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Guaranteed income?

What happens as more and more people decide to live on the dole? Are you going to force them to work? What happens when the last wealthy people you could tax into paying for it flee your country with their money?

Utopia fails because, "HUMAN."
I mean. They are attracting people who are better than the quality of the people the government usually gets. By a lot.

But that's a pretty low bar.

I have no idea why you're commenting to me about HTTPS Everywhere. So unfortunately I've missed whatever point you were trying to make there. Want to enlighten me?
I would not think that a shallow, surface induced quake like this would travel far.
This is so well done! There are so many little touches here that delights me like the keyboard shortcuts for jumping right in and the LaTeX support. Even though this started off as a learning project for you, know that this is probably better than 95% of the API documentation I read from more professional development teams.

Jason Long's Cayman Theme was unfamiliar to me until I saw your citation. Kudos to your good taste.

Documentation is pretty good. It probably skews more towards developers with experience using other libraries, but I think that's fine for a first version. If you want to kick it up some more, I'd love to see more practical examples that might inspire me to use it out in the wild. Also, it took me awhile to figure out what to do with the keyboard shortcut. Something more explicit or even a small screencast would be nice.

I see that you also work on the RNeo4j library, which looks super cool. Queueing that up in the future to play with...since R is a much better place for me to feed that graphing library data. Thank you so much for sharing this!
> We have "pausing GC"... heh.

:)

The evolutionary argument is nice but maybe we're just stuck in an old 'branch' local minima. Think of axolotl limb regeneration. We only have partial regeneration but somehow nature felt it was more efficient not to regenerate full limbs and try to survive crippled. Long sleep may have been necessary, but maybe that's not the case anymore.
Kuhn's idea is also used in in Python 3, so that garbage bytes can (optionally!) be decoded to Unicode strings and later losslessly turned back into the same bytes, which ensures (e.g.) that filenames that can't be decoded can still be used:
https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0383/
I continue to be shocked that these explosions didn't kill thousands of people.
> it's as if everyone will continue business as usual until all the water is gone

This has happened before and in the past the state made a big deal about it and everyone panicked. But before we ran out of water, the biggest deluge of water hit California in decades and the populous prayed for sun instead.
I think only a believer would get so physically close to such an animal. She isn't a person, nor a pet. I can understand her keepers not wanting unfamiliar people around if they might upset her. Or she, like humans, may not display the same behavior around strangers.
I like the "play next" function on the side bar.

I have that problem all the time on youtube! I see something I want to watch and want to play it next so I pop it up in a new tab.

Can i make a playlist of things i want to "watch next"?
As a note, they are talking about the "glymphatic" system and not the "lymphatic" system. The name is a play on the lymphatic system, but it is specific to the brain.

Another paper by the author cited in the NPR story, is my favorite paper on the system: "The Glymphatic System: A Beginner’s Guide" http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25947369

In it, they do not mention melatonin or CoQ10, but norepinephrine as a major regulator of wakefulness. (Although I do take 400 mg a day of the reduced form of Coq10 called Ubiquinol).
And \n line delimiters and \s+ tabs!
Depends on the food eaten. Intestinal gases are poisonous.
> Your thinking will be better off if you just don't think of the term "lifestyle" business. It's a pejorative used to manipulate you into wasting your life in service to someone else's narrative.

Exactly. I've only ever heard this from someone seeking transaction fees. As in, "Not there's anything wrong with running a lifestyle business." While their body language suggests everything is wrong with that.
What I wonder is where the line is for people who automatically defer to government authority in these situations. How bad do the transgressions have to be before a whistleblower is justified in coming forward through any means necessary? For many, spying on billions of innocent people in direct violation of the country's constitution isn't sufficient, so what would be? What if Snowden had instead revealed proof of plans to carry out genocide or stage a military coup? Would he still be a traitor? Would he still be expected to "face the music" and go to jail? Where's the line?
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My dream also includes the Hanke-Henry calender.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanke-Henry_Permanent_Calendar

My pick of the numerous proposals. Mostly because I can understand it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_reform
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This is interesting, because I thought Symantec was the incorruptible AV co.
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This is a weird, curiosity fueled and probably poorly-worded question but how do you map numbers in your mind? When you do mental math for example how do you picture the numbers? Or how do you simply picture a number when you read it?

I personally picture a long "ruban" with different intervals (1-10, 11-20, 21-30 etc) in different shades and looked at from different perspectives (vintage points) for each one.
If you fall asleep earlier in the day, you're paying offf your sleep "debt" right away. When I use it I go to bed at roughly normal bedtime the following night. At that point 8h sleep is certainly not enough. Though I'll usually not "catch up" more than 1-2 hours extra that night. If I want to I can push through and continue as normal, and even do multiple more cycles, but over time I do end up tired enough that I need to catch up with more sleep.

