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DiamondFoxon Ask HN: What's happening in agricultural technology?

The New Yorker did a story about indoor vertical farms – whether or not they can be scaled to feed entire urban populations, etc. Really interesting read and it might provide a spring board for some ideas

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/01/09/the-vertical-fa...

DiamondFoxon Google’s Waymo invests in LIDAR technology, cuts costs by 90 percent

Really great article by 'The Economist' about next-gen lidar and the how later stages of driverless cars will utilize the technology and look aesthetically different from the current prototypes with the roof rigs etc.

http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/2171210...

DiamondFoxon Paris from Camus’s Notebooks

Can you elaborate on the second part more?

As someone who's always suspected that Camus' characters (and the author himself) actually cared too intensely because they were unable to change events/people around them, I've never found compelling proof that totally convinced me his work wasn't nihilism masquerading as meditations on the inability of individuals to alter phenomena outside of their control.

DiamondFoxon New Year’s Resolutions for Introverts

I partly agree with you (especially about #7) though as someone who's currently working on expanding his circle of friends, some social gatherings (I use Meetup.com a lot) provide better opportunities than others: noisy bars/restaurants where it's almost impossible to have conversation beyond a sentence a couple words long, limit the ability to get to know someone and find what you have in common/build rapport. Same goes for movies.

DiamondFoxon New Year’s Resolutions for Introverts

Summarized from Susan Cain's book "Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking"

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A very basic definition is that introverts have a preference for quiet, minimally stimulating environments.

This means that introverts tend to enjoy quiet concentration, listen more than talk and think before they speak. They tend think more and focus on quality over quantity in most things and tend to focus intently on a single project at a time (i.e. friendships and how they engage projects and hobbies at work/during free time).

Extroverts are energized by social situations and tend to be multi-taskers who think out loud and therefore need others' feedback to validate their ideas or nudge them in the right direction.

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I highly recommend the book, especially if you think you're an introvert or have difficulty accepting yourself as one. It really helped me see that it was OK being introverted and that there were certain advantages that extroverts don't have