skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parent here. That is a common thought amongst new parents - the cost of disposable nappies. However, when you factor in the cost and time of keeping the cloth nappies clean then there may not be much difference at all. I recall reading somewhere (don't have a reference sorry) that cloth nappies are more environmentally damaging than disposables, perhaps due to the additional energy used for washing, or the impact due to detergents.
>If you weren't the recipient of such an education, you couldn't prove your point.

Or I could have just googled "spring physics" as that's one of the few things I vaguely remember from highschool, named Kafka because that's one of the only two books I've actually read before deciding literature is boring/waste of time, chemical bonds - the same thing as "spring physics" and quadratics I actually needed in my day job which is why I said 90% - this kind of knowledge can be easily acquired if you need it.

Majority of that "multi-faceted" 4 year curriculum ended up being a waste of time, and ironically I am probably in the top % of my peers in the amount of knowledge I retained.

On the other hand basic programming is about as enabling as knowing how to do basic probability calculations or writing in formal tone. I never argued about first order logic or learning reasoning so I don't know why you're bringing that argument up - I said that basic programming lets you do stuff that's useful in majority of office work - it helps analyze/transform/collect data and interact with software in a more productive manner. You don't even need to learn programming just going trough the process should give you some insight so when you encounter a problem you can know what to search for and go trough the motions to use an existing solution (eg. knowing how to run a script you downloaded because you know what a script is and what it's supposed to do, or knowing how to modify some formula/query even if you couldn't write it from scratch)
You can't really compare the two because modelling isn't a consistent gig. You can easily make $50-100/hr doing it (assuming, of course, you are blessed with model looks), but you can't easily do it 40 hours a week.
It also reminds me of the Boos from the Super Mario Bros series. Either way, such monsters would certainly be interesting in a game with this sort of eye tracking stuff included.
You think the FBI can introduce evidence against you, that you cannot examine?
Apropos of nothing, I noticed the CSS for mobile has been tweaked recently. I can comfortably read comments in portrait mode on my Android now, thank you very much!
"One of the things people don't understand is that news organization exist as much for themselves as much as they do for their readers."

What makes you think people do not understand?

Can you relate to us an experience that made you think that?

"One of the things..."

What are the other things that people do not understand?
Will cheap services pop up which help small companies fulfill MOSS requirements while not being an onerous burden?
You should really talk to the local population which currently makes a living from fishing, tourism and timber and then ask them if in their opinion destruction of the livelihood is in their interest.

You also should read texts better before starting your anti environmentalism rants, because in the NYT the opinion of the actual people affected is indeed considered. The local population was against this mine.
Agreeing with the principle and disagreeing with the number, I think.
Yeah this exactly, I was disappointed reading the article.
I travel to places many people think of as traditionally dangerous - I drove Alaska->Argentina[1] and I'm setting out to drive around Africa for 2 years.

People often feel the need to contact me and tell me about the latest bombing or kidnapping in a country on my route. I always ask how many people got married in that country yesterday, or how many people had the happiest day of their life with a child born, or other celebration.

Of course, nobody has any idea, because the media doesn't tell us things like that.

[1] My blog is http://theroadchoseme.com
Of course, modern nuclear submarines are steam-powered too :)
Attention Shoppers: Internet Is Open (1994)
That's actually near impossible each EU country will have a flat VAT rate as well as reduced VAT rates on certain items (books, children cloths, cat sex toys etc.) there are also other different regulations especially in regards to 2nd hand items and crafted items.

In some EU countries re-selling an item will not trigger VAT, in some it will, in some it might require some work to be done (e.g. refurbishing) in which case you need to charge VAT but even that's not that simple because in some countries you only charge VAT on the actual work and bill of material that went into the refurbishing process, in some countries you need to charge VAT for the whole amount based on the final sale price and the list goes on and on and on.

VAT MOSS also completely ignores the fact that you might be VAT exempt in your own country, if you are in the UK you can choose not to register for VAT if your business earns under 100K a year in this case you simply do not charge VAT, but well Spain doesn't care about that so they might come knocking because you have a Spanish costumer or 2.

There is no realistic way for people to figure out when and how much VAT you'll need to charge, and you'll need quite a good and expensive accountant to sort that out and even they might actually not know everything.
Ya, I was thinking of Boo's and weeping angles.
With respect, and empathy given that I have lost several close family relatives to cancer, I disagree with you.

Many cancers are in fact overfunded relative to their societal impact. Moreover too much money is spent on chasing cures rather than prevention:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3411479/
http://www.slate.com/blogs/quora/2013/02/07/where_do_the_mil...
The goal is $600.
> I wouldn't advise people to try to start startups before about 23. Before that you should be exploring.

