skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
oh yeah and ignore all the stupid advice to "start a blog" and "journal your development" etc garbage from the social-hacker-marketing-idiots that infect HN like a plague spreading their opinionated FUD everywhere.

Unless your a skilled and seasoned dev this can only hurt you. Seriously, I speak from experience as someone who has looked through many resumes and portfolios.

For better or worse you chose the CS path, not a diploma and not a code.joke.org. You are on the right path, where as most jobs didn't ask for a CS degree before most do now. The landscape is LITTERED with hacks and posers who all seem to have amazing resumes full of amazing synergy, but it's all poop. People will tell you your dumb for taking 4-5 years to get a legit degree and make no mistake, the people saying that have none of their own...
I would prefer being able to propose, modify, and vote on every federal, state, and local law via my computer.

That would require a national id system, but I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing, it's not like there aren't several database of those currently.

Congress should be able to override laws that passe public votes (if the decision by congress is 75%+), and the POTUS should be able to override the decision of congress.

At least we should test this idea in one state. If it is successful then roll it out to other states, then nationwide.

It would be nice to see more public discussion on ways to improve government and processes that would actually make these ideas possible to implement. Unfortunately those in power don't want to give up their power even for the good of the country, so that makes it very difficult.
As you allude, the US standard (USDA Organic) is next to useless. When I buy produce I don't differentiate between USDA Organic and conventionally grown. The California standard (CCOF) is a lot more sensible and was developed with less input from conventional large-scale growers.
what about the land stolen from the Indians in america?
why not give their land back??

Every country in the world is the making of occupation,
if you want your land back, don't shoot rockets, that simple.
Probably during the time you grew up in the food business there were no enforceable organic standards in the US. I know when I was involved (in the 90's) standards were set by private companies as you describe.

There are now (as of early 2000's I believe). They are defined and there is an actual federal organic certification with clear rules about what comprises organic. I don't believe one can legally call a product organic in the marketplace without this certification.

http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentidonly=t...

"(OFPA) states that no person may affix a label to,
or provide other marketing information concerning, an agricultural product if that label or information implies, directly or indirectly, that such product is produced and handled using organic methods, except in accordance with the OFPA" (exceptions provided for producers selling less than $5,000 a year).

What you say about metal levels in soils is insightful.
And not just that hardware is harder but also the IoT market is estimated at $19 trillion [1] creating a gold rush of sorts.

But yes, there is no shortage of IoT platforms (xively, dweet, nitrogen, data.sparkfun, ...) and I'm partly in involved as well. What I found interesting about the MS program is that recently they were giving away boards for you to try. So it seems they are in a position to provide the hardware and the platform.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-08/cisco-ceo-pegs-inte...
If you stick to centralized solution then that would work nice and might be good enough. However Kryptoradio allows to do it by just listening incoming transactions and blocks.
New study finds significant differences between organic and non-organic food
It said "including", not "exclusively", and continued loud music is a well-known psychological torture used in detainee interrogation...
What is "organic food"?
No doubt.

Caffeine in tea, especially green though, produces a wakefulness and alertness more than jitters that coffee produce.

Tisanes are and were popular before coffee and teas spread. A lot of was part of the popular medicines. "Put in these plants in hot water and drink it" was very common.

Not to forget about yerba mate, a caffeineted South American beverage. Very popular (check), not tea and not coffee (check), caffeinated (check). So yes it seems caffeine has a considerable effect in the spread of popularity.
I hear you, man. That's why I intentionally changed the title to "Ever wonder about Egyptian / Aztec connections?" so people would understand what it was roughly about since the real title is so opaque. A moderator apparently did not appreciate my intentions.
> American Food Safety bill that was prepared by Monsanto

Was it just Monsanto? They are a relatively small business of the businesses that deal in agriculture. I'd be surprised if the bigger companies would let them have free reign over the decision making process like that (though I'm sure they're happy to have Monsanto as the fall guy, so to speak). The only reference to the bill, with respect to who wrote it, that I could find said it was prepared by multiple corporations.
From the article: "Microsoft’s Windows and .NET architecture make up the base layer of the system .. The same basic technology is being used for civilian purposes, including for a vehicle fleet management system"

This raises two questions:

1. What is the commonality between missile defense and fleet management ?

2. How does a system that is most likely real-time run on windows/.net ?
Little secret -- use a bit of salty butter in your black coffee. It will cut the bitterness.
Show HN: Dependapal – Use Implicit Peer Pressure to Make Progress on Your Goals
What are your requirements? I'm one of the owners of the GoConvey project and I'm happy to answer any of your questions about that project. Ginkgo and Goblin are great choices as well.
The most important piece of advice is not proto specific: use pprof. It may sound obvious, but even though I have been using it for years, I find myself still not running it enough.

