skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I hear you! Because I feel the same way when I sit down and try to explain with words not the design of my robot but its function.

I think I tried with 5 people who fabricate custom machinery. The only ones who understood what I was trying to say are those who have had some field knowledge or some farm background.

No task can be completely automated without some kind of code making decisions. That's why large automation machinery meant for commodity farms are like blind farm labourers. They can't make decisions. Like pruning autonomous tractors or something that mows down or discs 500 acres. But completely diff and won't work when it comes to a bot harvesting strawberries.

Some do..if they have a vision system or has some kind of intelligence system making decisions. And that's why it will be several millions of dollars. Nothing is as efficient as a human making decisions in the field.

But our jobs can be made easier 1. if the data we need to make decisions is easily available. 2. If there is less manual labour.

Smaller farms are great for robots. If there is disease in a 500 acre corn field, how would you figure it out? But if it's 100 five acre blocks. And we have a swarm of 10 bots that can handle five acres at a time, then they can work as a swarm and also collect information to compare data with other blocks.

My point is that if we create intelligent systems AND autonomous solutions for small blocks/farms, they are scalable and can be replicated. And diff data sets can be created.

But if something is created which functions only with a minimum lay of 500 acres, it's not only expensive but limited in its application. Also..it would be easier to customize and build on top of existing applications because each year farm conditions change and small farms are more diverse.

I don't know if this kind of thinking is right or if it makes sense. But that's my reasoning for why one needs small acreage robots rather than large commodity crops farm bots.

Thank you! I would like to know if I am able to be articulate. I still can't be precise and say in short sentences which seems to be a desirable thing for tech people. But it's tough for me.
>>but I am not your research assistant
>Correct.

Glad we cleared that up.

>Also correct: you need to cite specific examples to back up the claim, which you have not done.

Hmm. See above.

I chose to contribute to the conversation by pointing to examples of behavior that poison the discussion, in the spirit of thrill's comment.

I personally thought "death penalty" and "war crimes" were stronger examples than just "prison".

I did not attempt nor do I need to prove the ancestor literally correct, but just for fun, here are a couple of links that do -
you'll have to decide if Bill Nye and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. meet your criteria as "prominent" (which was not in thrill's post - just that they are in the news).

Rfk, jr. http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/sep/23/robert-kennedy... Koch brothers should be in prison in the Hague

Bill Nye
http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/14/bill-nye-open-... compares it to jailing guys from Enron

Examples, plural, specific, people in the news claiming their opponents should be imprisoned.

Good enough for me.
zc.buildout[1] provides this kind of magic. You put the bootstrap.py[2] inside your project to bootstrap zc.buildout itself, and run `bin/buildout` and it will do everything needed to be done as configured in the recipe/configuration file. zc.buildout is also capable of compiling C sources using hexagonit.recipe.cmmi.

The magic of zc.buildout is in the recipe which is a normal Python module that allowed zc.buildout to be extended to do plenty of things (e.g. managing supervisord[3], installing postgres[4], etc.).

[1]: http://www.buildout.org/en/latest/index.html

[2]: https://github.com/buildout/buildout/blob/9a4b330338e63992dc...

[3]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/collective.recipe.supervisor/0....

[4]: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/birdhousebuilder.recipe.postgre...
Why don't do it like we did for hundreds of years? Get to know the person you are lending money to.
That's the argument I'm making. Consumers know best.
They can be taken over.
A couple of people who handled Red Flags compliance for medical practices have told me they're only required to do some kind of identity verification, which can be as simple as checking a driver's license. They store SSNs to make it easier to report and collect on delinquent accounts.
Ontario does too. You can complain that the prices are a little high, but the LCBO stores I've been to have always been much cleaner and the staff more attentive, knowledgable, and personable than any privately owned store over the border in New York.
Reading your comment reminded me of a similar system which gave access to phone numbers of people & businesses including non listed numbers.

Still I have yet to see people realise that if you want to undermine a country's financial system, screw up their credit rating agency's. I dont believe Equifax when they say only certain data has been accessed, these are normalised databases, I suspect the CEO is bluffing or being very lenient with the true if they are only referring to one table/file and not the rest of the database, and thats if they even know just how much data has been accessed. These agency's share information between themselves so the knock on effect is all the credit rating agency's will probably have duff data if any of it has been changed.

