advertiser and wash dirty traffic that they were buying through the advertiser's site, paying 1/10-1/20th of the cost of each conversion or click, and most of the time those would just be botnet operations anyway, they didn't care.

It usually doesnt last long per identity, but those are a dime a dozen.
LOL, that's good for a chuckle... at least as long as Newsweek is able to keep the lights on :)
What 13 year old made that site/idea?
Trolling the search engines
Reminds me of the smalltalk version: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Cobalt
http://www.amazon.com/Finance-Barrons-Business-Review-Groppe...

They also have an excellent book on economics. I have several of the books in this series and they're all good.
I've found LessWrong tough going in the past but I'll try again as you've given me motivation.
He also (intentionally) misidentifies HN user "scottjad" as "scootjad," which keeps making me chuckle.
Hitler didn't die in Germany?
I chose to stay and make a little difference.
> smart farmers would invest profits into developing better seeds

There are several problems with the economics in your response.

Specialization is good, economically speaking: farmers should concentrate on being good farmers, not on trying to oversee research projects in far-off universities or labs. By having a market, it's also possible for companies to bring new products to market without charging the farmers a dime unless the products are actually any good.

This is also what's known as a coordination problem. Each farmer's profits are probably not that high, so one of them on their own is not going to be able to fund this research. So how do they coordinate their work? Markets provide a pretty good answer.

Also, as Blahah mentions, the lack of patents means that there is a free rider problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_problem

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

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

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

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_goods
I don't think "security" is usually a binary concept, where it's either there or it isn't. It's more useful to draw an analog from the ratings of safes, which are along the lines of "it would take ___ hours / days to break this safe." Instead of lofty claims about being impervious to attack, put up obstacles and hurdles, that make attacks harder.
One issue though is that people consistently try Linux on a computer built for Windows and say "what the hell, it doesn't work out of the box flawlessly, fuck this".

If you really want to try Linux, you need to buy a computer designed to run it, or at least vet your hardware before a purchase. I haven't bought a computer with a Windows license attached in over a decade because that isn't buying a Linux capable machine - its buying a Windows machine you might be able to run Linux on.

My most recent system was a build I made last year and I vetted every part for LInux support (and boy, did it take a while to verify Asus z87 motherboards had a working EFI that could boot a linux kernel, albeit they have a busted EFI shell and can only have one EFI boot table entry).
Why publicize that you are female if that is the case? Why not abstain from making any references that identify your gender so that people can judge you purely by the quality of the content you contribute to the conversation? Most of the best comments I see on hacker news come from people whom I know the least about, and whose profile page tells me nothing about who they are and often lack information on how to contact them as well. Anonymity gives you the opportunity to separate the message from the messenger.
Bi-quinary coded decimal
I was just in Guangzhou recently. Same thing there. In TienHe all of their multiple 6+ storey malls are connected by a sprawling series of underground malls. The shopping there is crazy.
So what's gawker.com?
I guess he didn't plan on anyone actually winning: http://i.imgur.com/sP7uz4q.png
No it isn't. It sounds like it was created by someone with down syndrome.
A couple hundred mostly-males built a company that was wildly successful where they loved to work. Now it sounds like they have to destroy that, build a culture that is professional and antiseptic, to make feminists feel welcome.
> "However, it allegedly started happening _after_ the failed come-on, which would make it retaliatory."

That would make it possibly retaliatory. It remains possible (although I would not say that I consider it likely) that there were legitimate technical justifications for reverts made after the rejection, and that the sequencing of those two events was entirely coincidental.

If I were management at github, I would grill the employee who reverted those changes for a technical justification for the reverts. If the justification seemed tenuous or strained, I would fire them on the spot. I would however make sure to grill them before firing them, as it is not certain that there was no legitimate technical justification.
I doubt many farmers in the entire world are operating on margins that allow them to invest in anything that doesn't return very soon.

Consider...

Company A spends 5billion developing a new variety that yields high, and sells it at price X. With no protection of the IP, Company B can pirate the technology and sell it for price X/10. A farmer can buy the the pirated version just once, and he'll thereafter have no expense to lay out on seed purchase.

