skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The apple-picking machine from Phil Brown Welding shown not only isn't robotic, it doesn't pick apples. It just supports human apple pickers by putting them in a good position for picking, and collecting the fruit.[1]

Real robotic apple-picking machines are still experimental.[2] Too slow, too fragile, too much tech support required. The video of the SRI International spinoff, Abundant Robotics, shows too many people involved, and too much duct tape. FFI Robotics in Israel has a similar demo system. Someone should build a good one within the next few years. But they're not here yet.

In practice, many apples are harvested with tree shakers.[3] Simple, cheap, and fast, but a bit hard on the tree. Then they're picked up off the ground with another large, but dumb, machine.[4] There's a variation on this where the tree shaker snaps a net around the tree and catches the fruit as it falls.

Once out of the fields, all further processing can be mechanized, and usually is in the developed world. Incredibly fast computer vision systems inspect fruit, berries, and sometimes even kernels of corn and grains of rice. Here's a typical grape-sorting machine, with good slow-motion closeups of the separation of perfect grapes from defective ones.[5]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJEtz8ejPvw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBcWZcjXr-I
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6kBvc92KB0
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzQ0pfbIW0w
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbSww5SBqN4
Heh. So, I'm doing smart grid stuff, and looking to see just what tools the sector really, really needs.

For some things: Rust. For other things: BEAM/OTP
What if he were only indirectly motivated by money? Money has a lot of potential for philanthropy after all and he did say that that's where he'd like to focus.
they have many obama administration people in their leadership as well
> Former Lavabit users will be able to access their accounts in “Trustful” mode

Looks like Trustful mode is how the old lavabit operated.

> If you're going to operate in "trustful" mode, lavabit isny offering any real security wins over any other mail host.

This level of security apparently was enough to protect email contents against FBI.

The reason this "insecure" mode is kept is to allow users to continue using their old accounts and restore mailbox contents: https://lavabit.com/have-lavabit.html
I have friends that have lived, worked and farmed in Watsonville, CA for a long time. My wife's grandfather has also farmed in MI for decades. The consensus is that farm-workers are getting harder and harder to come by. There is a labor shortage. This shortage has encouraged the investments and greater interest in picking technologies.

So to reframe, there are fewer farm workers anyway, due to better border control, lack of interest, or whatever and the picking technologies become more useful.
I, for one, really liked it. And thanks for the chat, Matt!
Robots have been replacing farm workers a lot longer than this. 200 years ago, 90% of the population was involved in farming. Today, it's less than 3%.
You can book Lyft as well - both are pretty solid experiences.
Within the spectrum of so-called "NewSQL" databases, there are basically two kinds:

* ones built on top of a mature relational database (e.g. Vitess, CitusDB)

* ones built on top of some custom or unproven KV store (e.g. TiDB, CockroachDB, NuoDB)

Ultimately, despite claims of benchmarks/elegance/MySQL not being web scale enough, I'm unsure if (at least in the immediate future) it's a wise move to do the latter. Solutions that use a proven storage engine seem like an easier pill to swallow.
Except that your execs are one pissed off DA away from defending RICO charges.

Companies undervalue low-probability, high-risk events like that.
It should be pointed out that these people are not creating "fast lanes," they're creating slow lanes and selling the idea with marketing buzzwords.
Why Is this flagged Mods? This pattern of flagging political stories is totally against what the Ycombinator community stands for
Has the code been audited?
They've been playing a PSA lately saying that "40% of the food produced in America goes to waste". So, on average, people in this country are already spending close to double the amount that they should for food.

So, there's distribution from farm to store to home, but there's a non-existent link out of the home into a second-stage distribution pipeline, or something.
no need for an investor. only need a GM or Tesla or Apple etc to decide to.
I've been thinking about flipping it around - instead of whitelisting certain files, simply blacklisting the problem formats. Thanks for reminding me.
https://xkcd.com/1768/

It sounds like you are heading down the path of burnout which often lands in the realm of depression. If you wait until your breaking point, it becomes 10x harder to make the change you need, not to mention presenting yourself as marketable.

It's much easier to find a new job while currently employed at a top tech company as oppose to having just come off a 6 month recovery hiatus.

You say you can't stop thinking about your work. Perhaps constantly keeping your mind busy with work is your subconscious trying to avoiding having to deal with how unhappy you are, and how big of a anxiety causing life change it will be to try and find a new job?

If I were you, I would spruce up the resume and start sending it out. Worst case, nothing comes of it and you stay exactly where you are.
Meh, I can always not renew it. I'm unlikely to be better off continuing to use Gmail in the meantime.
>>There is a labor shortage. This shortage has encouraged the investments and greater interest in picking technologies.