Still it could also be a back door way for the Central Banks to get money out into the economy if everyone can suddenly take out massive loans on the lowest interest rates known to man, because its not like the financial system in the West has ever recovered from the financial crisis in 2008, so when overt QE has failed, why not try some covert QE and blame it on the oh so spooky hackers.
Apparently the Chief Security Officer's credentials are a degree in music[1]! I wish I was kidding.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-m-93069a/
login.gov is currently live on this app from the Customs and Border Patrol https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cbp-jobs/id1210368989?mt=8

We're working with other agencies interested in the platform and will announce them as they go live.

*I work for 18F
> There's a distinction between the government repressing speech and private businesses refusing to give the speech-maker a platform.

So you do not support net neutrality, correct?
Mostly for the sake of learning and gaining experience.
Ok, so credit reporting agency collects sensitive personal and financial data on basically every adult American, loses it to a bunch of criminals and now I have to deal with the consequences?

I looked into credit freezes yesterday. This is really a total scam. You have to _call_ each of the three agencies and pay a fee ($5 to $10) each time. If you need to unfreeze your report to make a legitimate credit application you have to call each of them twice (once to unfreeze and another to freeze) paying fees every time.

Now if you're a paying member (paying a minimum of $15/month to each agency) you can just lock and unlock your credit file on a mobile app (well, three mobile apps and I'm not sure all three support this). It's amazing how convenient things get once they're already extorting you for "credit protection".

This shouldn't even be legal.

Also, if a fraudster defrauds a financial institution with your personally identifiable details, it should be an issue between the agency and the financial institution as you were not a party to this loan. The reporting agency saying you were should be slander.

Financial institutions should be interested in consumers having an easy ability to lock their credit files as it would decrease the number of fraudulent credit applications.

So why can't I have a mobile app (or three) for free that allows me to easily lock and unlock my file or, better yet, to vet every inquiry and approve it or not?
The Chief Security Officer's credentials are a degree in music[1]! I wish I was kidding.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-m-93069a/
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The discussion here has quickly gotten out of hand and at the risk of causing more confusion I would like to point out that pipenv(http://docs.pipenv.org/en/latest/) seems to be the officially recommended Python packaging tool now[1], though venv and pip work too.

[1] -- (https://packaging.python.org/new-tutorials/installing-and-us...)
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I think we all expected it to be like this since we have the LCBO
I liked the visualization and data, but I don't think it makes sense to compare home prices to wages w/o considering alternatives to home ownership. Home prices don't exit in a vacuum. That is, if a home is 10x the median salary, you can't really say "well, if I didn't buy a home I could work 10 years less." That's because the alternative to buying is renting, which is also expensive. So sure, a mortgage in SF is $6k/mo. But rent might be $6k/mo as well -- and you don't earn any equity or tax write-offs while renting.

I think what the alternative title to this blog post could be is: "How many years of life does that city cost?" What it's really comparing is the relative cost of having a roof over your head in different areas. Would you rather work 40 years and live in SF or work 30 years and live in rural Wisconsin? (I don't have an opinion on those two options. I'm sure there are many people in both of those places that are happy with their choices.)
woww, ripple had tied up multiple bank like SBI etc.
true. I once worked at a bank and we used a 3rd party data warehouse web solution to get started with a new business. 6 months into it, i noticed that I could access cross customer information by modifying local javascript variables. When I brought this up to my manager he told me to patch this up asap. which i did, using MD5, because i was a jr engineer back then and didn't know any better (and apparently neither did my manager, nor the creators of that data warehouse)

my point being, without guidelines, or regulations, or some sort of security rating standard, managers will continue to make these mistakes.
> I can already hear Americans preach to me how the free market is great and solves all your problems.

This sort of nationalistic flamebait (pro or con, doesn't matter) breaks this site's rules. Would you please read them and follow them when commenting here?
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On HN we're hoping for at least a slightly higher standard of civility than is common on the internet. Given how strong the forces of polarization (of all kinds) have been as of late, that's something we need everybody here to pitch in with.
> Would be much easier to break the lease (Should I ever need to) if my surrogate 'corporation' with few assets were the leasee

You'll risk losing the assets. If the assets aren't substantial, it's unlikely any landlord will sign the lease with the entity without someone guaranteeing it.
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Even if house values (or even 20% deposits) are going up faster than incomes, you can still save towards a house.

