skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My guess (and it's just that: a guess) is that it has something to do with a non-compete clause with their current employer. If these programmers are working on a substantially similar product to one at your Facebook example company, there might be a lot of legal reasons not to leave the smaller company to go work at FB.
Some input as a former organic farmer: wheels.

But a start is a good start, and really wheels can be a hassle, seeing as tractors can't operate on muddy soil (well, shouldn't).

I'm actually somewhat glad someone is doing this. I had a similar idea way-back-when, for gardening, but I had no idea how to handle the issue of having the seeder/weeder/watering device climb over taller vegetables, such as tomatoes, which can get up to 4ft tall, or the mighty sweet corn plant, which can get up to 6ft and higher, at least not without making the thing ugly as all hell or severely manhandle the crop. This is an attractive looking step in a good direction.

I'll follow you on Facebook and occasionally remark about the hell that is trying to grow vegetables in East Texas.
I suppose this is a good time as any to ask fellow HN readers for alternatives. Preferably the ones with extra crypto features added in the wake of the PRISM revelations. What alternative chat clients do you use besides/instead of GTalk?
I found Angular to be almost trivial (even more trivial than, say, Ember, due to being more explicit), except for a bit messily structured documentation and the constant need to monkey patch or duplicate some internals to make them do the right thing (like removing broken sanitization with ng-bind-html, etc.)
The little test that could ... not
As someone who knows nothing about farming or gardening, I'll defer to the points you made as they sound very sensible. But as a software guy with an interest in salt-of-the-earth hobbies, I'd love to play with one (if I had a backyard that is). The thought of a robot that runs on a seasonal calendar that automatically harvests fruits and vegetables for my salad is too cool. To peer out your kitchen window and see a robot till the earth and harvest your small garden to feed you and your family is straight out of science fiction, the optimistic type.

That said, having a high tech piece of equipment with a bunch of moving parts outdoors does seem quite problematic and headache inducing. Here's to reaching the cusp fast....
I agree that it is still too early to tell if something good will come out of this or not. I am especially curious if Braintree customers will get access to PayPals superior transaction risk assessment technology. That might be huge for people that use Braintree for marketplaces.
Yeah, unless they grow into team/project leads (where having a functional and working knowledge of every piece has value).
How would they prove that this "threat" took place unless they recorded every conversation?

The fact is that this extreme example is just an example. Lots of companies just send a bunch of intimidating letters to people and hope it sticks - because it's free!

Eg http://www.audioholics.com/news/blue-jeans-strikes-back
In time. I do worry about putting 2 screens 3" from my eyes for hours on end though.
Do you have any guesses as to why?
It was the bean counters that put the kibosh on the all-you-can work pizza parties?

Fire the bean counters. Compared to the hourly wage of an engineer, even a whole large pizza per hour is a great deal.

Granted, the institution would have fallen apart in the long run. Eventually people would get lives outside of work (families, friends, hobbies...) and realize that 'free pizza' in exchange for 4-5 hours of off-the-clock labor is a shitty deal for anyone making more than minimum wage. People would get hired on that just saw the company as a paycheck & wanted to get out after their 9-5.
I am very excited and hopeful about technologies like these. Computers, mechanics, neuroscience, software and all the other technologies are at such a stage that we can clearly notice their mind boggling advancement in a handful of years. We don't say "50 years ago this would have seemed like magic", but "5 years ago this would have seem like magic" and that time interval is shrinking.

It's only going to get harder and harder to predict the products that we will see in coming years since we don't know how all of these accelerating technologies will intersect in the future.
The Wall Street Journal is losing relevance - because they have made this article inaccessible/difficult to access, I won't read it, and I'll get this same information from another source.

It's a brave, new world.
Perhaps once again Apple could be the one shaking it up. They already lead the charge with retina displays on the laptops, and we can hope it will come to desktop as well.

if the new mac pro is any indication, they might try to do innovative things on the graphic side. As they are in position to force a boost of the graphics performance of all their hardware they might be the only one to be in position to do so.

On the control side, I found the magic trackpad to be really different and a lot more usable for basic tasks and gestures (I'd use a mouse for gaming and a pen for drawing, but everything else is easier on the trackpad)

Too bad no company seem to be really advancing on the personal networking side. Google would have the hardware and software knowledge to pull it out, but as long as advertisement is their core business it woudn't make any sense. For now a Synology like NAS with pluggable apps seems to be the less cumbersome solution to have devices talk together.
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As we search more on mobile devices, the way we interact with a search engine changed. Just look at Siri. It may not be a ground breaking technology now but we're slowing moving to making more and more voice controlled search requests. Some of these requests are better answered by Wolfram Alpha than Google.

