skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda getting into the weeds here (a case for Roundup?) but I gently disagree. Son may qualify as the Principal Farm Operator. It depends.

For better or worse "Principal Farm Operator" is defined term (please see https://www.ers.usda.gov/topics/farm-economy/farm-household-...) and just to make things more confusing the moniker is self-applied. In a perfect world the principal would be the most important or the most active Operator in a multiple Operator farm but perfection is going to elude us w/r/t the USDA.

Edited to note the upvote for your reasonable demeanor while disagreeing. An example I strive to follow.
I eat at restaurants everyday. I know I shouldn’t but it’s hard to change lifestyle...
> no one's even using Wi-Fi 1 through 5 yet.

Yea they are.
Good move! Would help consolidate Hadoop ecosystem. MapR would find it hard to compete now.

Both these companies are being challenged with a new crop of Databricks and the confluents of the world.
Not really - I did both the genetic and ancestry testing. All I got out of it was that I was a significantly higher percentage of a particular ethnicity that I didn't know about, which was pretty cool.

The genetic side didn't have anything meaningful (but maybe because whatever markers it tests for, I didn't have any risk factors).

I also loaded the data into Prometheus, but all it gives you is academic journal articles that you'd have to sift through and do your own interpretations.

They recently partnered with a genetics company to share data - at that point, I opted out of data sharing since I was unsure how my data was exactly going to be used.

Also watch for discount deals - don't pay full price - you can get 30% off the kits during sales on Amazon.

tl;dr: do ancestry if its on discount, unsure about genetics.
HR will still ask for 8 years of .Net 4.9
Hmmm. Planting and harvesting workers, and their machines (combines, etc), move around to follow the seasons. A useful tech for these folks might be a weather- and demand- aware Lyft-like system.

But they probably already have it.
Ask HN: How do you measure your funnel?
We are working on a tool to help people measure their conversion funnels. For example:

Unique visitors to website -> User Signups -> Paid Customers

This would be high-level funnel tracking a whole site. But you could also track individual pages and different conversion types (email subscriptions or webinar signups).

We have built a simple tool to do this automatically using Google Analtyics for unique visitors, Intercom for signups and Stripe for paid customers.

But I am curious what tools you use to track things like this??
Barnes and Noble announces strategic review, stock jumps more than 20%
The value is in the aggregate dataset, not single genotypings.

If anyone is interested in a 23andme $40 settlement coupon from a class action I was part of, email me (email in profile), and I will provide a coupon code (I have three available).

Disclaimer: 23andme customer, genome is public as part of Harvard’s Personal Genome Project
In many other countries, the right-wing party is called "Liberal". The reason is that the history of liberalism is closely intertwined with the history of economics, but they started to diverge when economists started to argue that wage floors and welfare could result in slower economic progress. The most extreme example of the latter argument is John von Neumann's turnpike theory:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnpike_theory

There was a sort of "split" between people who wanted to maximize economic growth and people who wanted to optimize for some other measures of social well-being, but, crucially, they were both operating within the "social metric optimization" context of 19th century liberalism, aka classical liberalism, which included e.g. Bentham, Mill, and Schopenhauer. The major 19th century competitors to this philosophy were the various flavors of socialism, largely comprising the followers of Marx and Ricardo, which prefer to build social structures that naturally encourage human freedom (at least in theory), and also the various flavors of conservatism, which aim to preserve historical social structures believed to be beneficial for reasons that are often not clearly expressed. In countries subject to colonial conquest -- that is, everywhere except Western Europe, Russia, Turkey, Iran, Oman, Thailand, China and Japan -- these historical social structures were destroyed, and along with them the population's appetite for conservatism. In Japan, Italy and Germany, conservatism was heavily curtailed after World War II.

When liberalism's main competitor was conservatism, the growth-maximizers tended to align themselves with the conservatives and liberals were on the "left". But when it was socialism, the well-being-maximizers aligned themselves with the socialists and liberals were on the "right". What connects the two kinds of liberals is a reliance on numerical measurements of individual status (wealth, happiness, lifespan) and dynamical theories (economics, sociology) to define, promote and produce social progress.
What, like Huawei? I don't think you can call the companies (I'm making assumptions about which ones you're alluding to) more successful when their success is predicated upon corporate espionage and IP theft from the aforementioned American companies.
Strictly from a nutritional perspective, fruits and green vegetables are better than grains, beans, and tubers. But the cost of farming them is [currently] higher. It is likely that automated farms capable of growing anything would produce the highest-value produce first, and the nutritional value of cheaper foods would increase.

Your fast food burger would replace iceberg with leaf lettuce, then the pale flavorless commodity tomatoes with deep red juicy ones. Then maybe the bun will be made with some cauliflower meal in it. The price you pay for the burger will mainly be for the labor, facilities, and transportation, and the mean quality of ingredients will rise, rather than the price going down.