Proto decoding specific: if you're parsing a message with lots of fields, you can define a new message with just the fields you care about. I.e. if you're parsing

message M {
optional int32 F1 = 1;
// ...
optional int32 F100 = 100;
}

but you only care about F1 and F2 in this message, define

message SmallM {
optional int32 F1 = 1;
optional int32 F2 = 2;
}

If you use SmallM to decode your messages, it will skip a lot of work filling out fields F3-F100, saving you a lot of CPU.
Ok, pmxdr seems more like it. I want to continue using my jQuery and Angular requests without messing with the procedure.

EDIT: Or, actually pmxdr doesn't look like drop-in in the sense I mean at all. I want to use jQuery's $.ajax and Angular's $http. I need to have a look at libxdr.

EDIT2: Same thing.
What were the plot holes with it?
Awesome. I don't have one of these yet, but I'll certainly check this out when I do. The most important thing is to know that the hardware support is there -- to paraphrase xkcd, the rest is software and I'm sure it will happen eventually.
>Balancing long- and short-term benefits is part of what markets can do as well.

Markets can selectively ignore variables. For instance, the energy industry is not worried about externalities. If it did, we'd be nearly fully using renewables by now.

If markets cared about health instead of what's cheap, addictive, and easy to ship and store, grain and sugar wouldn't be so heavily pushed.
30,000 Users Online Banking Accounts Knock out by Shylock Malware
Url changed from http://www.ncl.ac.uk/press.office/press.release/item/new-stu..., because several commenters were complaining about there being no link to the paper.

We had to compress the title to fit.
It doesn't take a rocket surgeon to understand what was meant : )
That's C++, not C. In C, the parameter name must be specified in a definition. I tried with 7 compilers, and none of them allow it as an extension, either, as they all consider it a fatal error.
The article is about defensive technology, hence it doesn't mention the casualties on the other side.

Arabs also have a way to prevent missiles raining on them - by not lobbing missiles at Israel.
Quite possibly, yes. You should go hide and wait for the rapture.
Actually, the transistors mentioned in that article are still bigger than atoms. A single electron stores a 1 or 0, but that electron is still living in a pile of atoms.

(Source: I grew some of the crystals used to build those transistors in the article)
Ask HN: How would you improve this app description to increase sales?
I'm trying to change my iOS app description in order to improve sales. What would you change [below]? :

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Good point - I want to know how long Washington or London would wait before wiping off whichever opponent was sending missiles at them.
If you're looking for really basic website monitoring and notifications, Vigil is a handy iOS app.

http://vigil-app.com
The issue I've had is that while each service does have an API for pulling data in automatically, it's tedious connecting to all of them at once. I'm sure there are multiple startups out there working on a data platform for quantified self - Segment.io for my own data - and I'd love to see a framework like Anand's applied to that.

Food intake, water intake, caffeine intake, many forms of exercise, and even the work you do daily (depending on job) aren't easy to track. Jawbone UP have a nice caffeine app that is useful if you remember to use it. I've heard of water bottles which register the movement of a sip. I still haven't found a food tracker that works for me - MyFitnessPal is the universally acclaimed one but I loathe it. Taking photos of one's food is a simple enough proxy if you aren't interested in the overall nutritional composition but more the qualitative part (and you can actually outsource and - to a small extent - automate nutritional tagging from photos). But yes, we are a long way away from being able to let much of this data be tracked automatically.

I think the important part is to figure out what questions you want to ask, if you aren't dedicated to tracking for its own sake. Are you having trouble focusing in the afternoon? Do you want to figure out if your sleep is a factor? Track your sleep religiously and go from there.
Some other ideas, besides the ones here:

- A lot of developers never think in "normal" business as possible employers as developers. Maybe is a USA thing, but in my country the #1 is always the NO-STARTUP/NO-TECH company. Like for example, shops, service companies, etc. The small/medium are not that into recruit developers, so is likely you could get something just telling them you are a developer.

