skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The English ales of old were often between 3% and 4% - classic session beers. Greene King still make an IPA available all over which is 3.4% (traditionally IPA was supposed to be weak!)

There's also a style of English beer called a "mild" - called so for its low alcohol. However, the beer itself is dark and thick like a stout - often confusing people who expected "mild" taste.

Another useless fact: in England you sometimes hear of "continental strength" lager - which means it's 5%.
They call it "compensation" because it _compensates_ you for doing what you otherwise would not want to be doing.

Ah, there's the rub. The people I am talking about are those who join a company so that they can do for a salary what they would be doing anyway without one.

For example we just "hired" someone for only equity because we were working on a really hard hardware problem that he has been playing with in his part time. He approached us and suggested coming on board - in fact he did a TON of work before I even asked him to and before we had any compensation agreements in place - in fact I was the one who pushed him to let us compensate him in the best way we have available right now because he is stuck at another job.

Maybe you don't actually care about what you do, or believe in it or whatever, but there do exist those who do and want to work on it.

Woz is the best example of this.
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Legacy systems tend to ossify and not change much. How is that a good lesson?
I don't know about this. All the "scary things that are going to happen to programmers" happened 20 years ago, and we're still here.

Remember all those CASE tools that replaced the need to write programs? You just describe the problem and out comes the software. Business People can do it. (But you still need to describe the problem in the exact level of detail as the program your tool outputs, and now you have to do it using that funky tool).

Remember when all our jobs got offshored to India to be done for $10/hour? They seem to have come back, along with all the $10/hour guys over there who could actually do the work (and who are all now getting paid market wages over here). Over the years, that happened to all the "offshore" there is, and today you really don't want to have your product built by the remaining offshore guys who can't command more than $50/hour.

Costs of running a software business did in fact go down from $1M/year in server and licensing to $5/month for a Digital Ocean slice, but the actual work of writing software still requires programming computers. And that is still hard, and hard to find people who can do.

So we're still here. My money is on us still being here ten years from now.
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Hey, I had the exact same motivation to introduce software folks to HW thinking and started this page: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programmable_Logic/Verilog_for...

Maybe you want to add more pages based on what you think is important.
As a fan of Cassandra (though not for its relational model ;), what successors do you believe are better? Riak is the only one that comes to mind.

Btw, to me the point of Redis and Mongo is a very fast distributed dictionary. They're data structure servers, for when you want to persist and share data structures across processes, not "manage information". It depends on your goal.
More optimistic: the first auto-driving-car DARPA challenge was a complete disaster. Just a few years later, they rocked. Why?

Because the 1st test was just the hardware guys putting together the bones, sensors and power plant. Once the software guys had that, then impressive behavior changes started happening.

I think the next time, all the DARPA-challenge bots will be sprinting around, doing gymnastics and talking to you.
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An article from 2013 means that it covers a change from at least Go version 1.2 (released 2013/12/01)) to 1.5 (released yesterday?). The performance section of each document talks about cases where it may go slower for faster in certain instance in every since release, including the one that was the change from C to Go for the compiler[2].

That said, I took the original statement about Go switching from Co to Go to indicate there's been major changes in the compiler, so it would be interesting to see more recent results, not that the change itself necessarily was responsible for major speed improvements, but they could very well have assumed the compiler change would have had a larger affect on the resulting binary depending on their understanding of the Go toolchain.

1: https://golang.org/doc/devel/release.html

2: https://golang.org/doc/go1.4#performance
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More than half? Is that a made up number?
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Growing in a building allows you to control the environment to grow year round and you can keep the plants quarantined from the outside world to minimize contamination from insects which eliminates the need for pesticides.
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How is this not obvious?

Your body processes alcohol at a certain rate. Anything over that adds to the backlog. If you consume alcohol faster than your body can process it, you're not going to be sober any time soon.

Whether it's high alcohol beers or low alcohol "hard" drinks doesn't matter to your body. The only thing that matters is the amount of alcohol you are consuming.
It is like Nestle handing out free formula to new mothers. Nothing wrong with that, right...
By Ruby programmers.

And clearly other people – or we wouldn't be seeing those syntax elements in other languages.

Why is it that Ruby programmers are incapable of imagining anyone doesn't love Ruby?

They're perfectly capable of that, and I think you've let your own prejudices cloud your judgement.

I've yet to meet a Ruby programmer who doesn't believe that Ruby is the best thing since sliced Jesus.

