skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to see adapted shipping containers (with similar grow spaces) become more affordable for home use.

I live in a house on a 750sqm or so block. A decent portion of my back yard is devoted to growing - I have seven raised beds* (2.4m x 1.2m) plus trellis up against fences nearby. There are also citrus trees and herbs elsewhere. But having this dedicated space means I had to sacrifice playing space for my child and any future children; there is 55-60sqm of lawn but I'd have preferred more and there is no paved area for a basketball ring.

I wonder if future homes could explore underground growing spaces as well as water storage. Underground rainwater "bladders" are becoming a bit more popular in Australia already.

We could, at the time a house is being built, dig down as though for a swimming pool and embed 2-3 shipping containers. There are companies selling quite expensive set-ups with automated watering and lighting, remote monitoring and so on. If a cellar was dug at the same time, access to underground grow space could be through an interior cellar to avoid dealing with hatches and ladders outdoors?

One issue would be that this might preclude anything requiring pollination from insects, but there are ways around many cases (manual pollination, air circulation, self-pollinating plants, etc).

* Some of the raised beds: http://instagram.com/p/UuNB2JD1vk/

Produce: http://instagram.com/p/cTSjSuj1hy/

Cleaning out a bed to sow seeds last weekend: http://instagram.com/p/lTOGElD1ug/

Another shot from last Winter: http://instagram.com/p/cTQKhYj1vC/
Angular is an MVC framework, which means that your code should be updating the model and letting Angular push that to the view. A lot of the stuff you would do with jQuery is directly updating the view. So instead of writing something like:

$('#whatever').addClass('selected'); // say this is in an event handler

you should write:

$scope.isSelected = true; // this is your ng event handler

and the html is like this

<div ng-class="{selected: isSelected}">

That is, you think a lot more about the model and how it's represented in the view (declarative) and less about what to do to the view to make it look the way you want (imperative).

That's not to say that there's no place for jQuery in an angular app, but it does replace a lot of the typical uses. And fighting it just leads to frustration.
You know how the original Volkswagen Bugs had that empty front hood, because the engine was in the rear? My dad advocated filling the front hood with bags full of empty aluminum cans.
In related news, I've introduced FB Purity, NoScript, ABP, and Ghostery to Facebook.
I don't care for cars and have never owned one, but horse-powered transport wasn't free of social cost either.
It seems to depend entirely on the program in question

Accessibility does, but it has nothing to do with the agency. "Does the government store the content of US calls?" can be answered in the aggregate without reference to specific programs. If the content is there, an agency only has to acquire the authorities required to access what is already there.

So, the question remains: is the content there to access, given proper authorities?
You figured it out. They secretly don't have any bugs. Shhh.
Lesswrong.com is good. Subreddits will vary depending on your interests.
I came here looking for this comment, I was not disappointed :-)

The headline is hyperbole, but it is common hyperbole. Factories pumping out pollutants are "murdering" our people, Cigarette manufacturers are "murdering" their customers, Etc.

The interesting point in the story is how we went from 'cars need to look out for people' to 'people need to look out for cars' in a relatively short time frame. The discussion of the various articles and points of view and how they gained favor over time is similar to things like Nuclear power which went from 'power to cheap to measure' to 'tool of the devil', or gun ownership, or Television ownership, or any number of things that have impacted the community at large.

The thing to remember for this community is that these are emotional arguments presented as rational arguments. Hence the term 'murder' which evokes the desired emotion (outrage) rather than 'dangerous' which evokes a statistical mindset of potential harm.
What's a form letter?
Well, I think the strategy is: Invest in insurance, not in solid security.
If you detain people in Papers Please the guard who does the actual detaining gives you a cut. It feels like sort of a bribe.
The only stuff that actually matters is keeping people from being squashed and the occupant's deceleration profile which you can already customize by changing how the car deforms. To really make a difference vs a high end car we could mandate 3 point seat-belts and helmets like you have in racing world.

Still a 70MPH a head on collision is already fairly safe assuming people are belted the real killers are unbelted passengers, collision debris, and rolling. Edit: Head on collisions still kill a lot of people but they tend to be higher speeds accidents and often involve unbelted individuals. Also we are slightly below 1 death per 2 million hours in a car we just spend a lot of time in our cars.

