skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From the article...

> We have a three-part training program that comes with the box. One: Covering sustainable farming, making sure everyone knows a little bit in terms of crop rotation, and composting, and intercropping. Two: Covering technology use and maintenance, making sure that the individuals know how to maintain and troubleshoot all of the components of the farm. Three: Farming as an enterprise, making sure that there is a market-based approach to farming.

It's not just 2 acres of irrigation equipment and a solar-powered raspberry pi. There's at least initial support to help improve odds of success.

Not saying that bumps to $50,000 in value in material terms. Just pointing out you don't just get a box dropped off on your driveway.
Have you been to Kauai? Think Maui, but fewer people.
Takes a bit more then that to make a 200m2 plot thrive. My experience has been that it would roughly equate to 3-4 days of 4-6hrs. That is assuming you are keeping on top of all of the tasks and not using any serious tooling. If you do that and have good conditions/knowledge, you'll see a density that is enough to provide for 4 and generate a small surplus.
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Active Server Pages (aka classic asp)

VBScript

JScript
Couldn't agree more.

It's not about courage or innovation for innovation's sake, but about making the right decisions. Sometimes that means being boring.

The 2013 Mac Pro is a perfect example of Apple badly solving a problem that wasn't there to begin with. What did Apple smoke? Circular GPUs that can't be upgraded? No PCIe slots or storage space that forces you to use expensive TB noisy boxes with cable all over your desk?
Which doesn't seem to mean much as people in the US are in effect locked into class: http://www.economist.com/news/united-states/21595437-america...

In 1971 a child from the poorest fifth had an 8.4% chance of making it to the top quintile. For a child born in 1986 the odds were 9%. The study confirms previous findings that America’s social mobility is low compared with many European countries. (In Denmark, a poor child has twice as much chance of making it to the top quintile as in America.) But it challenges several smaller recent studies that concluded that America had become less socially mobile.
uses PHP and JS

Those aren't old enough to count, I guess

googles age of PHP

Holy crap! PHP is almost 23 years old. Probably still not considered "old" though...
«So Frontier, Spirit, and now the "Basic Economy" fares charge even more for cabin bags than for checked bags. Problem solved.»

Because no one ever travels with baggage? You can argue its "price transparency", but forcing something everyone needs to be an "add-on" is awfully shady.

«One theory I heard about the checked bag fees (back when carry-on bags were no extra charge) was that the fee freed up cargo space so the airline could carry more paid air cargo, purposefully pushing baggage into the main cabin.»

The other theory I've heard is that "unbundling" a lot of these fees and moving them to being charged at checkin and/or the gate has meant that traditional travel agents and corporate booking can't touch or negotiate them (because they aren't direct flight costs anymore). Given most corporate expense systems don't allow for reporting "add-on fees" at an airport (and it took a while for any corporate execs to catch up to a possible need to add baggage fees as an expense that could/should be reported; many companies still seem to have yet to notice), this was a good way for the airlines to increase flight costs across the board without immediately upsetting fat cat corporate clients and choice travel agents by sneakily passing the cost difference directly to employees/flyers who at that point were a "captive audience" to the new fees.
Can you talk more to humans being behind the boxes? How do they have the human-power to do such a thing?
it may be an underestimation of AI to assume that AI will respect the concept of human ownership
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That's good to hear. I used to enjoy the GNOME2 and KDE2 and 3.5 days but after that I switched to Mac OSX (as it was then). I am now running macOS and Windows 10 but with a Linux console box (WindowMaker on VNC, classic eh) but don't feel a strong desire to switch back after my attempts with Unity and GNOME3. XFCE is still there I suppose.

I'm glad they're settling into boredom - I just want to get stuff done without faffing around. Gone are my days of ndiswrapper for fun and XFree86Config for kicks. Actually, they're probably long-gone for a lot of people....

Does sleep/resume work?
This is epic. Love it. I'm going to share this with others. I see this as a great way to learn about patents in general, and as a way to get inspiration for new ideas. I've always found patents fascinating, even if they're a little over-hyped as a business moat. Ask Apple. Have any of their ideas from their beginning until now, not been copied? Windows GUI vs Mac OS GUI, iPhone vs Galaxy, Android vs iOS.

