skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's spelled "sansevieria", not "sansevierra"; and the "snake plant" (also called "mother-in-law's tongue", as your first listing does) is the common name for sansevieria trifasciata. It is a very good starter plant, easy to take care of (water once a week, not too much) and to propagate if you need to trim it (cut up a leaf into thin strips and put them in soil, wait for them to form roots and sprouts). It's also available pretty much everywhere including in grocery store plant sections. The website listing claims that the plant comes in a 17m pot, which is implausible. Probably 17cm was intended?

The latter link, sansevieria cylindrica, is a related plant which is commonly called "African Spear" and generally not called "snake plant". S. cylindrica are a little more rare to see and in my experience a little more temperamental about excessive water, but they do look great. Of course, the listing says "Species of Snake Plant May Vary", so then most people won't be getting a s. cylindrica anyway. Unless they meant "cultivars of sansevieria cylindrica may vary" -- a cultivar is the level below a species, analogous to breed in animals, in the same way that a Pom and a Chow Chow aren't two different species of dog.

Not trying to be a jerk here, but one presumes the unique selling point of an expensive plant subscription service is the curation -- in other words, the expertise and care of the team working on the product -- as much as the convenience.
It's so bizarre that in NASA-speak the word nominal means not the value that a parameter should have ("in name") but the fact that the parameter is within a specified tolerance of that value. It's like a contraction of "<value> is what it should be, according to its formal definition". https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/184876/how-did-n...
Yeah, Edamam probably does something similar to what I was doing.

The project kind of came out of me needing ingredient parsing for a different product and existing solutions being a poor match.

Edamam requires you to display their logo in your app if you use their API[0], which I found inappropriately intrusive.

There's a similar service called Spoonacular, but they don't allow you to store results for more than an hour[1], which is crazy. I wanted to build a search index that let users search by ingredient, so it made no sense for me to reprocess my entire corpus of data every hourly.

But they succeeded and I didn't, so maybe the weird API terms are what they need to survive.

[0]: https://developer.edamam.com/about/terms

[1]: https://market.mashape.com/spoonacular/recipe-food-nutrition
Can you expand on 2) please if possible ? How it is different from Netflix ?
At least when it's an actual robot you can destroy or vandalize it.

With Amazon, even an advanced ad blocker is not a guarantee.
I'm part-way there with https://github.com/akavel/g-wiki (towards an "elegant", or maybe rather "stupid", static site generator):

• it is template-driven, via Go templates engine (the theme/wiki.tpl is the entry point, all other templates are loaded dynamically) — no need to put files in special place in hierarchy (unless you impose it on yourself);

• it has `glob` function for matching files by pattern, e.g. `glob "/20??-??-??-*.md"`, and can render the contents of files loaded this way;

• it has `matchre` function which allows simple editing of page contents (you should be able to cut contents before/after a `<!--more-->`, etc.); by the way, I kinda feel, that the three points above, taken together, probably already make it Turing-complete in some unholy, non-euclidean, blasphemous way, akin to C++ templates...

• the "only" caveat being... it's not actually a SSG (yet™). It's more of a "personal wiki/notetaking" app currently. But the next step and goal in its development is to convert it to a SSG, only I'm still pondering various approaches to go there. And... it's kinda on hiatus now, in that I'm not developing it recently. But if I will develop it, it'd be exactly to convert it to a SSG now, so you should be fairly safe to "watch" it on GitHub. If anything shows up in your inbox, most probably it'd be a set of commits converting it to a SSG. And this very thread on HN may, or may not, make me get back to work on that ;)

Please note it's also poorly documented as of now. Though it has some reasonable --help message contents, see: https://github.com/akavel/g-wiki/blob/fork/wiki.go#L49-L110

Also, for editing markdown, I personally like https://typora.io/ and, more recently, https://zettlr.com/

EDIT: You could actually already try running `wget` on it. This is actually one of the approaches I'm considering.
Ask HN: How to best teach algorithms and data structures?
In my opinion, what makes algorithms and data structures course so difficult is that it requires a lot of intuition in analyzing problems and designing algorithms.

