skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a great idea - it reduces one of the hardest things in produce sales - the farm to table transportation.

A few points:
Author shows a picture of a 25-day old bibb lettuce plant under this text (not caption):
"The seedlings stay in darkness for around five days, allowing them to propogate. Once that happens, the LEDs are switched on, and within three days, micro herbs are ready for harvest."

Micro herbs are useful for garnish or a fancy-pants restaurant $15 appetizer. There isnt much solving the worlds food problem with some magical plants that grow 3" tall in 5 days (the bottom picture is microgreens in a container).

Nothing in the article says how much room they have in London for this. How many bomb shelters are there in London?

It is good for leafy greens. Don't think you're growing tomatoes and peppers and avacados down there - the energy required for temp and lighting for fruiting plants is much higher (lets say 4x the wattage compared to leafy greens/lettuce).
In Romanian 'car crash' is called literally 'accident' [0]. Something that's always baffled me is how friggin' thin the metal plates that make up the car are. Why the fuck does a whole industry consider this normal?! [1]

Edit: thanks for the info (and for the downvotes <3)

0: http://translate.google.com/#en/ro/car%20crash

1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhCXFsQ6kKQ
Seen by you as a provocateur, which frankly I'm alright with, Internet stranger.
Mucking around with provisioning profiles, schemes, and certificates is a part of iOS development that totally sucks.
Yes, the correlation has to be sufficiently unlikely to have arisen by chance. Even in that case, though, our estimate of green jellybeans having some causal relationship with acne should increase.
I'm just the opposite. Work doesn't even cross my mind after I run out of the office shouting "Freedom!" My manager once asked why I didn't see a change to a meeting time he made late the night before; I just laughed. Why on earth would I have seen it?
Android, anyways, has a way to mark a WiFi AP as mobile so apps can avoid this.
> folks here would be even more unhappy

Maybe. But we could have a constitutional direct democracy (to provent the policies which would make us unhappy), in addition to having smaller countries. In the UK, for example, making the counties into states like in the USA, but with direct democracy and rather than having a centeralised government for the whole country have a EU-like meeting as though they were seperate countries. It's a merky idea, but that's what I'm currently in favor for. We should be able to call a referendum to get rid of certain laws but maybe the government should continue to create the laws as means of reducing idiocracy (like in Switzerland, but even that has dumb laws being passed sometimes, but it by far has more personal freedom than in UK/USA in my opinion).

I hope that makes sense, I'm not good with english.
From an article in 2004 that is still very much relevant today:

Underlined blue text is still the most obvious visual indicator of a link

...and more...

http://www.nngroup.com/articles/guidelines-for-visualizing-l...
So it's for people with poor time management skills or who have almost no foresight? I'm glad I am able to take the minute to throw together a tofu sandwich in the morning but maybe I'm blessed with a less hectic morning routine than most Soylent users.
I can "read" a technical book at faster than 1600 WPM.

I don't read all of it, and that makes all the difference.

Most people don't learn Skimming, Scanning, and Skipping.

Skimming is when you go over the page quickly jumping sentence start to start judging the sentence to see if you want/need to read it. If a sentence starts with info you don't need, or already know you jump to the next bit.

Scanning is where you go looking for certain words on the page. I'm reading on Data Storage stuff, and I only care about Raid 5+1 so I scan for those words on the page.

Skipping is like hitting the next chapter button on your Shiny Disc player. If the chapter isn't relevant you skip it. And go on to the next. This is useful for books where 80% is beginner stuff.

This isn't how you "read" Harry Potter. You wouldn't have any fun. So a novel in 90 minutes would have to be for people who don't enjoy reading. I can't imagine that fast. (Like my minds eye, and ear can't do all of the Lord of the Rings movies at 8x)
> But that's what we see with AngularJS, everything in controllers or services tied to AngularJS apis... so much for separation of concerns...

