skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've become entranced by the Youtube videos of Urban Farmer Curtis Stone. I played around with the idea of starting a farm like this and the labor involved turned me against it, but I can listen to his vlogs for hours while doing yard work or painting through my wireless headphones.

There is something very human about one person teaching another person to produce food in the kind of detail he goes in to, and I think time farming lends itself to quality thinking and reasoning for a philosophically inclined intelligent person.

They are essentially rediscovering the way humanity grew greens before tractors and herbicides, but there are some new innovations that are making these farms work:

1) Growing things like romaine lettuce in holes cut in landscape tarping is eliminating weeding.

2) They are cutting time from harvest to plate by a few days, and the resulting quality is much better, and they are not using toxic chemicals to control pests and weeds.

3) They are using no-till methods, the only input is compost and earth worms do the tilling work.

I wish that there were more farms like this in my area, because I really hate the selection and price of organic produce in my supermarkets. It is very much lacking, or insanely expensive.
Probably an APL-like language like K+
Why Automakers Are Skipping Semi-Autonomous Cars and Going for Fully Driverless
Thanks for the paper.

My understanding has been that it was due to stickiness in both wages and labor demand. That is, a recession is an excuse to cut wages/benefits/hours/headcount that managers either didn't care to cut or were afraid to cut in good times.

That, or it spurs managers to actually innovate and figure out how to do more with less.

If that understanding is even partially correct, it's ironic that labor laws designed to protect employees might actually be contributing to over-corrections in the labor market that directly hurt employees.
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Noticed a small typo here https://app.getcastor.com/#!/login

"Sign up an login using an identity provider:"

should be

"Sign up and login using an identity provider:"

Also, uBlock origin is hiding the facebook/google login buttons for me.
As much as it's fun to think about, food doesn't need to be grown in urban areas with expensive real estate.

Green houses and hydroponics are great, but they can just as well be done on cheap land.

The biggest difficulty in food production isn't land, water, and sunlight - its management at scale.

This is why the vast majority of everyone's calories comes from large tractor managed commodity crops.

As a metaphor, the easy part of IT is ordering the servers, switches, etc. The setup takes some labor, but the real difficulty is the ongoing management.
Perl 5, I have been using it in Financial Services for the past 12 years. It is still a workhorse when it comes to reporting. Many large banks still use it, but most don't advertise it. I used it at places like Intel back in 1999. It really is a versatile language.
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Short answer, it's a "gamer" board.

Unfortunately, the path to the best hardware on PC is usually with gamer hardware, which means you end up with hardware with pointless bling attached.
Apple makes a damned good mobile chip, but it's still just a mobile chip and it plays by mobile rules. Do you think apple has the expertise to switch to desktop class chip design?
bash (27 years) - I tend to write for bash 3 and up, totally happy for my scripts to not work on Bourne shell

powershell (11 years) - basically just a better version of bash with 'select' and 'where' replacing scraping for text with grep/sed/awk

javascript (21 years) - finally ES5 and 6 have added some stupidly obvious things like multiline strings, array.includes(), destructuring, etc - it's actually a pretty good language now.
I see memory pressure cause even SSD-equipped Macs grind to a halt in this way.
What do you do with that stack? I've used all of those at work as well, but the C/Fortran part is just debugging or pulling the logic for what the system is doing.
I think the big thing is making yourself vulnerable to take that next leap.

There's a few people you probably know (at least a little bit) from work, or meetups, or maybe they live near you.

Ask them to get lunch or grab coffee. Start sending them texts or emails more often.

Some people might say no over and over again or they just might be busy.

Also - if someone asks you to do something - Just say yes. I learned that if you say no the first 1 or 2 times someone asks you to hang out or come to a party - the invitations will stop.
showers are part of cycling infrastructure I guess.
Surely there's a relational DB somewhere...perhaps indirectly via Saas? Maybe payroll, company books, timesheets, or some other software common to most businesses.
By decentralized storage I mean ipfs, ethereums own swarm( https://blog.ethereum.org/2016/12/15/swarm-alpha-public-pilo... ), maidsafe, storj, etc..

