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Linus' idea of Tux: So when you think "penguin", you should be imagining a slighly overweight penguin, sitting down after having gorged itself, and having just burped. It's sitting there with a beatific smile - the world is a good place to be
when you have just eaten a few gallons of raw fish and you can feel another "burp" coming.

Totally not the vibe I'm getting from this...

(quote from http://www.sjbaker.org/wiki/index.php?title=The_History_of_T...)
I don't have time right now to fully read the paper, but a quick glance at the abstract: "Our evaluations use NYC taxi trace data and an 80-server cluster. Results show that Pyro reduces the response time by 60X on 1km×1km rectangle geometries compared to the state-of-the-art solutions".

Congratulations to the authors.
Look forward to it!
If we gave voice to every harsh judgment that comes to mind, we would never stop criticizing other people. There's a tension between the need to see oneself in a positive light and the desire to think positively of others.

If you manage to keep these feelings to yourself, I see no cause for shame.
I would argue that, while "evil" cannot be defined in precise terms, you can definitely say that evil acts are unnatural acts that only humans are capable of. Why? Well for one because a natural foodchain is balanced and biased towards long term survival of all the species it involves and towards further creation of life. It's a little ironic that human beings are the only ones in the entire animal kingdom that can choose how to live, we are the only ones able to choose what are, our intellect transcending our DNA coding, yet we are also the only ones destroying our habitat and each other. Isn't that funny?

But back to Hitler, if you're trying to make the case that his evilness is subjective, I mean no offense but that's a really dumb argument. Hitler was in no small part evil because his actions were, on one hand irrational, fueling and amplifying his people's potential for hatred and destruction and on the other hand detrimental to the survival of our species and of Earth itself. And again, genocide is not natural. You see, in nature animals kill to eat, but that's to satisfy a basic necessity and not out of some wicked sense of justice and animals can definitely not kill on an industrial scale like we do. Whatever definition for "evil" you find, genocide on an industrial scale is pure evil by definition.

And if that doesn't sound objective enough, consider that culture is a part of who we are. We aren't DNA-coded to eat certain foods, or to live in a certain place, or in a certain way. Compared with rats, we can rely on the wisdom of our elders in order to survive. And we've survived this way for a long time. As an example, our rich culture, which includes preconceptions and taboos, is what prevents us to eat each other, or to have sex with our siblings, or to bring human sacrifices to our gods. Actually some preconceptions are more subtle and newer than others - for example the notion that children are fragile beings that need to be loved and protected, instead of someone's property, is pretty new, being popularized by Christianity.

So you know, if popular conception is that doing this or that is evil or toxic or taboo, there's a high probability that such judgments are correct, helping us to survive and thrive. Even with all the false positives (which tends to be the lack of tolerance towards people that are different from us), dismissing our heritage would not be wise. Plus usually the guidelines are simple, like being a murdering maniac counts as evil, though somebody should tell those jihadists.
I've been really fat most of my life, currently doing pretty well. When you have this problem most people, if they ever lose weight, experience a cycle- lose a lot of weight followed by cockiness/judginess (maybe, I never got that) followed by imperceptible creeping up back to and past original weight. I've done that at least 4 times
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Also, the work is bad. I recently took a look chicago's craigslist.

One machine learning job. For a company in Berkeley. The majority of java jobs were in CA [1]; of those remaining, perhaps one looked interesting. Rails has a similar story [2]. Indeed has a bit more stuff but the pickings are slim; lots of the jobs for eg rails are attempts at relos elsewhere. Of the jobs actually in Chicago, a common refrain is senior and/or 3-5 years of experience. Experience which seems hard to get in Chicago, so instead of getting people to stay, they need them to move back.

[1] http://chicago.craigslist.org/search/jjj?query=java

[2] http://chicago.craigslist.org/search/jjj?query=ruby+on+rails

[3] https://angel.co/salaries
This is for both development on ARM systems (standard go commands, eg: go build, etc) and deploying to ARM systems (setting ARM as a compile target). That said, I'm genuinely curious why anyone would develop on an ARM-based system as opposed to your run of the mill desktop.

I realize that standard towers may be supplanted by their SoC brethren, but so what? Will we all be using iMac-like computers as desktops in the next 36-72 months? Will there even be any differentiation between "regular" desktops with discrete CPUs, memory, etc and the system-on-a-chip variant?
> There's no world where its justifiable to murder a nation of civilians, ever.

Yup, and that's just what ISIS is trying to do -- everyone in the world, convert to radical Sunni Islam and follow ISIS or die.

To heck with the details: The US, France, Germany, England, all of NATO has a right to defend themselves.

With the ISIS ideology, they will be trying to kill everyone else, infidels, as long as there is just one ISIS person left.

