skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Man that sounds lovely. (I assume you do independent development, freelancing/consulting, or work remotely in dev?)

Just the other day I was checking out the blog by http://foodcyclist.com/farm-blog/

He's not a super techie, he has a few websites and it's not always super professionally structured, but check it out. He's basically a dude who got into farming later in life, first did an apprenticeship, and then started his own community supported agriculture (CSA) business.

His initial focus was chickens which you mentioned wanting to do. It's looks like it's pretty easy for him. He orders chicks online, they have enough food in their bellies to survive the trip in the mail (sounds crazy but apparently it's a normal thing). He has a heat lamp and a basic food/water installation. He designed his own pens for the older chicken for which he has a blueprint online for free, they're actually very neat. And then he has to do the butchering which is the worst part, but he has about 60 customers for his CSA who paid him upfront for the season (I think about 20 weeks), and he delivers one whole chicken to them per week, so about 50 per week, and he actually has a very high chicken price at about $25 or so. Anyway so all these people basically paid him in advance, so he starts with $30k and can make the investments he needs to. (seller discretionary cashflow is about $8k per year).

I can easily see how producing 1 chicken per week for your family, plus eggs, is a piece of cake. He's now also moving into other things, eggs, crops, hogs and vineyards and his own brewery. You can see some of his financial plans for 2015 here: http://www.farmmarketingsolutions.com/about/income-reports/2...

The cool thing is he's trying to be 100% transparent. Very interesting insight into small-scale farming. Providing for yourself is pretty easy, not trivial but very very doable. Providing for a CSA also looks like a very decent business, it's hard work but you can compete because people pay a premium for this stuff. On a larger scale I'm skeptical, selling wholesale really sucks and it just doesn't seem to be worth it unless you automate it (which seems only economical when you get economies of scale, i.e. a large scale) largely, or go big on certification and find a bio/eco/sustainability/local niche that wholesalers are seeing increased demand for themselves, too. Anyway I know that's not really your goal here but I thought I'd share the link :) All the best
Yes, similar idea. Mostly focused on personal applications, and small apps. Will probably add additional features in the future for doing more advanced queries, message queues, etc.
Good question. Nature usually favours diversity so I'm skeptical at how convenient this really is at a Molecular Biology level.
Good question. Nature usually favours diversity so I'm.
Good question. And Nature usually favours diversity so I'm skeptical at how convenient this idea really is at a Molecular Biology level.
"The student doesn't get to decide what's important."

Never forget that. They can decide if they liked the course or not, if they liked your teaching or not, but they are simply not qualified to make a general judgement of its worth.
over 70 years of age or over 70 sample size?
Ad Network?

Contact as may publishers as you can and offer them INSANE payouts for serving your ads. That way you get some initial movement.

Then go to Affiliate Marketing Forums and promote your traffic source there. Affiliates will eat it up if you manage to get some volume.

Affiliates are eager to test out virgin traffic sources.
If the only thing Apple does is simply pay people to poke around the app on an iPhone for a few minutes, then by that assertion there should be a stunning amount of Malware on the AppStore. I mean, all you have to do is place a time delay code, or a server side activation procedure, and you would be able to bypass all manual checks. What on earth makes you think that Apple does NOT use malware scanning. I mean, it's easy to setup, easy to implement, and cheep. This is why Google went to manual scanning first, and only later on went to human and AI assisted checks, which are harder and more expensive to setup.

In any case, you made an assertion that Apple does NOT run automated scans, unlike Google. I asked for proof. Now you demand proof from me that they do. It doesn't work that way. You made an assertion first, you back it up.

My proof is in the result. AppStore has next to no malware on it. PlayStore (now) is also very clean and safe. Google achieved this through combination of automated and manual vetting. Apple is notoriously silent about their process, other than advertising their one USP, which is no longer unique, but given if we use logic, we must assume that both companies use similar tools to achieve similar results.

Your assertion that Apple is far less secure would suggest much more malware being live on the AppStore, and yet in my search on google I was only able to find a few older articles about researches being able to smuggle in custom written malicious code onto AppStore. Meanwhile, while searching for malware on iOS, google presented me this in a search result at some point:

http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/03/new-adware-found-in-google-...

That's just one example from 2015. I don't think it's fair to check back to 2014 and prior, as back than Google Play Store was basically Wiled Wiled West.
I can't recall the source at the moment (it was linked to a military history site), but the U.S. apparently took similar actions when its geopolitical power was on the rise. It didn't create artificial islands but it showed up in areas far away from home and claimed them as U.S. territory. The British didn't ask if half the world wanted to be subservient to its empire.

