skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think these kinds of stories play well to governments, the press, and some groups of people as ideas or as cool photo opportunities, but they don't translate into meaningful agricultural production.

As with almost all of these type of stories, it's "filler" material for journalists who need to write something to justify their paychecks and it's free advertisement for the companies. Nothing more, nothing less. Companies contact WSJ|NYTimes|etc to do pieces on them all the time. It's free publicity and journalists need to write something and of course the media has to sell ads. It's a form of busybody work.

At least this is a break from the relentless "solar savior elon musk" craze on social and traditional media.
Valve is not your friend, and Steam is not healthy for gaming
As far as I can tell, the paper does not include carbonated water as one of the options. It says:

"All rats were provided with standard diet Teklad Global
18% protein (2018SC from Harlan Laboratories). Rats of
each group were supplemented with different beverages:
(i) tap water, (ii) regular degassed CB (DgCB), (iii) regular CB (RCB) and (iv) diet CB (DCB)"
Several issues with statements in this article. Example:

"In all Western societies, the new formula for prosperity is inconsistent with the old formula for democracy."

This statement is not explained, just made as a de facto truth. It's a pretty sweeping statement that I find difficult to accept based on what I understand it to mean. So I am thinking I don't understand it, but there is no explanation.

"Once a complex manufacturing process could be supervised from afar"

true one can 'order up' a production run of a million units, however, many small and mid-sized companies have failed simply because they could not make this work. Pleo being the first example that comes to mind: The CEO flew between the US and their Asian mfr 20 times in a year, couldn't get the product built and wound up selling the company to the manufacturer. Apple successfully operates with distributed manufacturing, but still requires many (thousands?) of engineers to shuttle between the US and Asia-based factories in order to ensure that base materials, components, quality, design, lead time, and many other aspects of manufacturing are done per their requirements. It turns out that the dance between design engineers and the manufacturing team is much more involved than companies realized and the challenges of communicating all of that across an ocean has been the death of many products.

"A lot of what Americans think of as valuable service-sector know-how is actually mere prestige."

It's not know-how. It's 'know customer'. Americans are great consumers but to sell to them you have to know what they want and how they want it delivered. The non-US companies that succeed are the ones that tap into US-based design for things like, um, cars. Many foreign products are designed in LA.

Moreover, innovation is the true source of value. Nations that are more innovative will ultimately prevail. That is where one should focus in order to understand where the threats and opportunities are.
You sound more like an advertisement than a genuine comment.
I had a hard time figuring out what this is. But looking at the justification fb wrote about graphql:

https://code.facebook.com/posts/1691455094417024/graphql-a-d...

It would appear it's a half-assed string-based, semi-structured ddl / query-language aiming to be a middleware between actual data storage and thin clients, presenting legacy data as a graph (rather than, say, a (filesystem-like) tree or a relational table structure). Surprisingly the responses are json while the queries, as far as I can tell, cannot be parsed as js/json - but look very similar.

Based on that, I gather this is firebase with a graphql front-end: a db-as-a-service with no clear path to move off of if needed? (compared to, say, sql-server as a service).

Perhaps harsh, but at least put like that I think both the value-proposition and trade-off is more obvious?

Assuming I understood it correctly, of course. Corrections welcome.
https://help.wirexapp.com/hc/en-us/articles/211943665-Is-Wir...

Wirex card is Visa.

Please mind that:

- All cards ordered prior Dec 22, 2015 are Visa (both virtual and plastic).

- All cards ordered in the period from Dec 22, 2015 to Feb 10, 2016 are MasterCard (both virtual and plastic).

- Cards ordered between Feb 10, 2016 and Apr 15, 2017 are Visa for virtual and MasterCard for plastic.

- All cards ordered after Apr 15, 2017 are Visa (both virtual and plastic).
I wish we were at least moving to teams.

I can't stand Skype For Business (Lync) - half of the time copying+pasting in and out of messages fails and or messages are too long.

I would even prefer slack over this.
I wish this were better accepted. You can list out the benefits of pair programming until the sun burns out, but, all things equal, I'm going to choose the job that comes without the soul-crushing anxiety of sharing a keyboard with another human being every day.
Draw attention to it for that dev; so the team is forced to take action. It's fair play. I've seen it go both ways; someone crushed Stripe with allegations and PC and several support techs showed up; guy was breaking the terms bad.