If you make meals at home, you will likely have more options for pre-cut foods, and more distributor-packaged, fixed-weight bags with recognizable brand names on them. Rather than one whole head of cauliflower at a time from who-knows-where, you will get a 2# bag of pre-cut fork-sized cauliflower florets in a microwave-ready steamer bag from Edible Head Farms, with full nutrition panel, a recipe, and a heartwarming story about their plucky farming robots on the back. The market already knows you are willing to spend $X on cauliflower, and captures that same amount with lower production costs and a heap of value-adds like pre-processing, brand, convenience, and maybe flavor, if there's still room. The grocery store is already operating on 1% margins, and can't afford to take a hit on giving the same amount of shelf space to cheaper cauliflower. Your lettuce will come in stacked, equal-sized leaves for sandwiches, and in bagged, fork-sized bites for salads.
The 4% number comes from 7% mean return divided by 3% mean inflation. If you take out 4%, your investment won't grow, but remain constant, keeping pace with inflation. Eventually, you will hit an off year and stumble. The probability of that per year is low enough that it is reasonable to take out 4% every year of a less than 30-year retirement.

Perpetual income, or an early retirement, therefore takes less out every year, such as 3%, and has that 1% growth buffer to smooth over the down phases of the business cycle. You can also avoid spending on life insurance, and just draw up a last will document.

Divide your target income by your withdrawal rate, and that's your target nest egg. To get $50k/year, you need $1.7 million to retire early (3%), but $1.25 million is just fine if you clock out at 65 years old (4%).

If you assume a mean 4% growth in excess of inflation, and your income and expenses rise with inflation, you can hit your target making $80k and spending $50k in just 30 short years. If you want to retire in less than 40 years of working, you'll need to spend less than 73% of what you earn (or earn 37% more than what you spend). Spend only 66%, you can do it in 34. Spend only 50%, and you're working just 22 years. Cutting your expenses can only get you so far, though. You'll have to keep that level of consumption down for the rest of your life. At some point, there's nothing left to cut, and you simply have to earn more if you want to retire. Also, you are likely to earn less earlier in your career, where the compound interest counts for more.

So this is my advice: invest at least 25% of your net income--or more, if you use it to pay off debts--before you buy anything else. When you get raises, don't spend more than 75% of them on your living expenses. Pay your future-self first. By the time you become them, you'll be very thankful for the contributions of your past-self.
I'm currently in the process of changing careers into software development. I have a family of 5, a full-time non-tech job, and I just landed my first part-time coding job.

I definitely don't want to burnout, but I also know that I will need to work very hard for a short period of time until I can exit my current full time job and secure a full time software development position.

Do you have any advice on how to strike a balance between working very hard and knowing when you're burning out?
US farmers do receive non crop based subsidies for growing vegetables. The absolute subsidy is far smaller, but far less land is used for vegetables 2.5 million acres vs 81.8 million acres of corn for grain, 47.8 million acres of wheat, and 89.6 million acres of soybeans.

Sources: http://usda.mannlib.cornell.edu/usda/current/VegeSumm/VegeSu...
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Newsroom/2018/06-29-2018.php
> If you survive, we encourage you to pay attention for future openings.

We wish you luck, but our HMO has given us a healthy workplace credit for pre-identifying your condition and we are not allowed to consider you for future positions.
The libertarians are most in line with a classical liberal ideology.

It is a platform that acknowledges individual rights that exist independent of government, which finds its only legitimate role in ensuring those rights. Those rights are life, liberty, and property.

Any policy that prefers individual liberty and private property over government power and government-granted privileges would be more libertarian.

Libertarians support:

- Decriminalization of all "moral crimes" such as drug possession and use, prostitution, etc

- Freedom of trade and exchange, zero tariffs or import/export restrictions, elimination of price-gouging laws

- Elimination of taxation, government welfare programs, corporate welfare

- Immediate cessation of all foreign wars and assuming a defensive posture in foreign policy

- Elimination of most, if not all, regulations on consumer goods

- Sound money and the elimination of fractional reserve banking

For the most pure, detailed explanation of libertarianism, check out The Ethics of Liberty[1]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Ethics-Liberty-Murray-N-Rothbard/dp/0...
Launching apps in Mojave: how it has changed
No, legally one can't. One can change their legal gender, but one has to decide.
Ah good, will try it out then!
Show HN: Nanostyled – a 1kB library for styling React components with atomic CSS
OK, let me reverse the question and put it to you: what does a bare VM get you over a VM with Minikube on it?
How'd you learn that you have this condition?
>As a nonprofit dedicated to food justice

What kind of nonsensical virtue signaling is “food justice?”
I think op's point is that ugly food business is based on peoples charitable instincts, while those same customers are not aware the food would not in fact be wasted. so the consumers are buying it for wrong reasons
The subsidies aren’t going anywhere, the lobby is very strong and senators like being re-elected. “Just get rid of the subsidies” sounds great, but it won’t happen. So given that as a baseline reality, and given how much produce is grown by small farmers vs. giant conglomerates, this is really just about more money in the bank and less food in the food bank.
What do you mean a model that isn't reactionary?

