skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
we need sustainable systems. a system that exploits cheap labour or one that destroys soil/environment or is overly dependent on fossil fuels will fail the sustainability test. i see swarms of robots in the future doing automated tasks. having said that, all tasks cannot be automated. harvest automation, for example..is very tricky.

the age of farmers is going up and very few young people get into farming. they are farming. there are smaller sustainable farms, but the burn out rate is going to be very high.

land is getting scarce and we have a need for urban farms. it will be easier to automate many small urban farms because of connectivity. also..concentration of large farms in some areas will cause leaching, soil degradation, environmental pollution etc. when you distribute these, the damage is easily managed and can be rectified. already, central valley and gilroy/salinas areas in northern california have very compromised water tables. the sacramento politics is very subtle, but powerful.

at some point, we might have robots that are connected to the cloud and will be able to make decisions based on weather or soil conditions or even demand. but right now, making small manual tasks automated and create robots that will work with smaller farms is better than automating 1000 acre farms.

eventually, we must form grids and the entire food system will have to be local.of course, exotic produce can be flown in, but they are that..and should be priced as such. designing agriculture systems need a paradigm shift.

to take care of all the needs of 1000 people, i would say about 50 acres. Maybe even less, but sustainable agriculture would mean leaving some parts of the land fallow for a season and rotate crops. it wouldnt be possible to grow all the grains and cereals you need. you cant farm every inch of the soil every day. water management is also important. even if the customer is vegan, it would be good to have some animals in the farm for grazing. it is an effective weed management system and the manure can be used to feed the soil. it should also include an orchard. in my farm(which some people who are not from california call a large 'garden'), i grow food, medicine, herbs, flowers, lavender and i have an orchard. i could easily do a 30 person CSA from just 1 acre, but i didnt because the sheer labour was overwhelming for a single worker-farmer. i keep bees and would like to have some chicken or goats. (but cant currently because i lease some fo it). in the last two years, my only inputs are kelp and fish solution that i use in the greenhouse. the farm is mostly reduced-till. i am a big believer in mulching. i do buy compost, but eventually i hope to create my own compost and make it a closed loop farm with all the inputs being created at the farm itself.
Far enough down this road, we're just reimplementing 'renice'.

... which may actually be the right solution.
I'm curious how different this would be in 2016 as online dating is currently much more popular than it was in 2009.
Freezer is made with React.js in mind and it uses real immutable structures
We can sit around and whine about some guy exploiting a broken system, but that's not going to fix the problem. Everyone's focusing on one guy who exploited the system, while ignoring both tons of other people who exploited it just as much (and probably a lot more, as he pointed out on his website), as well as the brokenness of the system itself.
> The entire point of the article you're discussing is that there are a million bizarre little circumstances like this

In defense of the article, which is pretty reasonable, it doesn't mention the ridiculous hijacking example you were harping on. That is quite a unique situation, technically and ethically.

The other examples you gave: bad roads, downed power lines, weather, and fire are all much more reasonable examples, with much more straightforward solutions available. It's essentially obstacle avoidance and exception handling. The article's example of situations involving not having any safe place to stop is even more interesting.

edit: I was referring to TFA, not to the artist who illustrated some stuff on his blog and shared it here. Which was also a fine effort...
> I want JQuery 1.2.3. I ask your computer [...] returns it to my computer

Good ! Now I know you have JQuery 1.2.3, which is vulnerable to exploit XYZ, which I can now use to target you. This is one reason why apt-p2p and things like that can't be deployed in large; it's way too easy to know what version of what packages are installed on your machine.
It's about time.

VR is hard for most directors to handle. Steven Cameron (Avatar, Titanic) likes pans over detailed backgrounds. His 3D is done with a light touch - nothing ever appears in front of the screen plane. That looks good, which is why "Avatar" launched the 3D boom. Cameron wants higher frame rates so those long pans don't have strobing.

Too many other directors use 3D to pretend they're doing a roller coaster simulator. They put stuff in your face to make people feel they go their money's worth viewing the 3D version. That's just painful.

Next to go down: VR headsets. The technology has been working for years now and there's still no killer app beyond 3D shooters.
i just checked with Chromium 57.0.2983.0 (64-bit) and it's still doing it.

I also just noticed that Little Snitch actually does NOT log the dns requests. Maybe this is caused by Chromium using ipv6 to access google-public-dns-a.google.com ?

Anyway, I then installed Vallum (1) and with this app, in the log i see many of these requests: https://i.imgur.com/lUR3Fd7.png

(1) https://vallumfirewall.com/
I feel like I learned something through your answer.
Thanks for the image. I coach a First Tech Challenge robotics team and seeing all the different configurations for robots doing automatable tasks gives me ideas that I can present to the team when they have to come up with designs to solve problems.
Analysis of 100M Taxi Trips in Chicago Shows Usage Declining 35% per Year
Yes, see comment below... i just checked with Chromium 57.0.2983.0 (64-bit) and it's still doing it.
In headline form: "Can Any Headline with a Question Mark be Answered by 'No?'"
To be honest, stuff like this really annoys me.

