skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am extremely skeptical that this type of agriculture will ever make up significant portion of food produced. Pick a random spot in the middle of the US on google maps and zoom in, it will most likely be agricultural fields. USDA says ~51% or 2.3 BILLION acres of land is used just in the US for Ag. Much of that relies on "free" resources like rain and sun shine to be economical. The cost of creating the infrastructure to replace even a tiny fraction of this land would be huge. Plus now you want to replace sunshine with artificial light? Where does this energy some from? Maybe there is some application for this in cities for fresh produce, but I don't see it for staple crops. The only reason it works for marijuana growers is due to the extremely high price they can sell their "crop" for.
It's the motivation that is the same. If you haven't seen it in action you're either very lucky, or not very observant.
>Maybe having someone pay for their sex is the way they have found for external validation for their sex change?

So, this is incredibly insulting. Try getting a decent job while trans. It doesn't happen. Trans people suffer from incredible rates of homelessness and poverty. The one niche that's allowed is sex work. You can bet your ass it's not some kind of weird sexual validation thing for most trans folk, it's just survival: http://www.lgbtmap.org/news/understanding-transgender-issues...
Very inspiring person. It's unfortunate,most of us are unaware of this person.

On his blog he said (http://mihai.sucan.ro/mihai/blog)
> We want you and others to know us by our work, our achievements,

Yes, we came to know you for your work and achievement. Great work Mihai. Thanks for your contributions to opensource world. RIP
I completely understand the sentiment - 40% seems like a lot to be "burning" for the sake of the other 60.

But it's helped me to think about this in a different context: think about the time you spend with your spouse. How much of that time is taken up with "life's necessities" like doing laundry, dishes, prepping meals, cleaning, more cleaning, driving places, even arguing and getting hurt are all part of relationships... And all that stuff takes time and it's not a nice meal out or a walk on the beach or an impromptu dance session. There's a lot of the mundane in our most treasured relationships, and the only people who have a problem with that are teenagers.

Should work/life really be any different?
Thank you, this is a great example. Exactly what I've been looking for.
Actually, as long as you don't install things like Gnome, you can blacklist systemd and run Jessie as any other Debian before it.
As someone who regularly uses Git (and prefers it), RTC really isn't all that bad. I'd even go so far as to recommend it for some teams/companies.
Or "My life would be better if driving a car was for road trips, family visits, adventures and special occasions, not everyday life."
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Angelo Pesce (aka c0de517e) has written about using it as a rendering engineer on his blog[0]. I've heard of others using it in similar scenerios as well, but don't have a link to provide for them.

[0]: http://c0de517e.blogspot.com/2013/10/wolframs-mathematica-10... (among a couple other posts about using it for specific tasks. He also spends some time defending it on there as well)
radiolab episode that deals with this

http://www.radiolab.org/story/91512-musical-language/
What a waste of a key.

It's like those miserable cheat sheets for electronics that contain:

V=IR
R=V/I
I=V/R

First off, if you don't know Ohm's Law you have no business doing anything with electronics - you're going to use the formulas wrongly. Secondly, if you can't trivially derive the various forms in your head, you have no business using them.
Alice ML: Rich Support for Concurrent, Distributed and Constraint Programming
The curious case of low unemployment in recession
I use the language and I enjoy it. As a physicist, I find a lot of value in (1) its ability to do math, (2) its powerful functional nature, and (3) its broad and well-documented standard library. To me, these advantages are well worth the $80 student price I paid years ago. I know that some of the community here dislikes the language for costing money, being closed source, and being marketed by Stephen Wolfram, but to me, it's worth it. I'm often impressed at how quickly I can accomplish complex data analysis tasks. I think the fact that the built-in libraries are consistent in their architecture/documentation adds a surprisingly large amount of value because it makes it easy to do new things quickly.

And of course, I find value in other languages too.
Dwarf Fortress has a Patreon
I believe it. I've had to use many different kinds of frameworks over the years and learning some are almost like learning a completely new language.

It also adds another abstraction layer.
Sure, and that is a fair point, I was just responding to the "sell more visual studio", but of course driving the windows ecosystem in some ways (online, os, whatever) is their stated goal.
Because people (with money to spend on journalism) want a way to pay for just the articles they like.

Note that these microtransactions are where you pay a small amount of money for a small amoint of content. They aren't the burger joint model of MMO DLC where you get the buns as part of the original game, with cheese, burger, salad and condiments as microtransaction downloads.
Show HN: Command line tool to set images from web search as X desktop background
With a stack, things are much simpler.

Exactly how I feel about MtG (end tangent)
How to Control Someone Else’s Arm with Your Brain
OWLTAC FLASHLIGHTS Pressroom on PRLog (OWLTAC)
The number of flaws in software running critical infrastructure is terrifying- very very little of it was ever designed or implemented with serious threats in mind.