PS: Worldwide it was estimated that 1.2 million people were killed and 50 million more were injured in motor vehicle collisions in 2004. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_motor_vehicle_c...
The death rate per miles driven in the United States has fallen dramatically in my lifetime, and I can remember when the annual number of deaths was much higher.[1] That said, the article makes a very interesting claim about attitudes that we should all follow to the end of the article for further discussion here: "There’s an open secret in America: If you want to kill someone, do it with a car. As long as you’re sober, chances are you’ll never be charged with any crime, much less manslaughter." My wife bike-commutes year-round (yes, even in Minnesota), and as I mention this among Facebook friends, other friends who are also bike commuters point out that car drivers can basically kill bicyclists in the United States with no legal penalty at all. That's not a good social environment for getting more people out for exercise and energy conservation by substituting bicycling for driving cars.

The history reported in this article is very interesting. There are a lot of contemporary photographs of changing American cities. The quotations from experts provide perspective on the visuals: "'If a kid is hit in a street in 2014, I think our first reaction would be to ask, "What parent is so neglectful that they let their child play in the street?,"' says Norton.

"'In 1914, it was pretty much the opposite. It was more like, "What evil bastard would drive their speeding car where a kid might be playing?" That tells us how much our outlook on the public street has changed."

Indeed. Are we really thinking carefully about how to spread the risk around, when so much of our living space is dominated by cars?

AFTER EDIT: The video link shared by pugz[2] in a reply comment elsewhere in this thread is not to be missed. Car safety standards have improved enormously in my lifetime, but those protect the occupants of cars better than they protect pedestrians and bicyclists who are hit by cars.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_i...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U
To... read between the lines... on this summary, I think The Zen of Python is applicable here. Readability counts.

One technique that might work would be to "translate" content into a simpler language which is optimized for fast serial consumption with high comprehension. Sure, that's probably impossible to achieve with today's technology, and there's the issue of internationalization (is it a version of an exisiting language with strict rules, or a whole new language altogether?), but those are "just" engineering problems, right?

Or maybe the inverse is really the problem - maybe it's not the language, but the metric we're focusing on. WPM is as poor of a metric for "rate of information intake" as LOC is for programmer productivity.
Would love a how to....
And I think that's a fair criticism. We get down into the details and not much can be said with such certainty. Even measuring comprehension as a metric is fraught with dangers, biases, and questions of how to do it.

As many people are pointing out, anything over and above green eggs and ham often requires several re-reads and some digestion at normal speed.

But if we must talk in generalities (and i think that's appropriate for the medium and context of hacker news), if we want to talk about measurable comprehension as its used in speed-reading discussions, what level of it actually constitutes reading, and place it on a scale of 0-100%, then I think its reasonable to consider actual "reading" as arbitrarily close/adjacent to 100%.
It's clever marketing. It seems Americans really listen to re-branding of terms.

We have been playing this game where Americans live in burbs and spend time commuting. That has a huge psychological, familial, physical, environmental, financial, economic, & diplomatic toll.

Our landscape is dominated by asphalt & concrete to support the norm.

I think we can do better. If it takes some stigma to turn the discussion and to show more attention on the alternatives, then bring on the stigma.

In reality, not enough attention is paid. America seems to be more afraid of flying in an airplane or terrorists than the ubiquity of automobiles.
What are the engineering trade-offs here? Metric were migrating from CouchDB, so using a JSON field is the obvious solution, but what about for new projects?

Compare it to say, Django-CMS, which achieves pretty much the same thing by storing the tree data-structure directly in SQL. The `django-mptt` library handles the details of efficiently implementing a tree structure in SQL, and `south` simplifies database scheme migration. As a programmer, which system would you rather work with?
'Creativity, like evolution, is merely a series of thefts'
Indeed. You can drive some older cars right into a brick wall at 50mph and only need to replace the bumper. But that's less good for the occupants who would be killed during a crash like that. Modern car design sacrifices the vehicle for the sake of protecting the occupants.
Gah! That sounds so ridiculous
Law is so opaque, obscure, confounding, and downright obtuse that I sometimes wonder how it can still be a thing.

Soon we'll need lawyers to tell us what we can or can't do when we're writing a simple bash script.

I'm of the opinion that, if everything involved law, there'd be virtually no progress.
So, they don't use IP Telephony then?

You're aware you can add whatever you want into DNS, it doesn't have to mean anything that computers understand right? you /could/ make your A records the intro to Star Wars- but nobody will be able to use your site.