But I still think patents are at least stimulating to read and apply for. It's proof of invention, which I still think is pretty cool and useful.
I have not used networkx on anything serious, but this article lead me to believe that it is to be avoided, since the library missed obvious Python optimizations:

https://mathieularose.com/choosing-the-right-data-structures...
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I'll plug TotalSpaces2 (https://totalspaces.binaryage.com/) here. If you're stuck with OS X for whatever reason, it's well worth the $12 to remove that god-damned animation that eats keystrokes for a full second longer than it takes my hands to start trying to interact with whatever's on the screen I'm switching to.
I'm curious, can't you just cross the border over to Germany, and enjoy smaller prices?
For my day job, Python (it's 25, that's old) mostly. Primarily as the machine learning platform (all of it, from models to infrastructure) for the products my team develops for the company.

For my spare time work mostly Fortran, C and C++ qualify as old languages I'll be using. These I use to dabble in research (physics) more for fun than anything else.
> The SSH_enumusers auxiliary module allows user detection:

Gee, I naively assumed that ssh was designed to avoid leaking whether users were valid or not. Is this based on just timing or does the protocol really reveal whether or not it's a valid user?
I find the focus on congestion within the transport space to be perplexing. I'm guessing it is to do with the visibility of congestion. Waze recently did a survey and identified the Netherlands as the best place to drive (https://www.waze.com/driverindex).

The Netherlands is also the only western country with a negative obesity trend expected to hit 8% by 2030, currently at 10% vs the UK's 25%. The USA I believe is getting close to 36%.

We can try and blame our diets, however our built environment is creating a public health crisis of inoordinate scale. The car is very much to blame for this.

The car and car sharing is not the answer to traffic. Creating segregated end to end cycle networks with good junctions enabling people to choose to ride up to 5 miles to school/work is absolutely critical to avert this public health crisis.
I do scientific computing in academia.

Secretly, it's just fortran all the way down, and LaTeX for document preparation.

Piled on top of that is a fair amount of matlab, simulink, and python.
I had the same problem...Luckily it's easy to fix. Disable your ad blocker and refresh your video with ads until you get the one that is a survey. Once you finish the survey you can enable your ad blocker and things will be normal again.
> Should a person of average height and on minimum wage subsidise a well-paid tall person?

I assume it is ok though that a short well-paid person to subsidize a tall less-paid individual?
Another thread shitting on Apple with more than 300 replies...

Most from people who were never Apple costumers and never will be.
Great work! Are these sorted in any particular order inside each topic ?
There are still a bunch of modern Windows desktop applications written in Delphi and C++Builder – I work on one of them. ^_^

I really like Delphi actually. It's a shame Embarcadero doesn't really seem to care about it.
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>It's BI proponents proposing to add a leisure class

Don't we already have a leisure class in the >1%? It may not represent a large portion of our population, but it does represent a large amount of wealth and income.

Sure, there are still elements of the leisure class that spend time maximizing their income by working/investing, but its hard to call that a "job". If there's no risk of falling through and becoming insolvent, then I'd say it's more of a hobby focused on power/wealth accumulation.
Awesome! great work.

I'm a programmer, but - I've always wondered how does one go about making/generating such videos?
India's double first in climate battle
The FBI estimates about 3,000 people go missing, permanently, in the US every year. People get reported missing all of the time, but they are found quickly.
hp elitebooks, thinkpads, toshiba's notebooks are all well designed. You can throw anything on it.. linux, bsd unix or windows. You have a variety of distributions or bsd os'es.
i don't know what you're talking about phones: there are plenty of phone vendors out there, too. Instead of whining about a company, it would be better to move on and decide what you need and buy that.
> This is a trivial function which is less complicated than the comparison operator that you would have to write for std::sort.

Unless it uses the same interface (aka call a comparator for each eval) it's apples to oranges. I also didn't see comparisons vs swaps enumerated, which matter for complex data structures or complex comparators.
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I know that pain.
You may appreciate it, but I don't see a justification for why it should exist. The fact that you pay extra for last minute tickets is neither here nor there in terms of whether that should buy you the preferred seat, and the fact that you have status has nothing to do with the fact that you purchase last minute. (and, in fact, if someone else with status booked 1 month early, they'd be more likely to get that seat than you). I say this as someone who has flown on <24h notice internationally and domestically multiple times in the past year. (and of course these last minute fares can often be rock-bottom cheap, it all depends).