Are there any good resources or tips in teaching (and tutoring)?
I wouldn’t advise anyone to use a service like this because it’s not privileged.

In other words if you suffered some kind of injury/damages and go speak to a lawyer your communications are privileged. Here you have some “chat bot asking you questions” and guess what, if you tell that chat bot something that is not true or hurts your case, the other side will be entitled to subpoena all communications and use it against you.

They are right there is a huge problem with education in this country (people don’t even know their basic rights or how to seek remedies when said rights are violated), lawyers are expensive, there is a natural barrier to entry into the courts...but for a company that wants to educate people, they don’t seem to mention the pros/cons of discussing your case with a non-lawyer like this chat bot.
What's Elon up to?
Did Netflix allow you to work remote? I was under the impression they are pretty strict about engineers being in Los Gatos or LA.
I grow a lot of plants indoors, and the limiting factor is almost always light levels. If your space for growing has a large west or south facing window, you're in great shape! You will be able to grow most plants.

However, East or North facing windows will be able to grow low light plants, or need full spectrum (5000k) lighting.

Easy bright light plants include succulents, pony tail palms, avocados, bananas, and most herbs.

Plants that tolerate or thrive in low light are pothos, spider plants, parlor palms, the bromeliads, snake plants, and english ivy.

Of these, I suggest a spider plant, they're very hardy, nearly impossible to kill, and even don't mind being a little root bound.

Succulents require more patience, but are also fairly easy. Be sure to not overwater, and make sure they have enough drainage! Some indoor gardeners grow theirs in a mix of gravel and pine bark, in order to completely drain, and just fertilize every watering.

The most important thing is don't try orchids at first. Finicky things.
My wife and I went to Paris for our anniversary and we didn't realize until we were there that it was Fashion Week.

I am genuinely not surprised at all that this guy made it to the top.

Streetwear has become so ironic because the lines have blurred between haute culture/high fashion and bargain basement designs that you genuinely can't tell what is $800 (Balenciaga Triple S https://www.balenciaga.com/us/triple-s-shoes_cod11271302nb.h...) and what is $55 (Nike Air Monarch https://www.nike.com/t/air-monarch-iv-lifestyle-gym-shoe-lPt...) unless you know the brands and styles.
Care to explain please? This is the first time hearing such an opinion.

I require OS to just not get into my way, make hardware and software work flawlessly, take as little system resources as possible and ideally make me unaware of itself. I don't spend time in OS and what it provides, I spent time in software running on it.

Files-related operations done in Total commander, way more efficient tool than anything MS ever created in past 30 years (once you get used to it). Anything else is also 3rd party.
Oppo’s Super VOOC is the fastest fast charging we’ve ever seen
Don't forget to subtract off the ~25% plus expenses that goes to the legal fees.
Can you share some details about the startup? I am from Montreal too.
So, basically, it's at PAIX/Equinix.
The onus is definitely on the existing developed nations to persuade developing nations not to deforest.

That likely means paying to protect the forests, and also to encourage the kind of economic development that would have happened with deforestation as well. All of the timber logistics and processing industry, as well as the agriculture that would develop in the cleared lands is compelling. Certainly maintaining pristine forests employs some people and could promote tourism (depending on access issues), but that doesn't really compare.

But developing countries also crave independence and self-sufficiency, so it must be done with a light touch.
> In ongoing and future work, the chloroplast is being replaced by catalysts that are nonbiological in origin

The next question is how much CO2 will be released during the manufacturing process for these catalysts.
Off-topic, but, a cellphone from 8 years ago is the iPhone 4. Isn't that crazy to think about?
How did you get your first freelancing/consulting customers? Would love to do this, missing the clients.
That page says LES can be jettisoned on either side of separation depending on flight profile.
I'd argue that's because the blackout wasn't a disaster per say, as much as a major inconvenience. A mob of bored but otherwise safe individuals is more dangerous than a mob of people in need but with a clear and sane way to fulfill that need.
YOU are their QA department if you're using a non-enterprise version of Windows! Wake up and use Linux or buy a Mac (at least Apple only mocks your wallet!).
Reddit's efforts to combat toxicity has made it so much less entertaining. r/all was so fun back in 2012/2013 but now it's all left-think agenda pushing articles or extremely tame content.