I tend to prefer to use it to offset sleep for relatively short periods - e.g. get an extra night of work, and then sleep a bit longer for the next couple of nights - as I feel it's more productive to get a longer block of time where I'm fully alert, and give up late evenings when I'd feel tired anyway to recover.
I have used a texting service (free) I saw on product hunt. It is great I think they have found the right touch of Ai + human interaction. I could be completely mistaking but I believe there is a human interacting to some extent.
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Yeah but will the GMO heroin be labeled as such?
He lost me at "room keys". WTH are those? I didn't get a DEF CON room key.
My estimate is "approximately zero". For example, people talk about the cost of converting road signs as though we have pick a Tuesday in March and switch the entire country that afternoon. How about we adopt a policy like "when we install new signs or replace old ones as routine maintenance, we make them metric - and here's a conversion chart so we're all using the same mile-to-km rounding."
For the benefit of others (the link is nonobvious), here's Markus Kuhn's presentation of UTF-8B:

http://hyperreal.org/~est/utf-8b/releases/utf-8b-20060413043...

The tl;dr is to map an invalid UTF-8 byte n to code point U+DC00 + n, which puts it in the code point range reserved for the second part of a surrogate pair. (In UTF-16, a 16-bit value between D800 and DBFF followed by a 16-bit value between DC00 and DFFF is used to encode a code point that cannot fit in 16 bits. Since these "surrogate pairs" happen only in that order, there is room to extend UTF-16 by assigning a meaning to a DC00-DFFF value seen without a D800-DBFF before it.) Since the surrogate code points are defined as not "Unicode scalar values" and cannot exist in well-formed "Unicode text", and therefore cannot be decoded from well-formed UTF-8, there's no risk of confusion.

There are some similarities with the extension of UTF-8 encoding that is sometimes called "WTF-8" https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/. WTF-8 lets unchecked purportedly-UTF-16 data be parsed as a sequence of code points, encoded into an extension of UTF-8, and round-tripped back into the original array of uint16s. UTF-8B lets unchecked purportedly-UTF-8 data be parsed as a sequence of code points, encoded into an extension of UTF-16, and round-tripped back into the original array of uint8s. They're not quite compatible, because WTF-8 would encode U+DC80 as a three-byte sequence (ED B2 80), and UTF-8B would decode that into three code points (U+DCED U+DCB2 U+DC80) since U+DC80 isn't a Unicode scalar value. But if a system wanted to support both of these robust encodings simultaneously, I think you could handle this fairly clear special case.
Resolve is good, not great, good. Resolve was also not originally a BM product. Resolve is pretty decent though, I use it at home sometimes because it's free. There are better tools though, for example Baselight, Lustre (in combo with Flame - this is what we use at and for work), and Pablo. But you can't beat free in price dept. You can do most, if not all, in all four - difference is mostly in speed of working with them.

Back to original issue. Resolve and Fusion are not originally BM code. Resolve has got some issues since it got acquired (stability for one). BM cinema camera overheats and is barely usable in a production environment, pocket camera is a nice toy but lacks software features (for example - take a one picture only). I used both and will not use them again. I will have a look at URSA once it will be available in general. I was very interested in their scanner as well, but I am starting to think it's vapourware at this point.
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When Clapper and the rest of the SIC rots in prison for their lies against the American people, and Snowden and Manning are free, I'll reconsider. Until then, I'll walk my own path and do good my own way.
It sounds like the brain is running something like a defragmentation routine every night. If it doesn't complete, your thoughts become more and more incoherent.
Can someone compare Oberon against Genera, beyond the obvious implementation language and hardware?
That's certainly possible – I thought that was their first generation LTO system but it might have been the previous one which was being replaced. It was a decade ago so both would still have been in service at that time.

The main point in mentioning it wasn't to say that tape is terrible but just that each unique class of hardware brings unique challenges which might not be obvious at first until you have a fair amount of operational time. (Thinking about the people who learned the hard way why RAID arrays should mix hard drives across batches and manufacturers)
Yet another 3DS exploit announced and this one is also free too
Not everyone buys only new cars. Besides, in a world in which research was not censored, do you really expect that VW would have been slower to fix the issue?
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Keey is an iPad beat maker I made especially for entry level users! The design is well thought of and creates a whole new experience to making beats on you iPad. Let me know what you think :)

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Honestly, now that I read down the thread, it kinda sounds like you don't have your shit together and you want to blame someone else who created something awesome for it.

