skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
the iron dome doesn't prevent me from feeling sympathy for israelis under rocket attack.

its the volume of palestinian children killed by the idf according to official figures... which is much greater than /all/ of the israeli casualties in the conflict combined.

shame on them. in fact you know what... if it were children and other innocents living near me that were suffering the threat of extermination whilst being treated inhumanely under occupation... i might feel inclined to want to launch rockets at you if i was feeling particularly forgiving and kind :/
I'm glad to see some kind of serious, fact-based conversation finally taking place. I'm getting tired of reading nonsense such as "it's not organic, it's bad for your body" or "it's organic, it's very healthy".

There's also an important array of distinctions between ingredients that are "not organic" (whatever that means): genetically modified food needs to be in a separate bucket from food that came from non pesticided crops, etc...

Overall, people will be stunned to find out how beneficial OGM foods are over their natural counterpart, and how much of it they're already eating on a daily basis without realizing it, and being more healthy for it.
Are there any video lectures to this?
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This stuff prevents hangovers and reduces intoxication pretty effectively. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelopsin

You can get it from Korea.
I find it interesting that so few are working on the actual IoT devices but so many are working on software to support it.

I think you know the answer: generally, hardware is harder than software for a startup. There was a post about a hardware kickstarter project that failed: "Kickstarter project spent $3.5M to finish a prototype and ended in disaster" [1] and a list here: List of Failed Kickstarter Hardware Projects [2]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8016201

[2] http://www.kickspy.com/browse/all-failed/hardware
The common line is that this bill is to stymie small farmers and promote Monsanto. I don't think it was the intent of the bill at all, nor does it need to be the outcome.

Food born illness is a serious problem (~48 million people will have some form of it in the US this year). Just look at the articles on people who are fatally poisoned by things like greens and cantaloupe.

The act attempts to address this by making sure food is properly traceable back to source and cleanliness measures are taken along the way. This is most certainly in the public interest, and the intent is not to promote big agriculture but to insure process and accountability. It doesn't actually prevent you from growing and consuming food from your own garden, but when you distribute that food, the government should be able to make sure you aren't doing things like watering it with raw sewage. This is overdue in my opinion. It's just like restaurant inspection. Necessary. Small growers shouldn't be exempted from putting people at risk. They can and should grow and process food cleanly, they should keep records, and if they are unable to, they shouldn't do it.

http://www.fda.gov/Food/GuidanceRegulation/FSMA/ucm237934.ht...

TLDR; not a conspiracy but a reasonable and overdue precaution.
as a tangent... one of my former teachers would call register by assigning us numbers at the start of the year, then everyone would say them in sequence. a lot faster than the classical approach. :)
This is extremely helpful for someone trying to internationalize a website or web application to Chinese. I really do hope more work in this domain comes out and I learned many interesting things from the article. Thanks for taking the time to write about your findings!
Scary! "is based on data from 343 peer-reviewed publications"

Have we not learned that "peer-reviewed publications" are of questionable value due to the on going debate on peer-reviews.

http://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/scibytes/the_debate_abou...

http://time.com/81388/is-the-peer-review-process-for-scienti...
dd has a similar feature, but with SIGUSR (kill -USR1), and it works on Linux too.
Of course my point is this this paper is vague since it doesn't specify which country/entities formal definition of organic they followed in order to classify the data.

My point of varying and changing regulation stands as well, the EU original regulation went into effect in 1993, however I am not clear on what enforcement in which countries actually occurred when. It seems it had major revisions in 2007 and took some time overall for standards to be enforced fully.

I also find it interesting that the formal regulation for "organic" restricts but still allows "synthetic" fertilizers and antibiotics. It shows the reality that the line is draw arbitrarily.

GMO is a similar issue. If genetic modification is done in a lab it's labeled GMO and bad, if it's done through breeding it's not and ok. Corn, wheat, cows, pigs, chickens and all domesticated crops and livestock exist due to genetic modification by humans, they are genetically modified organisms, now we are simply arguing over how their genes are being modified not if.
The lack of gesture/swipe typing.
FYI, for Internet-sourced files, both Windows and Mac (though I've only firsthand knowledge of Mac via mdfind/spotlight) actually do keep track of the source of files. Hence the extra message you get of: you downloaded this program from X on Date; are you sure you want to run it?

