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I don't think anyone is claiming that vertical farming needs to disrupt all traditional farming. Vertical farms would bring food production to urban areas, where the people are. That benefit would be lost on growing livestock fodder.
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Two major , expensive costs - the factory, the equipment, land,etc.very expensive - but maybe this can be solved. maybe.

But there's also the required energy:

"just to meet a year's U.S. wheat production with vertical farming would, for lighting alone, require EIGHT TIMES as much electricity as all U.S. utilities generate in an entire year"
If I have to move my piano 120 feet down the street, cars are considerably safer than planes.

It's very difficult to compare miles traveled. Even when comparing a cross country trip, how safe am I driving if I come anywhere close to US airline's safety standards: very well maintained car, never drive tired, avoid bad road conditions, etc...?
Ah, that's interesting – they become expression modifiers instead.

x = (:false if true)
=> :false

x = (:false if false)
=> nil

Any other if statement does appear to be treated as a value:

x = if true then 5 else 10 end
=> 5
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Lots of construction and real estate expenses. The more your farm resembles an actual building rather than a greenhouse or polytunnel, the more expensive. It also sounds like it requires energy and skilled labour. Using externally powered lighting is going to be hugely expensive. Where is that energy coming from, anyway, and is it renewable?

I don't think people realise how low farm-gate prices for commodity foods are.
Thats an awesome idea. Available in every city where Uber operates? If so, I might use it myself soon.
> I'm curious how the cost effectiveness would change if farms were properly taxed for their environmental impact.

Conversely, I wonder if the viability changes if urban areas would subsidize the underlying (most likely expensive) land costs for vertical farming, due to food being required to survive.
MTailor (YC S14) Operations Manager in China
MTailor is a Y Combinator and Khosla Ventures backed startup. We sell men's custom shirts by measuring you with your phone's camera. We are 20% more accurate than a professional tailor.

We source all our shirts from mainland China but currently have no full-time presence there.

We are looking for someone full-time on the ground in mainland China to build out and manage our supply chain operations. This would include sourcing new suppliers, managing and spot checking these suppliers, acting as liaison between the US operations and China operations and building out an on-the-ground operations team in China.

You would right away start off managing a team of 2 - 4 people and would grow the team from there as operations scale up.

This person would be critical to the continued growth of MTailor and have a lot of autonomy day-to-day. As we are growing rapidly, this is a very good chance to grow with the company. You would work very closely with the CEO, who would spend the first few months in China with you to build out the initial operations.

Qualifications
• Great grasp of English and Mandarin (Cantonese a plus)
• Familiarity with Chinese business culture
• No background in clothing necessary
• Willingness to travel and live in different cities
• Be a fast learner
• Be a self-starter

Please send your resume to jobs@mtailor.com.
I put up a similar demo a few years ago if anyone is interested: http://nlpviz.bpodgursky.com
That's definitely true. As the cost of LED fixtures go down and the cost of food goes up, it'll definitely becone profitable quickly and there will be a surge in appearances of vertical farms.
Sorry, that "always" should have been accompanied with an "ought". Adhering to principle in spite of material conditions and consequences is, and I know I haven't supported this thesis, "bad".
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The patent absurdity of the scenario is what makes it funny. Of course it's totally unrealistic. Lighten up.
Hi, I'm glad to read this comment.

If you liked this article, maybe you'll like my article on Shazam. I used the same pattern: I start from the basics of sound processing and computer science and finish with an in-depth explanation of Shazam.
It's going to. That's what the article is about :-).
Well you're right -- the article is all about hard work and ability /to succeed in undergraduate and graduate admissions contests/ -- I would argue that the social connections are for many the end goal, which you receive after proving you're worthy (and end up at an Ivy, for example) and it is these that actually catapult you into the elite, so hard work is a means to an end.

But this is tangential -- for me the concern is that in the article the writer skims over what kind of hard work and ability is really needed to run this gauntlet of constant judgement and admission from ages 4-25. It is not technical skills or intelligence or even hard work necessarily, but rather an ability and willingness to transform oneself into the kind of person that wins admissions contest. Success doesn't track ability, we've designed a system where we take success as a sign of ability but it actually measures a willingness and ability to conform to admissions standards and do as instructed, and we use this willingness and ability to change oneself as a proxy for actual ability. My argument is that this proxy isn't necessarily a very accurate one.

