skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are several things which aren't covered well in the article. I have spent quite a lot of time looking at the feasibility of the Seawater Greenhouse in multiple locations, including a visit to this Australian location a few years ago. [1] I haven't been involved since the pilot installation in Port Augusta, so they may have changed a few things described below.

The Seawater Greenhouse design is not a conventional greenhouse. It cools rather than heats a crop, it is an open design, rather than a conventional "closed" design.

The system, as designed by Charlie Paton, uses evaporative cooling in the greenhouse. Essentially they have a cardboard wall, sort of like a thick honey comb with holes through it, over which they pour seawater. The air is pulled through the wall by large relatively slow fans. When the air moves through the "honey comb" wall, the air changes direction (30 degree angle channels). Particles and insects in the air essentially get stuck in the seawater. Seawater is particularly bad for insects and other small pests as the salt clogs up the exoskeleton and the breathing channels when the water evaporates.

Even though the greenhouse was standing in an area of vegetation with a significant insect population outside, we hardly saw any insects on the inside. But you could often find quite a few insects in the seawater tanks used to hold the water for the evaporators. The stable climate created in the greenhouse and the seawater "barrier" created by the evaporators means the pest insect pressure is lie and you can easily control it with natural enemies (bio control). (There where poisonous spiders in the canopy of the crop but they don't affect the crop, but act as biocontrol. Just don't let them bite you.)

Plants grow much better in a cooler and high humidity environment. The plants don't have to put so much effort into transpiration to keep an acceptable temperature for photosynthesis. The evaporators with seawater handles both of those things.

The temperature during my visit peaked on Christmas Day at 43 C, but inside the greenhouse it was a much more acceptable 35 C. (We had our Xmas dinner just behind the evaporators, the most pleasant place in Port Augusta at that point.) The energy used for this cooling primarily comes out of the water and the surrounding air. Some energy is used for pumping water. Without the evaporative cooling the temperature in the greenhouse would have been at a level which would have killed the plants. During my visit the plants and crop grew so fast that we had to help harvesting to keep up.

The evaporators are also covered by sea salt, which is hydroscopic (absorbs water) which means that when the temperature drops at the end of the day you don't get water (dew) collecting on the plants. This is important as dew on the plants and produce allows botrytis (mold) to grow and potentially destroy the produce. This also avoids having to burn sulphur in the greenhouse to kill the mold.

[1] pictures from my wife during the visit https://www.flickr.com/photos/ankertje/7044271777/in/album-7...
"I've never understood why sites limit password length. You're (hopefully) hashing it anyways; the length of what the user enters has no bearing on what you're storing in your database."

What if they upload a GB or TB binary as password? I've always wondered but nobody told me if there's some inherent cut-off that would prevent such a DoS attack.
A New Typology of Global Cities
I've given interviewers a piece of my mind before. Frankly, most interviewing practices, even at places which allegedly are highly selective, boil down to 100% cargo-culting, and when I encounter that I have no issue with telling the interviewer that and hanging up or walking out. At that point in the interview I'm not there to validate their approach or make sure they feel good; I'm there to communicate to them what I know, and what I know -- from experience -- is how useless most of the common interview processes are.
The paper doesn't seem to support the idea that rainbow visualization is harmful for 2D visualizations.

Diagram: http://i.imgur.com/E7aNLuM.png

We observed no statistically significant effects of color scheme on any of the participants' subjective responses.
It also seems logical that having a market in the sunlight makes a 'black market' for the same goods much less appealing.

I have to further speculate that the same type of 'impact' we see from legalizing 'recreational use' would also be mirrored with this topic; possibly to an even more positive degree.
One of the consequences of this wide-spread ageism is the amount of unnecessary, ill-conceived, and often dangerous wheel-reinvention that 20-something hipster programmers get away with.

Exhibit A would be NoSQL. Little more than a rehash of the hierarchical and network (graph/pointer) databases popular in the 1950s before the ascent of relational databases, these systems enjoy increasing popularity despite few, if any, advantages over relational databases besides allowing 20-something hipster programmers to avoid learning SQL and the ins-and-outs of a particular relational database (like PostgreSQL) and allowing VC-backed tech companies to avoid paying senior developers who already possess that knowledge what they're actually worth.

If these new data stores were at last as reliable as the older relational databases they are supplanting, it wouldn't be so bad. But they aren't. Virtually all of them have been shown to be much less reliable and much more prone to data loss with MongoDB, one of the trendiest, also being one of the worst[1].

And these systems aren't even really new. They only appear that way to young developers with no sense of history. IBM's IMS, for example, is now 50-years-old, yet it has every bit as much a right to the label "NoSQL" as MongoDB does--and amusingly, it's even categorized as such on Wikipedia.[2]

1) https://aphyr.com/posts/322-call-me-maybe-mongodb-stale-read...