I understand what you're saying, but the mileage programs are not really about "loyalty"; they're about misallocating corporate dollars to more expensive seats to the benefit of the airline and the traveller/employee. I don't feel that people like you providing "the majority of revenue" to airlines should really matter either way. Dollars for seats.

I managed to just cross a mileage program threshold this year but I'll continue ranting about how terrible these programs and the flying experience in general is. Especially because having bargain-basement status on United means nothing when you're flying out of a major hub :)
No, you have alternatives you enumerated.

Yes, they are not as good as Apple. What's new? Isn't the thread and the author shitting on Apple?

If he is, and you all are, then it's because you have something better.
I'm not sure if it's from "Fallout 4" though. In the game, offsets (in the left columns) are growing by 12 because every line contains 3 bytes (12 bits) of data. In the image that CNN used offsets are just random garbage. Also, font is clearly different in both cases.

Similar but not the same.
I've played around with investing in bitcoin and I'm a strong believer in cryptocurrencies and blockchains as a technology, but there really are a ton of scams in the industry and it's worthwhile to point that out.
And I presume Google Maps works great in Dillo?
Ethereum, MaidSafe, etc.. are trying to be a solution to a specific problem: how to create a trustless decentralized internet (and perhaps even society), one that does not require centralized structures like it does now.

It's not quite there yet, and there is a long way to go, but at least there is some progress.
The most frustrating part is when I go to a site, start watching the pitch video, and am interrupted 10-15s into the video by a chat bot asking me if I have any questions.

I don't know if I have questions yet. I'm watching the video. I have javascript enabled - you can tell that I'm watching the video. Leave me alone.
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I want to have a positive opinion of Comey! I like the idea of people running our most important/powerful institutions being fundamentally competent and principled, even when I disagree with them politically. But I have a hard time getting past the way he handled the Anthony Weiner email stuff at the end of the last election. It seemed unprincipled. Have you thought much about that? Am I missing something?
> Every box also comes with its own renewable energy system. Everything is solar. We’ve got three kilowatts of solar energy pre-installed on the actual kit.

What do they mean by this? Kilowatt is not a unit of energy, but a unit of power. Does that mean they provide equipment that is rated to produce three kilowatts? I'm no farmer but that sounds like awfully little power for power-hungry farm equipment.
NYC's problem is also distance. Depending on where you're coming from biking could take 1.5-2hrs each way. I enjoy it but the problem is with extreme rising housing costs people are pushed further and further.

Though to be honest, a SAFE biking lane system would be a much welcome gift in NYC. Currently in certain areas I have to work doubly hard to not get killed daily.
Since my reason for running a blocker is to prevent an ad-delivered malware infection -- I think I'll stick with the black screens, as annoying as they are.
That was my read on this, so thanks for confirming it. It seems like the most valuable part of this kit won't be in the box, and that's access to someone who knows the basics (and not so basics) of farming to guide the new box owners. I suppose there's the argument of "no one taught our ancestors to farm and they figured it out," but then how effective is this kit at all if you're winging it?
I don't have anything to contradict it, since I'm not arguing either way. I just like pointing out communication issues in HN's discussions. What about the second point?
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They don't think it's a bug, as it was marked "as intended" or something.

But I'd disagree. No Adobe software does this by default. Trying to simulate a reflective medium in a emissive one by decreasing the latitude can be useful at times, but simply showing it like that with no option to turn it off seems crazy to me.
Much of the academic research I have read (Check out Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes) shows the exact opposite to be true.

Our diets accounts for dramatically much higher cause of obesity than our environment and specifically cars.
What chat platforms other than Microsoft's Bot Framework is there? I built a chatbot with C# on BF and frankly it hasn't been a smooth experience, but to be fair, they were changing things so fast.

I almost expect AWS to release their own "Bot Framework" soon.
I don't think either Go or Rust qualify as "buggy" or "failing." They aren't "old" in my view. And I find Rust more interesting than C or C++ these days. Although C++17 looks nice.
Makes you wonder if his advice is really worth reading. :/
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Change how journalism is funded and managed. That's easier said than done, but it would go a long way towards addressing problems.
I think that's the general setup you get when an economy cartelizes. The untold story of American inequality has been the reversal of decades of antitrust work by the state, resulting in the oligopolization of most major labor, consumer, and capital markets. http://washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/junejulyaug-2016/popul...
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You can but that's only practical if you live in Basel.
C++98 with a few C++11 features for work (our compiler is not really C++11 compliant at all, but it does have move semantics).

