skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the Sterling engine is 200 years old. It's hard to imagine he's going to be able to do something spectacular with it.
What are you doing there? As an environmental scientist/economist who loves working with data-driven projects, that company always really intrigued me.
Most of the universities I have seen or heard about teach C, C++, Java, Python
or the like on their courses. Only a subset of them teach also functional
languages (which is still quite far from declarativeness, but let's ignore
this for the time being), but even those don't require functional programming
throughout the whole time and people fall back to imperative languages.

Let's go further. Most of the materials in the internet are about programming
in imperative languages. Those are the most popular, including popularity
among newcommers.

I have never heard about anybody who started learning programming by
learning Lisp, Haskell, OCaml, SML or any other functional language. Similarly
I haven't heard about somebody, who learned one of those as his second
language and got any proficiency in them.

Please provide any data that contradicts the common sense conclusion (at least
common sense for me) that vast majority of people who were taught programming,
were taught programming imperatively.
Plant geneticist here. For the vast majority of Monsanto-licensed crops grown, the seed itself is the crop (e.g. maize). The farmers aren't throwing it away, they sell it as food. For most of the remainder, although the seed isn't the crop, the fruit, which contains the seeds, is the crop (e.g. aubergine, cotton). So farmers throwing away seed is unlikely.

Additionally, the previous most productive system of farming (and still very popular) was to use first-generation hybrids (the offspring of breeding two different strains together). Due to a phenomenon known as hybrid vigour, first-generation hybrids often have more desirable growth characteristics (like higher yield, bigger seeds, etc.). However, the effect only lasts one generation. Try to plant the second generation seeds and you'll get relatively pathetic plants. But the hybrid breeding process is incredibly complex and hard to do at scale, so it's worth paying a seed company to do it, even if that means buying the seed every year.

The license protection for GMOs serves a similar purpose: developing GM lines is really, really hard and expensive. If Monsanto and other producers couldn't sell the seeds each year the technology simply wouldn't happen - the licenses allow them to profit despite the massive R&D cost.
Well you and I disagree on the risks involved. And to what degree any organization can contractually exempt themselves from law. If they could they could also simply have a service agreement that says if you use the site you can't sue for copyright infringement and we wouldn't need the DMCA in the first place.

My point is that the DMCA can be used as a get out of a lawsuit free card only if you comply with it. In all other cases you are exposed to a 'question' of compliance which requires the involvement of a finder of fact. That equals risk to me, and again to what end?

However, if you comply fully with the DMCA you cannot theoretically or otherwise raise any argument against the ISP under copyright infringement or unlawful takedowns, period. Move away from complete compliance with the DMCA and yes you can still 'argue' that you are protected but you must pay to make that argument in the course of a suit. That to me is a liability, even from a winning position. Plus you are also exposing yourself to broader actions by cilvl liberties and other organizations working for the 'users' rights who did not agree to your questionable contract.

That is a lot of risk to assume, for what purpose exactly? Laziness?

Edit: Personally though I agree the DMCA is a poor tool for the job and needs to have much stronger teeth in favor of the users (read: citizens).
I agree: awful tools and batch language is horrible (and largely non-portable between different versions). Getting complicated stuff to work can be tricky due to the lack of essential commands. For instance, there's no way to reliably get an ISO formatted datestamp without a 3rd party utility (although I think PowerShell supports this). Lots of odd little things like that simply don't work.

But the filesystem layout and set of built-in commands is pretty easy to understand fully. It's generally pretty easy to find things. In that sense Unix is more complex (but also more sensible, usually).
I think Amazon has account settings to remove particular items from your history.
Next time you guys are in CHCH please do some outreach stuff. It would be great to be able to come and talk with you about the project.
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I imagine some interesting ideas of cabin noise management could be derived from research around this...
If libertarians controlled the school systems, then mainstream liberalism would be a fringe movement.
The other week I was thinking about buying a car to save money on commuting... And I'm sure I am not the only one.

I definitely see value in this tool. I have 0 experience with cars, and I am sure I have no idea how much does it cost to maintain, repair. Again, I don't think I am the only one. So is £20 or so worth paying to get accurate numbers, tweaked for a specific country, with nice explanations why and how? I think so ;)

I would really consider experimenting to see if this could be monetized, whether people are willing to pay. It won't make millions, but as a passive income source? That might work.
This is all great advice. I've added these items to the issue tracker, and I am going to implement them right away.
Is that really what happens though? They aren't treating them as potential terrorists. They are treating it as one of many signals that would almost certainly be associated with a threat.
There's a nice bit in here that automatically collates a list of Tor bridge nodes from snooped e-mails. The full list of bridge nodes isn't public, and one of the ways the Tor project attempted to prevent someone from building a complete list was by requiring people to use a valid GMail address to request them, effectively piggy-backing on Google's account verification to stop people from using a swathe of fake accounts to request nodes. Unfortunately, that failed to take account of the fact that the NSA had completely compromised Google's internal network.
If This Then Visualize That (IFTVT)
Music Sales Continue to Plummet for Albums and Digital Downloads
The SEE ALSO for 'man hier' alerted me to 'apropos'. Unbelievable, so much emacs goodness in bash.