It's not important whether you consider the data sensitive enough to bother doing your job. It's actually your users, which, if they've installed HTTPS Everywhere, they do.

So get your shit together! :)
Pressing backspace in the emulator navigates backwards (in page history) which makes this impossible to use/play with.
Added to my list, thank you!
They're going to pay Oracle damages for what has already happened. They are not going to continue to use the Java API. They're going to have an alternate API ready to roll five minutes after they lose the last appeal for this suit. Depending on how the judgment is written, it might be enough to move stuff from the java package to a new android package.

Disclaimer: This is just my opinion. I don't speak for Google.
Meetups are great to meet a large audience, but you don't get quality time with people that way. That's why I did launch[1] the concept of meeting a small group of people (typically 4) over lunch. I believe that it's a great format: an hour lunch is the right amount of time to chat with a small group, find common interests, how we can help each other, while remaining a low-key, no pressure environment.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id926598094
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Your point actually reinforces ggreer's -- if a species is capable of an advantageous behaviour like complex language, eventually one of the species will figure out how to use it to gain an advantage, like the birds you refer to.

The idea that apes have this ability but none ever figured out how to use it in order to gain an advantage is akin to the idea that mice could fly to escape predators but just never got the "small push" to figure it out.
If you are interested in a documentary about Gore Vidal I recommend "Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia" on Netflix. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
The complication is that my customers are using my services and I cant go offline for a backup and restore/import option.
hey are there options to make the feedback someone gives private?
Thank you Hugh. I thought about pronoun choice when I wrote that. I was deliberating between 'her' or 'him or her'. The problem I had with the former is I always notice when male writers do it--I can tell it's deliberate. The problem with the latter is it breaks rhythm a little, I think.

In my mind, the sexes are equal so him == her. It's something I feel strongly about too especially having a daughter. But nonetheless I understand the implications of what I wrote.

edit: Oh, and I upvoted you :-)
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This seems like fair game, and it benefits the consumer by keeping the anti-virus people on their toes.

Kaspersky has demonstrated a weakness: that the firms copy each other's data and blindly trust each other as well as the initial submissions. They have a submission process for infected files which can be demonstrably abused to inject false positives.

Also this:

> Then, when competitors ran this doctored file through their virus detection engines, the file would be flagged as potentially malicious. If the doctored file looked close enough to the original, Kaspersky could fool rival companies into thinking the clean file was problematic as well.

What?? Infected files are always similar to clean files. An infected MS Word 2010 still looks mostly like MS Word 2010 and is even usable as such. Knowing clean from infected is the bread and butter of anti-virus. They are supposed to take doctored files, and register them as malicious, while recognizing clean ones as clean. If similarity between dirty and clean them causes a false positive, you would think that this is a fundamental problem. It shows they are using some weak heuristics to guess that files are clean instead of, say, strong checksums. They are guessing whether that DLL belonging to MS Word 2010 is clean or not because they have no idea what clean looks like, and Kaspersky has shown that they can be induced to guess wrong.

A proper implementation would detect so much as a single bit difference between a clean file and an altered one.
Rather, they must be working off the assumption that there is some minimum difference between a viable infection and the clean file. In keeping with this, there is a database of the known dirty files only, and not of the clean reference files. Anything close to the dirty example within some small "edit distance" is just a variation on dirty and is declared dirty. Anything distant is either a different, unknown form of dirty, or clean. Either way it is declared clean. If that's how things work in an AV program, it has a weakness. Competitors should be merciless in identifying and exposing that weakness, because that's good for the consumer in the end.
Hi HN!

Happy Scale helps people who are losing weight to redefine their relationship with the scale. By using their daily weigh-in as a single data point in a moving average instead of a source of truth, you can see daily weight loss progress in the app even when your scale weight plateaus for a few days. Over time, you become desensitized to the horror of a bad weigh-in and can avoid discouragement during the tender moments of building your new lifestyle habits.

I created this iOS app because I would be devastated in the first few days of a diet when I hopped on the scale and saw a number that was higher than my starting weight. I went on to learn that there are many factors that can cause fluctuations of a few pounds in our weight from day to day (glycogen stores, water retention, food in the belly, etc.), and using a moving average is a convenient way to neutralize these factors.

