skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've come to the same conclusion: the call to abolish copyright is just a bullet point on the cost-saving wish list of content aggregators and content mills, and the people who support it are hopelessly naive ideologues who have not thought through the likely outcome of the position they are advocating. If there were no copyright, the big aggregators and vertically integrated giants like Apple would just "monetize" everything and pay the creators of content nothing.

BTW, open source -- the darling of the "information wants to be free" crowd -- would also be toast. Proprietary vendors would simply take all open source code, strip off its authorship and add proprietary features, then 'extinguish' by leveraging vertical integration and UX to make it 'theirs.' Independent OSS ecosystems would cease to exist as no-one would dare release open source code... it would just be appropriated without even giving credit to the original author, let alone any form of compensation.

Intellectual property law is indeed broken. That brokenness probably starts with a flawed bit of reasoning by analogy; trying to extend the concept of physical property into the intellectual realm is an ugly hack to shoehorn intellectual value creation into ancient frameworks of property and contract law. Its brokenness also stems from self-serving lobbyists taking it over, e.g. the endless "Mickey Mouse protection acts" that have extended copyright terms to infinity.

That being said: abolishing it without replacing it would simply abolish writing, music, art, journalism, etc. as primary disciplines or careers. Without copyright the only way to make money in these fields would be to turn all of your work into advertisement; Buzzfeed would be the future of all art. That's a hellish dystopia if I've ever seen one.

I wonder if the solution might not be technical. Google "homomorphic encryption."
"actively look(ing) for arguments supporting their existing beliefs" is exactly his complaint against the original study, hence the complaint about the name; and that's probably true. Would the authors have been open to the possibility that their data demonstrated welfare recipients to be lazy, greedy users? Would they have dared to publish their research in the event that their data supported such a conclusion?

It seems unlikely, and career suicide in any case.
There is solar, but only during the hours when the sun is shining.
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It's 9:30pm CET.

The sun set a while ago ...
Oh, didn't realise since I'm in GMT+1 (actually, I'm in Spain, but well.) In any case, solar is pretty visible with the color choice and, well, it's actual presence.
It's glitchy in Firefox. Here's the official real time graph https://demanda.ree.es/demandaGeneracionAreasEng.html
Pi found in the hydrogen atom and in every other corner of the Universe
Odd comment, in this context. Have you read the article?
Thanks pbnjay… I agree that’s much more readable and have improved the code.
GM's Electric Car, MotorWeek Retro Review of the 1997 GM EV 1
That's a beautiful board. I remember the FAMP made by Herzberger & Co at NIKHEF-H, I used to hang around their hardware labs when those were built. Similar hairy debug sessions in progress. Those worked well in the end iirc and ended up at CERN.
OP's one looks cool. But this one is a lot easier to understand.
Let me attempt an explanation.

'git rev-list' will give you the SHA-1 hashes of all the commits reachable from a given commit. So 'git rev-list HEAD' is going to give you all commits reachable from HEAD, i.e. your latest one all the way to your first commit. After that, there's a bunch of ways you could filter that. For example, you could run 'git rev-list HEAD | tail -1' to get the hash of the first commit, and now all you need to do to show the whole diff is pipe it to 'xargs git show' (xargs reads from stdin and uses that as the argument to whatever comes after it.

The grandparent comment uses a slightly interesting trick – he/she used the built-in '--max-parents' filter. '--max-parents' limits the number of parent commits. For example, a merge has 2 or more parent commits, so the '--max-parents=1' option will exclude all merge commits. What commit has no parents? Why, the first commit of the repo, of course.

Hence, the command 'git rev-list --max-parents=0 HEAD | xargs git show'.
I’m sure there’s no consensus at all. Rabbis have spent millennia debating and reinterpreting their scripture.

I once heard that it’s possible to make kosher pork — the literal proscription against pork is that Jews are not to eat from animals who have a cloven hoof. But if you take a baby pig, suspend it from a harness, feed it to maturation but never let it walk on the ground, its hooves will remain uncloven and thus it’s fair game.

