skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 61 hours a week

That's an oddly specific number that I wouldn't expect to agree exactly across the USA and "Europe". Do you have a source?
Try to remember to spend time with your partner - you'll both be tired, and every time something "goes wrong" you'll panic. Relax, this is normal. Try to take it in turns to sleep, if you can.

Honestly though? The first few days are largely "eat, piss, and sleep". It's only later when the baby starts to scream, move around, and so on. You can place him/her in a cot, cartboard-box, hammock, or even on the floor near you.

Newborns don't move around, so if they're asleep you can just sit there reading a book, relaxing, watching TV, etc, etc. They are a lot of work, but the harder parts come when they're more mobile, and need constant attention. Swaddling helps keep them in-place too.

Beyond that, good luck! The first smile, the first laugh, the first word? All of that makes any pain 100% worth-it. Even if there are times you want to scream, and throw the damn thing out of the window. (I'll pretend I didn't say that.)
First, you are talking about herbicides, not pesticides.

Secondly, GM opposition is a very odd thing. Every carton of milk I buy has a little sticker that it comes from non-GM cows, Every one of those stickers is a lie. We have selectively bred cattle for hundreds of years to build the modern dairy cow with specific genetics. It's been very scientifically done for a long time.

Third, the real issue here is not GM. It is IP. (I know Stallman would bristle at generically lumping it all under IP). But this new idea that one party can own a seed and just license it to others for planting is crazy. The idea that they can contaminate other crops and then claim ownership of those crops, too? Crazy.
Also it allows you to run a bunch of services with little resources and minimal config. I have a OVH $7/mo VPS running

- reverse proxy (traefik)
- 2 web apps
- jenkins
- postgres
- riemann
- thumbor (thumbnailing service)
There are lazy and burned out tenured profs. But they are a small minority. To get tenure at a good school, you have to be something of a work beast, and self-driven. That doesn't go away just because you get the tenure letter in your mailbox one day.

I know hundreds of tenured profs in science and engineering and there is a very strong work culture.
Amounts of vitamins per supplement seem to vary wildly.

Just from checking supplements I have at home:

Supplement #1 (all B vitamins):

- B6: 4.2mg

- B9: 600ug

- B12: 7.5ug

Supplement #2 (just B6 + B9 + B12):

- B6: 75mg

- B9: 800ug

- B12: 150ug

------------

Recommended daily doses are:

- B6: 1.7 mg/day (men)

- B9: 400 ug/day in US, 330 ug/day in EU (men + non-pregnant-non-lactating women)

- B12: 2.4 μg/day in US, 4.0 μg/day in EU (men + non-pregnant-non-lactating women)

Tolerable upper intake levels are:

- B6: 100 mg/day in US, 25 mg/day in EU

- B9: 1000 ug/day

- B12: no sufficient evidence for setting upper level

------------

From the study:

Beneficial effects (for men):

- B6: 1.41 - 3mg/day, multivitamins

- B9: 200 - 400 mg/day

- B12: 0.1 - 55 ug/day

Harmful effects (for men):

- B6: > 20mg/day

- B9: 400 - 600 mg/day

- B12: > 55ug/day

------------

Also something to keep in mind: apparently the majority of people in this study who got lung cancer were heavy smokers for many years, even if they stopped smoking.

Lung cancer by years of smoking:

- 0 years: 60 cases

- 1-35 years: 169 cases

- > 35 years: 568 cases

Lung cancer by pack-years of smoking:

- 0 pack-years: 60 cases

- 1-25 pack-years: 178 cases

- > 25 pack-years: 555 cases
http://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/060415/what-average-... "By any measurement, the real estate sector has outperformed the overall market, even factoring in the drastic collapse in housing prices during the 2008 financial crisis." (I'm not an expert but I recall hearing that much of the recovery from the recession went to real estate owners.)
They may have lost money but they got their $ elsewhere (tax write offs etc)
Yes, but it makes sense for things that like to occur because when you think about it, firms care about the total contract value - meaning it might be a 50k contract per year for 2-3 years. Companies are looking at the longer term. At least that's how it is at my company. Clients generally sign a 2 year contract at $X per year. So if a sales person only sells 50k in a given year but every contract averages 2 years that's really 100k.
Yesterday I had the opposite experience for the first time. I had uMatrix off, and I hit a paywall. When I turned it back on, I could read the article again! I think it was the Washington Post, but not entirely sure.
If I understand correctly, in the United Kingdom, there are no property taxes. Instead, there are council taxes - but they are paid by the tenant, not the landlord!