The web is a complex beast. Front ends doubly so. The idea here is to keep your web based interactions as thin as possible and keep all of the logic in the business logic models. Combine with dumb templates and you have stuff that will scale out or up fine, given the availability of appropriate processing power on the client end.
This is indeed going to be the heaviest rocket in existence. SpaceX is truly pushing the envelope for the available launchers. I'd really appreciate if they's bring to market the F-9H.

However saying that it's second only to Saturn V is incorrect - unless followed by words "in the USA". That's because ill-fated N-1 was bigger - and Energia with both successfull orbital launches was bigger as well, by the payload on LEO.

Even Space Shuttle would be bigger, if you'd count by liftoff weight. That's kinda interesting - the picture in the article mentions existing launchers and Space Shuttle, which doesn't fly anymore, and that's understandable - people can compare to familiar things. But to conclude that it's second only after Saturn V... I guess SpaceX marketing department isn't very concerned with how misleading their statements are :) .

Come on, SpaceX - you don't need those exagerrations, you're good as you are - don't spoil your image trying to artificially look better.
Third, metaprogramming, meta-object protocols, macros and so on are indeed easily abused and you should avoid using them if a simpler abstraction will suffice.

This shows you're agreeing with me, BTW.
Wow. Not sure how voting works on HN, but looks like I got downvoted for this comment. LOL. It's just an opinion. Not trolling or anything.
Because you WANT it to deform. A stiff structure would increase deceleration on the occupants - in addition to being more likely to get in accident in the first place - additional weight will cause the vehicle to brake less rapidly, be more likely to roll over, etc, in addition to reducing efficiency.
Thanks md224, yes thats a great idea, something like you described is being planned right now. Definitely a challenge to implement well while keeping it an easy/fun/accessible interface. Typical users would get totally lost in something like stackoverflow.
I actually came here to say this. This breaking-down process to turn complex arguments into a tree of simple statements that can be debated more objectively and with less controversy was the core of a similar platform that existed a few years ago, but which has since been discontinued, called Ideagraph.

I collected all the remains of the website I could find some weeks ago here: http://imgur.com/a/bAmcV. Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a web archive version.

I've been hoping the concept would surface again, and this Saysaw is quite close, but doesn't take the concept of distributed debate quite as far.

EDIT: To be perfectly clear, since the blurbs in the link above make no mention of the working mechanism of the site: Ideagraph worked by allowing each statement to be voted up or down, or subdivided into its component ideas. This could happen multiple times, creating a deep tree structure, where only leaf nodes could be voted on; the score of the parent nodes would be automatically calculated from its children, all the way to the top (the high-level arguments). Also, any node could be linked to another part of the tree, which they describe as "Facts concluded in one debate by one group of people are reused in other debates." The whole thing was built on top of MediaWiki, to provide the wiki features of distributed editing, edit history, etc. (and also because the idea came from an attempt to improve Wikipedia discussions). But mediawiki obviously that wasn't the ideal platform to build such a system, and I believe it's one of the reasons the project was eventually discontinued.
Every time we have a thread about Soylent on HN, without a doubt, it turns into a debate between people who love the product/concept and people who absolutely loathe it.

I've always found it interesting that a lot of the most disruptive companies have this effect at some point, in various degrees. Apple, Uber, Airbnb, and recently Secret all come to mind.

I'm not saying this is any kind of a predictor for the success of Soylent, but it's still interesting.
That's exactly what I think - I even said so earlier - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7394140
When we're complaining about UX changes in Google Search anyway: i really miss the old left-hand side menu with search filters, especially with image search. They've hidden it under 'search tools' where it takes more clicks and it's a lot less visible than the old way.
I find the architecture of ng fits a vast number of projects I work on very elegantly, however, I feel like I am learning to walk all over again.Things I could do in a day take me a week to learn, but I feel like my learning is progressing fast enough that I will be skilled at its use in a week.
Quite happy paying for Crashplan at the moment but Google Drive has the allure of instant access to files with a nice API... no heavy desktop client.... complete control how you access them.... I have 4-5TB total between my photography and other work.

