skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with you, both local farmers I talk to and family are speaking of the new generation being brought up farming. There's still a lot of family involvement in the industry and those young farmers taking over the family land are extremely interested in relevant and modern technology. They'll be a huge driving force in the coming years.

And farmers still talk. If Farmer Brown and Farmer Ted are sittin' down at the local terminal having their coffee they talk about their equipment. Word of mouth still matters huge in the areas I work in.
Nice. Have been using django CMS since version 2.x and the decision to move away from django-mptt is a blessing.
Local delivery - seems worth doing yourself to better understand all customer nuances

Payment processing/other existing website tech - buy instead of build
There's been 10 patches (2 with remote code execution exploits) and no version bump. Are they trying to make it seem like their product is more secure or stable by not incrementing the version?
Copyright law is an exception.

The laws of the physical world mean that, if you give/sell an object to another party, you no longer have access to it yourself. This is where concepts like the first sale doctrine come into play - it's your one tangible thing, and you can do with it whatever you like. You control that one, and only that one, instance of the thing.

Intangibles can be given/sold to another party without relinquishing your use of the original (because copies are free). You can buy one CD and gives copies of the music on it to 1,000,000 people without cost, and without giving up your right to the original. Even if you could copy an engine for relatively cheaply, the same economics do not apply.

Therefore, an exception exists to our physical property laws to cover this edge case: copyright law. As userbinator notes, there are other areas of intellectual property law that may apply to physical goods (e.g. patents), but you asked what the difference is between digital programming and mechanical: the difference is that digital programming is intangible, so it can be copied ad naseum, so the ownership exception we call copyright law applies.
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My favourite way is via JSPM and live-server. I got into that after watching this amazing dev video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iukBMY4apvI
I wonder what people in 67 thought was more unlikely, to have a computer that does all that we see computers do in that movie but in a size that fits in your pocket or a machine that makes your lunch. I bet the food making kitchen looked much more likely, sadly, we got pocket super computers, but still doing our own cooking pretty much the same way we did in 67, except microwave ovens perhaps... (well, I saw there is a kickstarter that plans to change that... but still...)

Except that, it's pretty amazing how they got a lot of these things right (except the notion that people of the future will know to press random buttons to get what they want, UX was not envisioned as an issue back then...)
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Thanks for that, reasons against a particular technology is the single most important thing when I encounter one of the latter. Bonus points if the project itself tells me what's bad with it, maybe in a "we know X, Y and Z suck, but we're working on them" way.
> If someone can provide a definition of rich and can show the majority of people meeting that definition of rich stay in that class for very long, I'd be interested in seeing the data supporting it.

Isn't that "Capital in the Twenty-First Century"? It's proved.
Javascript ~ Webdev overkill
http://robert-tomsons.de/infofiles/00034_Javascript.php
Any person who wants to express their "unique viewpoints" or "relevant but controversial opinions" runs the risk of being taken for a troll. That risk can be mitigated but not eliminated with thoughtful writing and careful exposition supported by examples, rationales, and sound logic. If it's not worth the risk, then I don't write it. Upon realizing what I am writing is crap, I delete it. If I realize what I have written is crap, I delete it if it's not to late.

And when I've decided to risk it, I live with the downvotes. I don't expect everyone to be as brilliant as I like to imagine myself to be...including myself. Write good comments and downvotes aren't much of an issue.
Stallman is not a tenured academic. He's the president of a non-profit (the FSF). He makes his living from people's voluntary donations and (I presume) speaking fees.
> the same journey can either cost £27 or £72 -- these will be the same class on the same day, just different times.

Or just bought at different times. I recently saw a return train ticket for £50, the next day it was £90, the next back to £50. I bought it then so not sure what happened after that. Admittedly that example was travelling over easter but it's a consistent annoyance.
I honestly don't think the US could handle a doubling of flyers, we will have outgrown our current infrastructure yet it's almost impossible to expand it. Like it or not, the price of airline tickets is probably going in one direction for the foreseeable future.

Most of the people coming out of poverty would not be in the US.
same here. in principle, one can mix and match serif and sans-serif fonts as deemed fitting, but this here seems to be a mistake. the designers wanted to use a font named Arvo, but failed to include it via @font-face. thus, the browser falls back to the default serif font.
Why not use the third person view? Not for a racing sim like gran turismo or whatever, but it is easily my preferred way for games like gta or nfs
Also it is easier to crash a train when you aren't on it. All you need is a sufficiently long prybar.
Sendgrid was rejected from YC.
Well, sure. You're not going to get upvoted at all if everyone disagrees with you.