At this point it is not enough to stop the ISIS killings. Instead, we must stop the ability of ISIS to do harm outside of their area.

Sure, taking the desert area of ISIS and wiping it clean is not reasonable, but neither is ISIS.

I don't want to kill them. I especially don't want to hurt the girls and young women, especially the ones they have made into sex slaves. I don't even want to hurt their flocks and camels.

But I want to stop ISIS now and forever in the future. I don't want to spend even one drop of NATO blood. I don't want to spend even one US penny more than necessary. But I want ISIS stopped. We are not obligated to put up with their wacko nonsense. It is our responsibility that they be stopped. If they had any responsibility or deserved any from us, then they would long since have stopped their wacko, medieval nonsense. Since they have not stopped and have no sense of responsibility, we need just to stop them.

Stop them from the air. Take out their leaders and their oil infrastructure. Occupy their oil areas and take the oil. For the rest of the area, we might for a while try to send them back to tents, flocks, and camels cooking their food with camel dung. I I suspect it won't work, that all they have is what their radical clerics tell them, and those clerics will stop only when dead.

Basically they have a wacko, violent, ugly, stupid medieval culture enabled by oil money and nothing else, are 1000 years out of date, with no hope of moving ahead the needed several hundred years. No hope.

And their nuke threat is real. Time to stop them.
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Moving to Nano Server, the new deployment option in Windows Server 2016
A phrase, "Show me a 10ft tall fence and I'll show you an 11ft tall ladder." comes to mind.

There will always be a cat and mouse game, it seems the trick is to not play the game in the first place.
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I'm in tech and still had a difficult time finding a job that would provide a visa. And the visa process is a minimum of 2 to 3 months, meaning even if you got the job, you can't legally work for a long time, and hopefully they get you the visa before your traveling visa expires otherwise you get to fly out of the country to renew. Not necessarily cheap. Further, many jobs require strong Japanese skills which is a huge hurdle IMHO. I would hardly say it is easy.
The recording isn't illegal. The argument is over whether it's admissible. Even the article, which clearly favors throwing it out, admits to that.
What large terror attacks have hit the USA since mass surveillance began?
Agreed - I'd rather see dairy/eggs merged with meats than fats with sugar.

You can see the original data that they used on the FAOSTAT website[0]. The original data does separate "Sugars& Sweeteners" from "Oilcrops" and "VegetableOils".

[0] http://faostat3.fao.org/faostat-gateway/go/to/download/FB/FB...
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I thought the IMF had made it clear that the yuan could never join the SDR basket as long as China kept currency controls in place. The article says the IMF's analysts have suddenly decided that the yuan is "freely usable", and it does mention other liberalizations that China has done, but there is nothing about whether capital controls were loosened. Did China adjust its policy here, or is the IMF lowering its standards due to Chinese pressure, or was I mistaken all along that currency controls were a no-go?
300,000 people die every year from Obesity. It's our #1 killer. And it can be solved by eating less.

See this study in the NEJM:

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199212313272701

Discrepancy between Self-Reported and Actual Caloric Intake and Exercise in Obese Subjects

Of all the "diet resistant" subjects studied, ALL of them (100%) were grossly underreporting actual calories consumed and overexerting physical activity. Some of the people in this study were on medication because doctors had believed their self-reported numbers and believed they may have had thyroid or other metabolic problems.

Remember that "bariatric surgery" is just a way to get people to eat less by making it physically impossible to overeat. (Of course, people still manage.)
> Ideally, everyone pays taxes proportional to the amount of benefit they get from public services, programs and infrastructure

That sounds very convoluted. If you want to charge proportional to usage, why not just charge for usage?
Another benefit is it caches DNS lookups.
The up-vote wasn't about giving you karma, it's about making your comment more visible. If you didn't care about visibility than you wouldn't be posting in the first place.
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No lock is secure, ever.
These people are looking for something that the western civilization is not giving them. For some, it's just to be treated like human beings rather than something less.

But others are looking for something else. They look at the materialist view (where all we are is a collection of atoms created by random chance, obeying the laws of physics and biochemistry and neurology, and where it's very difficult to find any real (non-arbitrary) meaning in life), and they find it empty - empty in a way that more material prosperity won't fix.

And they look at Christianity in Europe, and too often they find it to be dead - full of unreality and dust.

Their cry is in essence the same as the hippies in the 1960s: "Your society isn't giving us adequate answers. It's not enough to satisfy our hearts."
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Yes, it is depressing. What's even more depressing is when you walk around say a supermarket here and you're wondering to yourself which one of the 5 people waiting in line at the checkout is the closet facist. The old friendly lady? The woman with the toddler? You think you may be able to rule out the dude with the 'peace' sign around his neck, but you can't be really sure. I know it isn't me and the kid in front of me isn't of voting age yet.
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Discrepancy with Self-Reported and Actual Caloric Intake in Obese Subjects
Squarespace locks you in
Hi, jturolla here.

