skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I certainly understand this POV, as I once held it, until living and working on an off-grid farm.

My point is that the abhorrence towards animal slaughter has more to do with the industrialized process, and the poor treatment of animals because of mass market demands, then the fact that animals are killed. Animals can be raised and killed in a humane way, and doing so teaches us about the natural cycle of life, a reminder of our mortality.

We can certainly choose to abstain from that cycle. But as you say, humans crave the foods they crave. I will venture a guess and say that lab-grown meat will not satisfy that craving. Like GMO tomatoes, it may appear all the same, but beneath the shiny appearance of a solution will be a vacuous gap in substance. We can erode our "food pyramid" with cheap, artificial solutions, or we can do the real work of (1) creating sustainable, humane food systems, and (2) educating people about healthy diets and thus curbing the global craving for flesh.

Lastly, what will happen to all the chickens, pigs, cows, etc of the world? Like horses, they will become domestic novelties. People like me will raise them and give them a good life, while their world population shrinks to negligence, until eventually, they are forgotten to extinction, but for the symbolic names of their imitation meat. "Chicken" will be a brand, an algorithm that only slightly differs from the "Steak" algorithm.
Many people buy cheap cars outright because they don't like ongoing payments.

They still have to pay for insurance though, right?
For once a reasonable article about Sweden.

I doubt many of my fellow Swedes will agree, but those to blame in all this are the Sweden Democrats.

By having a party of thuggish clowns (a point that cannot be argued) monopolize a single issue like immigration and making it impossible for real political parties to take steps in a more restrictive direction they have achieved exactly the opposite of what they wanted.

The only joy from all this is that they now have to live in their own mess.
The entire idea that only the internet introduced "post scarcity" for copyrighted materials is pretty hilarious.

The entire reason we even have copyright is because it was already so cheap to make copies several hundred years ago.
I think thr original full title, "Inside Faraday Future, the secretive car company chasing Tesla" is more descriptive.
The Lowdown on the Lowline, the World's First Underground Park
Authorities Missed Many 'Red Flags' Before Paris Attacks
The thing is that EU countries would be fine if they all imposed "no limits". But selfishness has lead most EU countries to simply reject taking migrants entirely, leaving the few that do have "no limits" overwhelmed.
If "neo-fascist" continues to be used to describe people who are willing to help foreigners but are not happy to see their own countries completely transformed at the societal level, more and more of us will become comfortable with that label.
It's a shame herbalism is on there. There are a ton of herbs that can have profound health benefits in the right hands.
This all stems from the Iraq war. We get dragged into it by the USA, and now we have to house the hundreds of thousands eventually displaced by that illegal catastrophe as well as tighten our borders against bombing. And it's going to tear Europe apart, all while the west still funnel money into Saudi Arabia (and from there into ISIS).

Great. Fuck America.

Edit: Rather than patriotically downvoting me it would be cool to have a discussion.
I'm curious if anyone knows in what direction a language evolves over time. Does it grow randomly with the addition of words/phrases, or is their a system of 'natural selection'? The American English language is certainly growing as new words become commonplace, but will other words die out completely? The reason for this question is because I wonder if languages become more efficient over time. For instance, what will the American English language be like in 100 years? Will it just be larger, or will it be more precise? It would be interesting if we create more and more precise words over time so that we actually stop using less precise words, making the language ultimately as efficient as possible. I guess it depends on so many things, like dialect/region/age/etc.
If a publisher was to use this to click their own ads, it would be fraudulent clicks. If they're charging on a cpc basis it would be defrauding the advertiser.
WW3+ISIS+SAY+THEY,LL+BEHEAD+ALL+USA+-+YouTube
> Fuck America

It breaks the HN guidelines to do this here, regardless of foreign policy failures. Please don't do it again.

Btw, the HN guidelines also ask you not to go on about getting downvoted. Please re-read and follow them when posting to this site.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

https://news.ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
Ah, you mean the instance where a publisher would install this plug-in. I see, well that would be supremely dumb of such a publisher, but I don't think this plug-in is aimed at publishers to commit click-fraud. I thought you meant fraud on behalf of an ordinary user, your comment made no mention of publishers.
Let's not lose hope before we've even started. Star Trek future needs to be made.
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself; Electric Monks believed things for you, thus saving you what was becoming an increasingly onerous task, that of believing all the things the world expected you to believe."

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They have this is in most major US cities too (Zipcar, Enterprise Car Share, Hertz 24/7, GetAround).

I tried it for a bit in NYC but found that while it was useful for things like grocery shopping, most of the times public transportation was sufficient for my needs. For longer trips spanning multiple days, it was almost always cheaper to rent from traditional vendors. I can see it being useful if you live on the outskirts of the city or in more suburban areas, though.
Is there any name for this puzzle? I've been thinking about this for a while now.

