skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another interesting geographically focused product is rhubarb and the 9 square mile Rhubarb Triangle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhubarb_Triangle

At one point they grew 90% of the worlds forced rhubarb (a special kind of rhubarb grown indoors).
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I agree that was glib, but some of the statements made by Tesla fans (speaking as a former somewhat Tesla fan myself) are just asking for it.
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I don't want to dismiss Tesla, they did achieve a lot. However, it would be a mistake to think that there's some technological breakthrough that they possess that makes them unbeatable or even the most likely winner in the upcoming electric car competition.

Among the reasons why, I would say there are many — engineering culture (and part of that is quality control and standards), haphazard management, brain leak (because of the competition poaching employees, unclear financials, and the management), financials (not making a profit and burning through money like crazy), dismissive approach to the competition and other company's engineering efforts and solutions (stupid robots everywhere, autopilot with the freaking webcams, when everyone said it's a bad idea).

I think the reason why we see that BMW, Mercedes, Audi and others are not building the electric cars with the same favorable characteristics as Tesla, and without similar fanfare, is because they have a bottom line that they'd like to stay in the black.

They have to know that electric car market is a very small niche right now, and they are letting Tesla to be the one who makes customers intrigued and creates some pressure for bringing up at least a little bit of infrastructure for the charging.

Imagine the daily commute in the big city, how many cars are driving through the main city artery? How many cars are pumping gas in any given 30 minutes? How many supercharger stations are needed to accommodate for this? I think you can create a societal collapse right now if 5% of the drives in US would switch to electric cars. People wouldn't find a place to charge their car, electric grid would become unstable and overloaded from all these people who hooked up Tesla to their 200 amp residential fuse box, while having dishwasher, washing maching, drier, TVs, computers and a ton of lights running. For fun, you can also imagine superchargers with enormous lines, with people reserving spots and selling them to those who are in a rush.

I'm sure that the blunt of BMW's and alikes engineering resources are spent right now in different areas, because they just can't afford building this perfect electric car which only 1% of their customers would want to buy. That's how you get bankrupt. Remember Apple Newton?
You do realize there are major superpowers that are currently kept at bay through the promise of force?

Do you think they are deterred by observing American success in the ground campaigns it keeps losing or by the nuclear arsenal?
AS someone with vanilla, I'm gonna disagree with you a bit here.

Growing your own vanilla is very difficult (assuming you're not in a place where it grows outside naturally). Not only do you need a significant amount of greenhouse space (you're right--20' minimum to flower, but the vines can grow up to 120'), you also need all the very specific orchid growing conditions--low water/nutrient, high drainage soil (or bark or similar medium), high brightness (but medium direct sun--can't let 'em burn), along with a very high humidity (vanilla orchids grow best ~80-90% humidity) and high heat (ideally not dipping any lower than 15 C, but with a bit of wiggle room). They have aerial roots, so you also need to mist with diluted nutrient mix (preferably an x-x-x fertilizer (eg: 20-20-20)) for them to get any particular growth benefit.

Assuming you can provide these conditions, you'll have to continue to provide these conditions for ~5-7 years, which is how long vanilla takes to grow from seed. Most people, however, take clippings from already healthy plants. Clippings need all the same care and effort of growing from seed, but won't flower 'til they're established and ~20 feet long (and the temperature controls are on-point for flowering), so how long they take depends on a bunch of factors, but even for a 3' clipping, you're looking at ~5 years.

So, let's say you have flowering-capable vines, at least 20', properly cared for with appropriate temperature controls to compel flowering. The vanilla flowers for one day. Furthermore, the pollination of the one-day flower must occur by hand (you cannot use natural pollinators--there's only one species of bee capable of pollinating this thing and they're not only isolated to a very specific geographic location, but they're also rather rare).

Presuming your pollination is successful it still takes, at this about, about 9-10 months for the vanilla pods to form. You'll get long green-bean lookin' things. You have to pick them as they begin to turn yellow--kinda like bananas. But the fun doesn't stop here. At this point you still have to blanche the yellowing beans, then let them sweat in a container for several weeks until you finally end up with usable vanilla pods that you might find in a store.

The process is extremely involved, incredibly time consuming and each step has a number of 'gotchas' that will ruin your vine/flowering/pollination/beans. The big effort is literally just keeping up with the very specific humidity/light/temperature/nutrient requirements for so long to even get it to be flowering capable.
Of course it can be used on iOS, there are commercial applications that do exactly that. You can turn off the JIT and you're left with probably the fastest interpreter for a dynamic language that currently exists.

