skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not a farmer, but this was in the article:

"Even before biotech seeds came on the market, corn farmers tended not to save seeds, since store-bought hybrids delivered higher yields, but the technology agreement farmers sign when buying Monsanto’s biotech seeds forbids them from doing it."
hmm, I just got a gig where we want to cut a salary/equity deal (we're checking each other out for mutual fit via hourly at first). I will be in no way a founder, but it appears to me that my job will be in significant part to get the code into a state where it's in a state for handover for acquisition.

So I don't think it's quite that clear cut.
Yes, we clearly need to make those more prominent.

Edit: we changed it to emphasize the Show HN guidelines more.

Edit 2: I think we'll also write something much more detailed about the kind of discussions we want in Show HN threads: discussions that foster further creativity. Perhaps we'll put it up on the YC blog and then have a new thread about all this, once the dust settles from the first Show HN carnival.
My guess is that if I, say, forge some DMCA notices as being from major media companies trying to take down stuff belonging to other major media companies, YouTube will happily ignore me.

On what do you base your guess? Because as I understand it, your guess is 100% wrong.
NSA: Linux Journal readers get flagged for extra surveillance
Can we expect a Windows version?
If you want to know what it feels like when a Show HN post takes off, check out this blog post I wrote a while back: https://web.archive.org/web/20121030145412/http://blog.akshe...

I have yet to reproduce that initial success we had with Akshell with StartHQ (https://starthq.com), my latest venture, but maybe that's for the better. Steady growth beats riding a roller coaster any day.
There is more than enough food in the world. Starvation happens because of infrastructure and economics, not insufficient yields.

That's true now, but it won't be true when we add another billion or so people. That's only 15 years from now!
I just started a new job at Climate Corporation and it has been interesting seeing the other side of the "Monsanto is the devil" story. Also, David Friedberg is so smart and impressive.
While I'm fine with exponential depreciation, the rates are very high (or maybe just variable by car). My RAV4 has closer to 9-10% depreciation (assuming 15k miles/year) per the Edmunds TCO mentioned elsewhere. May be constructive to look up your individual car and input it into khet's calculator.

Kudos for giving us the option. May be helpful flag inputs that are highly deterministic of the output and suggest look-ups.
Years. I've made a lot of games not up to the level of quality I want to be associated with. They're in a graveyard on my NAS.

I don't buy into the "it doesn't have to be good, it has to be done"; for me it has to be good and done to feel okay having my name on it. But I'm getting much better at this, and am working on a project I feel good about.
The word "sum" is used here to mean an arithmetic expression or math in general. For example, a parent might ask their child, "Have you done your sums?" to mean "Have you done your maths homework?"
By that logic, mono should not exist.

http://www.mono-project.com/What_is_Mono
Like everything else about this, that's by analogy to /ask.

Being laconic is part of HN's DNA. Probably always will be.
Why I Left Venezuela — For Good
Same thing on Chrome 35.0.1916.153 on Windows 8.1. Shame, it looks really interesting but that totally put me off.
Yes they did[1], and a link to that article was published on an 'extremist' forum, triggering the inclusion of the domain in the filter.

[1]http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/linux-distro-tales-you-c...
Monsanto is not only active on GMOs, they also have a terrible track record promoting harmful products like their Roundup.

See "The world according to Monsanto", it's quite edifying (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsan...).
Apple Wants to Gobble Up Your Memories in iCloud
I'm not sure if total output could be matched, but it would definitely take a lot more labor to achieve the output.
I agree, however for HN users we are offering a free test drive.
No family, but just got a small apartment with my girlfriend. This is the same approach I was thinking personally. Thanks for the tip!
That's fair. Your original comment would have read better if you had mentioned any of this supporting evidence initially.

