skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not incorrect, a tree's mass does come partially from the soil, it's just that the majority comes from the atmosphere. It's not like the tree just puts out roots cause it likes the feeling. Where do you think all the water mass in a tree comes from?

I would more chalk this up to too little biology, too late, for people to learn well. And, frankly, it's not something everyone NEEDS to know; misunderstandings are not the end of the world.
No, no development anywhere around. I'm not sure why the price went up. I bought my land in the 90's and it was ~$1000/acre. Now its 10X that. Probably a bubble.
An alternative to specialty crops is regular crops but higher up the value-add chain.

Corn -> corn mash -> fermented corn mash -> ethanol -> bourbon -> aged bourbon

40 acres of corn gets you nowhere. 40 acres of corn converted to bourbon gets you generational wealth.
SpaceX has discovered what caused its Falcon 9 rocket to crash land and explode
Does someone know it's usual frequency? When it's quiet in my house there's a hum at around 50hz, but its very constant - no 13 to 300 seconds, it's always there. I first assumed it was someone in the neighborhood running a motor, or maybe the water plant a couple miles away, but when it was particularly noticeable during a widespread blackout here (in part, due to the quiet - and eliminating the likelihood of an electric power effect), my next ideas were a resonance from traffic on the interstate a couple miles away, or maybe someone even further doing some drilling (there's been discussion of fracking starting soon a dozen miles away or so, but it's not supposed to be happening yet, and I first noticed several years ago).
Sony had pirated books about hacking
asyncio is just nice API for async programing and event loop management. You should start from something high level in order to obtain asyncio ideas, like scraping [1] or try web development with aiohttp [2]. And then if you want to write some library or port database driver, look for examples at aio-libs[3] github organization.

[1] http://compiletoi.net/fast-scraping-in-python-with-asyncio.h...

[2] https://github.com/KeepSafe/aiohttp

[3] https://github.com/aio-libs
Yes, price is controlled by supply and demand - and I'm describing an increase in demand. And just like any other competitive marketplace the price will rise when demand rises.

When Glenn Beck writes his next book he will shop it to the publisher who pays him the most money - competition between publishers means the amount he receives will be proportional to the revenue the publisher can generate.
Got to agree. Bare Metal performance isn't appreciated enough. I know a few companies that run fine with a mixed Metal/AWS combo. Metal handles 80% of the workload, and if that for some reason fails, EC2 instances are fired up to take over until it is fixed. This setup doesn't work for every scenario, but it is something to take into consideration.
> Why doesn't the market handle this?

> If John Deere is only willing to sell lifetime licenses to operate their vehicles, thus putting the farmer at risk in ways like you described, why do farmers still buy these "licenses"?

Because John Deere has a monopoly.

> Naively, they must represent some advantage (despite their shortcomings), otherwise John Deere wouldn't be able to sell these things.

Yes, that is naive. If you look to capitalism to solve the problems of people at the bottom, you'll almost always be disappointed.
I would suggest adding FrontMatter [1], which will try to read a so-called YAML-header from the file, which is ignored later by gulp.

You can combine it with gulp-if, to isolate those files that need compilation.

1: https://www.npmjs.com/package/gulp-front-matter
Such a great movie.
> The maximum rate of evolution is proportional to the rate of generation turnover, that is to say it is inversely proportional to life span.

it is true for r-selection only.
Amazing Software Turns Paper into Computers – Co.Design – Business and Design
There's a nice Veritasium episode wherein he asks people on the street where a tree's mass comes from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KZb2_vcNTg (This isn't just one of those "let's laugh at how dumb people on the street are" videos; it's done explicitly as a learning exercise. His PhD looked at how addressing misconceptions and going from there to correct explanations works much better than simply providing explanations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQaW2bFieo8 )

I thought of it upon seeing the first chart in the BMJ article.)
Adobe Lightroom 6 released with HDR, panorama, and facial recognition tools
Just asked my wife and daughter what the answer was, and they both thought you excreted the mass. Then I asked my son, who is home from Uni, studying a Biology degree, he said it was released as energy. FFS.
I read a lot of Niven's short stories as a child, but I don't remember that title. Did he illustrate some of the problems we'd have with long life spans?
Sentient machines may take umbrage with that. Personally I'd agree with them.
to transpile is not an happy idea
The mythical "free market" uninfringed upon by bad actors, and other fairy tales.
I was running nodejs on port 80 a older version but still quite recent. and the usual sshd deamon on port 22. Even my password was pretty strong. How did they do this ? I am really surprised.
Yes in general I thought this was a good article. But I also found some of it odd. In general sales people hate coming in with a clean slate. They want to pick up some existing customers and existing deal flow so they can learn quickly how the product is actually used (to help with positioning it accurately) and what the objections and issues are in the sales cycle. Perhaps the author was more implying "don't stick them with weird old BD/partnership stuff that isn't really 'real' to bog them down early)
No, the chemical process your car is using is almost identical to the one your cells are doing right now (oxidizing hydrocarbons).