LuaJIT is state-of-the-art even without the JIT. A lot of people miss this and go down various rabbit holes only to come up with something that's significantly worse. Personally, given what I just described, I don't see how Gravity compares at all favorably to Lua.
Of yeah? When I was 9 or so, I had access to dewars of LN and eventually ended up peeing in one to see what happens. It was fine. I've got you on the children, easy access and the Bed Bath & Beyond!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osKzzED3ASA
1. A platform where it turns your individual posts you upload into a story of your life. All other platforms focus on individual posts that aren't connected and don't keep in mind what you want your legacy to be. This connects your posts and turns it into a story of your life.
2/3 I'm assuming you are using mobile to view the platform, mobile hasn't been completed which is the cause of the slow rendering and the ugly look of the platform while on mobile
Not a good analogy. Being a celebrity brings features that are not available to non-celebrities (money, special treatment, etc.). Plus, celebrities often sell info. The Kardashians are a prominent example: The drink/food/whatever Kim Kardashian displays on TV might be very different from the drink/food/whatever she'd prefer on a flight. While facebook/google/apple might have access to that info, we only get to know whatever she decides to share (or sell).
You can write just about any words you like into a contract. But that doesn't mean they are enforceable and doesn't mean a legislature or court can't add or modify clauses. Then there's the whole doctrine of equity thing over the top of it. In law there are always a whole bunch of fine-grained questions that can change the whole outcome.

I expect one or more lawsuits to emerge, maybe as a class action. It might not come to trial and simply wash up as a settlement.

I am not now, nor have I ever been, a lawyer.
I looked at the overall member list and saw the Japanese car industry was heavily represented, I think the only U.S. or euro carmarker on the list is Mercedez-Benz.

On the other hand I see "Adobe Systems", "Amazon", "WiPro" and many famous non-automobile industry companies on a global basis.
DuckDuckGo will “examine the extent of Google's filter bubble.”
With respect to Roe v Wade, the expectation of privacy has already been established with your doctor. Since there are legitimate, non-trivial reasons for abortion, and that's a decision between a person and their doctor, the gov't can't ask why someone may need that abortion. Therefore, the gov't is unable to discern between reasons for an abortion, and therefore can't restrict them (up to a reasonable point, which was set non-arbitrarily around 24 weeks). You have a right to patient confidentiality. The gov't has no more of a say in whether you should have appendix surgery than whether you should have an abortion.

However, this doesn't establish a right to abortion. The justices clearly state that it is not a right by saying it's not covered under the 9th.
That may be your opinion but I can assure you it is not accurate. Your hysteria is clouding your judgement.
It's a false equivalency. Scale matters, as does the intent/policy of the administration.

"Immigration experts we spoke to said Obama-era policies did lead to some family separations, but only relatively rarely, and nowhere near the rate of the Trump administration."

http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/19/...
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
Also, at first glance, Gravity looks a lot like Wren: https://github.com/munificent/wren
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Counter-opinion.

I work on a language, Dart, where all generics are covariant. In Dart 1, invalid uses of covariance were not checked at runtime and were silently ignored. When that leads to wrong behavior down the road, it's profoundly confusing. Not checking this and sacrificing safety, also ties your hands when it comes to compile time optimization because you can longer take any of your type annotations seriously.

In Dart 2, we've moved to a sound type system, which involves checking these misuses at runtime. I have personally gone through and fixed hundreds of these runtime failures. Others at Google have done the same. It's grueling, difficult work. Figuring out where an object was constructed before it eventually wound up somewhere in a covariant position is not easy.

I would much rather have static control over variance even with the additional complexity if causes, and I've heard similar requests from many users.
Great news for people who were affected by the whole Mt. Gox incident.

It took a very long time but it's nice to see that there will be people getting their Bitcoins back. I'd assumed most people had given up hope or were at best thinking they would get the original fiat value.

Bravo to the trustee and those involved.
I think it's the difference between getting on a plane (you have no option to get off) and getting on a bus (you can get off and take the other bus back at any stop)
Your comment is excellent, and I agree with everything you say.

I will retort, however, that we Americans should not take our technological dominance for granted, just as a precious generation of carmakers and related industries had to learn what happens when foreign competitors (especially with government support) eat up domestic markets that companies like Ford and GM thought belonged to them forever.

I’m not suggesting that in 20 years Americans will do all their social networking on RenRen or shopping on Alibaba, but there are many, many high tech companies most people have never heard of, churning out profits and paying the taxes that support our society. The more talented, US-educated non-citizens we turn away after graduation, the harder it is for domestic high tech firms to form and hire.

And another thing to note: just because the rest of the world is getting wealthier doesn’t mean they’ll share our values. The biggest geopolitical fucky-wucky of the post-Cold War era was the assumption that Chinese people would demand more freedoms like we have in the West as their living standards approach ours.

