skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't quite know how to feel about this.

On the one hand, I actually did something similar to his second story. I hired two full time employees with only enough cash for a short period of time. I relied on finding more clients to stay afloat. It didn't work out well in the end for me.

On the other hand, at no point during that process did I ever consider myself "too lazy to understand the risks". I don't think that's a good trait. I considered the risks and knew exactly what I was getting in to. I had backup plans and exit strategies. It was a calculated and considered risk that I decided was worth taking. I also decided that I was OK with the worst case scenario outcome.

Not knowing the risks is foolhardy. Knowing the risks, and making the conscious decision that some risks are worth taking is a different thing entirely.

(On the other hand, I failed, he succeeded, so full respect too him for making it work. Maybe his strategy is better after all. Maybe along the way there was a risk I consciously choose not to take that he would have blindly taken that would have changed the outcome for me. And there were limits for me. I was prepared to risk losing cash savings, but not my home, and I wasn't prepared to go into debt to make it work)
And Intel came out of Fairchild Semiconductor, which also had roots in Shockley Semiconductor, and William Shockley came out to the Bay Area from Bell Labs to be closer to his ailing mother, being that he grew up in Palo Alto, the son of a mining engineer father and a Midwestern transplant mother who came to Stanford to study and became a mining surveyor. Which makes William Shockley not just home-grown talent, but talent that brought the benefit of decades of research out in New York back with him. Further to the point, Shockley couldn't convince any of his colleagues out in Bell Labs to join him, since they didn't have the same roots in the Bay Area and the Bay Area didn't have the same draw then as it does now. But Shockley put in the leg work and recruited from the experience-less - the rest is history.

The point is that money didn't bring Shockley back to the Bay Area, and Shockley/Fairchild/Intel didn't spring out of nothing.
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Settlers of Catan is coming to virtual reality this year
I'm empathetic to China's position... having a war that close the homeland is bad for business. They have some difficult decisions ahead of them. [If someone was threatening Canada or Mexico, we'd probably intervene for purely geo-political reasons, for example]

What I don't understand is Russia's alliance, I'm hoping someone can explain. NK seems a lot less of geo-political importance for Russia than it is for China.
* Lots of water.

* Accept that you're not going to be 100%.

* It gets better over time. After 2 weeks, I didn't even feel drained on a 25g carb day (while carb cycling.)

* Carb cycling keeps the impact on work to one day.

* Work out in the evenings so you're not drained for the full day.

* Fats can give you a lot of energy if you use it well. i.e. eat good fats (ex. salmon, coconut oil, etc) and eat it evenly throughout the day.
While I like the idea of making old devices usable for a longer time, I don't like the approach they have choosen. Android has Java application framework developed by Google that is well tested and stable. It works great and there are many applications written using this framework. There is F-Droid. Why replace it with some linux desktop environment like KDE? It probably is buggy, unstable, not optimized for mobile devices, there are no apps and nobody is going to write them. They are just making another always-broken linux distribution. I am afraid they will also make some awful desktop environment with excess 3D effects and gigantic icons like Gnome 3.
what does Tim Cook's tweet.... mean?

A solution... "rooted in American values"....?

Does he mean an immigration policy/work permits rooted in American values? If so...what does that look like practically?
This is because their technology came pre-invented elsewhere. You grow faster when you start with 1920's technology instead of 1800's.
produce is remarkably cheap at the markets in Amsterdam compared to southern California. Chicken is much more expensive.
NB: This is from January (2017).
Applies to more than just tomatoes really, though i guess tomatoes are more noticeable in this regard.
3D printing an entire new plate and making it retroreflective seems quite a bit harder than "putting some tape on it" to me, so it seems like it's successful?
But why? There's plenty of production in Portugal, Italy and Spain.
The food from the Netherlands is tasteless compared to Spanish or Italian in all seasons of the year, in the summer, all produce in Europe beats it.

High yields in a country that does not have record sunlight throughought entire year, can only be achieved by abusing chemicals in the process, faking natural conditions, etc. Low amount of natural sunlight can easily be tested using your taste buds.

If their farmer switch to other varieties, without slowing down and reducing the yields, they will still harvest tasteless produce in comparison to other countries that have better conditions or "slower" production.
Politics has been very good for WIRED click rate.
Netherland is quite famous for its ability to grow completely tasteless vegetables. After WW2, people didn't consider taste very important; only appearance, size, cost, and maybe nutritional value mattered, so lots of tasteless vegetables were bred.

Eventually customers started revolting, and now there are plenty of very tasty tomatoes available. They're more expensive, though, and not everybody can afford them. To a lot of people, cost is still a factor. And maybe even more so for export.
For the sake of completeness. Top capital gains rate is 20% + 3.8% medicare surcharge + state tax. In a high tax state like California, you're paying 37.1% on investment income, not 15%. Also, top federal rate is 39.6%, not 35%, plus state income tax, you can pay as high as a statutory rate of 52.9% in CA, or around 47% after deductions.

