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I used to work with a company that modified shipping containers for a whole slew of uses, including hydroponic growing of vegetables. Shipping containers present a great solution to food production but sadly many of the companies I've seen attempt to do this sort of thing get bogged down in the details of implementing them to various clients (such as the article's mention of testing in Ethiopia). One company, however, that has seemed to get it all right is http://www.freightfarms.com/ I'm very curious to see where they go. No affiliation, I just know a few happy customers of theirs.
It just doesn't download the ad at all. You can specifically tell it to try to download the ad, but just don't do that and you get ad-free, no matter if you have YouTube Red or not.
> the most important

The most important organ, eh? Consider the source of that information. ;)
It is apitty FOSS project like GNU-Darwin / PureDarwin never took off and people use Hackintosh. But Apple is here to blame. They could even support the users by charging some fee.
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On Windows, it's probably a combination of multiple tools. Some examples:

* For searching and browsing, Listary Pro is pretty good.

* For text expansion, AutoHotKey

* Automating, maybe AutoHotKey again.

* Clipboard stuff - Ditto, Clip X

As I mentioned in another post, Scott Hanselman's giant developer tools list is particularly useful:

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/ScottHanselmans2014UltimateDev...
The fact that your machines haven't personally been broken doesn't mean its a good or a bad design
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Yeah, consumer protection is definitely the most Communist thing ever. Commies loooved consumption and consumers /s.
The point is shuttering a product is rarely the end goal for a larger companies product.

It is the end goal for almost every startup in the current climate.
I don't have the details in front of me, but I believe it is dependent on how the PDF is created. IIRC, page numbers must be somehow indicated to the PDF reader client.
I'm a Bitcoin enthusiast, yet the whole crypto-ecosystem is ridden with crooks and frauds trying to make money of suckers. Altcoins that are obvious scams, services that have "accidental" bugs and loose your money, services that get "hacked", and so on. As a rule of thumb everything in cryptofin should be considered a scam before proven otherwise.

It's quite rare for angular-like libraries to try to steal money of their users.
Not specifically related to the farm. Ethiopia is a very non-free country, as is nearby Eritrea. We just don't hear much about it because journalism is impossible and the government is pro-west.
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Except in Paris there are so many cars in use, causing such a huge amount of pollution, that the government had to ban half the cars in Paris from driving on certain days last year.
This patent, owned by George S. Panton, Jr., also includes Pants.

Edit: Mr. Panton, firmly rooted in the clothing industry, has other inventions, like this spandex necktie: https://patents.google.com/patent/US4839925A/en?inventor=Geo....
Just a note on CalPERS since the press lumps all state and local pension systems togther..

There are many different pension systems maintained by CalPERS. It isn't one system for all public sector. Bell had its system, completely independent of, say, Stockton, which again is independent of the State employee pension system. But all managed by PERS.

Only a few of these systems allow for pension spiking via overtime and/or vacation pay. State Employee pensions do not allow this. In fact, pension rules have become even more restrictive over the past decade.
How are fully-consumed process inputs handled in VAT? It's easy to calculate non-consumed inputs. They paid $x per kg of aluminum. Each finished product contains y kg. So the "cost basis" for each product is $x * y.

But what happens to, say, the electricity used to melt the aluminum before being poured into molds?
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Nothing wrong at all if it was really working that way, i.e. that someone would really get a cheaper price than a normal package. The article does make a point that it's not really what is happening, instead the companies are squeezing the money out of customers in any way they can.

In the end everyone wants to make money, but at certain point it starts bordering on unethical, this squeezing of money out of customers. I am pointing out that if one spins these practices in a certain way, one can even get the customers to support the initiatives which are not in their interests.
Nor was I until I started reading around this topic earlier. It's certainly still workable but just worth keeping in mind before anyone springs extra £££ for TB3 and the latest crazy-powerful GPU.
>> after hearing about the Russian hacks of the DNC

Fictions built upon fictions. Assange has stated again in another interview, airing tonight, that it wasn't Russia. It wasn't any 'state' actor.

"Yes. We can say, we have said, repeatedly that over the last two months
that our source is not the Russian government and it is not a state party."