And I'm glad we agree on the definition of profit. I of course know the economist's definition and agree with it, I just gave what I consider to be a more revealing and honest characterization of it.
... and if you look around, those 2 names ring many bells from people who felt treated horribly working for those guys, vastly more compared to... any other big name. there is no one-template-fits-all, we are all vastly different beings inside.

you can try to aim same type of people like yourself for hiring, but after few headcounts this gets really hard. you either provide extra cash motivation, or promise (and delivery) to work on something amazing.
Yup, it's true there are pathological cases.

Problems with HOL blocking can be reduced significantly with good caching though. 50 blocking requests aren't much of an issue if they're all going to return small "304 Not Modified" responses straight out of the web servers file cache.

And don't forget you can still get HOL blocking over HTTP/2... at the end of the day the browser has to start parsing HTML before it knows what else it needs to request. The only alternative is teaching your web server HTML or a set of heuristics and doing PUSH. And PUSH actually counter-acts the good in caching because when I load your index.html the web server has no idea whether I have jquery or your blogs stylesheet cached or not.

What I really want when I visit a URL is for my browser to tell the web server when I last visited, and then for the web server to give me a complete list of all dependent resources and sub-resources that have changed since that visit.... basically a set of HEAD responses that constitute a diff. My browser can then just say "hmm, ok, I needed these last time, and they've changed, so while I'm downloading index.html I'll just go ahead and request this and this and this even though I have no idea how I'm going to load them yet".

Basically, imho, all webpages should be cached as git repos ;)
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I disagree. There are plenty of examples of robot hardware that would work great for valuable applications, but the software and sensing isn't there yet.

It's true that most research robots have crappy mechanics and integration. That's because they know that software is the unsolved problem, and hardware is mainly a matter of throwing resources at it. That can wait until the rest of the technology is ready.

Check out a video of IPI's truck unloading robot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Plo7SH9aBgg That hardware more or less existed in the 90s. With the right software, two of those (one throwing, one catching) could unload a truck way faster than humans. But watching it, 90% of the time is sensing and thinking.

Or this humanoid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9673386 (video sped up 10x). The hardware could indeed be optimized, but it's good enough that it's not the limiting factor. With sufficiently smart software, that could be the robot butler of the future. If you put automotive-scale engineering resources behind it, the hardware would be slick, lightweight, and rugged.
Well that's a nonsensical question to pose. First of all, harsh is subjective. Prosecutors don't dole out "harsh" sentences, they dole out longer or more restrictive sentences. To them, the sentence is not harsh because they're keeping innocent civilians safer by keeping criminals behind bars longer, or by making it easier to send potentially harmful people back to prison. Prison is no longer seen as a way to be penitent about one's actions: prison is now seen as a way to keep the bad away from the good.

The rate of crime may have dropped, but the kind of crime did not, and prison gangs certainly haven't diminished in size or scope. People seem to forget that going to prison is a way of life to many people. Keeping those people 'off the streets' is basically the prosecutor's primary role.
Awesome. Thanks!!
Last mile solution. I need one like that to get FIOS to the house.
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Worth checking out - I'm an early adopter for the Grove aquaponics system which is similar in idea but meant for individual homes (http://grovelabs.io). Not cost effective yet, but hoping they continue to grow and refine their research and process to a point that it will be in the near future.
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A rational, fact-supported argument is not sufficient to convince some people of anything.

If I want to convince all of my friends, I will also need an emotionally-loaded propaganda documentary with more anecdotal, scripted illustrations of the human impact on a handful of stereotypical everyman characters.

I have been convinced for about 20 years that large-scale indoor farming will become cost-competitive with standard industrialized farming around 2040. The epic drought in California may have accelerated my estimate to 2035.

We won't be at the tipping point until a profitable cornfield is replaced by a greenhouse-like structure with a roof 30m above ground level.
It seems to parse GraphQL queries into an AST and make them available to client apps. The Python bindings are neat.
Yes. That was the point of the grandfather post. That on top of that you even have employers contributions. If you add all of that you will get a value that often reaches 50-60%. I've given the example of myself, since I'm self-employed I pay everything, my tax rate is around 60%.
What's wrong with cables?
Try a tech bootcamp (codefellows.org) to freshen up your skill set, most of the reputable ones have some form of career counseling, and industry connections?
My schedule is variable - so I do what I need to do at any point in the day. For example I'm choosing to write this instead of responding to my email :).

I met my wife in college and we had our three kids before I became a founder. We outsource a lot of the "maintenance" (lawn care, home repair, taxes) but I usually spend an hour of my day cleaning the kitchen.

Son's baseball means no dinner that night?

Yea, actually. We have to be really flexible with our family activities.

At any point in the day we are overloaded, which is fine with us but we have found ways to prioritize what we need to make it work. For example my wife goes rowing right after our kids go to sleep while I work and I respond to any kids if they wake up for a few hours.