The mass of the fuel in your gas tank is pumped into the atmosphere as CO2.
Seed Investing in Female Founded Startups
Nugg App Lets You Order Medical Marijuana from Your Smartphone
If they are true AI yes - the Machine in POI being an example.

And don't humans make babies out of non sentient stuff sperm and egg?
Proceedings of the 8th European Lisp Symposium [pdf]
Let me guess: mostly from water? And the air of course - carbon. Sorry, I won't watch the video, its far too spare a use of time.
Creepy Robot That Imitates Facial Expressions May Soon Greet You at Hotels
Your mother built you out of food, air and water, and desks and tables aren't sentient.
Looking for .git in all the wrong places
Here is a nice challenge: Just like we have arbitrary precision integers (allocating more memory as needed) and arbitrary precision "fractional numbers", design a library providing arbitrary precision "computable numbers".
Has there been a Release Candidate milestone this cycle?

Wiki says there should have been, [1] but there isn't any on the servers. [2]

Or, maybe I should read '25 April 16th', 'ReleaseCandidate' on Ubuntu wiki [1] as "there will be a Release Candidate on the week number 25 (week meaning: seven-day period here) starting with April 16". That would mean the Ubuntu developers yet have two more days to release RC on schedule, and the final release should be expected on the week startng with April 23rd, up to April 29th; and TechCrunch just based their article off the line in the wiki, which they could not actually read and didn't bother to check the facts?

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VividVervet/ReleaseSchedule

[2] http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/releases/15.04/ http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/15.04/ http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/15.04/
I can't wait to see the first chimpanzee lodge an objection with flying poop.
I'm always amazed at what people go through to use gulp/grunt/etc instead of make.
Author of the post here. Would love to hear people's thoughts on this approach and your own methods of diving into open-source projects!
I hope she kept the pieces and sends them to a recovery service - it's almost certainly the case that the video is recoverable by suitably skilled people.
Olympics are a bit different because I believe there are requirements to be met in terms of performance.

But living in San Marino or Liechtenstein must be great - if you get to the national football team (which shouldn't be hard), you will have a chance to play against word class teams from time to time ;)
But non-tech people think of computers and phones as running software, not their cars. In the car, it's just a "radio" or "navigation system."
institutions and policies that take human nature into account fare better than those railing against it

This is one of those statements that should go up on a billboard that the more idealistic members of HN are forced to read frequently.
I suspect you need to achieve a certain level of fiscal security before you can start to worry about the difference between the "experience" of a book as opposed to simply being able to read it.
Reminds me of listening to a wobbly industrial fan laying down some funky beats.
Paypal IPO'd in 2002.
Sales people have much lower base pay and it's made up for with commission. Engineers would probably dislike the ability of the product to sell as a condition of their salary. It's all a question of risk tolerance.
You are not thinking objectively, it's quite obvious. Not only will weather impact the operation and speed of a maglev just as much if not more considering that high winds and / or blistering heat can significantly impact the train and track.

And if you think that a few storms disrupting the air transportation network is a problem because some idiots thought it was a good idea to make Chicago a hub then you are not thinking about the problem correctly. What you are describing is a process and business problem. Maybe north and north east airports should not be hub airports like any even half witted person would realize, and no matter what, I don't think you could even pay for all the rail lines that would need to be built in order to serve the same number of passengers between the same number of destinations as you can flexibly adapt to with air travel.

For example, Southwest started direct flights from DC to Austin two years ago because the demand was so large. You couldn't even get the plans together in the same amount of time it took to plan, permit, coordinate, and implement DC-AUS flights, which are also a connection from some other airport on top of it.
Desks and tables are not, as far as I know, sentient.

Why is it relevant whether they were created from sand and metal by bald apes, or from carbon and water by the autonomous processes that happen in a bald ape's crotch?
Yes, I have already archived all the emails and set filters to automatically move all the emails from this id to a folder.
It claims that:

> "All money left from this campaign will be donated to Morris Animal Foundation and several other animal charities and funds. Full list will be provided to those who bought at least one “square”."

So maybe they aren't even trying to profit from this? I don't know. The website tells me nothing.
Babies will be able to participate in society eventually, though, and the mentally disabled might be able to given treatment. To my knowledge, no chimp has ever done so.
Number one reason why I haven't switched yet?... print. Admittedly is is the dumbest possible reason, it's irrational; I would never admit it in a face-to-face conversation; I would deflect to "something something third-party library...", but deep-down inside, if I'm really honest with myself, it's print. I want asyncio, I want better unicode support, but all I think about are SyntaxError's in what I __strongly__ consider to be valid python.

