skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed. The relevant language:

When farmers purchase a patented seed variety, they sign an agreement that they will not save and replant seeds produced from the seed they buy from us....

A very small percentage of farmers do not honor this agreement. Monsanto does become aware, through our own actions or through third-parties, of individuals who are suspected of violating our patents and agreements. Where we do find violations, we are able to settle most of these cases without ever going to trial.

That's because a lawsuit will be a slam dunk loss for the farmer. As every lawsuit actually filed has turned out to be. When you sign the contract, you are bound by its terms, you won't be able to get away with claiming ignorance afterwords.

I'm curious, you feel very strongly about this. Do you have any farming background? Parents raised on farms? Grew up in a farming region?
>Any software you install makes you a bit more
vulnerable. AV engines are no exceptions. Just the
opposite.

The only time I've ever gotten a (disruptive) computer virus was after installing Norton Antivirus. These days my goal is to ensure that I can quickly reformat and reinstall my system. I keep records of what I've installed and how I configure it.

Antivirus software is usually either dangerous, not worth paying for, or basically malware. How much anti-virus software is just resource-hogging, popup-spamming adware? No thanks.
Food is not a disney movie, it is a necessity of life. The power to control what can and can't be planted is the power of life and death.

In many countries utility companies cannot turn off the water if a property is occupied, regardless of whether the occupant pays or not. The profitability of the utility companies isn't relevant.

If Monsanto needs money then they can receive it from sources other than poor Ghanaian farmers.
So close to a WebGL Wave Race!
Could someone please tell me why intellectual property protection should even be a thing?
That strong a selection pressure means dead plants, not "sicklier".
No idea about Portugal, but in some countries you don't need to register a company or any other legal stuff unless you do more business than a certain threshold. Find out in your country what this amount is. Later on, if you cross this threshold then hire an accountant to setup the business as a proper legal entity. If you make enough money you can hire an army of people to help you out. If you don't and assuming the service is cheap, and if a customer goes nuts then just refund. Set aside a small amount as the risk you are willing to take and do not cross it i.e. do not sell more than this amount. Check out how you will accept the money, and if your payment processor imposes any restrictions w.r.t. legal status of the business. Good luck and congratulations for making something that you are confident that people will pay for.
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Link goes to a blog, should go to an article.
That's very true, you'd be unsubscribing some false positives. Usually this is marginal though, and it's a tradeoff worth taking except if your recipient group have an abnormally high use of image off. Also, you can decrease the percentage by hosting content on a landing page since in most tools, a click will also register an open.
That was the immediately preceeding paper in the review series... http://blog.acolyer.org/2014/12/11/a-language-based-approach... !
you should turn that link into an affiliate link. i would love to know how many (other) people also bought that tetris lamp after reading the article.
This James Fallows post: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2009/07/my-new... gives some more context to the pen and explains why it can be so good.
and for many, there are legal issues with statically linking glibc due to its license.
Just looked this up and you're right: in Firefox 3.6, there's a bug where the XMLHttpRequest response body won't be populated by Firefox if the status code is 400. Seems like a little-known bug that has been vaguely referenced elsewhere.

http://bugs.jquery.com/ticket/7868

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5884286/jquery-ajax-with-...
The current most-widely-accepted answer to this is "indirect normativity". This is basically saying that human values are complex enough that we should instruct an AI to study humans to figure out what they are, rather than try to program values in directly and risk getting them wrong.

I'd be a lot more comfortable if metaethics and related philosophy advanced to the point where we didn't have to rely on indirect normativity. But I don't think this is something you can just throw money and people at, because this is a field which is sufficiently difficult and hard to judge, that work which isn't first-rate tends to detract from progress by adding noise rather than help.
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The shooter still needs to physically point the weapon and pull the trigger; it's not on any kind of tracking/stabilization platform that could make it independent of a human being. It does however do a marvelous job of computing all of the ballistic factors on the fly and give you a corrected aiming point. It short circuits the years of training and intuition needed to make those calculations, but being able to align the rifle and squeeze the trigger precisely is still a required skillset.
Maybe it's the historian in me, but I found your numbers really, really funny!

>Even if you find 10,000 computers capable of 1 million checks per second (a huge "if"), it would still take 58 years.

I'm sorry if I'm missing the context but it sounds straight out of 1958! Like, when a PC takes a room, costs $2.9 million (2014 $23.1 million), and comes with a with a processing speed of around 100 Kflop/s [1]

Like, "even if you find TEN THOUSAND" computers - like where would anyone find ten thousand computers in 2014

(Amazon and Microsoft's cloud farms only have like a million servers instnatly available on their clouds).... capable of a MILLION checks per second! That's a full Megahertz!