During the past decade, Wikipedia emerged as the primary source of high quality organized digital knowledge. This, together with the open data policy practiced at may governmental agencies, supplied search engines with quantitative data easy to process and understand.

For the next few years, this looks like the biggest change in search engine technology to expect. We are going to switch from mathematically precise queries and semantic processing of the search corpus to a semantic processing of the queries and a reliance on more quantitative data sources.
I doubt the incoming links are also identical.
Nice link I'll definitely give them a try, thanks!
Microsoft’s open source BrowserSwarm tool lets developers test JS frameworks
My thoughts:
http://marojejian.tumblr.com/post/62339785940/rise-of-the-ma...

On the one hand the benefits of such technology are amazing. On the other, it’s scary to see such high-end professions encroached upon by machines.

But the resolution here is the same as for the cashier or the buggy whip driver. We need this technology, but we need to ensure that:

a) Our economy is flexible enough to rapidly develop new industries that will require human workers.

b) Our workers have the education, the infrastructure, the incentives and the entrepreneurial mindset needed to move with (or ahead of?) the market into new fields without calamity.

But will there always be new applications for humans? Well not always…. but that would imply a situation where AI has truly supplanted us in all respects, and our technology can supply all our needs without us lifting a finger.

Call me when that happens. Sounds nice.
They were just quoting the article: "While they did say that this was the biggest overhaul to their engine since the 2009 “Caffeine” overhaul (which focused on speed and integrating social network results into search) and that it affects “around 90% of searches”, there wasn’t much offered in terms of technical details."
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The major use of the site is that you can follow researchers who interest you and be notified when they upload new papers (and likewise allow people to follow you) - the notifications for Google Scholar are not terribly useful for that.
Here we go, a good example of an astroturfing comment about Yelp on HN.
I got at least a few dates and made a few friends on the bus for sure. I never bothered people who were obviously doing something. By the end it was impossible to find people who were just riding the bus was the point of the post as opposed to doing something.

Is that the world we should strive to live in where no one can make connections randomly and without prior introduction?

If you're not busy, and I'm not busy, what's the big deal with talking to someone?

And not only that but is everyones 9,000th run of temple run worth a society of people who have no ability to communicate outside of pre setup social scenarios?
That's amazing. Do you have an idea what the difference is? Something like a hot keyword in the domain, or even a closely related word?
Except airlines still run DOS and Windows 3.0.1 for the computer reservation system and use dot-matrix printers because that's the only thing compatible. Color isn't even on the table with their current setup.
Lest any youngsters take seriously the value of shares a startup is offering you, take a look at how seriously the author takes it:

> With retention structures and contracts, a buyer can make sure the money goes where they want it to go — to a promising junior engineer they want to keep on, for example, instead of the office manager who technically owned 20% of the company’s equity.

"Technically owned." Yeah. Think about that.

It's adorable that the author has that money going to a junior engineer rather than management in his example. Don't be sucked in.
As someone actively rolling their own JavaScript framework (more as a learning exercise than for anything else), I second the opinion that AngularJS is uniquely hard/blackboxed compared to other JavaScript frameworks (which I frequently refer to in order to guide my own efforts).

For instance Backbone is pretty much what would happen (give or take) if all the JavaScript books on how to program OOP and MV* got together and build a JS framework. It's not fancy, it's not "magic", but it is very approachable in terms of advanced standard/best/popular JavaScript programming practices.

AngularJS left all that stuff behind and built their own little world. It might even be a great world, but on the surface or to the implementation-level developer has little to do with "regular" advanced JavaScript programming techniques/patterns.

To me it's a bit like the JavaScript version of Drupal, which gives you a ton out of the box, but is just it's own whole world of conventions etc, that has little do with anything seen outside of itself.
I've found the internet largely does not fill useless time with useful things. It fills useless time with useless things.
I haven't tried the "+" operator in a while but I know the "-" operator has continued to work.

I always use it to filter out commercial or store results when a query triggers some over-zealous SEO and throws up pages of junk. A quick "-buy" or "-store" usually cleans the results up.
Just out of curiosity, do those "reputation management" companies realize that in serving their clients by making fake reviews, they help destroy end-consumer trust?

In many ways, it's the old SEO argument all over again - gaming a system to increase ratings eventually erodes trust in that system, making those increased ratings less valuable. At the same time, refusing to game the system means your business loses potential eyeballs/customers/etc, so one is left with the old rock vs hard place situation.
I've found that Foursquare has a higher signal-to-noise than Yelp for restaurant reviews/tips.
Hi, my name is Rory and I am the one behind the project.

