skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, not that surprising: you don't need to register a tractor the way you do a car, so there's no central registry of what tractors are still being used.

Re: energy storage, oof, yeah, at 146.5 MJ / gallon for diesel fuel, and 10 gallons / hour, 12 hours of fuel holds 4884 kWh of energy. Assuming you need a similarly sized battery, you're looking at 60 Tesla (car) batteries. That will weigh approximately 36 tons and cost about $700,000, based on Tesla's 141$/kWh stated cost.

Hmmm, I'm guessing you can't put more than 8-10 tons of battery on a tractor that size (the John Deere 7250, which is actually 13g/hr, weighs 13 tons) so you're limited to maybe 3 hours or so of power between charges or swapping out your batteries. For that much battery, you're looking at maybe $175,000; the John Deere 7250 retailed for ~$230,000. Assuming your batteries are swappable and fast-chargeable, you'd need at least two batteries. (Heck, it's a tractor, maybe it can be on some sort of wagon you tow behind, which would make swapping a snap.)

Putting it together, I think we might actually be approaching viability for electric tractors. If you can actually fit 8-10 tons of battery into a 13 ton tractor and build the rest of the tractor for $55,000, you could build a tractor comparable to the John Deere 7250 that would run for about 3 hours; that's not a bad amount of time to run between swapping out the batteries, but you'd need at least another $175,000 battery to swap out, which already makes you ~twice as expensive as a regular tractor. You would probably need the battery weight and cost to drop by half again before you could get a tractor that would run all day (with a battery swap) and not cost more than a conventional tractor.
Agreed. Wage growth has been non-existant for a long time. Every administration is basically like "hey we're doing great - look at these unemployment numbers" and then you talk to people and they're saying the opposite. Savings is atrocious too. Some of that is people being bad with money but a lot is that the lack of wage growth and rising expenses on things like healthcare, education and home ownership makes it hard for them to save.

60% of Americans can't afford a $500 unplanned expense [1]. That alone forces many to take crappy job(s) to just stay afloat.

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/12/pf/americans-lack-of-savings...
I don't think it is all tongue-in-cheek, but it is brilliant.
I don’t think anyone has seriously suggested that people are angry because of advertisements, but that certain interested parties made use of that anger to attack something entirely unrelated.
It doesn't seem to work that way. When Ashley Madison leaked did people stand up and go "whoa millions of men are trying to cheat on their spouses, maybe we shouldn't be embarrassed about this"? No, they said "whoa there are millions of fucked up men."

What about when all those celebrity nudies leaked? Did people stand up and say "maybe taking and sending nude photos isn't something we should be embarrassed about"? No, they said "look at this crazy photo of <Celebrity>!"
Hi Peter,

These days, will getting an MS from a US university help in any way in expediting Green Card?

I have not begun applying to MS yet
"For the first time in recorded history, the number of job openings is higher than the number of people looking for a job."

So what? If there's a thousand Node developers like me looking for work, and a thousand job openings for dentists, that's a mismatch. You may say beggars can't be choosers, but do they expect Node developers who went through CS courses to throw that away and take dentist courses?
Where is that? I work for a startup in the peninsula, and most of our employees over the age of 25 live by themselves (or with a romantic partner). And I don't know of any that live more than one to a bedroom.

Many of the younger employees do live in shared housing, but then, so did I when I moved to SF and that was nearly 3 decades ago.
There's really no deference given to prior approvals except sometimes in the O-1 context.
Yeah, I’m in the Bay Area. My guess is that I didn’t have any leverage. The company I was coming from was a no-name company in the southeast. Also, I believe data scientists receive less stock than software engineers at the top companies. Does that match your observations?
it was their, the traditional media, wake up call. it also forever broke the belief that the media was impartial. remember that while Rather and Mapes brought this shameful act of reporting we got to witness the New York Times go full Onion with a "fake but accurate" declaration.