I could have done the same homework myself, but I felt no need to. In my opinion her visa situation is her business and although we can make assumptions, we also don't know the exact details. To me, starting from the point of view that she was in the wrong and drawing on evidence to support that assumption is a form of victim-blaming that doesn't help further the overall agenda -- immigration reform is desperately needed. Unless as an immigrant who successfully got through the system, one feels others must, in turn, dutifully pay their way. I don't feel this way, but I had an unusually easy immigration experience by all accounts.
Why would you even ask that? If we can make food that requires less pesticides, or less fertlizer, or is more nutritious, or just produces more per acre, why wouldn't we? How is the idea that genetically modified = intrinsically bad anything other than superstition?
> In other words, is it impossible to grow enough food without using GMOs?

Of course not. We waste drastic amounts of food every year thanks to spoilage. We feed food to other forms of food - how much food does it take to raise a cow to maturity? We turn food into fuel for cars at utterly dire efficiency.

Starvation happens because of economics, warfare, ongoing experiments with centrally-planned governments (freaking give it up, Kim Jong), things like that. Not small percentile increments in efficiency.
It makes me sad he had to wait 15 years for this. 15 years is what you get for manslaughter with good behavior.
Maybe one day the web ecosystem will calm down enough that designing a simple interface doesn't need to be approached like designing a videogame engine on an esoteric virtual machine.
I honestly have not bothered memorizing times table. I always found it easier to compute correct answer each time I need it. I just memorized few anchors: any number times 10 is easy to compute, from that it is easy to compute any number times 5, so only thing I memorized is number times itself. After that you can turn almost any multiplication into simple subtraction or addition.

For example 7 * 8 = 7*7 + 7 = 49 + 7 = 56
More than one link to the Linux Journal article with comment thread has been locked and hidden, and a previous link to the link we're commenting on now. I'm sure this one will be dead soon too. For example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7984456. hckrnews.com shows dead threads in gray. Weird, no?
Show HN: ISHPermissionKit – Unified way for iOS apps to request user permissions
FWIW most of LinkedIn's batch processing still runs on Hadoop.
Stream versus batch is not just about throughput versus latency. It is about what you do with the extra latency budget to increase your throughput. e.g. If you reorganize your data to make your batch process go 10x faster because you used a better join algorithm, then its worth doing things in batch. Otherwise there isn't much difference.
Ironman Vineman is in just over a week, he must of trained for it well before leaving Google!
Oh gosh, great point. This video on not talking to the police totally changed my perspective on doing that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc
Sounds like a great opportunity for personal relaxation & development :-)

Oh and I guess this means that Matt Cutts will be commenting in every HN thread from now on ^^
American vs. British English usage. sum is an acceptable general term in British usage. In American English, it would indeed need to be product.
You are probably correct in that the trend has changed. My feeling is that it may be that the companies we do business with are a bit more established and they may still be subject to the decisions made during a trend-phase that doesn't really make financial sense to step away from and build again from scratch, but if those decisions were made now, it may be taken in a different direction.

But the fact that they no longer have such a strong foothold in their home turf is a bit concerning for MS I'm sure. That's why I was curious to see whether there was any effort on MS's part to change their approach and invest more in grassroot business building that will establish those long lasting relationships with brands that will be both valuable and recognizable in the future.
That's definitely unexpected. The only case I would expect is "yy" since 'y' is an option under both consonants and vowels.

I'll investigate. Thanks for pointing it out!
In (British) English, equations are sometimes called 'sums'. It's a confusing colloquialism, and you're right to be confused by it.
The Road to Hana
Show HN: IqBoxy - (iOS app) digital wallet for receipts & loyalty cards
Kudoso: Changing The Way Families Manage Technology At Home
Here is the full list of excuses: https://gist.github.com/Dorian/28a49b82ee9f026e5823
I think he meant before they wreak havoc.
Depends on how deep you want to go, but you could set up a table with common considerations and let users set frequency...