This IS an Amazon Glacier killer if nothing else :)

Really hoping within the next 5 years someone finally comes up with the large capacity optical discs they keep promising. Bluray discs will fit in bank safety deposit but it's still a lot of hassle.
> - no, sharing doesn't only mean 'publish on g+'

I sympathize with the feeling, but do you really expect them to drive people to their competitors? Do you think Facebook's Share button should allow you to Publish on G+ as well?
It does seem to be. We are relatively small, and admittedly have a whole bunch of data in S3, but aside from that, our $10K/mo at Rackspace (primarily VMs, some load balancing) is looking to go down to about $6K/month at AWS when we port across 40 or so VMs (then we also don't have to deal with $4K/mo of S3 data transfer, too).
A Brief History Of Cloud Foundry
You don't sound heartless, you just sound like a lazy whiner.
It's for people who don't care about eating enough to spend hours every week just preparing healthy meals, but care enough about eating healthily that they don't want to just eat fastfood/takeaway all the time.

I also contest your statement that eating healthy is easy, unless by easy you mean 'requires careful planning and constant vigilance'
even this particular game plays surprisingly well on mobile.
Oh God, speed reading ...

I like it when people mention how it's awesome and how it "totally works"..

I can read fast through light content, but some parts of a text need comprehension, not just to be read. They need a mental effort that you don't exert reading an article about a movie star.

Like many of you, I spend a lot of time reading technical doc. It's not necessarily "complicated", but it certainly is complex. Speed readers don't seem to get the subtlety of this, and when anyone says it works, I'd love to hand them the IEEE articles and the bunch of journals I eat all day long and dare them to just summarize the state of the art part.

As I said, there are parts you can read fast because the content concentration isn't that high, and, thanks to plagiarism in the scientific community, a lot of articles are worded in an uncomfortably "similar" -cough verbatim- way. There are parts though you need to stop. Read, re-read.

You can't speed read parts where a comma matters. Where there are a lot of interconnections between several works, etc..

The reason, I think, some people think speed reading works is that they don't read much and don't read much stuff that matters to be able to tell it doesn't work.

Most people have a short attention span. Heck most wouldn't even be able to read a "paragraph", so I wonder where they had all that "experience" speed reading. That's like claiming to have test driven a Ferrari in a 20 feet track. I'll simply say "Good for you".

Try to post that link to your friends who claim to speed read, most of them won't even read it entirely. Ask them how they liked X part (that doesn't exist). They would probably answer you assuming it's really there. There you go, you proved my point.
On a lot of La-Z-Boy chairs, there are two wingnuts that can adjust the back tension; I would think tightening those down would make operating the chair more stable while wheels were engaged.
Modern lightweight cars are significantly safer than old, heavy cars. Thick steel is good for protecting you from explosions, not collisions.
Yeah, and 2-factor auth is not mandatory...
seriously??? My 12 year old daughter could spot a hyperlink from a hundred yards without the ugly underlining. She told me "it's obvious". Links are inferred by their placement, you click on google search results more than a couple of times and you learn. Humans figured out fire, the wheel, perspective and now space travel so I really don't think the lack of underline is really going to dent anyone's web experience. People keep saying the same old nonsense that underlining helps them discover etc, but come on... seriously, if you really believe that you're in the wrong place.

"Nobody cares about this argument anymore" - finally I agree with you.
Modern car design saves lives. Cars in the 1950's had stiff, thick plates and it didn't do them much good. Have a look at the excellent 2009 vs 1959 car crash test video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPF4fBGNK0U
I know the guy says he tried a standing desk...but I wonder if he calibrated it correctly? It's more than just standing in front of a desk, you have to get all the measurements correct as well.
Zuckerberg Phones Obama for Answers About NSA Spying
I skimmed the pdf , and didn't see variance.
I use xScope [1] to simulate seven types of colorblindness. The blue titles are distinctive in every simulation. Does xScope miss something? Or are you assuming that blue is not distinctive because most colors are not distinctive?