Liberalism I think has two camps:

1. We are forcing people to do the wrong things and should do that less.

2. We shouldn't force people to do anything (libertarianism).

The problem with the latter is obviously that libertarians tend to be ignorant of the social contract, but the problem with the former is that lots of those type of liberals stop being liberals when they're the ones in power.
I don't believe that a salaried employee is duty-bound to work any more hours in a week than is required to accomplish their given assignments. Nor do I believe that the tools they create themselves to do that job more effectively should automatically become the property of the employer.

The reason people do not disclose the automation of their own jobs is because they do not believe they can monetize their cleverness more effectively than by keeping secret their shortcuts. They sincerely believe the company will fire them and pay nothing for their automation tools.

It is ultimately a "truth to power" phenomenon. If you have the power to plunge me into a lifestyle of deprivation and poverty, I will avoid giving you any reason for doing so. If you have the power to take some of my profits for yourself, I will seek to avoid informing you that is possible.

The philosophy of "Office Space" applies. It's a question of motivation. If I bust my ass so the boss makes more money, I don't see another dime, so I just do the minimum amount to not get fired. And we also have to know that the minimum amount of flair is not the actual minimum amount we can wear.

I'm sure many of us have seen extra effort go completely unrewarded, or even get punished. That experience takes a toll. Not one of us can trust our employer to do the right thing all the time--even for those of us that are founders! So we preemptively choose for them, and sometimes do the thing that is right only for us. If more companies were capable of more accurately assessing the value of software automation, we wouldn't have to think twice--we'd take the bonus equivalent to several years salary, and start automating something else.
Lessons Learnt by Facebook Data Scientist Brandon Rohrer
I just kept mine in my room
Wikipedia isn't about breaking news. I don't see a problem with waiting until you have 3-4 news sites with better track records independently corroborateing the story.
Corn is a heavily modified grass, so definitely a grain and not a vegetable.
> Advertisements and nag prompts to try Edge browser when you attempt to download chrome

That was in a preview build and was rolled back after internet outrage.

> or switch your default browser

Edge just says "Recommended for Windows 10" next to it's entry in the list of installed browsers.
> Third, nobody makes money from IM being an open standard.

Email is an open standard and there are companies that make money off of it. NNTP is an open standard and there are companies that offer accounts for a monthly or yearly fee. An open standard does not preclude a business from making money on a service.
Are you claiming Python _isn't_ a scripting language? If it isn't then what the heck is it?!?

What I find generally from Python developers who have lived an breathed the language for many years is that they accept there are fundamental failings and acknowledge the better means to workaround those.

In reading back through your comments, it seems you are blinkered by those with the benefit of working in other languages. In particular, you seem to have hang ups about C which are not clear why.

Perhaps you'd care to explain those.
I think "personality" deserves its own category + percentage.
If you want details, you'll have to look beyond internet comments. :)

Read The Road to Serfdom and The Constitution of Liberty by Hayek for a deep discussion of liberalism.

The Wealth of Nations and Free to Choose are also great books to consider.
My customer is using ipfs-api-js on their website and it uploads to an ipfs node (in our case Infura). In the future we might run a node if the customer requires it. For now Infura is very convenient.

My Saas is fetching from IPFS, then reuploading so that the upload and conversion of the file both could potentially be triggered on the client side. Many Dapp architectures I've seen so far have no backend component.
Bit off topic, but does anyone know of a CSA that delivers in Seattle? I've only been able to find ones that have pickup options.
Why not another Thinkpad? What don't you like about it?
Yeah, it's a bit weird why people have this expectation to reach for tutorials by random person X instead of looking for the official docs. I can't count the number of time someone asked me which tutorials to read to learn Go, but hadn't even considered reading the docs.
The governor in any of the handful of one-party states can probably get away with it.
Think this is one of the universals. It's not that we're good at it - it's that there exist other cultures worse still.
I didn't even know that existed, but now I will definitely take a look! Thanks for the feedback!
Programming is moving towards a lego style model. That isn't actually software development any more. You don't need much programming experience to be able to attain those skills.