China owns A LOT of Hollywood. How many big budget films these days criticize China or make them the bad guys? I grew up watching films that stamped “Russian” and “villain” as inseparable qualities in my impressionable, young American mind - at least until 9/11 happened and the Russians and Arabs changed jerseys.

The economic development of China has been nothing short of a miracle for the hundreds of millions of poor farmers lifted out of extreme poverty, but at what cost to us?
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Sorry if this seems like a dumb question, but are there any particular banks/accounts you use for this method? I would want it to be very easy to open accounts online with no hassle if I were to use this approach.
The problem is that no human can actually be that attentive to such a system for hours on end day after day. Uber set an impossible task for these drivers. We shouldn't let them claim the existence of these drivers as legal protection from their own obvious negligence.
Are you on mobile or web? If on mobile, it is not completed. On web, expand the post in the link, and you'll see the timeline
Tor browser bundle is painful to use for some sites that use Cloudfare. And privacypass just doesn't work - it's impossible to generate any passes.
That covers many cases, but not all. Consider:

bool contains(other) { ... }

This looks like a sink operation — you're passing a value in, just like you do with add() — but is naturally covariant, not contravariant.
If you need to make deliveries along the whole path from NY to Chicago to Philly, the path makes sense. If the road is necessary to anchor Chicago and keep it from floating away during the development of the United States, that's another reason, although our analogy is becoming strained lol.

If you are missing either of the superior or recurrent laryngeal nerve, you can still speak, although not as well as if you have both. Doctors use this hoarseness as a diagnostic for various chest issues.

United Airlines Flight 232 also illustrates the importance of running redundant cables through different paths. One piece of shrapnel pierced all three hydraulic systems on board, and nearly half the passengers were killed.
This is a super interesting little story about the dynamics of freelancing in print journalism. Print journalism is interesting in the same way college teaching jobs are interesting: a great deal of the work is done by an underclass of marginally employed people (freelancers with no contract in journalism, adjuncts with no tenure in academia). The "fully employed" level (staff reporter, tenured professor) is extraordinarily difficult to obtain.

In that environment, buyers/employers have extraordinary coercive power over labor. Here, it was used to punish someone simply for RT'ing a critical thread on Twitter.

Freelancers in our field do not as a rule have this problem: competent freelancers command higher rates than full-time staff, and most freelancers (at least in mainstream markets like major US metros) are freelancers by choice.†

Obviously, we all face coercive power from buyers and employers, even in our supremely privileged field. We should organize to deal with that. But as a consultant, my advice to economically insecure freelancers worried about pissing off clients is to raise your rates and move as quickly as you can to a career steady state where you're not overly alarmed by the irrationality of any one client.

† Heading off a super-unproductive argument: being a freelancer because it's the only way you do personally meaningful development work rather than being a back office line of business maintenance programmer at a regional insurance firm is, compared to the predicament of a freelance journalist, a choice; the choice a journalist gets is whether to remain a journalist at all, or whether to transition to an entirely separate field like PR.
>Sure, buddy.

Don't do that.
Consider that because judges take seriously their duty to reject insufficient warrant requests, law enforcement typically only makes strong requests. The government is a repeat player and has every reason to build trust with judges.

Also consider that the internal policies of the DOJ are often more restrictive than the restrictions applied by the courts. The government has good reason to avoid testing the boundaries of the law, lest they generate unfavorable precedents that tie their hands down the line.
One project used ATS for an 8-bitter:

http://metasepi.org/doc/metasepi-icfp2015-arduino-ats.pdf

http://www.ats-lang.org

Chez Scheme used to run on 8-bit platform, too. Then there's Pascal and BASIC dialects for microcontrollers. Astrobe has Oberon dialect for ARM Cortex's. AVR-Ada lets you use Ada with AVR's. OcaPIC put Ocaml subset on PIC microcontrollers.

People are using C because most people already use C with the ecosystem benefits that follow. Although C and assembly are dominant, there are other options available if people think their pro's and con's line up with their needs.
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No and I never said that nor implied it but you should recognize that it is absolutely a luxury. There are people around the world literally fighting for their right to exist while you sit here on your "Moral High Ground" as though your position is unassailable but it isn't.
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https://hackernoon.com/introducing-exoframe-beta-self-hosted...
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Unpopular opinion indeed. As things are now, you can downcast to object and get your runtime validation in languages that support co/contravariance like C# and Java.

No one actually does this because its a horror show.
Conveniently, this link: https://www.pointfree.co/episodes/ep14-contravariance was also on the front page of HN. It explores contravariance a bit more and provides some practical examples in Swift.
So are you implying that you should never enter into a business relationship with another company?