It's funny how it hasn't encouraged paying people more.
I think because of UTF-8 most programmers know that ASCII is 7-bit. What you call '8-bit ASCII' is more commonly called Latin-1.
How many people in the US starve to death from simple lack of access to food, without other physical or mental problems that prevent them from obtaining food from one of the many available sources?
It may also be a very bad idea if Lavabit is compromised now. Don't try to connect to your old account if you had any sensitive emails.
Oh I didn't know that the contents of old accounts were now accessible again. Was that not deleted by Lavabit when they got subpoenaed?
Let's say you want to start a new service called flerptube. You can do that today -- write the code, get the content, and put it up on AWS. Then it's up to the market to try out your product and make you king of streaming. You can do that because of net neutrality.

Without net neutrality you would have to ask permission from the cable companies, who see you as a threat to their own cable television offerings. They'll either refuse to work with you, or cut you a terrible deal.

I'm not saying that others benefit from net neutrality -- I'm saying that you do as a customer, and you do as a business owner.
If you got most of your calories directly from corn (instead of indirectly) you could keep yourself going for literally pennies a day. I have a 50lb bag of cornmeal that I got for ~$10 through bakery distributor. About 600g of that would provide sufficient calories for a typical day, so that is a 38 day supply - costing just over a quarter a day.
I don't think there is any emulation of Win32 either? You just have some of the functions; those that are part of UWP.
You are right, and I felt much better after calculating the exact number I needed and left it with them.
I look at the comments here and it becomes blatantly obvious why we have trouble getting women into STEM.
I really love Neocities. I have used it to host https://www.makersatwork.com/ for some time and have donated to Neocities and participated in their Kickstarter campaign.
> By that reasoning though, isn't almost every problem in open source projects a "non-issue", because you can always just fork and do things your way?

Yes. Because that's true. Either you have a good point and manage to convince people in the project, or you have to fork.

Writing irrelevant comments on some news site is not going to convince anyone to spend a combined hundreds to thousands of man-hours work (at the very least) to move kernel development to GitHub or whatever platform you like.

Also notice how you are ranting about tooling in a project you're not contributing to, while the submission here is about something entirely different -- and written by a contributor.
The most effective counter argument is that ISP want to be allowed to slow these same services down.

"Well, you bought an ADT security system, and they are not a Preferred Security Service for Time Warner, so even though you pay for 40Mb internet, we can only allocate 4Kb to ADT."
If you NEED encryption, don't use email.

From: https://blog.fastmail.com/2016/12/10/why-we-dont-offer-pgp/

What's the tradeoff?

If the server doesn't have access to the content of emails, then it reverts to a featureless blob store:

Search isn't possible
Previews can't be calculated
If you lose your private key, we can't recover your email
Spam checking on content isn't possible
To access mail on multiple devices, the private key needs to be shared securely between them

update:
want->NEED
I think I understand what you're saying (not very technical) but I have used LS for years. I know that I have blocked microsoft word from specific network abilities and tried to open word files that phone home and LS catches those.
Joxa – A concurrent, distributed Lisp
Why would YOU pay for Trello? SAML is all I can think of that isn't already available for free.
Most of the tech industry is "merely profitable businesses". Unicorns are for VCs and little girls who still believe in stories.
> the top two publicly visible leaders in the space leaving in the same timeframe could mean something

Again, Amit may not have been aligned with the direction they're taking search. That doesn't mean Google doesn't care. In fact, it could mean just the opposite.
This is being down voted but is an interesting point. Is a privacy service in which public record is available for its purchases ever truly private? Maybe its extremely difficult for others to see your communications, but if someone (or some law-enforcement agency) knows you have paid for a private communications service, does that make you a candidate for further scrutinization? I think so.
Simply Earth
Its tough to raise the price of an agricultural product to accommodate for higher wages. The market sets the price.

Plus its literally backbreaking work. Illegals would rather hang drywall, paint houses or whatever and make 50% more.
> Yeah, I realize a lot of devs have already have their own setups that work extremely well for them. Unfortunately anytime you transition to a new tool you're obviously going to break _someone's_ workflow.

So don't.

Do you have a single compelling issue why they should switch?
I think this is a valid concern, but one that applies to most media. In my field, I often see pieces circulated which are incorrect with facts sourced from less precise colleagues of mine.

I don't believe the piece was not 'newsworthy', though, and I believe the security industry's response should have been one of collaboration rather than admonition - it leaves a bad taste in my mouth to see an industry with a clear communication problem striking at their best potential ally. The Guardian are not the 'bad guys' for trying to inform us of a vulnerability.
Missing Alpaca, https://github.com/alpaca-lang/
> Within the spectrum of so-called "NewSQL" databases, there are basically two kinds:

The guy that invented the term "NewSQL" seems to disagree with you:

https://sigmodrecord.org/publications/sigmodRecord/1606/pdfs...
Well, R and V are zero, so I can have any value.
Agreed on more substantive detail needed. I was surprised at the lack of mention of many of the basic techniques and domains that a person interested in should consider learning about.