Man, I wish he had written this five years ago. I focused far too early and had to spend a lot of time correcting that course. Finally in the thick of exploring and loving it. Yes, there's hints in other essays about this but the hard age limit says that in a way the others don't. I was a incredibly dumb smart student.
I think it's an example of the "backlash" mentioned later in the article, "the sneaking suspicion that someone of considerable (or at least ample) means and/or connections is asking for help." Given that context, I can't tell if it was a serious remark.
Entering unicode math symbols directly from keyboard (OS X)
Really? The article's suggestion that a good-looking woman should consider her looks her most employable asset sure set off alarm bells for me.
My knees are bad and I would love a Segway.

But they're thousands...

Thankfully, GoFundMe obliges.
It is a little more than that as you also need to write alternating state to the file, but you are right, and that is the point of the post. You can read/write embedded sensors/actuators in whatever language you are comfortable by simply reading/writing from the Linux file system.
Engagement is more difficult because a foreign team may not understand some aspects of what they're building because of cultural differences. Time zones make communication more difficult and so clarifying stories or making product decisions is more difficult. More importantly is that for some of these foreign teams, they're part of a company that just wants to keep being paid. There's no incentive to finish projects early or at all.

That said there are some ways to make foreign development more engaged. Make sure the team is demoing the improvements made in this sprint. Give bonuses for accepted demos. Make sure that there is some communication window when the team can ask questions or just talk to the founders.

Most important find out why development is taking a long time. Is it because they've switched out developers or added junior developers? Is it because of new product decisions/scope creep? Are they focusing on the critical path? Is the dev team blocked overnight
you're right,fixed.
It's sad that they don't talk about Uzupis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U%C5%BEupis

A nice little artsy pseudo-country in Vilnius, Lithuania.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting
Thanks for your answer and congratulations on your family!! :)
That's very interesting - thanks so much for sharing your experience with me!! I'll rethink the idea of cloth!! :)
>can reason trough a simple SQL query or write a non trivial excel formula

I can't do that.

I have written few very basic python/java programs (maybe 200 lines max, very poor irc-bot was my triumph). And at the office I'm the local computer guru. "Let me show you how you can search a string in excel. Note that big and small letters aren't always the same thing." I shit you not.

I think over-learning this stuff really doesn't hurt. Maybe people would grasp what is easy to program and what is difficult. These days you sometimes run into attitudes like "we could ask this SQL data as excel chart, but it's probably ten thousand dollar coding project. So we don't even ask."
Sales tax varies by county in some (most?) states.
And if you are American, you are completely bound by the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, so you can't even bribe that mobster or official. Your rule book is going to be different.

Foreigners really shouldn't be starting businesses in China, the rules (or lack of them) are just not in your favor.
In these discussions about the importance of metadata, I'm surprised that Bitmessage is rarely mentioned. The Bitmessage protocol is decentralized, trustless, and hides metadata such as the sender and receiver of messages.
> If you have statistics that show otherwise

No I don't, floor space per person seems to be one of those things that's barely registered or studied, it seems, on an international level. Some municipalities/cities do their own studies, and some organisations (EU, OECD) etc do run some country-level averages, but even here definitions are non-standard (e.g. they'll look at floor area per dwelling per capita, but definitions of dwellings range from houses to caravans to vacation homes and may include or exclude vacant dwellings etc, some count all area including outer walls, others count not the balcony, some count the balcony for half), but comprehensive solid international data that's standardised and available down to a local (city) level I'm not aware of. It's a shame because it's definitely interesting data! Who knows there may be a market for this kind of information :)
I think it is illuminating that you refer to "pesky chores around the house." I'll acknowledge that I'm a weirdo, in that I consider my current living situation inferior due to its lack of opportunity for meaningful manual labor.

If I won Powerball tomorrow, I'd tell my boss I could either work 99% remote, or he could try to find someone else to take over. Then I would go home, and be a somewhat more comfortable version of the subsistence farmers my great-grandparents were. Sawing and splitting firewood would be an excellent break from debugging ASP.NET applications, and hilling potatoes would be a great distraction from fighting with upgraded Windows installer tooling. I would never have to bag up another dog turd. I'd have free, non-chlorinated, decent-tasting water. I could plink at tin cans in my back yard without violating any town ordinances, scaring the neighbors, or having the police called on me. I could see the stars at night without the baleful day-glo glare of halogen streetlights polluting the sky.