Any farmer who tries to do the right thing and invest in the seeds from the company doing the research will be out of business in a year, outcompeted by those wiling to pirate. Company A loses its 5billion investment and exits the market.
It would be enlightening to see case studies of instances where anyone in tech tried leveraging journalists to solve career problems.

Over the long term, I am suspicious that volunteering yourself as a subject in someone else's narrative does not do you any favors. It'd be nice to see an analysis on how this kind of response benefits or hurts the subject personally, professionally or emotionally.
IT isn't unpopular when done right. IT exists to help people get shit done, and they need to explain clearly when they can't why they can't. And can't better have a business reason (higher priorities, funding channeled elsewhere, etc.).

The problem with legal is that the safe position is always "no". So, finding legal who understands that businesses sometimes have to take a risk, and we need to know if this is "illegal" as opposed to "inadvisable, because it's going to cost money" as opposed to "inadvisable, because it might cost money but might be worth the payoff" is not easy.

HR is simply useless. It's only useful tasks are all effectively part of "legal". It can't make useful decisions on hiring and actually gets in the way. Any employee with a genuine grievance knows that HR is the companies rep, not yours. Oh, and they generally have access to a whole bunch of things that stir up hideous amounts of politics (salaries, reviews, promotions, etc.) So, what's left that's useful? Nothing.
Actually he wasn't a big fan of those. http://www.marco.org/2011/08/10/coffee-joulies-review
This reminds me of stock buy-back programs.

The company, using company revenues, to buy the company.

Although now I understand them, when I first heard of them I immediately thought it would lead to a stack overflow...
The bad example hides an even worse situation than you imagined. Here's another example from their github [1]:

body {
background: darkgrey;
transparency: .7;
font: 72px "Comic Sans", cursive !please;
}

/*
This will compile to:
body {
background: darkgray;
opacity: .7;
font: 72px "Comic Sans", cursive !important;
}
*/

Apparently, transparency: 1 = opacity: 1, even though the words mean opposite things.

[1] https://github.com/visualidiot/Spiffing/blob/master/test.css
You know what's awesome about this article? He calls it HiDPI, not Retina.
How did ChromeOS fair? I can understand how general purpose OSs can be pwn'd, but I'm more curious about how mobile platforms such as iOS, Windows RT, Android, and ChromeOS hold up to these competitions.
efibootmgr makes it really simple to set up. When I get a new computer with Arch, once I install the base system, my bootloader is literally just:

efibootmgr -c -l /vmlinuz-linux -L "Archlinux" -u "initrd=/initramfs-linux.img root=<root partition uuid> ro quiet splash security=tomoyo"

Assuming /boot is my efi system partition.

The real problem is that most motherboard manufacturers have absolute garbage bloated proprietary messes of EFI implementations, and we are stuck with Intel jamming this shit down our throats in the first place rather than opening up their chipset documentation so we could have coreboot support on these boards.
Ask HN: Has there ever been a movie based on a video game that did well?
Just saw the review for Need for Speed and wondered if there has ever been a movie based on a video game that did well...

Here are some that come to mind, in no particular order:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/need_for_speed/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1058516-street_fighter/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mortal_kombat/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/resident_evil/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lara_croft_tomb_raider/
Just bought it - thanks for the recommendation :)

For US based folks, here's the US link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tyme/id670592452
You're right.. Class A is traded publicly. Class B is what's owned by Sergey and Brin, and it has 10 votes per share (vs 1 vote per share for Class A), and allows them to outvote all Class A shares.
Daniel Goleman on Focus
Thank you for this, because there aren't enough content-free left-wing rants on the Internet already.
Chinese hacker cracks Safari, wins $40K, praises Apple's security
4. Weather. Occasionally a concern for those who live outside the bay area. Sometimes, you need to get shopping done and don't want to be walking around outside all day.
The Thermodynamics of Human Reaction Times
The facts get you the first 200 upvotes. Accusations of "sexism" get the next 500.
> cannot admire its bizarre powers

Pure jealousy =]. People like to rag on lisp, but their language dujour just got what lisp's been packing for at least 20 years. Between the interactive programming model, compiling to machine code, real threading, macros, and many other features, it's the perfect secret weapon.
Excelent, thank you!
So by removing the rug she already told the management what she thinks of them. No wonder that love didn't really grow between them...