HN is a good place for devs and companies to get clarity. In that case; it pushed me towards stripe; in other cases away from an unscrupulous company
Acunetix Online Got a Major Update
How is a higher number worse if there is less slavery in countries with a higher number?
Its not that simple. You can't just do it, but the idea exist, ULA is planning something along those lines for 2024.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Cryogenic_Evolved_Sta...
Common ground in political flap: senseless laptop bans
By our current understanding the quantum fields still exist and have non-zero energy even in the void of deep space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-point_energy

Particles will still be created and annihilated there and will interact with your system, so you cannot have no events.
Giving employees a credit ensures that they will be taking one more trip on their way to and or from work. No solution fits everyone, but an on-site option is so much better for many parents, particularly women with babies that are still nursing. Being able to pop over during lunch hour is also an enormous benefit.

I spoken to a couple parents that it had this kind of an arrangement, it was so, so valuable to them.

While nothing is ever as simple as it seems, this seems like a major missed opportunity for "employee sat".
How the Pro-Trump Media Responds to a Crisis in Just 4 Steps
The surprising pattern behind color names around the world
Lime: model agnostic interpretability for machine learning
Discord quadruples to 45M users in less than a year
"Massive" being the key word here.
> It's just that, in each franchise, the other two movies are so much better

Alien 3 is a fun/exciting movie. But it never lived up to Ridley's Alien nor Cameron's Aliens standard.

It is not a terrible movie by a long shot. But when you compare it to the two masterpieces that preceded it, it disappoints.
Imbalanced Datasets
Show HN: Invision DO Template Implemented in React Native
I edited the headline to focus on the laptop ban part rather than partisan politics. I'd rather leave the political scandal to the pundits and focus on the security theater part of the story, if we can.
I saw one of this the last week. I felt like one of this "wow" moments that you can only get in the bay area (:
No! :)
*we do continue to label data though and will probably have a large "AI Trainer" staff in place for any NEW skill we want Amy to have in the future.
People thought mp3 was dead because of they have lost (or never had one) critical thinking and believe everything (or just too much) that clever PR people try to convince them to believe.

I can understand why Fraunhofer made this statement (it is still despicable) but it is really sad to see how gullible people are.
Atomic clocks and solid walls: New tools in the search for dark matter
While I'm in nowhere near as good shape as you, I have similar 'anecdata' findings.

I spent the last few months this year testing this, partly because I was curious about the Tim Ferriss claim that Diet Coke causes you to gain weight. (I actually wanted to test if I could lose weight just from walking & no diet changes.) Even with my two cans of Coke Zero a day, plus sparkling water with ice and a frappuccino most days, I've been losing weight for 4 months. (20.5% bf down to 16.5%.) I did add exercise, but only walking - I increased my steps up to 16000 steps a day for a while, but I'm back to sub-10000/day now. (Pebble Health has been awesome on my Pebble Time Steel.)

Whatever effect carbonated beverages have, at least in my experience, it's easily countered by exercise. Maybe that's not true for everyone, but it seems it's something you can easily test on yourself for a month or two to make your own conclusions.
'weight gain linked to soda' does not mean that every single person who drinks soda will gain weight, simple as that.
I have come to like Opal apples. Fujis can be hit or miss insipid.
Nice slam piece.

Face it. Trump is your president.

This russian leaks story is manufactured just like the russians hacking the election.
I'm surprised you didn't try caffeine pills.
One Surprisingly Simple Rule That Will Make Your Goals Happen Faster
The difference to me is that Continuum is still just a mobile OS that is scaled up. They even point that out in their promo material, it's a "desktop-like experience." Maru, while it looks very early in development, isn't a desktop-like experience. It's a desktop experience because it's running a desktop operating system.
This isn't much the case anymore from my experience. A generation ago I recall it being general knowledge that if a loved one had to go into the nursing home you would bankrupt and have medicaid pay. A relative tried that this recently and is close to destitute as a result.
I had a terrible "Billy" moment a few years ago.

I was travelling and a friend said I could use her house, because it was empty. This was perfect for me, since I had a wife and kid.

It turns out there was a housekeeper. She did everything for us, made us feel very comfortable, cooked, served, helped with the kid, etc.

Then one day I found out she didn't have her own room, despite the place being a multi storey mansion. In fact, she slept on a mat in the kitchen. And not only that, there would be a phone call each morning to wake her up, from the master of the house. He didn't want her to get too comfy while the family was out.

It was all a bit shocking. I still haven't chatted to my friend about this, because what on earth do you say? And otherwise ordinary western educated person -in fact a feminist, globalist, left-leaning idealist- who has a slave? What if I've misunderstood something? Maybe my friend didn't approve of it? Maybe he did? I'd never be able to talk to my friend again.

I got the housekeeper a present when we left, as she'd been so good at taking care of us. But naturally I didn't enquire any further into her relationship with the family.

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My main thought is there's a sort of Stockholm syndrome going on. Lola still had thoughts for her family back home, but she was so integrated in the new family it became part of her life, too. I guess it's a coping mechanism. Even slaves need meaning in their lives, and taking care of kids is meaning.