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Information_Management_Sys...
You're not going to get anywhere arguing with people who believe these are useful questions.

Though to be honest, Google uses those kinds of questions and apparently treats them as useful, so I'm not sure why you'd have wanted to work there.
Question: If Bernie Madoff had advertised his pyramid scheme in, say, the New York Times, can the paper be held responsible for subsequent losses suffered by those who took up the offer made in the advert?

Is this case legally similar, or do the specific crimes of human trafficking make it different? You know, sort of like how contracts are ordinarily enforceable, but if I agree to marry off my 12-year-old daughter to you, that "contract" is not enforceable.
Could you elaborate about Georgia? I can see one job "Rails Machine | Savannah, GA | Remote (U.S. Only Please) | Site Reliability Engineer" that seems to be correct.

As for Alabama's jobs I can see that is an investor's name "Bessemer" was recognized as Bessemer town in Alabama, "Cap Hill" area of Seattle became the place in Alabama as well and "Fifth Avenue" of NY and London also fell into Alabama..That's a total mess of course..
You can look at how much exposure you have in aforementioned retirement vehicles and sell short that same amount of exposure in a brokerage account.
I wonder whether they used neural style transfer to automatically generate them.

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1508.06576.pdf (See p. 5 for examples.)
OVH treats VIP customers very differently than its one-cheap-box-hire customers.

EDIT: As suggested below by toomuchtodo, at this level of deployment - Colo would be cheaper.
starting a new software project can be intimidating: the open green field of endless possibilities can be paralyzing. ... The trick is to just start.

This is bad advice unless you are a complete novice. Industry experience seems to weigh in on the side of focused analysis: you need to better understand the problem space and break a potential implementation down to a relatively simplistic first stage goal.

Relevant quotes:

Any attempt to formulate all possible requirements at the start of a project will fail and would cause considerable delays. - Pahl and Beitz, 'Engineering Design' (2007)

Sometimes the problem is to discover what the problem is. - Gordon Glegg, 'The Design of Design' (1969)

In practice, designing seems to proceed by oscillating between sub-solution and sub-problem areas, as well as by decomposing the problem and combining sub-solutions. - Nigel Cross

Success really depends on the conception of the problem, the design of the system, not in the details of how it's coded. - Leslie Lamport

You're not going to come up with a simple design through any kind of coding techniques or any kind of programming language concepts. Simplicity has to be achieved above the code level before you get to the point which you worry about how you actually implement this thing in code. - Leslie Lamport

... more @ https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup (which has a whole section of quotes 'writing with applicability to software')
Complete Intro to React
Trust me with your attitude Google isn't missing you either. Maybe one day you will appreciate fundamental CS knowledge as more than some "trivia" to study.
Trends:

Ajax, Long polling, WebSockets

jQuery/MooTools/Prototype, Bootstrap/CanMVC, Angular/React

Javascript debugging tools, profiling, 60fps, responsive pages, AMP

RSS, Web Push, WebRTC

HTTP Auth, Cookies, oAuth, new social protocols

Perl, Java, PHP, Node.js, Go
Last time I checked, Noto Mono was not considered a monospace font by Windows' console (Command Prompt) and cannot be used for working in the console (including Bash on Ubuntu on Windows). Is that still the case?
See comment here about the pesticides. The article is badly worded. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12658321

Nutrients are added to the irrigation water.
If someone told you to produce "a huge quantity of ceramics" would you go for huge in size or huge in number of items made?
The 'Airbnb Effect'
You have a strange definition of "coercing"

This isnt rape, it's just paying for an exchange. If a person doesn't want to use their body, they're free not to. Manual labor also involves using your body with wear and tear, it's not that different or special.
Well, we are obviously typing about Aristotle, so you seem to be wrong.
Scandinavia Is Growing a “Silicon Valley for Agriculture”
I recently downloaded the UberEats app on my iPhone. When I opened it for the first time, it pre-filled the email address I use for Uber and asked if I wanted to proceed with that. I don't know where they got this info from, but it sure creeped me out.

I would hope Apple would make an app ask permission before grabbing my email address from my contact card, and I have no idea how it could get this information from the Uber app.
Robot's won't take over the world! Google will.
Remote presence tech in the form of the telephone, video chats and online gaming are all fantastic. I'm not sure what the added value of the VR bit is.

Maybe online gaming is VR and we've had it for years without realizing. Add stereo video and head tracking - but only when it's really great - and maybe we're done apart from niche applications.
I doubt the title is 100% accurate. They are definitely using outside fertilizers.
The data is close enough that it sounds like the sets share a good portion of common data, but that there are exclusive items in one or both sets.

