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And that is very cool. But frankly, is as true in academia - a new assistant prof. has the startup funding to try something big and splashy without bankrupting the lab.

"Biotech is getting cheaper" applies to both groups.
The Ada Initiative is a notorious drama-generating concern troll organization. They are not a positive force and this sort of behavior is unsurprising from them.
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Steve Keen's model (http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/manifesto/) seems to provide a convincing explanation to me. Basically that debt growth (and acceleration) are key to understanding the business cycle and crashes. He has an open source Kickstarter dynamic modelling tool called Minsky (http://www.debtdeflation.com/blogs/minsky/).

Alarmingly the models used by mainstream economists don't seem to cover crashes (not as in can't predict their timing but really can't model them at all generally).
Traditionally-print publications have a huge problem with linking to whatever they are talking about. I've seen articles about a video which don't link to the video the article is about.
I second this suggestion although I would suggest to use any decent 3D package that you can get your hands on, Maya 3DS Max, Lightwave have all had a long history as being used for making things for games, even if they are 2D games.

There are plenty of 3D models on the internet that you can use, e.g. a pirate boat. You can put together some sensible lighting, e.g. with some fill, a key light, some ambient level or just one glowing thing in the sky, and, from that you can get some sensible shadows, highlights and subtlety to the colours that are flat in your source model.

If you want an effect remember that 3D has been used for cartoons for a very long time, there are plenty of plugins and some don't need aeons to learn and master.

If you want to have the boat explode you can animate that and tweak the animation until you have it looking good. It is not like you have a set of drawings to manually tweak.

Depending on how far you have taken the style (e.g. cartoon plugins) it then becomes a matter of rendering to get your finished bitmaps.

But why stop there? Once you think in 3D it becomes intuitive to do a game that way and use existing libraries for things like collision detection.
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I had to force myself to close the window to get back to work. Great job on the content. I was pleased to see a reference to entity-component systems on the component page, too.
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> All of that is analogous to existing regulation regarding cigarettes

But this is why e-cigarette campaigners say that politicians are just meddling out of personal distaste, rather than any scientific backing. The two core reasons why cigarettes cannot be smoked indoors are:

1) Doing so (potentially) causes deleterious effects to people who inhale the second-hand smoke. At the very least, it can be agreed that it's not preferable to breathe smoke.

2) It makes it likelier that the smoker will give up their dangerous addiction.

Neither case can be particularly easily applied to e-cigarettes, which emit harmless water vapour, and are to many smokers a means of giving up their dangerous smoking addiction.

I must say I agree with the e-cigarette campaigners that attempts to apply the same laws to e-cigarettes as cigarettes is just yet another example of politicians wanting to control something absent of any scientific proof that they need to do so.
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Likewise, I don't really need to own a physical copy though so if there was some system whereby I could donate a copy to a school then I'd be very keen.
> It was shortly followed by a blog post from the resigning co-founder which included a clear threat of legal action against anyone who said he or his wife had engaged in gender-based harassment or discrimination.

Actually, it was a clear threat of legal action against anyone who made false accusations.
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This process has been hugely helpful from both a product and marketing stand point. What have you used it for?
After toying with the idea for a while, I've settled on using a service like Mailgun or Sendgrid is the best decision when it comes to setting up email. Otherwise, it's just too much work for little in gain (as far as I'm aware). I'm curious to hear what others think.
There is no "blanket lawful intercept" in the US or any "PRISM devices on Google's network." You seem to be confusing several different NSA leaks.

GCHQ's MUSCULAR program apparently tapped Google's leased lines into the UK, giving them access to Google's unencrypted internal traffic entering that country. That's the closest report to any security agency having devices on Google's network. Google says they no longer have unencrypted traffic on those connections.

PRISM is an NSA system that accesses FBI DITU electronic wiretap data, which contains data the companies send to the FBI for specific users the government presented a court order for.
If you claim .Net programming skills, being able to install visual studio might be a good first step : D

As for a serious answer? Who knows. That said, I know some people dislike eric raymond, but I still keep a warm feeling in my heart for http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html, if only because its one of the first things I stumbled upon way back.
Clicked on a random one, Igor Tamm - Wikipedia says that "some sources" describe him as Jewish. They're all print books, and I'm not willing to grab them all to settle a meaningless internet argument, but I'd wager that he was not considered Jewish at the time.