A lot of small & medium size business want/need a developer to automated a lot of (surely boring!) stuff. If you relatives have one of that kind of company, look at there. Maybe doing light sysadmin, some users support, make some scripts here and there, make the company website/app, etc.

This is valuable learning. And you can't get this at a startup. The idea is relieve the burden of not have a job and have the leisure to pursuit without pressure.

Is not a bat career start, if you are smart about it. Plus: Is not crowded!

- Think seriously in what kind of software you truly want to make, that could be profitable. A start doing that now. I regret badly not make my own software early, for fear of get crush by large companies.

You will need a lot of time to get the skills and true knowledge to have a real product, so that is why is smart to start early and iterate for a while. Don't rush to market too early. Your first attempts will suck (likely) but time help a lot.

- Focus in learn how be a great developer. Don't stop at that. Is your plan to have your own startup? Learn how make business too. Maybe do games? Learn about that. Etc..

- Make exercise. Now is better than tomorrow.
>capitalism-averse

Interesting phrase In this context, given that the intent (or at least likely effect) of the law is to protect the market from dominance by a single large player.
No, I don't think so.

I was mostly curious if mark_l_watson meant to include people growing for their own table or not. The expected impact on people growing to sell small amounts is also interesting. Figuring out what we each would have called the various possible delineations prior to the discussion is not very interesting.

(I would think the big impacts would be things like requiring people to disclose that they were reselling something, which I see as a positive for the buyer, without being particularly onerous)
True but I listed two options available which aren't as bad as Markdown. There isn't even one Markdown but several extensions as far as I can see and Markdown looks like a proof of concept sent to production and later extended at various customer sites.
Um? I have so many issues with this...

Providing audio via light is a one-way transmission - and also not even close to being new technology. For example, every movie theater or auditorium has the exact same technology in place for the hearing impaired. Special headphones receive the infrared signal and decode it into audio.

Providing Internet connectivity would require a two-way connection. A person's device would have to have a receptor and emitter. This could potentially be the camera and LED flash. Maybe you could go so far as to use the front camera and emit infrared via the screen. But, that means the device has to be in direct line-of-sight of the source. Once the phone or tablet goes into your pocket the connection is lost.

The article sounds like complete bunk.
This appears to be a good analysis of the current situation - http://forward.com/articles/201764/how-politics-and-lies-tri...

It appears the politicians created the current war against the army's wishes, and that Hamas were actually keeping the peace on the ground
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And when you think about it, you realize that this bizarre rules is a statement that FDA inspectors believe farm operations are so unsanitary across the board that they refuse to use a standard farm restroom. That tells me all I need to know about the quality of USA factory farms.
Show HN isn't for landing pages or email signups, but for things people can actually play with. Please read the guidelines [1] and post a Show HN when you're ready.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
There is an issue of impartiality on your sources (at least the Guardian), it's one of the better newspapers but is still pretty biased towards Palestinians.
Sugar is a very tasty plant.
I would imagine that .Net is used on the control and targetting systems on the launcher I can't imagine they are running a .Net implementation on the actual missiles computer.
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It would suffice for that.
I write software used by organizations that help individuals with developmental disabilities. Sometimes the organizations have to babysit the individuals (day programs), or have them help with work, while their guardians are out working during the day.

I recently got a call from a staff at an org that was having an individual help with her workload by using our software - she was honestly complaining that an update we had pushed out had made things so much more efficient, so that the individual they were babysitting/keeping busy/working finished their work so much faster that they didn't know what else to do with her. She wanted us to revert our update back to a state of being less efficient. (Of course we responded that we can't support that type of organizational workflow...)

We had no idea our system was used as a tool for keeping people busy for the sake of being busy and not causing trouble!
> This makes it non deterministic because objects in OCaml can destruct at different times in your program depending on the inputs.

There's clearly a different notion of deterministic there! If your program using ref counting gets a different input, the same object might be released at a different time as well, or am I misunderstanding?