I could easily see one set based on a different time, or another that missed a category of drives (EG one also counts drives from testing / non-production units).
> was talking about were about employees' (lack of) access to user data

Which we have to take their word on and hope that never changes in the future, even though Google might not be the party with the authority to make that decision. Even when they are, business plans change and a pile of potentially profitable user data is a very powerful temptation towards moral hazard. Only a fool would claim that this wasn't a risk.

> that's the case for any person and business.

Only if you deliberately ignore the entire point that the data shouldn't be stored at all by 3rd parties. A business that sold a real product (instead of a service masquerading as a product) would run locally and no data would be put at risk.

If a judge orders me personally to reveal something, they probably need a warrant and there is a process by which I can challenge that order. If, however, that data is stored on Google's servers then I don't have standing to challenge any interaction between Google and the government.
> So I really don't see any problem with 200 boxes from OVH.

Its not cost effective compared to hiring ops and colo'ing it yourself. Once you're large enough, you hit tipping points:

* When to move from cloud to dedicated equipment

* When to move from dedicated equipment to someone else's colo (usually Equinix, but lots of providers in this space with varying levels of "warm fuzzies", which would cover on site techs, power and network redundancy, diesel commitments, and so on)

* When to move from someone else's colo to your own datacenter

(or in the other direction, depending on business requirements)

It also helps that US tax code (Sec 179) provides gracious depreciation schedules for physical compute/network/etc, which means that profit spread between cloud providers and you running your own gear goes back into your business or into your pocket

Disclaimer: 15 years of ops experience, including selling hosting to Fortune 500 companies as well as helping companies move from cloud to on-prem as well as the other way around. I've had to run cost/benefit analysis for this most of my career.
During the pilot project Sundrop decided to simplify the design. The equipment for the distillation of the hot humid air proved to be complicated to produce with the resources available at the time and they decided to go with a more conventional method.

Personally I think the original design could be made to work, but it needed more R&D than Sundrop was prepared to spend at the time.
Now, once the lawsuit is filed, he gets to do discovery. And if some exec at Yahoo has ever said something over email to the effect of aggressively promoting women, and, given the current set of beliefs in the Valley, it is hard to believe nothing would turn up, the guy might have struck gold here.
In recent times (5 years-ish), those three are about the most spectacular/ popular failures/ scandals (more of a scandal and less of failure in the case of Pao and Meyers) happened. Seeing that reddit is easily like the 2nd or 3rd most popular "social media" (with a loose definition of the term), is it a surprised an issue involving it would be popular on social media? And if any white male want to try starting a 10B fraudulent company, I have faith that HN will be dragging your name all over the place bashing you as well.

That said, when I read "really bad CEOs on social media" and tried to think of an example.... "Steve Balmer" comes to mind. I took the liberty of searching for just "steve balmer" on the HN's search. First article reads "Why Balmer failed", and this is a couple of link down: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6263205 .

Microsoft did NOT fail during his tenure as a CEO, and that is how he's judged. You might consider if your sampling is having a bias.
Thanks for the article. This part jumped out:

""In some instances, you can only get high marks on performance if you perform" without using condoms or other protection, Graham said."

Back then, I didn't think about the effect recommendation systems would have outside filtering bad clients. This negative effect on positive reviews is totally believable after all the stories I've seen about people extorting eBay or Amazon store owners for good reviews. This needs further research to figure out how to reduce its effect. It's essentially a form of subversion in practice where prostitutes get positive reviews the more dangerous (i.e. STD's) they are for their more honest clients. On top of pregnancy risks.
The basic rule is contracts cannot override the law.
>I trust an insurance company and healthcare provider because they are adversaries. Insurance vs insurance, insurance vs provider, provider vs provider. They're being driven with competition and ultimately greed. If one of them does a bad job, another that's doing better will replace it. They're all playing with their own money.

I mean, alternatively, doesn't the ultimate utilization of what the market can bear mean "no aggression pacts" between companies? As far as I've observed change in local options and markets in recent years hasnt been from innovation or disruptive new comers in many healthcare fields but instead buyouts and mergers consolidating the power until you're left with giants that just sort of leave one another alone. This doesn't breed competition, it breeds complacaency and a market with extremely few choices.

I don't know the answer but this idea that corporations will fight for our dollar doesn't sit well with me, as the current state of healthcare options shows this to not be the case. The barrier of entry just on cost (equip, doctors, medicine) excluding regulatory issues is prohibitive, and doubly so for insurers. Disruptive forces that would provoke competition or a change in pricing just seems too difficult to get off the ground.
I have used it and I hate it (age 30+) but can't deny its popularity
That was my impression too but when you're diagnosing a 2500 year old corpse I guess it's inevitable.
You're saying it's just a user experience shift, but that's exactly what the comment you're responding to is saying. User experience changes can be earth-shattering.
Using Vue.js as an Alternative to Rails Nested Forms
That's a hell of a reach from what she said, to put it mildly. To justify your inference she would need to be asking for extra money for dealing with any men, ever.
Homonyms are a thing. Of course a thing can also be good in one context and bad in another. No more tofu spilled in the bed. No more tofu spilled across my blog. "No more tofu" out of context sounds like a soy allergy. With context it means exactly what it says; eliminating a UX failure mode.

