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> Is love worth it?

That's up to you. Nobody can force you to love them, and you can always choose to walk away from potential loves.

Most of the replies to your post seem to be telling you that love is worth it. I think that is overly simplistic - we are not all the same. Some people find love, some don't. Some people who do find it, make it last, some don't. Some people who do find it resent it, some people who don't find it resent not having found it.

I don't think one size fits all, and I think people should try to make choices that fulfil them, whether that means prioritising work, or friends or family or exploration or wine tasting.

In particular, to those who suggest that love is an evolutionary advantage, I partially disagree. Or at least I think that is simply one facet of our species - one of our key strengths is diversity of being. We have the people who must go out and explore and discover. We have the people who must stay home and build families and societies. Only by having all of these things have we been able to expand across the planet and achieve everything we have. If everyone chose love over work, there are lots of things we wouldn't have invented/discovered. If everyone chose work over love, we'd be a much smaller species, etc, etc.
The once-child policy has been gradually weakened for some time. It will be interesting to see the future population trend in China. I can see it going one of two ways:

1. Multiple children has previously been reserved to those with political connections or money. Now that everyone can have two they will jump at the opportunity.

or

2. Almost every young person in China has grown up in a single child family and sees it as the normal family. Social norms are also based around parents dedicating a lot of resources to one child. So they continue to have only one child. In about a decade China may have to start encouraging people to have more children, like Japan.
Telstra to spend $1B for Philippines telco venture
In the book, one character explains that tearing rather than cutting the books is specifically to get unpredictable unique shapes along the tears, to make matching for reconstruction possible...

There will be some loss, true. Even where everything is properly photoed, the programs will make some mismatches. Potentially, the error rate can be less than a few words per million volumes, far better than even hardcopy republishing with manual copyediting. -- Sharif, Rainbow's End p 129

But of course this is fiction. The parallels to what Harvard are doing are obvious, but I don't think anyone would seriously suggest building the Libreanome project in the real world.
Though there's a very pragmatic solution for the compiler: Stop after a fixed number of iterations.

Since it's an optimization, and not required for correct operation of the compiler, one can simply give up instead of risking an infinite loop.
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Some states in India especially South Indian states have achieved fertility rates below 2 without one child policy.
ALPR cameras are interesting. I've been looking at ALPR as a solution for understanding how traffic moves through your city/town. Transport planning feels like it is very much something done in the dark ages and primarily focused around traffic flow. Scheme results are hard to determine and even harder to reverse/tweak.

Creating a network of ALPR cameras that enable mapping of major routes and centres of interest (e.g. schools) can also enable Local Authorities to focus money "cleverly".

A case in point is Poynton, UK. Where a radical scheme has seen amazing results despite restricting traffic massively. http://www.sustrans.org.uk/our-services/what-we-do/route-des...
Was probably the cheapest way to get a terminal to unix running at the time. I've been in lots of shops where the given computer is Windows, because that's what the rest of the company runs, and most of my time is spent in terminal windows to unix (Unix long ago, Linux these days).

I recall trying to get actual unix on a PC, back around '94 or '95. I actually contacted the local Sun rep, and it was cumbersome and expensive. I gave up.
Exhibiting the Mk2 Turing machine
A less severe form would be financial incentives for licensed parents. You're still free to have children if you want, but you're only supported by the state if you got a license. Pair this with free birth control implants and abortions for everyone who wants them and you get most of the effect without the use of force. You could even pay men to get a vasectomy.
The interesting thing about humans is that they adapt. There's a reason economic growth exists, and not all of it relies on: suck up more oil, chop down more wood.
I don't know about the US, but in Germany it is definitely the "damn sure" case for the overwhelming number of all trials.
Under what circumstances, if any, would you convict?
Hell No Barbie' campaign warns parents talking doll could be a spy
notable how many (all but one?) use a text-only email client
It's not negativity; it's a practical analysis of the fact that the project failed to achieve its singular purpose. He even acknowledges the effort and that it's a good incremental step; but a verifiable computer it is not.
So you're an even bigger problem than all those "unfair" prosecutors.
Salary Negotiation Guide
fvwm could be tiled.
Since the roles of plaintiff and defendant in civil cases are somewhat arbitrary (they mostly depend on procedural and strategic issues) and could just as easily be reversed, it's easy to see that a burden of proof that is too onerous would simultaneously be much too light.
> "In the space of three years Airbnb has tripled its presence in Paris - to the point that there are now 50,000 flats advertised on its website," Synhorcat's president Didier Chenet tells me. He says small and medium-sized hotels have been hit hard and over the summer they had to drop their prices. "If the government doesn't do something to stop the underground restaurants, it will be the same disaster."

What a disaster. /s
Interesting, never heard of this before. I have backed a pitop on indigogo with the plan of switching out the pi for a beaglebone to get closer to all open components.