And more to your point, we already have a defacto wealth tax in the US because inflation is not deductible. If you hold a bond paying 2% per year, and inflation is also 2% per year, you pay tax on those gains even though you've made a post-tax loss in purchasing power. At 2% long term inflation, the defacto wealth tax works out to be the 2% multiplied by your capital gains rate, or from 0.47% to 0.74% for high earners depending on what state they live in.
You can do some amazing things with enough energy! And the Netherlands have a lot of extra energy because of all the geothermal energy they get.

This is not [yet] replicable to other places though.

Hopefully soon - unlimited energy would utterly change the world.
Ive never used Spotify. They seem to happen at random and their wording is a bit vague. As if someone's trying to access my account but they don't outright say so.
Our cuisine and diet has a poor reputation, but I think some of our actual produce (vegetable and dairy) is not so bad. We don't have the warm or sunny climate for flavoursome tomatoes, but root vegetables grown here can be fine.

It's also common for cows to graze outside for part of the day (true of Ireland and Sweden too). It's subjective, but I think it makes for much nicer tasting fresh milk (compared to the UHT variety that is more of the norm in other European countries).
X-37B heading to space aboard Falcon 9 on Sept. 7
Any email list I can't unsubscribe in one click gets marked as spam. Won't be good for their deliverability.

Exception is if they have me by the balls i.e. a service I need to get some emails from. Then I'll log in and figure out how to "update my email preferences". Which are usually not my preferences at all but some silly defaults.

The online fax company that sends me fake random floating point numbers that represent how many dollars I owe them. They get a special rule!
It's probably also worth noting that a lot of these stories of teen geniuses and young billionaires and what not are ones you're hearing about because they're noteworthy and unusual. That's what gets them media coverage, what inspires people to constantly discuss them on social media and why so many people are discussing them in general.

Most people won't end up in that situation (as a prodigy who'll change the world before they're 30), and that's perfectly fine. Go ahead and put in more effort if you think you're not doing as well as you could be, but also remember that one in a billion success stories are outliers rather than the norm. Remember that what's in the news is there because it's unusual. Man bites dog stories are obviously going to be more common than the other way around, despite the other one being a few thousand times more likely.

TLDR: Don't compare yourself to extreme outliers, at least if you don't want to feel like a complete failure.
An Open vLetter to GM – Actions Speak Louder Than Words
Strong social safety nets of the Scandinavian variety do reduce post-transfer poverty (less so inequality), mostly by truncating the bottom of the income curve with a floor. You can get rid of poverty pretty much by definition if you have sufficient income transfers so that everyone's income is above the povery line. E.g. if your national poverty line is $13k, if you guarantee $13k incomes, no more poverty, at least by that measure. Works a bit better in practice if you also have an integrated social worker system, so you can figure out e.g. if someone is homeless due to purely lack of income or mental health or other illness and direct them appropriately.
customer service though a website or email "can" be much better than phone.

a recent experience with a plumbing equipment company let me upload photos of my issue. Something I can't do on the phone.

I also don't have to sit there and wait on hold.
They started with 70 cells, 54 made it to 4-8 cell stage, and 36 of these were wild type (figure 2):
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v548/n7668/fig_tab/natu...

In other words they started out with ~35/70 wt cells, and ended with 36/54. All 36 contained the WT sequence (rather than mutant) and not the template they tried to introduce. It is just as if the process killed ~16/35 mutants.
I think they eventually had a TOPS-20.
Italian, or Albanian tomatoes are the best. You guys live so up-north, that it takes a long time for tomatoes to get there so you are most likely going to get shipped the 1. Tasteless type, that happens to resist longer on shelves, or 2. Unripped tomatoes that get ripened on the way there.

There is a huge difference in taste between in vine ripped tomatoes and the one they are picked up still green.

The northeast US has the same problem. Tomatoes in California are usually pretty good, tomatoes in Boston taste like crap. (the joke is that Boston is the last stop for a tomato truck, before they get thrown in the ocean as trash).
Outlawing War? It Actually Worked
The social aspects are huge in Asia. How important is it that you can send an audio message instead of text to you? Again, probably not at all. In China, it was the single differentiating feature that led to Wechat's rise. My preferences does not integrate into our preferences.
I usually end up sleeping more.

I try and plan some work from home days and then I can take a quick nap over lunch-time and it also cuts down the commute time which I can use to take power naps!
@xenadu02,

I feel the same way as a client. Everything I've used that they've purchased has turned out for the worse. Be it neglect or price increases the promises always exceed what's actually delivered.

Moreover they're transparent about their desire to lock you in and then press that to their advantage.