It would still take you 58 years :)

:-D Sorry!! It would have been a good argument in 1958 though :-D

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090
Ask HN: Is there any country that allows foreigner setup their company online?
Hello,
I am living in South Korea and I am a foreigner. The procedures to setup a company in SK are quite complicated for me. I just want to have a legal entity to run my online business (SaaS), I would like to ask if there is any country that allows me to register a company online (with simple procedures). Thank you very much!

P/s: This question is inspired by this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8870593

So thank the author ;)

I've heard a lot about some weird countries like: Luxembourg, British Virgin Islands.. where many paper companies are made for different reasons (tax evasion, law...), so I think anyone can register a company there with ease?
Young people don't vote in part because they feel like there are too many old people voting for their votes to make a difference.
The Iron Druid Chronicles, by Kevin Hearne - Laugh out loud funny, very interesting characters and includes themes from multiple religious pantheons. It's an 8 book series, so far, with several novellas. Very enjoyable and well written.
You left out the most bizarre part of the process -- the insane constraints on URLs. For example:

"The URL for each article must contain a unique number consisting of at least three digits. For example, we can't crawl an article with this URL: http://www.google.com/news/article23.html. We can, however, crawl an article with this URL: http://www.google.com/news/article234.html. "

(Source: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/68323?hl=en)
Not sure it's possible to automate easily since mailchimp is a rather simple esp. I might be mistaken though, it's been a while since I used them. You could probably solve it through the API or at least through a bit of recurring manual work.
In my experience as interviewer, the major part of web developers doesn't know nothing besides URL in the address bar is a GET and form submission "must" be POST... Headers? What is this?! It's sad...
Link: http://futureoflife.org/static/data/documents/research_prior...
Amen to this:

"My point is that a lot of web developers today are completely ignorant of the protocol that is the basis for their job."
So people can make money with their minds, instead of just their hands?

Patents, in fields where they make sense (not software, at least not without 1000x better patent offices) are also useful because they require disclosure up front, allowing immediate cross-fertilization, so to speak ^_^ (very important in Silicon Valley's meteoric development of ICs), and a limited life time. Without them, entities resort to trade secrets, which makes everyone indefinitely impoverished, ADDED: including the trade secret holder, because of that lack of cross-fertilization.

Note the people once asked this question about land. For farms, in fact....
> This relay was expected to fail at some point (though they very rarely actually did fail)

> These components are not expected to fail, even though they often do.

I think this is wrong. If you look at QA statistics, you will find that parts are getting _more_ reliable. The old relays were expected to fail becuase they _did_ fail. The new modules are not expected to fail, and this is indeed the case. They fail much less often, and of course this means that in the occasional cases where failure occurs, it will be difficult to replace or repair.

Overall reliability is increasing and to say otherwise would seem to be a glib misstatement or misunderstanding.
>People already say that baby boomers have hogged wealth at the expense of their children and younger generations. I haven't investigated those claims in detail but it seems plausible.

This generational warfare meme is pushed by, among others, Stan Druckenmiller:

http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/01/three-card-monte-gene...

You'll note that they push both sides at once. Boomers are told that millenials are feckless and lazy. Millenials are told that Boomers screwed up the economy and are hogging all the wealth.

Divide and conquer.

It's working, too.
Here's a crazy idea:

Cognitect creates a massively parallel CPU which fully demonstrates the power of parallel programming via Clojure.

ClojureMachines.com
> I'm curious, you feel very strongly about this. Do you have any farming background? Parents raised on farms? Grew up in a farming region?

I live in a farming region right now.

But that has very little bearing on this, I simply think that there is something inherently wrong about copyright and/or patents on genetic sequences and/or organisms. Several of my close relationships are hip-deep in this subject both on the 'pro' and the 'con' side and my viewpoint is the result of lots of conversations and reading. I feel strongly about it because GMO could be (and possibly will be, see the C4 rice project) a huge benefit but we're actually using them on the international stage as a way to keep the third world under our heel and beholden to us in a way that they can't really refuse and we'll bribe our way there if we have to.

See Shell in Africa, Bechtel in Latin America (and Monsanto too for that matter) and so on. It's the new colonialism, now 'roundup ready'.
SpaceX rocket landing 'close, but no cigar'
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Human longevity (and population) isn't just about us, it is about the impact on our environment which is turning out, already to be an unqualified disaster for our planet.

Also, if you count only people who reached adulthood and eliminate early deaths from injury which were common in adults between 25-45 yrs old, life expectancy and height are only now catching back up to the paleolithic.
>"Maybe now I can shift my irritation from the lamp itself to whoever designed it to possess such a property. "

I wouldn't be mad at the designer. That person designed a lamp and proposed an impossible puzzle that at first glance looked plausible.