I'm incredibly interested in animal minds (I just started reading that book that was posted a while back, Other Minds, about octopuses and consciousness, and I'm really liking it.) And of course, I think that poaching should be illegal and that we should protect and conserve the environment.

But...

> … the world would be a brighter, smellier, noisier place – and you would be a better, wiser, kinder person

No, I wouldn't be a 'better ... person', I would be an elephant! Elephants have not created great works of art, literature, architecture, and poetry. Elephants have no written language, cannot build complex machines, and have not traveled to other worlds, or even explored their own. People have done incredible things with their bodies and minds in a way that animals simply cannot, period. This is (arguably) all a consequence of evolution being a competition, and humans being predators. People like to fight and win, to be better than something else. And while it would be great if human nature was just competitive enough to produce results, but not make humans physically violent, that would be fantastic! But I don't think evolution can exactly fine-tune something like that.

This happens every time that animal consciousness is discussed: somebody tries to claim that the animals in question have a completely different way of life than humans, and that their way of life is 'better', usually because they are peaceful, and that you are arrogant and ignorant if you don't agree. I think that's horseshit.

This would be almost tolerable if it didn't have the subtle feminist jabs hidden in there with the smug moral superiority - "As a boy, your function would be to inseminate, and that's all. Government would be the business of the females." As if being a walking pair of testes was somehow more noble than fighting, struggling, learning, winning, like human boys do. Stop all those pesky masculine behaviors, you "infantile phallocentric [nihilist]." Just be good and dumb and stay where you are.
This is in very stark contrast to what I've heard that Tokyo is a city where children maintain a lot more freedom than western countries (especially the US) have moved away from[1].

When I visited it seemed true: lots of rather young kids walking around the streets on their own, tons of tiny mixed use roads for kids to freely and safely walk around in, etc. Heck, culturally they even have that Kid Tasks[1] show. It seemed a lot better for kids than NYC (where I live now), Silicon Valley (where I used to live), or small suburban towns in the south (where I grew up).

I'm also surprised you lived in a lived in a high-rise, famously uncharacteristic of Tokyo housing, which may imply you lived in a less family friendly district than the typical Tokyo resident.

[1] http://www.cbsnews.com/news/japanese-young-children-solo-com...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5k5XTZy0rA
Are you sure that's not an extension? On macOS, at least, it's a very subtle gradient color change animation that's hard to notice.
Trump Freezes All EPA Grants, Forbids Staffers from Talking to the Public
I see names a-plenty in this entry...
http://web.archive.org/web/20170112125427/https://scholarlyo...
Density should enable walking which changes everything.

A farmer in the middle of nowhere (US or Canada - other countries have different situations that I cannot comment on) is looking at more than 30 minutes to the nearest grocery store if he drives. To walk would be 10 hours each way.

As we go down we hit the suburbs - 10 minutes to the store, but still 2 hours to walk. (if you took the same route as the car it would be about an hour, but that means walking on a busy road with no sidewalks, so you end up having to take a much longer route)

High density allows stores and restaurants to exist just to serve the people within a couple blocks. You take the elevator downstairs, and within a couple blocks is everything you need to buy, and the job you need to earn money to buy it with. When this is the world you rarely drive anywhere so you are not adding to congestion.

Now there is still congestion all those stores/business need to be provided with goods to sell. However a truck that takes up 4 cars worth of space is bringing enough goods to last 400 people for the day, where the cars in the other examples where for 1 person (all facts in this sentence were made up - they seem reasonable but I don't know how to find the right ones). This limits how dense we can get with just surface streets.

Note that the above is a should. Zoning laws often put high density far enough away from stores that you have to drive anyway - this makes congestion worse.
Right, which is why in every google app they give you the option to cache songs offline, and set your phone to only play streaming music while on wifi. They're TOTALLY trying to get you to spend more on data - which they make basically nothing off of. That's as ridiculous as saying they intentionally break android to have you buy a new phone to make the whopping .75 per handset.
Well, on the bright side, all you aspiring PMs out there, take note: see how low the bar is??

Speaking as a PM/PO that, I hope, doesn't suck, if you simply take the time to:

1. Understand the market.

2. Understand the product.

3. Understand the user.

4. Actively engage with and converse with developers and negotiate requirements rather than acting as a lofty dictator, and listen when the engineers raise concerns.

5. Be engaged in the process so the product can truly evolve as market and technical requirements are uncovered.

6. Own failures.

7. Share successes.

I'm sure I've left lots off the list, but it's pretty basic stuff (which, I suppose, all starts from the same basic place: humility)...
Why would the old money ever let the new money have a chance.
I thought that adverse possession is what allows brother A to sell without the permission of brother B's distant grandchild.