The following are all germane but not mentioned: text analysis/mining, controlled vocabularies, indexing, taxonomies, ontology, semantic web, latent semantic analysis, latent dirichlet allocation, corpus analysis, document similarity analysis, tf-idf, ngrams, and skip grams just to mention a few.

In general the article is a good idea but their needs to be more of a description of the domain landscape and then "paths" plotted through that landscape that lead to interesting and useful competency.
> because of all the investments and research we know we will have a working model soon

This definitely does not follow.
Some have found the opposite. In the recently published RethinkDB postmortem [1], the founder suggests that the dev tools market is inherently unattractive for startups:

"Unfortunately you’re not in the market you think you’re in – you’re in the market your users think you’re in. And our users clearly thought of us as an open-source developer tools company, because that’s what we really were. Which turned out to be very unfortunate, because the open-source developer tools market is one of the worst markets one could possibly end up in. Thousands of people used RethinkDB, often in business contexts, but most were willing to pay less for the lifetime of usage than the price of a single Starbucks coffee (which is to say, they weren’t willing to pay anything at all).

"This wasn’t because the product was so good people didn’t need to pay for support, or because developers don’t control budgets, or because of failure of capitalism. The answer is basic microeconomics. Developers love building developer tools, often for free. So while there is massive demand, the supply vastly outstrips it. This drives the number of alternatives up, and the prices down to zero.

"To see how this plays out for other companies consider MongoDB (valued at roughly $1.6B with ~700 employees), and Docker (valued at roughly $1B with ~300 employees). Both companies completely dominate in their respective markets. Two very rough rules of thumb for private growth stage technology companies is that valuations are a 10x multiple of annual revenue, and that revenue per employee is around $200K/year. Which means that MongoDB’s annual revenue is around $140-$160M, and Docker’s annual revenue is around $60-$100M.

"That looks pretty good, until you look at dominant B2B technology companies in markets that aren’t developer tools. Companies like SalesForce, or Palantir, or Box (which faces stiff competition). All of a sudden MongoDB and Docker start looking tiny."

[1] http://www.defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.ht...
I doubt it would have been that different if the person in question was Robert Pattinson. I think the condescension is more about a "lol as if some dumb actor knows anything about AI".
> Yet, we never see these computers do anything to save themselves

Subspace continuous backups / journal shipping.
Search and previews should be possible on the client side, but then you need a standalone app, not a web interface.
You can include any erts in your target system, so you can take one built on linux, copy it to your mac and use it only at the time when you construct the release tarball.
I still have a clone of my geocities site in my archives. It was the first website I made, and highlighted my love of video games, anime, and adnd. It was so 'massive' it had to span two geocities accounts to hold it (different links went to different sites).

I made a lot custom graphics for the site too, which helped me practice using Photoshop, which has helped me ever since, letting me mock things up and still look decent before real artists get their hands on them. In fact several games I've made I just used my own graphics and they still found success.
This might be the source of that statistic:

https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/wasted-food-IP.pdf

Only about 25% of the losses (ie 10% of the food) are attributed to "consumer losses".
One neat thing about UTF-8 is that all bytes that compose non-ASCII characters will have the high bit set. ASCII values range from 0-127, so no ASCII values will ever have the high bit set. Therefore, a byte that corresponds to an ASCII value is guaranteed to be the same character as the corresponding ASCII encoding.
Contributing by patches is even simpler, since you don't even need a place to host your repo. Instead you literally do "git format-patch some_base_ref" and get a bunch of files you mail someone.

It doesn't get any simpler...
Spot on. There is a real, measurable difference that scientists call extroverted or introverted. Then there's a bunch of stereotypical behaviors and attributes assigned to each. This article uses the latter.
Money for mobility is the same as the food being too far away.
Did I say it's an average thing? I said, if you want to dedicate 20 years of your life to it, not focusing on other things, living in a Western country, you can do it. Nowhere did I say it's a common thing.

Second, there are plenty of people who manage to make $10,000+ a month online, regardless of where they live. Probably millions.

Also, even in impoverished countries there must be opportunities to make money and do deals. If you keep looking at what others are making, then you will never make any money. Different setting, different opportunities. The average person, regardless of the country he or she lives in, will never be wealthy. €100 in Europe might get you less than $10 in South Africa. Location matters as well in terms of purchasing power.
POS is pretty mature plus square, verifone etc for mobile paying now. there is online CRM too: sugarcrm, zoho crm,etc, what is missing here in this space?
Post author here.

First off, I really appreciated your frank blog post on the RethinkDB post mortem. The distillation of years of experience is incredibly valuable for us, and I'm sure for many others.