Ada for fun, though I'd say Ada 2012 is a bit like C++11 in terms of “basically a new language”. People do seem to have a perception of Ada as ‘old’, though I'm not sure why (it is, by my account, more ‘modern’ than, say, Go – actually, it's not unlike Go with a nice generics system).
Parts of the UI hanging can be memory pressure (or, at least in the past, things like network issues with e.g. LDAP or network home directories) but I've never seen that halt animations, mouse motion, or stop the clock from updating.

I do agree that Apple needs to get better at I/O scheduling – even with an SSD the experience is less responsive than BeOS was on 90s PC hardware — but the animation loop has typically been a reliable diagnostic cue in my experience for distinguishing between swapping / disk failure and other issues.
Anecdata, but I have gone from 100% checkin to almost 100% carryon because I'm simply not interested in paying one more fee. I'd rather have someone handle my bag for me, especially if the alternative is schlepping it through multiple connections, but the airlines have incentivized people to carryon instead. It absolutely slows down boarding and fills overheads. This is probably why Southwest still allowed 'free' bags; they turn around planes quicker than anyone else.
Math often provides a much easier and elegant solution to things:

http://www.evanmiller.org/mathematical-hacker.html
> how to create a trustless decentralized internet

what evidence of demand is there? what compelling need is there for existing infrastructures to uproot their investments for some elusive buzzword?
I voted you up. You could have written more instead of linking to an excerpt of yours. But after reading it with the great examples of bugged contracts you gave I must say: thank you. I especially love the GovernMental example (https://www.reddit.com/r/ethereum/comments/4ghzhv/government...). Small bug but the involved ether will stay in nirvana forever.

I only knew about the failed DAO up to now. All those smaller failed contracts fit perfectly in the image the DAO left. I mean I love the idea of ethernet and its contracts but I see no solution to the inherent software bug problem. You can't do a hard fork for every bug.
"Before there was an internet of lightbulbs and smoke detectors"

Hahaha. That was good.

Delphi is used heavily at my company to process millions of transactions a day, in the credit card industry.

I myself am a C# developer though. But I respect Delphi's performance and relatively clean syntax.
Ask HN: Share websites you made for your desktop “applications”
Wanted to see how I should go about writing a webpage for a freebie app that I worked on. Inspirations required.

Also, please share any tips you have about getting the "application" out there, and gathering feedback and continuing the development cycle.

Thanks and happy new years.
Yeah, true, however not the initial conversation attempt. I guess, if you really answer you might get hooked up with a real sales human at one point, but the initial attempt (after you have been 5s on the pricing page) is always extremely awkward.

I think if I just scout the chat bubble I already start questioning the business really hard.
Bottom line is Apple has forgotten they are a computer company first and a lifestyle company second. This year they tried to be a lifestyle company first and it was a huge mistake. They'll fix it, I give Tim Cook 3.5 years to right the ship or he'll be gone and they'll try to get someone who can.
The Mac wasn't a steaming cesspool despite having none of these restrictions. I don't think your examples at the end support your point at all. It seems to me that a $1,000 app that does nothing and $100 in-game ammo purchases are only enabled by something like the App Store. The App Store is pretty anti-consumer, really. For example, the freemium craze was partly driven by the fact that Apple forbids free trials, so developers had to come up with other, worse ways to monetize without requiring people to pay up-front for something they didn't know the worth of.
> Most likely this is a routine NGO/EDU/Gov scam backed by an aggressive and shiny sales approach.

And this is why I don't like those Gov (capital G intentional) programs. The scamsters are the best at exploiting them.

That's how you end up with things like this: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/free-golf-cart-but-call-it-a-low...
Interesting, it's squashing the whites in this case.
GPU nowadays is almost a misnomer. They are more like supercharged versions of the old "floating-point calculation" chips. As such, they have plenty of applications beyond VR - bitcoin, data analysis, encryption etc etc etc.