It's not a simple matter of right or wrong, it's just what countries with power do. Although where the line is drawn is ever shifting. It's generally agreed Germany invading Poland in 1939 was wrong but European nations prior to the mid-20th century claimed large parts of Africa, Asia and, of course, the Americas, and felt perfectly justified doing so. Invading ones neighbor became more of a taboo after the creation of the nation state and whether an aggressive annexation or expansion is "right" or "wrong" depends entirely on who is writing the narrative. The U.S. is always in the right and justified according to...the United States. China is always right according to China. Which narrative prevails in the historical record depends upon which nation or group exerts the most influence over its competitors. Sometimes acts are universally condemned as atrocities if they go far beyond the unwritten rules... the Holocaust being the most obvious example. OTOH the decimation and subjugation of indigenous people in the Americas by the European colonialists and later the United States, Canada and the Latin American nations barely registers on the contemporary "atrocity radar" even though the effects are still present today.

It's a funny old world... or perhaps it's a nasty mess of a world or a combination of the two, depending on who is doing the assessing. It will be interesting to see how China's island building adventure pans out in the long-term.
I agree, that would be awesome to study/emulate. Possibly use some of the techniques to make GHCJS programs smaller.
HAL solves this issue pretty well, doesn't it?
> "Typical housing prices in Kangbashi have fallen from $1,100 to $470 per square foot, over the last five years alone."

> Maybe the price was quoted in $/m^2 and the unit was mistakenly switched to square feet at some point?

May make sense since the m^2 prices would be the more rounded $12,000 and $5,000. Though it's also likely the price was also switched from RMB to $.
Potentially smart move. I always argued Oracle should buy them and have end to end business services. Hardware OS database language applications and integrated phone services. I guess the only thing Microsoft would be missing from the picture is the hardware, and they can always partner for that.
You should use didi zhuanche in Beijing, it's like Uber and the vehicles are nicer (Buick or high end VW usually in Beijing) without seat covers...so the seat belts are always usable. They also give you free bottled water. A bit more pricey than the taxi, but maybe living is worth it.
I don't think type hints do Hindley/Milner/Damas justice.

I agree. Retro-fitting Hindley-Milner would be difficult. Rpython has type-inference for a subset of Python. But it's a special purpose language.
My problem with a service like that is that once you jump out of the free plan, their prices jump way up. tinycache is a small service for small applications with small pricing.
From 2008-2009 when I was still in the Marine Corps I spent a year in Iraq operating on small teams while embedded with the Iraqi security forces. We'd go out on 6-9 man teams and stay in the field for 1-2 weeks at a time.

Since a lot of what we did was clearing operating we were constantly on the move, so we needed something quick that packed a lot of calories since it was hard to keep weight on.

What I found that worked really well was a high calorie protein powder called TrueMass (I'm not sure if it's still around, but I use Syntha 6 now since it's leaner) since we could find it at just about every PX (store on military bases) we came across.

It worked well because we had those large bottles of water and you could drink half of it then pour some powder in, shake it up and polish it off for some calories. It wasn't super filling, but by the time you made it through the next half a bottle of water you'd be ready for more. The large jugs of protein and the large water bottles were a bit unwieldy on patrols, but we always had our vics relatively close by so it wasn't a problem.

When I heard about Soylent I thought back to this and got pretty excited. I have yet to try it yet (I ordered some early on, but cancelled after waiting a few months), but look forward to it. I'm especially looking forward to more variations in flavors and lifestyles (i.e. athletes, bodybuilders, distance, sedentary, etc.).
Maybe, but depends on their goal. I don't think it's to enable the second coming of Blackberry phones.
You basically get the FOX/right or CNN/left narrative on the news. I wish there were more options. Twitter has too much noise.
Ask HN: What is the Phoenix/Tempe startup scene like?
I am staying out here for a week or so and would love to meet up for coffee and chat. I previously have lived in PDX and Cincinnati, and I'm considering another big move. Hope the holiday weekend is treating you all well!
You should probably look at the nutrition information in Soylent (or similar) and compare it to your notional proposal. If your proposal is better, give it a go and do a write-up on it.

From a quick look-see, whey protein seems to carry only ~100 calories per serving, offers almost no carbohydrates or fiber and provides almost no other vitamins or minerals. So you'd need about six servings to hit a meal's worth of calories, still have to make up for the lack of carbs and fiber sources and still have to find a good multi to take with.