Very cool project :)
"I do not tend to listen to music through my workstation, since that both distracts me and wastes cpu power. My workstation is a dual CPU, 500 MHZ system, but I like things to work fast, not be bogged down with decompressing music, etc." (Jon Hall)
Show HN: Shoprocket – ECommerce from a Single Line of Code
Sounds like a good idea to me. A lot less dangerous than lending your home away when you go on holidays!

I do a lot of cooking myself (expat french, it's survival requirement ;-)) so I'm actually quite interested by that setup, especially to meet people who also cook or just appreciate good food...
Perfect Christmas gift for HIM
Right, but by "interop" I didn't just mean the ability to call into Java code and vice-versa, although I admit that's the traditional definition. Scala can do that too.

What I meant is, Kotlin raised the bar in the interop department to new heights: it uses the same collection types, so there's no conversion between Java and some other SDK, but still manages to enhance them via compiler magic and extensions. It has an auto-converter tool so nobody has to waste time rewriting code that already works in order to use the new features. It can use annotation processors, etc.

Of course it also pays a fairly steep price to get that.
Show HN: Mgnt – Extensible console BitTorrent client
Wow, nice slap on the wrist for having someong rot in prison for 25 years. And justice for all ...
Rodeo is rstudio for python
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> I agree that 10 days is very short for what he did. But the other part of your comment, "He should serve at least 25 years too", does not sound right to me either.

That prosecutor murdered 25 years of a man's life.

If murder deserves life in prison, then murdering 25 years of a man's life deserves 25 years of prison.
If you thought Win98 was bad, you need to try WinME :)

Windows 2000, however, was the pinnacle of MS Operating Systems. It has been downhill ever since.
What about that argument is libertarian?
Mexico deploys its navy to face its latest threat: Monster seaweed
He also tends not to view websites like HN, GitHub, etc., at least as of a few years ago. I'm not sure if it is because he is still in text mode all the time, because he disagrees with using sites that might somehow involve something that isn't free source, or because he just delegates to others the task of surfing the web and getting information for him. He definitely spends a lot of time emailing though.

I admire him a lot. From some discussion with him and what I've read, I have the feeling that he is in a constant battle with much of the world to try to get them to free all software. I really can't say for certain whether he is really going too far, but his dedication and courage go far beyond what most people are capable of. Even if you disagree with him, it's difficult not to admire him for that.
Minor formatting problem. I cropped out most of the screenshot, it's really on a 1920 width screen. http://imgur.com/uvZLELW

I like to think of these as a kind of hierarchy but I'm never quite sure where to put some things like philosophy, or how much overlap the titles have with each other (I guess it's not constant anyway).

Math -> Science -> Engineering -> Technology

I've tried to organize them with a mindmap before, but I am never satisfied with the results.
If you do any development get a mac, I wish I'd switched sooner. I always had issues with Rails using a PC. Then I tried the same tutorials on a friend's macbook and they just worked saving tons of time. Virtual machines on windows had issues, just work on OSX, windows terminal meh. I can't imagine going back.

I use a 13" macbook air it has plenty of power/screen size for development so you don't have to go top of the line. (You can add an external monitor for less than $200, asus monitor $150, $10 thunderbolt to hdmi cable on Amazon). You can get a 13"MBair refurbished or on sale at best buy for $849 right now.
Billionaire Tom Steyer Calls on Candidates to Push for a 50% Renewables Policy
More ice cream is sold in the summer. Sexual assault also increases in the summer. We should stop selling ice cream in the summer.

This is HN. Please quit spewing ignorance.
I can't say I've been there, but I've certainly been to the same city. It's why I now work part time. We don't achieve anything without goals and aspirations, but it's easy to get crushed under the weight of too many. Jesse is a fantastically talented guy, and - in one of life's little perverse twists - that's exactly what makes him vulnerable. Those who are most gifted and most able tend to develop the highest expectations, both internally and on behalf of those they love. It's tough to feel like you've fallen short, even when you realize the goal was unrealistic or that others would have been happier for you not to try. It takes a real adult to engage with these issues, and something more to share the process with the world as Jesse has done. That's courage right there.

I doubt that Jesse will ever read this. I sure wouldn't if I were in his position, because this is exactly the kind of non-supportive community he was talking about. Nonetheless, I'll say I'm glad to see he's moving forward once more, still kicking ass even when his legs are sore. Good to have you back, dude.
Are all products doomed to complexity?
Ustyle – uSwitch living styleguide
What's in dmr's drawterm looks pretty tiled to me.
ServiceWorker and Progressive Networking
In danish you usually something is made from "Lego klodser", or simply "Lego", so either the plural is on the bricks part, or not there at all.
Poynton seems to have achieved its result without the massively disproportionate act of mass surveillance you seem to be advocating.
Yeah.