You will find many, many (probably most) rabbis who disagree with this particular conclusion, but the point is that the whole culture has a fascinating legacy of picking apart the rules that would make any lawyer proud.
The way we eat meat today is very "broke" and certainly not sustainable over the long term.
Can someone explain "special scheme"?
Basic income also reduces incentives to work for people who aren't currently on welfare. Me and most of my family would probably just move to rural Wisconsin and fish, snowmobile, netflix and play video games for the rest of our lives.

Unless the basic income isn't enough to live on, which would mean more welfare would be needed for those who can't work or can't find a job.
Interesting that Hydro is dropping to almost zero at times. I would have though at least some of it would be always going to maintain flow of rivers etc.
Would you consider it acceptable to have to fill in a form in iTunes to install each application? Why not, just laziness?
> You aren't using that to excuse stealing land from your Mexican neighbor, today, I would hope.

While I understand your statement, I read it more as he was continuing to eat meat for the health benefits, not moral ones. Of course you could then say "If all your ancestors smoked cigarettes would you too..."
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As a cousin of mushrooms (still in the fungi family), doesn't Quorn's mycoprotein products qualify as a class that's achieved commercial success?
When the only certainty is killing people, I'd question whether the incalculably remote possibility of "unforeseeable advantages" undoing that killing counts for anything at all.

The last thing advocates of euthanasia and DNR for the heavily-suffering should want to see is their ethical arguments muddied by cryogenics salespeople hanging round hospitals persuading people that they'd be better off dying shortly after diagnosis...
Antibiotics (and the antibiotic resistant bacteria we now enjoy because of the ocean of antibiotics used in meat farming), hormones, environmental destruction on a scale only matched by the fossil fuels industry, and increased risk of a number of cancers and other age-related diseases.

The vast majority of meat consumed is not "good meat", by your definition, and never will be. Consumption of good meat by all the meat eaters of the world is not ecologically or economically feasible. It is irresponsible to pretend that it is.

It's worth discussing what makes "good meat" good, but it's not useful to imagine a world where several billion people can eat organic grass-fed beef every day, because that way lies destruction for all of us.
Eat at a good vegetarian restaurant, you'd be surprised with the amount of tasty non-salad dishes that can be made without meat. Where I used to eat there were fantastic lasagnas, various kinds of pasta with various sauces, and some classical "meat-centered" dishes with seasoned "soy beef" to emulate meat -- which of course comes nowhere near real beef, but isn't all that bad. Lots of salad too, of course. If you're lactose intolerant then you'd probably have to cook your own dishes using lactose-free dairy products. If you're vegan than I wouldn’t know what to recommend.
That screenshot has justified text, you can use left, right, and center alignments as well.
No offense, but you sound like someone complaining about e-books not smelling like real paper.

Fats, amino acids, natural flavors, curing — those are the next steps. This is a first step.
What person, owing allegiance to the US, is levying war against them or giving their enemies aid or comfort?
ElasticSearch (and Solr and Lucene) can be used to do index (and lookup) exact expressions, e.g. string keys/enums, or numbers. It can work with the combination of text search and exact search terms. I've had great results of using these for general purpose search and database lookups.
I fail to see the connection with a 'Secret pagan basilica in Rome', can you please explain?
You can just bypass the turbines to maintain the flow you want. That's one big advantages of Hydro: whether you have a run-of-the-river or a reservoir plant, you can adjust your power output to the demand very quickly.
This is great. Currently I cook a lot with seitan which is great for a meat substitute but boy do I miss juicy beef burgers sometimes.
Do you make this yourself? Or are there products on the market? Sounds interesting.
I don't think it's overwhelmingly obvious.

"The data show that 70% of working men and 59% of working women are sports fans" [1]

"74.6 percent of all male respondents consider themselves football fans as well as 51.5 percent of all female respondents."[2]

"...according to data from The ESPN Sports Poll and the U.S. Census, with league officials saying 44 percent of all football fans are now women."[3]

1: http://www.gallup.com/poll/183689/industry-grows-percentage-...