Of course, like antivirus, this is only as useful as the security-mindedness of your users. The most secure approaches that I'm aware of involve both locking down the systems to prevent unauthorized OS modifications (e.g. Chromebook, iOS, etc.), combined with a whitelisting of all applications or activities allowed on the system, and tracking of extensive audit logs on Windows to a remote server such that abnormal behavior can be detected quickly. Automatic updates are a must, though I'd rather certificate pinning were used given governments level exploits of Microsoft's certificate (since revoked) to install spyware via Windows Update. Ultimately... How can you be so right to say 2014.07 is still insecure but then not acknowledge that security is system-specific? My definition of insecure activity may differ on a case by case basis, because security, ultimately, is made up of tradeoffs, restrictions and oversight. And it's not just software, as humans indeed can be the weak link, but ideally most secure systems create environments to prevent or monitor this.
I'm glad that you've taken the time to write more. Your posts have been very articulately stated, especially the one on type systems.
We were talking about 19-years-old, not 25-44. Just because the abstract mentions those ages doesn't mean that's the only data available in the study.

Here's the study with the graph; as you can see, only 69% of 19-year-old men had had vaginal intercourse (i.e., sex): http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/ad/ad362.pdf
This is a fairly stupid/insipid response.

Educate yourself.

http://asmp.org/tutorials/property-and-model-releases.html#....
http://www.create-legal.com/867/model-release-forms
The tiny country and its engineers have managed to outperform any anti rocket developed to this day and be the first country to successfully develop a working rocket anti rocket syatem that actually works. This is a great achievement fir technology and defense systems. No wonder israel has the highest #nobel prizes / population in the wold.
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I tried them back when they had a promotion several months ago.

So many problems.

- Their control panel was over plain HTTP (not HTTPS)

- Super confusing interface, very difficult to set up, looked like it was held together by chewing gum and duct tape

- They continue to refuse to actually delete my account, even though I asked for (and got) a refund

Digital Ocean is 1000x better if you want cheap cloud hosting IMO.
gcc routinely introduced new warnings that break correctly working software's build if they use -Werror. For example, Gentoo had a lot of problems with this in the past, as do other packagers, it's just that Gentoo users are more exposed to build failures (upgrade gcc, rebuild tree, watch the fun).
In some sad way - it is true. Though it's better to prevent people getting killed by rockets, than getting better PR.
A similar adventure in scope and implementation: http://www.deltaattack.com/2011/04/10/mario-pipe-puzzle/
I think the increased role that technology is playing in warfare - e.g. drones, computer-assisted missile defense, etc. is most certainly relevant to our industry. Ignoring the moral questions won't make them go away.
You're correct. The full study has a cool flow chart of how they selected their papers, how they removed certain studies, mixed in other studies, etc. But it doesn't handle the case of papers that were never published in the first place. I'm not even sure it's possible to handle, which is what I'm asking.
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More than a few of those Palestinian children died because their elders chose to put them in harm's way by placing rocket launchers in schools, mosques, and hospitals.
> Finally on July 3rd, I receive a friendly update advising me that my issue has been corrected. To my surprise I was not able to SSH into my machine.

This is a great BOFH (http://bofh.ntk.net/BOFH/0000/bastard01.php) story if I've ever heard one! "Thank you for your concern, your business matters greatly to us and we've 'solved' your problem. Have a nice day! <deletes VM>" :-)
No, most of these rockets are incredibly primitive. They can't easily install countermeasures, no matter how obvious they might seem. (The amount of advanced rockets from Iran is limited.)
Interesting -- source?
It's going to take da Vinci like talent and a herculean effort and to build anything 10% as good a TeX. Knuth, the pre-eminent computer scientist, devoted 10 years of his life to type setting to create MetaFont and TeX. Being able to "write scripts" for it ain't enough. Anyway... prove me wrong.
I definitely recommend exploring the Sugru site (http://sugru.com/) - it's a product basically made for clever product hacks by customers.
Not only it is a poor press release, but it has FALSE information.

"The study, published today in the prestigious British Journal of Nutrition..."

The study, entitled “Higher antioxidant concentrations and less cadmium and pesticide residues in organically-grown crops: a systematic literature review and meta-analyses,” is nowhere to be found, either on the BJN website, or elsewhere on the web.

Until the peer-reviewed results are out, consider it as hype, not science. I wish I could mod down the submission.
The studies that have shown antioxidants are unhealthy use mega doses. Getting enoug vitamin E is healthy; getting 100 times the needed amount isn't.
Please, let's stop this. We do not know this (it may well be propaganda). Furthermore it does still not give anyone the right to bomb Gaza like that.

Let's shut down this thread ASAP and not destroy HN.
DVB-T tuners are pretty cheap because they're highly integrated and mass produced in huge numbers - you can get USB receiver dongles for under $10 in single quantities. There are even SoCs that integrate a processor and DVB-T demodulator on a single chip, usually used for stuff like set-top boxes.
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Very beautiful animations and visualizations. What tools did you use to build them?
> However, a website featuring larger amounts of content would require a navigation bar, optimally fixed to the top of the viewport.3 This navigation bar should adapt to smaller screens without device- or resolution-specific break points (= device-agnostic design).

