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Robots will eventually be doing everything in agriculture. Even warding off pests. That will enable farming happen in all kinds of impossible places, like on roofs and the side of buildings. They'll even be harvesting and selling produce.

We'll see very small vehicles on the road that humans can't even fit into, supporting a huge automated economy. Not just for farming but for manufacturing too.
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> Saying "Humans suck at estimating" is nonsense. It's a skill that can easily be improved - usually at the cost of some up front planning - and there are plenty of resources to help you with that.

And yet, we do. Look at the number of failed government contracts in recent history:

https://warontherocks.com/2014/12/top-10-failed-defense-prog...

And while much of that is about the failures in program management for large contracts, the government aims to build large things at once (as opposed to an MVP and iterations).

When a critical dependency takes longer than expected, the cost snowballs down the chain.
Hey, I made this for Codrops, like 2 or 3 years ago?

I mean, the rain effect itself, not the whole UI around it here.

Edit: Here's[1] the accompanying article, and here's[2] some other stuff I made (although my website is also just as old and hasn't been updated since!)

[1]http://tympanus.net/codrops/rain-water-effect-experiments/

[2]http://lbebber.github.io/
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I'm not sure if this was already found, but I found a small bug while working through bwapp. When an error is tossed by adding a ', the error...

"Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''' at line 1"

is tossed. When adding a character after the ', for example "a", the error becomes...

"Error: You have an error in your SQL syntax; check the manual that corresponds to your MySQL server version for the right syntax to use near ''a' at line 1."

This means input from the http request can be put into the http response. Here's a PoC on bwapp.

https://gyazo.com/18cb58421f25d0f23ac2515c170eb8b4.

Of course SQL injection is much more dangerous, but XSS is an added bonus.

[if this has already been released, please inform me and cite a existing article]
Cool. Some of you are on the spectrum. I am below the point on the spectrum where you can live independently. They literally had a photo of a boy with a distressed expression covering his ears. It shouldn't take a genius to figure out that the "more" autistic you are, the less you like being in the subway. This title is not just misleading, but contradicts what is actually expressed in the article. I wish HN would stop promoting links to paywall news sites that are EXTREMELY well known already. This is where I come to discover gems from the community, not garbage zeitgeist speculation rumor panic rage rants exposés nonsense from paid journos.
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> If tomorrow the dominant mobile OS is Foobar, there will be Swish for it and things just keep on working.

How could there ever be a new mobile OS in this scenario? If stores rely on Swish, consumers have to use a mobile OS that supports Swish, so nobody can enter the mobile OS market (except if they pay Swish to provide a port for their OS on day 1).
Tractors dont just do one thing. They are quite a versatile piece of equipment.

Portable power plant ( PTO shaft is huge ), taking thousands of lbs of grain to the storage bin, and countless other tasks.
Would you mind if I borrowed this as a political talking point in public forums?
Sounds like management is using sprints to enforce deadlines and releases. Our team uses them to improve our ability to estimate, which in turn requires us to think each set of technical requirements through and anticipate issues before we start pounding keyboards.

We use them to structure our work, but decoupled them from releases. The Dev team owns the sprints, but the business owns releases. DevOps uses Kanban however, because it works better for them. That makes us more flexible. Agile.

It's been a years-long process but I'm really happy with our "Agility" these days. Our sponsor is the VP of Tech and he gets it (used to be our QA lead). If we have rollover we talk briefly about estimating better but it's not the end of the world, because we actually have gotten better at estimating. Some sprints we nail it. Other times we miss, but management isn't using those metrics as a bludgeon so it actually helps us to work smarter.
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Very Cool. Love the auto geo location feature to zero in a local station. This makes the first impression really awesome! You using some type of ip to location lookup, then doing a db lookup for a local station, then connecting me?
I still can't imagine or comprehend what kind of mental illness, evil coercion, or both, is needed for a mother to murder her own 1 year old child.

Not being an American, I first learned about Jonestown pretty recently, but I keep returning to sources about it and I simply can't comprehend it. What causes people do this? Why did Jones do this? How can someone like that enjoy political support? Does anything like this still happen? Why? Where?

The author of this article takes care to point out that it was mass murder, not mass suicide. I "understand" mass murder for personal gain, or because of blind racism, or out of desperation (eg access to food), or as defense against (perceived) threats. But what would cause one to murder their own community and then themselves? What's in it for, well, anyone? I mean, American high school shootings, 9-11, or Anders Breivik's terror attack make a lot more "sense" to me than the Jonestown story.