TXT is a much better option imho, or.. y'know, not doing this.
Yes, and I use them extensively. But they do not publish a guide to the studies they think are most worth paying attention to due to their quality and size.
Equivalent car classes are much heavier now than they were 20+ years ago. It's because of the weight of airbags and safety features.
Wear Fin
Zero Punctuation did a good review of this game [0] (starts at 3:20) and sums up the attraction to it pretty well in my opinion. "It presents constant moral choices but makes it really hard to be a good person."

[0] http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation... (probably not SWF)
That's brilliant! (reminds me; wasn't there a blog that was published in HTTP headers once?)
did this number talk to this number or anything four hops in its graph. that is the extent of the "metadata" level of anonymity that is admitted to.
are the folks running this query system willing to remove numbers everybody has to call at one time or another?
it is not and never has been metadata, it is data. it is not anonymous, it is not data about data and it can be cross referenced. it would be utterly idiotic to contemplate that it works any other way.
if you were in charge of it, how would you have it work?
leave all decency aside and answer in the "get the job done" frame of mind.
simon at lanyrd dot com please :)
All good points @dmlorenzetti - bear in mind it was designed/built on zero budget in under a week so issues like you mention will take time to properly solve. The site is getting a lot of interest now so we'll hopefully have the resources to solve, or at least attempt to solve some of the more pressing conceptual issues.
The same could be said of telephones and the Internet.
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The software architect shall guide and analyze the work of two or more full-time coders who will be hired by WFMU on a permanent basis. Deliverables will include a software blueprint and timeline for the Minimum Viable Product and post-MVP functions of Audience Engine, as well as user interface design. The purpose of the Audience Engine is to help media institutions become self sustaining entities, by providing them with a platform and strategy for distributing their content online, building meaningful traffic and audience around that content, engaging that audience socially around that content and then effectively raising individual donations via crowdfunding. The elements of the Audience Engine are to be built in a modular way so that existing media entities can use its various elements in conjunction with their existing sites and platforms. Interested parties should contact General Manager Ken Freedman at ken at wfmu dot org
I invited you.

One left.
Wonder what DAC they are using. There is quite a vibrant DIY community around this sort of stuff like the Twisted Pear gear.
http://www.twistedpearaudio.com/
Never heard of lesswrong, but it looks cool at first glance.

I've never been a fan of reddit. My experience with reading it is that everyone tries too hard to be a smartass, and rarely contributes to the discussion/thread. Although, I might have visited the "wrong" subreddits
Hadn't hear of them. Good tip. Thanks.
Of course it's not technically murder. I interpreted the headline as pointing to the fact that, like murder, traffic deaths are "premeditated" in the sense that we know full well that they will occur but do little to prevent them.
From the paper [1]:

"As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectiveness of parachutes has not been subjected to rigorous evaluation by using randomised controlled trials. Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute."

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC300808/?utm_sour...
The Problem With Smartwatches
Confessions of a disgraced crowdfunder
Is SNI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Name_Indication) an option for you?
In 2004, 42,836 Americans were killed in motor vehicle accidents. So this number actually represents a huge improvement.

Something to realize is that potential replacements to cars are not that much safer. Highway travel is responsible for 7.7 deaths per billion passenger-miles. Mass transit is responsible for 5.4 deaths per billion passenger-miles. Given the less-direct routings used by transit, it's not totally clear this is a meaningful difference.

All of this sucks - but it's the price we pay for being able to move a long distance quickly, something that seems to be a net benefit to society. (How many lives are saved by ambulances each year? How about by being able to easily visit a doctor?)

These are all statistics for the US in 2011. Sources are:

http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...
http://www.rita.dot.gov/bts/sites/rita.dot.gov.bts/files/pub...
Pretending kids were better protected in any context in 1914 is absurd.
I thought it was fairly balanced, and anyway the author is one of Those Damn Millenials.
My first thought on seeing that is it would be great for a DNS amplification attack. Not sure the value as an advertisement though...
They do this; for front (especially) and rear impact, you have the entire crumple zone, with lots of cross-hatched struts and other components to take away energy in deformation.

There are various side impact technologies to try to 1) prevent ultimate penetration and 2) absorb energy. The problem is the doors need to be relatively thin, relatively light, and contain a bunch of other components, as well as function as doors. Multiple layers is one.

The best right now seems to be use the door to prevent penetration, and use a side curtain airbag to reduce peak acceleration on passenger (along with seat design and seat belts).