If a serving is $1, then we're already at around $5-6 per meal with whey protein.
When I placed my last order it showed up before the end of the week. You might want to give it a shot again.
Thanks, I hope I'm never put in the position that I would have to do such things to protect my life and career, either.

Admittedly, I don't know much about what actually happened in your situation, but does hiring a PI and going after someone 6 months after the fact protect your life or career? How, exactly? You say you had money (presumably through employment) at this point. Why not just move on and forget about that episode of your life?

That's the sort of vindictiveness that would make me afraid to associate with a person.
Remember quantum computing ? a lot of NP problems will become P
Why is the US military not destroying our own equipment that has fallen into enemy hands?

This does not take boots on the ground. This can be done with drone strikes, supported from aircraft carriers locally and with pilots in the Las Vegas desert.

This is our mess, and we should be required to clean it up.

EDIT: Also, as a US citizen, how could one be prevented from being renditioned against one's will back to the US by US military forces if in Syria or Iraq fighting against ISIS as a volunteer. Just curious.
For personal use, this page explains how to setup a local script to work with the API. Makes it super easy to access whatever data you want across different computers.

https://tinycache.io/documentation/examples
Youtube does allow you to disable the recommended videos that shows at the end of the video in your embeds (also, YT does provide some basic analytics on your videos like how many views, how long people watched and such).
All good liars are charismatic != all charismatic people are liars
HTTP Status Codes for SEO
Auto-vectorisation and parallelisation in Winter
91. Tempe
159. Phoenix

http://www.jobdensity.com/QueryGrid.aspx?q=687&t=Software%20...
They want to take the other variables out of the equation and test each with two different speeds of networks. Without an isolation you wouldn't be able to test the speed of the device with any meaningful accuracy. (One test could have happened when the wifi was interfering with another network that was streaming a bunch of video while another test could have been while she office was at lunch. I've had troublesome network interference when the microwave or a wireless phone was in use. Source: did network installs for clients when wifi was brand new and harder to setup reliably)
For the lecithin? Who knows, probably not.

Of all the ingedients in Soylent, why are you interested in almost the last ingredient on the list?

https://soylent-production-herokuapp-com.global.ssl.fastly.n...
Poll: Do you think we're in a tech bubble?
There seems to be a lot of talk about a tech bubble these days so I am very curious what the HN community thinks about this. Please don't forget to vote the poll up so it can reach a statistically significant sample size. Thanks.
Yes, it seems a reasonable possibility
It is not GMO-free.
https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201274745-Vegan-Or...
Even easier, right click, inspect element and hit the delete key :)
"Who cares about the intern wearing running shoes at 2 am trying to keep patients alive in 10 different units on 7 different floors in the 3 different wings of 2 hospitals?"

It certainly isn't the AMA and the rest of the medical establishment, which do everything they can to keep the supply of doctors low and the salaries high.
During my time at Princeton I used to walk around campus all of the time. Unfortunately, I never got to witness that...
There's been a lot of talk lately about a possible tech bubble. Does the HN community think we're in one? I wanted to create a poll but keep receiving error 504. Maybe someone else could create one. I think the results would be interesting. - Update: Fixed that.
Is JavaScript becoming a lingua franca, used to explain other completely unrelated languages?
> One person's reaction has stuck with me to this day: "If it weren't true, the computer would have rejected it!"

Must have been a Prolog programmer!
Self-driving cars and the Trolley problem
Considering the driving conventions in some other countries where lawlessness is the norm, I think the mention of yelling in a foreign language adds information.
Here's my thoughts on this question: http://www.loqqus.com/blog/should-you-tell-anyone-about-your...
Black people do nothing wrong, and they get killed everyday.
You should complain about the ones that are responsible for the inequalities, not with the weakest part. You don't have more rights than others only because you own a store. So as long as people get killed only by being black I'll not care about your store.
Lives > Stores
"While a meal generally costs upward of $50 at Silicon Valley-area restaurants, a week’s worth of Soylent or Schmoylent totals $85."