I've been working on this as a nights and weekends project for a bit over 4 years. I have some big ideas for where I'd like to take it in the future, but I'd love to get your feedback on where it is today!
Have to echo the sentiment (if at least to give the authors some encouragement if they are reading this). I saw the title and thought, "not another attempt to supercede C..." but it sounds rather interesting so far. I love high-level hacking as much as the next guy, but I can see how this can be easier for C-lovers to not hate since it explicitly doesn't try to be more high level.
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Yes, and I think that is exactly the point - as an entrepreneur, I build my own company, to meet my own goals. Maybe funding is part of my plan, maybe not. Even if so, there are many options for funding. Maybe it all adds up in a way where YC makes sense... but maybe not. HN started out of YC, so the pro-YC bias in understandable... but it is just one perspective. "Startup" is just a word, a label. pg, or anyone else, can call the company I work for a startup, they can call us a lifestyle company, or call us a rutabaga. Whatever, they are just words - they do not impact the work we do every day.
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Allocating stuff on the stack is basically free. You just have to decrement the stack pointer.
You had to ask for one, but they were also selling them in packs at the store
This seems to certainly have some marketing potentially. But I can also see it getting abused. If someone seems to be more spammy than just provided more value (ie coupons, emails, etc). I would love to see it in the hands of someone with a large following. I wonder what percentage of people would click in so to speak.

What would you say is the hardest part about initially implementing this is?
Can you tell us a bit more? This is absolutely fascinating.
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Yes. You can set any topic to "private," which prevents the participants from see what each other wrote for that topic. You can also set a group to be completely anonymous, which will assign a random username to each participant and no one (not even the moderator or observers) will be able to tell who the participants are.
Well the play next button only works on one video at a time right now.
I could add a function to make a new playlist and add videos to it.
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What do you think conservatives would regard as the most harmful careers?
I guess the Hyundais I've driven were different, in that the unlock button was on the fob rather than on the car door. Could you say, if you have multiple cars, does the fob work with all of them? I doubt that's the case, so I don't see why your "this is me" signal couldn't actually be a "this is me, fob 123ABC..., and I can authenticate with the vehicle with VIN# 123abc...".
Is it the same redacted version? Maybe Volkswagen asked more more extensive redactions back then, and they now reached a compromise?
why are people down voting this? instead of valuing someones opinion and discussing things, you just try to make the opinion go away.
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By my estimate my covered pool takes, on average, about an extra 0.5 gallons per day. Less than a toilet flush.
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Tiny thing: the "demo" link to the bottom gives a https warning - might want to remove the s.
This is an interesting feature for content and brand marketing.

The url might be challenging for audiences. Is there a way to use our own shortners (ie mybrand.com/RGPp) so this whole service is white label?
I think you got a room key if you stayed at the conference hotel(s) and ordered as part of the conference block.

Paris gave them out, at least. The hotel deal was offered on the site, and it was decent. Average $120/night?
Don't be shocked yet. I think it is safe to say that they do not have a full tally, nor have authorities any desire to publish such numbers until they have a literal body count.
getting off-topic, but here's one more for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrodysplasia_ossificans_prog...
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That's what they thought before solar time was replaced by time zones. I think the US going metric would be a greater boost for the US and world economy than the supposed benefits of TPP, TTIP, and other "trade" agreements combined.
why should someone engage with you when you are already convinced you are right?
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The USGS cutoff outside the US is ~magnitude 4.5.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/doc_whicheqs.php
The Australian experience (as told in the "Metrication Matters" video) was that a "direct metrication" where everybody switches at the same time and doesn't try to maintain two systems at the same time is fast (about a year) and cheap (often saving money).

Road signs can be prepared in advance and covered. The covers can be removed quickly. Another option is to put stickers on the road signs on Metric Sunday.
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i use fixed for this, they have a product called ticket guardian - http://www.fixed.com/
FWIW, vippy's not referring to the browser extension, but to the federal policy:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/06/08/https-everywhere-...
Off topic: anyone seen any write-ups of the various CTFs?
It should be possible to vary the sleep states of the processor, at least if you are root. That should give you something like 50 W amplitude. No idea how that would look on the other side of the power supply.
Yep - it was many hundreds of tons. Based on comparing with other records, I'd wager both explosions together likely approached a kiloton of TNT. One of the larger (possibly?) non-military explosions ever.

Compared with this video for 100 tons of TNT [1], the explosion in Tianjin was a few times larger. And there were two explosions, with the second being significantly larger.

Also, compare with other explosions on this list [2]. The AZF explosion [3] was listed at 20-40 tons of TNT. The Tianjin explosion was far larger. ~20 tons of TNT worth of energy was converted into a seismic wave - the rest (the majority) of the energy was dispersed above ground.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgLzgdbfeJE

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_artificial_non-nuclear...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_jodgDNG0o
It's off topic, but the legal status of lobbying in the US always baffles me. Today I learned It's entirely legal for a company to lobby a congressman, but not a government department. How does that make any sense at all?