I also don't agree the inverse conclusion (upper management must be all male because women don't have merit) really follows. What if the women in upper management simply work elsewhere? Where there even any women who complained that they weren't in upper management at GitHub? Do they even have a better/worse hierarchy for people so that people not in upper management should feel like losers?
Leidschenhage (http://www.denhaagdirect.nl/winkelcentrum-leidschenhage-verb...)

In de Bogaard, includes 3 malls according to http://www.denhaag.nl/en/residents/to/In-de-Bogaard.htm
I don't doubt you're capable of keeping in shape, but the jury is definitely out on the long term health implications of eating a lot of red meat and animal protein - I don't mean just getting fat.
I'm really biased against Intel processors now because of this - I endure my distaste for how horribly documented and black box their parts are, but the fact their firmware for going on 6 generations has no documentation to enable coreboot on these boards drives me to AMD.

Yea, they don't open up all their stuff, but if you dig around you can usually find a board on most chipsets that works with coreboot. That gets my purchase. Plus they are doing good work with the radeonSI mesa driver, even if they still pack binary power firmware with it (I've read a few articles decompiling and inspecting it to know it is mostly just init command code to start the hardware).
Is Marco putting out ground-breaking, must-read content on a regular basis? No. But he does occasionally make a good point. What I'm more interested in understanding is why you are so filled with hatred for him? He seems to attract well more than his fair share of vitriol. Why the hate?
Not all of them. One was a use after free, which isn't related to buffer overflows. Two other ones are not clear what they were caused by:

By Mariusz Mlynski:

Against Mozilla Firefox, two vulnerabilities, one allowing privilege escalation within the browser and one bypassing browser security measures.

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2O...

http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Pwn2O...
> I see the patenting of life forms as being insidiously evil.

Why?
You don't need WebGL to get a cool 3D effect with your logo. Shameless plug, http://www.moviesaints.com/
The full list of transformations:

'colour' => 'color',
'grey' => 'gray',
'!please' => '!important',
'transparency' => 'opacity',
'centre' => 'center',
'plump' => 'bold',
'photograph' => 'image',
'capitalise' => 'capitalize'

In case someone actually tries to use this in production (lol), I'm wouldn't
trust the transformation to this search/replace regex:

'/(?:(?:\s|\t)*|\;)([\w-]*):/i'

You know, considering CSS is context-free 'n all.
Real Housewives of San Francisco. I couldn't really let myself read the entire TC article because of how it all seemed so sophomoric.
Ask HN: Any code travellers out there?
I've hunkered down to create a product and have 6 or 8 months worth of work a head of me. Since I am not attached to my current place (in Vancouver, Canada) to do this work I'm considering travelling while coding. I have the following requirements:

- Stay at a given place for 2 months min. (Otherwise I can not be productive).
- Monthly budget of 3000 CDN per month.
- Must allow for pet dog.
- Must have decent internet connection.

I've considered a few options so far:

1. Ecuador
2. Costa Rica
3. Buy a travel trailer and find monthly spots in Canada or US, sell trailer at end of trip.

Number 3 seems like a challenge from an internet perspective, while the others seem like a challenge bringing the dog.

Are there any code travellers on HN that have done similar and have advice to provide?
https://www.system76.com/

https://www.thinkpenguin.com/

https://www.dell.com/us/business/p/xps-13-linux/pd

And others. Really, if you are buying a new system for Linux, and it isn't a custom desktop, just buy a notebook from a Linux provider so you know modern kernels support the thing out of the box flawlessly.
That is it totally – I first ran After Dark on my family’s Mac LC II, maybe about 23 years ago.
How to win in 2048
have you tried using brew?
Crimea referendum: Voters 'back Russia union'
They own nothing and nobody, once the world stops believing in patents.

Only thru force and coercion they have a temporary advantage.
He probably just asked what the straw was that broke the camel's back.