Now, while most of the rest of the world has property taxes, I would argue that they are far too low.
Land Value Tax.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

This is distinct from a property tax in that it only measures the value of the soil it sits on, so doesn't punish the landlord for improvements. The value of the land itself is almost entirely outside of the landlord's control, it's determined by the community around it. As a result, this is one of the least distortive taxes.
> Playing the lottery is a bad idea, but lots and lots of people do it.

There is a big difference in playing the lottery and having shares in publicly traded companies.

The closest to gambling that this is is "putting all of your chips on red".
How can I use this from desktop?
They are blaming this situation on misapplication.
It wouldn't be $250K over 3 years. It would be $250K up-front to get the lowest current pricing.
The £ sign tells me you are trapped in the overpriced housing country, forced to watch Kirstie Allsop be all smug about house prices.

I wonder what if lots of people said f the rent, f the prices let's just go travelling, live in a caravan, enjoy life. Settle in an affordable country. Not be a sheep toiling away to pay for someone else's Ferrari.
My pet startup idea, going back I suppose 15+ years is a service that does this:

You have something. You like it. You want another one. The service gets it for you. This doesn't have to work from a picture -- it could use a UPC barcode or a text description.

Idea originally inspired by a school friends of mine who wore the exact same type of boots for years and years. When the old pair wore out, he'd buy another pair the exact same.

Over the years I've noticed many instances where I really want another one of something I have but it turns out to be either painful or impossible to find. You know however that somewhere someone has a warehouse full of the things.

Also like the electronics industry brokers who can track down an old component for you to repair gear or re-start manufacturing on some old product. Those have existed since at least the 1970's.

A few years ago I tested Amazon's visual product search feature to see if it would do what I wanted. It didn't. I showed an image of some brown boots I was wearing, and certainly the suggested products were also brown boots, but not the same kind.
Exactly. Who's to say that low cardiac output isn't conducive to cancer formation or spread.

Humans are so complicated but these studies try to boil them down to some simple cause and effect relationship.
> These are proprietary products. Until they release those formulations for testing, we're not allowed to [test them].

This can't be true, or I must be missing something. Why can't they buy these chemicals as "farmers" and test them?
And even less if it's 36 months.
The 2-6 integer wavelets would be very fast on a GPU, although they are almost too simple. GPUs struggle more this the entropy encoding/decoding, which is what a prevented a GPU port in the past. Do any GPUs have generic Huffman cores now?
Someone's been watching Big Bang Theory reruns.
It also seems like a good way to promote Kotlin, which could be JetBrains's cash cow.
>If you're working 60 or 80 hours per week churning code, surely you have some code to show. </sarcasm>

Yeah, if you work for GNU or for countries were NDA is not a notion </sarcasm>.
In the case of the meter it definitely is. Space time is stretching so the meter will slowly get longer, but you won't notice
I absolutely agree, money solves a lot of problems. Knowing that you can afford to pay your bills, knowing you can eat out and stretch your budget without breaking the bank next paycheck removes so much stress and frees you to focus on other things.

Constantly worrying about money, bills and what you can and cannot afford to do is brutal. Watching peers enjoy life makes it easier for you to stretch your credit card a bit more to "enjoy" a temporary moment of time you will undoubtedly pay heavily for in future.

It seems to be a vicious cycle and makes it more easy to neglect long term like retirement planning and savings.