If something can only be derogatory if you fundamentally change the actual meaning of the statement, I think it is proven the statement as-is is not in fact derogatory. I would go so far as to say, it's abusing the notion and nature of human language to claim otherwise.
We're dealing with linking to/from apps now - on iOS it is a HUGE mess, littered with edge cases. They basically made like 5 breaking changes from iOS 8 until 10. And nothing is compatible with the other. Some of the "link" websites (for like marketing etc) even have to have tables where it says "this link will work in this webview, but not in this app, and sometimes in that app depening on the moon position".
Vue.js JavaScript framework revs up rendering
Coercion requires threats or force. Do you think all prostitution involves threats or force?

And wouldn't autonomy include the freedom to do with your body as you see fit?
Sure, it's shameful to force someone to do something without their consent. Your interpretation of consent seems very bizarre however. Inherently anyone paying anyone else to do anything means they wouldn't have done it without getting paid. Does that mean they didn't consent?
Succeeding MegaZeux
Forgive me, I don't want to sound xenophobic but this seems preposterous to me. So much energy wasted. I am deeply grateful to the guys who were developing keyboard standards in our country that I don't have to go through such waste. When we want to use "o" with accent we just press right ALT with "o". Simple and fast. Frankly speaking, this is first time I hear about such weird combination just to get local characters, in western countries ofc. PC keyboard is not mechanical one. Why someone would copy the same behavior is beyond me.
I dunno Jack Dorsey, the guy from Just Mayo, Blue Apron, there have been some pretty damning exposes on male CEOs in the tech industry just in the past few weeks. Hell, plenty of valid criticism is made of people like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg.

Granted, I'm not on twitter or facebook, but from what I understand social media is a hellscape and should be avoided at all costs.
Doesn't devdocs.io require you to open it before going offline to work?
Marissa Mayer is one of those women who believes their shit is rock solid, when in fact it's very runny which can be compared to the runniness of Yahoos market cap since she became CEO. She is also an elitist who believes you need to have a college degree in order to get things done that she needs done. Now, Yahoo is virtually worthless. Good job Marissa.
So, another non-response response. I don't think you have a leg to stand on and you just enjoy feeling superior (for no good reason as far as I can tell.)
Not to mention incompetence and understaffing. One guy retires and now another is responsible for overseeing spending in two areas. And at least sometimes the bureaucrats aren't aware of the relevant laws.
Great work doing this and good luck. Have a couple of ignorant questions:

1). Is it correct that there is no consensus on say, the top three reasons that females are under represented in computer science? It's frustrating that so many lay people voice just opinions and anecdotes. Is the real research starting to agree on what are the most important factors yet?

2) Some people say genetics is one reason females are underrepresented. For example they say, maybe on average females simply tend to be less interested in the subject. Is there any data that actually supports, or excludes this notion?
>humiliated

I think you need to pause, take a step back, and consider who is actually making an ass out of themselves in that situation.
Meanwhile, the rest of the developed world has had this figured out for the past too many decades to count because it would be embarrassing.
It really looks like they thought about that when developing gnu social as well and you can just set checkboxes. That's nice. In that regard I'll probably also set up my own instance. Thanks!
For those interested in these matters, the books by Masanobu Fukuoka (1) are a must. They may challenge some of the HN crowd views on progress, technology and religion, as they did definitely challenge mine, but they carry significative scientific truths. His focus on fighting desertification was both genius and ahead of his time.

(1) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
I was once a fan of Mayer when she first took over Yahoo, until she led a crusade against remote workers. As a remote worker myself I can tell you this crusade sent ripples throughout the industry. A lot of tech companies (especially outside the bay area) want to emulate the cool kids like Yahoo, Google, and Apple, and even the company I work for started questioning its WFH policies.

So no, I don't feel sorry for her one bit.
>The planet has suffered climate changes before and there is a common trend in this cases. The forest will move.

I think what you miss when making this argument is not that there will be a forest somewhere else in the future, but that there will be consequences from it not being where it currently is.
Well, yes. But consider the opposite case: the company doesn't prohibit these kinds of passwords, and the attacker does an exhaustive search of ONLY passwords that have sequential characters. That attack may be better even though they are only searching through a fraction of the total password space, since users will very often choose passwords that have sequential letters.
You are talking about 5,000 current employees being fired and many employees who were fired for reporting it. If he didn't know, then he must not know other things about Wells Fargo that are equally important.