I get it, Soylent can save you money on food, but this comically excessive exaggeration isn't helping make that point. Even in "Silicon-Valley area restaurants", I've only ever spent $50 on a meal when it was a nice dinner with drinks.
The purpose of API keys & tokens are to bring user authentication details out of every request. This is helpful in many scenarios:

1. API keys and tokens can be more easily replaced / canceled than entire
accounts in the case of being breached
2. API keys & tokens can commonly have additional access restrictions applied,
while it's hard(er) to do that for a whole account
3. Likewise, it's easy to think of many-tokens-to-one-account systems,
where you encourage users to use different keys for different integrations,
which helps lower the surface area of the damage one leaked detail can do
4. Many authorization protocols, like OAuth 2, rely on temporary tokens,
which are even more helpful in that they guide application integrations towards
not hardcoding sensitive details

Just a few reasons & justifications off the top of my head.
I understand that everyone has their own needs and desires. But personally, if I found the need to appeal to some product like this, I'd view it as an indication of a problem rather than a solution to one.
That's a great area to discuss but not relevant to what we were talking about. The point I was referring to was the specific claim that you needed to give Apple a credit card to use OS X.
While it does not mention the soy specifically, the FAQ on their website indicates that Soylent contains GMOs:

https://faq.soylent.com/hc/en-us/articles/201274745-Vegan-Or...

You can ask them specifically about the soy through their support, if you like.
Hacker News, circa 2015.

Someone writes a blog post, using JavaScript to explain how modules are used in OCaml. Just in the case it changed during the last 20 years or so.

Edit: I'm glad more people learn about OCaml. A few years ago, I kept hearing that no one will contribute to my open source OCaml projects...
>Blogspam

This word really isn't appropriate. (Similar to my thoughts here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9572254 ).

The article here is interesting, approachable and good. Of course, your links add to it, it's the source mentioned in the first paragraph. But we can still read interesting secondary sources.
Always strange to read about the la la land that New York Times reporters seem to stumble into when they take a cross country flight. It's like an exaggerated cartoon version of the real California. I guess they've got papers to flog.
I'm gonna go with age because of the qualifier "in a care home"
I see now how not knowing the notation used can be very disadvantageous, [z] = floor(z).

Your explanation will probably help, I'll let you know when I made progress :p
You forgot the carbs
A supplement is something you take to complete the nutrition an otherwise incomplete meal provides.
It's exactly your kind of attitude our society doesn't need.

>> So as long as people get killed only by being black I'll not care about your store.

You SHOULD care about their store. They have the same rights as you and even though someone killed someone, it doesn't give you the right or privilege to abuse someone else's rights.
Another bookmarklet that does the same thing, but a bit more polished:

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Click on the link to the blog caused Super Anti-spyware to say a threat was detected. I recommend scanning if you already clicked it.
I'd really caution against your pricing structure. Unlimited access to a million keys is no joke, I've run some rather large memcached servers and none of them were $20/month.

You should pricing should always reflect the true cost + your desired profit margin. I'd probably be charging hardware usage + 15% before even factoring in the value of the service itself.

Right now I'd say you're vastly too cheap; don't think about the costs solely as your servers but what's the value you've added to memcached/caching? Surely that's more than what you're charging?

Tldr; Keep the small plans cheap but make the big plans waaay more expensive. Those using the biggest plans are finding the most value.
Show HN: Applebananaderek.com
I'm pretty obese at 275lbs, and binging on food is my drug of choice. Soylent has been invaluable in my addiction management. Because food is something you can't quit cold turkey, I have to try and focus on eating for nutrition instead of emotional support. Soylent allows me to get nutrition fast and in a non-food manner when my blood sugar is low and I can't reliably make a sensible food choice.

I drink 500 calories and 42 grams of protein upon waking, and found that it increases my ability to fight urges to binge throughout the day. I'll often have another 500 calorie shot of Soylent around 4 o'clock so in a couple of hours when I have to decide on real dinner food, I'm in a good place to eat sensibly. I'm very excited at the trend of meal replacements, it's an indispensable tool in managing my addiction and I'm down 20lbs since January just as a side effect.
Fair enough, I like what you're saying here.
What the Australian Desert Really Taught Me About User Experience Design
Well played. And hilarious.
Age. N was about 20.
"Javascript is not an Object-Oriented language, but Ember is"

Javascript is pretty clearly object-oriented, though the inheritance method (prototypal) is very different from classic OOP. Moreover I don't think Ember is actually doing anything crazy under the hood, so it's distinct "object system" is probably leveraging mixins and maybe some prototypal inheritance?
So are iOS devices that have a passcode and are running iOS 8, and with fingerprint scanning a lot more people have password locked devices. Good article on the subject is here:

http://www.darthnull.org/2014/10/06/ios-encryption
No, they'll become a part of BQP (or rather are already).

P is defined as the class of problems decidable in polynomial time on a classical Turing machine.

P doesn't change with the advent of quantum computers.

Also it is suspected that BQP \not \subset NP, i.e. there are problems in BQP that might not be in NP.
There was a great documentary done on China's empty cities done by Dateline (in Australia):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbDeS_mXMnM