IPFS is quite popular in the Ethereum comunity (since swarm was delayed), it does need an incentivation layer which they will be implementing soon last I checked. I have no ilusions that all these techs will need to be battletested and might even have flaws, but they are a step in the right direction.
- C! (I'm not using it at my current job but I'm just about to start a new job that's mostly C)
- Scheme! (Because I love it)
- Bash/Awk/Perl/Sed! (Because I use Arch for everything)
- Java! (Because you can't have everything in life)
Anyone remember Sun's "blackbox?"

https://www.engadget.com/2006/10/18/suns-project-blackbox-da...

I can't find the original stuff anymore, the "martian picture" was actually in Sun's collateral on their website though. You can't make stuff like that up. There is a certain magic when a corporation with real money produces that kind of marketing buzz. I vaguely remember a picture of a Katrina-like situation with a black box too, cause you need processing power when the city floods and people are dying, I can't remember if that was part of the official messaging or not, maybe I just dreamed it up..

There is absolutely some appeal to full turn-key looking solutions for things that pretty clearly don't have them. It strikes me a perfect "inside the echochamber" thinking to dream up a farm in a box like this. I'd bet not everyone on the design team even has a home garden. Sometimes they day dream up a new paradigm and a lot of times it's just pretty marketing buzz. 2 acre open field farming doesn't seem like a good fit, I could see some success if this was scaled in to modular green house farming or something like that, maybe more on the gardening scale than the farming one.
Sort of related, newsdiffs.org is useful for telling when the New York Times silently edits articles, which can be pretty substantial sometimes.
I'm not "putting" words in his mouth. I have watched all 3 debates, a few televised rallies he did during the primaries. I also pay attention to his twitter feed.

My "intuitions" indicate that he attacked an Indiana union leader over not doing enough and being laggard. Oh, that's not an intuition, that's a recorded fact.

There's plenty other places I could cite from. But the underlying idea here, is that you don't become a business leader unless you walk on other people, crack some heads, and beat them. And yet, somehow he's supposed to think of the little guy? Which one of the countless people he's screwed over are you refferring to?
>> What offended you?

I'm not the perfect example of race issues for everyone and their experiences. But the comment I've quoted below was way out of alignment with my experience during Magic's prime. White people knew full well what black folks had gone through. They were very proud of what Magic was doing and saying. That is why he was liked. He was healing the nation. We could all come together. Later, and maybe because Magic made black guys look nice, white kids wanted to wear Jordan high-top shoes.

I said, white kids. In fact, Michael Jackson was the coolest guy in the world at my school. That was my memory of the 80s and I find it offensive to hear something that put down a lot of my friends during this time period. My 2nd grade teacher was black and she made the white kids and black kids feel special. She also gave me a much deserved spanking! A white kid wanted to be black so he did not have to get a tan!

But hey, we all have our feelings about the past. I'm just not sure how a much celebrated guy like Kareem can still feel this way.

Kareem's comment:

"I understood why people liked him," Abdul-Jabbar told me. "He had that great smile, so white people thought his life was O.K. They thought that racism had not affected him. They were wrong, of course."

No, we thought Magic was cool because he could forgive others.
Nobody is even close to touching intel in its niche of high single chip preformance at reasonable power usage. PPC was way way behind when it got replaced.
To be able to ignore the instructions you have to be able to read them first. ;)

Although all this is irrelevant since Apple phased out mag safe, the "ears" that hold the cable, and added a removable cable.
You can set keyboard shortcuts for the specific spaces, specifically control + {1,2,3,4} for each space. In the keyboard section in system preferences, under "shortcuts" tab.
Why would people on HN not be interested in Bridgewater? I'm on HN. I'm very interested in Bridgewater. I also like reading things written by Dalio, as this piece is. Your criticism is bizarre.
That title... while I'm not disagreeing with the intent or the message that has to be classed as clickbait. Like come on, that's one well of an optioned title for an article that links to an article with a completely different title. Just, you know - even without any research I'm quite confident that the company in question (intel) hasn't 'stopped trying', perhaps they've undervalued a product line or had a lacklustre release but I'm sure there's a lot of engineers 'trying', again, click bate titles - grr!
I agree that skepticism is warranted especially since its not clear what is included but I think the idea could have merit. The key value it could provide is time savings on getting the farm up and running. The time between putting money down on land and equipment and getting revenue flowing is crucial for any business, with farming being more unforgiving than most. If this product allows a farmer to cut the time to acquire and integrate most of the pieces they need then that's quite valuable.
Visual FoxPro (VFP). Runs a number of legacy systems. But, still works quite well given a pretty flexible data access layer and access to any number of APIs over HTTP. Strong baked-in SQL support.
'Fake News' and How WaPo Rewrote Its Story on Russian Hacking of Power Grid
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I'm a programmer with a lot of experience with GL. I'm mostly working with data visualization in general, but I wrote several non-toy 3D engines in the past.