I personally picked used cars no earlier than ABS and side curtain airbags whenever friends asked for cheap used car options.
Google Will Start Encrypting Your Searches
The problem with smartwatches
I haven't tried it yet, mostly because of the lack of a Linux client. They claim they will ship one in 2014, though.

They give you an interesting choice between pricing models (http://www.jottacloud.com/prices/). Besides the conventional pay-for-space model, they have another model where you get unlimited space but pay per linked device, $6/mo per computer and $1.70/mo per mobile device.
Two by Stephen King:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085333/
http://home.loloyd.com/ebooks1/Stephen%20King%20(Bibliograph...
Totally. Sorry if I detracted from your friend's development, but I thought a criticism over the explicit purpose of the site was important for the overall meta-discourse of this topic. Kudos to him or her for a job well done!
Perhaps lazy is a bit of a strong word....I guess I meant....people who...don't want to perform...tasks? I've still not seen a legitimate answer. I mean if someone didn't have teeth, or if they were allergic to a lot of things, or if they literally didn't have 1 minute to spare either in the morning or at night then I could see it. Or if they were really into fitness and weight loss and wanted to fit into that new swimsuit by spring break then maybe I could see it. But it doesn't look to me like Soylent is nutritionally flexible enough (it comes pre mixed in pouches) to be used as an actual nutritional supplement for the masses (nutritional needs are different depending on many, many factors). So maybe it tastes good? But does it provide the variety that can be found either in nature of even at a restaurant? So maybe some people simply don't care for variety? So why not make a Soylent-like product that's more customized to your nutritional needs? The guy published an extensive blog about how he did it so you can too. So does it really come down to just not having the time or the inclination to feed yourself? It just seems like letting someone push a slurry of chemicals into your body, and paying them to do so no less, is a strange life choice.
Don't confuse easy with inexpensive or quick.
Car crashes are often called "accidents" in America too. I found it interesting and insightful when my driving instructor back in highschool spent a good 10 minutes ranting about there not being any such thing as a car 'accident' (students mentioning the word "accident" later in the course were scolded, to drive home the point). Obviously you can dream up scenarios that you might be able to really call an accident, but the point was that even when legal blame or liability cannot be found, nearly all car crashes could have been prevented by both drivers driving more defensively and being more alert.

Edit

""You can do things to reduce your risk of accidents" is a vital message, using words in an atypical way can be a pedagogical tool to drive it home"

That was the instructors intent. He wasn't trying to propose a new way for insurance companies or the courts to look at liability, but rather trying to combat thought terminating cliches like "shit happens" (by arguably introducing his own).
In Johannesberg they have the same system, except there are specific hand signals to flag down a cab based on where you're going. Its incredibly Low-Tech, but it works incredibly well.
> bitch of a learning curve though

The problem is that you have to change your mindset from server rendered pages + jQuery. Second problem is with UI directives. Nice abstraction and encapsulation, but try to restyle something easily.
And with Uber X, it's even cheaper than cabs sometimes...
No, this issue is not "non-partisan". Both sides support covering up the tracks of the ancien regimes of their successive dynsastys. A Clinton will be running again in 2016. So its best to bury this if you are a Dem, not to try to pin it on Bush (whom everyone already has their minds made up), because that will backfire, when the two sides look more alike than not.
>> not too complex in my situation of just having a regular salaried job

They are pretty much a nightmare if you're an entrepreneur and own corporations abroad. Look up Form 5471.

Even for non-entrepreneurs, I would say your experience is way better than most. Most US people overseas who say that taxes aren't a problem for them generally are blissfully unaware of their continuing US tax obligations.
Thank you for the offer. We are about to launch a glorious final assault, and if I may I'd like to defer and take you up on it when we get a few more data points.
Your edit is an important point: As far as I am aware, there are no safety standards or ratings for how likely a vehicle is to injure occupants of other vehicles, let alone unprotected pedestrians or bicyclists. If anything, the focus on occupant safety to the exclusion of others has supported the "race to the top" in terms of vehicle mass and size.
I think it's too big for UDP, it'll renegotiate TCP for anything over a certain size.

thus DNS amplification is impossible because spoofing the TCP source would fail a handshake.
I suspect the "increase in cancer" is noticeable because we're generally not being knocked over by something else first. I believe there is an interesting relationship between prevalence of heart disease and cancer over time (one rises as the other falls).
I have two invites.

edit: all gone