At which point you end up with yet another site that takes up over 1/3 of the viewport with a navigation bar on many phones held in landscape.
Talking about that, Can anyone please transmit wikipedia via long wave radio? It would be interesting in censor states.
Hiding wikipedia in tv/movie firmware would also be a possibility.
It's a mistake to think we can't improve on something because someone smart built it. In my academic community, everyone fights with LaTeX and I can only say with confidence that one person I know has mastered it. Everyone else just hacks at their document until it's close enough.
Well, if the query is longer than a 3-4 lines then it's really a program in its own right, and yes, I think it deserves its own file.
I still don't see the problem, warnings usually indicate problems with the code, even if that particular sort of warning was added in a new version of the cc. If they don't indicate actual problems then the compiler is broken, but I still don't think that's a problem since they can usually be silenced in some non-intrusive way. Also you shouldn't be trying to build software if you don't know how to report a bug or have a buggy toolchain (so maybe a lot of Gentoo users shouldn't be using Gentoo).
I'll try to reach out to some friends stateside, thanks for the tip. :)
And I was talking about incredibly primitive countermeasures.
For a true minimalist website. Breadcrumbs + an index page should work for most sites.

Or go Wikipedia style with search and in context links.
Arbitrary is a big word. Just because the line regarding fertilisers isn't drawn the way you imagine it would be doesn't make it arbitrary. I'm sure a lot of rational thought went into, balancing the various trade-offs involved in making a regulation that's meant to serve as a minimum standard applicable in a market with 300 million residents.

The same goes for GMO stuff, it's your prerogative to redefine words in any way you see fit, but lab-GMO and breeding-GMO are a conceptually real categories and there's nothing arbitrary about differentiating them.
I think of http://valleywag.gawker.com/rap-genius-cofounder-resigns-ove...
Could you explain what you mean by home gardeners and how you think this proposed bill would have affected them? I don't think the average Senator is foolish enough to try to ban (or substantially regulate) backyard gardening.

Similar legislation was enacted btw:

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

But it had some provisions excluding smaller operations from federal oversight.
I don't view the Bill as a "conspiracy," just a large corporation trying to increase profits.

You make good points on food safety, definitely important, but I personally feel more secure buying food from the same local farmers every week or so at our local farmers markets than food that is grown on huge farms and shipped from long distances.

I have the same opinion about meat. I would rather buy locally grown free range chicken from small local farms than chicken grown in small cages living in their own poop.

All that said, we are supposed to be a free country, so I feel like it is important to maintain the rights of both people like you who prefer food from large grocery stores, and also people like me who like my food raised by very nearby local small farmers. Really, why shouldn't we both get what we want?
Let focus on technology this js the first rocket anti rocket system that actually works. Brilliant.
Tracking Very Specific In App Psychology
Hi folks,

My first question on the forum and I'm wondering if anyone can help give me insight to this:

I'm looking at tracking very specific in app events based around psychology. For example, in a mobile game, this could be how much more does the gamer advance through the game when he is exposed to a data about how far through the game their friends are.

The psychology being that if they see their friends are making lots of in app purchases or completing more levels than them, in theory, the gamer should be more motivated to continue to play on.

I'm familiar with all the standard tracking metrics but I'm keen to see if very specific events such as this can be tracked and how would this best be implemented? Would you need a SDK to read this data?

Any help would be very much appreciated.

Best wishes,

Charlie
If your concept of "network transparency" is "remote desktop", then you're undoubtedly right. But that's not the only use case for X11 (or even the one it was developed for). Many of us are just fine pushing an individual app back to our display without having to load up VNC.
But the parking meter (etc.) doesn't need to handle the blockchain at all. It could use the SMS to communicate with a shared parking meter bitcoin transaction server. That said, broadcasting the blockchain is useful.
'Tron' as a suffix suggests electronic or mechanized.
Who smeared Richard Feynman?
"Organic" in the sense of agriculture is very well-defined; it means using only mechanical processes and biological processes found in nature (e.g., artificial selection). No chemicals or genetic tampering are allowed: no pesticides, no fertilizers, no GMOs. Where the vagueness creeps in is when governments attempt to gerrymander the definition of organic so that e.g., Monsanto GMO crops can be classified as "organic" when they're not.
http://csanr.wsu.edu/m2m/papers/organic_meta_analysis/bjn_20...
That's what all cheap providers do. How come these guys are about one fifth of a price that's almost unsustainably cheap?
I wonder how a website like this would convert if you were selling a product. I imagine if you're selling a web app, where design matters, conversions would be shit. But if you're selling something where it doesn't matter how your website looks? I bet this could convert fantastically.
Chrome is blocking the http request to the xdomain.js file. The site needs to be accessed from https to https
There are plenty of free outlets for political and economic news. Some examples include CEPR, DemocracyNow, Tom Dispatch, http://ceinquiry.wordpress.com/, etc
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This is an interesting hack: a host script can communicate with scripts in an iframe via the postMessage API and relying on the fact that a script running in the frame can make same-domain requests.

