skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
" where farm land is cheap (in relative terms)"

To put this into context for me, what cost do you call 'cheap'? And that land they're being outpriced from, how much does that sell for?

For comparison, agricultural land in the Netherlands is around 50-60k euros (60-70k USD) per hectare, so about half that per acre; in Belgium it's a little bit less but not much. When I look at those prices and do some back of the envelope calculations, my mind boggles at the efficiency they need to make enough to pay back the loans to buy this land in the first place (I do enough work in agricultural economics to know that it's more complicated than that at the micro scale, but still, overall, someone has to make money).
Head of EPA, Scott Pruitt, Resigns
Depends which set of justices you ask :)
Good point. Prices for each CPT code accepted by by insurance company are kept secret, and the chargemaster published by a hospital is so inflated it's basically useless. For some diagnostic tests, it's pretty straightforward to understand, but for others like an ER bill where there can be dozens of claim lines and codes, it can be really hard to understand and the patient is relatively powerless to do anything about it after the fact.
I want a new Desktop. Let's talk ;-)
Luxoft Training adds Atlassian courses to training portfolio
Useful Git commands for everyday use
Where do you live? SF I presume?
The politics of it all introduces a lot of problems. You don't just have some single guy or few people that decide to build a plant. You gotta go through federal politics to even be allowed to attempt to build a nuclear facility, and lower levels of government will have a lot of push back to not put the actual facility near themselves, especially fuel and waste storage. There is a lot of pockets to lube up with money along the way before you even get to having your plant designs reviewed and approved. There are also international politics to deal with in most cases depending on how you are sourcing your material. And by time you get all that done and are ready to build the plant, there is an entirely new set of politicians to introduce more potential holdbacks, and then any one working in the construction phases are going to be demanding a premium just because of what it is.

And although those costs aren't unknown, if you do state all those extra costs straight out people will just assume its going to cost even more on top of that anyways and deny the project from the start.
Thank you all for your input so far!

What do you think about a feature where you can upload your own design files/.dxf and check for manufacturability and get a quote? Not so much regarding market size etc. but versus the offering of ready-to-make shapes?
Rapid Tone Diet Reviews – Is It Real or Scam? Read Must Before Buy
I think most people in Thailand do all of those things with tap water, but there may be exceptions in especially poor, isolated or rural areas. In Bangkok the debate has advanced to whether the water is actually drinkable now (in much of the city the answer is probably yes).
AFAIK, with vue-cli 3.0 (that now includes a browser GUI) you can just add plugins to your existing project, and a router plugin should exist.

Previously on vue-cli 2.x, it was just a question on the project initialization step.
Certainly, and if most jobs allowed me to ship products I'd like to stay and see them all the way through. A lot of jobs however, end up with the products being stuck in development hell as management keeps changing requirements while being too scared to test their assumptions in the market _and_ don't give raises.

If I'm already going to be stuck building things that never release then I might as well get the most money that I can
How PEP-572 would change the standard library
Apparently a few of the developers are working on Fuchsia so maybe some of the ideas will make it there.
You would also have to wean us off meat, including poultry. Not all meat, sure, but the bulk is cereal-fed in CAFO factory operations. Similarly you'd have to wean us off most of the dairy produce and dairy-derived food we like, because grass-fed is not going to produce the quantities we've grown accustomed to. Then you'd have to wean us off bread and beer, and a whole host of extracted starches and sugars that are used in manufacturing much of the so-called processed foods. Because that's where most of the cereals are going.

So... most of humanity on a more-or-less vegan diet.
So, it applies to all of the recent large solar, wind, and battery projects... which appear to hit their budgets and dates? Or are those not megaprojects?
The eclipse plugin sometimes doesn't provide the best developer experience though. I doubt they would accept that for intellij idea.
Also, in rare cases, depending on your pitch and network, if the customer (hospital in this case) is impressed and gives you the order, you can ask for a token amount which can help you get off the ground and work towards the product in discussion.
The "legal theory" is that you signed up for the credit card company to be a trusted middle man and to ajudicate exactly these sorts of disputes. This is part of value they provide.
Others (e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17467755) have highlighted that plants only use a few specific wavelengths. Have you included that in your calculations, i.e. are you comparing (sunlight -> electricity -> LED at optimal wavelength -> photosynthesis at that wavelength) vs. (sunlight -> photosynthesis)?
That's not what that quote means. It literally means it's okay to not get it right, to make mistakes, as long as you can deliver quickly [1]. Not that weird for an industry where time to market is everything.