I'd guess this problem will compound itself in about 20 years when this large swath of people reaches retirement age with no equity, no retirement and perhaps still lots of debt.
>San Francisco-based Twitter also disclosed that it had discovered an error in how it had measured its user base since 2014 and revised its estimates downward

How is this possible? They can't just do like fetch_all_users, filtered by "not banned?"
> Techdirt is a self-proclaimed rumor mill.

Really? I've been reading it pretty regularly since the year it started (20 years ago) and wouldn't characterize it that way at all. One of the authors is quite snarky, true, but Masnick, the founder, isn't.

> The DoJ almost always has a strategy. With the litany of secret processes the US Government navigates, there's no reason to think that they are acting "crazy" when we know there is a lack of information about what is possible.

(This is independent of my comment about Techdirt). The DoJ is an institution constituted of humans and is capable of the same rationalities, irrationalities, and prejudices as any other organization. Looking over the last 120 years (since 1900) it's had highs to be proud of and lows to be ashamed of.
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> These organisations are state-funded, broadcast to dozens of foreign countries via shortwave or satellite

I think it's not just about being state-funded, but "powerful interests" funded. Large corporations want to control public opinions just as much. US government doesn't sponsor CNN directly, but it itself as a business as well as its advertisers are vested in having one political outcome vs another. They are far from neutral.

As to the topic at hand, it all started with a PR campaign promoted by Clinton and the media organizations which backed her candidacy (to the point of handing her debate questions beforehand or smearing or silencing her opponents) that Russians significantly altered the results of the election, up to and including flipping the result completely.

We've heard for months Russians, Russians, Russians, "17 Intelligence agencies", piss dossier blackmail, secret meetings or coded gestures being signaled at some dinners and so on. It is a story many want to believe, because it explains their view of the world -- "my compatriots could not have possibly have voted how they did", or "my candidate was so good and experienced there is no way people could have voted for any other candidate". So there is a desire to believe in these conspiracy theories, simply because they provide an explanation for what happened.

As you said, Russia is interfering with elections, so are Americans, Chinese, anybody with money is going to trying to influence election results in US. They'd be stupid not to.

And I agree in general with the idea of identifying and stopping the influence as much as possible, so good on Twitter here. What is suspicious is this continuous obsession with Russia. I think it is a distraction and a waste of time. I think a better obsession would be an obsession with US. Say looking at what's happening here and why did so many people voted how they did. It has nothing to do with KGB. But then again I've accused of being a "Russian shill" since I don't seem to like Clinton and don't tow the party line here. So you know, take these words with a grain of salt (or maybe a shot of vodka).
Thanks for the writeup Sean. I've been interested in pony since I read about here on HN a while back.

I have a question on this quote

> The standard JVM garbage collection strategy is “stop the world.” That is, when the JVM needs to reclaim unused memory, it needs to pause all other processing so it can safely garbage collect. These pauses are sometimes measured in seconds. That is going to destroy your tail latencies.

Thats why applications rarely use the default serial collector.

Does your comparison still hold against the CMS and G1 collectors, which do a much a better job at eliminating "stop the world pauses"?
Ever since we saw 'We Feed the World' we knew what kinda company Monsanto is. For those who havn't seen the movie, I strongly advise to watch it. It is said to be the most successful austrian documentary.

German: https://archive.org/details/WE_FEED_THE_WORLD_DEUTSCH

Sadly I could not find a link to the english stream, but here is a link to the english version of the website: http://www.we-feed-the-world.at/en/index.htm
Times New Roman.
The tax write offs helped, but they still shouldered most of the loss. And we're not talking a few thousand, but rather $100K+.

As a renter, it was great to just be able to pack my stuff up, turn in the keys and let them deal with the financial implications.
> Receiving vested shares of a publicly traded corporation you work for is one of the few situations where you can actually profit on insider information

If you won't be caught by the SEC, you're probably not an insider. If all/most employees know something; it's probably "public" enough information.
wouldn't you have made more at the end?
> The value landlords provide is the assumption of risk. The premium you pay to rent is in exchange for vastly limiting your exposure to said risk.