In any case, alright; some Jewish scientists did fine. Others didn't. We can praise the things the USSR did well without white-washing its history altogether.
And they can patch things up later. Makes total sense in the now term.
Certainly a fair question. Note that I'm not taking sides with or against either Ada or Github. Just saying how I interpreted Ada's comments.
So the start screen, menu, and all metagame aspects are more important than gameplay to you? Okay, if that's what you value.
+1 very well put
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I recently switched from a phone with a sd card slot to one without. I miss the cheap extra storage, but having 'only' 64 gigs of storage hasn't hurt me yet. Is there a particular use case that an SD card allows and large built-in storage doesn't? Would internal storage of 128gb be enough?
Wow, you hold a grudge over Google killing Reader for a long time :)

In general, I'd say Google has done mostly great things for the Internet, and good things for Internet security. They're a huge target -- their biggest sin is that they're inherently centralizing a lot of stuff which used to be decentralized (mail servers, etc.). In general that increases security because Google does a better job in software and operations than virtually anyone else, but it creates a big juicy target.

agl alone probably makes up for any negatives Google has brought to security. The other thing I hate them for was Rubin's hatred of security and thus no platform security on Android, but that's being fixed, and ChromeOS is pretty amazing in contrast.
> How is my text about the antibiotics not accurate?

It was inaccurate because the robotic milkers do not necessitate antibiotics in any way. There's no increased need for antibiotics because a cow is milked by a robot instead of a human.

> Antibiotic in livestock is a real problem already

In the dairy industry, if a cow is on antibiotics her milk is dumped at the order of the company that buys the milk for bottling and distribution to consumers. At least that's how it works on my neighbor's farm, who sells milk to a regional dairy distributor.
"The thing I never understood is: shouldn’t the biotech community be happy that more people are trying to do this and that more people are funding this work?"

It's a world where lots of great ideas are underfunded (or not at all), because the traditional government sources don't have the money needed to invest in every good idea. Also, it's still generally too expensive to chase every possible business idea in biotech, and there are plenty of ideas with academic promise that don't get anywhere because the traditional sources of investment are too conservative. Scientists get punchy when they see funding going to "unproven" entrepreneurs, while they're slaving away at research that is peer-reviewed, but isn't getting any investor attention.

It's good to see YC bringing in outside expertise for this area, because the likely outcome for amateur angel investment in biotech would be investing in lots of flashy-but-insubstantial entrepreneurs, while legitimate research never gets off the bench. In my experience, it's much harder to evaluate biotech ideas than software.
Where do they say that their goal is to fight against prejudice? I scanned their about pages, and my impression is that their primary goal is to support women.
> If any hetero identifying male wants to dispute them, I challenge him to spending a weekend in The Castro neighborhood of SF and write a completely truthful essay chronicling his comfort level.

I used to live right near the Castro and spent lots of time there. I also lived in West Hollywood for years. I always felt completely comfortable in both places, and not because I am a paragon of not giving a shit. Sorry, but being looked at or hit on by a man is not, in itself, a traumatic experience. I know your post is probably motivated by empathy, but the above comment comes off as really weird and homophobic.
This was ill-conceived from the get-go. GitHub is proprietary and encouraging people (women or men) to get private repos there is not a service to Open Source.
I'm not sure what kind of BBQ you are into, but my dad and I do quite a few competitions every year, and the temperature inside the smoker itself is more valuable than the temperature of your meat. It's easier to consistently get your smoker temperature to what you want than attempting to cook your meat at specific temperatures, considering no piece of meat is alike another. Obviously we check the internal temp to make sure it's safe, but it's easier to keep the smoker at 250f for 4 hours than to make sure your internal temperature stays at whatever degree for 4 hours.

I would absolutely recommend any type of K-type thermocouple, because they can handle the heat that the BBQ will spit out. In fact, the one I used for testing and initial development was directly from Adafruit[0]. It works well, it's just a little flimsy. It's not USB, however.

[0] http://www.adafruit.com/products/269
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I just posted a comment just a few minutes ago, noticed that I didn't have verb agreement, then tried editing my comment. Suddenly there is no longer an edit link!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7635944

What gives? Have I lost comment editing privileges?

EDIT: This is really weird. It's that comment in particular, which is a particularly controversial one. This is suspicious.
> Sponsoring two conferences "to support women in open technology and culture" is not something a misogynistic organization would do.

Of course they would. No organization is likely to official advertise that they are hostile towards women, and sponsoring this kind of events is an easy PR operation. That says absolutely nothing about the day-to-day situation within the company.
I agree with both of your points. I was also attempting to point out that large companies with sub par programmers also use specific frameworks as a crutch in order to put boxes around how much of a code base a particularly inept programmer can screw up simultaneously. Angular lends itself to that in the js space.
> I'd love to know the origin of _that_ law.

