skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The way that food is produced now differs significantly than the way it was produced even 50 years ago. To use the lives of your relatives that lived into their 80's and 90's as 'proof' that no one needs organic food is disingenuous, regardless of the existence (or lack) of health benefits to eating organic food.

As an example, did your 90-year-old relatives eat Monstano-engineered "Round Up-Ready" corn for a majority of their lives? If not, then how can you claim that their lives have any bearing on the current situation?
Building the Content that Drives Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Economy [pdf]
I agree. France should simply ban Amazon completely as an example to the next company that thinks about trying to take advantage of loopholes.
So good. Highlights: toaster oven with custom controller, and learning about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBIFS for raw NAND access.
Google's new designs are starting to roll out
Good to be clear that any contrary evidence presented in the future will evidently, be nonsense, because 'chemicals have been prove (sic) better and harmless through science'.
Thanks for that assurance.
Nicely done. I did not realize that OSH Park could be made to work with BGA devices. And I'm really impressed he got it into a 4 layer board rather than a 6 or 8 layer board.
That's true, but it's coming back up from the ashes. Detroit hasn't made a come back yet. So it will take time for things to improve, the surburbs are not bad. I live in Oakland county, which is one of the richest counties in US, with great schools too. Number 9 high school in US is in Troy, MI.

Even tho I live in the surburbs, I got a coworking space downtown. I don't care for downtown life, and like space/houses. If not, I do move downtown. To get to downtown takes me about 15-25 minutes. Where I live is safe, has grocery stores, very low crimes, lots of parks, great city, cheap property. Detroit area is a great buy!

I bought my house for low 5 figures and it's paid off. 4 bedroom, 1/2 acre backyard, 3 car garage, $1200/yr property tax. No mortgage! My salary is a bit lower than my peers in Silicon Valley. I definitely save more than them.

So yes, Detroit the city outside of downtown might not offer much, but that doesn't mean that one should stay away. You can move Downtown or the surburbs. The positive move is spreading from downtown outwards.
Multicelluar organisms exist but they aren't "fluid" like I described. It's not like animals will spontaneously combine into a single organism. Some plants can sort of do this, like bamboo forests. But they don't have a lot of specialization like animals do, with different organs and stuff.
As a student who's followed the rules and essentially played by the book for pretty much my whole life, part of me regrets not doing stuff that defies norm, but another part of me is scared to think what I would look like if I got caught up in the 'wrong' things and never got interested in something useful.

I'd say this article is not necessarily the biggest advocate for delinquency, rather, it advocates for self-discovery in children, which is rare in modern parenting and educational systems. Sometimes this 'self-discovery' can lead to incidents of delinquency, but I think it's best to do dumb stuff young so you learn bad from good based on experience.
That's explicitly not the situation described in his post and your comment. As you yourself quoted in your previous comment, he did try things that stopped malware from being shown on his site, but wasn't willing to take the accompanying revenue hit. I know you didn't misunderstand the situation, because that was your whole complaint! (that he knows he could remove malware but isn't willing to do so because it's more profitable to continue advertising it). This means that there _are_ ways to avoid knowingly advertising malware, and unless this guy runs every site on the Web, your rationalization for feeling no guilt is based on flawed logic.
It’s simply not the full experience without sitting through it running on while the choir swells.
Detroit is one of Google's 7 tech hub. Yeah. Google, Microsoft all have presence in downtown Detroit. You can't take the hope alive, We are alive. :)
Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Reddit for Mormons.
Hey,

Just as @rdegges said, I work on Auth0 so I'm a a little biased as well but I can give you some insights about Auth0 and tell you why I personally like it and why I joined the team.

- Pricing: I agree with you that it's not 100% ideal. To be honest, we've been fighting to make this clearer and easier. Our basic idea here is, don't charge somebody who's starting to do something. Charge them once they have enough users so that they can start getting money in, and only charge for Users that actually USE your site (Users that have entered your site in the last 30 days at least). But I'd love to get some feedback about it, if you're willing to :). Why do you think it's confusing and how would you change it?

- Features: I can enumerate all the features we have and all the ones I like, but the easiest way for you to decide what's best for you is just to create an account and try it out :). Put it in one of your projects. Follow the Quick start guide on https://docs.auth0.com/ and integrate it to your app. Let me know then if this was easy and straight forward enough for you :).

- Data Export: We don't have anything in the UI right now to show how you can export the data. However, our dashboard uses our API to show all of the information you see there, so you can just use our API to export all of the information in there. For example, for getting ALL of the users information to save it, just call https://docs.auth0.com/api#!#get--api-users and get it :).