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Ok, enough of moralizing. Actually I find it comforting that there is at least some sympathy for my predicament. At least one or two of you think it is possible that they would behave similarly. Or at least acknowledge the awkward situation.

I will talk to this friend in person next time I'm in that part of the world, which should be soon, about this incident, and get the full story of how their housekeeper lives.
So compete at a high burnrate in an extremely crowded space with a huge workforce faking your technology until you can pivot your product and market down the road?

I get what you're saying as a general heuristic; but this is not that in my opinion.
That doesn't answer the question though. It's a reasonable inference that "CB" here means "carbonated beverage", and it's reasonable to further infer that these are sweetened carbonated drinks (otherwise why include diet CB?).

The paper is $35. In terms of advice to the public (which maybe it isn't!) it'd be nice if it unequivocally and explicitly covered carbonated water. I drink a lot of carbonated water. It's a recent habit. Thus I'm personally curious.
Netflix's originals are mostly terrible.

http://fortune.com/2016/09/16/emmys-preview-netflix/
The scripts for it still likely get loaded and compiled. I'm not sure how much of a hit that is, but Electron apps tend to eat a lot of memory quickly even doing basic stuff.
As humans we do all sorts of things that it would be monstrous to state as explicit policy. Be careful with this justification.
If you're part of a paid Slack org, you can go to [ORGNAME].slack.com/screenhero to create a ScreenHero account.

If you're not part of a paid org, a lot of times nonprofits have free premium Slack orgs, and you can use your membership in one of those to get Screenhero.
it's a good start but is still not artist direct, and is still not offering good prices
Has memory usage also been a focus? I got scared off from exploring Atom a month ago by https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14141855
I should have phrased it as a higher ranking rather than a higher number. I assumed 'higher' was clear in the terms of ranks, rather than a larger number.

GP's claim makes it seem like they interpreted as I did.

> ...countries like North Korea (rank #1) are closer to 0...

NK is not close to 0 in relative or absolute slave counts, and I don't see the utility in pointing out that 1 is closer to 0 than 52.
Absolutely awesome demo, thanks for the writeup of this impressive feat!
Ok but that's not the point I was making.
> Neither your dog nor your wrench have to be taught their place in the world.

Have you ever had a dog? Dogs definitely need to be taught what's acceptable and what's not.
That's only true for a very small class of luxury goods. If you had said the same thing about car brands in the 80's you'd be out a lot of money right now.
>Put another way, an absolute zero, in the void of deep space, does time effectively stop for a quantum system that does not otherwise change.

Even at absolute zero, there are still quantum fluctuations which give rise to phenomena such as quantum vibrational energy in molecules.
why do my packages keep getting to my house a day earlier than i expect?
Study shows correlation between exercise and longer telomeres
The culture isn't for everyone, and that's ok. But I'd personally call horrific the kinds of things that the culture deck prevents happening at Netflix. No brilliant jerks. No deadwood staff who after years of second chances still can't do their jobs, but can't ever be let go. No abusive office politics. etc.
Apples don't really all have the same "season" - even though they have a time to be picked, more tart apples are meant to be stored in cool conditions, with the starches converting to sugars and the acidity dropping over time.

For example, the Newtown Pippin: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/05/dining/it-s-crunch-time-fo...
a mean and lean team of hacker news readers could probably knock out the integration in a weekend or two.
You're mistakenly legitimitizing the idea that there is some tangible "luxury" available from a truly new car (as opposed to a late model one, a year or two old, in impeccable condition and perhaps some aftermarket accessories).

However, that is a scam idea with no basis in the physical world, invented and maintained by those with a vested interest. Therefore, all a brand new car (as opposed to a good 1 year old car) gets you is a vague feeling of newness and false ideas in your head that the probability of failure is lower. As smart as you think you are, by buying into it you've already bought into their system. They're already selling you a bag of air, and already got you to agree that this has some value, so they have a lot of leverage on the price, since there's no objective way to value something that is useless except because people can be tricked into wanting it.
There's a lot of customer service reps in that rating. I have no idea what it's actually like over there in customer service, but over in engineering a lot of us are loving our jobs and can't imagine wanting to leave.
Excuse me? No, just no. Not in the same way a human slave needs to be taught. Not at all. And besides I said dogs "don't need to be taught their place in the world" not "what's acceptable and what's not." They do in a sense, of course, but not remotely in the same sense as a slave.
1. Tor is open source. Any backdoor attempts in the source would require careful hiding. Shutting down the Tor Project would just result in someone else picking it up.