They made worksplace pensions opt-out recently as well due to the massive scare we have over so many people of working age not having saved anything for retirement.

I was automatically opted in to my workplace pension, into which I just pay 5% per month which my employer matches.

I'll likely increase that amount next month though.
> The offers stream themselves.

Interesting turn of phrase there...
> It's really past time to get rid of the qualified immunity doctrine. It's yet another "law" made up by the supreme court from whole cloth.

This is where every system that polices others plus themselves falls down. You can think of qualified immunity as professional courtesy between lawyers.

In Wisconsin the Republican legislature and Republican governor (the recently failed presidential candidate Walker) passed and signed a law limiting political corruption investigations, because they were annoyed at all the investigations and convictions of themselves.

No one watches the watchers.
Sure! For "I'm a person who is also developer" browsing I have a variety of plugins installed that play havoc with the console normally. In FF I have "I'm working" plugins installed.

I'm aware that I can have different user, but I enjoy the ability to alt-tab obviously based on intent (FF is _always dev, not sometimes dev, sometimes life, or a collection of incognito windows that I then have to alt-~ through).

Though I'm weird about my browsers :-) I use Fluid "apps" (http://fluidapp.com/) for pretty much every site that I visit regularly and BrowserFairy (http://www.browserfairy.com/) to correctly send me to the correct "app" when clicking links.
Mildly amused at being subtitled.
Looks cool! I'll have to give it a shot.
Hormesis [1] is defined as a favorable biological response to low exposures to stressors and it is a fundamental concept in biology that applies at any given "resolution", so we have hormesis at the cell level up to hormesis at the whole body level.

In this tense, exercise is just an stressor and the key here is the amount of exercise: Too little and the hormetic response is not triggered; too much, and your body is not able to cope with it.

Given this, it is quite difficult to say if exercise, without any qualifier, is good or bad.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormesis
They still result in an outcome of "completely guilty" or "completely innocent". There's no "we'll give him a lighter sentence because we're only slightly convinced there's no reasonable doubt". There may be lighter sentences because the crime seems less bad to a judge, but not because the guilt seems less likely.
Come one, don't be that person. People love to bookmark things that are fun or interesting, regardless of whether they are 'trivial'. This is fun and/or interesting. Absolutely nothing wrong with that.
There was at least Ion and Ratpoison (mentioned elsewhere ITT).
I believe transfer means that the case goes to another court, so depending on the percentage of cases transferred the actual conviction rate could still be quite high.
Can someone shine a light on the expected macro economic effects of this decision, both in china and worldwide ?
There have been various attempts to apply software to law, none of which were very convincing.

The biggest impact has been on legal discovery. Often the evidence one side or another needs is buried in massive quantities of documents, e.g. corporate memos. It used to involve people manually going through every document. Now computers can build a search engine just for that case, based on the documents either being originally electronic, or scanned. So it's easier to find the evidence you need to either prosecute or exonerate.

There have been attempts at legal 'expert systems'. Expert systems were an offshoot of early AI where people were put through computerised interviews that tried to automate otherwise skilled investigative procedures. I have not heard of legal expert systems being in use anywhere, but I am not in the legal industry so if they were, I wouldn't know about them. I suspect they're easier to apply to things like routine property law than complex criminal cases.

There's also the Hammurabi project. That is very interesting, though again, not relevant here. It tries to encode law in a custom programming language to automatically build expert systems based on it. It's more useful for things like navigating the absurdly complicated US tax code than criminal defence (of course the two may sometimes overlap).

http://mpoulshock.github.io/hammurabi/
Now the board of directors has been shrunk to five people from 12, and will also be called the governing board, according to a statement from Ms. Holmes provided by a company spokeswoman.

A board of 12 is way beyond the level where it can typically provide oversight and is generally captured by management. 5 is a much more reasonable number, although the hole they've dug themselves into sure looks deep.

No mention of Rumsfeld, who was a CEO of two biotech firms between the Ford and Bush II administrations, and it should be noted that former Senator Frist is a heart and lung transplant surgeon (trivia per Wikipedia, he operated on David Petraeus in 1991 after a gun shot in a training accident). The board has deservedly come in for criticism due to celebrity members, but at least these two had a clue.
Wire for Windows – Beautiful and Secure Messenger from Ex-Skypers
I guess when you run out of other outlets' articles to recycle, you have to recycle your own.
I don't understand what you mean with "no degradation".

A branch predictor can be wrong. A simple jump is like the branch predictor is always right. Thus, the code might run faster.
> Also, I'd be shocked if this didn't open Anderson up to civil liability. That's where Morton can seek damages; not in criminal court.

Interesting Anderson took a large part of Morton's life. Maybe justice would be served if Morton took a large part of Anderson's money... Something feels uncomfortable about this but I can't quite place it.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Execution_statistic...

