skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'The LED lights are a key part of the farm’s magic. They allow Shimamura to control the night-and-day cycle and accelerate growth. “What we need to do is not just setting up more days and nights,” he says. “We want to achieve the best combination of photosynthesis during the day and breathing at night by controlling the lighting and the environment.”'

Also: 'He is also able to cut discarded produce from 50 percent to just 10 percent of the harvest, compared to a conventional farm. As a result, the farms productivity per square foot is up 100-fold, he says.

By controlling temperature, humidity and irrigation, the farm can also cut its water usage to just 1 percent of the amount needed by outdoor fields.'

These are serious productivity gains, but, as you say, they have to be balanced against electricity use.
You mean like code review on stack exchange?
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Uh, its not like surge pricing is optional to get a faster car. If they price increases, there is no subsidizing going on. To take advantage of the theoretically larger supply, I will have to pay the higher price, and when the price decreases, there is no guarantee that the supply will remain high so I may still be unable to get a cab at the lower 'subsidized' price.
IIRC one of the chapters in RWO did briefly touch on type variance.
I like that business idea too. This is such an unserviced area in business it may be a huge hit.
Ya, stuff like that is why we need a right to be forgotten in the US. People tend to see an arrest and leap to conclusions.

I say this as a person who has never been arrested. :/
There's plenty of developers who will happily offer their time for free. We're bring them into one space we're we can connect them with students.
This is a neat hack on current technologies. Reminds me of uzbl [0] in the separation of modules, each one being good at only one thing and doing it well.

What eventually killed uzbl [1] was the difficulties working with IPCs; I hope you overcome this and build something even greater !

[0] http://www.uzbl.org/readme.php

[1] http://dieter.plaetinck.be/luamail_a_mail_client_built_into_...
Summary:
- If you chase your customers away, it's bad for business
- You can chain them to your business using anti-competitive tactics

Is it just me or is it just a myth of the startup world that a good product is a sensible idea for businesses?

For some reason, many business people seem to take a bad (or at least nondifferentiating) product as the default assumption. Maybe because that's where you need them the most, and companies creating good products are most in need of good engineering talent.
In Canada, at least, background checks can reveal attempted suicides and dropped charges, unfortunately: http://www.therecord.com/news-story/4538747-names-of-420-000...
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Carter, the author, here. Yes I've been on the Internet. In fact, I love and grew up on the Internet, wrote my first lines of code in middle school, and procrastinated my way through high school on sites like Deviant Art. I've been reading Hacker News daily for over 5 years.

This essay was written with the WSJ audience (average age over 50) in mind. That audience is more familiar with the established art world and its $66B market. For an audience that grew up on the Internet like me, I would have used more nuanced language and talked more about the importance of merging the existing art market and the established art world with the more organic art communities already online.

But here's the tl;dr version of what I would have written for HN:

The Internet will grow the art market and broaden it to include artists outside of the existing establishment–the result is that more artists will be able to make a living without having to appeal to the existing system. But achieving this requires working with the established art world, e.g. major galleries and museums, to publish more of their art online for easy and free access–making art and art education accessible to everyone, not just those with the time and money to go visit in person. By moving the existing art world online, you're bringing its market of buyers and sellers with it, and exposing them to a more vibrant, diverse, and organic ecosystem that many readers on Hacker News are already familiar with. In summary, by increasing awareness and education about art history, the Internet will drive greater passion and market demand for art, which ultimately means more artists from all over the world will get discovered organically and be able to pursue their passions more sustainably.

Likewise, music has been around forever, but the chances of someone like Lorde, a 16 year old from New Zealand, seeing such success was much less likely before the Internet democratized music for listeners and creators alike. Today, it's still very rare for a visual artist to experience that kind of success if they are not part of the existing establishment. But the Internet is going to change that, and this will be a great thing for all of us.
> Realistically it's absurd that Netflix isn't use a whole variety of ISPs to manage the load themselves. Other big data providers do it. Why can't they?

IIRC, Netflix offered to provide hardware to all the major ISPs that would cache Netflix content at the ISP data centers. Not a single one took them up on the offer.
Netflix could do something differently, the question is really whose responsibility is it? The fact that the data gets to the edge of Verizon's network uncontested means the congestion is on Verizon's network. The fact that the traffic was requested by their members, and then delivered uncongested to them tells me it's on Verizon to fix the issue.

