skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"There are three general methods for applying biosolids to forests: 1) spray irrigation with either a set system or a traveling gun, 2) spray application by an application vehicle with a spray cannon, and 3) application by a throw-spreader or manure-type spreader. In the Pacific Northwest, the most common methods for forest applications are the throw-spreader or a vehicle-mounted cannon. Table 7.7 lists these application methods, their range, relative costs, advantages and disadvantages, and their suitability for biosolids of different solids contents."

https://fortress.wa.gov/ecy/publications/documents/9380.pdf

It was the top item of the first google search for "biosolids washington forest".

Here's pictures if you're interested.

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/environment/natural-resour...

Here's another article from 20 years ago about the practice: http://thewatchers.us/wef/PacNW.pdf
still no clue what it means to like mexican chilly in the joke context
Why does debate always turn into this? No one suggested much more than a ~1.5xish pay increase yet the response is "you expect them to pay 10x the salary and remain in business??"?

What is the goal of just exaggerating and debating a thing no one says versus just debating what people are actually saying?
That's a simplistic view of shortages of labour markets. Just taking trucking as an example, many jurisdictions have safety standards drivers need to meet. If "half the truck drivers vanished" tomorrow we'd have an absolute shortage until labour could be spun up to account for the supply demand.

It's also overly simplistic to believe that trucking companies can infinitely raise wages to support demand. People/businesses only tolerate a certain cap of pricing on goods and to say that ceiling is infinitely high is silly.

If markets were perfectly efficient, sure all your wishes and hopes would be a reality. But we're not efficient, we're flawed humans running these things so the flaws are apparent when you attempt to accommodate.
Trucks are much faster than train. Depending on the cost incurred in having goods be unsellable for some period of time, trucks often make sense.

Trains also aren't that much cheaper. I'm not sure why this is, but my hunch is that much of the cost in transportation is pick up from origin and drop off at destination and this essentially has to be done via truck. So, if you're shipping via train, you incur an additional pick up and drop off, since the goods need to go from the trucker's hub to the train, then from the train to the trucker's hub. That probably erases a lot of the savings that you see when you just calculate costs based on the physics of truck vs. train.
What do you recommend the small businesses in the US do that have no business presences in the EU, but have EU visitors to their sites?

It's not hysteria if it's a legitimate legal threat that could destroy your ability to feed your family.
We do not need a "Radical Market" to realize the fact that individual personal data doesn't make so much of a value. Advertisers don't go hunting after individuals. That's advertising-101. Or rather internet-101. The whole point of OP is not to make money off of his personal data. Its to create awareness.
You base all of your argument on single unit value being low.
What if there are a billion such listings on eBay?

> This assumes that a single unit of data (say a person's personal data as in the OP) is worth something on it's own.

This is your assumption about other's assumption. Not true.
Fine if you don't believe me. I pray I am wrong. Reason to write this: I'm an American. The American government never just steps when it can overstep. California is the most taxed state in the country and spends like a banana republic. They want more more more, and they will get it. Once they iron the kinks out, it will spread to other states. Probably Washington, Oregon, and New York on that order.
The only serious web application I've written (a social blogging application) was written in Flask. I was relatively new to web programming and taught myself everything from using template engines to SQL to server management. That's when most of the web programming concepts clicked with me.

I've attempted to use Django on multiple occasions but was put off by the sheer magic it entailed. (This was me before I singlehandedly coded a social media application and saw first hand how a project could consume all your mental resources. I made the mistake of jumping into things yelling "fail early fail fast" back then)

Currently I'm back on working on personal projects. Nowadays I mostly write networking applications in Go, I've recently been writing an irc library. I learned a lot about parsing, networking protocols etc.

As for Go web frameworks, I've been meaning to test these frameworks for a long time, if I were to start a project now, I'd go with gobufallo. When I had done my research on it (August 2017), it seemed to have excellent documentation and tooling.
Although this article mentions racism later on, it would be interesting to see the distribution of various ethnicities among the ladders and levels mentioned in the first part of the article -- many people outside the U.S. view it as a 4-caste society made up of Caucasian, Asian, Black, and Hispanic, with an underclass of Muslim "untouchables".
On the other hand, a lot of things (not just in math) we think we understand are, in fact, simply memorized. And, by the way, that is not a bad thing - it is better to learn the multiplication table, for example, than to fail to "understand" it and give up. You can work on true understanding later; my advice, therefore, is to read as much as possible on a topic, however incomprehensible it may seem at first, just to get used to it and to make it look familiar, and do some exercises. You will soon feel that you understand something (even though you don't). That's the way we humans learn.
Book about Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes's fraud released
Solo Founding a +$167,000/Month Food Startup
What's wrong with image dimensions? They are damn oversized
I'd raise weight taxes, and use the revenue to reduce taxes on freight trains.
Though the authors mentions that one comment of Pearl, all of the causal inference / graphical model work takes the opposite stance.