Could it happen now? Not as blatant but I simply believe they have changed to simply relying more on innuendo and unidentifiable sources.
Telemarketing is wrong. You are working to destroy the value of one of the most marvelous accomplishments of the human race.
E-waste mining could be big business and good for the planet
Wikipedia gives a nice overview too:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)
My credit union has a charge dispute process that is pretty straight forward and has worked well for me over the years. Consider moving your services to another bank/credit union if they don't provide services like that.
Depending on the green card path, an advanced degree definitely can help.
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Jaron Lanier on fighting Big Tech’s ‘manipulation engine’
https://www.ft.com/content/a3ea16f6-7edd-11e8-bc55-50daf11b7...
Would you please elaborate on strong individual background?
That kind of iid assumption could be summarized as "the training data is representative of the data we want to apply the model to", and if it doesn't hold, that's indeed a problem.

But "Data has to be changed and manipulated into i.i.d. form, or the algorithms won't work. How does an independent set of random variables give us a model of the actual dataset which is a very limited representation of the real world?" strongly implies that the data itself should be decomposed into iid variables.
While whitening ("manipulating into iid form") is a common preprocessing technique because it's simple and effective, that doesn't mean that learning algorithms wouldn't work without it. They'd just take a bit longer to arrive at the same result.
> Even when Europeans critique the United States, they're critiquing the US from the US liberal perspective.

You probably know this, but "US liberal perspective" is center-right to the rest of the world (not only Europe). I'd argue they're critiquing from the political center.
> Most wealth in America is concentrated in the hands of a small number of incredibly wealthy families.

Those who ask for citations should also give them...
You replied with those lines after the bug was already resolved, and they don't match with your primary bug report well. In fact, they contradict your primary report where you wrote "I do not believe we will upgrade older computers to newer OS" and "it would be great if there was a way we could use systemd+journald in older OS" and "I do understand that systemd needs to be pid 1, but I wonder if a subset of functionality can still be exposed when it is not running as pid 1".

Again, all of those things are entirely unrelated to it running as a pid1 in a container, and those parts of your original bug report are what Poettering responded to.

You're reading way too much into that one bug. In fact, you could already run systemd in docker before you posted that bug if you go back to my first link to a mailing list thread about the very subject from 2014.

Your main bug report made it sound like you were asking to run systemd as pid != 1, which is unrelated to running systemd in docker.

Your clarification here only convinces me that you hold a grudge against systemd and wish to interpret benign comments in a bad light because, no matter how many times I read that bug, I cannot understand your claim that the original posting and Poettering's rejection of it is in any way related to running systemd in docker.
Comparison of recent video coding technologies in MPEG and AOMedia
If you win, you get a solid gold fiddle and out of the contract. If you loose you get a smaller silver fiddle and they kill one of your friends.
Literally the only thing that matters to me when thinking about ditching my MBP is how well the computer works with linux. I have had such horrible experiences with linux laptops and honestly it seems like as time goes by it gets worse. This article doesn't mention linux at all but I suspect the experience is poor.
There is a worse not so hidden cost. The deficit is going from $600B to $1T, almost doubled. Instead of the government borrowing $3000 a year in my name it will be borrowing $5000 a year in my name which I or my children will have to pay back at some point. This way, down here in the South, all the dumb as coal red necks are very, very happy with their manual labor job that they drive their pickup to in the morning. I'm going to see myself out and return to /r/politics.
Who cares about face. The best time to learn is when you have to. That's not to say be lazy, it's to say continuously challenge yourself so you frequently "have to".
Much higher costs far exceed the advantage you gain from transportation. If you manage well you will have higher yields but not enough to overcome the hole you're in.

You will be able to charge higher prices but outside of a couple of cities the market is too shallow consisting of basically very high end restaurants. You're saving the chef having to go to the farmers market and having lettuce that is say twelve hours fresher.