- Why I joined Auth0: I work in Auth0 as a Developer Evangelist. The first thing you gotta know for this position is that if you don't like the product for the company you're joining, you're screwed :). What I love about it is that we use ALL standards (JWT, Open Id Connect, SAML, OAuth, etc.) which means that even if you don't like us after all, it's really easy to replace us. Also, we have TONS of stuff Open Source. I love Open Source and Openness. It's the way to go, and that's one of the main things I like about Auth0. Just go to our Github and check it out.

I don't want to make this message sound as I'm selling Auth0 to you. I haven't checked out Dailycred yet, but I do think Stormpath is also a good product. My final recommendation would be, just try all of them out, and join the one you feel more confortable with. If you have any feedback, please shoot me an email to gonto@auth0.com or martin@gon.to.

Cheers :)
That is not even Detroit, that's highland park.
The green cab question was changed from the original in a way that (I think) changes the logic.

http://heatherlench.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/bar-hille...

In the original, witnesses are only 80% accurate reporting color. In this version it's altered so that it's simply asserted that 80% of cabs in the neighborhood of the accident are green.

With that revision it seems to me that you would not update your priors but actually replace them. "The mix of cabs is 85/15. Oh wait, it's actually 20/80 the other way."

Edit: Ah, never mind. The paper gives both versions, specifically because the in second version you are supposed to throw away the prior.
I would have said you can do it like this as in swift.

let x = 1231231
let z = 0

if z == 0 {
println("Cant divide by zero")
}
else { println(x / z)
}

But swift doesn't support exceptions either. :/
> The market has high confidence information that the value of land in Miami will diminish towards zero in the near future.

> Seems bizarre to me that this isn't happening.

The obvious conclusion is that either the market does not believe the high confidence information, or that they are sure that people will do something before anything bad happens.
> Can you ensure that browsers or ad blockers won't block this kind of behaviour

> [...] or try to get who you need to use CORS with to allow it on their domain?

There's no fundamental security difference between this and actual CORS since it requires the actual domain specifically serve a particular response to allow it. Either you have the ability to serve the proxy file from a particular domain and the general ability to set CORS headers, or you don't.
I haven't called anyone out for being wrong (except the original poster on his shill suspicion, I believe he is unreasonable and almost certainly wrong on that count).

All I'm saying is that it is unlikely these companies care enough about a small niche market that doesn't really doesn't pose a danger to their business nor impact them enough to post shills.

As for unscientific views on the topic of food production... It's not a matter of "wrong". It's a matter of acceptance of science. The rejection of science in favor of unreasonable conspiracy theories and anti-scientific pop authors by this many presumably intelligent members of a "tech" site is surprising and a bit disturbing.
In San Francisco, Artists Take Over Advertising Spaces
The main idea of this story is that private colleges are like used cars: They've got a high sticker price that's almost always haggled down "because you're not just any student/customer." The resulting anchoring effect makes people more likely to see private college tuition as a value.

Here's my contribution to the discussion: The article interviews a professor at Wharton (that's part of UPenn, a private college), and one at UMinnesota (a public college) who's advising the college administration to start following the private college model. I did a little snooping, and found out that the author is a Yale graduate. So this is similar to some used car owners (and someone who thinks his dealership should get into used cars) talking about how used car dealerships are deceptive about their pricing.

Edit: I thought a little more about this, and I've decided that this is a pattern caused by information asymmetry. The whole price negotiation game with used car dealerships really stopped being super profitable when the internet made it easy to figure out how much a given vehicle was "supposed to" cost.

I wonder if we could do the same for college tuition...
I believe it's the guilt of those things we did as children that makes us such restrictive parents. We realize that the things we did were dangerous and we don't want that for our kids.

Also, back then was a different time. You could do stuff like that, get caught, and not pay a huge price. Now, that's not true, in the US, at least. The climate is one of zero tolerance for stuff mentioned in the article. Example: some kids in the middle school my son goes to played a prank in the computer lab: they swapped a bunch of keys of some of the keyboards. The result? They were banned for life from using computers in the school district (yes, this would follow them to high school). A complete over reaction, but the norm for punishment in the US.
Yeah, it's only a drop in for XMLHttpRequest.
i don't think you can speak for all gnome 3 users. I'm the happiest i've ever been with gnome 3. I don't have a bunch of options and other knobs to twiddle. It just works and stays out of the way.
"They're gaining access to high-cost cities like New York or San Francisco that offer so much more than good jobs: more restaurants, better schools, less crime, even cleaner air."

lol what? The whole article reads like someone who has a giant boner for SF. Lots of assumptions that it's an objectively better place to live and obviously everyone wishes they could live there.