2: http://www.statista.com/statistics/208431/football-fans-by-g...

3: http://espn.go.com/espnw/news-commentary/article/7536295/nfl...
http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/2015/06/the-price-tag-asso...
This polar plot has a few things going for it. I disagree with what you said because I think this presentation more clearly shows the peak. The peak is the point where the colored area intersects the circumference. On a timeline you are forced to guess at the peak.

The other thing that's perfectly obvious on this graph is the comparison with 24 hours ago.
In the official graph it actually goes negative.
Who cares if one dude wants to eat slaughtered meat? That is completely irrelevant. If fast food places like McDonalds and frozen food companies like Stouffer's get on board, it's going to make a massive difference. Plus, it means that meat will be cheaper for those who have difficulty affording it now. I don't see a need to change anyone's mind on this. Being a much cheaper product, capitalism will take care of everything.
Ah, ok.

Then in that particular context I predict it will be nearly impossible to tell the well written bots from quiet and/or anti social persons.

Reasons given above in my previous comment. Namely the bot is under no pressure to answer questions naively and to the fullest of its ability.
Looks interesting. How are permissions handled?
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> two women interviewers from Oregon, a football powerhouse

It's unclear to me from the context whether they are just from some town in the state of Oregon, or that they were alumna of the University of Oregon.

The gender ratio among college sports fans is a _lot_ closer to 50/50 than it is for pro sports fans.

If somebody assumed because I grew up in California that I'm a fan of the Bears, I would also not be particularly amused.
Google suggest biomass and other biofuels. Perhaps also trash burning?
I posted the laist story first, then saw them link to Vice, and HN tends to prefer the original sources.
Animated cursors, like puppies and kittens, need no explanation :-)
I'm looking forward to trying the real-life implementation of "ChickieNobs" from Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake.
I suspect this stuff cannot be commercially viable, otherwise someone would have done it by now. Though, I'm a vegetarian of 22 years and have never heard of either of these things. It sounds cool, and I'll probably seek some out now, but it's certainly not well-known. I've used portobello mushrooms, and several kinds of Asian mushrooms, for substitution in various dishes, but never considered them indistinguishable (or even all that similar) to meat.

But, given the incredible and fascinating (and delicious) variety of mushrooms and fungi, I am more than willing to believe there are lots of food options that haven't been explored.
I think it refers to the rest of the production that is done under the "Régimen Especial": https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9gimen_Especial_de_energ...

The scheme includes energy generated from waste, biomass, hydro, wind, solar and co-generation. Since hydro, wind, solar have their own categories, that part of the graph would correspond to waste, biomass and co-generation.
I think Marvin is great. However, imo, Hyphen differs quite a bit, and offers a more - deeper customization options, Goodreads integration, ADE pages, metadata lookup, emphasis on speed and ease, and so on.

Take the free version for a spin and let me know what you think.
That'd be it!
Not Julia alone, but Julia in combination with Jupyter notebook technology - at least for common usage. (Mathematica has of courses a lot of features)
Probably because of pumped storage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped-storage_hydroelectricit...
Las Vegas specifically doesn't have much service in terms of railways. As of 1997 Amtrak pulled out http://www.trainweb.org/usarail/lasvegasnv.htm
How can there be solar at 21.15 GMT+1? Even if just 0.30%. Is this from the accumulated residual during the day?
Will the lab grown meats have the same nutritional value as meat from animals?
I think it was a setting.
>the environmental and ethical disaster that is eating meat?

I'd say there is arguably no environmental disaster in meat production, and even if there is, the mere act of eating meat does not imply in it, it would depend on the amount of meat eaten per person and the production scale required to supply that. The ethics of it depends on who you're talking with. Your position is not "the righteous one", it might be "the right thing to do according to X school of thought", but never an absolute ethical truth.
While separation of concerns is certainly good to have, Have we traditionally been using this in the right way ? I think not.