"apropos Regular Expressions" brings up wild stuff: re_format(7) -- posix regex docs at last!, treereg(1) (huh????).

Some serious lore in here ...
It's his personal blog - most people, regardless of whether they are in the US or not, would likely mention if they were taking 3 months off.
President Obama pays visit to start-up hub 1776 on day before the Fourth of July
such caclulator. very caclate.
Yeah, I'd second this. If it's really targeted at following news stories, watching a given page change is not as useful as some sort of tag-based or curated per-topic subscription.

One thing I'd find this useful for would be when you're waiting for something to be released - point this at an author's website (or a subpage related to a book you're looking forward to) to be automatically notified when the page changes. Similarly, I think that Overdrive (e-book and audiobook lending through public libraries) has a page where it lists the libraries carrying a given book. If you're hoping that your library starts carrying a given book, you could imagine following a page like that.

Another feature suggestion - maybe put in an option for a reminder to check back even if the page hasn't changed either on some interval or after some period of time. I could see using that as a tool to try to keep kickstarters and the like honest ("You said there'd be an update after 14 days, it's been 18 days, no update...").
He's a well known person in many circles, an active HN-er, and a kind of a go-to person for SEO/spam issues. It's interesting and relevant information for many of us.
Hmm, not seeing the looping issue you are referring to in Firefox. The game is an MMO, so we need some way to keep track of your player and sync with everyone else.
Played a lot of Freeciv back in the day, this is my first time ever trying it in the browser. Everything looks beautiful, but the UI with the units seems very awkward. Is there a way I'm not seeing to rapidly cycle through all the available units and give them orders?
So you're saying for revenue share, you can terminate it if he is no longer involved?
Is God real?
- Answer: Sorry, I don't know.

One day, maybe...
My favorite test for this sort of thing is asking questions about "President Bush." Any successful engine is going to have to ask for clarification: Do you mean senior or junior? This chokes on questions about Bush.
There's is an old article by Michael Specter in the New Yorker about Robert Shapiro, the CEO who in the 1990s turned Monsanto from a chemical company into a biotechnology company. Shapiro is a fascinating CEO-- an anti-war activist from New York and former folk musician who was on a mission to save the world through biology. Two of his daughters founded the alt-rock band "Veruca Salt" who had a hit song "Seether" in the 1990s. Here's a PDF of the New Yorker article:
http://www.michaelspecter.com/wp-content/uploads/pharmageddo...
I wasn't aware of that case. Thanks. I found sec 512(f) here:

http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/512#f
Yeah I thought about a delete/undo, but I figured that the only time anyone would undo is if they're just playing around with it at first. It used to be that when you tapped a food to add it, it would automatically do it, but instead I made it with checkboxes and an "log items" button so mistakes don't occur like that.

It's really up to you how often you update. The whole idea isn't to count precise amounts, just input the healthy portions of your meals and over time, hopefully, you'll see patterns of what nutrition your diet is lacking!
1. Yes, its usable without Facebook. Sign up on the site and you can upload media directly (or email them in).

2. No limit on how much you can upload at the moment. This might bite me in the ass later but if anything changes, there'll be a grandfathering in of older accounts.

3. You set up a password for your timeline. This is then shared automatically with "subscribers" that you add to your account. They will get notified (via email) when you post anything and can click through this email and never

4. Great question. Currently the plan is making money on prints (a PicPlum like service - printing of photos and mailing to family members). I may also introduce a premium version with more storage.

Would love to get your thoughts on the revenue ideas. And great questions - I should spell some of this out on the landing page more.
This is simply not true. Most of the startups here (including mine) run on linux and all the engineers have macs.
To complicate matters, some of those items are time or distance items. Oil and battery, for instance, need to be changed after a certain amount of time regardless of the miles driven. Not too hard to work into the pricing algorithm, though.

If you wanted go get even more creative, you could get users to crowdsource scheduled maintenance tables for their vehicles. It's all in the owner's manual and just a matter of transcribing it.
My point is that they (the authors of the article) don't have that context. They're just covering up the lack of information with FUD.
> I love the science. It's the non-competitive market I don't like. "Get your seeds from us under any terms we dictate" isn't a healthy state, or in the public interest.