Imagine a $1MM house, with a $200K minimum deposit, $135K of household income. If that house goes up by 5% per year ($50K, $10K deposit), your income never goes up, and you save 8% or more of your income towards a down payment, you are still making headway towards the down payment. If you save 15-20% of your income, you are making substantial progress towards the down payment.

Scale the numbers up/down as you wish to fit your particular area/situation, but if the house is affordable by traditional mortgage underwriting requirements, it seems like it's possible to save for the downpayment in scenarios that I explored.
The leaked PII makes it trivially easy to obtain the credit report data
Maybe the Chinese government wants even more control and is going to create a centralized exchange and regulate those markets as much as possible.

As I stated in a thread last week[1], this seems to be the most plausible move for them.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15176446

Don't think for a minute this is China trying to keep investors away from frauds/scams, it's about them making sure they can control capital flows.
Yeah I think USDS is taking motivation from Verify.

I actually contacted the Verify folks about leveraging a privacy-preserving approached as outlined here: https://www.cipheredtrust.com/doc/

I believe they were involved in some sort of porn regulation effort launched in the house of commons with a lot of privacy implication, a mechanism as described above would address all of that privacy problem.
Nowhere near the power or prestige of being a Governor or Senator in a state with 20 million citizens. Or a Mayor of a town with 9 Million citizens.

Rudy Giuliani, Andrew Cuomo, Elliott Spitzer, etc, etc.
hmm i called the 3 mentioned here today and all were free.

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...

Equifax — 1-800-349-9960
Experian — 1‑888‑397‑3742
TransUnion — 1-888-909-8872
Indeed do just use plain virtualenv by all means! Its by far the most mature and most widely adopted solution, I happily ignore all the esoterical "reasons" against it. All those religious arguments are just annoying, it works perfectly fine in cronjobs, systemd unit files, uwsgi services, etc.

also lets not forget about pip install --user !
Chinese poetry TV show a surprise hit with audiences
There's an app, "PJM Now", for monitoring what PJM is doing.[1][2] But unless you're in the industry you're going to be bored by 99% of what it shows you.

They haven't taken any geomagnetic disturbance actions yet, beyond issuing the warnings above. If this was affecting anything in the power grid, there'd be actions listed. So far, all is quiet.

(Background: PJM runs the wholesale power grid for the northeastern US and part of Canada. They don't own it; there are lots of different companies that own parts of it, and they collectively own PJM. PJM has control of the transmission hardware. The system is run from a control room in Valley Forge, PA and a backup center somewhere else.

They also operate the market in electricity, like a commodity exchange. Generator startup and shutdown decisions are usually made by the owners of units based on current price info. But when there's trouble, the PJM control center can order "conservative operation", which means the control center will tell generators to start up, shut down, or stand by. When they expect trouble, due to weather, high heat, extreme cold, or equipment outages, there will be orders to make preparations.

PJM had a major blackout caused by a geomagnetic disturbance on March 13, 1989. They're very aware of the problem. They have emergency procedures for when it happens again.

So what PJM says is not PR; it's the control room giving orders. If they're not showing emergency conditions in effect, which they're not today, the geomagnetic disturbance isn't hurting the power grid and isn't expected to do so in the near future. Every time somebody posts about some current geomagnetic disturbance, I check PJM's info. If they're not worried in the control room, there's probably not much to worry about.)

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pjm.pjmnow...
[2] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pjm-now/id1180491584?ls=1&mt...
Leveraging Duo Security’s Default Configuration to Bypass SSH Two-Factor Auth
You're making a lot of assumptions about how they will run the stores.

Other people have already mentioned how the government runs the alcohol stores and (IMHO) they do a pretty good job of it. I live in Texas now and when I go back to Ontario to visit my family, it does seem weird that I can't buy beer in a 7-11 or a grocery store or in a drive through shop (not sure these are a good idea).

Being the sole seller also means that they can negotiate ruthlessly and drive prices down to maximize profit for the people of Ontario. I don't know if they will do that, but it sure helps.
I've continuously argued for structural reforms, so does my argument now carry great weight?
Correct. They announced it yesterday at AnsibleFest San Fran.
You should check out fades[0]. It does exactly what you are asking for.

[0] https://github.com/PyAr/fades
After the war the government built housing projects in NYC. Would it really be that hard to do that again?
>> The less you tell the customers what they're committing to-- the less likely any judge will care what legal terms you choose.

