skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IANAL

I have heard that, if you are looking to sell some time in the future, then a corporation is greatly preferred to an LLC, by investors and the larger companies who would be interested in purchasing your company.

A corporation, though, has strict rules (including annual meetings for which you must maintain accurate records, sign contracts as a representative of the corp, etc). If you do not comply with the rules, then it is possible for someone to "pierce the corporate veil" and come after you personally.

IANAL. I repeat, IANAL.
Two comments.

1) This appears to be only airports that offer commercial passenger service.

2) Easter Island has an airport! I was under the impression you could only get there by boat.
Shaken Markets Bring Down Public Tech Shares as Recent IPOs Set New Record Lows
Funny, I bought BP after the oil spill and did quite well on it. I have found that bad news can hurt deeper and longer than anyone thinks, in that case I got it right. I tend to approach it as if I'm going to hold for ten years at least, but then I buy after bad news when I think a stock is unlikely to be overpriced. The UK home builder, Barratts, also worked out for me, I bought some when the head of the company was on radio explaining how they provided their own finance to buyers while the banks weren't lending and how they did it before during previous building recessions.
Sequencing the DNA of cacao
Interesting side note... the author must have originally called this something along the lines of: "As Microsoft takes on the feds, Apple and Amazon watch nervously" or something like that, since the link to the article is "as-microsoft-takes-on-the-feds-apple-and-amazon-watch-nervously".
I would think that NoScript will block it.
For caloric sufficiency, you're probably growing sweet potato or potato, at 70 Mcal/ha-day and 54 Mcal/ha-day, respectively. For a 2 Mcal/person-day diet, that's a minimum of 0.03 ha/person, or about 0.07 acre/person eating sweet potato. For potato, 0.04 ha/person, or 0.09 acre/person.

(http://www.fao.org/docrep/t0207e/T0207E04.htm)

Assuming at minimum that hydroponics provides 2.5x normal yield, and aeroponics 3.5x normal yield, one person eating exclusively aeroponically grown sweet potato would need 880 sq.ft. dedicated grow area, or 1.75x the example's (500/person) apartment floor area. If you can stack 4 levels of plants on one floor, that's still 1/3 of all building volume that would have to be occupied by growing plants.

Bear in mind that 2 Mcal/person-day is only enough to sustain children and little old ladies.

So ultralocal farming is probably not going to meet 100% of the needs of a building's residents without some extreme change in the way we design residential buildings. What you really want to grow on your roof is flavorful, nutrient-dense foods that are not quite durable enough for long-distance shipping. Then you ship the durable, bruise-resistant commodity staples from actual farms.

You eat your potatoes shipped in from the farm garnished with fresh green onion from your rooftop. You get your durum noodles from elsewhere, and eat it with sauce made from your rooftop tomatoes and herbs. Truck in the dry solid foods from far away, and grow the wet squishy foods as close as you can to your plate.
It is, that's why the author recommends the following:

// Recommended audit because AdBlock lock the file 'fuckadblock.js'
// If the file is not called, the variable does not exist 'fuckAdBlock'
// This means that AdBlock is present
if(typeof fuckAdBlock === 'undefined') {
adBlockDetected();
} else {
This article is about much larger scale stuff but it's interesting timing since we're about to put a roof deck on our townhouse (flat roof) and I've been researching some of the various "DIY EarthBox" plans out there.

My goal isn't so much to become self-sustaining by starting a rooftop farm but we'll have this big, flat, sunny area and I'm thinking if I put these or some other type of quality container garden around the perimeter, I can have a bunch of fresh vegetables during a good portion of the year and also make it feel a little more like a garden than just a hot, sunny, wooden platform in the middle of a city.

Any suggestions or experiences with this stuff? I've done smaller bucket type container plants on the patio but I'm interested in this for aesthetics, food production, and just for the learning experience.
I have a running server at online.net (small personal tier, 8 core, 8gb RAM, 120gb ssd) [1] for 20euros/m running a CI server. I've spinned up a scaleway server and ping from online.net to scaleway or reverse is under 1ms (0.5-0.8ms)

Also, they are offering VPC by default, the nodes seem to have only one network interface which defaults to private network, and external traffic is routed to private network with specific firewall rules. Also, they are offering ip failover, I think you can attach or move external ips at runtime between servers without configuring anything on the nodes (just from API).