It is the best way to troll people... ever!
The UK limited allows that. There are many online services (law firms?) will help you for less than $100 USD. One of the first results I found
http://www.ltdcompany.co.uk/company-formation/starting-a-ltd...
CROWS are already remotely operated and implemented in war zones. You're years behind the curve.
Waze for Weather: Mobile sensor data + user observations = best forecast
How long before the bot to human text ratio will make it hard to sift out the garbage? Older generations are already falling for some bot-generated products.

See this reddit thread:

http://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2s2g1a/how_are_scam_p...

The books are printed on demand, and seems to contain content at least somewhat related to the chosen topic.

Some have hilarious discrepancies, so i am curious to know how the process actually works. It seems there is no human oversight at all.

These books reminds me of several times i have searched for info on topics like health and nutrition. Sites like Livestrong seems to have articles in tame repetitious language on the most specific topics.

For example here i just tried some random health related words:

workout b12 : http://www.livestrong.com/article/399325-vitamin-b12-exercis...

heart rate zinc: http://www.livestrong.com/article/290078-zinc-overdose-heart...

tingling hands bananas: http://www.livestrong.com/article/509505-tingling-in-hands-f...

Seems like the concept on Livestrong is somewhat related. I wonder if it datamines and then is quickly glanced through by cheap labor in the far east, or if the process is automatised like on Wolfram Alpha somehow.

Does anyone have other interesting examples of bots disguised as human authors?
The current state of the web is the result of too many cooks in the kitchen. Nobody is ever willing to stand up and say no to countless new additions that often simply replicate old behavior, or don't add anything compelling or likely to ever be used by others. We even have outright gags in the official specs, like the 418 response.

It's already too late to make HTTP something sane. What we need are developers who understand and appreciate simplicity and minimalism, to make something awesome with a chance of actually catching on. (Please don't xkcd/927 me.) And they'll have to be fierce in protecting it against third-party extensions (which may not even be possible with something this popular.)

That's unlikely to happen, so I guess we'll just keep playing this perverted game of Jenga ad infinitum.
Does it say somewhere that this tool is for a "first date"?

This is actually a great question. Some similar questions I have asked my partners:

* Tell me a secret

* Tell me your most embarrassing moment

* Tell me something bad about you

I remember a girl answering "my mother is crazy" to the first question.

The point of those questions are to deeply open yourself to the other. Share intimate moments. Create complicity. And in OP's tool it will also be about having an emotional roller-coaster (since it mixes happy questions with sad questions). Which as I've heard is the best way to get to someone's heart (debatable).
It's a sweet rifle. That is, when judged against other rifles, it performs in unexpectedly pleasant and interesting ways. At roughly 1200fps, we're talking about delivering a round that's flying for several seconds before it hits the target. It must be extremely impressive to watch tracers from this thing.

Having said that, yes, you are correct. Make it all remote; mount it on a drone. This thing is very close to being a particularly nasty piece of gear. Nasty in the sense that when we think of a "rifle", it's a guy with a small cannon and a long barrel pulling a trigger to attack something that he can easily see (and can see him). It's not a semi-autonomous weapon system reaching out from places unknown controlled by a person or computer yet somewhere else.
"but being able to align the rifle, keep it steady!, and squeeze the trigger precisely is still a required skillset"

And for this sort of precision a fairly difficult one to acquire. My personal example of the "do it 10,000 times" thing, about the number of rounds I fired in my high school rifle team and prior to that to get perhaps this good. Absent special talent, assume a few months full time with a "growing up shooting" foundation like myself. Without, I have no idea.
I'm sort of curious how you imagine these quarrels actually go. "You sent tanks into my territory." "It's my territory!" "Let's use a dating app." "I love you, man."
When I worked at CNET, we were (and still are) indexed by Google News despite not having three-digit numbers in URLs.

That's because your excerpt from Google News' guidelines left off a very important addendum: "Please note that this rule is waived with News sitemaps."
I hadn't realized esr was suggesting the glider as a sort of hieroglyph of hackerness. I think it, like the Kline bottle shape, evokes a certain kind of resonance in folks who enjoy algorithms and mathematics.
From alt link posted prior in comments:
http://www.adventure-journal.com/2015/01/why-is-climbing-the...

These guys are falling a lot on their way up. Don’t they want to climb the whole thing without falling?
Well, that would be nice, but in this case, it’s okay for them to fall. They’re trying to “redpoint” the route, which means each climber has to climb each pitch without falling. So, if Caldwell is climbing pitch #11, and he falls 40 feet from the start of the pitch, he lowers down to the start of the pitch and starts over until he finishes the pitch cleanly. Then that pitch is considered free climbed, and he moves onto the next pitch. Since each pitch can take a half hour to an hour to climb, you can imagine how ridiculous it would be to climb all the way up to, say, Pitch #17, and if you fell, lowering 1,700 feet to the ground and starting over.
also http://hackernews.kickoffpages.com/ and http://www.hashtagstartup.co/
I worked in an auto shop a while back. One surprise is that a substantial part of a mechanics' toolkit is devoted to turning bolts and screws in hard-to-reach places. It's almost like a racket or something - auto companies put critical bolts in weird places, tool companies build tools to turn them anyways.
Saturn's location measured to within 1 mile
I can't believe no one thinks this is a terrible idea

I don't what comments you're reading, but as usual with topics of this nature on HN, the comments are sadly negative.
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Wow, are tax regulations simple enough in the UK that you can reasonably do your taxes yourself for a simple Ltd?