We are working towards a crowdfunding launch in 2014 as stated on page 47 of the white paper: http://www.scribd.com/doc/169536137/FarmBot-Humanity-s-Open-...

We've received a good amount of donations so far and will be ordering materials for the initial design this week and next.

I'm currently recruiting other students at my local university to work on the project, and we plan to flesh out the wiki with timelines, design files, and progress updates soon.

Thanks for checking out the project!
How trans-Atlantic cables are laid
The primary reference behind this is the new Special Issue of the journal Science with several research papers on Curiosity data:

Curiosity at Gale Crater
http://www.sciencemag.org/site/extra/curiosity/index.xhtml

INTRODUCTION:
Analysis of Surface Materials by the Curiosity Mars Rover
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6153/1475
Couple of reasons. First off, Steam is the only DRM I can think of that actually adds value and makes my life easier instead of the reverse.

Second, keep in mind that they've already announced streaming inside the LAN. Having mobile apps would be a natural extension of that. (Note I didn't say that it would be open, I said they will probably release mobile apps).

That streaming is also completely not a threat to their system.
It might surprise you what OSHA protect workers from[1].

[1] https://www.osha.gov/Publications/OSHA3074/osha3074.html
Is your name 'Rainman'?
I'm eagerly awaiting some clarification on this. I was going to buy a note 3 the day it becomes available through my carrier. If there is no workaround to the region locking I'll stick with my blackberry 9900 until a better option comes along (perhaps the HTC One Max).
Related: Datomic can be configured to use both Zookeeper and Riak, and the implementation is really clever: immutable data in Riak and strongly-consistent "pointers" in Zookeeper.

See http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Deconstructing-Database
Ok so stated a different way as follows.

"I will pay you $1,000,000 for your restaurant. If the chef in the kitchen is still working for me after 1 year I will pay you an additional $50,000."
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My last company was funded by a another company that was a pioneer in the investment and benefits management world so we had a 401k with automatic 3% contribution from day 1, although no matching contributions unless I stuck around for 2 years. If I was getting matching I would have maxed my contributions, but instead I fully funded my Roth for the year and also started making (non IRA) contributions to a Lending Club account.

I worked for a while at a Uni that had something like a 401(k) which made an automatic contribution of 10% of base pay (on top of what you get paid) that started on day one. By default half of that went to Fidelity and the other half went to TIAA-CREF. I sold out Fidelity and converted my TIAA-CREF to an annuity because TIAA-CREF offered something very different from my other investments.

That's probably the best plan you can get these days, although I'd really be impressed if somebody offered me a defined benefit plan.

Anyhow I'm the kind of guy who buys XIV and doesn't look at the P&L figuring I'll win because the other guys will look at the P&L and blink and I won't.
Yes. I remember talking to people at parties as well when we were both there to socialize.

Maybe you have trouble meeting people when you're not formally introduced is the issue.

I didn't really tend to ask people what they were reading unless they had clearly stopped reading. I guess that was a bad aspect of that post. But when people have headphones on they never take them off at all. People do put books down occasionally and stop reading however.
Sometimes the good things are the one you don't notice. Maybe they noticed an increase or different usage patterns on their side.
Google should release a appliance with Docs and Drive.
Suddenly, one of the biggest problems with Docs (for a lot of companies) will go away, because their documents are not being stored outside their infrastructure anymore .
Horace Dediu makes the case that carriers pay more for Apple hardware because Apple does a better job of getting high value customers onto the network (use more data or more expensive contracts).
ISS has made a lot of progress on learning and ameliorating the effects of 0g on humans. It's only about this year that techniques to control bone loss over the long term have gotten really good. Astronauts can now routinely return after six months not crippled, which is a huge advance on the state of knowledge circa Mir.

Yes, most of the science on ISS is human science, related to 0g, and it is pretty expensive, but there's not much other way to do it. I'm not sure that 0g habitation has a long-term future (it's still not very good for you) but we wouldn't really know that without the ISS.

It also hosts plenty of materials science and remote sensing experiments along with the biology and space medicine. It's a weird environment that we're only just beginning to figure out.
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The future is bitcoin or bitcoin type/derived currencies with a proof of network at their core
Sounds like the algorithm noticed the duplication, and picked a "winner". The new winner isn't the same as the old one.
google used to care about matching domain and content, maybe it identified the 70% one as a more realistic name.
I was just looking at this, trying to figure out how to get it on their site and came up empty-handed. Even Walmart.com makes it easier:

http://www.walmart.com/ip/T-Mobile-SIM-Kit/24099996

http://www.walmart.com/ip/Tmobile-30-Wireless-Airtime-Card/1...
It doesn't matter. Over time, the value of all un-curated reviews approaches zero. One of the oldest review platforms, IMDB, being the prime example of this.