Hello, pleased to meet you. I'm a mostly-Ruby programmer who is well aware that the language is not suited to every task. Need high performance? Look elsewhere. Need a highly reliable service? Something that would benefit from static typing? Systems-level tools? Same. Ruby is a pain to deploy and has lots of irritating legacy cruft.

What this doesn't mean is that the statement "that pile of junk that is ruby" is anything other than a fucking stupid thing to say.
There are multiple options available. Mostly depends on what you would be interested in doing. Shoot me an email (address in profile) if you'd like some help figuring it out (I'm in robotics).
this HTTP 2.0 was faster for me by only .01 seconds.
You never believe me when i tell you this, but google honestly did not give a crap about its business interests when it started that fight, it cared about the world being a better place.

You are talking about ~2006. Folks then were much more concerned with "making the world better" (TM) than making money. The folks involved weren't thinking "Hey, 10 years from now, we might own a video company and this might be a net bad for us" or "hey, this might later some day affect ads profits for search". They were thinking "Hey, this would make the world pretty shitty for people, we should try to do something because we have a larger voice than a lot of folks"

(Note that at this time in 2006, google had 3 people in the DC office, including me. I pretty much know all the motivations of my office mates, who were responsible for starting this)
I'm glad they're some tangential evidence to back up my month long moaning, "It's like literally never been this hot before".
This is great - thank you!

In a similar vein is the Google+ Postmortems community: https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/11513614020301839179...
May very well be: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-27067615 (scroll down to the chart).
An angle on this that may work is to just introduce the new tech on something not very important but still useful.

A decent argument can be that plain old technology upgrades at some point are going to be gigantic herculean efforts if the same old language/framework is used for a long period of time.

And you are more susceptible to security issues and/or ridiculous "extended support" contracts the longer a tech is kept around - to the point where it is difficult to patch, etc.
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That's not a problem. You can find WebKit powered browsers on any platform. It's the same WebKit used in Safari on OS X and iOS.
We're always looking for “better” project management software
That's true for a warehouse or similar scenario. I believe the parent was talking about in a greenhouse. You can layer to a degree and then you only need supplemental lighting for the understories.
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Last February was also one of the coldest.

http://www.weather.com/news/news/top-five-coldest-february-m...
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Wat by Gary Bernhardt
Your comment just seems redundant. The title says "ever recorded" right in it. It does not simply say "Hottest Month Ever".
I remember getting drunk on crappy kegs of god-knows-what in college that were close to the same alcohol content of a session beer.
You have a funny definition of shilling.

Every time i respond to a post about Google it's some cynical person who can't possibly ever imagine that the reason things are done are not always about profit or business or whatever else. Shocking, i know (Google is a big place, so yeah, nowadays, there's plenty of people with plenty of motives in plenty of places).

When I have direct knowledge of those situations (IE i was in the room), and actually know the reasons things were done, and i'm allowed to talk about it, I try to correct this kind of misinformation.

It's funny to me how history gets rewritten as public perceptions later change.
Hear hear. Also, with javascript disabled, I am presented with a blank white page. The content of the articles may be interesting, but everything else about FT's site is trash.

E: The FT article is probably just this Reuters bit: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/08/20/uk-sweden-politics-... I can't actually say for sure, however, as FT's site is unusable.
Making better hardware and software for controlling hardware is something that is very difficult (hence most the machines having a hard time with the most basic things for a human - walking, etc.), and because of this, most regard robots as being in their infancy, with many more generations to go before we have a robot that can truly function like a human (in the physical sense).

What's alarming about this is the fact that all of these problems are problems that are solved by intelligence and brute force, and both of these functions can be performed in the virtual world, but a lot of the fears we have about "robocalypse" scenarios are rooted in the physical aspects of robots (e.g., autonomous drones with guns, etc.). Given a computer system with intelligence much greater than a human (not necessarily passing the Turing test or being intelligent by certain human metrics, but being very effective at problem solving and engineering) could result in most of the current problems that companies like Boston Dynamics, et al have been working on for years being solved and tested in simulations in mere minutes. Such a machine can't just be invented, but through evolution (genetic algorithms, etc.) on the copious cloud computing environments, such a machine will eventually happen, unless something changes (e.g., laws to attempt to prevent it, disaster of some sort that sets us back financially and computer-wise a few decades, etc.).