But I've noted a very distressing tendency toward comments accumulating significant downvotes not for being wrong, but for being different. Hell, I just got multiple downvotes for saying you should use containers for development even if you're developing on a Linux desktop, because containers are repeatable and your desktop is not. That's kind of a duh thing, but apparently people find it offensive. That's one example, but I've seen it happen a lot, and to a lot of posters making technically correct and logically valid points.
New Way to Use Selenium with Real Devices on Cloud
Bluetooth SIG releases developer toolkit
Yeah, that's a great feature. I wish HN had something like that.
Sorry, but starting from reasonable-sounding principles of ethics and following their logical consequences is how I became an anarcho-capitalist in my early 20's. Ethics can't be reduced to math.
Disclaimer: I have been running my own businesses nearly whole adult life with the exception of a short period in a tech corp.

Your offense to the "greedy" label is misguided at best and manufactured at worst. You do correctly identify that the current state of markets have locked most agents whose only goal os to make money into Nash equilibrium, where "everyone has to optimize for profits". Duh.

However, this quote of yours is demonstratably false in general: "satisfy customer needs at the right value and quality". See: Comcast, HSBC, 90-s Microsoft, Enron, MPAA etc etc. That is the main point of the ideology that you were so quick to rage at: current market and financial policies mostly do not incentivize generation of social good. Most profits are made when corporations are in a monopoly position with significant power imbalance.

Your diatribe also completely ignores negative externalities that many large megacorps are offloading on the society. See walmart with a significant chunk of its employees receiving food stamps from the government. Many non-profits compete with for-profits and they are "non-greedy" by definition. Conveniently missing from your rant.

Your comment is so wrong, yet so full with righteous anger.
Sometimes you can benefit in multiple ways. As davismwfl suggests, it might raise your profile. You could probably film it (or get them to film it) and stick the result on udemy to recoup your losses...
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Put them in touch with us :)

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If you don't have bags and are checked in online, you can totally show up 20 minutes before a flight (just know the geometry of the place cause it might take a lot of walking/trams). I show up usually around 65 minutes before departure at SFO (international flight with checked bags); never had a problem.
There is also sinatra, which has had a stable API for years.
Doesn't he have an office at MIT in the Gates building?

In any case, it doesn't impact what I said. His gig is nice if you can get it, but I don't think the FSF can afford to pay everyone who works on GNU code.
Yes, people kept on doing animal test after the deformities were confirmed on rabbits. That just makes it more fucked up, not less.
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I'm not a vim user, so I cannot vouch for it, but is Villustrator [0] or Vivify [1] helpful?

0: http://www.villustrator.com/
1: http://bytefluent.com/vivify/
both Google and Facebook have Seattle office.
I'm not seeing the widespread public buy-in and rampant wishful thinking I've seen before.

I am... there is way too much funny money floating around into companies that have virtually no chance of ever becoming profitable. There's also a ton of institutional money being funneled into late-state companies (in much the same way that it funneled into real estate in 2007), trying to replicate the Yuri Millner/Facebook model -- but how many of those companies will become Facebook? If you need a laugh, check out the latest interview with the Slack CEO:

It’s pretty straightforward. I’ve been in this industry for 20 years. This is the best time to raise money ever. It might be the best time for any kind of business in any industry to raise money for all of history, like since the time of the ancient Egyptians. It’s certainly the best time for late-stage start-ups to raise money from venture capitalists since this dynamic has been around.

And as a board member and a C.E.O., I have a responsibility to our employees, to our customers. And as a fiduciary, I think it would be almost imprudent for me not to accept $160 million bucks for 5-ish percent of the company when it’s offered on favorable terms.

We don’t have an immediate use for that money. But it increases the value of our stock and can allow potential employees to take our offers, and it reinforces the perception for our larger customers that we’ll be around for the long haul. All of that stuff.
There is little wrong with DRM as a concept, "But" just because you call something DRM does not mean it should be able to do anything.

IMO, a DRM bill of rights needs to exist to qualify for government protection. Data needs to be transferable FOR FREE to a new user. You can't shut down your DRM servers without first removing the DRM. You can't remotely change anything on a user’s system. Source code must be freely available for security researchers. DRM can only protect information not the operation of a physical device.
I'm hardly the expert to comment on this, but I'll make the response just for future historical reference (may be I am completely wrong.) Certainly there is a bubble in asset prices now, presuming interest rates do not remain zero or negative forever.

The great irony is that at some point extra money can deflate prices rather than increase depending on where that money is applied. E.g. build enough solar panel factories in China and eventually everyone gets to flood the market with cheap solar panels. So it is not clear that more cheap money will increase prices for a very long time. The second irony is if the Fed and other central banks hit their goal of increase prices, the wealthy won't feel anything but it will hit the poor and middle classes very, very hard. As in choosing when to eat meals hard.