They tend not to be all that huge, being straws and all.
We don't have to imagine, the structure she advocates is spelled out at the end of the article.
The Monsanto that made Agent Orange hasn't really existed for several decades now, and blaming the current company for the problems associated with Agent Orange about as useful as blaming today's IBM for selling tabulation machines to the Nazis.

The current problem with Monsanto isn't their products; it seems they learned some pathological business practices back in the 70s from a newly formed consulting service[1] known as Bane. They changed a lot of their business strategy under their oversight, guided by the consultant's representative: Mitt Romney.

[1] http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/09/romney-monsa...
> technical requirements.

Except when OS X doesn't have drivers for your hardware...

For a less snarky remark, please read my response to a similar, sibling comment.
I'm still using a BIOS-based i7 system with a successful and stable triple-boot setup with XP (for some old music software), W7 (for games), and Linux (for work and everything else). It sounds from comments here I may be in for an adventure when I upgrade to a UEFI system, though the UEFI workstation I have at work seems to handle dual-booting fine.
My last two systems (desktops, I don't even have a working notebook right now, waiting for Broadwell) used Asrock and ASUS boards with EFI implementations that worked pretty well out of the box under Linux. One runs Suse 13.1, the other runs Arch. They both have their bugs - the Asrock system wipes the EFI boot table every firmware update, and the ASUS one can only have one entry in the EFI boot table, and neither has a working EFI shell - but I did my research to know they worked.
Did Reddit Find Malaysian Airlines Flight 370?
Whoops, thanks. That one is also not possible in Rust, so my point still stands. ;)
Me to, but I'm now tempted to implement something similar to throw TODOs into a .org file that my agenda can pick up.
Science reporting is often bad, and not just recently. Consider that a New York Times editorial chastised Robert Goddard saying that rockets couldn't work because there was nothing to push against. (This is an editorial, not science publication, but there's no reason for the NYT to let an unsigned editorial make outright wrong claims.)

For some of the possible reasons for why it may be getting worse, see http://debunkingdenialism.com/2014/02/16/time-to-get-rid-of-...

Also, if it's this bad with science, consider how bad it might be with everything else.
That's odd - was the previous discussion completely deleted?
This bothered me the most:

> Despite its generally female-friendly environment, Horvath claims: “I had a really hard time getting used to the culture, the aggressive communication on pull requests and how little the men I worked with respected and valued my opinion.”

What? Um, you're the new hire. Demonstrating your worth is a standard phase that even men go through. If the pull request communication is too aggressive, tough. The company does not owe you a change of culture.

Overall, the environment strikes me as not terribly friendly. Okay. That's a culture misfit. Big time.

But why would you stay? Why would you recommend this to other women when you were having such a hard time yourself?

Jesus, I won't recommend companies or people unless I've got a really clear idea that there is a really good fit. It's like being a personal matchmaker, there's not a lot of upside and there is a lot of downside.
> '/(?:(?:\s|\t)|\;)([\w-]):/i'

my head just exploded. I imagine you could sneak a backdoor into one of these if it was long enough :)
Sergey and Brin or Larry and Page? ;)
Malls as shopping centers may be over, but those who transmute into amusement parks will survive.

I rarely go to the mall for shopping, but I go many times a week for a walk, a fancy dinner, or just to meet people.
Do you have any favorite compact Forth implementations for AVRs? Each time I find myself writing a configuration-and-introspection parser for a microcontroller project I think to myself, "I should just expose a REPL here", and FORTH is the obvious choice, but I've never had the time to dig through the many AVR FORTH implementations out there for the right one.
"On October 15, 2013, a major flaw in the namecoin protocol was revealed by the Kraken exchange COO, Michael Grønager. The exploit allowed any user to freely steal any domain from any other user.[34] A temporary fix was deployed which prevents fraudulent name transactions from affecting the name database without requiring miner intervention, and a long-term fix which rejects blocks containing such transactions is scheduled for block 150,000 if a majority of miners upgrade.[35]"

Well, I'm sure stoked that we're building the future infrastructure of the Net on something that we're pretty sure doesn't have a ginormous security hole anymore...