During prohibition, it was still possible to get alcohol with a doctor's prescription (does that sound familiar?). So pharmacies started carrying whiskey and such to fill those prescriptions. Once prohibition ended, they just started selling it over-the-counter.
At least a single data point: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/03/11/uk-britain-co-opera...
Our core focus is read-only at the moment, but yes, command and control has been very much on our mind for a while and I think is going to be a next logical step. Technically you could implement C&C with a plugin right now, but we want to make it more of first-class feature at some point.
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It's safe to say that GitHub won't depend on the partnership with Ada... private repositories were offered for free to select individuals/women - that doesn't sound like a big deal to me, at least. If anyone is looking for private repos for free, they could get them @ https://bitbucket.org/.
To be fair, the article mentioned that he uses his government relationships to limit his growth to a safe size. He seems to be actively limiting his upside to protect his downside, which in a high-risk, illegal industry, is probably the logical move to make.
>> Github is such an open company

Did we read the same blog post [0]? While I agree that we might have seen a little more from GitHub than we would have from MS/Google their response to the situation was extremely lacking IMHO.

[0] https://github.com/blog/1823-results-of-the-github-investiga...
I have a Sony Xperia Z1 as well and the battery lasts over 3 days. Make sure to enable the stamina mode http://developer.sonymobile.com/2013/11/26/power-management-... it actually works pretty well.
Nothing's more convenient than finding a torrent of a hit show. The process involves typing "daily show" into a search bar, hitting enter, then clicking "download torrent" on the one that looks like what you want (which will normally be at the top of the list.)
Due to having heard this topic in detail at university, I think the link between high antibiotic use and robotic milking is not the case.

One robot can only deal with a relatively little amount of cows in a day. I remember something around a hundred. And industrial scale human-involved systems are at a much bigger scale. If anything, these large-scale systems would require more antibiotics.

Over time the antibiotic management should even improve through the availability of per-quarter, per-cow data on the performance of the cow. Some antibiosis is often necessary, and probably can't be avoided if you don't want cows suffering unduly, or getting culled because without treatment the cow won't be profitable anymore. But that is a whole different kind of animal... err.... discussion
If a beginner does want to tackle SICP, I recommend they follow the MIT 6.001 lecture series on YouTube. It's much more manageable than simply diving into the text, but makes a great companion if you do want to keep up with all the exercises.

Granted, I'd recommend doing a L*THW or something before going to SICP, but you don't need a ton of programming experience to get something out of it.
Wow. This is exactly what I've been looking for. A dashboard for my 'stuff' - which is basically anything as long as it's JSON.

Thanks!
Fighting anti-female prejudice could conceivably be part of a strategy for supporting women. At least, it wouldn't be surprising if an organization dedicated to supporting group X fought prejudice against group X.
Your criticism is equally applicable to any advocacy organization that distances themselves from an alleged situation that they morally oppose.

For example, would you say the same thing about EFF and ACLU speakers canceling their RSA conference talks, due to a "biased interpretation of unclear events" of RSA collaborating with the NSA?
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At least in Europe? One might argue that Europe has its eyes open. That Wikipedia page states: "On 1 January 2006 the European Union banned the non-medicinal use of antibiotics in livestock production."

That takes care (formally) of a substantial part of Europe. Regulations such as these also tend to spread because they limit the ability to export produce that does not follow them (that's how lead-free soldering conquered the world based on a EU directive, and how Californian pollution limits for cars spread over the USA, etc)

If you think those rules get broken so often that this is more of a problem in Europe than in, say, the USA, Canada, Australia, or Asia, can you give a link?
Well, there's OpenRISC[1] and I believe SPARC is too. At least there are open source implementations including Sun's first Niagara.

[1]http://www.openrisc.net/
The irony of the situation is that AI is doing more harm to more women than anyone at GitHub ever did.
But... this could be the front end for Zabbix measurements!
There are housing bubbles pretty much everywhere right now. By my own definition, any home that requires a 30-year mortgage and a two-income household to afford is overpriced. The availability of this type of credit is detrimental to society and should be prohibited on equitable grounds (this needs to be combined with prohibitions on investment into housing by non-occupiers and non-citizens), but it's too late to prohibit the practice because the real estate ponzi would collapse and send us all back into recessions.
I just bought a used LG g2 to escape the disaster that is the Droid 4, but I would happily spend another 3-400 on a phone with a physical keyboard. On screen keyboards, like gel-cap keyboards, work well enough, but I would love a premium option.
No, they still would have picked ARM. Why? Because every mobile device with uptake uses ARM, and Intel has no play there.
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> This is a nice take on the reality of the middle to upper middle class drug economy. It's not all episodes of the Wire.