It's just a super complicated juggling act.
True, the point about vacation time is valid. Although I'm talking contracted hours. I haven't looked up any stats of reported hours in the UK.
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So saw it was English only. Hence my question. How should I go about building support for another language ? I skimmed the doc but didn't see anything related to that question. Also, it is AGPL so I also wonder if you can you TreeBank for training.
What I hear is that you have been successful (or think you have been) in quite a few different things which you didn't really want to do.

Chances are, you will be successful and unhappy at the next job.
Yeah, a good friend of mine works there and loves it. They seem to treat their devs really well. And, from my own experience healthcare is a great field as a dev.
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It's pretty standard practice for any company that becomes suffiently large to increase barriers to entry (after previously championing low barriers to entry when it suited them). Not saying it's good for users, but the incentives for corporations are clear.
Thanks, yes it's available any city that has uber and yelp. The car hierarchy that it looks for availability is uberX > uberPOP > uberBLACK.
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No one could reasonably suggest that only a few thousand people would opt to retire early if every adult had an automatic right to a sum in the region of the present basic state pension.

Suggesting that people will decide not to work if you give them £6k a year is a ridiculous strawman.

The basic income (and the pension for that matter) aren't high enough to buy any significant assets. There's an assumption with a pension that you've already bought a home, you're not going to invest in a new car, that you're unlikely to want the latest expensive gadgets (I'm not arguing that the assumption is right, just that it's there). With a basic income being the equivalent the only people who'd use it to 'opt out' of the workforce are those who already have the assets they want and have decided they won't ever want new or better ones (a vanishingly small number who could probably opt out of the workforce now if they wanted to) and people who have decided they don't want those assets in the first place (a much larger number, but still very small in the grand scheme of things).

Every single person who has £6k x years-they're-likely-to-live could opt out of the workforce right now by your reckoning. It just doesn't happen. There's no reason to believe it would suddenly become popular if a basic income were enacted.
I agree, except AirBnB means you are expected to operate a mini-hotel (without the protections of a hotel).

Clean room, fresh towels, etc.... AirBNB = you are renting.

Notice you are operating without the protections of a landlord (i.e. landlords have formal leases)

Notice you are operating without the protections of a hotel (i.e. hotels have as part of their contract a statement that hotel guests are not renters no matter how long the guest stays - read the contract on the back of every hotel door; it is there for this very important reason.)

This is IMPORTANT.

In most states if a person stays a certain number of contiguous days (~30days), has a key - they become a renter de jure. And renters cannot be evicted without a formal eviction process.

AirBnB doesn't sound very "sharing" now does it?
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Thanks for the reply!

I meant to ask specifically what differentiates your service from the "remote security/SOC/monitoring/etc" services offered by other companies?

I agree about finding good staff for sure. I work in the security industry and I don't know anyone that's NOT struggling to find even mediocre staff.

Edit: I guess the custom-developed SIEM is a differentiator actually.
Yeah man, multitrophic systems are the future. Hydroponics is just a stepping stone.
With photorealism not being a speed problem but more of a artistic problem, i think its natural that tools focus on artists rather than programmers.

Movie-like assets for games are hard, expensive and artists who master all the skills that it takes are rare.
Your definition of success is narrow. Many companies in many industries (operating at all kinds of risk/reward levels) deliver returns that satisfy their shareholder(s). Most of them are home to traditional 9-5 jobs.
I think this advice might apply to your situation at least partially: http://www.jasonswett.net/how-to-get-a-job-using-a-technolog...
Let's not forget algae. Solazyme is already producing various food components for food companies, from algae, in highly efficient and dense factories, and at a competitive price.And i think with time it might be a cheap carbohydrates source.

And those food components are much better than natural components - because you can tailor the exact chemical composition of them.

And with technologies like molecular gastronomy, or making great meat substitutes out of protein(like beyond meat), food components could become the basis for a lot of food variety.
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I agree with this list. Not multitasking is hard in the connected world and I type this HN comment during work. LOL. But my team does support and development so context switching can kill us some days.
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Every robot but one. The CMU robot got up after a fall.

Edit on why no examples: This isn't a review paper for a popular audience. It's a paper on economic perspectives and he says just what he needs to about where he sees the opportunities. The reader can easily find examples elsewhere.
Vertical farming: Another 'solution' that won't work
Well I think this looks pretty good, the only issue is modern browsers without Javascript. It provides a lot of fallbacks that srcset does not on it's own.