> "OCaml's automatic memory management guarantees that a value will eventually be freed when it's no longer in use, either via the GC sweeping it or the program terminating"

> So, it can guarantee your object will be freed... but only when the program terminates? That's not a very strong promise.

”A or B imply C” is not the same as ”B implies C”. There's a logic mistake there.
Please try and contain yourself. I know you want to take every opportunity to promote your project, but comments like this one come across as blatantly spammy.
You'll read as well that screens tend to disturb our sleeping patterns

Podcasts and music don't require screens, though, so I don't see why you're assuming that was the problem.
Because "organic" is a meaningless label in USA, so USA "organic" is like the rest of USA produce.
To me, this library tastes more like too much salt.
I've been more partial to schema.org's JSON-LD patterns. I'm curious what key differences made you opt for one over the other.

I could see this as a natural expansion of http://schema.org/Person
Google/flatbuffers – efficient serialization library
The interaction between OpenSSH portable and LibreSSL portable is especially amusing.
I had a similar problem with Hotmail/Outlook/Live last year. My domain was "blacklisted" and the emails simply disappeared.
For reference, here's the paper that the speaker in this talk wrote about his quest to teach scientists how to program effectively:

Software Carpentry: lessons learned

http://f1000research.com/articles/3-62/v1
> The pesticide the shit out of one they sell.

As a farmer myself, I find something intriguing in your comment. I take away visions of someone using way more chemical than necessary when reading this, but that stuff is expensive. There is no reason to use more. It's always considered a blessing when you don't have to use any, even if we assume the environmental/health impact is zero. Judicious use of pesticides can improve plant health and increase yields, but that happens in every country.

I guess I'm curious about what you are trying to say? A those "farmers" you referred to really that reckless with their incomes (never mind anything else that goes along with it) in a business that has incredibly slim margins?
Spoiler: at expired parking meters.
I figured this article would bring the anti-Semites out of the woodwork.
Obligatory link to What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic

http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.ht...
Is there really bigger companies than Monsanto doing the same thing? If so, and the power/bullying that Monsanto has proven it holds, we need to be really scared. Because the financial needs to defeat Monsanto can bleed even a State dry, so if they are just a front of whats to come, how could we win? I would love to hear more on these other companies and organizations.
Please don't post anything like this to Hacker News.

Please re-read the HN guidelines. This site wants stories that are intellectually substantive.
Sweet ! It's even in the AUR repositories !
Show HN: Spoffer – Not just another deals site
I used to work on a 2011 macbook air with 4gb of ram for years w/ multiple IDEs including unity3d, flashbuilder, xcode and visual studio in a vm open at the same time.

Given the three years of hardware advances and all the work on Mavericks to squeeze out better performance/power usage I don't think you'd have any problems. The only factors that drove me to the bigger Macbook Pro was the screen and Iris graphics for some light gaming.
Some more links for those are interested:

http://www.spoffer.net/help/about - short explainer how it works

http://www.spoffer.net/help/business - explainer how it works for business

http://editor.spoffer.net/edit (user: demo, pwd: demo123) - see drag&drop offers editor in action

Don't want to describe this project anymore there and i hope that links above are quite explanatory, but if you have some question - welcome, I'll gladly answer.

This is one-man-army project. Idea born in my head few years ago and I started brainstorming and developing at odd moments. It took so long because I was creating it alone, and in case that I'm developer some parts took quite much time like layouting and creating design, I had a feeling "how it should look" but didn't have desire to hire expensive designer or so, in case that it was not designed to "earn money" from the start and was more like hobby :) So finally it looks more or less how I imagined it, but... I understand that not everything is fine... I understand that i need solve chicken-egg problem: no business wants to publish offers if there is no quite big community, and how to get community when there is no bussiness publishing offers... I have a plan how to solve it, but i think I'll need some cooworkers/coofounders for that at least marketing expert and designer at first - if you feel that you would like to take a part there please contact me gintaras[eta]spoffer.net

And of course I'm waiting for any kind of response, please write what is your first impression when visiting this website? What do you think about such approach in general? How does desing look for you? Whats is missing, what are the main drawbacks from the first sight?

Thank you very much!
No, it's pretty black and white. Unfortunately, the Palestinians don't want peace or negotiations, they just want to kill Jews.