I'd love to see that in my native Belgium!
Ha, I had to look up 418.

418 I'm a teapot (RFC 2324)
This code was defined in 1998 as one of the traditional IETF April Fools' jokes, in RFC 2324, Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, and is not expected to be implemented by actual HTTP servers.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324
OP here -- yeah, that's a very good and cogent point. Hope to explore it more in the future.
I came here looking for a link to someplace where I can buy this lamp. Since no one has posted such a link yet, here it is:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/f034/

(I realize we all have access to Google, but if I save 100 people 10 seconds, then I just saved 1000 seconds!)
where are the interview answers? it's no good just having the questions, I won't know what to say!
We don't want computers to be as dumb as we are. We already know how to make human brains that can answer such questions poorly; what good does it do to have a machine do it too?
2^64 is expensive, but breakable.
Hmmm, Charybde and Scylla. There's no solution I suppose, or maybe just go by what RMS wants: produce a data structure for the necessary data for the simplest possible improvement, then define a more involved data structure for a more ambitious feature, and reiterate again and again, until the data structure becomes isomorphic to what Gcc deals with. No need to actually code all these steps, just specifying them should help RMS understand that it's inevitable at some point.
You must paint it, but it is sometimes better to choose a pattern specific to the problem you're trying to solve.

E.g. http://jeremykun.com/2011/06/26/tiling-a-chessboard/
Right. The main author is Stuart Russel, author of "Artificial Intelligence - a modern approach", which is a major intro to AI text. Two main concerns are expressed - that AI, whatever it is, should be "beneficial" and "robust". Those are good points.

There are technical problems on the "robust" side. Most AI systems are still rather brittle. Machine learning systems are brittle in ways that are not well understood yet - small changes in input data can produce huge changes in results. There was an article on HN about this recently, showing mis-recognized images. The paper talks a lot about formal verification, but it's not clear that will help. "Robust", though, is an engineering problem, and can probably be solved.

"Beneficial" is an economic and social problem. That's going to be much tougher, because the political issue will be "beneficial for whom?" For discussion purposes, consider that a near-term use of AI is investment asset allocation. Machine learning is already being used in that area, but so far mostly for technical analysis. What will a society look like where AIs determine where investment goes, based purely on maximizing investment return? The concept of the corporation as having as its sole goal maximizing shareholder value, combined with AIs making the decisions to make it happen, is rather scary. Yet if such companies are more successful, they win. That's capitalism.
Here's one nice-looking configuration I found. You seem to be implicitly assuming you can only have a depth of one unit but that's possibly an unnecessary limitation. I'm working on seeing if some kind of perfect cuboid can be made.

https://3dwarehouse.sketchup.com/model.html?id=u2d94f70c-682... (there's a webgl viewer)
I don't know about Portugal, but in the UK one of the big reasons to start a company is to get limited liability. If someone successfully sues your company, that's bad - but if you don't have a company then they'll sue you and take all your possessions, like your house - much much worse. Bitcoin does absolutely nothing to avoid that scenario. (IANAL etc).
It would seem like they used Red Hat for the SE Linux implementation(?) but should have just used BSD.
That's interesting. I am looking for things to write in my new language. The itch was to make a Forth, coming up with an application of it is the next problem.
If by that you mean advocating the banning of proprietary software, I don't know that they've done so. They do advocate that governments exclusively use and promote free software[1]. Some of their publications also refer to their "goal of ending the injustice of nonfree software", and that distributing proprietary software is "unethical" and "mistreats" users[2].

EDIT: My interpretation of Stallman's politics is that he would happily support legislation to forbid nonfree software, but I think the FSF intentionally avoids the subject for the sake of their libertarian supporters.

[1]: https://gnu.org/philosophy/government-free-software.html
[2]: https://gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important...
Depending on your target demographic, and the nature of the SaaS, incorporating to give the appearance of stability and scale may be beneficial if not essentially a requirement. If you're trying to sell something any largish company might come to depend on, expect them to look askance at "some dude with a laptop". They see liability in dealing with a person, security in dealing with a corporation.

just my 2 cents, ignore if your market is something else.
This is to prevent customers from accidentally assembling the lamp in an unspectacular way.
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