2. The US Navy funded (maybe still does) Tor. Tor is useful for western allies & spies

3. Many of the developers live in western nations. While western nations like the US do have intel agencies who are interested in messing with Tor, it doesn't seem to have gotten to the point of shutting down the Tor Project or directly attacking their infrastructure much if at all, especially since Tor benefits the military as well.
After 18 months of Netflix membership, I happened to watch it on another computer. I didn't realize that not everyone had crappy resolution.
> The British press essentially doxed him, stripping him of his anonymity and privacy.

Good news and bad news ...
The guy has a point. They write on Medium[1]:

Q: How is open source going to impact Wire’s users and what are the opportunities for them?
Wire’s users can now build their own client from our source code and run it on our platform.

Which is clearly not the case...

[1] https://medium.com/@wireapp/you-can-now-build-your-own-wire-...
I think a lot of us have moved from Atom/Sublime over to VS Code these days. Seems like lots more momentum and gobs of useful plugins that let me do my work.
I think you do the article a disservice to try and summarize it in such limited fashion. It considers questions such as why does trade today/globalization no longer seem to have the benefits economists consistently claim it does, or did in the past? How does this tie to labor in the US?

I'm not even sure why you consider the part your quoted based on a faulty premise, when it sounds like you agree with it.
On Windows 10 whenever I click the "Start a call" button it causes the entire slack app to become extremely blurry. Other apps do this too sometimes. It has something to do with how they are being rendered, maybe related to high-dpi support or something. I've tried disabling the high-dpi support and enabling compatibility mode but it doesn't have any effect.

Even after I close the "start a call" dialog the blurriness persists. It doesn't go back to normal until I restart Slack.

Any ideas what is going on? I can't find any working fixes for this in Slack or any other apps where this also happens.

An interesting thing I noticed was that in Unity (game dev IDE) when I set the render method to anything but DX9 it causes this same blurriness. Only DX9 makes it render sharp. DX10, DX11, etc all cause the blurriness.

I just have a normal Windows 10 desktop, latest drivers & updates, GTX 1080 GPU.
I always watch Alien and Aliens back to back. From time to time, if I have more time to kill, I watch Alien 3 ( the extended director's cut ). I watched Alien: Resurrection once and have never watched it again and have no desire to. Terrible movie.

I will never be able to forgive Alien 3 for killing off hicks and newt so unceremoniously ( off screen ). That was so lazy and cowardly, it ruins what is a fun movie to watch.
I give you Raptor and BE-4, but Vulcain is definitely a lot more interesting than Merlin and the Space Shuttle engines.
There are two points in the article which placed next to each other might seem contradictory but they aren't.

First,

> Globalization seems to have delivered up to private parties hard-won competitive advantages that were really the common property of American society.

Second,

> In order to work, free-trade systems must be frictionless and immune to interruption, forever. This means a program of intellectual property protection, zero tariffs, and cross-border traffic in everything, including migrants. This can be assured only in a system that is veto-proof and non-consultative—in short, undemocratic. That is why it is those who have benefited most from globalization who have been leading the counterattack against the democracy movements arising all over the West.

Most people I've heard from or met accept one of these two points but not both.
Show HN: Rearchitecting Airbnb’s Front end
Fascinating. Would have thought artificial sweetener would be implicated, not the CO2.
I encourage people to scroll around Google Maps (or better yet, drive) through some of America's most productive agricultural regions. The sheer scale of American farmland dwarfs any possible urban farm development.

Anyone who thinks the U.S. is crowded should book a window seat on a daytime cross-country flight and see if they still think that when they land.
> Space is used most efficiently when you have people actively involved on small plots.

Wouldn't the area needed for the active involvement of people require more space than commercial agriculture, where large machines can do a lot on a small footprint? A sprayer with 12 inch tires and a 120 foot boom can effectively 'weed' 118 feet of growing area with just two feet required for the tires. I'm not so sure a person with a hoe can beat that.
I've always considered Atom to be an advertisement for GitHub. The branding is unmistakable.
To what service? I don't know of any others that allow the multiple cursors when screen sharing.
This sounds like a question you would be asked to think about in an ethics class. The kind I would probably dismiss as so unrealistic that it's not worth taking seriously, so I'd give some canned answer that I think is supposed to be the correct one. I don't know what I would do in that situation either to be honest.
Will definitely give the books a try then.

Agreed there there was some stilted dialog and testing the limits of character believability for purposes of plot movement. But all in all I still enjoyed the pacing. (Trying to word this ambigiously) I think the political side was better done than the micro. (Also,
Shohreh Aghdashloo is a great actress)
That's the attitude that maintained Jim Crow in the south (and still maintains anti-black racism today). "We may be poor white trash, but at least we aren't black". (Black isn't the word that would be used, though)