I've seen in a more than one case where the Judge blamed the plaintiff that the onus is on them to read the TOS BEFORE agreeing to anything. In the end, it just depends on what kind of a judge you get.

https://www.eff.org/wp/clicks-bind-ways-users-agree-online-t...

However, courts generally do not require that you actually have read the terms, but just that you had reasonable notice and an opportunity to read them.

In other words, it’s not merely clicking the “I Agree” button that creates the legal contract. The issue turns on reasonable notice and opportunity to review—whether the placement of the terms and click-button afforded the user a reasonable opportunity to find and read the terms without much effort.
One thing to consider as well is that when you get to a certain level of storage, you need a dedicated box (so there is more hardware cost).

I have 50tb of storage in my home server. The electricity cost for this box is about $35 a month.

In my case it is so much strorage that it saves money, but if you have less storage and still need a dedicated box, it would be less so.
Police warn organized crime, including the Hells Angels, has infiltrated the medical marijuana market
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/police-warn-organized-c...
And we already know they are stupid and greedy because of the hack.
Yes, they lose billions per year in fraudulent refunds.
This is really cool. Can anyone guess which frameworks power this article? I'd love to try to put together something similar.

I wonder if the code is on github somewhere?
Heh, it actually changed while I was in college. As a CS student, one of the required courses was a 'Computers and Society' course which was basically sort of like a 'where ethics meets technology' course, talking about the social impact of code and computing. The kind of thing many people today seem to have need to attend. But anyhow, during it we mentioned 'hey, why are our student IDs, used everywhere, our SSNs? Isn't that unsafe?' and we actually ended up getting it changed.

Didn't stop some professors from continuing to use them. I had one prof who would use the last 4 digits (oh, only the last 4, those aren't the most important ones or anything) as a way to post psuedoanonymous grades after tests.
You would have to do that if the case were actually litigated. The cost to Equifax to defend the case would be, at the very least, several hundred dollars, thousands, more likely.
It is honestly worth your while to pay off your mortgage as soon as humanly possible.
That's the cost of a small tractor already. It takes additional implements and man hours to operate it. If a 20k base module can exist like ..say..an iPhone and there is a library of tasks that can downloaded..like say a kindle book. I think we can see cheap tech.

Let's say: clay soil + Swiss chard + zone 8A + September-December. We know enough to come up with a crop plan. As it's a shared library, with time, we can get whatever disease or pests come to that zone at that time of the year. What nutrients need to be added. Soil probes in the base module can figure out what's deficient and we can know what to supplement the existing soil with..connected with gps, weather data and past years pests issues/crop plans, you have a reasonably proficient farm assistant that can go into a mapped field and recognize the chard row..and scan for bugs or do a soil probe every 6 weeks or check if it's ready for harvest and predict how much will be ready for market every week etc. it's possible.
It's good to be BACK
Biometric has its own problems. What's a fingerprint but a password you can't change?

Any secret can be stolen, bio or otherwise. The key to robust ongoing identity is not a better shared secret, it's a better way of recovering from theft of shared secrets. One way is to have a big trove of non-secret-but-not-public data, like prevous addresses and employers (which is how the credit bureaus sometimes authenticate people). Who has more such info to draw from than the government? Another is to use shared info that goes stale quickly, e.g. "What magazine did you get in the mail yesterday?" Again, the government, by virtue of being the government, already has candidate info to draw from.

And what if all else fails, if some super-hacker has stolen or has ongoing access to every single piece of digital information that could be used to authenticate you? If you're a startup or a corporation or an open source project, you throw up your hands. If you're the government, you say "Please visit your nearest police department and bring your photo ID and some utility bills."

The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that this is the only good solution. Like someone else in this thread said, Identity is hard. There's no silver bullet to make it a tractable problem, but you can throw enormous resources at it. And in the government's case, the most costly part (building a brick-and-mortar office in every city, town, village and hamlet in America and staffing it with humans) has already been paid.
Sounds almost like `pip freeze > requirements.txt`. This creates a list of all your currently-installed packages, which you can install with `pip install -r requirements.txt`.

The biggest problem with this though is that this will make the other person install _all_ your installed packages, rather than just the ones needed for the particular script.
The early history of HP calculators
This is the kind of thing that should end/bankrupt a company.
Not sure if this is what your looking for?

https://www.mashape.com
Virtualfish is amazing: https://github.com/adambrenecki/virtualfish