The same people that took the fantastic and easily debunked claims of a power company and amplified it into a diplomatic dispute with Russia will not emphasize this; if they can't somehow discredit it then they'll bury it.
If we're honest is the Apple Watch even better than "pretty good"?
> Apparently, every computer science problem has easy to understand solution that’s easy to implement but awfully slow in practice.

I have been doing some data structures/algorithms review as I haven't really used much of that knowledge from my CS degree and, frankly, wasn't that great of a student when I was learning it. I've obviously focused mostly on understanding theoretical performance (Big-O) as I've been implementing and playing with things, but I'd like to know about good resources for things to consider about performance on real systems. I hear about things like cache misses, memory layouts and branch mispredictions, but don't really know how to apply that knowledge or, maybe more importantly, measure the effects of optimizing for some of those things over others. I'd appreciate any advice anyone has to offer.
> hesychasm -- the most underrated aspect of christian spirituality, sadly expelled by most reformation and counter-reformation traditions.

Hesychasm is alive and well in the Orthodox Church. Mostly practised by monks, but well known outside monasteries.
This is one of the better written patents I have seen.
Mostly hand-coding since ~'94. Also waded through the code-soup created by Dreamweaver for a bit. Thought it might save time having 'the designer' do the layout. It didn't. ;)
This assumes that overeating is bad for the body. We know it is because did is readily available, always. But in a world where did may go away for weeks at a time this overeating may be optimal and hence good for the brain too.
My takeaway from Michael Pollan's books was that we are essentially a corn culture, but a "meat/sugar/alcohol culture" works too I suppose.
After brainstorming what they would call this subset company, it dawned on me that the Mac, as in the Mcintosh (fruit) is an apple. I'm embarrassed to admit I never put the two together. I am not a smart man.

They were correct in not naming the iPhone the Granny Smith.
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This is great, I've been making music for fun and have been looking for an easy way to make Youtube videos for them because I want to release them under Creative Commons later. My only option was doing it via a video editing software (which I find cumbersome).

Thank you, this helps me save a lot of time.
I love the idea, but as a fairly well-off hobby farmer myself, there is no way I would spend that much on this product.

I bought 1 mile of drip tape for $150 off of https://www.berryhilldrip.com

Solar panels are a cheap commodity. There are charge controllers which will only turn on the DC if you're over a certain voltage for the pump.

Again, I love the idea, but its way off on execution at this point.
There was an interesting Y2.01K bug on the Apple Newton (fixed with a community-supplied patch) http://newtonpoetry.com/2009/05/28/newton-2010-bug-fixed-use...
Doesn't it bother you that you can provide the same value to your employer as someone in Brisbane, but only get paid a fraction as much for it merely because you're in Sri Lanka?

I'm a remote worker too (and I'm very happy with the way my current employer handles it). As long as I'm available at the times and places my employer needs me to be, why should they have any say in where I live or how I spend my money? I want to be able to manage my quality of life myself, not have it decided for me by someone else!
Ask HN: What's the most interesting thing you learned last year?
It perplexes me how I spend so much time learning new things, but so much of it ends up being so similar to what I already know. What did you learn last year that really interested or surprised you?
Genghis Khan was probably the most fecund male in human history.
I'm assuming if you want someone else to ensure everything works for you without hassle then logically you would by a machine with linux preinstalled with a long term support release and then wait until a month after the next lts release to update after everyone else works out the kinks in the new release.

You know kinda like you do with apple machines.
I think the real issue is the old cable wrap design that comes with no visual instruction on how to use it. Most people with frayed cables I've seen pull the cable tight from out of the adapter and start wrapping, when it should stick out a bit then slightly bend with a relatively loose wrapping. That isn't just apple cables, every audio cable (live performance cables, xlr and quarters) I've used will break if you wrap it too tightly. That said I have also never had fraying issues with my apple PSU's and I've had a MacBook as my primary computer since 2006.

Now it doesn't really matter as they just use a standard USB-C cable so you can use whatever brand cable you want.
Interesting perspective. How many 55+ coders do we have lurking on HN I wonder? (rhetorical only)
If there is no space in the lane you're driving into, whether turning or going straight, you should not enter the intersection. That video just doesn't deal with the case of the lane you're turning into being full already.
> He says something similar may happen in human brains when people eat a diet high in fat and sugar. Davidson says there's a vicious cycle of bad diets and brain changes. He points to a 2015 study in the Journal of Pediatrics that found obese children performed more poorly on memory tasks that test the hippocampus compared with kids who weren't overweight.