My stubbornness is rooted in the simplicity of print. It is so simple and stupid, why change it? Never has a production app relied heavily on print, it's just a dumb way to check shit while developing. I mean sweet jesus if it ain't broke right? I know I'm wrong in thinking this kind of thing happened everywhere in the 2->3 increment, but as I said earlier, I'm under no illusion of rationality. Python 3 broke hello world, and that just skeeves me out.

Eventually I'll write new stuff in 3, probably sooner rather than later especially with asyncio et all, but for now I'll stick with 2.
Interesting, this article not only made me more aware of my own nose in my field of view, it increased my awareness of the fact that my left eye is my dominant eye (a bit unusual given that I am right-handed). It takes effort for me to notice my nose from the right and after reading this I have a distinct sense of my nose being off-center to the right side of my face. Weird! I wonder if this trick would work by placing the virtual nose only in view of the dominant eye (I suppose that's more complicated to implement, though).
Please don't hijack the top comment to post something off-topic.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9416725.
Strictly speaking, yes, it is, at least in the abstract machine.

If a unary "&" is applied directly to the result of a unary "" operator, then neither is evaluated. But in this case, the "&" is being applied to "((st )0)->m". "x->y" is syntactic sugar for "(x).y", so this is equivalent to If a unary "&" is applied directly to the result of a unary "" operator, then neither is evaluated. But in this case, the "&" is being applied to "((st )0)->m". "x->y" is syntactic sugar for "(x).y", so this is equivalent to "((st )0)).m)".

A compiler will very likely optimize the expression so it doesn't generate machine code to dereference the null pointer. And in fact using this definition for the offsetof macro depends on that optimization, and on the compiler treating a null pointer as address 0.
> Maybe a better question is, why don't all the auto companies, which already cooperate and "collude" on a lot of things, have similar licenses?

They do. The difference is that farmers are far more likely to attempt a fix on their machine than the average car user. Also, since farmers use their tractors more than the average user uses their car, a tractor is part of a system, while a car typically is the system. As such, there are a lot of parts to integrate with and as a result, more places where the system can break.
How do I read the flagged comments by Mason? :-/
Supreme Court Rules Extending Traffic Stop for Dog Sniff Unconstitutional [pdf]
Not necessarily - babies, people with altered/reduced mental capacity, etc... are all legal persons, but not generally held responsible for the legal consequences of their actions.
If strong general AI happens, the machines will decide what rights to grant us, not the other way around. Hopefully, they don't see us as slaves.
50 Hz is very characteristic for a power line close by but as you already ruled that out I have no clue. Nonetheless much to high for any seismic noise.
Hacking Airplanes
It's the same story like that of Bernie Madoff and also the same morale. You're free to do whatever you want hustling & bustling screwing people over but if you dare to mess up with the wrong people, you're toast and you will be made an example of for everyone to see.
Really, are you sure? Have a look here: https://github.com/josephernest/void#faq

* Adding code highlighting? 3 lines of code to add in index.php

* Adding analytics (unique visitor count)? 3 lines of code to add in index.php

* Adding Disqus comments ? Less than 10 lines to copy/paste.

Is it this you call a mess?

I've used at least 10 CMS before, and what I call a mess is more: having to create a SQL DB, having to login/logout all the time, having to understand how the marvellous "install-a-plugin-to-extend-the-CMS" system works...
I think that might be in danger of becoming like infographics - things that people share and coo over but without really understanding what it means and what the implications are.

I could draw you a picture of my latest papers if you wanted, and it may look pretty but I think you'd be cheating yourself if you thought you were getting anything of out it.
I'm not trying to be argumentative, I'm just trying to understand. I can't relate to this. I might 'feel bored' when I have something I feel I must do, but which I don't want to do. And then I may procrastinate, by turning to the internet, only to find this even more dissatisfying.

But if I have some free time with truly no demands, I need only commit myself to something fun and interesting - even something as simple as reading a novel.

Wait... maybe that's the key. Maybe we try to use the internet to alleviate boredom because it doesn't take any commitment, and maybe it fails to satisfy for that same reason. But what if you are willing to put a little more effort or investment into your distractions? Find a good movie, turn down the lights and really pay attention? Or approach the internet with a sense of purpose....?
This bill is idiotic. Some insane idiot goes and shoots up a building? Yeah, anti-terrorism laws will stop that! Harper is a disgrace to Canadians, and the immediate attention whoring he did after that little episode was embarrassing.