Does anyone here, maybe someone older than me, understand this? What was the world like in that time, that something could come to this?
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Systemic issues are behind the scope of this thread.
Chrome's implementation solves this by racing a TCP connection with the QUIC connection.
Quick question, (I can’t check the site where I’m at currently), can anyone recommend a service that plays historical radio recordings? For example the radio (with the historical dj/commercials also) from the 1970-90s or older? Preferably not just short snippets, and I’d be open to purchasing recordings if a streaming service isn’t available.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18326658 ?
Small scale farming often doesn’t work as a business. The economics of modern day commercial agriculture support only the big farmer. These technologies, unless they get super cheap, will drive more and more farm consolidation.
Eye level? Sounds like you need to put on some makeup (CV Dazzel) and sharpie the lenses
Watching Elliot from Mr. Robot hacking big companies always turns me on
> If she was dealing with gold/diamonds instead of bitcoin would it be legal?

IANAL but surely laundering known drug money with gold/diamonds/beanie babies/bitcoin are all illegal.
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That defeats the whole point by optimizing for the wrong thing.
There are existing prototypes of laser systems for killing fast moving insects such as mosquitos. Imagine a device on a fence pole covering the surrounding acre.

There are plenty of slow moving pests, weeds and the like as well.
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> Full disclosure: I have 200 GBP in Bitcoin.

Hey, I appreciate this. As someone that doesn't like bitcoin, it became clear that the people shilling bitcoin we're not honest about their investments.
There are many other languages that are far, fat better (in the overall sense) than go, with very fast compile times too.
Yes. AWS Route 53 can do this for root or non-root records. They call these "ALIAS" records.
Yeah, I'd say it's cool as long as you're not spamming it. 2 years is a long time and likely out of the memory of most. But, this is just my personal opinion. For example, I've never seen this site and it's pretty cool. Happy it was posted.
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Unless there are laws against spraying those herbicides.

And laws could be drafted once it becomes known that these types of method are feasible.
>Fast compilation times in Go are only a surprise for a generation that never used native programming languages with native support for modules.

This.
That's not what I said at all. They are intentionally trying to prevent employers from abusing employees by forcing them into contracting arrangements with fewer benefits.
In a CPU ~99% of it should be, how else is the power dissipated?
You can run javascript in a container and its distance from the metal is no different than if you just ran the javascript outside of a container. Containers are just processes with limited visibility into the rest of the host, they're nothing like VMs.

We've deliberately incurred the context switching costs of using multiple processes for decades because the hardware-enforced isolation of address spaces via the MMU is desirable. Of course you can gain efficiency by throwing away the multiprocess model and running separate security domains in the same address space of a single process, we're not breaking new ground here by going backwards.
All this idealism remains to be proven. If Bitcoin can cross the chasm to be a de-facto transaction method then it might have enough leverage to force governments to capitulate, but we are still very very far from that point, so you shouldn't treat it as a foregone conclusion.

I grew up in Brazil during hyper inflation, and I have Argentinian friends now, so I understand what it means to obtain currency overseas or on a black market, and I can assure you it's a huge hassle and not something people want to do unless their local fiat currency has major problems. If governments with strong currencies start moving against bitcoin, transaction volume will decrease, investors will lose confidence, and the value will crash out. This doesn't require a coordinated effort, it just requires a handful of major countries to start seeing things a certain way.
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Agreed. Passes the Turing test for rain, if there is such a concept.
" really the main challenge in engineering"

It's a mostly a business problem. Not mostly an engineering problem.

Cost, product issues, customer issues, support issues, IP issues, margins, positioning, partnerships, finance, M&A, staffing - these are all part of the equation. Eng is only one piece.
Aaaand, your locomotive will not move unless your CBTC reports to Alexa network, enabling precise location tracking of these trains
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Or we could eat less fresh fruit, buy more fruit for baking and already canned fruit.
The stdlib threading and concurrent.futures library goes a long way. It's still up to the developer to understand threading well enough before digging in. I'm not sure any library can eliminate that need.

I also use gevent a lot. I'm currently in love with cooperative multitasking.
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Hello HN, I realize this can be satisfied through a google search ( which I have done and found resources ) but, I'm just curious the resources HN would suggest. I've mostly looked into PluralSight.

I'll graduate with a bachelor's in CIS this December and I'd like to be more specialized in this area. Perhaps this question is too general but still curious to the replies. I appreciate it!
Wellington is a terrible risk, there's a major fault line running right through the city. But yeah, it's a decent place to live in the meantime.
Fraudulent like counterfeiting or tax fraud—i.e. tricking the system into allowing you to do something you shouldn't be able to do.