I still haven't been able to cut it out of my daily reading habits, but that's a lingering effect of how good it was 5+ years ago. The current state of it errodes that each passing day.
I would argue that people are only willing to share all manner of personal data for free because they don't actually understand what is out there about them.

I live where HN has absolutely no audience, think middle of nowhere midwest. And I can 100% say that not one person I talk to has any idea what data is available about them, for sale, right now. They don't even understand why it's important to know what permissions your apps on your phone ask for.

I think if tech folks made an effort to get people to understand, in language they can access, what data is out there, we would see a massive (attempt at a) shift in how people use the internet

Edit: Proof of what I say, that i just remembered. My father is extremely right wing, pro-Trump. He was told, by whatever 'news' agency he happens to listen to on AM radio (Maybe Laura Ingram?) that Facebook was doing awful things and they explained, in the most basic terms, what kind of data Facebook may have on you. So father dear deleted his Facebook account.

And opened an Instagram.
Apple Music Partners with Lyric Database Genius
Lobsters is very low traffic compared to HN. The posts tend to have ~50% cross-over rate with HN as well.

anyhoo, I can hook you up if you want. DM/Mail/Smoke-Signals me.
Simply curious - where could I go to learn design thinking? Any online courses you recommend? Free would be nice, but I'm open to paying if it's worth it.
I had a friend who grew her spider plants in a fishbowl of water for years, somehow. They're insanely tough little guys.
Not sure why my comment was flagged but thanks for this discussion. Helped me dodge a bullet.
I built a similar service, but for podcasts: https://www.listennotes.com/alerts/
Thanks for reading!

>Since leaving Google, I now make a software product I sell online. I have no boss, no employees and no investors. Occasionally I miss having coworkers, but mostly it's great. Freedom is really worth a lot of money, at least for me.

Yeah, that's the thing I miss most. Not just the social interaction, but being around smart people. Within Google, it was so easy to learn because there were experts in every field imaginable. Outside, there's so much bad information floating around, so if I'm not knowledgeable in a particular area, it's hard for me to distinguish between good advice and cargo cult techniques.
fwiw, one thing I've learned is to just ditch books early if they aren't rewarding. Someone's rule of thumb is to give a book 50 pages to engage you. Yeah, you may miss out on some good stuff, but every minute you spend reading something is a minute you spend not reading something else that may be better. We'll never, ever, ever run out of good things to read.
This is officially my favorite comment
> eight high-pressure hydrazine engines (which must work in perfect sync)

There's eight for redundancy, it's a fault-tolerant system.
The standard landing experience is described in an ESA video: https://youtu.be/-l7MM9yoxII?t=1086
A classic launch escape system doesn't. It has several exhausts, but it's a single booster.
To tel the truth, Plan 9 was not a resounding success of adoption. Quite a number of its ideas were re-invented independently, and then became successful. We don't run anything using the Inferno VM, but the JVM reigns supreme in the corporate world. Go flourishes mostly in the normal Unix environment. And that mounting a networked GUI application with half of its code running remotely is completely superseded by the Web platform.
Is there a way to distinguish NIL from the Empty List?
Are there still any places you can get Gros Michel bananas? I've heard they still survive in a few places, and I've always wanted to try one.
Voyager is a recommendation system based on variables characteristics present in data. User is mostly limited by the offerings of voyegar (same story of https://github.com/vega/polestar).

Vega is descriptive version of d3. We find it hard for debugging and creating complex viz.

Vega-lite is concise and more intuitive version of vega though.