Cloning the particles (and their states) that make you up would most likely produce a separate mind, as I think would teleporting where v1 is destroyed and v2 consisting of different particles, although in the same configuration. But what about separating said configuration, transporting them somewhere else and putting them back together? Cryogenics is in my opinion the only possible way to give a chance in preserving an original mind well beyond natural human lifespan without actually extending it.

Not only can't others tell a clone apart from the original: the hypothetic clone, as I understand it, couldn't do that either. Now what if this process, due to cellular regeneration in the brain, happens constantly? Your mind is not the same it was a minute ago: that mind is dead and gone. Would it even matter?
Please stop posting inflammatory and unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.
Let's not be so quick to cast judgment on the US. Europe's colonial history is pretty unflattering as well, and also plays a big part in the middle eastern mess. It's certainly not all about the Iraq war.
Arguably C doesn't: C is just what the spec says. You can try and formalise what the spec says (as, rightly, many have done), but it's hard to guarantee correctness of that formalisation.
No, in fact the Sweden Democrats has nothing to do with this. They have not even been able to vote about this - all this mess is ONLY the seven parties that came together.
Wikipedia says that the Sweden Democrats are anti-immigration [1]. Your comment seems to imply the opposite. Could you elaborate more?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden_Democrats
So, it seems like someone doesn't realize that postgres supports a non-cobbled-together full text search?

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/static/textsearch-indexes...
So, make sure you don't use it when viewing your own sites.

Not saying I approve, but it is illegal for me to click my own ads already. At best, this is a "proviso" that should be put out, of "Hey, if you are using this AND a publisher who is also trying to make money on ads, be mindful of this issue."

Though I have some trouble wrapping my brain around someone both trying to support their own work with ads while also using a product like Ad Nauseum. However, hey, serial killers also exist and I can't wrap my brain around their twisted shit either. (shrug)
It's not incorrect (it'll just lead you to results as good as your assumptions were), but it today's climate, it's definitely not a good idea to say it out loud.
We took it out. Can anyone share a cached copy ?
Why is Hacker News encouraging a project that aims to defraud advertisers and websites? It's hard enough to run an ad-based business without having to deal with getting blocked by Google from fraudulent clicks. If you don't like ads, the solution is simple -- don't go to sites that have them.
Significant immigration is inherently in conflict with a big welfare state. You can't have both, unless you're willing to lower the standard of living of everyone to do it, or you have fast economic growth. Citizens of Europe's big welfare states are going to continue to disapprove accordingly, as witnessed by the way Germans are turning on Merkel or Denmark's move right, or Sweden taking action to stop the inflow. Or, say you're Finland, and you're teetering on a slight economic depression [1][2], with zero growth for a decade, bad unemployment, and rapidly rising poverty to go with inbound austerity measures to control the budget deficit - do you take in huge numbers of immigrants? How do you pay for it?

Germany is supposed to be Europe's economic engine - their GDP is at 2008 levels, they're struggling to just show any positive growth, while their poverty levels are the highest since re-unification. How do you convince your citizens to take in a million or more refugees at a time like that? It's a tough sell.

[1] http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/35c8560c-c62f-11e4-add0-00144...

[2] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/12001895/Finlands-depress...
I guess many European countries have companies offering this kind of solutions. Like Greenwheels in the Netherlands and Zipcar in the UK. I also saw something similar in Paris, I think. Plus there is Whizzcar in Singapore.
Languages grow simpler over time, in my view. I'm not an etymologist, but in my experience, long phrases that are used often are replaced with simpler ones. This isn't just in English, it's the same in Polish.

And if you don't trust my anecdata, look up the German and Japanese language reform. I don't speak much of those, but they have stronger ruling bodies over their language, making it easier to track change in language. It appears the reforms slowly make the language simpler, based on feedback from the populace.
It's a field, you have time. Also, maybe that means you need more of those robots? :).
You can make the same comparison between Fortran and Octave as you do betwenn SAS and R, and Octave at first did not even aim to be Matlab-compatible. Matlab compatibility came years later, as people using Matlab requested it.

This is not the reason for why Octave has not overtaken Matlab. Maybe I should write a blog post about it.
Yeah, our evolutionary response to the capsaicin arms raise was to push out endorphins and adrenaline to overcome the pain to get at the nutrition. As a result, a decent concentration gives you a nice little high to go with the vitamins.
I had a look at the obvious things, by no means exhaustive -
but I hadn't heard of Sphinx, thanks for the suggestion.
Well, at least this is the official data portal of the Spanish grid: https://www.esios.ree.es/en if someone is interested.
the problem persists because like any skill use it or lose it
Fraud As A Service.
I run an entire data center of Slackware Linux on Dell servers. My entire EMail and Web hosting platform is Slackware. I have ~30 Slackware Linux boxes. My installs are very stripped down. I.E. I don't install any of the KDE, Gnome or X stuff. I also remove the games and many of the stock applications that ship with Slackware.