But as I said, I know only what I've learned via today's jetlag + modafinil fueled googling session.
Lots of good answers here (and in this thread in general). I like to focus on the person's history and dig in - war stories for sure. For a software architect you should get a lot just from their CV/Resume. In the interview you get to test how valid and deep this experience is.

To your list I'd also add some human factors. Some behavioral interview questions about dealing with difficult people, entrenched opinions, people under stress.

You've also got questions such as "what is your favorite/last book on this domain and what was your take away". Or more generally what you like to read and how you stay in the loop.
Rhinos are also ridiculous creatures, check out these dinguses https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNCC6ZYI3SI

Are those the most ridiculous sounds ever?
>Raising the price of the drug literally just pulls money out of the system and puts it in his pocket at the expense of everyone else.

That assumes that he is actually pocketing the money. Shkreli was a hedge fund manager and multimillionaire before starting his pharma companies, and claims he has a $0 salary at Turing.

In https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXVQOZDKlRE , he lays out his reasoning for raising the price of Daraprim to prices near those of similar drugs. He intends to use the money Turing makes from Daraprim to produce drugs that are not, in his words, "terrible".
I just don't believe in the 1 backend to rule them all approach. Services like Stripe, Algolia, Datadog, Pusher, Mapbox, Imgix etc all make a lot of sense. It's easy to plug them in to your existing backend and extend your app's functionality. Using someone else's backend for your app is a terrible decision though, the lock-in is just too large.

For this to succeed they'll need to add a lower level interface to the mix. Something like AWS' Lambda.

Question for the founders, will there be an extension platform, something like Parse cloud or the Heroku app store?
Am I the only one who uses pinning as pseudo-bookmarks? I would rather my pinned tabs be throttled more rather than less.
Great presentation. Good to hear that they've devoted stage two of Swift 4 to dynamism.
with it's Optional type,

C# has Nullable<T> (aka T?)[0]. I'm not a Java expert, but they appear to be the same (represent a value or a null value, allow you to inspect for the presence of a value or null).

ex:

int? x = null;
int y = x ?? 0;
int z = x.HasValue ? x.Value : 0;
if(x.HasValue && x.Value == 42){}

C# definitely doesn't have checked exceptions.

edit:

For reference types, as compared to value types, c# has the null coalescing operator

List<string> y = someList() ?? new List<string>;

and the null conditional operator

int? length = customers?.Length; // null if customers is null

which are defintely not Optional, but are what I use.

[0] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/1t3y8s4s.aspx
Omada Health, for one, hires junior PMs.
Nowadays, one writes ad-supported mobile games that nobody will pay for. ;)

Would it be possible to just declare "Best played in Firefox?" It's a bit gauche, but if a browser's engine has a behavior that isn't really compatible with what you intend to do, that's the browser's fault.
This, minus HDMI, plus POE, and I'd be in swoon city.
Except it should probably be web workers that are unthrottled. However, in the current implementation Web workers do get throttled. Service workers are supposed to be for networking and offline applications, not doing cpu related things. As such, service worker lifetimes are really messy since they don't have real guarantees as to if they will randomly restart.
Regarding the "driving into a manhole" scenario:

This is unlikely to cause a problem with a car's direction or motion of travel; at worst case, it may cause a blowout, but tires and rims are surprisingly tough (purposefully). I've hit potholes as large as manholes, and other than being very surprising, no damage was done.

Then again, I drive a pickup truck - I wouldn't expect something much smaller to handle as well.

Still, the rate of speed and balance of the car would all play into the scenario. While it would be better for a car to avoid an open manhole (or pothole for that matter), it generally isn't a crazy scenario if the car hits one, either.

If you want to see and hear about crazy stories of mishaps people have, yet the car continues to be mostly drivable, check out the sub-reddit "Just Rolled Into The Shop":

https://www.reddit.com/r/Justrolledintotheshop/

You'll learn both just how stupid people are with their cars and driving, as well as just how robust vehicles actually are.
How we handle security at Slack
As you said, it's hard to compare because of methodology and such. Yes, the US looks bad when you average everything together, but that ignores that some places are very different from others. Basically, if you stay out of blighted urban districts ("ghettos"), you're far less likely to suffer from violent crime. Many of the homicides here are because of gang violence, something that really only affects gang members and people living around them.
Currently, there isn't any built-in support with AppEngine. The steps you have to go through to ssh in and verify ownership is just a hassle.
> VR headsets. The technology has been working for years now and there's still no killer app beyond 3D shooters.

I disagree. It's niche, but it makes 3d movies feel like a joke. Most technology pieces have been about the sum of their parts anyways, not a single killer app. Certain things stand out like Zelda or Mario for nintendo, but Sony & Microsoft have done well by having a number of good games to buy. While VR is a set of shorter experiences, more and more keep coming up. A number outside of the shooter space.
No no no, this is mis-quoted...