Don't underestimate a savvy farmer from making deliveries and undercutting your advantage because in some cities it's already happened. Or a Detroit startup I know that is picking up from the farmer and making deliveries, chefs can order from their cell phone.
You seem to be assuming that admissions is based on a lottery and expulsion cannot occur.

You might note that at what are considered "good schools", not only are neither of those things true, but trying to implement either would cause the school to be quickly abandoned.
> 'racists' are citizens too, and are entitled to vote in elections.

(1) Sadly, yes. However, racism shouldn't really have won the election as it isn't a majority viewpoint.

(2) Even if racists are allowed to vote, there is a limit to the racism that you can put into public policy, at least with a simple majority.

(3) A democracy is actually allowed, and even required, to defend itself against certain types of ideas, for example fascism. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streitbare_Demokratie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
Not to mention all those job posting that aren't openings at all: the ones that never ever higher anyone despite getting hundreds of applicants.
Vegas provides plenty of dining and entertainment options to make up for lost sushi. It’s not worse, just different. The anolgoue in SF lifestyles would be a high-rise condo instead of a house, proximity to transit instead of a nice car, etc. The frugal options in SF are not just different, but straight-up worse.

When a majority of that $250k is in Monopoly money (i.e. most of the time), they absolutely are.
No, I think you let your knowledge of cave diving cloud your vision: this is dangerous, and to enter that situation willingly is brave.

You can make it sound like it isn't by hauling in everything and the kitchen sink in terms of technology but that does not change the ground rules.

In the meantime, with all your knowledge and background you're armchair quarterbacking a rescue operation that is most likely doing what can be done given the tools at hand.

So the people that are doing this are doing it because they feel they have to, because they feel the lives of those kids matter to them even if they have only potential downside for themselves.

That we are even having this discussion is beyond bizarre.
We're also 9 years away from the end of the last recession.

The longest we've gone without a recession in the past 100 years is 10 years.
This is Kingdon and we're happy to answer questions of any kind!

For anyone who has not heard of Deis Workflow, it is a Kubernetes project from the same team that brought you Helm. The workflow that it enables is "git push" to deploy. Dockerfile and Docker "pull-style" image deploys are also possible.

The Deis project itself is very well documented, but Team Hephy is still nascent. We are in the process of building our own documentation. The fork is currently very close to the original, so all of the prior documentation is still fine.

We have mostly added support for newer Kubernetes API versions in this release, as well as some updates to the platform router.
> The data you submit is encrypted in Firefox and not decrypted until it is on a server that is not connected to the wider internet.

Okay, stupid question: How does it get there? Sneakernet?
You are correct. ActionScript compiles to ABC (ActionScript ByteCode) which is run by the AVM (ActionScript Virtual Machine).
Heh, 'logs'
Looked good enough for the people running this site (this is YC W17).
Exciting times for the Julia community!
One of the perks of having an authoritarian system that takes unilateral action.
That's been common for a long time.

I still don't get why someone has to say A is better than everything else. The second someone says A is better, there's an army of people frothing at the mouth who will (usually justifiably) say the opposite. There doesn't seem like any happy mediums anymore. One person is wrong, one person is right, but I'm pretty sure they're usually both right and both wrong.

tl;dr
People are silly.
Terence McKenna's lectures from the Earth Trust Foundation conference are really great, if you're into that sort of thing. There are four parts, totaling ~6.5 hours.

https://archive.org/details/PsychedeliaRawArchivesOfTerenceM...
Weird. In france calls in in the eu and to the usa are free and unlimited on most contracts.
When you said triggered I thought it was angry people making phone calls.
We've dealt with this issue several times and the outcome will depend on how USCIS applies its rules/policies but it is possible that you will not be subject to the lottery and could get another H-1B for the balance of your 6 years.
Some reasons i was thinking Rust in Heroku. Need coffee!!
Companies that don't mind outsourcing their reputation to a third-party outbound call center.