I've been a user of Squarespace for over a year now, and I decided to move to Wordpress as the service got a little expensive for us in Brazil due to the exchange rate.
When I exported Squarespace data as XML to upload in Wordpress I noticed every image is still hosted at Squarespace, no biggie, right? I can just scrap the URLS and download every image and upload them again in wordpress... WRONG.

What happens it that Squarespace has so restrict access policies to their website that if I try to download even 4 images, one each 60 seconds (I used wget to do it), I get a 429 TOO MANY REQUESTS error, and squarespace blocks me in downloading my own images.

When requesting help from Squarespace customer service, they keep sending me over and over emails explaining stupid obvious things that are irrelevant to what I want: To download my assets from Squarespace!
The worst part was that after my site got disabled on Squarespace as I stopped paying, the images hosted at Squarespace vanished, breaking my entire new host, something the Customer Service told wasn't going to happen, but DID HAPPEN.

Squarespace told my XML includes links that would be "automagically" uploaded to wordpress, which is a LIE, and can be confirmed on this URL: http://recordit.co/n3VPJc3xOc
Customer support is not helping. They pretend to know "issues" that do not exist, and keep exchanging irrelevant messages, and I don't know what to do, as they will not help me export my assets, and I refuse to expend an extreme amount of time download images one by one using chrome.

So, here is my recommendation: Do not use Squarespace, it will lock you in and not help you leave even by request on their customer service.
The gem in the mud of "Healthy at Every Size" is indeed the encouragement of emotional resilience. Perhaps someone is a large person with an unhealthy appetite. This is unfortunate, but it doesn't mean he or she must be resigned to consuming unhealthy foods. Certainly it's better to consume 4,000 kcal per day of vegetables than the same amount in cake.

So often, in a state of despair, we indulge the sunk-cost fallacy by giving up simply because our conditions are not absolutely ideal. This is the emotional phenomenon the HAES seems to have been intended to address.
You realize I hope that you are condemning the migrants to the crisis as well. And they're the ones losing big time, Europe not so much.
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Showing "Some support" is very very very far from being part of such an extreme organization. Or else we would all be dead .
I thought evidence was inadmissable iff it was gathered illegally (by the government).
We agree though I'd phrase it as, acceptance being the most important part. The individual accepting their status/issue/persona and not society acquiescing. It's all very specific and personal.
Respectfully, that doesn't answer the question. What is the current policy for determining use?
Hurting peoples feelings does not improve their health. My guess is (I don't know you) looking down on fat people is one of the mechanisms by which you make yourself feel worthy. You are not doing it from their benefit. Believe me, it is a vanishingly rare person who is fat and doesn't mind it. The fat acceptance movement is about feeling helpless and just wishing people would stop giving you a hard time on top of it
Japan has been in a debt-deflation cycle for a quarter century and the west is headed the same direction. http://i.imgur.com/PQ6HNay.png
I think the parent was saying they are on their way down to a population where open space would be more abundant and spacious housing would be more affordable, but they aren't there yet with their current population.
No, the trick is to play the game, not perfectly, but well enough that the other side decides not to play. If you don't play and they do...
Perhaps so for some. The challenge for those of us who are not their size is to empathize despite the temptation to adopt a belligerent stance in response.
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This is why Bitcoin needs to start expiring unspent outputs that are more than 5 years old.
1password... last pass... is the only way to survive... Now how soon can we completely abolish passwords?
Great to hear, you enjoy it. I am Marius, the current project lead of the tus project and I guess I can provide some answers for you.

The biggest benefit and the main reason of its origin is the ability to resume an interrupted upload at any time resulting in more efficient resource usage and user experience.
In addition the fact that it's developed openly and by a community is also noticeable. You do not have to reinvent the wheel since others have already spend time, efforts and thoughts building a working system you can use for free. The tus project already offers a growing list of client and server-side implementations.
Last but not least, optional features such as parallel uploading and checksums are available.

On the other hand, you have the overhead of adapting an external system. Whenever you want to build software, you can choose between doing it yourself or using an existing solution, where latter can be tough to achieve depending on your architecture. Furthermore, tus introduces a small overhead in terms of numbers of requests needed for an upload. Usually, you need one to create the upload and another one to transfer the actual data (excluding eventual CORS requests in a browser), in contrast to the traditional model of uploading where a single request is used. Normally, this overhead is negligible, especially when the files are getting bigger.
I've used plotly.js the last months (about 3 or 4), the needs of my application are basic: pie chart, bar chart and line chart.
I first tried Chart.js, very easy to work with, but some situations make me change to plotly:
-The user needed numbers to be outside the pie chart when the space is limited.
-The user print the chart so svg is better than canvas for this purpose
Plotly has plenty of configuration options and is well documented on https://plot.ly/javascript/reference/ but for me, the most useful part is the playground (You need a plotly account). You can make your layout for a chart, view the JSON layout object and apply it on your project.
The experience has been positive to me.
Good point. In the future, I'll try to remember that I'm wasting my time. Too late to delete most of them.
It applies to video recordings. Most cctv cameras don't record audio for this reason.
Great read (found moments ago on YC):

http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2015/nov/16/paris-attac...