This means, the thing we should really fear is machine intelligence, since the physical world aspect of its existence is really secondary. A machine that can design better solutions to physical world problems (like moving around, negotiating obstacles, etc.) than the hundreds of teams working on the same thing is what I fear.
Unless you were continent hopping all month, I'm afraid it doesn't.
I got the feeling the article was about how the information we're given about the strength of beer is misleading. Partially because the units of measure are flawed, partially because of how our bodies metabolize alcohol, and partially because the label given to a beer is often misused.
In a small part of the world with many HN readers. Whereas the OP is about the globe.
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Modern+Funk+Dance+Music+-+Kash+Rockit+-+Greenlight+(Audio+Video)
Been a long time since I last watched that, still makes me laugh every time I watch it haha :)
amazing, I like the concept they have. I am app flipper and i wanted this type website from a long time. They are providing 1 free source code with signup. That is truly unbleveibale.
If the predicate is wholesale changes in human behavior, there are plenty of less costly ways people could, and can, produce their own food. Imposing a moral judgment on people obsessed with things you don't happen to like is orthogonal to that. People will change their behaviors when the market dictates that they change them, and when that happens they will change them in the direction dictated by the market. Your personal preferences for how others should spend their time will not factor.
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The most popular UI framework using the most popular UI library? I don't see the problem.
Ok that is awesome.
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What's the difference between Zapier and IFTTT? They seem pretty similar.
Better terms aren't even really necessary (though they'd be nice). But at least some sort of explanation in the article of what exactly it is that we're discussing would be nice.
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looking at some applications that got into YC (not fellowship though), it seems biggest 'mistakes' are 1 - wasting even one word not sharing more, enthusiasm hurts you in this case; 2 - technical founders, 3 - team of COfounders. I believe you can pass with one of those 3 'rules', but just the one. Nevertheless, I'll love to help them learn from their mistakes.
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"toll free" would be clearer than "zero rated". Net neutrality is trickier though...
Climate change deniers are required to provide proof.
The speed test links at the bottom for single files don't make any sense. A single file download wouldn't benefit from the upgraded protocol and just seems, from very rough testing on my 100mb line, like the http/1 links are artificially slowed down.
These companies are all natural monopolies, if someone were to release all of their source code, it wouldn't put a dent in their existing ad-sales marketplaces. The advertisers go to where the eyeballs are, not to where the best source code is. Most of these companies run on open-source software anyways. Google isn't the only company that can crawl the web and slap a CRUD application for selling advertisements on top.

If you haven't noticed, the modus operandi for our industry is to rush out whatever software you can slap together and try to monopolize a marketplace. [1] [2]

If anything, open-source software is the sign that copyright law isn't needed by our industry to function, which is a giant problem for many other industries.

And I agree that they absolutely do care about patents and trademarks. Facebook would be really upset if someone was using their logo on some random iOS photo sharing application.

Facebook and Google would absolutely love to be able to organize and distribute every song, book, and movie on the planet for free and without having to pay anyone for the right to do so.

[1] http://blog.samaltman.com/startup-advice-briefly
[2] http://www.wsj.com/articles/peter-thiel-competition-is-for-l...
I think the point is that the difference between a 4% and 5% beer is much more than perceived. That "1%" extra might not seem like its a big deal to people ready to sit down and have a few beers but it adds up by quite a lot. This article is meant for people that don't fully understand how the body deals with alcohol that it can't process.
Feedback from my diabetic neighbor: this is useless to him without gram values for all the macronutrients, because he needs to calculate his insulin dosages. Percentages aren't enough.
It is interesting that Safari & Firefox beat Chrome in the HTTP/1.1 test for me. However, the HTTP2 test is then twice as fast as Safari. Maybe we can stop smashing all those javascript files together.
1 sq km of vertical farm + 1 sq km of sunlight collectors = worse in every way than 1 sq km of horizontal farm. And that's assuming perfect efficiency, which is wildly unrealistic.
Of course I didn't read the whole paper! I stopped reading the paper when I recognized the fundamental flaws:

1) the hypotheses examined were very narrowly framed

2) Footnotes 9 and 13 admit that drug-related offenders may in fact be present in the statistics as 'violent crime', yet the paper does not consider this further.

After that I skim-read to ensure there flaws weren't addressed. If I missed the place where these flaws are addressed, I would appreciate your pointing it out.

I am glad you read the whole paper, but I would caution you against believing you got any closer to the whole truth by doing so.
The one thing about ISM is that a lot of those are actually transmitting only; for instance, microwave oven. The fact that amateur radio service needs accept interference from ISM equipments just indicates the fact that hams can't report instances of interferences to FCC (as long as such devices are operating under proper conditions as described under Part 18) and unlicensed services usually receive very little protection, if at all, from interferences caused by licensed services.
Last February was the second hottest on record.

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a14585/s...
I have played with ksh and others.