The popular academic writing in that field claims everyone else is being arrogant. It’s not a statement that Pearl is arrogant for dismissing huge chunks if ML, rather that since causal inference is such a cure-all, then everyone else is arrogant for not dropping everything to use it everywhere.

There’s no spirit i this article of saying, “boy it looked like a short-sighted criticism of ML, but now that I look at it, the causal inference people are right after all, and ML people are wrong.”

It may try to disingenuously frame it that way, but this is not what they are saying.
Local themes can manifest at scale. Many large cities are affected by generational NIMBYism. That collects to produce a macroeconomic effect.
> I'm implying that Elm, while great, is not as user-friendly, intuitive or easy to use as Hyperapp

First, Elm is designed to be user friendly. The designers of the language have put effort into ensuring the error messages are understandable. The messages even include information on how to potentially resolve them! Elm's error messages are much more friendly than most Javascript error messages I've seen.

Second, there is nothing intuitive about programming. If there were we wouldn't need years of training to gain proficiency: you could simply give a human being a computer and they would be able to do it in the absence of conscious reasoning. Despite our best efforts and research there has yet to emerge a language that is intuitive.

> designed with extreme devotion to details, minimalism, and simplicity

I believe Elm is also designed with these concepts in mind.

It sounds like it's not the kind of simplicity you're used to and that may be why Hyperapp is _for you_.

I interpreted the phrase, for the rest of us, to be a false equivalence between all programmers that do not use Elm and programmers with the same opinions and needs as you. I think I understand your point better now but it would have been clearer if you had left out that phrase and enumerated why it's better for people who need X instead.
Same experience here. Standing in a queue for 3 or 4 hours and occasionally getting shouted at by aggressive guards with their hand on their gun holster because you had the temerity to use your phone to let your colleagues/family/hotel etc to let them know why you're 3 hours delayed despite the plane landing on time. Then you finally reach the booth and are given Interrogation Lite (tm) about why you are there, if you have a return ticket paid for, where you are staying and generally eyed suspiciously before being finger-printed and having mugshots taken like you've just been arrested.

But you know, welcome to the land of the free!

FWIW, Global Entry for non-US citizens has made it so much better. You just whizz right through in about 30 seconds without having to deal with anyone apart from just give them a receipt from the machine.
One of saddest comments i have ever seen on HN. And I believe every word.
A differentiable approximation to the max operator
Brazil's current trucker strike brought to light how things could go if there were a similar strike in the States. The BBC article below doesn't say much about the lack of products available for the average person living in a major city, but friends in Brazil said the repercussions to their day-to-day life have been large.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-44275782
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
You’re right, and I’m out of the loop having spent too much time on the West Coast, looks like they are in use in the US as well.
While is it always EUR800? There's no option to simply reimburse their mileage (kilometerage?) ?

I.e. "You submitted your mileage report to the payroll department and it said you drove 214km on company business since last pay period, so your paycheck will have an extra 214 * 0.29 = 62EUR in it."

Actually, in the US it need not even be that complicated. If you are using your car for work purposes, you can simply claim the mileage once a year when you do your taxes. Company cars are, as you mention, mainly a status symbol for high-level executives, possibly including a driver. Even then, I've only heard about it in movies and books. All the real executives I am aware of just get paid enough that they can definitely afford a BMW if they want one.

[I use EUR0.29/km here because it is the US Federal mileage rate (54.4 cents per mile), converted for currency and units. With gasoline prices much higher (not sure about insurance, maintenance, etc) in Europe, I would imagine the reimbursement rate would need to be higher.]

Also, who pays for the gas? Do you get a company credit card for fill-ups?
Imagine you've spent millions developing revolutionary product. And then some random company, will steel your idea and start producing clones for fraction of costs as they didn't have to spent any money on R&D.

What sane person on earth would put money on R&D in that kind of environment?

Of course, you can find many examples, where patents are actually hurting invention and progress, but I don't see any other way to protect your investment (both financial and intellectual).
> I really like Common Lisp's solution because it doesn't force boilerplate on you.

Checking what needs to be checked is not boilerplate.

> If you care whether or not the key was present, the second return value is there and, otherwise, you just continue on your way.

Which is the entire issue. By default, if you're not careful or don't check, you just get garbage without warning.

> Also, since MRVs are a language construct, you can abstract over them

No, MRV being a language construct does not allow that at all (you can't do any such thing in Go because MRVs are language structures rather than properly reified). You can abstract over MRVs in CL despite them being MRVs, because CL specifically provides a bunch of dedicated constructs for working with MRVs.

> So, I'm not really sure there's a decisive advantage of Options vs. the MRV solution.

That options force the developer to deal with the issue and do so by default.