The thing most analysts miss is there is all of this 'new' money but we still have huge future liability holes. This is both with debt which requires future cashflows to pay off along with future promises which may not be able to be met. This is very apparent in underfunded pension funds. Despite many different metrics pointing to all time highs in US stock market valuations (many ways to cut this pie) we still have big pensions funds that are 50% funded or less (Illinois & Chicago for one.) That is with expected 7%+ returns year after year in to the future. If their future gains are a lot lower its even worse. Pension fund problems are visible, insurance, annuities, etc are opaque. There could be huge problems there still. Banks aren't even that well capitalized still.

We could imagine quantitative easing, money printing, and cheap money as something that could be shoveled in to huge holes of "negative" money. As long as those huge holes exist, the stimulus is not going to perform as expected. If the stimulus is through more debt its plausible these holes are staying the same or getting larger. Certainly it is possible that all of this money has done a great deal already including preventing wide spread bank failures.

My general thesis is we are in a period of time where technology and monetary policy are in direct and absolute conflict with each other. Monetary policy is totally reliant on inflation to pay off future debt and claims. On the other hand, technology is about delivering more at a much cheaper price. We want a market for $1000 iPhones, not $1 billion iPhones. We want software that delivers 1000x more value to a customer, not that costs 1000x more. Fuck, hn wouldn't be here and we would all be living in a bizarre universe if things were the other way around. May be there would be the global market for 10 supercomputers or whatever was once predicted.
This is what happens when your search engine monopoly also has a mobile OS.

Frankly, I hate most mobile sites. For most sites I just use an app or deal with the desktop site. On a 5" android phone, desktop browsing isn't bad. Its a shame companies with great mobile apps but non-mobile sites will be punished by this, yet half-assed responsive design sites will be rewarded.

I wish google would use its muscle for good once in a while. How about lowering the rank of sites that have all those in-page pop-ups? Or refuse content until you log in with a facebook or similar account? That's stuff real people complain about. The mobile stuff seems to have been taken care of for the most part and, frankly better, via Apple's approach of convincing everyone to buy an iphone and sites having to either serve them via apps or via mobile themes via customer demand.

Google's heavy-handed approach is pretty concerning. If users and the market aren't dying for mobile sites, why is google unilaterally forcing them down everyone's throats via the completely unrelated pagerank system? If sites are of poor quality, people won't link to them, and pagerank will work as designed. Google is just making modifications to help sell its Android product.

Sadly, this won't lead to some mobile renaissance (we already had one and its working fine). We're just going to get a lot of "SEO-optimized" crappy responsive design that will be a checkmark on a list of requirements no one really gives a shit about. Good mobile sites are hard. Get ready for the cookie-cutter mobile half-assery that will limit content, break functionality, etc just because everyone is chasing that precious pagerank value.

Not to mention, its not 2008 anymore. Everyone has a mobile site. Those that don't probably just can't afford one, like very small business and other edge cases (applications that are only used on desktops for niche needs and have no need for mobile). Google is just pissing on those least able to move swiftly in an ever changing technological world.
>It would seem relevant to bump up results that will actually deal well with said mobile user accessing them

If you need to "bump them up" it means their ranking is lower - that is, they're (supposed to be) less relevant. It's arguable it's a good service for the user.
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This is a very dumb question. I understand how to implement Dijkstra's Algorithm. But if I want to get from point A to point B then how do I find the exact path?

I have to do some processing after running the algorithm, right?
I'd rather use a database purpose built for what I'm using it for. I.e., if I'm using Postgres, I'll suck it up and plan a schema. Their json stuff strikes me as a second class citizen.
Yes, though in a recent Q&A video he said Soylent is probably just fine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwpgHvO4A0E#9m05s

These are general guidelines for the masses. "Avoid processed foods, except things like Soylent" is unnecessarily clunky.
When you're reasonable enough to describe everyone who disagrees with you as "assholes"...

QED. Thanks for proving this entire conversation chain was not in vain.
Google's new mobile friendly search algorithm
I've got an example seed project [1] for angular that uses the latest ES6 modules specification. I took the approach of not only giving an example of just an app, but also the entire workflow. Bundling together a bunch of different technologies to make a really well integrated solution. Most importantly, testing is treated as a first class citizen.

[1] https://github.com/lookfirst/systemjs-seed/
> electric hybrid fuel cell

Sounds heavy and underpowered.
Kibana doesn't follow the current recommended style guide.
However I see both worlds, Google currently recommends a flat style, like

component_a/
component_a-service.js
component_a-controller.js
component_b/
component_b-service.js
...

while most people will do:
services/
customer-service.js
hello-service.js
controllers/
controller_a.js
controller_b.js
...

However thats the hardest part of your application, to find the style which suites your use cases
That's a good idea, but I don't see it happening. Perverse incentives abound on every side. Everyone wants this tilted their way.