When I get an unsolicited call, I always ask pertinent questions. If they can't be answered swiftly, I know that the company doesn't care enough to properly train their sales critters, and so my trust in them to do anything properly is significantly decreased.

Pertinent questions might include "how is your software or service delivered?", "where is the company located?" or "where is your security policy documented?".
It took me forever to figure out that their bang feature exists. Not that I didn't want the privacy stuff eliminated when using search, but a filter bubble is REALLY useful for solving programming problems. Straight DDG gives terrible results for engineering questions. Especially when they are edge cases. Bang is rad. They should really make it more obvious when you're using the site.
Peter - are you seeing a shift or a trend where individuals with immigration need are possibly heading to other countries (e.g Canada) given the toughening stance on immigration here in USA recently?

Also what would be your 2 cents for citizens from oversubscribed countries such as China/India who practically have to wait for ever now to get work based GC? Head over to Canada?
You and some other commenters in the replies are making this claim. So yeah, Obama was black, and some people were excited to vote for him because he was black. That's not what I'm asking.

Did his Facebook ads specifically take advantage of the fact that he was black? Did his ad campaign benefit from inflaming racial divisions?

To be fair, advertising from the trump campaign may not have played on racial tensions either. The thing people are upset about is the russian interference. The russians bought ads and made posts that clearly stoked tensions, and Facebook was negligent in preventing this.
I'm currently working in the US on an L1-B visa, is there any possibility for me to switch to another employer without leaving the country?
Hi Peter,

As an H-1B holder with entrepreneurial ambitions and no Green Card in sight for any foreseeable future, how hard is it get an O-visa?

I am not a research scientist or a Ph.D. holder or have any publications, just your garden variety Software Engineer (with a graduate degree). With IER parole gone, what is a feasible way for me to quit my job and work on my own idea?

I don't have funding yet (and don't plan to receive one nor do I need one immediately), but have a feasible idea, some crud prototyping and positive responses from a small clientele.

My idea requires a good amount of field research, going to conferences and workshops, etc. (it's a B2B product). I am also required to go to meetups to scout for talent and to keep abreast of latest happenings in the tech scene, etc. I can't do any of these with my regular H-1B 9-5 job. How do I get off H-1B?

P.S. EB-1, E-2 are not an option.

Thanks.
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> The US withdrew from Saudi Arabia. That doesn't mean they got there by invading. They didn't.

The US says Russia invaded Afghanistan. How did the US occupation of Saudi Arabia differ from what the US always termed as an invasion of Afghanistan?

I mean just the usage of the term "Saudi" Arabia, as if one puppet family had the divine right to rule a peninsula is itself some US/Aramco propaganda.

Also the US withdrew from Arabia because Saudi patriots fought the US military occupation - on Saudi soil and on US soil.
The openings seem to be largely in trades or nonskilled labor:

> Competition for workers has gone crazy, Joe McConville, who co-owns a popular chain of made-from-scratch pizza restaurants, told me. “At almost every restaurant that I’ve worked at, you always had a stack of applications waiting,” he said. “You’d call somebody up and half the time they're still looking for an extra job. That’s not happening anymore.”

> “There are not a lot of welders sitting around looking for work. The construction trades, the roofers, the framers, the dry-wallers,” said Dan Culhane, the president of the Ames Chamber of Commerce. “Those are [workforce] challenges that Ames and Story County and Des Moines face.”

> The trucking industry is instructive here: Trade groups have argued that it is facing a shortfall of 51,000 workers, yet businesses have not yet shown much willingness to cut hours, boost pay, and improve conditions to lure workers in.
Good movies are nothing to be ashamed of. While you may not be learning new facts about science and tech, you're interacting with different emotional models and stories depicting human interactions. Awhile ago I saw research confirming the link between watching a lot of movies and increase in emotional intellect (same people, over time), but I can't google it up now.
If it’s government money it makes sense to save $10m here to apply it there (in theory). But when it’s Boeing’s money it makes no sense at all. Boeing isn’t going to take the $10m they’re not spending and put guardrails on dangerous highways.
It gets there encrypted via the internet
There are multiple ways to criticize something.