Tech job hubs are few and far between. There are only a handful of cities you have to choose from. Toledo and Baton Rouge aren't on the table for tech workers just like SF and NYC aren't on the table for a high school drop out.
This may not exactly be delinquency, but as kids I and a friend loved to explore construction sites on weekends. We never did anything dangerous really, it was just highly fascinating. But as we grew older, people who saw us started threatening to call the police, assuming we might be stealing something :( So in hindsight, I do wish we had used that "window of opportunity" even more. I have no idea how I would feel about my own children, should I have those; but we personally weren't reckless, stupid or malicious about it, just very curious and creative. The things you can get away with as a child, used well, can be a beautiful thing ^^ Not that we did anything great or learned anything useful, but it sure beat watching TV.
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> So in hindsight, I do wish we had used that "window of opportunity" even more

^ sums up my feelings about this topic almost exactly.
That makes sense, thank you for taking the time to explain.
I was very bookish as a child, and rarely did anything quite as exciting as the author describes, so I have a hard time relating. I also wonder if the author would look down on me for that, as the more "adventurous" kids did when I was a child.
This is a little hard to credit. What's so efficient about winding roads? A tree laid out on a grid would be much or more efficient, wouldn't it?
Is there an existing dataset showing the mean (or, better, median) price paid (net of discounts) by students for each combination of college, course and matriculation year?
Not to mention that when you do make a mistake, if it's publicized at all it will follow you for a good while by being Googleable.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

This is obviously subjective. FWIW, I'm with kghose.
Ah, I see how you could interpret the diagram that way. The client and server are clearly different machines. However, the replicas and acceptors can be on the same machine, in fact in the same process. And the server can be on the same machine as a replica or acceptor. So only three machines are necessary.
Show HN: Itsy-bitsy static site generator
Sometimes it helps to do a little research before trying to make a clever retort. Wikipedia has decent coverage of search engines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_web_search_engines

Go.com, Lycos, AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo!, Dogpile, Ask.com, Yandex and many other search engines existed before Google entered. Most were wildly profitable.
> but as kids I and a friend loved to explore construction sites on weekends.

Hehe that reminds me I did that with my dad, once. Looking back it was very dangerous but it was great fun. It was a new site for a 9 story residential building right next to ours. Once we thought we'd get caught by the guard, as we heard steps, so we hid, and it turns out it was some other people also exploring the site.

Another thing we did was climb a parachute training tower, and also hopped on a slow moving cargo train to hitch a 3 km ride towards my grandparents' house.

Aside from that (which if anyone knows me would totally uncharacteristic of me, but I guess it was more my dad than me), I was a pretty awkward nerd that liked tinkering with electronics (and later computers) and had only a few friends.
Tomomi Imura on Mobile Web, Future of CSS
Agree. The idea is to have all notifications configurable, only "silent" notification which is visibile when you connect to website or app, email notification on/off, mobile app notification on/off - for example if you're preparing for your new skying season and want to buy some new equipment, maybe its not so annoying to get push notifications from www.dickssportinggoods.com about great sale of winter goods?
In WA some apple orchards are sprayed with kaolin (a fine white clay). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin_spray. Diatomaceous earth is also used on some crops. Both of these are like... mechanical insecticides.

This page lists many "less toxic" insecticides - http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/pests/pesticide/hgic27....

The replies in this thread from people claiming to be farmers are odd -- what crop? It seems pretty important. It sounds like it's hard to grow certain wine grapes some places, ok, but why do we have lists of the 'best' and 'worst' fruits/veggies to buy organic? They have less pest problems to begin with is my assumption, but I'm not really a farmer [beyond 10'x10' of herbs and veggies in the backyard].
I shared this from Henrik Forsten's blog. It is worth reading all his other articles, too, if you are interested in computer architecture, electronics, programming or math. He has a very wide range of interests.
As William Gibson put it: "The street finds it's own uses for things."

Back before cell phones, Motorola sold a lot of walkie-talkie type radios. Most of these were 'ruggedized' (encased in big thick yellow/orange rubber padded boot). One day, Motorola engineers came up with a 'better' padded boot they thought would help the radios survive a fall.

But they got complaints from the Air Force. So they investigated..

It turns out that the Air Force mechanics need to 'chalk' their airplanes to track state (bombs loaded, fuel loaded, etc). But the mechanics were always loosing their chalk. So they would just 'scrape' the plane with the (padded) back of their radios, and it would leave a (non-permanent) mark like chalk. The 'improved' padding didn't work the same way, so they asked Motorola to keep selling the old padding (and they did).

(Heard this a long time ago. Really fuzzy on all the details, but I'm sure it's true.)
We use a lot of AOP at work and explaining all the arcane terminology to new engineers is always a nightmare .. but it's necessary to work with basic libraries. So I totally agree.
> Just so we're clear, data written to HDFS does not flow through the NameNode.

I wrote that poorly. You're right, file blocks do not flow through the NameNode, only metadata updates do. The issues occur when the clients' metadata operations saturate the node.