Most maintenance is mileage-dependent, so if you base your schedule on their monthly mileage, it could look like:

Repair Cost Frequency
------ ---- ---------
Oil Change $30 5000 mi
Tires $500 45000 mi
Battery $150 30000 mi
Timing Belt $1500 60000 mi
Misc $200 15000 mi

Do the math in impact/year and input that cost into your table...
I worked on something that did just that: http://www.newstrapper.com/
Ask HN: Will this also show up on the Show HN: page? - Nope
Just curious...
I think 15 years of not having a few months off from working at Google is slightly better than 15 years in a US prison, not really a fair comparison.
As someone else mentioned already, BizSpark: http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
Tell him he's looking at selection bias. The immigrants he sees here represent a very small fraction of those who have tried to enter the US. Those are the few that succeeded in either satisfying or dodging the process, not the bulk that get rejected by it or sit on waiting lists.

He should be comparing himself to the typical outcome of a would-be immigrant (never passing the border at all), not to outliers cherrypicked to only be observed after they have already succeeded.
Good idea, unfortunately barely usable on my ipad - entry text fields are too slow
Four things designers should know about Google Material Design
No, he had already died in 2001, people only get to die one time.
Show HN: Get a Domain Name + Google Apps + DNS + Starter Web Page Free
Did we mention it's a free 15 day trial including a full blown Google Apps for Business account and domain name of your choice? No credit card required and no jokes on the domain folks. Industry first and only!

::end salesman voice::

In all seriousness, we promote awesome causes such as Startup Weekend and hackathons.

https://pop.co
It's not about the GMOs themselves but if you can grow the same/a sufficient amount of food without using pesticides at all, then why even bother with GMOs?
Looks like it doesn't
We have no context for what "flagged" or "monitoring" means, though. There's no indication that these rules are taken to mean anything in isolation beyond what is frankly common sense. The idea that just Googling Tails means you're monitored is a narrative leap.

If I write an email about Viagra, the recipient's spam filter is undoubtedly going to consider it to have a non-zero probability of being spam. That doesn't mean it will be blocked, in the end. Nor does it mean that the spam filter is wrong to take notice.
Me too! I was shocked to have my Go url shortener come in several lines shorter than node.js one, and it felt much cleaner. I was pretty much sold at that point.
Show HN: Will this also show up on the Ask HN: page? - Yup
Just curious...
Woah what the fuck. Thank God I don't have to use this crappy browser except for a few pages that break in FF.
Shareware Insight: Pricing
I first encountered the idea of regular sabbaticals from Stefan Sagmeister[1].

The theory goes: why save all of your time-off for retirement, when you're likely to be too old to really enjoy that time? Instead, Sagmeister says, work for a few years and then take some time off—up to a year—now, while you're still fairly young and capable of doing worthwhile things with that time.

The idea is still immensely appealing, but so difficult to pursue here in the United States. Mostly because we still believe that working every waking hour of every day of every month is the only way to get ahead and succeed.

I'm glad Matt not only finally found the time to get away, but that his overseers at Google are letting him do it. How many of us could do the same?

1. http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/answers/category/sabbaticals/
Show HN: This one line of code will make HN usable on mobile devices
Since the HN devs seem to be in dev-mode, I thought I'd put in one more little request. :)

This one line of code, added to the head of HN's html, will make the site actually usable on mobile devices:

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, user-scalable=yes"/>

Here are the before and after pics of the front page:

http://imgur.com/rMYfqwN,mwPDMvB#0
Great service !
Can please share on which hosting to you use , how much many does it cost you monthly?
Thanks
There are some problems with answers form SO, example "What is monad?", but nice overall. Some answers could be combined into one like "Where is New Zealand?"
This myth that businesses have a fiduciary responsibility to maximize profits has to die :-)

Fortunately there is now (since 2012 in fact) a book that explains it very well in terms that almost anyone can understand, certainly anyone here on HN:

The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corporations, and the Public
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Shareholder-Value-Myth-Shareholders-...

Don't even need to read it all, the first few chapters are more than enough IMHO
Show HN: Full Stack Python
I'm wondering if "FVEY" meant something before it was rendered as "five eyes"?
This is almost exactly an idea I've been kicking about for years. I'm very hopeful for where this will go. It looks great and seems very easy to use. Also love that it doesn't ask for any unnecessary permissions.