[1] https://iconfactory.com/software/xscope
I have thought about this before and came to the same conclusion. If you want a serious debate site, then you have to dig deeper to resolve the finer points that make up a broader issue.
>Were you expecting a magical revelation from the gods of nutrition?

Unlike subjective ad-hoc-cy garbage like web/js frameworks, nutrition is a sound science well studied for hundreds of years. We know which people in which climes eat which food groups in what proportion, how they fare relative to each other, impact of food groups on your bile/blood/bowels , ...
There are, as you choose to call them, "gods of nutrition", with PhDs and years of experience studying the damn thing in their labs. To randomly pick brown rice over whey because "hey I don't want to support industrialized cattle farmers"...that would be like my toddler picking candy over broccoli because it just tastes better! This is supposed to be an MRP that real people eat, and hopefully has no adverse effects on them. Its not some random 8080 server that serves json whether you code it up with or without semicolons.
I have plenty of time in the morning to make a lunch to take to work. I don't want to. Your "holier than thou" comments are not helping anyone. So you're not interested in Soylent... why be a jerk about it to people who are? I hate tofu... should I trash talk all the people that put that disgusting, vile creation into their mouth?
If it's all in the setting I hope he releases a sequel set in a developing country where you're trying to rack up as much as many informal "administration fees" as possible without getting caught...
"Murder Machines"? Come on. Not all deaths are murder.

We Americans have this idea that nothing bad should ever happen, that we should find a way to prevent it. It's a goal to shoot for, certainly. But calling it murder if you don't reach that goal? No.

Can we climb down from the overheated rhetoric? It smells like propaganda.
I've been experimenting with home hydro/aeroponics the last few months and learnt a lot. It is amazing when you bite into your first self-grown tomato[0].

I am however surprised that grow lamps, even if LED based, are economical for these guys. The retail price for one of those Valoya B100 [1] LED bar is around £700. Plus around 100 Watt running for 16 hours a day. This might make sense if you're growing weed in your basement[2], but probably not for veggies. Perhaps London's crazy prices and lack of space to put a greenhouse in make it economical though.

[0] Picture: https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-YD-C9M32TbI/UvFqtQg6TYI/A...

[1] http://valoya.com/products/33-b-series

[2] Apparently the most popular use of home hydroponics, and if you research anything about it, you will inevitably come across a huge gray market around this. Also a lot of gardening advice ranging from useful to mythological.
This isn't /r/Bitcoin - if you only want positive comments in hopes that this will somehow magically increase the fiat-equivalent of your stash or at least will stop the price from falling, well, as I said, this is not /r/Bitcoin.
Well, from our perspective that's all that was done -- his body was cremated and given to us in ash-form. But I'm sure from the funeral home's perspective they did whatever preparations they had to do, processing, helped us put his obituary together and submitted it to publications, administration costs, etc.
SQLAlchemy's documentation makes the ORM seem a bit unapproachable, but Flask-SQLAlchemy does a good job of simplifying things: http://pythonhosted.org/Flask-SQLAlchemy/. With that documentation I don't think SQLAlchemy is much harder to use than Django's ORM.
Because writing controllers, services, directives, etc. with various dependencies is something you do all the time, and the DI reflection lets you do so in a quicker, friendlier, and non-duplicated way, whereas setting up the ng-min step is something you only have to do once, then you can forget about it.

You already need to set up a build pipeline to get your minification, concatenation, etc. in the first place. It's hardly a terrible burden to have to stick an ng-min step in there as well. It seems like you're trying to justify an instinctive distaste for this feature by exaggerating how problematic it is, when in reality it isn't problematic at all.
The indie market is quite open to games that really come out of left field, instead of following the same 5 genres indies always go back to, if just because they are easy and well understood.