> This is the point where I point to the hundreds of companies

Indeed. Many companies have had great success with Hadoop. It's one of the reasons Hadoop sees such broad use. However, other users' mileage has varied.
Not yet. The idea is to have it globally, but for now only some well known US brand names are covered. But your question is about different markets, its impossible to launch such kind (business to people) of website in all over the World at once :) But theoretically - yes, of course its for you in case there will be a lot of Australian retailers, service providers and etc. publishing their offers.
What kind of phone? I don't know anything about this stuff but I can google and try to help
This is way too good, saved to the Wayback Machine too, just in case: https://web.archive.org/web/20140713061753/http://hforsten.c...
I spent my teenage years in a third-world country. I would be convicted of the following if I had spent those years in the US:

1) Trespassing private property

2) Theft

3) Willful and malicious destruction of property

4) Arson

5) Indecent exposure

6) Consensual rape (my girlfriend was 2 years younger than me)

7) Driving under the influence

I consider myself a highly moral individual, and some people consider me the most level-headed and patient person around.

I would argue that being a vandal in your teenage years may have a positive impact on the rest of the life of some people. You have to be smart about it and try not to hurt you or anyone else too much in the process.
Thanks for your comment!

Actually, in both Europe and North America there is really good teams and players who are not in the NHL and the highest leagues in Europe.

For example, in Swedens Division 1 (third highest league), players can get a full time salary for playing hockey – but of course an agent won't help them because they get a provision on player salaries, and they are not interested if the salaries are too low.

So when a contract expires for a Division 1 player, they usually end up in a situation where their only chance to land a new club is through contacts, and that usually means in the same country and/or region. But there is a huge demand for European players in North America, and NA-players in Europe.

So far we have around 200 players, and two dozen clubs. 50% Sweden, 25% US, 15% Canada and the rest various other European countries.
It makes into a slightly different but still invaluable pattern. I'd rather have code that says what it does, but says it in the most concise way possible, than code that just has black magic running on it in the background.
Figure out who underwrites flood insurance and see if you still feel the same.
In fact yes. But its the same with every new service or? Also "sell to businessess" is not really correct wording... why? Because after you register on spoffer and subscribe to some channels (businesses) spoffer itself is the only one "entry point" to you for businesses. They don't get your email or social network access and you don't risk to get spam there later on.
Or maybe it's just the start of the end of the education pricing bubble, and they're trying to land gently.
You'll see this often on sites that use CDNs to server images. Adding SSL to a CDN at levels used by smaller sites easily doubles the cost.
As a parent of two young kids, I agree - as long as the delinquency does not actually injure them or others badly, and they stay away from red-heads with loaded fucking guns!

Which is the whole problem - the reason we say "dont do that it will hurt" is that it probably will hurt. Yes kids need to learn their own limits, and I want that to happen. I just would prefer not to have the lesson end in A&E.

I think mobile technology will enable a longer "lead" - but then who wants to be on a lead.

I think ultimately - I am my dad :-)
I replied a few levels up mentioning kaolin spray (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaolin_spray).

For more information about 'particle films' (like kaolin spray) see this document. There are numerous compounds mentioned and very interesting references too. These techniques also can be mixed with conventional pesticides and achieve the same efficacy as pure pesticide.

Particle Films: A New Technology for Agriculture - http://blog.meyvelitepe.org/images/Book_Chapter_Particle_Fil...

"At the present time, a commercial particle film material, Surround crop protectant, is being used in about 90% of the Pacific Northwest pear market for the early season control of pear psylla and approximately 20% of the Washington State apple market to reduce sunburn damage."
> So, in Sinfonia, the memory nodes HAVE to be highly available, or you've built a system with many single points of failure instead of just one.

Yes, in Sinfonia that's true since an item resides on only one node. The Scalaris project augments Sinfonia by performing operations on a majority of replicas.

> the other is a consensus protocol which replicates a log across unreliable nodes

Interesting. I hadn't thought of it like that. Indeed, when you frame it that way, it doesn't seem right to compare a minitransaction to multi-Paxos. I had thought of multi-Paxos as a mechanism to serialize updates on the replicas of a key-value store. In that framing, the comparison makes more sense.
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How about we start with a law that forces Colleges/Universities to open all information regarding admissions / tuition?
If I was a 14 year old in school today and did the stuff I did as a 14 year old in the 1980's, I'd be suspended, expelled, or in jail by now. Kids can't even be kids anymore, it's pretty sad.
The author is arguing that "improving their cities" is like "improving their school districts". Not entirely a positive thing to progressives.
Yes, I can read. :) I'm saying not enough of it is automated for my tastes. A nice chunk of that data is likely calculated from manual inputs (things like climbing and difficulty levels, etc).