I've been rather oblivious with VR as of date, even though I toyed with 3d glasses on an SGI Octane decades ago. After a couple of experiences with the Oculus though, I'd love to start hacking on VR technology.

As my development platform for the last 10+ years as been exclusively Linux, and again almost exclusively targeting high-end NVidia cards, I have no interest in switching OS whatsoever.

What is the status of VR on linux? It seems that most headsets are platform and vendor-locked. Why is this the case? Are some devices more hackable than others?
What's a better idea than gov't programs for adult education / job training? Most companies aren't interested in investing the resources to retrain employees unless training lasts a few months at most.

Even market solutions will require a lot of gov't interference to work imo (things like job "mortgages" i.e. student loans for adults).
Completely off topic...

For someone who doesn't follow Intel chip generations closely, the chart of the generations of Core I3/I5/I7 chips was informative. Two Observations:

1. Why doesn't Intel actually name the chips to make them clearer?

2. The poor Mac Mini that Apple is selling in 2017 uses 2013 era chips and is way overpriced.

Edit: fixed typos
Smalltalk. It's the "secret weapon" for a backend service. Allows fast mutability and is unbeatable at productivity and exploration.
I'm always sort of resistant to this type of thinking. You're not wrong, but if people are defeated because this kit tries to simplify some aspects of a difficult and experience driven process, then that's sad.

New things are hard. People should still try them. Also when I was a kid my dad basically did give me a box of computer parts, sans red bull, and said have it - and I broke it. I bent pins, I had to format, when I finally got it running I upgraded it and broke it again. Eventually I figured it out and here I am.
OK, fine, here is a usecase.

What about online gambling? With a trustless system, you can now prove that the game is fair, and isn't going to up and steal your money.

Gambling is frequently thought of as a "shady" business where trust matters a lot.

There is no interaction with real world goods. (the exchanges handle that).
I love that C++ is my primary language right now, after years of being stuck doing Java. I really enjoy working in C++11. With CLion it's super awesome.
There is a video, though it only gets to showing some artifacts near the end.
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I love sql myself. I'm not sure why I love it so much and other people hate it. Sometimes I think that coming up with reasons is just after the fact justification (do I really like it because it has a solid mathematical foundation in the relational calculus, or does that just sound like a good reason to say I like it)?

Pandas is an excellent contribution to data analysis, but I gotta tell you, I was absolutely delighted to learn about pandasql and realize I could write selects, group by, order by, and so forth, converting data frame to data frame through sql.

What can I say? I truly encourage people to give SQL a real chance. I'm happy to use ORMs that save me some typing on simple queries, and certainly I use a combination of pandas and sql, there are some things much better accomplished through a programming language. But I'm willing to drop to SQL pretty quickly if I sense that the programming language or library is really just forcing me to re-learn a new implementation of sql.
Not naive at all if you didn't know Amazon, Facebook, and WhatsApp use it? I know a lot of places are starting to use Elixir which runs on the Beam VM. I still think its a safe assumption to ask (why I put a ?).
Rethinking the legacy of writers who worked with the CIA
Snapdragon 835 processor details leaked: 10 nm, 40% less power, 27% faster
Yes, but Forstall was responsible for skeumorphism across all of iOS, so I'm not certain he really was as visionary as Jobs.
My wife can see the hacked screen on the network at her job. I can't.
That's fine, and the company I work for has a similar policy, it actually used to be based on just how long a single flight is. Today, you'll get that if you're an executive with serious flight time. With that said, OP did not mention a company shelling out for this, only that the were a software engineer. Which is nonsense.
As far as I can tell, it's not even released yet. https://rog.asus.com/articles/maximus-motherboards/press-rel... Aside from protecting the various chips, it's going to look great in a case lit up like a bat-signal.