However Muze was created to start directly from data, creating layout, composable layers, automatic cross interaction and a robust interaction mental model. Muze is inspired from VegaLite-InfoVis and Snap together viz paper.
I can understand some of the frustration, especially for those making just shy of $15 before the raise, but even if the raise is only from $14 to $15, that still is around $2,000/yr (assuming 40 hour work week) that is guaranteed the way a bonus generally isn't.

I would almost always prefer a raise over a one-time bonus for that exact reason. In my experiences, I can't always count on my company giving me a yearly bonus.
You'd probably love COBOL too, it's closer to plain English than most other programming languages out there.
At a bare minimum the naming is a fiasco
The solution to this seems trivial, no? Don't allow cases to be brought in courts if the identity of the plaintiff can't be verified?
There have been surprisingly many banana extinction stories on HN, though you have to pick them out from the other banana stories:

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=banana%20points%3E10&sort=byDa...
What's the net worth of an L6 for 8 years at Google?
DESIGNING SMART ASSISTANTS THAT UNDERSTAND EMAILS
Misinformation and harassment also exists on smaller platforms, it is a matter how to deal with it. Smaller platforms usually have a more tightly bound user-group and moderation, so it is detected and prevented earlier. But this also means that someone you trust in the group needs to be the moderator or have certain privileges.

So, effectively it is more work per user to manage smaller groups than larger ones -- which is fine, if you find people who want to do this task. Another approach might be a community driven model -- where detractors could be ostracized. For very small groups this might work out well, but as the group gets larger, the potential for misuse rises also.
The million-dollar question: how do you find clients?

Honestly, the first one approached me via HackerNews. The rest have been from my network.

Blogging has yet to bring me more business, because my name and brand have not reached the mind-share yet to rely solely on that. But I'm working on it!

I also realize that this is a long-term play, it will likely take me 3+ years before my name is reputable enough to be the reason someone hires me from all the places they've seen my name.
FreeRTOS or most RTOS use idle time to go into low power or sleep mode. It makes sense in an embedded system which is often powered on batteries.
1MB – Create and share a website under 1MB with the world
Ask HN: Are there good alternatives to ElasticSearch for storing logs?
Some clients have asked me to deploy ElasticSearch clusters in order to store and search their logs.
But, as much as I love Kibana and Grafana, I find them lacking when I just want to browse and see my logs in context.

I started a side project to solve this, and I'm thinking of selling it. What I would like to know is:
- Do you have the same issue ? Did you find a solution ?
- Do you use another system to store the logs ? If yes, do you still face this problem ?
No one's ever seen a moonmoon, but the internet already loves it
That very first screenshot shows the sorting set to "featured". "featured" results literally means "tell me what to buy".

Set the sorting to "lowest price", filter by prime shipping, scroll down until you see decent reviews, and move on with your life.
I’m reaching out to Hacker News users today to let them know about my latest project. It’s called 1MB and it’s a free website hosting platform for easily creating and sharing a website under 1MB with the world. [ Some stats: About to reach 300 accounts registered and 200 sites created :) Was featured on Product Hunt yesterday and ranked 8th product of the day.
So, this usually gets negged, but I am very curious about the salaries which people are walking away from and whether they can match them elsewhere.
Seems like using ‘Vandalay Industries’ is a terrible idea. Doesn't everyone* know that anything called ‘Vandalay Industries’ is an obvious fake?

* Maybe anyone over a certain age? Do people under... I dunno, 40? 30?... watch much Seinfeld? Seems like TV shows are largely generational things... I'm aware of MASH and Dick Van Dyke, but I wouldn't get the semi obscure jokes from those shows since they were on when I was super young.
Clean energy is coming, but slowly.

People are not going to get off their cars and hop on a bike.

There is something you can do, today, to mitigate one of the biggest causes of climate change.

Give up meat and dairy.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/10/huge-red...

Ironically the thing that is easiest to do is also the last one people want to do.

I always thought that the fight against meat and dairy was a moral one. I didn't know the toll it takes on the environment, until I specifically went looking for it. It is one of the best kept capitalist secrets.
"The thing I keep thinking is that I want to have social software built on a co-operative model (like a food co-op): you all pay some nominal membership fee (could you fund servers and developers on $5/year/user?), and the software would then be developed to fit the agreed-upon needs of the community"

No fees, no development needed, lightweight and has been working for decades:

A listserv.