He said, "Full Self-Driving Capability Features", with FEATURES being the VERY important word that is left out. Please fix the title. The article mentions it and is right, but the title on the article and on HN is misleading.

The question asked to Elon was, when will we start to see full self-driving features that go beyond what the enhanced auto pilot gives you. These are marketing/branding names that Tesla gives to the two levels you can buy today. Of course you are prepaying for them, as no "full self-driving FEATURE" is available yet. His answer though said 3 - 6 months for when we will see the first feature that is NOT included in the "Enhanced Auto-Pilot" but only in the top level you can buy, "Full Self-Driving".

In no way/shape/or form did he mean level 5, fully self-driving Tesla's in 3-6 months.

Twitter context: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/823727035088416768
Google Home builds out its ecosystem with Honeywell and Belkin WeMo support
Or just exceptional brilliance. At the extreme end of IQ or similar scales, aspects of one's very existence become eerily similar to ADHD symptoms - except the mind isn't understimulated because of chemical imbalance; it's understimulated because the world is perceived as unbearably mundane. Similarly, social deficits may be identified as Asperger syndrome when in reality it's may be a lack of common topics/culture and a disregard for the monkeylike social dance. It takes a real expert to properly diagnose such person. See [1], [2].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Misdiagnosis-Diagnoses-Gifted-Childre...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Different-Minds-Children-Asperger-Syn...
Not sure why anyone would buy a sports car that drives itself. Sports cars are supposed to be about the fun of driving.
It's hard to beat at that gate count.
I want most aggressive battery savings possible on macOS. AFAIK Safari is doing more aggressive things. We are still a huge step away from Safari battery consumption although I see step by step progress made by Chrome team.
How 1960s Mouse Utopias Led to Grim Predictions for Future of Humanity (2015)
Hacker News is written in LISP.
It's the opposite actually. Here the erasure is a good thing otherwise the bug described in the blog will have break the VM. The type system is broken because it supposes you have a type that exists and in the code you send null instead. If generics were in the VM, this kind of bug would have break the VM but 'thanks' to the way generics are handled in order to be backward compatible, a cast is inserted so this bug in the type system do not break the VM.
There seems to be a pretty major backlog for getting CVE numbers, such that for not-hugely-impacting ones it seems like the CVE request people won't take any time to discuss things.

Saying that after trying to get a CVE for a low risk problem with CMake on Windows. Applied for a CVE (months ago), and the only response received was:

Please resend your CVE request properly (the description was not filled out properly) and
resubmit. The correct format is:

[Vendor name] [product name] version [version info] is vulnerable to a [single flaw type]
in the [component] resulting [some impact].

Which is strange. I looked over the original submission, and there's nothing that I'd change in it. Emailed the person back asking for clarification and received zero reply.

If it was a high risk bug, I'd probably take the time to follow up more. Since it's not though... ;D
This is a legitimate and reasonable process that occurs frequently in mainland US as well. Especially if you purchase land at auction. Part of the process involves publishing efforts to ensure that all potentially affected parties are made aware of the action.

Creditors are hesitant to deal with any questionable land until title has been quieted by this process so they know the purchaser has full ownership and there can be no further disputes. The quiet title process is a request for all those with interest in the land to speak up and resolve the situation.

This prevents, for example, handing out a construction mortgage for someone to build a home on the land and then realizing three years later that your collateral is in jeopardy because several entities have decided to dispute the mortgagee's right to that land after the home was built.
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Come migliorare l’umore? Ecco le cose da evitare
I'd invest in a drysuit instead for Seattle.
In any case fully self driving in San Jose is not fully self driving in Minnesota in the winter.
There's a followup post that spans 2009-2014 here https://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/race-attraction-2009-2014... .

Sadly I don't think there will be a 2017 version. The OkCupid blog has basically been dead ever since Match.com acquired them.
The thing is, a lot of Hawaiians don't want to sell. This lawsuit forces sale of their rightful property to the highest bidder. It's a clever way for rich mainlanders to obtain property from Hawaiians. A lot of Hawaiians are not interested in the money.

Several local people living on the property were kicked off when Zuckerberg bought the land. A 6 foot wall was built and police began regularly patrolling a nearby road off the property questioning people walking on the road.
Sure, but why should anyone care about what you personally think or what tradeoff you'd make? Are you the CEO of a pharma company? Or a politician who has some power over the healthcare industry? No? Then you don't matter.

The people who DO make these decisions think very differently from you. They're all part of the system, and the system is obviously fundamentally broken. Us sitting around and whining about sociopaths doing sociopathic things is not going to make them stop being sociopathic and making decisions that negatively affect peoples' health and lives.