For online.net I know they are offering DDOS protection for higher priced servers, I'm now sure if they are supporting this for scaleway, but you can always reverse proxy from online.net server to scaleway to achieve horizontal scalability if this is an issue.

[1] http://www.online.net/en/dedicated-server/dedibox-xc
http://www.amazon.com/000-Live-Adult-Predatory-Mites/dp/B00I...

Predatory mites work fine if other mites are the only problem. They aren't particularly expensive either.

But yes, you can't use natural predators. You basically need to introduce them, let them do their jobs, and then most of the predators will die once the problem is controlled for.

But give its a $50 problem, its not a very expensive problem and on par with pesticide costs.
Exactly. I know Randall definitely wouldn’t accept “five random words” because of this comic: https://xkcd.com/169/.
oy, the routing tables!
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Zen and the Art of BBQ
A lot of the waste (at least from produce) comes from every step of the supply chain loosing product to buying to much or letting it sit to long. In theory, growing on a nearby roof could force people to grow only what they are going to use.
You say you sleep decently. Do you really get enough sleep? Recently I've had the chance to work from home for a longer period - more than a month - and during that time slept longer and better and it made me realise that I really was tired, seriously tired. That's me of course, not you.

If work is boring, and different kind of jobs don't help, find something besides work: go running, go dancing, go do a theatre course, singing. I tried all kind of things and am open to try anything that seems interesting. I dance a lot, weekly, and it made my life a lot better. I don't say dancing is for you, but whatever you do, it should be fun, something to look forward to.

Maybe singing, dancing and theatre don't appeal to you. It didn't appeal to me, I thought I couldn't do that, that it was difficult. I'm a typical introvert, not artistic or creative, prefer to stay in the background, but all these things were a lot more fun than I ever had thought and I discovered a whole new life.

Don't try them all at once, start with one, give it a good chance, and don't give up if the first course isn't what you hoped for. Try another teacher or school, a different group. All these things come in many varieties and it can be a challenge to find what works for you. Each experience brings you closer to what you want, teaches you something. If you're afraid about something, that is especially interesting.

This didn't make my work better, but it made my life better. And it opens perspectives to new areas, possibly for work. Not that I want to be a dance teacher, but having a new look on life can change work as well.
That's some unrealistic criteria you have there. No one is an expert in every facet of physics or maths. Yes economists specialize. As do engineers. Or doctors.

As for pundits, there's a reason they're pundits... Is Sergey Brin or John Carmack going to host a tech segment on TV? That's silly, as silly as thinking TV economists would be as successful as people like Jan Hatzius (BTW, he did correctly anticipate the crisis of 2008, and GS bet against the market and made a killing during that time).
Now the question is how much energy is needed to extract 1% of your electrons... Making a Coulomb bomb shouldn't be that easy.
Here's a lighter segment from an interview with Jon Weiner in which Sacks talks about his experiences with drugs, starting in Topanga Canyon in LA in 1963: https://lareviewofbooks.org/interview/oliver-sacks-tripping-...
"My only point here was it seems reasonable for the employer to ask for the world."

No, its not. We accept it, but its not reasonable, it just a CYA attitude than infects a lot of our business and political dealings. An employer should ask for exactly what they want and no more.
40MC is a lot. Another way to think about it is that a force on the order of that many tons would be needed to rip out 1% of your electrons from your neutral body in the first place. That's why we don't see charging up to that scale in day-to-day life.
Often times companies/vendors don't find it worth it to pay legal to make these changes on edge cases, particularly if they have enough hungry people willing to work for them. There's also the worry that word will get around and more people will ask for exceptions (same or other).

So it is in fact easier and more cost effective to say "take it or leave it."