In hot housing markets, the value they provide is having access to the capital necessary to own property.

A 30 year old hairdresser in Seattle isn't renting because they don't want to deal with risk - they are renting because they can't save up a $XY,000 downpayment, and tie their entire salary into interest payments.

Mind you, the capital requirements for property ownership are pretty insane, and our low interest rates really don't help matters any (Home prices have ballooned, in part, thanks to them.)
Well, a lot of people work on a farm who are not by any stretch of the imagination rich, and someone operating a large factory farm is probably not the image that comes to mind when you think "farmer," is what I meant to say.

As for the ethanol, it's a fuel, but without the subsidies and legal mandates would there be a good reason to use it? I'd always heard it's not really efficient and the environmental impact is negligible-to-negative, even though on the surface being renewable is good.
I don’t think many landlords get rich from rent but housing appreciation. Real estate cap rates are generally very low, especially in places where rents are high. Take nyc for example. If you look at what someone pays for rent and take an estimate as to what the apartment is worth and estimate mortgage and taxes you’ll see that the rent often doesn’t even cover the mortgage.

For instance in manhattan you can get a cheap studio for maybe 2,200 a month. That studio would cost easily 600k, and at 4% interest (higher for investment property) the monthly payment not including taxes and maintenance is nearly 3k. That’s not even mentioning other barriers like the fact that a condo would likely be double the price and a co op would likely prevent you from renting and require a large down payment.
Remember when TWTR was $69/share?
This type of thing is a big reason why young companies with young co-founders have such a bad rap.
I do enjoy reading these "Why we used <x> to build <y>" posts, as they're usually insightful and provide a glimpse into languages or frameworks I'm not familiar with.

On the flip side, I can't help but wonder how likely they would have been to use Pony had none of their core team members been active in the Pony community.
super cool that this was done by a high schooler
You're okay doing a coding project for a few hours? Good for you! I like to get paid by the hour.
Arguably, the glycophosphate resistance and patent issues mean Monsanto wants everyone to switch to the new product asap. What better way than getting it banned?
Cold-email template that got me 5-figure months
MSG is perfectly safe.
Ask HN: What are the different patterns used developing a client side web app?
Mine is not a technical question but I would like to read different opinions in one of the hottest topic of the web development nowadays.

I'm a frontend software engineer and I work with Ember.js (I didn't take this decision, it was already there when I started). In the old versions, it had an MVC approach and, up as it was being updated, the team behind it, left this pattern to embrace "Data down &actions up" (kind of Flux).

Actually, my question is: today, what are the most common patterns of the web development and, for each pattern, what are the frameworks that adopt it? I'm interested in a discussion that compares different patterns with their frameworks, and what should be the best situation to use each of them.

I hope the question is interesting for you as well (sorry if I did a O(n^2) complexity question due to the fact that we have to compare N patterns and N framework... I'm joking ) looking forward to read what you think.

Thanks.
If I was in PR I'd probably swing it as "We derive analytics from normal database records therefore we don't store analytics data specifically but can pull it when we need it cough"
Interesting, but this seems like it would be a crowded product space. More info here: http://www.dharma.ai/
Blog rebutting many common arguments against a land value tax: http://kaalvtn.blogspot.co.uk/p/index.html
> we thought mapped well onto the actor model.

Out of curiosity, were there a widely accepted actor lib/approach in Rust (I know there are a few like RobotS and others), would that have affected your decision?
Buyers can place orders one of two ways:

1. A direct order. The Bitcoin goes directly from buyer to vendor. There are no protections. This method is only used for small value transactions or transactions where the buyer trusts the vendor.

2. A moderated order. The Bitcoin goes into an escrow account (a 2-of-3 Bitcoin multisig address) and there is a third party moderator who will resolve a dispute if one of the parties feels wronged.