I am worried that people will choose this option just because it is easier rather than use what is technically the right thing to do. (CORS) Please don't use this unless you really have to. The arguments against CORS in the Readme aren't really compelling. The web is messy enough as it is.
The culture of photographing everything, or talking/texting in the restaurant can't really be attributed to "kids these days".

In my limited anecdotal evidence, I more often see kids being neglected by parents in favor of a smartphone, rather than the other way around.
IMHO, you don't need personalized data for this kind of stuff.

More seriously, there's plenty of literature out there about these things; spend 5 minutes on Google and you'll find all of these recommendations. You'll know that exercising will help you sleep. You'll read as well that screens tend to disturb our sleeping patterns. These are becoming common sense and shouldn't require you to run you own little experiment to figure it out.

If you want to improve the quality of your life, I doubt a fitbit will help you. You already know what you should be doing starting with the obvious ones:

- Exercise more,

- Eat more healthy (less carbs/sugar/processed food, more vegetables and regular meat/fish/eggs...),

- Sleep more,

- Drink less.
That is why there needs to be more backing then what was published in the letter. The whole backing of data was that it was peer-reviewed.
Sure, if your willing to wait 20+ minutes to get your drink.
Id love to know more about the tech and that's what should be focussed on here but the link is a useless propaganda piece providing very little info on the tech.
>I believe it is in fact the default in the major distributions

I have never once seen apache generate a self signed cert and default to http off for all connections. But sure, you didn't say that. I was simply drawing a parallel argument to what you were saying about PSTNs.

So let me make one more logical fallacy since the article clearly isn't providing enough info to prove either of our arguments.

Appeal to authority: Who should I trust dude? You, random internet poster, or Phil Zimmermann? I'm going with the guy who invented PGP and has a reputation and track record on encryption. Through his actions, he has built lots of trust/cred. You have not. If he has started a company, is delivering this as a product, and marketing that aspect as a feature, he clearly believes that it offers some benefit over a fully unencrypted line.

I'm willing to give that man the benefit of the doubt. You on the other hand could be working for the NSA and trying to derail interest in his product for all I know. Oops, that was two logical fallacies.
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If that were true, that legal marijuana leads to less abuse of "harder" drugs like opioids, then the drug companies should be happy about that.

They might have been able to make more money off their drugs when people abused them, but not really anymore. It's a pretty big social issue now and companies are trending pretty lightly in this area.
This is an astonishingly beautiful website, and clearly shows the technical and design skill of Anand.

However, I'm genuinely not sure what the purpose of this dashboard is other than as a résumé piece. What questions does it answer? How is it better than doing specific investigations using R?
I think the criticisms on this site are fundamentally wrong-headed. The original motherfucking website is reflowable, lightweight text that conveys everything it needs to. Navigation doesn't need to be "fixed to the viewport", and lines don't need to be 66 characters long.

If every website were designed like the "motherfucking website", I could design a "browsing theme" where all lines were 66 characters long. If there were some navigation metadata in there, I could theme the browser to show that as a viewport at the top. I could change the aesthetics to the user's preference.

Not that there's anything that can be done about it from this equilibrium, but I think the problem is that people got it in their head that they should be able to control how users view their sites, and that's wrong. If you consider markup to be metadata about how your data should be displayed, then you shouldn't have to do any QA testing or cross-device testing, because the onus of design would be on the browser. You'd choose a browser that displays websites the way you like to see them. Everything would be automatically 100% cross-platform and accessible, because you're not trying to use markup to force a specific way of viewing your site.

Honestly, the hubris of designers can be amazing. As if aesthetics is a universal. Maybe some people prefer 100 lines of text per line. Maybe some people want to zoom a mobile site. It's so incredibly difficult to specifically create a single (or even adaptive) design that works for blind people, people with every different kind of colorblindness, people using every browser on the market on devices with vastly different screen sizes and resolutions, people with every kind of character set and a million different aesthetic preferences you've never even thought of. And yet it's so easy to just put your content up there with markup suggestions about how it should be displayed and let users choose how they want to see it. They'll do your work for you.
The second bill was better than the first.

My senator, Jon Kyle, has a history of supported nutty bills, BTW.

When George W. Bush was president, he proposed a bill that would create a small national committee that would have the power to have any university professor fired because of their political views. Being a senator does not guarantee rational behavior :-) when I wrote to my Senator about this Bill, his response was very unsatisfactory in my opinion, but now that a democrat is president, I doubt he would like an Obama appointed committee to have the same powers!