No, it's not pointless; I think it's actually quite useful if you rely on Javascript, which some say is the worst thing in the world... but after using React I've been persuaded for complex interfaces it can provide clear advantages over progressive enhancement.
My wife does say that I'm basically a robot.
Google was really part of the second wave of successful internet businesses, including search. Yahoo was going public as Google was getting started. Inktomi was worth over 20B at some point, in fact I was there when the company had an opportunity to acquire Google and said no.
I'm sure we could keep going, but the point I'm making is that Elm is very close to Haskell, and if you like Elm you will definitely like Haskell. I don't know if the same can be said about going from Haskell to Standard ML because I haven't... yet.
1. pick an industry, not particular technologies. For example if you think Internet companies like "FANG" group are more promising, try to join one of'em;
2. become familiar with a more adaptive language like Java;
3. prefer back-end over front-end as experiences/technologies are more transferable;
4. stay sharp on algorithmic problems;
5. keep learning;
I can only conclude that you're so focused on aggressively dismissing this person's work, in the typical HN fashion, that you didn't actually read the comment you responded to, or any of their other responses throughout this thread.

You say:

>You ALSO need a library to do the virtaul dom stuff and/or data binding to write an application.

OP says:

>Imba includes syntax for tags (scroll down to "Tags"), virtual DOM diffing, event handling (with touch support).

>Although Imba was started before React it should be noted that it didn't include virtual diffing until React showed that it worked.
Chrome 43 on Linux from Germany here.

HTTP/2 routinely outperforms HTTP/1.1 by several seconds for me. HTTP/1.1 being somewhat stable at 7-8 seconds and HTTP varying from 4 to 11 seconds (though generally closer to 11 seconds than to 4).

The Akamai demo works fine: https://http2.akamai.com/demo (though HTTP/2 is only ahead by 20% or so)
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I recently encountered a sentence where "begs the question" was accurate in both interpretations...
These are actually really good bits of advice.
> whoever at google really had the idea for ads is the true genius behind their success.

Isn't that more DoubleClick than Google proper? I know Google bought them, but they started as a separate company.
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Only chapter 5 and 6, the rest isn't. Are we talking about the same book?
That only works when high-engagement employees' compensation matches the sacrifice they are making. Why would anyone bring founder-level engagement to a job with only employee-level compensation? In other words, if you want me to work the same hours as the crazy founder, offer me founder equity.
Oh geez, fine, tried just once to be a bit playful. Back to regular business, folks. Nothing to see here.
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Consider you'd be living in the 1990's again. Then think of it as the difference of being online, or being on America Online.
I don't understand why we are using incomprehensible-without-supplemental-material terms like "Zero Rating" and "Net Neutrality" when discussing these matters. It's like they were crafted with the explicit purpose of confusing laymen, like someone challenged you to a game of chance, gave you loaded dice, and you just went with it.
I think its more likely that programming is in its 'artisanal age' moving toward its 'industrial revolution' quite quickly.

Right now it takes skilled craftspeople to design and build good working code - just as a few hundred years ago it took a master woodworker to create a fine chair or bench or bed. There was a million ways to make a join, a million materials to use (woods, glues, metals, etc), and it took a lot of skill to purposefully decide which tools and materials would best fit the job at hand.

This is where software engineering is today.

Look at wood working today:

There are still extraordinarily skilled craftsmen doing work that is miles ahead of what any machine could produce. Real pieces of artwork, in addition to functional pieces of furniture. But the vast majority of woodworking is done by automation (be that machines or laborers)

That is likely the future of software engineering.

Because what most people/businesses need out of software is exactly what they need of furniture - they need it to be 'good enough' and to not have to spend a lot of resources fussing over it.

With SaaS and thousands of pre-packaged solutions, entire industries are beginning to flip over

How long ago was it that to have a website a company would need a webmaster and some developers?

How long ago was it that to run email, FTP, website, etc you would need to purchase hardware, and employees to manage that hardware and software?

Hell even personal websites - you no longer need to know a word of any programming language in order to spin up your very own website, you can even get 'good enough' layouts from the provided templates.

Lets not forget that building websites was (and is) a very real and very lucrative field. It was overtaken by millions of amatuer kids who learned a little html and css and sold websites for a fraction of the cost of hiring professionals. And it worked because businesses want something 'good enough'

I;ve said this before but the same thing has/is happened to many other respected fields:

Photography

travel agent

Technical support (call centers, geek squad, etc)

I don't really see how software is any different from any other trade. You solve enough major problems until you get to a point where 'good enough' is easily accomplished by automation or laymen. Seems to me that this change is already occurring.