In an ideal world Netflix would pay a single ISP for access to "the internet" and their traffic would be handled properly across peered networks. Unfortunately it's not an ideal world, and so Netflix has made a bunch of philosophical compromises to increase service for its customers (including setting up other Fast Lanes). But that doesn't mean we should expect Netflix to continue to do this.
FYI - clicking through to the demo pages appear be NSFW.
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While not as important as having a job, etc, it could possibly affect overseas travel. Someone couldn't travel with us from the UK to our wedding in the US as we learnt that anyone who's been arrested for any reason can't travel under the visa waiver program (they can apply for a visa though but that takes time, money, and an interview). And as far as I understand it, US VWP treaties operate on similar principles in both directions.
What happened to the Kickstarted Multi-Touch Keyboard and Mouse?
I remember this project making its rounds a few years ago, but haven't heard anything about it actually shipping. I'm surprised the tabloid types haven't eat it up yet.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1116966310/multi-touch-keyboard-and-mouse

Anyone know what happened? The last update is titled "Devastated", but I can't read it since it is for backers only.
Clarification: over 40% of young men in the US have been arrested. (It is ambiguous whether "youths" refers to both sexes.)

(It is also possible to interpret the headline as saying that 40% of all youths worldwide have been in the US at some point, during which they were arrested, but I doubt many people were confused by that.)
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I like it, crowd sourced code reviews. And I'd definitely contribute.

I have over a decade of experience and I think the likelihood of solving someone's likely domain specific problem in 30 minutes seems unreasonable.
"Most users sponsor project to get early and discounted access to cool stuff"

There is a reason why KickStarter forbids calling a reward a pre-order.

I think a good solution would be to forbid the product being developed from being offered as a reward and instead allow a coupon (free, half-priced, whatever) to be the reward with the understanding that the technology product might never be produced.

Kickstarter has many other products that are not technology focused, these kinds of development issues and product delivery issues are less of a problem when you don't have major technical challenges to overcome.

Look at Lockitron, it seems like such a simple concept and device, but as they've shown, making it a reality is difficult.

There is a high chance of failure in the startup world, investors should be aware of this. Kickstarter should make this very clear to people and limit the types of rewards so that people (who arguably shouldn't be "investing") are not disappointed if the project just doesn't work out.
Whatever kind of company you run, dig below the top-line growth numbers. Look into churn and revenue by cohort.

There are b2b companies with very high churn (Groupon's merchant acquisition is arguably an example) and those with very low churn (Stripe, GoCardless).

As an aside, there are some b2b companies with a pretty high viral coefficient. B2B invoicing platforms are a good example - a business might bring all of its suppliers/customers onto a platform. This is basically Tradeshift's strategy.
"Is Lisp as hard as people say it is?

No. Lisp is actually the simplest programming language, and has no syntactic cruft. While it wasn't designed to be “easy to learn” like Swift, Python, Ruby, or Basic, there is less overall to learn and you will be writing real, useful programs in Lisp sooner than you could with other languages."

It's like a never-ending stream of lies, every word being a little more absurd than the last...
Well, to put a finer point on it, the "culture of the Valley" sounds to me like poor management and disorganized development.
And once they have the cash from an IPO, where do they go from there? The problem is much more complex than you're suggesting
I believe only convictions / guilty pleas in the US.
Were I to choose one for a new project now, I would probably go with PDO simply because of its generic nature and support for prepared queries with parameter replacement. Mysqli apparently has this too but bind variables are somewhat difficult to use with the mysqli extension.
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In your case, the transaction is barter, a transfer of one non-financial asset for another.

If you have a contract to provide 100 BTC, then that contract would be money, denominated in BTC (not the BTC themselves). It would exist on one balance sheet as an asset, and on another as a liability (at the same time).
it runs on the browser.
Was all good until you mentioned Chromium... Can you really back the claim that it's entirely written in javascript then?
Now this is where I don't think consumers are as privy to the technology as they could be. I doubt most Netflix customers adjust their data usage settings with their ISPs in mind.

Frankly, I'm not sure they should, but I doubt they're even thinking about that, either way. I'm not going to watch a 480p video because I'm trying to conserve my ISP's capacity. That's silly.

Besides, I think Netflix has a vested interest in continuing to push this issue, and thus the "Auto" adjustment might favor as much data as possible, irrespective of the overall ISP's capacity.
I actually first encountered monads in Lwt, and they were quite understandable in that context, although it took some digging.