I think a lot of people view it worse than the propaganda image it presents (we export democracy, we put human right first etc). Russia, China and SA don't go out of their way to publicize their human right record or freedom or exporting any such values to other parts of the world. At least not in any believable way.

Another way to criticize something is to compare a place based on its history. Things are better or worse than before during the era of <X>. We were so much better then and now things are worse. Or vice versa.

And then there is comparative criticism, that is criticize like you mentioned, US vs Russia, China or SA. I have lived in Soviet Union and US, never lived in SA or China. But I would at least say US is much better place for me than the old Soviet Union was. But even then it is not black and white. For example at least hope of getting some subsidized housing, free medical care, university degrees etc was there.
Iranians can revolt, most huge social changes requires revolt. Government is a result of the people, if the majority were not ok with it I think it would not last long.

To me this implies on some level that the people of the country like their government.
Has anyone tried running linux on one of these? How'd it go?
It's not currently in any of the hardware compatibility lists that I am aware of.
Speaking as a vegan, veg protein powder is very convenient compared to always having to include alt-meats and protein rich foods (like soy, tvp or vital wheat gluten) in my meals. For breakfast I get 30g to start my day with, it's nice. Iirc, my daily recommended intake is somewhere around 50g, which can occasionally be a challenge to meet daily.
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I can't do anything productive or mentally taxing on long flights, I don't know if it's the air pressure or premature jetlag or what, but I have a very hard time exercising my will. What I do enjoy, though (in addition to the Marvel comics movies – I only watch them on planes) is reading documentation. It's a great time to sit down with an in-depth manual and just soak up information you didn't have before. You don't have to do anything, or make anything, you just learn how something works. Another related activity is reading a bunch of code that I know I'll be working on in the near future. There's something very pleasurable about absorbing a codebase while at the same time completely excusing myself from actually doing anything.
Can you trust a Huawei, though?
Ask HN: MSc in Business – is it still possible to become a CTO level engineer?
I would love some advice on this topic, since its plaguing me for a while already.

I studied business at for the last five years, did several related jobs (MBB, internship @ 2 YC startups, founding my own company), but I'm not sure it's the right path for me in the long term. I'm not the best at selling myself, am fighting with a medical condition at times and typical business work seems boring to me. I like creating things, and I'm decent at design & basic frontend. I'm also very ambitious if I decide to do something I like to go all the way.

Now, I'm considering the following options:
1. Sticking with business, trying to found my own company as CEO which does seem very attractive to me minus the typical sales & marketing activities.
2. Trying to get more into engineering, e.g. spending the next year to learn coding fulltime, (50-60h / week) & go from there.

I'm 24 now and have extremely limited engineering experience compared to others at my age. Do you think I have any chance of catching up or should I just stick with what I'm successful at now? Will VCs even take me seriously as a CTO, if I'm completely self-taught? Do you believe that a job at the intersection (e.g. Product Mgmt.) could be what I'm looking for?

Thank's in advance, I feel a little lost ;)
Not directly connected to the wider internet ? As in not referenced by DNS, but connected to machines which are ?
> every time a certain show is broadcast on the TV.

It seems like an obvious thing to tax the airing of a show on TV. I'm in favor of the taxation of every 30 minute slot on TV and Cable.

This maybe makes sense to me because I'm a natural person (i.e. not a corporation), so everything I receive or produce or give away is taxed.
Either sneakernet, or the server is disconnected before the private key is attached, I assume. But sneakernet makes the most sense to me.
Maybe they should stop playing the lottery? Average adult American spends over $300 per year on lottery tickets[0]. I'm all out of sympathy for smokers that get lung cancer, and other self-induced disasters.

[0] https://www.fool.com/retirement/2017/01/07/heres-what-americ...