> In fact, if you change your perspective a bit, Options (and possibly sum types in general) are just ways of getting multiple return values in languages that only support single return values

Utter nonsense, MRVs are products. The entire point of sum types is that they're not, their purpose is to provide alternatives in a type-safe manner. The way to get multiple return values in "languages that only support single return values" is tuples.

> you could think of the case of the sum type (i.e. "Some" or "None" being one of the return values and the wrapped value(s) being another.

You really could not, that's the entire point.
The best thing I ever did was open a second checking account and have my income split. All the money for my bills goes into one account and the money I spend on everything else goes in another account. I can now look at my "spending" account and easily guage if I can buy that shiny object. My bills get paid on time without ever thinking about them.
It will not crash the program and is domain specific. Definitely an improvement over nil.
Thank you for the advice.

I might do a better writeup some in some time, so this is useful for sure.
I’d imagine that a part of it is that being a truck driver is not a sexy job. It’s hard enough trying to find a girlfriend when you’re in IT, the stigma with being a truck driver is probably on a whole other level.

Remove the stigma, make it “cool”, and they’ll see more people applying.
Use what you know. If that happens to be PHP and a little bit of jQuery, then use that. If it's Groovy and Grails with Bootstrap and jQuery, use that. If it's Go on the backend, serving GraphQL APIs and a ReactJS front-end, use that. If it's Java with JSP's and JSTL, use that. If it's Java and Jersey serving up a REST API coupled with an Angular front-end, that's fine too. If it's COBOL on an IBM iSeries box... well, then you have bigger problems. But anyway, the point is, use what works for you. Don't do FDD (Fad Driven Development) and worry about chasing the latest / greatest shiny object.

OTOH, if you don't "already know" something useful, and you're really picking from the entire suite of possibilities (all the way down to COBOL on an iSeries), then the prime points should probably be picking something that's highly productive, well supported, with a large and active community providing documentation, tutorials and bug-fixes, and plenty of people answering questions on StackOverflow.

To that end, I'd say there are several good choices from a backend perspective, depending on your tastes: Node/Express, Java/Jersey, Groovy/Grails, Scala/Play, Ruby/Rails, Python/Flask, etc. For front-end, React, Angular, or Vue are all popular, well supported, etc.

My personal choice happens to be Groovy/Grails with a front-end built using "old fashioned" server-rendered HTML and a bit of jQuery for interactive bits, with Bootstrap and a little bit of custom CSS for styling. YMMV.
I see what you're saying. The next tier down from the rich are more culpable (and well-off) than they realize. I get that that is the authors point, and I agree that it's a good one and one worth making. What I'm saying, is that saying "the 9.9%" have the majority of the wealth (50-60%) is a little disingenuous, because while wealth goes up exponentially, at that point you start running out of money at the high end.

If I said that 70% of the wealth is in the 9.99% and the remaining .01% only have 20% (or whatever it is), that would seem a little odd right? Or 9.999% have 75% and .001% only have 15%? Making cutoffs like this feels like the author is mishandling the numbers in order to make his point. Because there really is a pretty big difference between $1m (90th percentile) in net-worth and $6m (99th). $1m in net-worth quite comfortable but not "rich" by even a very liberal definition of the term in most cities (remember most of that is going to be locked up in a primary residence).

And in the end, yes, it is important to recognize our wealth and privilege and the civic responsibility that comes with it. I just don't like it when numbers are mis-represented, whether the underlying point is valid or not.
Respectfully, those standards are crap. I'm from Iceland, and just looking up the swimming standards all 15 year olds have to pass and which I and everyone in the country had to pass as part of secondary school:

1) Swim 600 meters in under 20 minutes without stopping or touching the bottom.

2) Perform a rescue swim of 15 meters with a peer without stopping or touching the bottom.

3) Dive for 15 meters.

Those US scout standards are something Nordic countries might subject 6 or 7 year olds to.

The context of this thread is asking an able-bodied adult if they can swim before going to the beach. As in swimming in the ocean, an uncontrolled environment where there's waves and currents.

An able-bodied adult that actually knows how to swim should be able to swim for at least several kilometers in the open ocean without drowning or dying from exhaustion, assuming Mediterranean temperatures and waves that aren't higher than 1-2 meters.
Seems insane to allow non-swimmers to use floating tubes that can flip over without also wearing personal flotation devices.

Even with a lifeguard, what if multiple people need saving at the same time, or the lifeguard just doesn't notice it after a long time with no interventions require.
If laws can't be easily written and understood, that's a problem with the legal system (and the media explaining said laws and initiatives).