Everything else is just candy.
Given that it's currently mid-October, moving up a month from January to December represents a pretty substantial chunk of the remaining time (I'm not suggesting NASA or SpaceX are willing, able, or interested in doing this, but it's not impossible)
This is very interesting! Have you gotten any buy-in from the wider R community, is anyone rewriting their packages atop xtensor? Does R 3.5 and ALTREP make such a transition any easier?
Sure, but that’s a drop in the bucket compared to the other factors. You probably wouldn’t be very happy with a $4 settlement instead of a $3 one. (And it’s not like going to small claims court is free, unless your time is worth nothing.)
Their justification for releasing this is crap.
If they're superior, why haven't they already replaced the Cavendish?
On-demand manufacturing of clinical-quality biopharmaceuticals
SpaceX has lost a vehicle in flight before, CRS-7, so we actually have a comparison.

https://youtu.be/Il8w-Fz31Hk

On mobile so sorry if it isn't the best link. The failure happens as the vehicle cross the 44km altitude mark I believe. So you can scrub to that point.
Show HN: How I built a fully functional web platform in under 3 hours
> you NEVER remove a file you did not create

Absolutely this, with a followup of "and if you're 'helpfully' deleting an unused folder, check that it's unused first!"

Given that this was (stupid) desired behavior, making sure Documents didn't have stuff in it should have been a screamingly obvious step. It would still have been utterly unacceptable, it could still have created weird downstream bugs when users installed things that target the now-missing default Documents location, but at least it wouldn't have set a bunch of data on fire without any warning.

But then, I guess relying on common sense after the first terrible decision is made is never going to work. There's a reason "never break user space" is rule 1 for Linux updates...
I like it also. But the point of class actions isn't to bring home big bank for the class members. It's to motivate the class action counsel who acts as a private state attorney (or whatever the equiv is in your jurisdiction) to protect the class.

Class actions are necessary today more than ever because the executive in my (your) state is conflicted and too beholden to the class defendant to act on your behalf. But thanks to a dumbass (term of art) application of the Fed Arb Act by way of boilerplate "contracts" in consumer matters class actions go away.
Pinboard employs a whole one person. It's a good model, but its aims are pretty different from those of your average startup.
That's true, and this linguistic work is in some sense "between" the hypothesized evopsych work and the rigorous work we see with genetics. When the geneticists tell us that a particular population underwent a bottleneck at a particular point in time, they're probably correct about that. Linguistics is like genetics in that, because of writing, experts have something physical they can study to infer how languages have evolved over time. Perhaps something similar might someday be used to see how non-linguistic mental processes have evolved over time, but at this point it's difficult to imagine what that might be. Psychology itself is on a fairly tenuous footing as a science, so it's hardly a sufficient foundation for whatever has been envisioned by evopsych enthusiasts.
It says it right in the article.

> Currently, Amazon is one of the leading contenders for an up to $10 billion contract to build a private cloud for the Department of Defense.

Amazon aims to partner with the DoD, that makes them quasi governmental.
Why I quit my comfy job
An excellent discussion — glad to see this here.

I warmly recommend Jaron Lanier’s album of classical music, Instruments of Change: https://open.spotify.com/album/2E4m0Uy7w5873OUGVowJfu

http://www.jaronlanier.com/music.html
Wait until you OS is a meta circular ecmascript 7 virtual virtual machine :)
Sometimes "great heroes" do bad things even by their time standards. It makes no one service to pretend it is not so and automatically assume everything bad was normal at the time. It was not and their bad decisions had opposition.

We dont need lies about history, even when that lie is by omitting ugly stuff about people we want to see as heroes. Such framing leads to dangerous worldview and dangerous implications about current times too. It makes us less capable to deal with actual real world complexity. Even heroes should be questioned and mythical heroes are exactly that - myths.

We need truth about historical personalities, not hero worship.