I agree that the database market is crowded with solid offerings. However, I believe that differentiating features do still matter and there will be tremendous growth in the database market for the foreseeable future. In your blog post you listed the metrics of goodness which you optimized for, perhaps incorrectly. You indeed had amazing execution on those original metrics. We have paid RethinkDB the compliment of doing our best to emulate the standards set with simplicity and consistency, in particular. You are also correct that the alternate metrics including timely arrival, palpable speed, and a use case are probably better ones to optimize for in an entrepreneurial setting.

We have been optimizing from the start for a still-small use case, but one which is likely to become a top of mind concern for every major enterprise over the next five years: building global, "multihomed" services. This is something Google has pioneered over the past decade, but which remains an elusive challenge for most everyone else. For an interesting read, check out https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c... (tl;dr here: http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/2/23/googles-transition...)

You mention AWS/GCloud as existential risks for a cloud DBaaS offering. I would take that a step further and cite them as the biggest risk to all database companies. We must compete with them both by pushing the boundaries of what the database can accomplish, and by aggressively driving an anti-vendor-lockin message: embracing a proprietary cloud DBaaS offering is an unacceptable risk if there are non-proprietary alternatives.
See Reddit thread when the article was posted yesterday: https://reddit.com/r/Games/comments/5oxgd3/eurogamer_did_nin...

Consensus is that this is OK since Nintendo technically has copyright still.
Did they do a D-Dimer test (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-dimer)? My understanding is that this can be more reliable than ultrasound (subject to misinterpretation). I'm sure a doctor would tell you to do both if a PE/DVT is suspected.

I hope you have recovered well. My wife nearly died from medical negligence related to a DVT/PE - it can be life changing if it becomes a PE.
I just find it odd that it's the only race checkbox, but only for latinos,
not for chinese, ukranian, african, japanese, etc...
I picked one example, but there are others that well predate the term "Evidence Based Medicine". Semmelweis comes to mind. But I've also seen Koch's Postulates used in evaluating the practice of medicine, in addition to the study of disease.

You could ask for clarification before simply assuming I don't know what I'm talking about.

Furthermore, I'd suggest that understanding disease and understanding the practice of medicine are far more entangled than your division suggests.
And that is the crux of the problem. Advances like robots working alongside humans are very good and healthy to quality of life, but the number of people who are displaced by such advances is unfair, brutal, cruel. The main people who are behind these acts are less considerate.

A fact should be established that these technologies are needed, but the intentions with which they are built is sinister and evil. This leads to robots that are not helping a civilization advance but hurting it.

Optimizations could have been created for the worker, but instead they are created for the manager, for the owner, for the businessman, for the shareholder, and for everyone else who thinks workers are the biggest problem in the business.
Can you give the gist? You piqued my interest, but the app looks like the rabbit hole I'd rather not go down.
It's a damn shame the brain eater got to Simmons. Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion are pretty amazing work.
Search is still possible. You can stem words and store their weights without storing the actual unencrypted text. This isn't perfect security, but it's good enough that it would be difficult for the government to successfully use the search metadata in a case against you without a lot of other evidence.

This is what we do on FWD:Everyone for email threads shared within private repositories.
Possibly some sort of telesurgery device? It'd never be acceptable to have something like this in the home, though, really, for all sorts of reasons, so it's not a good excuse. Network prioritisation or no network prioritisation, telesurgery over your cable connection is not a good idea.
The explain document doesn't describe how key distribution works. How do I get a public key for somebody that I want to email, and how can I know that I am getting the right key?

This is the hard part of an modern cryptosystem and the usual source of weakness.
You actually don't have to bundle the runtime, but you can also specify an "alternate ERTS", i.e. one that has been compiled for the target architecture, and bundle that one instead. This is how you "cross-compile" releases.
Of course it should. Opinion -> voting -> regulation is basically democracy in a nutshell.
I haven't used these seriously yet, but when I looked at the options for deploying Elixir web applications (on a single host), I liked Gatling (https://github.com/hashrocket/gatling), ansible-elixir-stack (https://github.com/HashNuke/ansible-elixir-stack) and, with a few more reservations, Dokku (https://github.com/dokku/dokku) with the appropriate buildpacks.

On a side note, if you work with Ansible, HashNuke's project is worth a closer look even if do not end up using it. It's well-structured and shows how an Ansible role can do both server configuration management and deployment. The pattern works really well; the only downside to this particular implementation is that it has the server pull your code from a Git repository, meaning the server must have access to it, instead of having your development machine copy the code to the server. I'd prefer the latter for security reasons and to match how Ansible works. If that's relevant to your interests, I wrote a hacky Ansible task that shows what that might look like with the same deployment pattern: https://github.com/adhokku/adhokku/blob/master/tasks/deploy-....

Edit: Added a note about the single host.
No, but will look into it. I'm guessing it's not web/browser based?
i assume not actively pushed b/c most get paid by the hour and by "customization to needs"