The CA implementation seems terrible, but in general direct democracies end up with better laws, and the populace in such democracies ends up being better than a bunch of self selected politicians (who happen to not be experts anyway). US and UK lawmaking processes are a perfect example of why you need to give citizens more control (but you still want legislative bodies to do the grunt work).
It's not. I personally think it's great that companies can make money out of it, while in turn i get the service for free.
Related: Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child (1215 upvotes, 384 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9962185
> instead of letting companies do it for you

Yay, it's 1999, and disintermediation is the word.

P.S. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=disintermediat...
The reason trucks are cheaper is because the roads are paid for by gas taxes on cars. The weight taxes on trucks do not begin to cover the fatigue damage caused by trucks. Most of the repaving of highways is due to truck damage.

Railroads, on the other hand, pay all their own track maintenance, and even have to pay property taxes on the track. The whole system is tilted against railroads.
New industrial miner – “Reactor”
The chief advantage of the more expensive cards over the ID-only MIFARE cards is that you can store data securely on the card, so it can be used without a network connection. This helps if there's a network outage and reduces transaction time.

That said, it's super common to see recording done on both the card and on the network -- as you note for GoCard and Opal.
about equal opportunities in a free for all. Free to fail and free to succeed.

But that's self-evidently not the case. Formal and informal discrimination massively limit participation, and quite often commercial success is rooted in an ability to dump externalities rather than create value.
There are some alternatives that do not increase the labor supply - for farmers they might switch to a crop that requires less manual labor or is mechanizable so they do not need as many workers, and demand for that crop might be filled by imports from another country. It seems like something weird is going on with farm labor because we hear about a shortage of workers every couple of years but farm worker pay have not gone up that much ( up to half the average California workers salary).

Here's one example of the guy in Stockton paying about 16000(?) versus the people in Napa paying 40000 for the same crop/work (the grapes in Napa are worth more), and Napa farm workers are commuting from the Central Valley.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-fi-farms-immigration/
Even more unnerving than the fake smile and general aggressiveness of retail workers / waiters to chat you up is when the pizza delivery guy tries to get personal by using your real name, as if we were at the pub sharing some jokes over a pint.
> firing them for anything ( even stealing ) will get you the owner a heavy lawsuit where you will lose 99% of the time ( due to corruption )

That seems weird. How does corruption end up favoring the fired workers? Usually isn't it the business owners that have the resources to bribe or provide favors for corrupt officials to get their way? What do the fired workers have to offer to influence a corrupt official?
Maybe not related, but we can style frames in various shapes with css clip-path. It start to be reliable. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/clip-path
That was hilarious. Figuring out sensible constraints seems to be a long iterative process.

One diet suggested drinking 32l (~8.5 gallons) of water.

This one was the computed "maximize protein" diet:

status = solve(m) = :Optimal
10 grams	Folic acid
1 grams	Vitamin C
667 grams	Flour, soya
24034 grams	Lard
800 grams	Suet
845 grams	Amino acid or creatine powder
42752 grams	Intense sweetener, containing aspartame,
powdered formulation

Almost 43 kg (~94 pounds) of intense sweetener? Sounds healthy!
Does anyone have a mirror of the article without the consent-wall?
For context, this occurred to me when I was trying to find a way to apply policy gradients to tic-tac-toe. I haven't compared it to the Gumbel-Softmax trick yet but empirically I can say that it works.
Check out Martinez-Fuerte at 560, which ACLU (at least in California) says is controlling, and which states that secondary inspection areas can be used only for routine and limited inquiries into residence status, and that the areas are used exclusively for traffic alleviation, not to facilitate actual searches, which the case (at 558) says are disallowed.

I'm certainly never going to claim that CBP doesn't push its authority, or even abuse it outright. I assume they somewhat routinely do that. Patrick Leahy got pulled over 125 miles from a border a few years ago (that had to have been fun to watch).

I'm just saying that there's a mythology about the "100 mile wide Constitution-free zone" which is not useful or productive and deserves to be punctured whenever it's brought up. A lot of what people believe CBP can do by dint of being within 50 miles of a border would, if it occurred, in fact be unlawful, and should be challenged on those terms. Not in a Wesley Snipesian idiosyncratic "originalist" sense of the word unlawful, but straight-up normal-lawyer bring-a-case unlawful.
Your solution will pollute the CSS namespace.
It's going to have to contact a 3rd party to download the latest health diagnostics/flu of the week/software updates.

And speaking of "public good" it would be extremely beneficial to scientists and doctors if that information was made available to them. And beneficial to you, because that device could be improved to give you a better, more informed diagnosis.

The question is what do you care more about, your health? Or your insurance premium?

EDIT: Of course you would want to anonymize it, but you could only go so far while making it still useful. If you unfocused it to a neighbourhood, insurance premiums would go up for bad areas, and the housing market would fluctuate with the health of it's residence.

On the upside, cities and landowners would be incentivized to now care about the health of their residents. So ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Can anyone share his/her experience using Vuetify?