Edit: It comes with two independent LED zones built-in http://rog.asus.com/media/1483473467178.jpg , and headers to control 4 meters of LED light strips, not to mention coordination with compatible glowy RAM sticks. http://rog.asus.com/media/148345887868.jpg
. But the PCIe slots are actually steel-reinforced, so it's only about 85% eye-candy. http://rog.asus.com/media/1483459091833.jpg "In fact, if you give the Code a home in a tempered glass chassis, it’s practically impossible not to end up with a system that looks rather special." That's a quote from the press release!
To qualify for "Rent Control" the apartments must be occupied since July 1, 1971 so that 1.2% is effectively 100% retired people.

Further 1,030,000 units are "Rent Stabilized". However, "Rent Stabilized" is really just another type of Rent Controlled with different rules.

PS: From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_control_in_New_York Non-regulated 2011: 39.1%.
Try buying a laptop for CAD rendering sometime. So many people where I work didn't want to settle for last gen speeds of "workstation" class (think, AMD firepro and Nvidia Quadro cards) and now pay the shame price of rainbow LEDs, red plastic, and gaudy keyboard fonts.

Thanks user persona centered design!
No way. I have some friends who've been operating a family farm since the 1600's in Upstate NY. They are doing great, and IMO the future looks brighter. The problem with what you describe is that there is too much complexity, too many middlemen, and too much reliance on the West Coast.

Without all of this nonsense, these folks are successfully growing greens through the winter in a harsh northern climate, using high tunnels and fans with simple timers and sensors. It's totally doable and scalable without wasting lots of money on equipment and tractors.

In terms of cost -- most of the cost gets piled on in the supply chain. I get milk delivered twice a week for a slight (15%) price premium compared to the grocery store. The farmer's gross is about 40% higher than what it would be if he were shipping to a co-op or commercial dairy. We do most seasonal vegetable shopping from non-organic, local farms and conservatively pay 75% less as compared to the stuff shipped in from California or Chile.

Small scale agriculture is going to be huge IMO as the ability the sustain the miracle in the desert in California and the costs of fertilizer rises.
You're right that situations are individual - but actually the water distribution side of things can be fairly generic.

But note that drip tape is incompatible with tractor-based agriculture and will only be used with perennial or labor intensive annual crops.
>The flip-side is with baggage fees, passengers have incentive to sneak bulky baggage into the cabin, or carry the absolute maximum allowed amount of carry-on. This ends up forcing people to gate-check their luggage, because the cabin runs out of space. This costs time and annoyance.

Right, but that's an artifact of only charging for one of two "cost-adders", when they're close substitutes.

It doesn't refute the general point that it makes sense in general to charge more for things that add legit costs; the problem here is that they're not being consistent about it. Per previous discussion, charging for carry-ons seems to make more sense than charging for (a moderate allowance of) checked luggage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13311317
> The fact that it was only reported now probably shows that it rarely occurs in real world applications.

And/or that those who encounter it assume they're misunderstanding left joins, and try something different.
Desktop CPUs are a mature market. Desktop applications tend to be either not performance limited or limited by something other than the CPU.

Consider that the 7700K in question gets similar performance to your Sandy Bridge box at probably 1/3 of the power draw. (I had a 4.2GHz 2600K for a few years and the socket pulled about 102W, so I'm guessing that's what you're looking at). A 3X increase in power efficiency is certainly not a lack of progress, it's just that you don't care.
Rust, definitely. I'm actually most interested in the possibility of using it for some of the areas that people are currently using Go (CLI tools and back-end Web). Rust actually already has a lot of the selling points of Go and in the long-term I think that Rust will outdo Go in some ways, but the HTTP stack is still maturing.

Elixir, possibly. It may be a good next move for Rails shops, but I'll see if the community grows a bit.

.NET Core if we get interest from my employer's customers. Very preferably not on Windows.
So lame.
We might be talking at cross-purposes, my angle is that of dense linear algebra, single or double precision, on NUMA architectures with vector operations, and all respect to Knuth but it requires a different model for the machine.

If that's changed, like for example if you're computing over a different ring where arithmetic ops are expense as compared to cache misses and there's no stability issues, then yes the issue is back open and Strassen is put back on the table.