Not saying the clause is justified, because that was ridiculous, but it is interesting to get at the root of why they won't change it, and often pushing back consistently will get them to that point fairly quickly.
First AI based, self-learning email app that sorts emails by importance
Principles from "How to Win Friends and Influence People" [pdf]
The author probably came upon this idea from reading Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics, in which he says this:

> And all matter is a mixture of positive protons and negative electrons which are attracting and repelling with this great force. So perfect is the balance however, that when you stand near someone else you don't feel any force at all. If there were even a little bit of unbalance you would know it. If you were standing at arm's length from someone and each of you had one percent more electrons than protons, the repelling force would be incredible. How great? Enough to lift the Empire State building? No! To lift Mount Everest? No! The repulsion would be enough to lift a "weight" equal to that of the entire earth!
I just finished reading "Expert C Programming", and thus far it's been the best C book I've read! You'll learn a lot about the intricacies of the language, and you'll actually laugh while reading some sections (most C books can be quite boring and dull).

Disclaimer: I've only been writing C for a bit over two years (so still very new), and my list of C literature consists mainly of the following books:

- K&R
- Mastering Algorithms with C - Kyle Loudon
- Understanding and Using C Pointers - Richard Reese
- Test Driven Development for Embedded C - James W. Grenning
- Expert C Programming: Deep C secrets - Peter van Linden
I would be surprised if she could work as much as she did with her singleton. Twins are a lot different.
To be fair, only very large text files trouble Atom. And when does any dev ever actually open massive text files in text editors. I'm a Vim guy and have only briefly tried Atom, but I still wouldn't dream of opening a huge text file in Vim, even though it would cope a lot better than Atom. If it's a log file or something I'm going to be using tail/grep etc. to deal with it.

Yeah exactly emacs is hackable if you want to write lisp, which has a very small audience. So sure there is absolutely a desire for an editor written in a 'nice', hackable language like Python or JS (forgive me JS haters) to prosper.
> AFAIK it is an enormously-long wire that is extended out of the submarine

I can confirm this.

Source: I watched Crimson Tide recently
Didn't Neal Stephenson write about this in Cryptonomicon? I never thought it was actually possible.
The Unix Philosophy
> If I had money to own or build, I certainly would be disincentivized to build if I knew those properties could become rent controlled.

You live in SF, so you know that new construction will not be covered under rent control laws. [0] Why would you say this?

> But gov't needs to encourage building, not stifle building, which seems they work very hard at.

Agreed.

If the city government removes the anti-development zoning laws in much of the city and works to placate the rabid anti-development leaders in both the "DON'T SPOIL MY VIEW!" and "NEW CONSTRUCTION IS ALWAYS RENT CONTROLLED UNIT DESTRUCTION AND YOU SHALL NEVER DESTROY A SINGLE RENT CONTROLLED UNIT!" camps, and there is still barely any new construction, then perhaps it will be time to see why a law that controls rent only in buildings constructed prior to 1970-mumble is stifling construction of new buildings in 2015.

[0] Except in special cases like the Trinity Towers project. In that case, Sangiacomo got permission to destroy a building full of rent controlled units if he replaced each of those units with a rent controlled one in the new building. This was a 1:1 replacement. No rent controlled units were lost, no additional rent controlled units were created, and Sangiacomo got a new building full of "market rate" units in the bargain.
Maybe they just forgot? http://www.hasjamesclapperbeenindictedyet.com
It's impossible because it simply calls chdir(2). The "current directory" is a property of a process; having it built-in means it changes the directory of the current process. If it was a separate executable, you'd change the directory in a separate child process for that executable, and the current directory of the shell would be unchanged, making it entirely useless.
This is Marijn Haverbeke's project, creator of Eloquent Javascript and CodeMirror. Good to see that it was funded!
If you have the possibility to use a dedicated (virtual) server to setup a IPsec/IKEv2 VPN server, have a look at pfSense[1]. It is easy to manage through the webinterface, especially when using IPsec with certificate authentication for road warriors. The current pfSense stable release uses strongSwan 5.3.2 for IPsec VPN's.