I am hopeful that this utopia might be achievable within a foreseeable timescale, sans massive lottery-related cash infusion. Much more hopeful than I am about the possibility of an urban environment that could possibly meet my requirements for livability.
Iowa State vs. Oklahoma Live Streaming
Rumblr is like a dating app, but for fistfights
I can't agree with this assessment. Personally, the NSA or pervasive surveillance use case is overblown and a low risk threat to me.

Anyone reasonably competent conducting the most cursory of investigations could figure out who I do business with in hours. The NSA boogeyman with omniscient network surveillance capability will come up with ways to find the source/destination of obfuscates messages anyway.

Sensitive data that I routinely handle is content. Employees improperly reading mail (on either sender or recipient side), or some data breach affecting mail servers, desktops, or relays are much higher risks.

PGP is a great way to encrypt ad hoc data at rest. I think the reason it isn't pervasive is that once you figure out what is really secret, you develop specific tools to transmit that data more seamlessly.
It will be worth the price when the kikes say so
Nope, it does not. He finished at the gym around that time and I was free around that time so that day that was the time picked :)
And GoFundMe, Kickstarter, IndieGoGo, Patreon are both the street corners AND the cups for the avant-garde beggar. An astute hustler would actively have pitches on all of them. I mean: a panhandler can only cover one physical street corner at any given time. It's better to cover all possible bases.

> That's all a long, roundabout way of saying, "Seriously, don't use the word beggar. With all due respect, you don't know how much pain that word causes."

Yes, I know how much pain it causes; so much pain that people are begging from behind technology now. Those people on Patreon/GoFundMe would never stand out on the street with a cup, because it's too painful for them. That's why I call it busking, which is begging with a performance.
Technology wins when it’s “good enough” in the eyes of its users. Things like online shopping and online discussion forums have won out because they’ve improved enough to be chosen by some over the real thing, even if there’s still a market for the in-person service.

Meanwhile, Twitter has failed for the exact reasons the author states: disorganization and volatility. Virtual contracts are also rarely used (I assume this is a network effect at play).

However, the way I see it, each of these categories of virtual replacements supersedes the original to some degree, if not entirely; whether it goes ‘mainstream’ is merely a public perception that varies between circles.
1. Since when did "tech company" come to mean "non-startup"? Lots of startups are by definition technology companies.

2. Many people in the Bay Area are employed by angel and venture-backed startups, so how does it make sense to ignore them? If and when there's a significant downturn that results in the unsustainable startup herd being culled, not all startup employees are going to find six-figure replacement jobs at companies like Google and Facebook. People who lived through the first .com bust know how fast the job market can dry up for a large subset of employees.

3. It is absolutely not true that the Bay Area's unprofitable publicly-traded tech companies have "unlimited money" relative to anything. Review their SEC filings and you can determine how much money they have down to the dollar. You should not be surprised when those that struggle to reach profitability sooner or later take cost-cutting action, which may include layoffs and adjustments to employee compensation. Twitter just did this. Even profitable tech companies, like IBM and HP, have laid off significant numbers of employees. Bottom line: when push comes to shove and the shit hits the fan, companies tend to use large knives, not scalpels.
Coordination is expensive, especially things like consensus - my research on this matter has to been avoid it entirely. A lot of my work from consulting has been implemented in http://gunDB.io/ . Avoiding coordination in data is possible, but difficult with computation.
Hah, I'll have to pay attention to see whether or not my thinking works along those lines as well next time!
Nah, that's way high.

Diaper pro tip: very young babies (first few months) require a "5-minute rule" on changing poo diapers. You see them doing it, or smell it, wait 5 minutes to change it. It's very likely it'll be a 2-stage operation, and if you change it too early you'll waste a diaper when wave 2 hits right after you're done (after if you're lucky). They can live with it for a few minutes.

Congrats, and good luck. The first ~6-9 months are fairly bad (mostly because it's a lot of work and kids just aren't that much fun at that age) but when they start doing stuff it's awesome.
No one is saying what they are doing should be illegal, so I am not sure what the first amendment has to do with anything.
>Suppose that you can’t remember whether Pluto is a dwarf planet, and you need to find out by asking someone nearby—but you don’t know whether that person is a knight or a knave. What’s the one yes-no question you can ask to figure out whether Pluto is a dwarf planet?

>"Are you a knight if and only if Pluto is a dwarf planet?"

>If the person’s a knight and Pluto is a dwarf planet, then you get the answer “yes,” since both statements on each side of if and only if are true, and knights always speak truly.