Note that if there is no dispute opened in a moderated order, the buyer and the seller can release the funds without the moderator even knowing they were chosen for an order.

There's nothing to prevent listing flooding, but the rest of the network will just ignore nodes that are abusive. There are also third party search engines that crawl the network, and they'll block spam themselves for their users. Rawflood is an example:

https://rawflood.com
Instagram’s CEO has said one of the most valuable parts of being acquired by FB is they could just hook into their vast revenue org (probably thousands of employees, and battle tested ad targeting tech and expertise). Twitter has to build its own, and I’m sure that accounts for most of their headcount.
This.

If you won't need the money immediately; and the company prospects look mediocre to good; keep for a year. Then re-balance your portfolio.
> most ML data is not sparse.

This brings up a question: in what fields does one find heavy use of large, sparse matrices that need to be persisted and queryable?

In my mind, sparse matrices typically occur in the context of graphs/relationships, e.g. PageRank, logistic networks, adjacency matrices, etc. They also tend to be a property of Hessian matrices (2nd order derivative for a multivariate system). But typically these are intermediate quantities that are discarded after a computation completes.
Right, they probably meant Downing Street.
Monsanto's work in reducing human fertility is absolutely vital to the survival of all life on earth. If they have to fight dirty to win it's a small price to pay.
Retina Macbook Pro, 2013. Still kept around an older MBP for a couple years for the rare occasions that I needed to read a CD or DVD, but I used that rarely, and the increased portability of the newer one was life-changing.
> doing work that really satisfies you is a big privilege

This is also quite rare in Academia. Much of the work is still just as unenjoyable as a normal job.
The problem is getting worse as new jobs are mainly created in cities. They also offer a more attractive infrastructure such as fast internet speeds and shorter commutes, than rural areas. There are of course many other advantages, but I think these are some of the most significant ones. This creates an unhealthy growth, which we see now manifests in the completely out-of-control rents worldwide. The only way this problem can be tackled is to invest massively in the rural infrastructure and stop this disturbing trend towards growing megacities and sparsely inhabited rural areas. Rising rents contribute to an large extent on social inequality. As a renter will only get living space for each month but nothing else of value in return, as opposed to buying a house/flat. The calculation for renting has been fine in the past decades as renting was often cheaper than buying a house, but this changed as we see now.
You hit the head on the nail, but from the wrong angle ;)

That what you liked was actually exactly why we failed so far.

1. Users needed to do a conscious choice, clicking the button. Our research and data showed that was not what people wanted or did.

2. The button was to hard to add to a site and also visible and promoted a brand etc. All things publishers don't want. Besides the button does not work on any social network or content platform. The new solution works anywhere and is when it's hardest to use adding a meta-tag.

The new solution is a "fire and forget" solution. You set it up ones and then it just work. For both contributors and creators/publishers.
> This is distinct from a property tax in that it only measures the value of the soil it sits on, so doesn't punish the landlord for improvements. The value of the land itself is almost entirely outside of the landlord's control, it's determined by the community around it. As a result, this is one of the least distortive taxes.

When land value is taxed at a higher rate than property value, it creates a perverse incentive for landlords - especially those who don't live in the area in which they own property - to encourage blighting and sabotage the value of the land, while instead reinvesting this money into improvements on the property itself. That concentrates wealth even further in the hands of people who can afford to own these insular properties in otherwise "undesirable" areas.

Actively blighting a neighborhood to depress values and make it easier to purchase land for new properties (either on the market or via eminent domain) is already a problem, and one that significantly skews power towards the extremely wealthy and massively-capitalized institutions. Taxing the value of the land separately from the property that sits on it (and at a higher rate) would exacerbate this unbelievably.
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And users activates, users logged on last X months, users not deleted, no duplicates caused by some obscure event synchronization issue etc etc. Bugs are easy.
The Apple USB Camera adapter[1] would let you connect your Ergodox to the iPad. If you need power too there's a USB 3 version with an extra lightning port.

[1]: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MD821AM/A/lightning-to-us...