Documentation for installing and setting up strongSwan from source is available on their own wiki[2]. There are also packages available for some Linux distributions.

This site/blog[3] explains very well how to install and setup strongSwan with certificate authentication. But most of the examples are probably also on the strongSwan wiki.

[1] https://www.pfsense.org/

[2] https://wiki.strongswan.org/projects/strongswan/wiki

[3] https://www.zeitgeist.se/2013/11/22/strongswan-howto-create-...
I noticed that it didn't give any trend numbers, only statements that things have gotten worse.

As a teen in the 1980s, I remember Jolt Cola ("All the sugar and twice the caffeine") and a schoolmate who took powdered caffeine.

Ha! It was remarkably easy to find this newspaper article from 1988 - "Youth abusing easy-to-get caffeine pills"; https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19880612&id=... .

> King said abuse of caffeine pills is fairly common among the teens and young adults treated by her [drug treatment] program. ... Sixteen people in North Carolina have died of caffeine poisoning since 1970, all from pills.

That's about 1/year. The N.C. population in 1990 was 2.67% of the US population, giving about 35 overdose deaths/year in the 1980s. (With of course large error bars.)

This story from 2006 https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1893&dat=20061102&id=... focuses more on energy drinks:

> In October, a new study found a surprising number of caffeine overdose reports to a Chicago poison control center. These involved young people taking alertness pill such as NoDoz or energy drinks ... During three years of reports to the center, the researchers found 265 cases of caffeine abuse. Twelve percent of those required a trip to the hospital.

Compare that to this article, which says "this year from Jan. 1 to July 31, poison centers across the country logged 1,675 reports involving energy drinks." Chicago has 1/120th of the US population, so 265/3*120/2 = 5,000 expected cases based on the Chicago numbers.

Obviously "caffeine overdose reports" is a superset of "reports involving energy drinks", but it's also obvious that the article doesn't give enough information to tell if it's something to be concerned about. Perhaps it's a sideways brag about how wired everyone is these days?
Happier Camper
Genly Ai, the book's narrator, is pretty sexist and arrogant. He is repulsed and confused by the way gender works on the planet. He observes what he sees like an anthropologist from an "enlightened" Earth society, comparing their folkways to his own and finding them insufficient. The other Hainish Cycle books make it pretty clear that the Ekumen is not a utopia, and Genly's faith in it is naive. By the end, Genly has a deeper understanding of Gethenian society, contrasted with his earlier arrogance.
What's wrong with growing vegetables and berries outside of cities in greenhouses?
I'll not lie, I'm a 14, 14, 6, 4 kinda guy. Then Friday through Sunday is for playing, thinking, and reading, but mostly meeting up with people to exchange ideas, potentially with beer.
Military-tech shield to protect your motorcycle
Tesla's $35k Model 3 Sedan to Start Production in 2 Years
Microsoft's Software is Malware
Major bias here. That being said, among me and my peers I don't know of anyone who has a (non-apple) laptop without a dedicated graphics chip.
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The Absolute Zen of Xen
Architects Want to Build Minas Tirith in the UK
They have Multi-Raft running between all of the replicas of a specific key range to ensure that there is an atomic commit across all DCs.
Getting attracted to the ground wouldn't be a problem, since you would already have exploded due to the repulsion of your constituent parts from each other. This happens to charged things in nature, and it has a cool name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb_explosion
I love both books. Left Hand is much more melancholy and anthropological, while The Dispossessed is more political and speaks to themes of trying to find one's place in society, accomplishing great works, "selling out", being heard when nobody wants to hear you, etc. They're books for different moods, for me.
"until the recent spate of malware propagated by ad servers"

Same for me. I can live with the annoying ads but losing a day rebuilding my computer is not worth it
Everlane is hiring in Strategic Finance
> And marijuana growers don't have the same goals in terms of energy efficiency or cost-effectiveness.

Huh??

They may have additional goals, but they surely share the goals of energy efficiency (this would actually be a much higher priority for them than it would be for legal growers, as you can get caught based on your energy signature) and cost-effectiveness.
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And so the cat and mouse game continues.

