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I'm not a vegan and I think the article is self-aggrandizing fluff. However, this rhetorical question you pose:

>Carnivores eat other animals, are they immoral beings? Is nature immoral then?

is one that has been addressed by vegans for a long time, usually on the basis of biology (carnivores are literally incapable of extracting nutritional content from plants, where we generally have that choice), intelligence (some animals are just as intelligent as young humans), and moral agency (the question of whether animals have it). I'm not saying I agree with these arguments, but they exist, and are worthy of discussion. Peter Singer's Animal Liberation is the work that explained these ideas best, much better than I could. I think it's a great read.
I have run into people saying this for the last 15 years. I'm not convinced that micropayments will ever be solved.
Can it run in a GPU cluster?
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I'm not sure what the current status is, but it used to be that you could just go to a pet store and buy antibiotics intended for animal use (but hey, same drug). This is practically a prepper trope though.
Cartesian dualism has been a plague on philosophy and psychology IMO. My favorite refutations of that logos come from J.L. Austin and Wittgenstein.
Mayhap it is related to their abandonment of being a meritocracy as doing such was being divisive? Success can be very devise as well so perhaps they are making a noble sacrifice to avoid dividing people.
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We're talking about Python core development. I just can't see the minor nuances of GitHub-style pull requests being a significant barrier to entry for new contributors.

It seems the familiarity of GitHub was actually a primary selling point.

> There were multiple reasons as to why I made that decision. One was that GitHub has basically built a social network of open source contributors. That led to various core developers telling me that they were comfortable with GitHub already and they were hoping it would win.

> Lastly, our BDFL prefers GitHub. Since the beginning of this whole decision process, Guido let it be known that he thought GitHub was the best choice.
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You want the -v option to git commit, not to git add.

git commit -v displays the patch below the message part you're writing, so that you can review the patch as you write the message.
Yes, they're global, but generally not as lucrative.

Korean and Singapore both have good programs if your focus is redeeming for their flights rather than partners. British Airways has a program with some great redemptions but on the whole, not as much.

There's value to be had in the non-US programs but it requires more work. I use Singapore and Korean's programs heavily for long-haul first class redemptions to/from Asia. I can transfer points earned at various banks in the US to those two airlines.

And then of course there's frequent flyer status which is often much better outside the US than domestically.
> This is definitely incorrect. Decision procedures have a massive impact on how long things take to decide.

What I meant was that the quadratic transaction costs apply to any large scale project anyway, because no one can fully understand it. In other words, I see the longer debate as a sign of project complexity, not choice of decision making process.

I agree that bad procedures can lead to indecision, but it's not different from indecisive leader really.
No, foam mattresses you buy on the internet aren't "hipster". If asked to picture a hipster mattress, I'd see in my mind's eye something artisanal, hand-made by traditional methods. Hessian. Hand-wound springs (are those a thing?).

Hipster here seems to be a cliched way of saying "annoying to me".
I wonder less about the product and more about the investment in this field.

You can found your own drop-shipped mattress company with less startup capital than a Subway franchise.

So why does Casper have $70MM in funding? What does that $70MM buy for investors?
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I've been following the prepping scene for a while, and in a professional capacity since I started AllOutdoor.com as a side project for some friends. We figured out really quickly that preppers were a massive audience for outdoors content, so the site skews that way.

(FWIW I keep a few weeks' supply of food for my family on-hand, but I'm not interested in prepping for anything bigger. More here: http://www.alloutdoor.com/2015/03/11/doomsday-prepper/)

What is interesting to me is the degree to which collapse has gone mainstream. At this point I've seen prepping go from something that you didn't want anyone (including your spouse) to know you were into, to something that is the topic of serious, non-snarky discussion (with 165 points!) here at Hacker News.

I predict that at some point in the next 18 months or so, we'll see an article in The New Yorker about prepping that takes it seriously. Once the New York media scene is able to talk about it openly, it will have moved out of the realm of "crazypants stuff that we don't talk about here, except to snark at it" and then it will be time to go all-in on the stock market because we will have reached Peak Doom.

Anyway, I just skimmed the linked article but it seems like a very good intro. About the only thing I quibble with (so far) is the faint whiff of goldbuggery in the financial section.
It's very easy to do.