Tricking other people out of their BTC, meanwhile, isn't really fraud, it's just theft.
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Status page is inaccurate as issues doesn't only affect the web UI, the same operations are not functioning via the CLI.
Thanks, if I get serious I'll look into it.
> Humans do farm this way

Yes.

There are two different senses of "efficiency" in farming (or other production). One is the amount of food you get per unit of human labor input. Supporting a fully urbanized population requires this metric to be high.

But the other sense is the amount of food you get per unit of land input. A society that maximizes this metric will produce more food and have a higher population than a society maximizing the first one. But most of those people will be subsistence farmers who don't earn much more than the marginal extra food they provide by intensively caring for the land. This is why historically most of the population -- anywhere -- was rural peasants.

The grotesquely inefficient capitalist who uses a workforce of 10 people and 300 acres of land to produce the yield of 50 acres of land is part of a "wealthy" society -- everyone else has more food because of his very low need for labor. But it's also a very low-population society. In a more traditional society, all the land would be farmed efficiently and the population would be much larger, but non-farmers would have much less surplus to capture.
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I think the connection is already there! You can access iSH files in the Files app and move them freely to and from iCloud.
Thanks much -- I was watching this in Firefox on MBP and didn't realize how cool this was until seeing it again in Chrome.
so if my child just creates mess and like watching peppa the pig it should be fine?
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The Pi Zero W is my default for the same reason, and most of mine were all of $5 due to sales at Microcenter. It's pretty hard to beat that unless you need more CPU power.

Add an industrial MicroSD card for ~$15 (to prevent the infamous SD corruption) and it's still at the $20 point but far more reliable and versatile than many of the alternatives.

Even some of my microcontroller boards cost more than that, and you can still program the Pi boards "bare metal" if you really want to, because they're popular enough that people have already done the work to make that possible.

P.S., even with a Pi Zero (W or not), you can hook up a tiny I2S audio codec board for a line level[1] or amplified[2] audio output.

[1] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3678

[2] https://www.adafruit.com/product/3006
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Fleet.space (a company local to me in Adelaide) had 2 satellites as they payload. They only found out about the launch 6 weeks ago and had to build the satellites in that time.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLm3J0oaFux3aafQm568bl... Some lectures on basic probability combined with some rigorous notes specific to CS http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~odonnell/papers/probability-and-compu...
IT != software engineering. IT is always one of the cost centers of a company. Every software company (Facebook, Google, Microsoft, etc.) has an IT department. IT is like doing desktop support or networking. Need a new laptop? Can't login? Call IT. The software engineers who write software are not part of IT. Not sure if that's what you meant though.
I think given the specifications of these devices, the pricing, while definitely high, is not completely unreasonable for what the hardware can do - these iPads do things no currently shipping Mac notebook can - 120hz refresh, 240hz touch/pen tracking, FaceID, performance in similar ballpark to a $3k MacBook Pro while passively cooled (!) etc etc.

It’s just such a shame iOS isn’t quite ready yet to provide the kind of computing experience the hardware is clearly capable enough to deliver. If this is going to be priced like a macOS machine, it needs to offer a reasonable set of Mac style functionality - for me this means proper multi-user support so my family can all use the device with their own accounts and services and ideally some kind of windowing model for the OS to better handle multi-tasking.

iOS will need to answer a lot of questions in the next few years that it has so far steadfastly avoided. Apple bragged how these iPads can drive 5k monitors via an Xbox one S performance class GPU, but without indirect input methods (e.g. a mouse) this feature is really not much use for anything other than display mirroring. Today I only ever use video out on iOS devices for occasional video playback on TVs, I suspect I’m not alone in this.

iOS will likely either need to support a mouse or Apple will have to create some kind of standard for multi-touch external monitors that can allow iOS application input via touch on the external display if professional class workflows using multiple monitors on iOS is ever going to be a mainstream thing the way it is on the Mac.
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I saw lots of Gaussian in there and, sorry, missed the sign that said "just a passing mention" :-). From the classic limit theorems, Gaussian is crucial, but expecting real data from complicated situations to be Gaussian is a big stretch. Prof U. Grenander made this point to me in his office in the Division of Applied Mathematics at Brown when I visited -- as Director of Operations Research at FedEx, I'd gone to Lynn, MA to talk to GE about jet engines so took off an afternoon and went down to Providence to see if I wanted to go to Brown for my Ph.D., talked to Infanti, Kushner, Grenander, Fleming, and a few others.