I hate Ubuntu, RedHat, etc... Everytime I use them, I feel like I'm fighting the GUI. Ubuntu, for example, I could never figure out how to change the IP address without using the KDE GUI. On Slackware it's as easy as editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf

I resist Ubuntu, RedHat, etc... because it forces you to become familiar with that distro's way of doing things. And there in lies the rub. As more and more distributions of Linux come about, I see a fragmented Linux world.

So, in short, I guess you could say I stuck with what I learned and know from years back. I know that at start up, the stuff inside /etc/rc.d/inet1.conf are parsed and fed to ifconfig for static IPs.

my 2 cents...
There is another approach to weed control. Don't do anything. Let weeds come up if they want to.

I remember a crusty old guy in Florida showing me his watermelon field that was full of weeds. I said something about it and he said the weeds actually shaded the watermelons keeping them from sunburning and he had no intention of removing them. I don't know if this is necessarily true or if he just didn't feel like doing anything about it but apparently he didn't think the weeds were causing economic harm and there were a lot of watermelons in spite of the weeds.
Could you upload the script "CameraImage" used in the video to do the captioning in real-time? It's not present in the Github repository :(
Is there a way to let the algorithm not make a guess if it doesn't find a strong match? I guess it would be better to not output anything than to output gibberish, right?
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It's not Hacker News (site) encouraging a project, it's users of Hacker News.

Also, I don't see how this is defrauding (in legal sense), it's just shoving shitty behaviour back at the source.

Also, even if you don't like it, it's still more ethical than what Uber is doing, so I think it should be encouraged at least as much in the tech world. ;).
101 tips for (not just) Italian Young Men
The architecture of the ROS system is worth looking at if you haven't seen it. Everything has a URL and processes communicate using YAML messages by publishing or osubscribing to topics.
(Its very simple but a bit more liberating than REST!)

http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/UnderstandingNodes

http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/UnderstandingTopics

http://wiki.ros.org/ROS/Tutorials/UnderstandingServicesParam...
Since most advertising and tracking currently happens by loading third-party Javascript, it's trivial for clients to detect and block. If advertiser-hostile clients proliferate, the industry will shift towards techniques that are more difficult to block.

Proxy ads through software on the actual webserver; make them part of the markup like any other page element. Ingest the Apache access logs. Use website-level cookies and relay them to the ad network on the server side. Etc.
"Cool" is like "OK", or "nice". They're moderate words with a moderate tone.

Words like "awesome" are somewhat hyperbolic. They have a short existence because they become predictable and passé.

"Cool" never lost its impact because it never had one in the first place. It's just cool.

Compare: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12503686
While strace is awesome in general, git has some very useful debug environment variables: GIT_TRACE, GIT_TRACE_PACKET, GIT_CURL_VERBOSE and a few more[1].

Try:

GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 GIT_TRACE=1 git push

[1] https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Environment-Var...
I don't know anything myself, but interested trawling brought up this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cometa_(HVDC) which I imagine is the route, and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_Network_of_the_Bal... which I imagine are the offshore sources, although it's all a bit out of date, no details about the overall exchange programme
American English was basically invented by Webster, yet there are many words from his reinvention that didn't catch on. You can also find many modern words in the Oxford dictionary, like "lol". So it seems that both deliberate, and accidental expansions/contractions of the language are possible.
Is that a bad thing? Weren't they basically bred into their current state simply because it makes them easy for us to consume?
Why do you think that random internet commenters posting interesting links and other people discussing them constitutes "Hacker News" encouraging anything? As if this site is a monolithic entity that supports all of your own views?
Are you people really that naive? Any decent adtech company will detect this as click fraud and filter it. This does nothing but waste computing and network resources for everyone.
> don't go to sites that have them

That's not really a viable solution. You cannot know the site you are about to visit has ads on it or not.
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What are the indications that cars are moving toward a subscription model? As far as I can see, it's one company with no product that's considering offering a subscription model.

I can't think of any physical product out there which is only available as a subscription. The option to buy outright is always there if you want it.
Well yes but my Android phone (Nexus 4) really feels like Windows 98 though : security is an illusion and it crashes (reboot) for no apparent reason (I believe it doesn't like to be put in Airplane Mode while I sleep).