I am earning roughly triple what I earned 16 years ago and I'm living more comfortably but I'm just comfortable. I'm not living extravagantly by American middle-class standards. I drive an 11 year old, paid off vehicle. I live in a middle-class neighborhood, 15 miles outside of the city.

I'm living comfortably on money that I would have killed to make back then.

I went from an apartment to a house. Higher utilities. A couple of credit cards with modest balances. I had children. I started paying for health and life insurance. Contributions to a retirement account.

It happens gradually and it's easy to not notice, until you reflect on long term changes.

If my income tripled again, instantly, it would be a game changer. With my current standard of living, I could retire by 50. If it triples again but over the next 16 years, it would likely be a different story.
Is the idea that humans can consciously push themselves to keep going even when it feels like you can't a part of the dualism paradigm or no?
Like anything, it is technically possible to do this. As a defensive mechanism, I think it would make sense to perhaps hang out at city call and collects a bunch of IMSI's worth spoofing, and then rebroadcast those while you were being subject to surveillance, the goal being to force the adversary to follow down a bunch of leads which are bogus.

That said, this is completely illegal (unlike the actual surveillance which has been made legal by a series of unfortunate events). So I would not advise anyone to do this. Not to mention that unless you design your own cellular baseband radio circuit (so that you have access to all the docs) building something like this with "off the shelf" parts is quite expensive.
The second he made-up a statistic quote: 9 out of 10 computer problems are fixed by turning it off and on again (I love IT crowd), I stopped listening!
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Imagine a building whose design and construction was governed by democracy. The architecture would be a horrible mish-mash of whatever happened to be popular, and likely architecturally unsound and unsafe. The actual construction would be a nightmare too, since someone would have the "brilliant" idea of painting drywall before laying it so people don't have to use unsafe ladders, ect.

Software can be millions of times more complicated than building blueprints. Why in the hell do you think democracy will work for software when it doesn't work for office buildings?

Contrast this with the way open source development generally proceeds. A single developer (or maybe a few) create a software project as the core team. They are the experts for that project. Other people can make suggestions and contribute, but it's up to the core team to decide if something meshes with the vision they have for the project.

What if someone disagrees? They can simply fork the project and try out their own vision. They are the expert of their own project.

This has some amazing consequences. First of all there can be multiple winners. Project A can be very popular, yet project B, which caters to a minority, can also exist and serve people with different needs and tastes. Second, it allows parallel experiments of multiple ideas, which encourages rapid innovation to take place. Finally, it helps minimize conflict between people, since you can join or start a project that meets your fancy without penalty.

Contrast this with democracy. In a democracy it's winner take all. Majority vote determines what everyone has to live with. This creates conflict and intense competition (including bribes and corruption) to get majority vote. It slows innovation because things can only be done one way at a time, whichever way was popular. There can be no single vision, everything becomes a huge contorted mess. It's hard enough to architect software with a single vision.

You should be doing research on how to make politics more like the (multi)governance of open source development, not the other way around!
Yeah and also some people like to use the f word liberally in office to prove a point or speak some American slang to sound cool. I don't like it and I send memo to HR on each one of them.
> For example I never could understand why we need enums.

> Why should I ever put const in the argument of a function?

Reducing potential state and conveying programmer intent. Both lead to safer and more performant code (by way of compiler optimizations).
When you’re moving from one location to another, your mattress is generally either the largest thing you’re taking with you, or the second-largest thing.

Um, what? Not the couch, or the bureau, or the dining room table? Maybe this is true of furnished apartments, but for me, even the boxspring beats the mattress in terms of "this is so large how the heck am I going to get it from point A to point B". Mattress is pretty far down that list.

Not that this matters much for foam mattresses, since, once unrolled, a foam mattress is nearly impossible to roll back up and is just as difficult to move.

That said, the author's point about the initial ship of foam mattresses is a good one. Going with a foam mattress was the only reason I was able to drive it home in the back of my 2-seater to a very dense part of Boston and fit it into the lofted bed of a tiny studio apartment.

But when it came time to move? I sold it to the next tenant. No way that was making the journey out as easily.
That's all it ever means now. Maybe all it ever meant.
The Netherlands have quite a bit of "drug tourism", with people from across Europe going there to party and/or bring some stuff back home--so small wonder that it's quite easy to find pretty much anything there.