We had a very good system in the age of printed and recorded media. Not perfect, but good. We just have to figure out how to update it, or figure out a new one. Part of my point was that this hasn't happened yet, and I'm sad that few seem to be thinking about this from all sides snd really working on it.
How well did that work out? I mean, really? YouTube just completely switched from Flash, many other video sites are still pushing Flash or sometimes even Silverlight, HTML5 gaming has still yet to really take off the way Flash gaming did. All Apple did was push these interactions to native apps instead of on the web.

It's been what, 8 years since the iPhone was released, and Flash is still around. I didn't notice a huge decrease in Flash usage when Jobs made the announcement. It doesn't hurt that they have strong competition and Android can still to this day play Flash content if the user wants.
One wonders how the corporations farm them. The situation you describe doesn't sound like it would be any more economically feasible for them to work than your neighbor.

(Hm. Random calculation: 120 bushels of corn at 56 lbs per bushel, per acre, is about 11 metric tons per hectare[1]. According to the FDA[2], the US average projected production for 2014/2015 is 10.7 metric tons (the world average is about half that), so your field is pretty decent.)

[1] Thank you, units!
You have: (181 * 56) pounds per acre
You want: metrictons per hectare
* 11.360947
/ 0.088020829

[2] http://apps.fas.usda.gov/psdonline/circulars/production.pdf
Australia is ahead of us here.

http://www.news.com.au/national/taxi-driver-told-blind-woman...

$740 AUD fine for refusing to transport a dog.

Taxis in the US already face suspension of license if they refuse service animals in most states. Only fair Uber be held to the same standards.
What mobile device is wikipedia designed for exactly? Its such a small and spartan design that it seems like the kind of thing you'd see on an early 2000's site when stuff like Palm and Windows Mobile came out.

Why aren't the sections already opened by default? Why aren't there any images? My phone out-performs desktops from just a few years back. I don't need this super-minimalist wikipedia. I just need something that's slightly more responsive because I don't have the horizontal space to handle all of its columns properly.
That's great, thanks !
I am an advocate of paired programming. A lot of organizations do it really poorly. Your examples show exactly where it does not work.

First off, sometimes you have a bunch of minor tasks that need to be taken care of, like updating some text in the UI or fixing a button size, also in the UI. Is there a reason that you have to sit down and plan to only do that? If you have a well prioritized backlog and the freedom to get work done these scenario's should be more like:

"Let's work on adding this new feature here." "Ok that's a good one, we'll need to do a, b, and c to get it all wired up, working and tested. Hey since we're in that part of the code there are some small tasks about changing the button size and the text here, let's make sure to get those done." ... "Great! we completed the new feature, fixed the button size, and the text. Merge it!"

I never sat down with my pair for the day and said "Ok go fix that button. Great, merge that. What's next?" It was always a discussion of the most valuable thing to get done and any collateral issues that could also be fixed. In this case, we often got more done.

Second, if you had a pair partner sitting around doing nothing, there is a problem. They aren't engaged. They either need to become engaged or not be in an environment where there is paired programming. That is ok! But they need to admit it and move on.

Pairing works well if you have the people and processes in place to allow it to work well. If there are people sitting on their hands, then there is a problem. Though I would argue that if you took away paired programming, the same engineers would often still be sitting on their hands, playing on facebook.
Target a poor country, not the US. That will cut down your CPC dramatically.
Shame it's Chrome only.
But if a more relevant website is always going to trump a less relevant one (where for relevant I mean: contains the answer to the question the user has submitted) - then what is the effect of bumping mobile friendly websites? None, it would seem - unless there were two websites perfectly identical in every respect except for mobile friendliness, a case that must be pretty rare.
Webpack is a very good solution too. I really like jspm, and especially the dedication of its main developer, but I found much easier to integrate webpack in my build process than jspm. More features, a bit less bugs.
Just happened to catch your comment in passing, so I'll reply quickly.

It's true that things fall off the front page quickly, but that's why there's a "More" link. It doesn't take long to click through, scan the headlines, and check on the ones that look interesting.

It's also true that things wouldn't fall off the front page if there weren't so many duplications! It's less of a problem now, but I remember occasions when several of the front page submissions were all about the same thing, each with their own conversation, and preventing other topics from making it.

And as you say, at any given moment there are likely to be more than 30 "in progress" topics in the tech world, so the only solution is clicking through to see those items ranked 31 to 60, and 61 to 90. There is nothing else you can do. In part that's why I think it's important and relevant to link related conversations/submissions. Duplications will happen, items will fall off (or never make) the front page, so the best we can hope for is coherent discussions.

Hope that makes things clearer. Now I'm off to do some work. Cheers.
How is that different than shoving them in a cage and stuffing them in an airplane's cargo bay?
Chrome 42 disables NPAPI, Oracle recommends other browsers for Java