But that is not an accurate reflection of reality. Any farmer is free to buy any seed from any company at any time. They can even visit the seed banks and grow ancient varieties if there would be someone to sell the resultant food to. The whole "you must buy our seed" thing is just the another mimetic anti-GMO trope.

> And thanks to a number of factors beginning with patent arsenals and ending with good luck with that, your chances of leaving Monsanto to start a viable competitor are somewhere a few orders of magnitude below "disrupt Facebook.

And yet Monsanto are not the biggest seed company by a long way. That accolade goes to Dow.
How on earth did you manage to get out of grade school without having everything up to 12*12 burned into your brain? Where did you go to school?

Oh, how I envy you.
I understand the difficulty involved in doing this but, I would have liked it talk about itself.
what is quickanswers.io?
Sorry, I don't know.
The 6-times-rhyme was a plot device in a short story I read once, where a witness remembers a license plate because it ended in 47 - which they remember, because 6x7 is obviously 47.
Finally someone is doing a token based auth system for rails APIs
When was the first Macintosh computer released?

1467 B.C.

Needs some work...
Nice project you've got going there, perhaps a "Find and capture the barbarian capital" mod for Freeciv (or Freeciv-web) could be something to think about.
Url changed from http://pando.com/2014/07/03/digital-music-sales-are-in-a-fre..., which points to this. HN prefers original sources.
YEs the whole media market appears to be transitioning from outright purchase towards a leasing model with the likes of Netflix and Spotify and others doing streaming of films and media.

This is not entirely unexpected given how cable operators operate TV packages, but it does open up for more competition and it is that competition that makes the private sector model work for the consumer.

This all said, I can often get a CD cheaper than the online equivalent, more so if a bit older and you shop about. Aspect of old stock taking up space does play more for the physical store offerings, unlike digital versions.
Those are just the most fucked up systems you are aware of. The justice system (criminal matters/incarceration/probation/plea bargaining) is really bad and much more threatening imo. Also what about politics, budgeting, government contracts? That's just off the top of my head.
Outreach isn't really my area, but I presume it will be done. There is no southern deployment this year due mostly to the heavy maintenance, but a deployment is expected next year (July? 2015).

EDIT: To make my comment sound less off hand, Education and Public Outreach is an important part of the project, just not the area I work in, so I do not know for sure what form Outreach will take, but I would be very surprised if there wasn't something.
Poor enough you use a throwaway, but I see what you're trying to tell.

I personally believe the NDR/Spiegel to be reputable, trustworthy media. It may be that we have another Hitler's diary scandal there, but the other Snowden/NSA material they have published so far has held up examinations, the NSA iirc even acknowledging some of the docs as actually valid.
That's how any sort of metric works - your credit score, your Acxiom consumer category score, whatever metrics Facebook and Google use to score user engagement.

This is just how life is when databases are ubiquitous. After I bought a house and my name began appearing in property tax databases I started getting lots of (paper-based) commercial spam for things homeowners are more likely to buy, like different sorts of insurance, refinancing, satellite TV service yadda yadda.

When it emerged after 9-11 that various government agencies had failed to 'join the dots' by not sharing intelligence information effectively, there was a lot of public support for better-coordinated and more proactive intelligence gather, notwithstanding warnings about the risk to civil liberties. So collectively we got what we asked for. The lack of public outrage or mass demonstrations against the NSA strongly suggests that a large majority are OK with this state of affairs, especially since they're used to data collection in a commercial context.
My question to the machine: Who is the happiest man in the world, the answer of the engine: Forbes Magazine named Carlos Slim Helu, a Mexican businessman, the richest man in the world as of March 2010. So the engine assimilate happiness with beying the richest man.
I guess what I meant to ask was, is it going to increment the data every time I add a food or will it only increment once per day? So if I add apples at 9 AM and then again at 1 PM, is that different than just adding apples once?

Another suggestion: Tapping the "most needed" nutrient on the main screen should take you directly to the screen for that nutrient.
The beauty of Libertarianism is it doesn't matter. We are all equal in our fundamental rights as human beings, even if some choose to be ignorant.

Currently, in the supposedly "democratic" and "free" world with a state government we have varieties of classes and hierarchies of people. Some have benefits, some are favored, others are despised and denied rights. I'll take my Libertarian supposed "ignorance" over Democracy's fake "equality of all" non-sense that is pretty much double-speak.
I played the video on the home page and tried to go full screen but it scrolled over to the next page.
At least the free food is better at Google.
The best way to control units is to learn the keyboard shortcuts for unit commands, and use the keyboard commands in combination with the mouse, just like in the desktop version of Freeciv. So for example, first use the mouse to select a unit, then use the keyboard shortcut for goto (G), and then click on the tile you want the unit to move to.
Why do you bother us with that? Just use a closure in lisp!
Fuck! This is a problem that has been solved for 50 years!
A magician (conjurer) uses misdirection of the viewers attention and a strong narrative as his primary tools for deception.
That's what I thought.
What really bothers me about GMOs in the end is more this feeling that the technology is being shoved no matter what, dismissing any alternatives.
Show HN: Lightweight subnetting calculator webapp (works offline!)
Did I 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 believe in try before you buy. We're strong believers in entrepreneurs being able to test and iterate on ideas rapidly. If you don't like the end result or it doesn't pan out, the domain drops.