Clearly, you need to always be prepared for your partner to go away, but you still have to work with other companies.
What you and the other comment seem to miss is that there's nothing fake about the military which actively works for its citizens. But maybe it's all a big joke to you...
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> Apple design, by contrast is very obvious.

Surely this is a joke? The million different gestures are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Apple and interface discoverability.
The degree to which practitioners of Abrahamic religions believe best guess scientific claims from thousands of years ago varies, of course.
This is the first 12, but I will soon be adding more. The intention of these themes is to add a lightweight style-layer/skin to give your Bootstrap 4 projects a unique, custom look-and-feel. They can be used alongside the standard Bootstrap CSS (no custom rebuild reqired). Thanks for taking a look!
I only have one question to people arguing that "Linus should do this, Linus should do that": can you show me one person that does "this and that" in a comparable position that's successful? Is there any actual real world example?
you'd be surprised how much you can do with it. Try Virtual Virtual Reality, it just feels like you can freely movie it. The illusion is strong.
A Congresswoman Is Asking 23andMe to Help Reunite Kids and Parents at the Border
I've noticed over the last few years an arms race in welcome-emails trying to sound personal. Like when you receive this email 10ms after you submit the register form.

> Hey Dan, was just tailing the access logs and happened to see you register. ;) Let me know personally if you have any questions! – Chuck, CEO

It's even sadder when the templating system is broken and you see "Hey {{firstName}}".

Please, spare us the bullshit.
> in the right place at the right time

This is clearly the key. (I wonder how much of it is luck, and how much a myriad of other factors.)

> or use ethically dubious methods to get ahead

Some do, but without being in the right place at the right time, it won't lead to success.
Study logic and mathematics, additionally philosophy. You may not get fast at debate/argumentation (I'm not). But the quality of your arguments will improve. You'll be able to examine the nature of the discussion better and identify the key elements and how they're connected to each other.

Learn to identify the assumptions of a position. I have a colleague who is a diehard Young Earth Creationist. He pointed me to some videos by Ken Ham (I believe). I watched them, because I wanted to understand the position. It's been a few years so I can't recall the precise flaws in the arguments, but here was the structural problem: Everything he said, ignoring how he opened an argument, was entirely logical given the initial assumptions. The entire problem was the initial assumptions (a flawed understanding of genetics, physics, and chemistry). If you took his assumptions as givens, then everything he said was quite persuasive. If you, however, actually have studied those fields or have the ability to study them, you can quickly identify why his conclusions are false.

Nearly every debate you have with someone, you will find that the disagreements start with the premises and you have to identify these. From there it's an application of logic to see how they get to their actual stated views. With this understanding, you can determine whether you can even change their view. Their assumptions may be so ingrained they cannot change (like my colleague), or you might find your own conclusions changed (develop a better understanding of the history of some country and why that places them in some position today, for instance). But you'll achieve change via logic and not emotion.

Sometimes, though, it does come down to emotion. I had some moderate success in getting a colleague to care about prison conditions by appealing to his religious views and pointing out the conflicts between claiming Christianity and also thinking it's ok for men to get raped by other men in prison ("ok", he felt no sympathy for them and thought they were getting what they deserved). I still used logic in that discussion, but one of the premises was his faith and the value he placed in it.
This is funny.

I have the feeling mostly Google employees are running around telling the world how slow their pages are.
Nonsense. Code review increases quality and test suites take time to run. Topic branches and PRs create parallelism and accommodate asynchronous review.
Networking is complex and requires flexibility. Executing arbitrary shell commands to set up interfaces is useful. Why should I suffer because people might use a malicious configuration file? If you're in that situation then you're doing it wrong.
You're kind of operating on hindsight bias here.
I believe in another decision they extended the idea that a Phone is becoming part of a person.
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I seek to minimize suffering. This can be in transportation, housing, healthcare, education, nutrition, or legal fields. These have a disproportionate impact on our lives and are neglected with low salaries. How does this make sense? I'm disappointed you view this as a pet project. I disagree that craft for the sake of craft is fantastic but I would not personally attack you for it, if you have the safety net you are welcome to pursue what interests you find rewarding. Many do not have the economy of doing so, they are who I work for.
Why is that bad?
> It's problems are more corruption and political than anything else.

So it's different from any other country how?
I'm super interested in auto-devops, but we've already got something in place using docker-compose that brings up domains based on project/branch name.

It works well, and we have an easier time dealing with docker-compose than kubernetes, but dang if those graphs aren't fun to look at.
"This is good news."
Ya exactly. It might technically be an island, but calling it that makes it sound way smaller than it is.