These assertions raise doubts in my mind regarding the study as a whole. Fat and sugar (a carbohydrate) account for two of the three most common macronutrients, the third being protein. Eating a diet that's low in both fat and carbs would imply a mostly-protein diet which can lead to illness[0].

The further implication that a particular macronutrient ratio could cause obesity is particularly concerning. Weight gain/loss is determined strictly by whether someone consumes more or fewer calories than their body burns in a day. The ratio of macronutrients may effect other health indicators like lean body mass, but a diet of 100% sugar and fat will still lead to weight loss if the total caloric intake is lower than what the body requires thereby requiring the body to burn muscle/fat for energy[1].

While the researchers have found a correlation between memory function and obesity, they appear to be making spurious claims that the foods the obese people eat are a contributing factor. There's no indication they made any attempt to control for the fact that healthy people also regularly enjoy ice cream and bacon, just at a lesser rate than those who are chronic over-eaters and therefore obese.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein_poisoning
[1] http://articles.latimes.com/2010/dec/06/health/la-he-fitness...
"watch" works great in Node when "natively" installed, rather than Bash on Ubuntu on Windows. Natively installed Node is a great development experience on Windows these days (just make sure you install a version with NPM >= 3, which is now no longer an issue as even current LTS has NPM >= 3).

On the flipside, Ruby remains a nightmare to install natively and Ubuntu Bash is the easiest way to work with it. There I really do miss having a working "watch" for Jekyll builds.
considering parking spaces in new york city are selling for $500,000, and the recent public works construction costs were $1.7BBBB per km.... you're looking at BILLIONS in parking costs.

study says you're all idiots.
Simple from a development point of view.
He's stated that, but why should we believe him and not believe all the various people who have said the opposite?

Russian intelligence are presumably quite capable of laundering it through an intermediary, which would make his statement literally true but misleading.
Your comment is not about gridlock.
Which pension system are you referring to? State, counties and cities each have their own system. The press tends to lump them all together but they are independent of each other, save for the management organization.
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That is an interesting thought...

As a non-USA person here I was also amazed with some of these comments. But I am not sure it is only about "subsidizing" others (which it also is). If you read a lot of these comments, they go into great lengths into describing their particular live choices, their very deliberate little decisions they make while traveling all the time, and how these makes them special. I feel that there is another side to this individualism: the pride on ones choices, on being unique and in some way, standing out of the masses through their clever use of their options.

It reminded me about another thing that surprised me in the USA: food menus are lengthy, and everything is customizable! You have to choose ingredients, topping, side, everything!

I guess, for a lot of USAmericans this feels empowering. Interestingly, coming from the other side of the Atlantic, it had the opposite effect on me: I felt overwhelmed, that I was required to do make decisions and do too much thinking, that at the end, it was the chef's job to offer me a menu with dishes that make sense and taste good! In fact in Europe, good restaurants tend to have very few options, you go there because you acknowledge that the person that designed the menu knows more about those dishes than you...

I guess, I am also ok about "subsidizing" others... I know that some days I will eat at the flight, some days I won't, some days I will need extra luggage, some days I won't... It is just easier if we don't have to go through all the bureaucracy of managing these decisions. It is cheaper too, since the accounting and planning becomes easier. Some people might be getting be getting more or less out of it, but it evens out with time anyways. I can get my "feeling of importance" by other means.

There is something more this might show us about the "customization" vs "just works" in how different people prefer their software. But I will think about this some other day...
Prices in this context are meaningless without discussing the airports in question and the number of connecting flights.
Since everyone is talking about chatbots, I thought this might be a good thread to ask for some feedback:

I am considering creating a chatbot platform for developers to create, host and sell bots (as a side project which may turn into a main project if it goes well),

I was wondering if it's something devs/people are interested in? (to those who don't code, there'd obviously be an easy GUI way to build basic bots - like wit.ai)
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I've encountered several dangerous PDF rendering bugs in Sierra. Vastly incorrect colors on only some embedded images/vectors (in a design/profile/identity guide no less!), blurry/lowres rendering that randomly comes and goes as you scroll, or huge white areas/blank pages that fill in and then disappears as you zoom in and out. This is really bad.
>but this "conversational" nonsense and making it more human like is, well, nonsense.