As for whether usage would get more widespread, I believe it's to be expected, since legalization means more resellers, more legit businesses that you are not reluctant to deal with, and a de facto approval from governement that the stuff is clean, so less fear of poisoning.

> Whether it's legal or illegal, I can get it very easily where I live. Yet, I don't take it because I know it's not good for me.

Not everyone got the connections, and not everyone use good judgment. That's the whole point: to what extent can society decide what to authorize and what to forbid.
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Get a well-timed gravity assist from a passing asteroid.
Calloc is defined to return memory that's all-bits-zero, which in turn defines the value for many datatypes. The overwhelming majority of C implementations additionally define the values of all-bits-zero floats and pointers. IMO it's reasonable to write programs targeting only such implementations, provided such a dependency is clearly documented (just as e.g. it's reasonable to write C programs targeting only implementations on which floating-point arithmetic is IEEE 754, despite this not being required by the C standard).
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It's also about direct sales. Similar to what Tesla is doing with cars. Traditionally consumers have bought mattresses from suppliers (Sleepys, Mattress Discounters, etc), but Casper et al are marketing and selling directly to the consumer.
> since a regular user on a not-so-powerful mobile device needs to be able to compute the hash in a reasonable time

I would assume this would be implemented at the SMTP level, so when I connect to gmail with my phone, it's their servers that need to generate the hash before they send it through SMTP.
Thanks for enlightening me. Currently the 2 guys do the business stuff and we do all the development.
It probably means that it was written before we had a complete and correct implementation of the STL on all major compilers.

Google around for Visual Studio 6 STL, and take into account the fact that most organizations don't upgrade right away, and you're looking at at least 2005 before you could rely on the STL cross-platform. Maybe much later.
That's not the same as "insane" though is it.
Awesome! I'd love it even more if you could automatically make a Spotify playlist from the results.
The network is being used to capacity and fees are being determined by a market, which values capacity at an increasing premium! What a failure! (sarcasm intended)

Hearn's post may be technically accurate in terms of the data he's collected. But the conclusions he draws are not correct. Usually in any entrepreneurial project, the fact that the service is over-subscribed and increasingly valuable is a sign of success. If one views bitcoin as an open-source project which should have some ideal technical implementation, then yes Hearn has failed to convince everyone to run his preferred implementation of bitcoin, or to agree on exclusively running a different protocol that is not bitcoin while calling it bitcoin.

There is plenty of room for Hearn to run a bitcoinXT altcoin. The only failure here is one of logic, forced by the concept that there can be only one successful network based on nakamoto consensus protocol, and that that network must either be bitcoin or a replacement bitcoin which supplants the original.
This is really interesting, until you realize that 99% of the knowledge you acquire in this way is useless. In the 80s, if you didn't know how to do the foam you would just do without it, and nothing in the world would change because of that. Now, this would be certainly different if you were searching for a way to solve a hard engineering problem, but hard engineering problems cannot be learned with a 5 min youtube video anyway.
I think you missed the heart of my discussion. I brought up the "death penalty as expensive" point to metaphorically illustrate the consequences of arguing backward from a feeling, reaching for any argument that would buttress a desire.

The consequence is that the proposed framing and solution are orthogonal to what one really wanted to argue -- that death penalty is evil. Instead you find yourself arguing whether the death penalty can be cheaper.

I accuse the argument of "veganism helps ecology" the same way, which is a point you summoned first. People who advocate veganism probably do so for moral reasons, because if ecological sustainability were their motivating value, then veganism would probably be far down the list of problems and solutions. Plus, if they wanted to be practical, they would argue for vegetarianism first, and not the hardline of veganism. It becomes suspect to say that ecology is their motivating value, and that veganism is the solution.

The likelihood is that the veganism proponent is not emotionally or intellectually interested in a discussion about how we might make animal killing processes more ecologically sound, and would find that discussion a little depraved. Now they're caught in a discussion that they're not truly interested in.
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I dig the innovative user interface metaphor. It's refreshing.
Why would you discard metadata? What I'm saying is you should be able to extract it to a separate file when converting to ff. You're right about bzip and tar, but that just adds one extra step.
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Use Sonarr and CouchPotato, it does all the work for you, if something fails it just gets another copy. You don't touch anything, just wait a few minutes and it works its magic. For TV at least, it's the perfect set up.