It may still be there, just slightly beyond the frame of this picture. The article doesn't go into how the drugs actually get across the Canadian border, for example.

The show Weeds was unrealistic in some ways, but one thing that the first couple of seasons did reasonably well was to depict Nancy's descent into progressively more dangerous situations and the beginning of her relationship with organized crime.

At any appreciable scale, the drug trade[0] gets messy very quickly - not always to the end user, but certainly one or two degrees removed. If it looks clean, either it's because it's a very small scale and vertically integrated (eg, the marijuana equivalent of "microbrew"), or you're just not looking far enough down the supply chain.

[0] Of course, this is not a comment on the inherent nature of the drug trade, but on the inherent nature of any illicit trade; legal (or "less illegal") supply and distribution channels will have far less crime associated with them.
Which, if we are to believe the results of the investigation, would be everyone.
Yeah the dispensaries I've been to have "bouncers" at the doors. There's no way a kid is going to make a purchase there. Of course a kid with money and an older friend can still buy...
I have friends who are not into sports and thus may not watch much television, but the vast majority of them are, which means they're going to subscribe to cable because it's the only legal way to watch most sporting events, especially as ESPN continues to grab up more and more programming for its networks.
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There are direct accusations against Github:

> It was shortly followed by a blog post from the resigning co-founder which included a clear threat of legal action against anyone who said he or his wife had engaged in gender-based harassment or discrimination.

That's a direct accusation, and a false one. The threat was against false accusations.

> The sum of these events make it impossible for Ada Initiative to partner with GitHub at this time. ... We will not accept future sponsorships from or partnerships with GitHub unless the situation changes significantly. ... We are working hard to create a world in which women can participate in open source software, Wikipedia, and other areas of open technology and culture without harassment, intimidation, or discrimination. Sometimes this means refusing to partner with or accept sponsorship from specific people or organizations. It is also contrary to our principles to be silent when our existing sponsors and collaborators' actions consistently do not support our mission.

It doesn't get much more direct than this.
No, but speculation makes any conclusion you want to draw possible.

If you want to argue that Microsoft will come out and implement PGP, that's one thing. Hell, maybe Google will decide that it's more profitable to shut down Gmail. Would that also be a mistake from a strategic point of view? I couldn't fault them for it.

But all you have are wishes and fantasies. That's not strategy. That's a pipe dream.
Just curious, who makes the decision? The people who run the Initiative? What about the members? Are the majority of members and participants (people who benefit from the initiative's works) fully in supporting this break up?

Have they asked people to vote or not? Why do their opinions not matter?

I don't know what kind of work they do with Github other than hosting repository and sponsorship -- which means it doesn't stop people fro using Github or mentioning github.com/<username>/<reponame> on slides.

So what's the problem with the report?

Are they not happy with the whole "third-party independent investigation"? (Someone said in other HN threads that the investigators didn't reach out to Horvath until the end of the investigation). That shouldn't be a good reason to quit the partnership.

Are they angry at the "[we, github] found mistakes" (which probably means very poor management)? That's still not a good enough reason to quit. Every comapny has some kind of problems too.

Or are they fully convinced that Github is lying and Horvath is telling the truth? Which one? This is probably the worst reason to quit partnership.

So, which one?
I think your view while mostly valid, is too simplistic in regards to the role of VCs.

The relationship between a VC and an entrepreneur is symbiotic, not parasitic. The VC has collected extra cash he wants to risk to produce good returns on. The entrepreneur wants to build a business but does not have the funds to see it through the growth phase on his/her own. The two of you can get together to produce something that neither of you could have done individually. Each getting a slice of a pie that would not have existed if you had not worked together.
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How about robotic pest control?
False dichotomy, there are avenues of research that are outside of the traditional academy (and the 'new tradition' of state-funded science) and outside of industry. For example, Janelia Farms, run by HHMI. As I alluded to above, historically, Peter D. Mitchell's work (which garnered him a nobel prize), as well.

The story of how state-run science funding is broken is exemplified by the story of Douglas Prasher.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher
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> 2. "Also, Google wouldn’t be able to scan and index the text of your e-mails. That’s a problem if you need to search for old emails not stored on your own machine. It could be a real issue for Google’s business model as well, which involves scanning the text of emails in order to place contextual advertising."

Caveat: I am no expert whatsoever in crypto/CS so understand this is almost certainly non-workable for some reason (which is what I'm trying to understand). Why couldn't Google hash every word in an email and store the list of hashes alongside the encrypted version. Then when you search for something, the search terms are hashed as well and the service searches for the hashed search terms amongst the lists of hashes.

Edit: Thanks everyone!
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