[1] https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Mark-Zuckerberg-Moving-F...
I work in NLP at a company that actually develops language agnostic solutions, but I'm not aware of any open-source tool that can do this.

Nonetheless, if you can be more specific about what kind of tools you are looking for maybe I can give you some pointers.
Charging people who do not need the service and not letting them cancel looks like fraud, certainly not a voluntary transaction of two willing individuals. I do not see any problem from the point of libertarian for the state to protect the right of a person who does not consent to a business relationship anymore to withdraw from it - just as it is true for any other relationship. Just as libertarians would not object to the laws allowing people to leave a job or divorce, they should not object - from purely libertarian grounds - to laws that allow people to dissolve business relationship without undue burden and involuntary money transactions.

Now, if the gym in question would fully inform the person that they have nearly impossible cancellation procedure and obtained informed prior consent, that would be different. But that never happens.
It can be used for that, but it quickly becomes cumbersome. Redux, in my opinion, should be used for complex UI state in applications with complex interfaces where interactions with one part of the UI can change very different parts ("spooky action at a distance", so to say). But it shouldn't be used to keep all your application's state.

Your application's state should live outside of React, and be passed in as the root's props.
> problem because they're going to try again and again to pass it, one way or another.

Err, this simply means that EP didn’t rubber-stamp the proposal, as happens most of the time, but that the plenary will vote on it in September, and MEPs may propose amendments.

I.e. what should be a standard democratic process, but isn’t in EU for some time how.

They will not “try again” - attempt one is still ongoing and may very well succeed due to gross misunderstandings of the process and the general impression among people that the battle was won and it’s over.

It really isn’t just yet.
When methane's "residency time in the atmosphere" is over, doesn't that mean it's just converted to CO2? So wouldn't that mean its time is effectively 1.25x CO2's?

I'm actually asking, I have a lot of gaps in my knowledge on this.
This and deliberately crashing Cassini into Saturn are two of my top favorites. Then there is Voyager and the golden records on it.
You keep it out of React, manage it however you want to and is most convenient for your application's data model, and pass in the parts that are relevant to UI as props to React's root.
I would never actually use the site like that. However defaults are important and that is the default view for a user who is not signed in. That design is so bad that I almost wonder if it is a dark pattern to get people to sign up/in just so they can save a preference to avoid that view.
Ask HN: What's your branch and merge strategy till production deployment?
If it's anything like their mobile site, they'll leave the ability to use the old site, but it will grow more and more broken as they fail to maintain it, and eventually become unusable.
> I get the idea of mobile first design, but the new design is actively hostile to anyone using a screen larger than a tablet.

Don't worry their mobile design is actively hostile to users too, you're getting the full experience. The mobile design also wastes a huge chunk of space pestering you to install the app. And the official app seems to have been built by the same clueless designers, so you need third party apps just to get a decent experience.

I'm starting to think I may have Stockholm syndrome, I shouldn't have to jump through so many hoops to get a usable experience, I'm probably better off voting with my feet.
How happiness in marriage changes over time
I guess people mostly downvote you because your statement is not popular, but it's not quite correct either. 'Subsistence farming' isn't one well defined thing. There are form of subsistence farming that are very bad; for example, I'm doing work on agriculture in Madagascar now where people (due to a lack of knowledge and systemic thinking) do agriculture by slashing down rainforest to get access to the very fertile soil underneath. That soil inevitably washes out fast (because the trees and more in particular the roots that hold the soil are removed), so a few seasons later they move on to the next patch of rain forest and so on. This is one of the major environmental threats on the island.

That said, 'subsistence farming' in temperate climates as it was practiced say in the 18th and 19th century in Europe is quite different. It revolved around permanent settlements (so people couldn't move on quite as easily) and used crop rotation and animal manure for keeping productivity if not high then at least at sufficient levels. We couldn't live from a system like that today, and it was bad for the environment in the sense that it made people put essentially all land into cultivation, but it wasn't as immediately destructive as other forms of subsistence farming are.
Out of cheese error.
We used Upstart until just a couple of years ago, and it was still losing service processes regularly (as in, you start a service, then you stop it, but the process keeps running, despite Upstart telling you it's stopped).

I don't know if systemd is better (I've never managed a server fleet with it), but Upstart certainly wasn't good enough.
Gyms are a whole other level of insanity for unwanted charges. Planet Fitness's entire business model is essentially counting on people to forget they entered their checking account number, and missing the bill. They wont even allow you to sign up with a credit card.
> The greatest leap as a species we can take is if we can make it a social imperative to act against those urges

As likely most geeks and office warriors can vouch for, fighting your endocrine system leads to depression, anxiety and "finding yourself" problems.