In particular separation should be enforced among components which is what React encourages, not between facets of the same entity as we have practiced since the beginning. Coupling of styling and behavior with associated markup is pretty much inevitable for web applications and decoupling those just reduces the cohesion.

I have posted a more elaborate answer in my blog [1], but finally I do appreciate your suggestion to rationally vet new technologies before jumping onto the bandwagon.

[1] http://lorefnon.me/2015/11/22/an-answer-to-react-is-the-new-...
Why not run good old classic bare-metal servers (or in VMs, if you like to decouple hardware from software) with the services being configured either by hand (using good documentation, something that is a lost art these days) or with a system like puppet?

The article, unfortunately, stinks of overengineering and overcomplexity for setting up a SIMPLE FUCKING SERVER ENVIRONMENT.

Or just stick to plain old Apache/Lighttpd with PHP and a standard MySQL/pgSQL database?

Don't reinvent the wheel just because it's "cool".

edit: also, I don't get why anyone would spend literally weeks reading docs, learning DSLs etc. just to get a deployment done. My personal maximum time for getting a "hello world" is two hours, if it's radically new a day. If the docs of the project are insufficient (or the quality), DO NOT RELEASE IT. Don't let your users do your work for you.
I like this too. I think they also need to add color variation of the floor, so that you will have a sense of what region of the maze you are in.
If it is an hour then you would just change the time zones ... assuming that we even still have those.
A lame attempt to connect with kindered spirits
This is an attempt (at which I failed in the past) to connect with people who are like-minded for mutual benefit/survival. It is not an attempt to hold lengthy philosophical/academic discussions. Einstein's quote: "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." If you subscribe to this quote keep reading.

Contact me if:
>You think that more that 99% of the people are stupid - nearly all things that go wrong with out society are because of these poeple, or the leaders they choose to elect. This means that you believe that things CANNOT be fixed(beyond a point)through activism - political or otherwise, education, awareness etc. Issues are conflated, confused by and mus-prioritized by the 99% on a regular basis - history and tragedies repeat. Ofcourse 99 is an arbitrary number.
> You belive (like me) that you must reach out to the 1% and actually do something to help each other out. The 1 % is thinly spread out and we have to actively seek each other out. If we don't band together, which is one of the common failing of the 1% that I've observed we deserve the raw deal metted out by the 99%.
> Knowledge derived from authority must always be suspect, science and medicine included.

So what next after you contact me? :
> I'll perhaps have a voice chat/ exchange emails with you with you.
> I might form some online forum where one could discuss the next cource of action . I do know that it has to at some point involve some actual work - perhaps plan and execute a tiny project together, moving on to bigger projects and so on.
> I'm sure that I'm not the only one who has such thoughts, (recollect the novel - 'Atlas Shrugged' ? )if there are groups that you are part of that already are a safe refuge for the 1%, let me know what I can do to join them.

Me: mediocre computer programmer, atheist etc. Email dennis_jeeves-1atyahoodotcom
Also: if you criticize/advise me, you are wasting your time.
All made myself. For the jerky I use this recipe:

http://the3foragers.blogspot.com/2013/10/hen-of-woods-recipe...

Except for that I substitute the regular maple syrup for smoked maple syrup from here: http://www.sugarbobsfinestkind.com/

It's super easy, you just need a food dehydrator. For the chicken of the woods I usually just cook it with barbecue sauce and then throw it on pizza.

And with the giant puffballs I think the best way is to slice them half an inch think, first cook them down a little in a pan and then bread and fry them and treat them like chicken parm. There are some recipes here: http://www.mssf.org/cookbook/puffballs.html

For each mushroom the basic thing to know is whether it's a mushroom that takes dairy or oil. Most of them only taste good if cooked in either butter or olive oil, but not both. Also, using veggie salt instead of regular salt tends to be key for whatever reason.
I very much doubt you could afford a snowmobile on such income, you would still need supplemental income to be able to afford most of those things you're talkng about.

So if anything maybe some people who now work full time, would work part time. And those who currently work but can barely scrape by would actually be able to live decently which IMO would have a tremendous effect on people's productivity.
A workable implementation will probably end up somewhere in between—many programs might continue to exist, but the number of people they support would decrease, as would the level of support.