Yes, probability distributions exist; generally, though, we can't find them. One of the places we can find some probability distributions is the Poisson process, and, as I posted recently here, there are some qualitative, "axiomatic", criteria and also a limit theorem for justifying a Poisson assumption. So, we can get the distribution of times between arrivals, the distribution of the number of arrivals in, say, one hour, and more. The formulas for combinations and permutations permit knowing some more distributions. Still, tough to assume Gaussian.

Sorry, having statistics assume real data, e.g., when looking for outliers, especially for when looking for outliers, is a sore point with me. "Especially" is because even if Gaussian looks good on, i.e., eyeball near, average and standard deviation, or even with a goodness of fit test, looking for outliers will be considering the tails of the Gaussian, and that is just where, with just some real data, we are in a lot of doubt.

For getting an hypothesis test from those algorithms will usually mean doing a derivation to find the probability of Type I error, and such a derivation is commonly difficult to not done yet. Sometimes in practice have more information that permits a good estimate of the probability of Type I error, e.g., for some graveyard humor, wait ten years and see how many patients died.
Although, it should be mentioned that the weather is also terrible. I'll never forget that wind.
Selective breeding?

If I eat all the green peas and plant the yellow peas, it won't be a surprise that the next generation is all yellow, yet nobody would say the peas have evolved a new color. Same process though.

I'm not saying it can't be called evolving, but probably some people assume a more "natural" selection process.
The best way to avoid this sort of trouble seems to be "be a large enough company that your internal operations make it too confusing to work out who to prosecute".
Thank you for sharing and best of luck with your business!
Haha, seems like the truth hit a nerve and got you all salty. I'll continue drop some knowledge bombs -

Chinese stock market is down 20% on the year - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-09-17/china-s-s...

Chinese GDP is lower than whatever is being reported. Chinese GDP has supposedly been between 6-7% for the last six years, but Chinese consumer debt has increased eight fold (https://www.ft.com/content/5d01b4d8-c1f9-11e8-95b1-d36dfef1b...) during the same period. So that obviously means the Chinese consumer has less pocket in their cash. All the numbers I cited are valid and my point still stands. The US is the only country whose financial markets are positive or flat for 2018 - everyone else is down. China GDP is up in 2018, but slightly. Outside of Germany, all of European GDP is down in 2018 - a lot. Look at Italy and France, negative GDP.

There will be millions fewer vehicles sold in the years to come, globally, and consumers will be more price conscientious in that period than they are today. EVs are toys for the rich, for at least the next 10-20 years.

There will be ZERO $35,000 M3s sold before the US federal subsidy is halved to $3750 starting 2019.01.01. That, at minimum, will make it a $38,750 car. Without any options. Oops.

Musk himself is dead silent on WHEN the $35,000 M3 will sold, but is shilling some $40k+ something variant - https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/18/tesla-ceo-elon-musk-tweets-a...

There has been talk of extending the federal subsidy it but it's all just talk. Talk means nothing. Tick tock, 2019.01.01 isn't that far away. Less than 60 days.

I don't work for the oil industry, I work in software, but thanks for playing. I can do this all day.
Yes, that process is called evolution. As you note, there isn't a difference in any sense.
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Name one fraudulent transaction.
On iOS it requires installing a VPN profile. My understanding from their FAQ is that it is to allow DNS proxying in iOS but it’s not clear to me if that’s all it does. Up to this day, seeing the VPN logo in my status bar has always meant my traffic was forwarded to a VPN server which meant it couldn’t be snooped on by my ISP. Is it also the case here?
Well, in my brief research, it seems that it is similar to a tooth, so it would just be the equivalent of a human pulling out a tooth?
> Would her paying taxes make this less illegal?

Pedantically, yes--there would be one fewer crimes committed. Practically, not reporting income hints at knowing its source isn't entirely legal.
This is incredible, I'm curious about what you're using for rendering the earth though, is it google maps? If so, how are you able to afford the costs of the api? I love it already, but I'm already worried about its sustainability.
isn't biking quite sedentary activity?
Firefox Android, it looks good. Sony Xperia Compact from 2016, don't remember the model.
A variation of a couple of degrees during launch would rip the Shuttle's wings off, so "ignore" is not the right word here.
The difference is that while Capsicum provides you with very solid, easy to reason about protection model. Meanwhile... can you still escape the pledge by reexecuting yourself?
You might find this interesting

http://freakonomics.com/podcast/politics-industry/
> especially with changing networks like mobile

In particular QUIC contains everything necessary to continue connections after the client's IP address (any one side really, but the other side has to find it) changes, which is helpful when devices change between networks without needing a Mobile IP-style bouncer.