That being said, ultimately as long as the user has control over what runs on their computer, they have control. Period. Things like this are doomed to failure.
>>Corruption may be a problem in the US too, but, having lived here for a decade, I can assure you I've never been asked nor offered a single bribe.

Not being asked for bribe is not necessarily absence of corruption. For a crash course on How Real world corruption works. Great place to start is https://www.reddit.com/r/Economics/comments/c84bp/how_realwo...

>>Corruption doesn't affect the common man directly here.

Incorrect. Read the link above

>>In any case: just because it's in some other country, makes it all right to do it in India, right?

am 99.99% sure poster is not suggesting it is right thing. Hust saying it is not an India only problem and that it exists everywhere.
Why didn't you go down the route of Paxos Commit for your ACP versus the Yabandeh-style ACP? I realize that they have very different semantics, but Paxos Commit seems to have (nearly) all the same properties, and benefits without a single key, that basically acts as the "coordinator" for the transaction (a process as opposed to a key).
There's some valid points here, definitely. I'm using Windows 10 on most PCs, but not my main PC where I do most things, until Microsoft answers to their telemetry concerns, or I select one of the many telemetry-blocking tools currently out there.

But the FSF's usual warlike tone against anything not free software creeps in here heavily, and sours the validity of the article.
Alkali metals react in water because of coulomb explosions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMfQSV4ygHE

The explanation was only discovered this year.
It seems to be a common sentiment that burnout is largely driven by how many hours a day you work. Why is that?

From what I've been taught burnout is the result of continuous stress. Where stress is more or less defined as a continuous sensation of being threatened.

I've seen people with perfectly normal workours become burnt out. I've even seen people working ten hours a week getting burnt out. The common factor thus not being the objectively measurable amount of work.

My own formula for diagnosing a work environment is more like Risk of Burnout = perception of expectations / perceptions of means to deliver

But a more useful model might be the SCARF-model presented in this tech talk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeJSXfXep4M

It seems to me that hours worked relates to issue of burnout more like lack of sleep to the risk of catching a cold. Potentially a big factor, but only incidentally.
May I suggest for the merely curious:

curl https://brage.info/hello | od -c | head -40
AWS C++ SDK
Billion Dollar Unicorns: Etsy Continues to Fumble – Sramana Mitra
Whoa, amasci.com traffic spike!

Heh, wasn't there a Larry Niven SF story where an alien weapon would zero out the charge of electrons, so the nuclei would fly apart? Our undergrad phys-101 had calculating the force between two (copper!) pennies 1M apart, with all electrons removed from one and deposited on the other.

Later I realized that it would have been even more impressive to estimate the energy-equiv of kilotons of TNT which would be released when the meter-long spark brought the two pennies back into equilibrium.

Another: calculate the width of one coulomb. It's about half a mm, like a grain of sand. That's assuming its the mobile electrons in copper wire (so, not Cu's electrons, but just one free electron per atom.)
1. This isn't a single proposal

2. It is not trying to be novel relative to existing distributed stores. It is trying to get the features in HTTP that have been used in lots of other custom applications.
> Why would you indent hat next line?
There are lots of reasons someone might indent the next line. Maybe they were in a rush. Maybe they were distracted by something else while they were working. Maybe they were tired. Maybe they were drunk.

Mistakes will happen. Ideally wrong code will look wrong. All of the following examples do the same thing. If you know the code is supposed to call Foo() and Bar() if bVar is true, which of these examples make it obvious that something is wrong?

if (bVar) Foo();
Bar();

if (bVar)
Foo();
Bar();

if (bVar)
{
Foo();
}
Bar();

if (bVar)
{
Foo();
}
Bar();

The third, followed by the fourth, makes the mistake most obvious to me.
They store shorter and lose a lot more nutrition in transit. They are more expensive to harvest but are more caloric dense in a given area. Its why raspberries are like 5 dollars a pound but bananas are 50 cents. One has a much longer shelf life.