One suggestion that I could use right now... the ability to delete data / undo adding data. I added a bunch of stuff just to play with it and now it doesn't accurately reflect what I've eaten.

Also, how often should I update? Just every day? At the minute when I eat the food?
is this really something worth blogging about? around here - you guessed it, not US - such behavior is not unusual and you don't have to tell the whole world that you'll be off work while you're off work.
> "So, that ignores your slippery slope argument about personal liberties, which are totally valid. How do you balance national security and personal liberty in this case? That's the million dollar question."

"National Security" is a fucking joke; there is nothing that needs to be balanced. Anyone interested in terrorizing others could (after driving across state lines if necessary) walk into a Walmart and walk out with a semi-automatic rifle, walk into the nearest mall, yell their grievances with the country and start shooting people.

We know that this sort of attack is possible in the US because plenty of lone-nutters have more or less done it already in the US. We know that terrorist organizations are receptive to this style of attack because they have carried out this style of attack in other countries (Mumbai in 2008 and Kenya in 2013 are obvious examples). Yet the two have yet to be combined in the US.

The only reason why this hasn't happened in the US is that, contrary to popular belief, there just simply are not many people interested in doing this sort of thing in the US. The notion that terrorists yearning to attack America are around every corner is a myth. Those people are a rounding error.
Clickable link to before/after pics: http://imgur.com/rMYfqwN,mwPDMvB#0
On the other hand, anyone who is up to something bad is going to try to keep it as secret as possible, no?

After 10 years of pervasive surveillance and not being able to catch a single terrorist

Questionable. I wouldn't expect the NSA to put out a press release every time someone is nabbed on the back of their information-gathering, that wouldn't be very smart.
Can you expand on why you view Roundup as harmful? Without it, what methods would farmers be using instead, and would these be more environmentally friendly?
Programmers and motivation
XKeyScore is the new credit report:)
Do we read the same article? It actually has 5 pages and it attempts to explain the different sections of the file.

http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/NSA-targets-the-priv...

http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-2.html

http://daserste.ndr.de/panorama/aktuell/nsa230_page-3.html

...

Maybe you've read only the first page and missed the remaining four?
Data Science Weekly Newsletter - Issue 32
Show HN: Talk about what you made
ReservationHop - Pay for restaurant reservations
Feminists might be under the illusion that they favor equality and justice, but in practice they only focus on inequalities and injustices that they perceive women to suffer from. And that's fine. But they will never address (and often deny the existence of) inequalities and injustices that men suffer from.

I'm a pragmatist. Ideologies never work. Ideologues are either hypocrites or worse. People whose entire worldview is based on the idea that women are uniformly and universally oppressed by men are never going to achieve gender equality on their own. Even a reasonable and moderate feminist like yourself won't go out of their way to help men even when that's the just and equal thing to do--or at least not as much as they will women. I don't mean that as a slight, but it's just a manifestation of bias. The way to prevent bias isn't to just trust some ideology or movement to be free of it; it's to openly acknowledge biases and vested interests and work in the spirit of mutual benefit.
You are free to counter claim and go to court spending $xxxK on lawyers to test it.
Is there another NSA Leaker?
Yes. But do you honestly expect them to provide that context so we can be sure?
There are various arguments for the benefits of functional programming. But that's really beside the point here.

In this particular case, the point was that I created an educational tool for teaching mathematics. It happens to involve a programming language; but the goal isn't to train computer programmers. It's to teach math. So the language used is one that lets you describe functions and quantities the same way as you would in math, and mostly avoids the need to think about a computer doing some sequence of operations.
I'm not sure what your point is. A person being harmed due to law-and-order issues in her society lacks liberty under both meanings.
I dislike having to create a separate account to play this game. Using twitter still requires a separate password and account to create. In firefox the game loops when clicking create character.
One could always ask for support saying a given experiment could prove the, say, biblical flood or somethimg equally silly. If someone believes that all animals on Earth descend from the living cargo of a wooden ship, it should be possible to convince them of anything.