I actively avoid few companies but they're at the top of the list.

I came her to reminisce about the beauty of Solaris from a long time ago and your comment struck a nerve.
You sound like every French, Spanish, and Italian chef I've worked for.
Right. And would not be useful for tumors with poor accessibility for injection, small multifocal tumors or those with small mets, or tumors of the blood. Still, plenty of early stage cancers involve a single accessible mass and I could imagine this technique being safer and easier than full excision in some cases. This is elegant and, importantly, should be inexpensive (vs the many personalized therapies being developed)
How much profit increase does a new user bring can i see that?
Really interesting, are there any resources I can read about techniques used in Netherlands agriculture industry.

I have 5 ha (1 ha = 10.000 m2) land in my home country, but I do not know how to use it, even for what I can use. I will be really glad if someone points out me profitable/most profitable things for this land.

(I am from Central Asia, traveling and working abroad)
For the purposes of finding a "winning strategy" we have to have a solution for every piece sequence, regardless of probability.
Well we "foolishly" decided to build half our country below sea level. We've seen this interest in the past in the afterwake of Katrina, and we've been exporting this knowledge for quite some time. Unfortunately, it's probably a difficult problem to solve on the massive scale the US needs.
Do they tell you from which region?
In fact you can just line five of the Z shapes up along the bottom, over and over again. This technique works indefinitely.

Now, if there's an occasional S shape thrown into the mix, you have a problem.
I could do without the smug lecture, guy. Anyway:

From https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption

>16.26 TWh/yr

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption

>109613 TWh/yr

Which yields 0.0148%. So you're right, not less than 0.01%, less than 0.015% instead. Still a far cry from 0.08$.

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I would really like to know when have I said my smartphone was gold-free, how that is in any way relevant to the discussion anyway and not a completely inane pseudo-gotcha, I would like to know why you keep linking bitcoin mining to coal (another completely transparent appeal to emotion), I would like to know when have I said worldwide production of gold is insignificant... I would like to know all those things but from the tone of your confident lecture responding to points I didn't even make I conclude you're not really into discussing this. Intellectual dishonesty is more your thing, I presume.

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And my point is that gold (of which, again, 95% is "useless" in the sense of not being destined to any practical application) costs on the order of ~1MWh per ounce to mine. At a yearly production of ~3000 metric tons that comes to 109TWh, almost an order of magnitude more than bitcoin.
WhatsApp's UI is a complete mess. Trying to explain it to my mum has been near-impossible.

Starting a new conversation is done with an unlabeled FAB on the main-screen. She had no idea that that was even a button.

Then there's four tabs across the top. One for taking pictures, because the Camera-App and the camera-shortcut in the conversation view apparently weren't enough, one for actual chats, one for setting your status, because that's clearly a similar action to chatting and should therefore be placed in a tab next to it, and one for calls, no idea why that's not just a button in the contacts list.

Then when you go into the conversation view, at the bottom you have a generic attach media icon, a take-picture-and-send-it-shortcut and then separate from that the send-voice-message button, sharing its place with the actual send-message button. That might've been clever design at some point in the past, but now you have those other buttons right next to the send-voice-message button, so it should share the look with those as it does a very similar thing.

Also, the unlabeled movie-camera-icon at the top does not mean sending a video, it means starting a video call. You could sort of guess that by the location of that button, but that's still not just obvious, especially not for my mum.

Where you can however now send videos from, is the Emoji-selector. Or well, it's rather GIFs. Reaction-GIFs, even. Which is why I'm not completely opposed to them having placed it there instead of in the attach-media-dialog, but now you have 9 tabs at the top of the Emoji-selector and three tabs at the bottom (also including the search), as well as a delete-key, which does not behave like a tab. And two of these tabs even share the same icon.

Moving on, when you mark a message for selection, you get 5 icons at the top. Two of those are the exact same arrow-icon just mirrored. One means "Reply", the other means "Forward". Even knowing that there's a difference, I couldn't tell you which one means which without first long-pressing on them, which my mum won't know to do.

Also, one of those 5 icons is a star and when you long-press on it, it literally says "Star". Not "Favourite", not "Remind me", not "Mark as Important". I don't even know what it does myself, so I can't tell you what it should say there.

Some of these problems are hard to avoid or hard to get right, but many of these are there, because they absolutely did not focus on being a chat application and instead had to turn the whole thing into everything and the kitchen sink, and then they're even making the individual features compete for a spot in the directly visible GUI, no matter how much it clutters things up, just because they want people to use them.
From the article: " This high-tech broiler house holds up to 150,000 birds, from hatching to harvesting"

No 'decades old photo' either. I find it hard to believe someone loving live animals would put them in such a place.
I thought China's wording in their statement had interesting wording: "If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean...."