We partner with .CO and subsequently Startup Weekend to offer our service to participants at no cost for an extended period. More to come on that front in the near future as well!

We're looking for simplicity to the point of you being able to recommend us to your Mom and Dad when they ask "How do I start a web page?" If you see hurdles, please let me know in the comments! We want to lower the barrier to entry for everyone to be able to run their own custom domain and email.
So as for question 3... one password? So anyone who has access could log in as anyone else who has access using their email and the same password, right? Also, do they need the password when clicking from an email or is there a special link there that lets them bypass password entry? If the latter, how long do those links last?

I don't mean to pry too much into implementation details, but I am very selective about what I share, so it's important to me.
You just need to swap schools when you are beginning times tables. Learn the easy ones in the first school up to say 6, then the next school is already past ten, and assumes you know it. Its easier to work it out than learn it on your own. That's what happened with me.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( 2014 July 1. ) :

"The latest version of our precautionary principle, with application to GMOs, refined thanks to more fallacies in arguments countering it. For discussion before we move to the final version."

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B8nhAlfIk3QIbGFzOXF5UUN3N2c/...

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"What people miss is that the modification of crops impacts everyone and exports the error from the local to the global.

I do not wish to pay —or have my descendants pay — for errors by executives of Monsanto.

We should exert the precautionary principle there —our non-naive version — simply because we would discover errors after considerable damage."

http://blog.longnow.org/02013/07/08/the-artangel-longplayer-...
Texas, probably. It's been hovering between 3.40-3.60 the past couple months.
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Using the latest version of Firefox, this is what happens...

1. It loads up and I'm on the casino floor with some slot machines, blackjack, poker etc. I assume I'm the character that's just standing solo in the room (woman in yellow), so I try to move. This does nothing.

2. I mouseover the games, and they say play slots, or play poker, so I click them, and nothing happens.

3. A box appears in the top left saying create character. I click that, and an error flickers saying the connection was lost.

4. Instantly I'm forwarded to a page that looks like an advertisement for the game, with a big button to play now.

5. Before I can do anything, it forwards to the original loading screen, and I'm back to number one in the casino room.

Chrome...

1. It loads and I actually see other players and their names in the casino room.

2. Similar to above, the buttons do nothing, and should at least have a popup asking me to register.

3. The create character button doesn't display an error, but forwards me to the game advertisement, and then loops back into the game like Firefox before I can click anything.

In both browsers I'm in an endless loop. You should really consider letting the user play for 5 minutes or 10 minutes without needing to register, and then once they're hooked, prompt them to register to continue.
That sounds incredibly scummy.. Either way I don't think anyone sane enough would sign an agreement like this.
I am working on handling ambiguity, as well as questions that don't have one definite answer (eg. "how should I invest 10k at a 5 year term?"). Possibly through an interface that shows a spectrum of answers and their sources.

Asking for clarification would also be much needed, of course.

Keep in mind this engine is still a very early prototype.
This looks great! I like how this one concentrates on the back-end features more than the views. It just generates all the backend/routing and lets you put in the special view logic yourself. Good way to not get distracted trying to master a WYSWIG.
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> My main criticism of GMOs isn't the genetic alterations themselves, but the way they enable excessive pesticide use, IP law abuses, and monoculture.

You clearly know nothing at all about GMOs, because if you did you'd be cheering on the fact that GMOs use less pesticide and herbicide than organic crops do, and the ones used are less toxic than the organic equivalents.

And monocultures have nothing to do with GMOs.

Why would you spend time typing up such nonsense?
Ah sorry, it will increment each time you add it.

That's a great suggestion, thank you!
Party agree. I cannot imagine waiting for 15 years for my partner for just a month or two off.
What if you were to partner with someone like truedelta.com?
Very powerful text. Makes me contemplate everything I have, everything I am sure to lose :')
The engine can't answer this one: How would I achieve instantaneously that a girl desires to be with me?
Answer: Don't know
This is a good blog post, but we've taken Show HN out of the title, since a blog post isn't "something you've made that people can play with". See the guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
Great looking app! Minor nit: the free version's name doesn't quite fit the personality of the rest of the page.
So are you just adding delegates under the Pop.co GApps corp are are users getting their own GApps?

Why not provision a 'DIY' webmail that's already properly setup for youridea.co?