Hacking a right-wing nutty congresscritter is an intriguing concept.
Do you think I'm accusing you of having been hit by a car? I'm not. It was an analogy.
dang, Most people don't know that the rank of text-based submissions
decays faster than url-based submissions, so by using the wrong type
of submission on your "Show HN" you shoot yourself in the foot by using
a text-based submission. This should be noted in the guidelines or
adjusted in the code.

Also, I'd add a suggestion to the guidelines for "Show HN" submissions
to use a landing page like "http://example.org/show-hn.html" when
appropriate so the submitter can ask for specific types of help or
feedback. This solves the top-comment problem mentioned by danso, and
also solves the text-based submission problem.

All in all, "Show HN" is an excellent addition. Thank you.

EDIT: The new code is actually finding the text-based submissions as
well as the url-based submissions, but at first I thought it was
missing the text-based ones.
Yeah, he wasn't actually foolish enough to hand it to them right at the booth. He was taken aside for further questioning since he had already been in the US on a visa waiver within the same calendar year, which pattern-matched border dodging. He was forced* to hand over his wallet early on and the card was clearly there. There's obviously more context, but it's funny that such a minor thing came to be so important -- and sticks in my head 3 years (and one marriage) later.

* Not sure where this fell on the spectrum of 'force', but had he refused, that would presumably have increased suspicion. Damned if you do, etc.
I highly recommend to just get the book [1], it's written very well and in layman terms but here's an extract taken from a review [2] of the same:

"Stout traces the birth of this “fable” to the “oversized effects of a single outdated and widely misunderstood judicial opinion.” Dodge v. Ford Motor Company was a 1919 decision of the Michigan Supreme Court. The opinion’s status as a meaningful legal precedent on the issue of corporate purpose is tenuous at best. Yet, its facts “are familiar to virtually every student who has taken a course in corporate law.” As Stout has observed in the past, “[t]he case is old, it hails from a state court that plays only a marginal role in the corporate law arena, and it involves a conflict between controlling and minority shareholders” more than an issue of corporate purpose generally.[11] The chapter explains quite well that any idea that corporate law, as a positive matter, affirmatively requires companies to maximize shareholder wealth turns out to be spurious. In fact, none of the three sources of corporate law (internal corporate law, state statutes and judicial opinions) expressly require shareholder primacy as most typically describe it. To the contrary, through the routine application of the business judgment rule, courts regularly provide prophylactic protection for the informed and non-conflicted decisions of corporate boards"

[1] "The Shareholder Value Myth: How Putting Shareholders First Harms Investors, Corportations, and the Public" by Lynn Stout http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Shareholder-Value-Myth-Sharehold...

[2] http://arizonastatelawjournal.org/book-review-the-shareholde...
Just because you build it doesn’t mean they will come! | Technology Blog
No, because anyone trying to hide something is highly likely to be trying to keep things private and secure. Ignoring the moral, ethical, and legal concerns, it is a perfectly reasonable course of action. The moral, ethical & legal concerns are of course terrible.
I can understand it from a positive vetting approach, but now it is known about then if anything further data will be of questionable quality.

If anything I'm more surprised this is know about the NSA regarding this site more than the NSA's actions.

Though if you look at the linked source, viewers in 'US' OR 'GB' OR 'CA' OR 'AU' OR 'NZ' are excluded.

Now it does not appear that if you run thru a proxy service located in one of those countries, that you would by pass this flagging. Which is anything seems a little bit of a silly oversight and not one I would expect the NSA to be making.

So how trusted and true is this information and associated source this article is related too? Anybody add credence to this?
I think these guidelines are for people really pushing the boundaries. If you want a simple interface you can probably disregard all of these guidelines.
It told you that about Klaus Nomi or flying pigs?