Rather than fighting nature, which is a losing battle from the concept itself, I think the ideal is to find a balance with it, this means (however Jungian it sounds) accepting both our darker and lighter sides, both intellectual and physical.
Systemd didn't introduce this, though; many alternative init systems already had declarative configurations.
In my opinion, besides own shows, Netflix's success is also due to mobile devices availability and no commercials. I don't know if it's only me, but I find watching anything on tv, when shows/movies are interrupted by commercials really annoying, not to mention waste of time. On one of polish commercial tv stations TVN (on government owned ones there are commercials only between, not during shows) God Father II which is 3h22m with commercials was little above 5 hours. Come on!
Pretty much this yes.
> "It wouldn't be that hard to just take a bunch of tax money, and provide a bunch of health care. Or alternatively, provide a bunch of health insurance."

Elaborate, please, if it is so easy.
A lot of your (my problems) would be solved if you understand what is async (as Zyst has already mentioned). This was a very very big problem for me coming off PHP (which is sequential, statement 2 gets executed after statement 1). So when I started with ajax requests, I used to put in timeouts, for loops which will wait for 1 second and see if operation completed or not and what not.

That and not declaring variables in global scope unless completely required.

Also I wish I had known to start with Vanilla JS and stick to it unless completely familiar then jump to frameworks. I started with jquery and the withdrawal was awful but heavy learning experience IMO.
Effectively the phone equivalent of grey listing for emails.
Can you not cancel? In the UK its a matter of logging into the bank and pressing "cancel" on the list of direct debits.

Not only that but any mistaken withdrawal is refunded.
Politicians don't really deserve any privacy. These people should be under public scrutiny at all times. This isn't some private company that you can choose not to do business with if you don't like it. They have the power to pass laws that will apply to everyone. People should keep track of them and denounce them publicly and loudly when they do things people don't like.
The email with an easy action to take would be a good compromise.

Insurance’s value is that any moment they are willing to pay out.

With subscription services, if you only use them occasionally, the smart thing is to let them expire and then resubscrive when you need their services. However the hassle in subscribing and unsubscribing is too high to make practical.
In addition to Smalltalk, which was already mentioned, lisp and IIRC some implementations of forth also provided image-based development. Didn't really work out that well though.
Politeness is not a problem. You can be very polite and still insist on doing what you want. You just need to realize the person who's selling you crap is not your friend and you don't owe them anything, and politely refuse to take it. Saying "no, I do not want this, thank you" is not impolite.
Wining PUBG without any weapons  by (pan)
You know, like in every european country.
You know, traditional paellas already have snails as an ingredient, which aren't insects but I think still have the cultural unfamiliarity to Western palates.
If you need a popup you are complicit. In that case it's very likely you are spewing my personal data to third parties.
It's hard to identify sarcasm in text, so either I'm walking into your joke or you're walking into his (much older) joke. Oh well.

Experts Exchange was a tech QA site with a comically misinterpretable domain name that was popular in the late nineties and suffered in the dotcom bust.
That should be "but not only for pigs", obviously. Otherwise it would be a very interesting standpoint.
Huh? It's not at all difficult to argue with a straight face that Russia would take into account the likelihood of a massive retaliation from the US if it launched a nuclear attack on another NATO country. Again, the special relationship has nothing to do with it.

You can't seriously be saying that the Russians are now confident that they would receive no nuclear response from the US if they decide to, say, nuke Paris, just because Trump is in power.
I got new accounts once because of that. Not fun.
The "breakthrough tech" I'm NOT seeing:

There's all the excitement over electric cars and electrical trucks, and I, for one, can't wait to get an electrically powered car I don't have to drive. But the thing I'm not seeing is electrically powered farm machinery. I think people underestimate just how hard that problem is. These machines, when they're working at peak times of the year (planting time, harvest) are required to work 24 hours a day for weeks on end. There's no time to stop for a recharge, and something like a harvester or large tractor pulling ploughs or a planter uses a /hell/ of a lot of power. Even assuming some sort of swap-out battery system, I'd guess that each machine would need something on the order of three to five battery packs in order to keep up with the work demand. And at the busy times of year even a moderately sized farm will have at least three to five machines working at the same time.

Is anyone aware of companies developing real (not prototype/PoC) large-scale farm machinery?
Even Alexa knows football’s coming home
That was insightful, thanks!
Which is typical of the product and the era.

BeOS was like those Transmeta Crusoe CPUs, Segways and other products that gave journalists something to write about even if adoption was not going to happen.