If you look at what was done at Natanz then think of what that group could have done against your local power grid, or water supply, or grocery store supply chain, it is scary.

As an American, our current wars are all fought in distant lands- out of sight and mostly out of mind. The next generation of warfare will strike home.
I am the guy who mentioned shinken[0].

I totally agree, and as I mentioned, configuration compatibility was NOT a selling point at all - I just mentioned it as a property of shinken that makes it (supposedly) a drop-in nagios replacement without even the need to reconfigure.

I see that as a selling point for testing (not relevant to me because I didn't have a previous nagios installation) - to test shinken for real, you just install it (a couple of apt-gets) and run it - you don't need to configure it.

Once you've actually decided to commit to a new system, configuration compatibility with your old system is much less important, of course (provided it's not a tangled mess of 1000 hand edited files)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinken_%28software%29
Yeah noticed, but I was suprised it wasn't actually completely black but with just quick flash of an image once in a while.
For what it's worth, you can get most of that privacy back by revoking the app's permission to use your Google account, at https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions .

I once made the mistake of trying to actually log in to Quora, they pulled that bait and switch, and I had to do this just so that Quora would stop re-directing me to their signup process.
NASA has used metric exclusively since 2007.[1] I bet an important motive was the loss of the said craft.

[1] http://www.space.com/3332-nasa-finally-metric.html
Yeah, I know the point of the post is make the US look just as bad as those other countries, but if you read the explanation, you can clearly see that you won't get the death penalty for just drug trafficking in the US.
> "Come when you want".

Except for anyone who does daily standups first thing in the morning.
NASA spec'd a system that outputs values in metric, Lockheed provided one that output values in customary units. The problem was a failure of verifications/validation, not of units per se.
Simpsons did it. https://vimeo.com/87962641
More importantly, has anyone you know ever clicked a Twitter ad?
If you spent a lot of time with 20" squares (carpenter?), I bet you'd start to notice that 19" looked small, even in isolation.
Yeah. The coverage area of the transmitter must be massive.
Sapir-Whorf hypothesis for music.
Good bye to Kalahari.com
Except Lenin was long dead by then.
Yuck Facebook's Internet.org App to Launch in Nigeria
It also protects against your wife getting out of the car with the key in her purse while you drive back home after dropping her off.
AWS has had muti-user accounts for 5 years.
> details of what they like/would likely click on/spend money on

These details can only be extracted with very complex natural language processing techniques.

> where they are in the world

The vast majority of Twitter users have no structured geographic location.

> what age they are, what gender they are

Twitter doesn't even have fields to enter age and data. It's all inferred, which makes it difficult to extract accurately (if at all).
> He did things out of perceived neccesity that many are critical of in hindsight, but few historians would argue Lenin wasn't actively trying to improve the lives of men.

I bet most (all?) tyrants genuinely believe they are doing the right thing. Murderers in prison mostly believe their crimes were justified.
Crazy robots? Isn't Glacier just tape storage? Big companies use regular robots for that.
If you think that is privileged, think about the "money buys you freedom" line (which is my line as well, fwiw).

Most people in this country and the world do not make nearly enough money to even begin to think like this.
It is a lucky fact that for the past 10 years huge investments have been made in securing infrastructure inside the United States. That's not to say we aren't assailable (look at Natanz - it was an air gapped network; or better yet look at the attacks on US infrastructure we do know about).

Washington has compared cyberwarefare to Basketball rather than Soccer. In Soccer the offense and defense are mostly matched and the team to score those few big shots take the victory. Cyberwar isn't like that. Cyberwar is like Basketball. The defense can only slow the offense - and the victor is the team that scores more points, more often.

I do not know about the implication about wars being fought on the homefront. As far as kinetic warfare it seems less likely - but yeah when it comes to cyber essentially every country has a home there.

One more note. The military, from this year onward, is investing in something known as red teaming as a standard process for military R&D. Red teaming is the active no holds barred exercise where hackers are set loose on a target while a blue team tries to detect, mitigate and expunge them. Red teaming will now until forever be featuring in the development of new US weapon systems. Everything from RPGs to tanks and helicopters to drones to radar to radios.
As a developer, how accurate do you think Twitter's user numbers really are? There are a ton of fake accounts out there. Some are semi-legit (for development), but there are millions of followers available for purchase and Twitter has only removed a fraction compared to Facebook from my anecdotal evidence. What do you think?
Expressing Haskell's (.) in C is much, much harder. ($) is almost trivial.
This makes me desperately miss my register tape 10-key at my old desk. I wish I could find an iPhone app that acts like a 10-key adding machine.
I'm pretty sure everyone cares about plugin compatibility, and a few people are impressed by the finesse involved in bringing configuration compatibility.