In another article I read this month (but can't seem to find right now) it was explained that "terrorism" was mostly... a social network -- and the article above agrees with that characterization, I think.

This whole mess doesn't have a lot to do with religion, Islam or otherwise; it's about young people trying to find meaning.

It may sound absurd, preposterous, ridiculous, despicable even, to compare today's terrorists to peaceniks from the 60s, but dismissing them as "crazies" is even more wrong, and less helpful.

(And I say this as a Frenchman having lived in Paris all my life).
Did you even read the headline of the source you posted, let alone its content? It says the exact opposite of what you are claiming. Here's the sub-head: "Two-Thirds Favor Treatment, Not Jail, for Use of Heroin, Cocaine."

People do NOT support jailing offenders for minor drug offenders.
A big yes! I discovered and adopted MetricsGraphics today, after having tried so many alternatives in the past days (Chart.js is missing some features, C3.js charts are ugly, Plottable.js is too low level, NVD3 is not stable, Epoch has not rollover, etc.).

MetricsGraphics is at the same time easy to use, quite powerful, and creates beautiful charts out the box.

It made my day.

But for "explorable" scientific charts (the kind of charts I was used to do using matplotlib), I think Plotly.js can be fantastic.
> Breivik, unless I'm wrong about it, was not part of a movement trying to dominate the world and install a Christian kingdom, so ISIS differs from the white "movement" in that regard.

The biggest difference is - for want of a better word and I'm really sorry about using that term in the current context - because of their ability to execute. They would if they could, they just can't.
>not an unrelated system that just happens to be governed by an identical set of equations in some regime.

that is exactly the point of analogue systems - identical equations have identical solutions, and thus analogue system allows to observe and explore the solutions (which in many cases aren't that easy/possible to obtain mathematically/numerically)
And, reminder, France authorized a sweeping mass surveillance bill back in May. It, too, doesn't seem to have stopped anything.
Can't help but feel that 'control plane' is the new 'shell script': I never heard this term until recently, and it seems to be on the hype-train, certainly in Silly-Valley.

I wonder, does that Google historical search-frequency analyzer thang let you do geographic breakdowns? Anyone else remember HP-issued SNMP-based management software from the 1990s: control plane indeed! I'd wager this is part of what inspired Nagios.
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This is exactly what I was hoping for.

I'll go with your setup because it's pretty much exactly what I had in mind and similar to my previous setup besides the mechanical keyboard and headphones.

Thanks for the very detailed help and providing links!
Can't you test your mining on a different fork of the chain?
The bugs were planted to catch people colluding at public foreclosure auctions held at the courthouse steps, it had nothing to do with recording lawyers, juries, or judges.

I like how they start some huge investigation to to try to fix the auctions instead of just building an auction website and opening it up to the entire US public. This would probably make collusion impossible and get better prices for the property.
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> Many people choose to live in the Midwest because they like having more personal space

I've been in the bay area for about a year now and this hits on what has been by far the hardest part of the transition for me, and what will eventually drive me away.

Things are so congested and crowded that it feels like some sort of dystopian novel. And there's also this weird subliminal cultural value that people actually like it. I get judged when I suggest to people that continually waiting in line for basic necessities is maybe a shitty way to live, and that it'd be kind of nice to open my window and not look directly into my neighbor's window. Having come from a very rural upbringing, it's hard to not feel like an outsider.

The rest of your analysis is spot on in my experience too. Some of the most talented people I know live in Nebraska because they want to be close to family. And while the cost of housing is drastically lower, companies also tend to not pay very well at all - and the successful ones instantly try to emulate SV culture instead of having the confidence to be themselves and embrace their own local culture.
This argument misses the point IMHO: the US government was investing astronomically large sums of money in an infrastructure that was fated to quickly become less and less effective. In doing so, they were even willing to violate basic constitutional rights.
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Or, just click on the "web" link, right before the article title, at the top of this comment page.

This functionality is built-in to Hacker News.
china has some of the most strict currency controls in the world and actively manipulates the exchange rate of their currency to help boost exports. if the IMF allows the RMB to join the SDR basket it will make it a joke. I am sure there is serious political pressure and bribery going on to make this happen