They particularly mention "regime change" and use the "and" word, not "or" word. Given there is a language and cultural difference, I may be reading into this too much, but nevertheless I thought it was intersting.
Also to note is that organisations like Amnesty are incredibly inefficient and big money wasters. Paying mid level employees 5000k net + 2000 for rent is not exceptional. So I'm skeptic when they need "more money".
> If C++ ever adopts the Pascal-style "module" extensions that have been kicking around in various proposals compile times could shrink by several orders of magnitude.

I'm skeptical. Modules don't avoid the need for template instantiation.
Skyscrambler brings transparency in flight ticket prices
https://www.skyscrambler.com
Have you ever had to change your VPN or location in other to get lower ticket prices? Then yes, you are a smart cookie because you know it works. Now changing locations can be a very hard task and consumes valuable time searching ticket prices and making the right combination based on your budget. We wanted to test if people would like our project. We launched a webapp called skyscrambler.

It crawls tickets from around the world. Curating these tickets it presents them in the order of available seats and airlines with various suppliers for the route and their prices.

We decided to make flights ticket price listing more transparent. By showing you all suppliers prices for that particular seat, flight combination on a selected destination, we believe users can choose from any local or international ticketer/supplier/agent.

International agents may change in their own local currencies. Check for exchange rates with your card or bank. Despite the exchange rates, international agents. With skyscrambler, we have seen people save 5-50% using this search method we provide.

At the moment we are limited to 100 sessions per minute based on the partner API we are using. We hope to remove this limitation. We are strongly discussing with them to open it up.

Some agent charge fees on using different payment system, while for some its free using debit cards.

At least with skyscrambler.com, your chances of getting lower fares are higher than most meta search engines.
"Generally speaking, I can tell within 5 minutes who is a great candidate."

How do you validate that this is true?
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Funny that comparison with the trees can be applied in a different way - you do need to cut high trees if you want to grow smaller trees in the same place.

This spring I cut very high pine because it shadowed my entire backyard and I want to grow more smaller trees on the perimeter.
I have a Facebook account that I don't use. It lists my real name and certain public details. I keep it to prevent anyone from imposing me on FB.
There is even a Numb3rs episode
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1256331/
If your imperative code is readable and well-commented, why break it up into single-use functions?
> in states (Florida) with amazing sunshine and access to fresh water and cheap power.

Actually the model would work better in states with less arable land or with a colder climate.

Reasons:

1. Better food security, less reliance on imported food

2. As the article states, water use is much lower than open field farming, so it's better for places with constrained resources

3. More environmental if the food is grown closer to the consumers as there's less need for storage and transport. Similar to #1

4. Sunshine doesn't really matter for these greenhouses since a lot of them are using LED lights tuned to the species they're growing to increase output. [0]

[0] https://www.verticalfarmingconference.com/indoor-farming/jap...
The way I can feel really good about my life is this (actually very similar to what OP says):

- Accept this very moment, and all the moments before this one as unchangeable. Since any additional decision or action will take place in the future, this moment is the only possible state of the world I currently live in. Fate/environment/god/entropy/myself (whatever one believes in) led me here, and it could not have happened in any other way, or it would have.

- What I can have an effect on is the future (as the article says) - I can STRIVE to make a certain improvement or reach a goal.

- Whether or not I reach a goal is almost always not entirely dependent on me, and is therefore uncertain, and it would not make sense to expect it 100% to happen. So I don't fully rely on it, and have a Plan B and maybe C available. Fate/environment/god/entropy always has the last word on my reaching a goal, and since I cannot change that, I also have to accept it.

Not accepting unchangeable situations is IMO a major source of suffering. Finding out what I can or can not, or maybe should not change is an ongoing struggle.
You can find plenty of southern Spanish produce in greengrocers (it's usually so ripe it's nearly about to go off). Works OK if you want to eat it immediately.
Talking with non-technical family members was hard in 2007. Partly this was because the most portable solution was a big chunky laptop and most people didn't even have that. But we can't totally separate the mobile computing devices that have appeared since then from the apps installed on them. I'd love a world where open source protocols and clients dominated, but it wasn't quite the utopia you remember.
Trump is not "the US". He's just the current chief clown. When those proposals he's making become real, then you have a point and we are really screwed.
I experienced this with human customer support recently. I started asking questions to sort out what key piece of info I was not communicating. "Why would your company accept that request if it's impossible to fulfill?" Instead of working to solve with logic the rep responded to every question "oh yea it's too bad I'm so sorry that happened"

I think they're just abused by angry customers so much it's easier to just appease emotionally than solve unreasonable requests
"Tetris" has to be well-defined mathematically before it can be confronted as a problem. Rules governing piece rotation behaviour, piece spawning, piece randomization, wall kicks, loss conditions and even well dimensions need to be laid out first.