No laws, short of banning cars and inspecting everyone, everywhere, all the time, is gonna stop people from driving cars into things or sneaking in a gun and shooting people.

The only real antidote is to not have an abusive foreign policy like the US, and to educate people in rationality and stop treating mystical beliefs as something sacred. And even then, that isn't gonna really stop the really disconnected-from-reality folks.

As a Canadian, I'm once again saddened by how far this government is falling.
Newly Discovered Glass Frog Looks Just Like Kermit
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12471319 quotes gross mechanical efficiency at 24.5 +/- 0.7% for world class cyclists.

More importantly, however, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15241718 finds no differences in efficiency between world-class and recreational cyclists.

In any case, the "cycling" bit is somewhat of a smoke-screen; it just so happens that it's most easily measured and objective data has long been available through power meters. There is no free-lunch, regardless of the particulars of any sport.

(I should however probably clarify that the power numbers quoted above are mechanical power as measured during cycling, which is pretty much the only sport that even has ways of measuring power reliably)
My personal philosophy is that I will only entertain the question of personhood with any entity which is able, or may become able, to pose that question in the first place.

If there were a real, sentient robot, I would be more than willing to extend such rights.
For those of us not up to date on Canadian politics, does anyone want to briefly explain what C-51 is?
>>> I've been casually following "micro nations" for decades, and attempts are often long remembered

Could you share more? Are there any decent write ups about the more interesting attempts?
There are humans with profound, permanent mental disabilities rendering them less capable of participating in society than your average chimpanzee who retain their rights.

Some chimps are actors in films, performers in circuses, etc.
I see, thanks. Makes sense.

To be fair, it was misleading that the WSJ article said "Google is changing its search algorithm Tuesday to favor sites that look good on smartphones."
As and aside, farmers aren't the only ones interested in old farm equipment. There's a vibrant community of collectors. Both communities tune and refurb the equipment to working order, tho' the collectors go further for appearance.
So there are two groups vying for old equipment, driving prices even further.
GTA V Cracked in 48 hours – Open IV team to start work
> Do desks & tables get special rights?

If you give them sentience, they should.
Kling's laws of social science
> How did you do one file at a time?

I suspect they just flipped a switch causing all files to be run through the transpiler, regardless of filename extension or anything. However at the time the switch was flipped, none of those files actually contained any ES6-specific syntax, so the transpiler was mainly just passing code through unchanged, even though it technically is transpiling everything. Now they're simply going through the code and swapping in ES6 syntax here and there. It all works because 6 is a superset of 5.
Dear Mr Musk,

Perhaps it would be best to work with nature and land the thing on it's side.

Heavily Yours,
Gravity
This kind of thinking leads to war. What I'm saying is that if we really want to create peace, we should think about peace. Not attacking. It doesn't matter who is attacking. If somebody is doing it, then it leads to more of this action.

Sorry for offending you, was not my cause. Just trying to see why somebody would think they should show force even though they are a new country and they have the possibility to act differently than we have done before.

I understand this is not a popular view, as we are being taught that we are "naturally" violent and warmongering race of beings, but I do not feel it is true. I feel it is something that is taught, and something that can be taught out of also.
Our Response to Sony Sending Us a Threat Letter for Reporting on Leaked Emails
I think most people like this are being watched closely in some form of imprisonment, though, aren't they?

A chimp is able to rip a person apart or crush their head in much more easily than a baby, so I don't think the original analogy works.
The software in the farm equipment is useless without the farm equipment. Sure, the "file" may be easy to copy, but building the rest of the tractor to USE the file? Slightly more difficult. And, referring to the article, why would you use a tractor to copy music?

I do think that the cheapest way to get a tractor that would use the software would be to pay Deere for another tractor.
sigh I'm really not sure how to reply to you, I want to say don't feed the trolls but.... make does not suit our needs and so we don't use it. Period.

Also good luck getting source maps + babel + bower + etc to work under make, I honestly don't believe it's possible or if it is it would be so convoluted that it would be impossible to extend or understand.

Gulp may not be a perfect tool (I don't believe such a tool exists) but it's leaps and bounds above make and a better choice than grunt IMHO.
mm it says "java" :(
> Pretty sure it's marketing though, the TGV can be veeery long sometimes, so it takes a while to walk to your assigned car.

Each trainset is a single unit though, so you can just step in at the first car and walk through the train to your seat. The only "danger" is paired trainsets (16 cars), if you're in the further one you have to walk a whole trainset to reach your own train (and even then it's only 200m/660ft), if you're cutting it really close you can probably forego your assigned seat and use the first trainset (you may not get a seat at all though).