But when it comes down to writing something that others use, you can almost always rely on BASH being installed on their machine.

The other shells... not so much. I hear zsh is pretty good though.
Yeah, it seems that most people who think that they work 80 hour weeks do so because they count pretty much any waking activity as "work" if they occasionally think about work during it.
Wow, that's a lot of funding for just another resin 3d printer. We have had printers like Form1 in the low-cost segment.

I'm surprised about the funding amount, as the market is currently very very stagnating.
I think that charity with strings attached isn't charity, especially when it just disincentivizes (or makes more difficult) legitimate forms of charity. Or worse, when it makes legitimate forms of sustained enterprise more difficult.

So these western juggernauts are going to start injecting ads into vital communication infrastructure from day zero, and then when India decides it wants its own infra, do you think Google and FB will just step away? This is just the modern version of oil imperialism.
That "1% extra" is actually already 25% extra pure alcohol, even if you don't take metabolization speed into account. Comparing to the whole volume is a red herring. Although who drinks heavy beer the same speed as light beer? I don't.
This is the first time I've seen the .ie TLD (ireland) used in a technical context. It's a cool idea given the Microsoft context.
Interestingly enough, Jeff Bezos of Amazon has a computer science degree from Princeton. He's such a fierce competitor and tough negotiator that somehow his geek credentials were completely overlooked by the business press.
Its actually 25% more, right? Its not the beer (water) quantity that's significant, its total alcohol consumed.
Thanks for this. It couldn't have been more timely!

No kidding, I have my first meeting with a potential client in an hour, and last night I was thinking in my head "How do I even talk about guaranteeing payment?" and then I see this when I woke up.

Thanks for building it!
How much would Mars's thin atmosphere interfere with that plan? Would you be able to lift any significant amount of weight?
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TechCrunch have a article for this amazing news: http://techcrunch.com/2015/08/20/mesosphere-partners-with-mi...
I'm still not following. Are these "vertical farms" then aquaponics affairs, where the fish tank waste is what feeds the plants? Or is it like organics, where a crop like peas concentrates nitrogen from the air in order to fertilize something else?
Except if you look at the linked article and change the month to February.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/global/201502
Second hottest on record
I was wondering the same. My best guess, he didn't want to spend the extra money for the fiber cabling to the top? Maybe that small of a change in elevation isn't enough to produce a worthwhile increase in signal or speed?
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I think Ruby got it from PERL... And I'm not sure if PERL was the first language to use these, either.

EDIT: of course, there's Smalltalk, where postfix conditionals and loops are the only form available. Maybe Ruby got inspired by those.
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Looks interesting. I live in Canada and have contractors worldwide. I suspect this is a typical case.

I don't really care about contracts but escrow would be useful. I mean, I don't care about a formal legally binding contract that covers canada-Indonesia, phillipines, UK, etc. that would be complicated. But having a secure way to pay outside of elance/up work would be nice.

Also, when I click "let us know" it opens the mail app on my iPhone. I haven't set that up. You would have better luck if the email was also displayed.
Very hype heavy article. No mention of Form Labs who is already on the market with a similar product.
Well yes but you were probably drinking a wee bit more then 12oz or even 20oz an hour back then too.
I agree, pesticide/herbicide use could probably be near zero in a vertical farm.
Zapier has a much heavier focus on business apps. Less internet of things, more workflows and invoices.
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It's not obvious because it's unlike any other commonly used recreational drug. Alcohol at typical dose has zero-order pharmacokinetics, unlike most other drugs which have a half-life. This can result in surprising differences in intoxication with only small differences in intake per unit time, as the article explains.
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How exactly do they do a fair comparison between 1880 and today? I'm assuming the temperature readings today are very accurate, but how accurate were the measuring devices going back in history, and their standards for taking temperature? Most of the thermometers I have in my house are +- 2F, which would eliminate the differences entirely.
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The thrust of the article for those that read beyond the headline is that the difference in intoxicating effect beyond slightly below average strength beer and slightly above average strength beer is much greater than you'd anticipate from simply looking at the %ABV figure.

I doubt even many regular drinkers suspect that drinking 5% beer leaves them with around twice as much alcohol in their bloodstream as drinking 4% beer (although regular drinkers tend to drink fast enough to narrow that gap) Certainly would have been useful to know that back when I chose beers based on optimising for units of alcohol per £!
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If you read the article, you will find the author's answer to this question!
But...you have to have a climate-controlled building. If you already have one, and have extra space, then ok. But there's no way you can build a roof over the entire state of Iowa for instance. Very much a niche hobby for people in the city.