Let's not talk about my desktop Linux experience which is not stellar either.

Honestly if it weren't for the telemetry updates I'd be a happy Windows user.

I didn't mention Apple since I can't afford what they think people should pay for their devices.
You can style any custom element just fine without using document.registerElement, and use it like a native element if it's extending one. You only need to register it to do Javascript-specific things just as attaching functions to lifecycle callbacks, so it really isn't any different from being "required" to do `document.getElementById('#id').addEventListener(...)` in order to use plain DOM events.
Maybe the time has come for China to move to a freely convertible currency. It seems to work ok for most of the rest of the developed world.
Insurance is a legal requirement, but your car will still physically run without it. There's no remote kill switch (yet).
It's not a waste, and not everyone cares primarily about trackers. Some find ads a problem, and this is one possible approach to reduce that problem at the source.
From what I have read it used to be very difficult to have a reasonable debate about restrictions without being labeled as a right wing racist.

It seems to me that when moderates didn't dare to speak in public, the voters had only one choice. They may not agree with everything, but when it is the only major party that wants restrictions they have no choice.
The Empty States Aspect of UX Design
Nope. If you're using Qubes you are (as far as an ad network is concerned) a young middle to upper class white male with an interest in technology and computer security who probably lives near the Bay Area or another tech hub (depending on GeoIP). That's exactly what an advertiser would be tracking you to find out, and you just put it in the user agent string.

The only way to defeat browser fingerprinting is for everyone (or a lot of people including you) to use exactly the same version of the same browser on the same platform on the same device configured the same way. Even the, which browser-device-screen resolution-version cohort you are part of probably says a lot about your demographic.

It's easy to hide in 2560x1440 Macs running latest Chrome under Yosemite. Not so much on Ubuntu Phone in middle America.
Well I mean in addition, if you work for a competitors company, if you yourself are an advertiser in any capacity etc. There's many scenarios where you could find yourself in trouble.
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apparently it's a "terrible hack" with text files https://twitter.com/kcimc/status/668111582296190976
Google can remotely bypass the passcode of at least 74% of Android devices
I personally wouldn't mind. They could track me all day long (except why would they - they aren't doing ads any more) as long as the Internet gets free of the shit that's eating everyone's bandwidth, battery power, CPU cycles and sanity.
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Maybe my concept of gallons is off, but I don't see how one person can use 178 gallons each day while "cutting back" on water either. It sounds like a lot of water! The article mentions skipping showers and using less water for washing, but still... 178 gallons?!
If you've done some Scheme (or Lisp (or Haskell (or Curry))) then you will find this very readable. Section 2.4 has a good explanation of the Y combinator. I'm going to try and get through the whole book.
I think his point is that the Sweden Democrats are perceived as being terrible people, so no one wants to be on their side of this issue.
I LOLed on this story probably a bit too much. Also I am wondering if we are so much entangled in modern vision how we should work that we actually can make scripts for all people that we encounter in our lives. Suddenly people aren't anymore challenge but scripts! :)
Even if Swedish Democrat politicians (like the article states) claim that "it's better to help people where they are than to bring them here", their budget proposition included a 47 billion SEK (about 470 million USD) reduction of international aid under a 4 year period. For reference, the total international aids budget for 2015 is 29.5 billion SEK.
Nothing they have proposed have made any indications that they have any intentions to provide help to those in need who happen to be far away.

It's still true that the debate here is extremely infected and polarized, though.
I mean, "legal requirement" seems quite an important thing when we're talking about how people get around every day.
If you run the robot every week, burning off the stem & leaves, the plant will eventually starve.

Around here, we have an invasive species called scotch broom. If you cut off the plant at ground level, it will grow back. But if you cut it off after it flowers, it'll die. Mowing it flat regularly will also kill it.
> I guess it's also a rather difficult sell when many Perlers prefer to use the upcoming Perl 6 instead

That is definitely not a thing.

Also, i recommend putting it on cpan. It's perfectly fine to put alpha modules on there.
Linguistic evolution is much like biological evolution in that there is no a priori direction for it to go. There is a sort of natural selection in that words that don't get used don't generally get passed on to the next generation. Text and other media allow some of these words to be recovered in later generations.

If history is any indication, in 100 years American English will have some precise ways of expressing things, some loose ways of expressing things, and various groups of people will be unreasonably upset with one situation or the other.

If you're interested in the mechanisms of language change, I found the (2000) 3rd edition of Jean Aitchison's _Language Change: Progress or Decay?_ both readable and worth reading. There is a 4th edition, published in 2013:

http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/languages-ling...
If you come from a programming background then Hadley Wickham's book is probably the best place to start.

http://adv-r.had.co.nz/