If the basic income was set somewhere near the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) for an individual, it would be ~ $1000 / month [1]. (This is just for a rough sense of scale. I don't actually think it's a good idea to specifically aim to match that number, but I suspect we shouldn't go much above it. That's a longer discussion, though.) That wouldn't completely cover Social Security for everyone—the average monthly retirement benefit is ~ $1300 [2]—but it would cover a large chunk. Further, the minimum eligibility level for Medicaid is 133 % of the FPL [3], so if we'd like to maintain our current standards, provision of a roughly FPL basic income won't obviate Medicaid for everyone. (Medicare's qualification criteria are primarily age based, so the number of eligible beneficiaries would be unchanged by the existence of the basic income.)

[1] http://aspe.hhs.gov/2015-poverty-guidelines

[2] https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/quickfact/stat_snapshot/

[3] http://www.medicaid.gov/medicaid-chip-program-information/by...
Escrow.com does not use bitcoin because of US anti-money laundering regulations and since that was the chosen escrow party the deal fell through (they insisted on using Escrow.com, not me). The next suitor did work out and they too used Escrow.com so I'm pretty happy with Escrow.com and I'm not sure that I'd trust a party that would flaunt US law to handle deals that size with any reliability. After all, they could have their accounts frozen at any moment. When you're in for the long haul it pays off to play by the book.
I bet the original didn't redraw the whole thing and only the part that was added in that frame. Probably using a Z-buffer.
Wait, Google News has personalization? What I knew was that we could add some custom topics based on keywords.
It's possible that this is pumped storage. A lot of hydro stations are demand-based, they're used to compensate for renewables. So in the graph I would interpret that as the reservoirs being refilled during periods of low demand (the amount of electricity this takes is a lot). From the official REE graph it looks like pumping usually takes place overnight and is powered by nuclear.

https://demanda.ree.es/demandaGeneracionAreasEng.html

If you look at this report, you can see in the annual report that pumping 'costs' around 6GW a year.

http://www.ree.es/sites/default/files/downloadable/prelimina...
It may include everything, though, because the scheme only applies to installation of less than 50 MW: http://www.endesadistribucion.es/es/oficinaOnline/RegimenEsp...

So a micro hydro plant or a rooftop solar installation would be counted under the special scheme.
I grew up subsisting on meat and pasta, hating vegetables. I've been a vegan for over ten years and fulfilled the whole time. There's a ton of amazing animal-free food out there that you should try either way. Once I started exploring beyond the boring American things my parents put in front of me, I was thrilled with the delicious variety I found.
Most reasonably large cities have at least a couple of really good vegetarian restaurants, and some have a couple of really good vegan restaurants. Asian restaurants are historically the strongest on this front, but, I've seen an upsurge in the past decade in much broader options (I've been vegetarian, occasional vegan, for 22 years).

But, almost any Asian restaurant has tofu options on the menu that are probably vegan and are probably delicious. I'm back to traveling full-time (I did it for four years in a motorhome, and have hit the road again in a travel trailer), in very remote locations, and small towns almost never have vegan or vegetarian restaurants. So, I go for Chinese, when I want to go out. There's nearly always at least a couple of delicious options on the menu. Honestly, I would choose tofu over meat in almost any Asian dish. It's just a nicer texture when prepared well and picks up the flavor of the dish.
"Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Adobe Flash Player. Get Flash"

Not happening.
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From the 1st paragraph of the fine article: "She [...] cut her family’s water use nearly in half, to just 178 gallons per person each day." [emphasis mine].

I agree with your analysis wholeheartedly.
One of HasuraDB's engineers here. Permissions are declaratively configured. You can look at the source for the demo here :

https://github.com/hasura/demo1-config/tree/master/hasura-db

*_permissions.yml are used to configure permissions.
That's not really a solution. That will create an awkwardly ragged right margin. Justified text is more readable and makes text look less messy.