Here is a list I found useful to learn more about monads
(they aren't necessarily all the ones that I had to read
to understand them, there was another page that I can't find right now):
http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/mpri/2-4/monads.2up.pdf
http://blog.enfranchisedmind.com/2007/08/a-monad-tutorial-fo...
http://ambassadortothecomputers.blogspot.ro/2009/02/equeue-c...
http://blog.0branch.com/posts/2012-03-26-01-implementing-fun...
http://blog.0branch.com/posts/2012-03-26-02-from-functor.htm...
Not sure why this isn't ranked higher. The entire issue with Verizon is that it refused to do this. They can't complain about intermediate systems when they have been provided the chance to bypass many of them.
From the article: "At age 18, arrest rates were 12 percent for white females and 11.8 percent and 11.9 percent for Hispanic and black females, respectively. By age 23, arrest rates were 20 percent for white females and 18 percent and 16 percent for Hispanic and black females, respectively."
There is no logical inconsistency with the notion that wired ISPs offer flat-rate unlimited service and periodically upgrade their networks to be able to provide that service. The cost of the upgrades are completely sustainable notwithstanding Netflix. Verizon has no trouble allowing its customers to watch an unlimited amount of FiOS TV.

The cause of this dispute is that the ISPs each have a monopoly over access to a large distinct block of customers and want to leverage that into a tax on content distributors, creating an unlevel playing field in favor of the ISP's own over the top services in competition with services like Netflix.
My last startup did #7 and #8. It's still technically going but it's pretty much dead on the vine at the moment.

We should have stayed in the old office!
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This proves the opposite of what they argue. Supposedly the argument is "Netflix users use too much bandwidth so Netflix should pay for our network upgrades". And yet what their chart and argumentation shows is that the Verizon network has all the capacity it needs to handle this user's traffic and yet at the border of the Verizon network, Verizon is not accepting more traffic from Netflix.
Peering is the part I wonder about. Netflix pays for the pipes to upload. Customers pay for the pipes to download. But who pays for the peering pipes in the middle? Should it be Netflix's ISP? Customer's ISP? Both? Neither?
Facebook pays their interns over 5k/month. With how tight the market for CS graduates is, the idea of someone working for free for a company that makes a for-profit product is pretty crazy.

Unpaid (or, practically unpaid) internships are a sad reality of job markets where the supply far, far outpaces the demand - this is common in high prestige professions that do not require extensive qualifications - things like PR, fashion design, art galleries, magazine publishing, event organizing, etc.
Why you're implying that American developers are better than, let's say European developers? Or even cheap third world experts like you?

If you're expert - you're expert, country does not matter.
In countries/areas where land prices are very expensive, this might help.

In the US I don't see this helping with common food stock (wheat/corn/cotton/soybean/tobacco/...). I could see this used for presentation foods (foods we judge more from looks) since you can control everything so much more you will likely get more products that can demand a premium price.
I mean to say that there is no such thing as what software folks think of as the "internet": the sort of idealized network that you think of when you're dealing with sockets instead of edge routers. Obviously "internet" exists as a marketing term, but it refers to what's described in the Cisco article, not to the idealization.

Do you get upset when you sign up for a United flight and one of the legs is operated by a codeshare partner? It's the same thing: there's an idealized abstraction of a "flight from New York to Burkina Faso" and the actual reality that the underlying physical service is a distributed one.
Within the ExoBrowser to open a window and install web view controls
Do you do any type of web development? You don't really have any choice if you do. You can do a lot of things server side, but once the code has left your server, your technology is limited to what the users browser supports.

All browsers I know of support JS(EMACScript), HTML, CSS. They may support other things, but often not all of them do. Javascript itself is a very basic language, and a lot of the build in methods are either not intuitive or are complex in its access and you have know the nuances of the language to work with it.

These frameworks often provide more intuitive access to JS by applying patterns such as MVC on top of JS. You could do this yourself in JS, but why?

I will give your question credit that it does seem like there are a TON of libraries for Javascript and it seems like every day there is a new library promising something in Javascript.

TL;DR: Javascript is the only widely-supported way of coding in a browser.
In NYC, the difference between a black car and a taxi is guaranteed booking (e.g. you can schedule a black car and they'll actually show up). Generally yes, it is more expensive than a taxi, but it's a pre-negotiated rate.

I'm still not sure how UberX works in NYC from a legal perspective (though I'm sure Uber has an army of lawyers who figured out some loophole).
I think you might need to re-read the link. This is a browser UI and infrastructure (powered by Chromium) written in JS. It's not an app which runs inside a browser, therefore I'm not sure the comparison is useful.
Planning fallacy is planning fallacy. Perhaps it's more exaggerated in hardware, but doesn't negate the fact that it will always exist and planning is hard.
So much of the difference between a great photo and an OK photo is simplicity. Even in a casual snapshot, walk around a little and try to block undesirable background details with desirable foreground. Try to surround faces with a solid area of color. I often find that, by the time I have put the subject in good light and found an angle that blocks background noise, my photo has composed itself.
Love how the demos for "scroll-frame" by @artsy completely blows up

http://artsy.github.io/scroll-frame
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>'Honestly, using time trackers like Harvest has shown that I'm really only productive 6 hours a day, and after that it's a struggle to focus.'