It's why sites such as stackoverflow.com are so popular.
From a Facebook nonpaywalled link: https://www.wsj.com/articles/brain-scans-can-detect-who-has-...
I'd love this added as an HTTP Content-Encoding, like brotli recently was (and gzip has been for a long time). You could get a bit more compression at gzip-like speeds, or have very cheap compression using its fastest modes (hundreds of MB/s/core; see --fast modes at https://github.com/facebook/zstd/releases/tag/v1.3.4). brotli especially helped at the high end (static stuff you'll serve many times and can spend a long time compressing); zstd can be especially helpful nearer the low end (dynamic content you'll serve a single time).

On Twitter a designer of Brotli raised the question of whether there should be a standardized
limit on RAM required to decode in the HTTP Content-Encoding context, since zstd supports huge window sizes (GBs). I don't feel strongly--clients can refuse to handle responses that take too much RAM to decode, servers have an incentive to serve up things their clients can handle, and there tend to be sharply diminishing returns to increasing window size--but I can imagine a limit in the MBs being a reasonable compromise between allowing high compression and not breaking on phones with a couple hundred MB RAM.
If you're using Github or Bitbucket, consider putting a block on a direct push to master, and guiding them to a Pull Request / Code Review based procedure of merging to master.

If logic is breaking, look to encourage units tests on new code, and back port unit test coverage as time goes on.
Black market cigarettes, sure. But black market cars? Cars are already individually registered and tracked by the states. You can’t just magic up an illegally imported car and get away with driving it for very long.
It is quite interesting to read how recent the idea of peer review being required for publication is (1973 for Nature apparently). It's well known that in biology that the 1953 Watson & Crick paper in Nature was published without review after Nobel Laureate Sir William Lawrence Bragg (Watson & Crick's ultimate boss) vouched for it, but it seems that wasn't atypical at all for the era.
Yes, it requires resources. I currently run FFMPEG for every video I get.

Currently nothing is stopping you from uploading a 10TB video except that maybe my DigitalOcean droplet would run out of space and crash.
Cap'n'proto's RPC layer[0] is interesting and is heavily inspired by E language's network layer (capTP) and the author says that Miller was involved in the design [1].

I also seem to remember that one of the authors of Pony language[2] says that Miller had been involved in discussions with the authors of Pony language.[1]

I seem to remember a comment stating that Cap'n Proto is used by Cloudflare, but I'm not sure if they use the RPC layer as well as the serialization layer.

I also think that we are in an age where promises are widely used and promise pipelining[3] could somehow end up a future mainstream language feature.

[0] https://capnproto.org/rpc.html

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9483735

[2] https://www.ponylang.io/

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises#Promise_p...
Soft skills matter!

Learn how to write good emails. Write to the point of view of the person/people receiving the message. If you can't describe a requirement without technical jargon, you probably don't understand the requirement.

Learn how to phrase questions and responses in a thoughtful manner. Knee jerk responses are usually detrimental.

Learn how to present. You're going to have to make a case for your ideas in meetings. You'll also have to defend your actions sometimes, particularly with respect to operations and support.

Communication is so critical. It helps requirements become better understood. It keeps issues from becoming escalated so that you have more time to do the enjoyable part of the job: creating something for someone.

Your job is to make someone else's life better with your development skills. Whether it's saving a step in a task they need to do or providing timely information so they can make decisions important to the organization...whatever...you're there for them.

Explore what areas of development you like the most - analysis, project management, UI, backend, etc. - and follow them. Keep in mind that it may change in the course of your career.

Try to develop a good rapport with your colleagues. You spend a large portion of your waking hours with them. It's easier when you like them and vice versa.

Find enjoyment in each job. It's a long career. Don't stay with something that isn't enjoyable to you.
Read books on programming and design. In today's world of stack-overflow-driven-programming, just reading docs and non-clickbait blog posts make you stand out by having more than superficial knowledge of things, but having dedicated focused knowledge expansion through reading books that aren't immediately goal-directed can accrue superpowers. It's exceedingly rare to encounter a developer who exhibits the kind of breadth of knowledge that comes from prioritizing focused reading time.
There is some very disingenous sounding hand-waving going on in this article - and it appears to have been successful! Most of the commenters here seem to have come away with the idea that the problem is that Imperfect Produce is taking food that would have otherwise gone to food banks. While the article never claims thus, I think the misunderstanding is intentional on the part of the author. The key point to me is this:

> Three years later and with a 30-percent drop in customers

and

> We lost customers, a lot of customers.

With a more careful reading, one can see that the "loss" to food banks is because BeetBox is not making as much money now that they have competition with better marketing. In fact the article even says as much:

> subscriptions have fallen so much we’ve had to cut back on many of the food justice programs that our CSA proceeds had previously supported.

Sounds a lot less like Imperfect Produce is an evil monster here, and a lot more like they're just a more succesful competitor.