The circus aspect of the media wanting to write something (as they have pages to fill and eyeballs to feed) must be quite costly to small companies wanting to get a legit product out there. I can still remember the name of Jean-Louis Gassée from his frequent soundbites in the tech press about the wonders of what BeOS was going to be. Did he actually do anything in between conferences, interviews and scheduling media appointments? If so, how did he get the time?

The 'look what we could have won' tech retrospectives are also part of this media cycle, a version of garbage-in-garbage-out applies where those companies that got hyped get recycled as article-worthy a decade on...
That makes sense, they don't seem to use inflections to denote degree of comparison. Pire/le pire, etc.
But even then it's not that simple. You need different wavelengths at different phenological stages, and what wavelengths you need depend on the crop (and variety, but you can at least control that for crops you can multiply vegetatively) you're growing, and then still you need to distribute that light to all leaves and not just the top ones. So now you need either LED's that can emit many different wave lengths, or you need many LED's that are only in use part of the time (killing your capital expenditure efficiency), or you need to move plants around to be under the right lights. And you need to move the light source to places where they can hit the leaves as much as possible, but you also need to keep the excess heat away from the plants (which is a problem even with today's highly efficient LED's - I mean, these are not like that IKEA nightlight you bought last week for $5.)
I'm not sure attributes named as "ref" or "className" qualify either as Javascript or HTML
To me one of the most valuable parts of docker is almost never mentioned. The fact that a Dockerfile exactly describes the steps necessary to get from a fresh OS image to a working instance of whatever you're containerizing is one of the main selling points.

To me that's what other technologies like rkt seem to miss or at least choose not to focus on.
The de-facto limit for the number of URL characters is around 2000 but it greatly varies per browser. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/417184/487771
Indeed. I find the ignorance about the European labor market amazing.

Not only do most Europeans get our 4-6 weeks of paid vacation. We also don't subtract any sick days from vacation days as is common in the US. We also get paid while sick. In some places by the employer, in some places by the government. Sometimes full pay, sometimes a reduced amount. We also have excellent government paid health care. We also have long termination notices. We have protection for temporary workers (so generally few Europeans work in Amazon jobs with day laborers picked up in the outskirts of the cities). Working weeks are typically 35-40 hours. We have protection for part time workers too. They can not be discriminated against. We have 1-3 years paid maternity leave. In some countries it's paid by employer (with refund from government), in other places it's paid by government directly. Usually the pay is part of salary. We have high participation of women in the labor market. We have paid paternity or parental leaves that are often longer than the American maternity leaves. We have government or labor union set minimum wages but most people make more than the minimum wages. Very few Europeans hold two jobs. If we lose our job, we have various welfare payouts and most importantly; we don't lose healthcare. At the end of working life, Europeans retire with public pensions and private supplements.

Now, there are variations from country to country since not all of the above is EU based; actually little of it is. I am speaking as someone who live in Denmark, Spain, the US and now Bulgaria. Every country in Europe has more of one thing and less of another. In Denmark, for example, the paid maternity leave is only at around one year, and women get paid what amounts to only a small fraction of their salary. In Bulgaria it's up to 3 years, of the first is 90 percent of salary, the second is around minimum wage and the third is without pay.

But generally speaking, European workers live a very sheltered and, I would say, privileged working life. I have yet to meet Europeans fearing loosing a job the way Americans do.
> because it's all they know.

Don't you think that's what they used to say about Altavista?
Probably YouTube has tons of them as well.
Beat the Heat with $3000 Free Ad Credit
I can’t help but feel a little bad about the mass amputation happening in these labs. Of course these are lower animals, but don’t we lose a little of our humanity doing this?
Yes, though they must be a bank or have an agreement with a bank. Random person can't just do it by just having the numbers. And a bank can get in trouble if it allows shady clients access to ACH.

> bank account authentication mechanism is to withdraw some money from your account, and then ask you how much they took

In my experience, it is usually the reverse - they put a small sum there, and then withdraw it back after auth. But the end result is the same, of course (except if you have less than $1 on your account).

> if you have someone’s bank account number you still cannot transfer money to them

That's indeed weird, because I see no technical reason (at least with my knowledge about ACH - btw HN had recently a couple of nice articles about it) why that would not be possible, but my bank only allows me to transfer money to my accounts. No idea why. Maybe some legal stuff?

OTOH there are apps like venmo which make it easier.
> (...) but the syntax is just a killer

What's so bad about the syntax? I find it rather beautiful. Can you give a (simple) example where you find the syntax ugly, and how would you prefer it to be?
Ask HN: Are you happy with your newsreader?
What app or website do you use to read the news? Are you happy with how it works or are there things you don't like about it?