I don't often agree with Nicholas Carr, but in this particular case, the wisdom of the crowds fails miserably, with or without astroturfing.
Lets break it down and I am sure I might have been a little confusing myself.

- I condemn the American Government.

- I condemn most of the American people for their general apathy towards the human rights violations of their government both outside and inside their country.

- But I also realize that the American Government have most americans either too busy, too distracted or have them misinformed through propaganda campaign to have any serious widespread opposition to their action. The Government have all powerful multiple secret service organization that works full time to make sure there is no serious threat to the government status quo (among other things), under the pretence of national security.

- I can go on say that the actions of the government should not make the people of the country complacent of their crimes. After many generations of the same old foreign policy, this line of talk starts of get a little old, at some point someone need to stand up say you should also be just as liable as your government because even after knowing their crimes, you didn't do anything about it.

So yes, I do have a problem with the American Government, and I do think most americans are fault for not checking their government - BUT I don't have any problem with american people in general.
Is the Surface 2 already a failure?
And gasoline.
That font is absolutely unreadable on an iPad.
The shift to answering questions becomes really important over the longer term, and people shift to using voice as a means of interacting with the net.

Dictated queries are going to come as natural language, not query syntax.
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This isn't going to work if you refuse to read comments that other people are kind enough to give you. I am telling you that there is a staggering amount of evidence for evolution. If you think otherwise, then take your pick. Pick at that massive body of evidence wherever you want, you don't need me to tell you were to focus.

Lets roll with this bacteria idea though, you seem to think you've got a clever game-plan lined up; what is your problem with bacteria?
I think people are just bad at quantifying their own habits.
Is it baseless assumption Thursday? What evidence do you have to support any of this?
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A way to stop frivolous lawsuits of all sorts is to have the loser pay the winner the lesser of (what the loser paid his lawyer) and (what the winner paid his lawyer).
Allegedly the same is true for the "sexual enhancement" supplements sold at gas stations. Many contain drugs like Viagra even though it's sold as a natural supplement.
> I sure could eat a chocolate Kit-Kat right about now...

Technically Kit-Kats aren't chocolate.

The Germans refer to vegetable fat-based cocoa mixes as glazed fat, the French mockingly call them brown margarine.

But under a controversial European Parliament ruling, vegetable fat mixes are permitted to be sold as family milk chocolate or house chocolate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/678141.stm
It's more likely that they stand up several current versions in parallel, and progressively route more traffic to the new algorithms/services. At least that's what I'd do, if I had no technical, infrastructure or monetary budget.
Man finds his stolen SUV with help from Google Earth
sorry, somehow partial text got submitted.

>The glib answer here is that there's really no such thing as the 2nd law when you're talking about a small number of individual fundamental particles. The statement "entropy never decreases" is actually a purely statistical claim, and it only rises to its usual level of essentially unbreakable validity when you're dealing with macroscopic numbers of particles

All the fundamental laws of physics, including the Schrodinger equation, follow the 2nd law or in other words they describe application of 2nd law to the given area of physics, i.e. they express "entropy never decreases" principle in terms of the objects of that physical area.

>"there is less "phase space" available (fewer possible momentum states)"

ie. less entropy :)

>an electron and positron are electrically attracted to each other and will naturally tend to meet up to annihilate

2 particles having negative and positive charges - less entropy than the entropy of 2 resulting neutral particles. Attraction (getting closer - increasing entropy) and annihilation (erasing the charge difference - increasing entropy) are in full compliance with, and i'd say direct manifestation of, the 2nd law :)
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What do you guys think? Any input would be helpful!

Thanks
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Can you read and understand AngularJS source code? can you explain in detail how does the digest cycle works ? and how datas are updated during this cycle ? if yes congratulation , if not , stop saying AngularJS is trivial ,it is not, past the exemples on the homepage. Doesnt mean it's a bad thing , but let's call things "trivial" when they are not.
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There are many things that I think should be google-time-worthy:

- mail notifier as a first class citizen, a tiny dot would be a time saver

- many of their urls are 256+ chars in size ... , I'd love parseable urls that fit in a 1024 width browser bar

- no more link hijack on the front page, they surely know how to do it without rewriting the link on click ... or at least propose a quick way to select the original url shown below (a web semantic-unit/best-practice since long)