Suggests that either most witches didn't confess or that those proven by confession to be witches were not executed. It gives ~5000 in UK and America brought to trial and ~1500-2000 executed. In the case of the trials I can find easy documentation for - Pendle and North Berwick - it seems all who confessed were executed but that some of those executed maintained their innocence. Not all of them implicated others. At least one maintained innocence under torture and apparently to death.

Anecdotal contradiction of your assertion but it does put some doubt about it; could you cite your source then for this?
PyPy 4.0.0 Released – A Jit with SIMD Vectorization and More
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Magic Online Trading League
what's a dumb client?
Overpopulation isn't that of a big problem as the politics make it seem.
Rather, reducing poverty is a highly effective way of reducing the birth rate.
Should a Self-Driving Car Kill Its Passengers in a “Greater Good” Scenario?
The most surprising thing about these is the stark reminder of Microsoft's dominance during this era. Whether it's the terminal emulator running on NT4 or Internet Explorer being the only sensible browser on a Mac, Microsoft has fallen far with this crowd.
adding one data point, yes I do. I actually think I'd be better off if I only read that which I subscribed to, i.e. less HN linked articles. It'd be a good way to curate content and save time -- if I am not willing to pay out of pocket for something, I shouldn't waste my time reading it.

One baseball analyst, in particular, Joe Sheehan, has been doing some really open stuff about his newsletter, including financials, etc. It's $35 / year. I usually try to buy a couple of gift subscriptions to friends. I also donate an extra $50 because his content is just that damn good, and it would really hurt me to not have his newsletter to enjoy.

(Interestingly, he only does email newsletters, no web content. Seems to be somewhat to mildly successful at it, although I have no doubt his hourly wage is around minimum.)
Forking someone else's CV... that's interesting :D

I have it in my Dropbox just in case I need it, but I don't feel like having it publicly available...
He also tends not to view websites like HN, GitHub, etc.,
at least as of a few years ago. I'm not sure if it is
because he is still in text mode all the time

just as a side note, not that I think he's wasting his precious time like us anyway:

at least for vim, there's a nice plugin [0] for reading HN. most probably there would be something for his emacs/org-mode as well.

[0] https://github.com/ryanss/vim-hackernews
How packaging can make food more flavorful
I think perhaps you're conflating world population with the Chinese population. Overpopulation can occur in small areas without the world being too overpopulated as a whole -- most of them in SE Asia. If theres lots of people and limited resources, the math simply won't hold up. It affects issues like the environment and human health.
Why (I am serious, as IMHO today's global population is too big)?
What exactly can my government (country population < 2 million) do when german telekom bribes their way through the council?
Wow, they'd hate most of small town America: most people cook, and either eat what they themselves cook, or are invited over for dinner and bring shit they cooked.

And I don't mean "reheated frozen prepared food", a lot of people actually do cook when other people are eating it. At least, around here they do.
There is a surprisingly wide area of coverage for something titled "Front-end Developer Handbook". I also like the way the content is presented (not the technology used).

The JS testing section is a good example. Pertinent summary of high level concepts before the fold. Additional content to read if you want to learn more.

https://frontendmasters.gitbooks.io/front-end-handbook/conte...

Edit:

By technology, I mean using a SPA for docs is silly. Not surprised the mobile experience is poor because of that.
We can't feed infinite humans, but if we covered the earth with greenhouses, we could feed trillions of people.

Overpopulation causes many problems, being able to feed them is not one of them.
Admittedly transport behaviour through the scheme could be measured with cable vehicle counters, however determining the exact speed at which a vehicle travels through the scheme could not be done without ALPR.

In the UK, there is a push to implement 20MPH zones throughout most residential streets. Using ALPR you could easily measure the impact of these changes to the average speed of vehicles. Yes you could identify "speeding" drivers but I do not see that as a bad thing.
All languages you mentioned are general programming languages. TeX is a word processing language, so it makes complete sense that it is different. If you take the time to properly learn TeX you will see that many of the decisions are obvious for what it intends to do, which is to create full-featured document formats.
Except in no part of the world of the modern world has human population increase continued unchecked.

Most western countries populations grow only because of immigration - fertility is below the replacement rate.

Overpopulation is the "problem" people trot out so they don't have to talk about things they might actually have to do something about, like switching to renewable energy sources, or improving women's education in developing countries.
Losing your license and job are (should be) standard for malpractice. I think you can cancel that bit out. I'm talking about the bit where he knowingly sent innocent people to jail and abused his position.
Can Detroit Beat Google to the Self-Driving Car?
This is where I got started using Linux. Oh the memories. I even have some of my (terrible) screenshots on there and had submitted a bunch of news articles and hundreds of comments. Now I don't even remember my username.
My six months of eating Swill
Theranos is fine as long as what they are doing is kept legalized. This is just an anti-hype after a hype.
Where can we see these two version of the legislation?