Lucas had made a couple of nice mini-games before that showing how relatively unconventional gameplay can be quite fun if attached to a good premise. The Republia Times is pretty much the same emotional concept but with different gameplay.

A big part of the game being a hit IMO was the beta was just out there for download, and it was a very polished first third of the game. A few large blogs picked it up,
and at that point, if the game is any good, it'll just sell a whole lot. The demand was so big that Steam approved it for Greenlight out of schedule: It was greenlit after just a week or two on the process.

Either way, It's a game that is very easy to recommend.
You talking about getting a general idea laid out? Like Axure?
> IMO you are underestimating that AWS expands all the time in _every_ direction.

I think I can see where you're coming from but I strongly disagree that AWS will protect its market share by adding more products.

Each new product doesn't just bring utility in terms of what customers can do - it also brings disutility in other areas. New products dilute marketing (what are you selling?). It dilutes the allocation of internal resources (maintenance, R&D, marketing). It increases cognitive overhead for customers (E.g. the product range is a mess -EC2/S3/SWF/SQS/SES/SNS/FPS How is a customer to keep track of what's going on?).

My assertion is that for the average customer - new AWS products only bring headache and zero benefit. Because most people just won't find the need for it. Also AWS don't need to care. They will not meaningfully improve the core offering to the average user because it's the high end customers that will move the needle at the end of the day.
Need 10000 Downloads
> In Go, we can do this by closing a channel, because a receive operation on a closed channel can always proceed immediately, yielding the element type's zero value.

for n := range c {
select {
case out <- n:
case <-done:
}
}

This, is brilliant.
It sounds like they are going after a vulnerability in the browser. My guess would be that do a man-in-the-middle attack where they have a device that acts as a proxy so you get YOUR Facebook page, but with an exploit injected into the code.
Yeah, it's Big Food paying all of these nasty commenters to bash Soylent because it's so disruptive. /s
Good point, I forgot was logged in, and judge google.com as a public page (unlike facebook primary essence). Logged off, the `share` option is gone. But that remark was in the context of mangled URLs. I can't right-click, double click nor select to get the URL and pass it along. Very broken IMO even though I understand they want me to visit said page.
Flickr is also limited to jpeg photos only ;) and I'd trust Google for safety of my data (not necessarily privacy) for more than a crummy hosting provider.
interesting way to manage the space in a optimal way but coding on bed, that's not for me.
I've tried that.
On my bed, with my laptop face down on this (http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Metal-Folding-Laptop-Table-Fo...) and an external 60% keyboard.

It felt great at first, but there was two major problems for me:

- with the laptop desk I had to slide under it each time I wanted to use the computer and grab the external keyboard, which isn't instantaneous like getting up/sitting down.

- I was waaaayyyy too sleepy lying on my bed. Had 2 minutes micro-naps all the time.

Right now I still often program in my bed, but with the screen vertical and at eyes height on the laptop desk, and my back resting against a bean-bag chair. It's much more comfortable than a standard desk-chair combination, I recommend people try it.
I avoid the use of a mouse, however, and my laptop is configured to be very keyboard-friendly, so there's also that to be taken into account. Using a mouse isn't impossible, but I'm much more performant without one.
It's such a shame. The automobile is built as a requirement to live in society rather than something that complement and argumented our lifestyle.
Well I don't know, I doubt they care how close to home it is, provided they still get paid. The purest cynicism I ever did see was in response to the drone attacks on funerals. People cried "you're creating more terrorists". The cynics replied, "That's actually the point". A self perpetuating war machine. There are people out there that have this as their goal.
Definitely a good point itafroma. The idea is that people can post their own opinions that can be agreed or disagreed with, but you're right the homepage should be curated. I certainly don't agree with a lot of what's on there, but a good topic is one which gains interest and provokes a useful discussion.
This chair looks comfortable but is it really for long time sitting and programming? Does it have a good lower back support?