Can't say I've ever been impressed when one of these systems fails to understand me and replies with a human-like response. Feels disingenuous.
It seems very unlikely that anyone wishing to start a farm would spend 50k on an all in one kit but instead carefully select individual components
Unless they put the farmbot on wheels, you're talking about too small of a square footage to generate any interesting yields. You'll spend WAY more time maintaining the bot than you would just planting and mulching.

The farmbot development is important, but won't be commercially viable with the current fixed rail system.
First of all, most low-skill jobs just don't come with PTO (paid time off, i.e. vacation). As an example, when I was working retail, if I wanted to take time off, I could, but got no pay for the time I was gone. The same was true if I was sick.

When we are talking about "guilt" for time off, it depends largely on the company. At the very highest levels, usually they don't like having everyone store up a lot of vacation, because that's a liability on the books (if you lay someone off with vacation time stored up, you usually have to pay them for it).

Therefore most of the guilt comes from lower level management or peers. When you are in a team of 6 and everyone is overworked, you feel guilty if you leave for two weeks, knowing that everyone remaining will be working 20% harder. For the same reason you will see people checking their work e-mail hourly while on vacation.

It's a cultural problem. This is why you may have seen some US tech companies advertising "minimum required vacation days:" if you are required to take the vacation, then you can't feel guilty for it.
I mean, it's all luxury as far as i'm concerned - and in the right of the provider to decide on packages. If they want to offer terrible seating for not-cheaper prices, let them - the market (consumers) should be able to decide not to use them.

This is a very different argument to me than healthcare though. In my world view, healthcare and education have widespread, socially beneficial properties. I pay my local taxes to fund a highschool that i don't have kids in, because i don't want morons in the work force next year. Likewise, i want to pay more taxes for healthy educated people in the work force, because i feel it benefits me.

This is very different than how much an airline is charging for their service. An airline is no different than a hotdog vendor to me, and they should be able to charge whatever they want for their services.

Granted, i will admit that there is a bit of a slippery slope - a good example being Comcast. I loathe Comcast's business practices because we (many of us) feel trapped by them, as we only have one choice, due to the difficult nature of laying pipes. Same goes for airlines i imagine. If all airlines started to gouge us, many people can't simply drive instead - so clearly some regulation is needed in the case of airlines that the hotdog vendor doesn't have to worry about.
My point was that, in a team, the output of the build depends on Visual Studio settings of each developer.
The first paragraph reminded me so much of jwz's diary from his Netscape days, which is one of the most important documents I've read on startups (and it taight me the brilliant term "impedance mismatch" for how it feels to hang out with drunk people when you aren't, which I last used in casual conversation yesterday)

https://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nscpdorm.html
When you sign up you start at the beginning, so if I stop posting tomorrow at a minimum you'll have... 23 weeks of content. And I do plan to keep posting, although eventually I'll run out of interesting mistakes and will need to tweak the format.
Well, if we are to be able to sensibly compare prices between airlines without spending our whole lives reading fine print then we really need a "standard bundle" and a law that the advertised price be the price of the standard bundle. And at that point it's natural for people to want the standard bundle to match their own preferred bundle, because that will be the bundle whose price is most tightly optimized.

In the economists' world it shouldn't make any difference - a ticket for $200 plus a $20 option for a checked bag is economically equivalent to a ticket for $220 and a $20 rebate for flying without a bag, and if unbundling is really done for the passengers' sake then it will be equally worthwhile under the latter conditions. But I have a sneaking suspicion that if they had to still advertise the price as $220 then the airlines would suddenly decide it wasn't worth unbundling the checked bag after all.
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Saturated fat in itself is not the problem. Caloric excess in the form of saturated fat is. Athletes consume more saturated fat because it increases testosterone production (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9029197?dopt=Abstract)

A hamburger won't kill you. A hamburger if you live a sedentary lifestyle will.