I don't get how this follows. Surely, the person being a knight or a knave is independent from whether or not Pluto is a dwarf planet so a real knight would say "no" either way since the assumption is bad and a knave would thus say "yes". Thereby, you have not determined whether or not Pluto is a dwarf planet but instead whether the person is a knight or a knave.

Please explain my error.
Here is a list of steps to send a signed e-mail:

http://davidjarvis.ca/dave/tech/privacy.shtml

Once signing is in place, you can send an encrypted e-mail:

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/digitally-signing-and-e...

Here's the response from Robert Hansen on why Enigmail has such a complicated process:

> Here's the heart of the problem: "Modifying the wizard to account for average users" works only if you can define an 'average user'. And you can't, the same way that I can't. Please don't misunderstand me, it's not my intent to slight you or your willingness to do a lot of hard
work. (Quite the opposite: I really hope you're willing to do it!) But we have to start by looking at the realities, and the reality is the the GnuPG-using community is incredibly fractious and prone to declaring holy wars over the most trivial and irrelevant of details.

> If you set key generation to default to 4096-bit keys, a lot of people will roll their eyes and accuse you of subscribing to key length fetishism. If you leave the default at GnuPG's default of 2048-bit keys, a lot of people will scream that you're not providing enough security.

> If you default to inline PGP, international users and people who love HTML mail will complain the default doesn't work for them. If you default to PGP/MIME, people who post to mailing lists will scream that your change just broke their communications. (Not a joke, incidentally: there are a lot of mailing lists that strip all attachments as a security measure... which has the side effect of completely breaking PGP/MIME.)

> The reason why we ask so many questions in the wizard is not because we're afraid of losing existing users, although that would definitely be a consequence if we were to go with your more simplified way. The reason why we ask so many questions is because we cannot know which option a user will demand to use and will think should be enabled by
default.

> If we can't come up with a default that will work just fine out-of-the-box for 95% of our userbase, then we're not going to make it a default. We'll ask the user for their preference. And that's the reason why our wizard asks so many questions: we ask questions when there is no clearly correct default.

I think he's wrong. Flexible software would have a default wizard for basic users and an advanced wizard for users who care about the difference between 2048- and 4096-bit keys. It's one question at the start of the install process, "Would you like to tweak encryption settings?" -- Yes, No, and "What does tweak mean?" are possible answers. Or install with default settings and guide power users to tweak the parameters post-install. Encrypted e-mail should not require over 90 steps.
This is good advice.

The therapist at my university was really useful to several people I know, plus myself.
Two "lucky" strikes in the same family in Russia? It seems there might be more than just luck to that.
(if anyone is interested, OPs post was flagged for a few hours then subsequently unflagged. take this as you will.)
Has Oculus made any real money (apart from the pure luck money involved in being acquired by Facebook)? Maybe they were right to pass over Oculus.
So, this article. Read it a few days ago, and while I do like some concepts (like the below mentioned monsters that move when you're looking away thing), a lot just seems like it'd be more annoying than anything else.

Camera controlled by where you look? Oh, that's good, except quite a lot of the time in games you don't want to have the camera follow your gaze your screen. For example, in a lot of platformers, you want to be able to see as much of the area as possible in order to judge where you're jumping too. If the camera tracks your eye movements... well, someone's probably falling into the abyss pretty soon.

I don't think anyone would want to be trying Grandmaster Galaxy or Champion Road with this sort of tech any time soon.

There's also the way a lot of games have 'lock on' mechanics for targeting enemies. Your attacks go one way (towards the enemy), but the camera focuses somewhere else to give you a better view of your surroundings. I can see that falling apart pretty quickly if eye tracking got brought into it.

But even assuming it'll mostly be used for games with a first person viewpoint (which in itself might be a limiting factor for things like virtual reality, since it's a smaller percentage of games than people like to think), it just seems like it'd be a bit too... precise for a lot of titles. People playing games look all over the screen for things that might be important in the future, and they probably don't want the camera bouncing around like a pinball as a result.

The focus and depth of field aspects seem the only plausible ones for most games.
Up to 30 per day sounds crazy. My 2-month-old goes through 5-8 per day.
> ...it's just that the internet has democratized the technologies used to ask randoms for money.

You hit the nail on the head.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time. Services like GoFundMe simply make reaching "some of the people" much, much easier.
Problems with plastic bags:

1. clog up storm drains.

2. clog up the screens that water treatment plants use to filter out large debris.

3. degrade into micro particles that treatment plants can't easily remove.

4. mistaken for floating jellyfish by seabirds and fish and they get eaten and block the digestive tract.

5. degrade into microparticles which reenter the food chain.

6. plastics bond with other nasty chemicals to form even more toxic compounds