Your point about the ease of compatibility testing is quite salient.
Delivery was a bigger thing in the railroad era. Department stores and grocery stores used to deliver. UPS began as United Parcel Service, delivering for department stores. In some older houses, there's a pass-through compartment into the kitchen, so that bags of groceries can be delivered from the outside and retrieved from the inside.

Now it's coming back, now that the ordering end can be automated.
Amazon has an incredibly tightly packed homepage with images and text. that's an obscene challenge to layout without obscuring content or missing up proportions. The inside pages use regular layout and are more liberal
"Then you did not have a regular job. You had a job that paid you enough to support yourself while retaining enough free time and mental energy to pursue your startup idea. For most people, this is not the case (esp. the mental energy bit)."

I did have a 'regular job'. Most people party, hang out with their friends, and do plenty of other things in their free time. If you have the mental energy to do any of these things (or a hobby), you have the mental energy to start a company.

I worked 50 hours a week coding. Did I always have the mental energy? Of course not. But I had the discipline to continue on..even when I didn't 'feel' like it.

"For most people, this is not the case (esp. the mental energy bit)."

Most people don't want to sacrifice their fun time. I found this to be the case when I tried to find co-founders. All liked the idea of a startup, but none wanted to sacrifice their TV, friends, or bar time. It's one of the reasons why I have a successful company today..and most don't.
Amazon launched years before CSS2. If it ain't broke...
> The important thing is to have public transport that is cheap, clean, efficient, 99.9% on-time and can handle large amounts of passengers.

Couldn't agree more. Situation is very similar in Tokyo. Almost from anywhere in the city, one can walk to a train station within 15 min; and trains come every 5-10 min if not more often. I was very surprised when I had to wait for 1 hour for CalTrain to go from airport to Palo Alto.
While i think you make an interesting if often neglected point about chickens and eggs, chicken coops have a much firmer chronology and use. I maintain that if there was such a device as you described, and i have my doubts, that i'd be able to find some sort of evidence online based on the coolness of gargantuan soviet era devicery.

So, before i write this off as a complete waste of time, can you link me to any pictures or descriptions or even (gasp) books wherein i could learn about the PLA-1 or its successor, the PLA-1A? Cyrillic or english is fine.
"I'm offended that the person thinks adults are too "weak" or "sensitive" to be made fun of and have to be treated like children. Or did the thought that being treated like a temperamental child might be offensive to someone not cross your mind?"

using this logic if I accidentally bump into you, push you around a bit, are you so sensitive that you take offense? Can you take it? or will you take offense and push back?

What is going on here is just as much your response as the other persons. The key here again is, is it being done with intent to harm? If so, it speaks volumes about yourself.
iPad software issue grounds 'a few dozen' American Airlines flights
Surely there's a little more to it than that.
Because people consume a lot of little things. Ads are essentially involuntary micro-payments. It's a way of aligning the interests of content-creators and with their users rather than their sponsors. What's wrong with micro-payments?
Johnson also pushed back on the tech industry’s demand for greater encryption, saying that it hinders the government’s ability to detect criminal activity. The trend toward deeper encryption is an issue that “presents real challenges to those in law enforcement and national security,” Johnson said. “We need your help to find the solution.”

Interesting stance to state publicly.
Expansion packs or Addons came with a lot more high quality content with many more hours of actual gameplay content on a separate CD/DVD. The CD/DVD can be sold later.

Since 2006, a DLC is usually a minor content like a horse decoration, a car, a few short missions worth 1-2 hours gameplay, etc. DLCs come also with DRM, you cannot sell it later. (Also used in conjunction as pre-order bonus on e.g. Amazon or Steam) (Some still release Addons, some call Addons DLCs, but generally it is the way as described above.)
We do that. And attending via Skype is perfectly OK.
Which private companies will benefit from new government policies on cyber warfare? What about new companies that need to be created?
Twitter, like Facebook, has beacons on just about every website out there, thanks to website owners who are all too happy to make it easy for visitors to click "like" or "tweet" in the hopes of attracting attention. You don't even have to post a single Tweet for Twitter to know about what you're into.
No one say it would be easy to work on the things you love: sacrifice have to be made, and there shall be big challenges.

We could argue it's impossible for someone to do it due to external circumstances of being less privilege; think about some of the public figures who made it? Are these people doing the impossible more privileged than you are?
"I am best in the world at physically occupying the space I exist in"

That's gold :)
What happens when you transpose one of your first chord songs?
Dynamic dispatch isn't really a replacement for true pattern matching, as pcwalton explains downthread. Local variables (which would be represented as some sort of scope/context object) are one problem, but so is encapsulation. Why would you make the assumption that (X data) knows how to draw itself? What if you're doing something like handling system events? The only true replacement here would be the visitor pattern—which itself is a PITA for a bunch of reasons.
Simple Smalltalk Testing with Patterns (1989)
Amazon hasn't publicly stated what technology Glacier is based on.