This is actually part of my thought.

My completely anecdotal notion is that the typical 8 hours a day breaks down to something closer to half that in truly productive work.

We're just stuck with ancient conventions about time and pay that really don't make a whole hell of a lot of sense applied to knowledge work.

I think it would be a better deal for everyone involved to get 4 hours of relative brilliance per day than the same or less overall productivity out of 8+.
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Additional productivity gains might be made by operating the "indoor farm" within dense urban areas and thus closer to the consumer, thereby removing transportation costs associated with a typical farm.
>We can't expect people who back Kickstarter projects to accept VC-level failure rates

The only differences between VC-invested projects and Kickstarter projects is that no one does due diligence on Kickstarter projects. Kickstarter backers should expect VC-level failure rates as a lower bound.
It's not at all hard to write things for the web without JS, it's just if you need an application to be client-side for whatever reason, JS is necessary. I would guess that most sites over-use Javascript (or, at least, are overly reliant upon it).
If it goes to court, in most jurisdictions the disposition of the case will be available in a standard background check. For example, if you were charged with resisting arrest and found not guilty, it would still show up but also show "not guilty". Good luck explaining that to an employer, even if you did nothing wrong (and the courts confirmed it).
If there's no copyright, what's to stop OTHER people from giving away someone's digital products for free?

I mean, I put all my books for free online. But I'd still rather be able to prevent others from using them commercially. I'd never have written them if a better funded competitor could just take them and provide them for free and outrank me.

http://lsathacks.com/explanations/ is my free stuff.
I'm not sure how people could think this.

People like to think that their discipline is the hardest discipline- that means they are smart just by association.

Also, if you are a software guy you might never have even heard of key steps like DFM, DFT, etc, which makes it easier to say "hardware seems so easy"
The 'right to be forgotten' is impossible to enforce. We just need to be more forgiving.
It's too bad Google irritated so many customers. I try to
avoid Google, but find it hard.
Agreed. More data is needed to see clearly if on a larger scale this is economically feasible to do.
From my little experience with hydroponics, water and land use are the two major wins. Electricity can be a deal breaker but that depends on a lot of factors (type of produce, electricity prices, closeness to city, production vs consumption quantities, etc).

From a personal point of view, I strongly support this type of growth for a couple of reasons: more food for less cost, cities gain food independence, natural land use and abuse gets curtailed dramatically.
Now if we could only switch more people (me included) to a vegetarian diet.
Sounds like a promising start for them, and I hope it goes well -- especially now that they're taking steps to partner with the actual music providers.

However, like anything associated with the music industry, I'll take a wait and see approach to using it. I see no point in jumping on the latest thing if it's going to a) be sued out of existence, or b) sell out and get rolled into a company I don't like. Partnering with the other services seems like a good step towards avoiding bad-result a, so that's a promising sign.

The question left then is whether these folks are in it for the long haul, or if they're just in it for an "exit".
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not mention that laws to allow erasure of minor offenses differ per state

in my state you can erase misdemeanor B and C class offenses after 5 years if 5 years no arrests
I am not implying they are better, just they know english better than the rest of the non-anglo world.

And great communication skills is a preferred trait in solving problems.

Btw, I can code fluently in over 10 programming languages, but my fluency in english is subpar. See? That's why I rather take a cut in the rate as long as they accept my deficiency in english.
The parent comment is clearly referring to the HN headline, not the article itself. Since young men do not massively outnumber young women, it is not the case that 40% of all US youths have been arrested.
This is great. A lot of non-savvy people probably don't know how to open links in a tab to prevent this on current 'infinite' scrolling sites
Any ideas how this compares to other nations?
Well, you could trivially compare "debunk rates".

When I plotted percentage of debunked papers by country of origin, it was clear Elbonian papers are debunked 3x as often as anywhere else

With that kind of a wide net, I would think the main sampling errors would be things like "Only studied physics papers" or "forgot to gather data from Journal Y". The findings could be impacted, certainly, but hopefully still trustworthy enough to be actionable?
The right to be forgotten lies in a gray zone. Who is going to be the judge of what needs to be forgotten and what can stay public ?
if I'm working for clients is best to use PDO for database access all the time?
The dropped charges is the worst of this.

How many people that were "kettled" during the G20 protests, despite not actually participating in the protests, nor ever being charged with anything, now have a police record?
One key point with this study is that it only covers people who were born between 1980 and 1984, and follows them through their lives. The summary articles tend to ignore that, and imply the same stats apply to people born in all years.