It's been speculated that instead of throwing out previous generation AWS hardware, they're simply repurposing then into cheap storage nodes for Glacier.
Kudos to the company for supporting Loïc Hoguin's work on Cowboy.

One of my favorite features of Cowboy is its REST handling[1], which models a resource as a state machine with callbacks for various behaviors. The API is similar to Webmachine (another great Erlang project); I find it's a much clearer abstraction than mapping each HTTP verb + route to a function, which is what most "REST" frameworks do.

[1] http://ninenines.eu/docs/en/cowboy/1.0/guide/rest_handlers/
GoPro just bought a virtual reality company
I know this buzzfeed generation prefers 'top fives' and '20 mosts', but if you look at the history of Russia from ~1224 to now, it is hard to not think that Stalin has the top score solely because of technology, not brutality. if killing loads of people for vague reasons were in the olympics, russia would always win.
I got redirected here: http://faceretirement.merrilledge.com/no-flash/ I thought I'd had enough of cutesy error messages, but actually got a laugh out of "The future runs on Adobe Flash®. Not really, but this site does."
I've always found it best to stick with a pleasent middle ground. I use a Casio fx82au-plus and it has enough complexity and functionality to suit my needs whilst behaving as expected when anyone in the office asks to borrow a calculator. Otherwise, my iPhone is perfectly capable...
In rust, can't you just use a {} block to force the scope limitation?

(I've just browsed the rust docs, never written anythign in it)

fn do_stuff() {
// already inside a function!
{
// allocate here...
let x = Giraffe();
}
// should be deallocated by now. right?
}
Author and presenter here; happy to answer any questions people might have.
It's also something we are very proud of.

It turns out, if you give people the opportunity to read in an elegant and easy way, and provide articles written by great journalists, the refund ratio stays very low (avarage of 5%).

Of course, the flip side of that (as the article mentions) is that click-baity articles tend to get a high refund ratio (sometimes up to 50%). But such a "negative" result might actually be a net-positive for journalism in general.
Fireeye, Cloud (Microsoft, Amazon and Google), Facebook, RSA, CloudFlare, IBM, Intel, chip manufacturers, pentesting companies... lots of new companies... actually the list is quite long...
50 Social  Accounts Agitating in #Ferguson Active in #Baltimore- Weasel Zippers
Your views on how religions were "designed" seems flawed. You're making it sound as if concepts were added or modified just like that, when in reality, a spiritual belief mutates as people's beliefs change (for whatever reason eg. it could be a priest telling them or a vision someone has through use of psychoactive substances) similar to how science iterates. For people who believe, their spiritual experiences are as real as gravity, as much science as an article in Nature.
You can see this mutation I speak of if you've ever been part of a newly-made religious group. Similarly, it can also be easily visualized if you're part of any subculture as it evolves.

> why would anyone choose to believe in a negative afterlife as opposed to none at all

I'd like to point out belief is not a "choice". You don't choose to believe in an afterlife, for example, you either believe in it or you don't. You can, obviously, modify your beliefs in many ways, but ultimately, it's not as simple as a choice.
> (also, everytime I see an LWN article here, I keep meaning to subscribe, but I mostly read HN at work, and I usually forget by the time I get home... I feel really bad about that)

If you work anywhere even remotely related to Open Source, I'd recommend getting your employer to get a corporate subscription. It's one of the single most valuable news sources I read; it summarizes LKML and numerous other first-hand sources, as well as many conferences, summits, and other in-person events.
This has been stated a number of times by officials - it's not considered classified or anything. This is 100% absolutely the policy of Washington and has been since before Clinton.
If we're defining privilege that broadly, most people are privileged in some way... to the point where the word is basically meaningless.
complete non sequitur but in the same vein (boosh) if you are into weird body stuff check out this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hunter_%28surgeon%29
You're forgetting craigslist.

Year after year, same old "ugly" site, same old boring use case.

I wish I'd thought of it.
Working on that.
Imagine you have to organise a large group of people to do some complicated job. You give everyone very explicit instructions (computers are better at following instructions than people, but imagine that these people are good at this). Nobody does anything until you've finished giving instructions. Then you shout "go!" and everything happens.

This is what we're doing here. We very explicitly separate our program into two times -- giving the instructions, and shouting "go!" (calling run). Before we shout "go!", substitution holds. Once we shout "go!" we don't give instructions any more.

In Haskell you don't even call `run` -- the runtime does this for you.

There is no Noble Lie. There is a time (a world if you like) where substitution holds. We assemble our program in this time / world. There is a time / world where the program is run. We don't construct the program in this world. (This may sound restrictive, but it isn't.)

Play with the code. The example is straightforward and easy to extend.