If you're having takedown issues though you need a better provider.
What exactly is a hipster mattress? It wasn't obvious from the article...
Isn't the kernel's repository just mirrored on GitHub, though? That's a bit different than hosting Python primarily on github.
Yes, it is. Their inventory changed but they did not gain any revenue from it.
There are a lot of reasons for the persistent sexual harassment and sexism in Silicon Valley. A narrow and self-reinforcing culture, complacency stemming from the misconception that it is a meritocracy, and the relative immaturity of a lot of employees. But as I see more and more talented women at good companies opt out in one way or another, more serious measures need to be taken. More training that is not seen as a joke, and just a lot more large and small ways to show that women will have a safe and supportive workplace. I'm hopeful that that ultimately the selfish demand for good engineers from this immensely talented group will drive change.
They actually built a car that is desirable. The fact that it's electric is icing on the cake. That was their stated goal, which is what Faraday is trying to copy haphazardly.
Because psutil uses the OS APIs, NetBSD (and OpenBSD) don't expose the physical core count (number of actual CPU cores), only the logical one (including "hyperthreading" virtual cores)
This is terrible. There's a Wal-Mart Express about 25 minutes from where I live, much farther out from the city in a very small farming town. When they came in, they drove several local stores out of business since they couldn't compete with Wal-Mart's prices. Now Wal-Mart just shuts all the Express locations down in one fell swoop, leaving small communities like that with nothing left. This is bullshit. Wal-Mart represents so much of what I hate about capitalism.
My experience is a little different... customers are great and seeing problems and solutions, but I only pay attention to the problems.

Their solutions typically apply only to their 5% use-case and would be disastrous if implemented.
Well, there needs to be some proof of work, something that is hard to do at scale but easy for individuals.

To that degree, Bitcoin has failed, because massive SHA256 crunching is now easy to do at scale and hard for individuals.

More varied challenges, like BOINC, or PoW that is bandwidth, connectivity, latency, or disk-space based, will provide a lot more value to the community and make it easier for individuals to contribute. I eagerly await the day that one of these alternatives becomes mainstream.
I don't see why this applies to mattresses specifically. The author seems jaded that companies are able to buy products cheaply and resell them like it's a new concept.
>If you're an average American who works 50h a week,50 weeks out of the year

Not to be pedantic (but im going to anyway), the average full time worker only works 1700 hours a year. Not 2500.
I would say, though, that the mattress is by far the most annoying. It's a floppy object with handles - if it even has handles - that are placed in arguably the word possible location:

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This is fine if you're carrying your mattress pallbearer style down a wide open hallway, with it orientated the same way as it would be laying on your bed. But in reality, most people move to places with hallways, or stairwells, where it would make the most sense to rotate it 90 degrees about the longest axis - and the best way to carry it then would be with handles here:

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> I'm not a Python developer, so I'm only a bystander here

That's an important statement to make, as their end-user in this model isn't the person who is going to make snap judgements on hacker news, but the core developer who is going to have a (hopefully) easier time reviewing changes.
Yes, we actually did a unit on these types of people in one of my political science classes a while back. They're known as Bourgeoisie Bohemians or "bobos" for short in academia but I recognized them as hipsters. They are a group of people who spend very little on things that used to be expensive but quite a lot on things that would traditionally be perceived as cheap. For example they would never buy a crystal chandelier or a new car, but instead would buy something like a 1980s Volvo. On the mattress end, they would do something like sleep on the ground or buy a very high end "hand wound" mattress.

https://www.nytimes.com/books/first/b/brooks-bobos.html This book takes a relatively comical approach to the subject but there is a real way to categorize these people other than "annoying to me"
Honestly I hate mattress and furniture buying because it's one of those haggle for the real price, price is different everywhere kinds of businesses. Even the big companies make it impossible to comparison shop because they have different "models" in every store but it's just a different name on the same product so you can't tell the prices. I just frankly want to buy it at the lowest price possible etc and I don't want to put a month of research into a mattress.
Who would've thought that blog posts about the evil patriarchy cannot generate enough revenue.

Also the fact that tumblr blogs look like they came straight out of 2006. We have mainstream 24-27inch screens with 1920 horizontal pixels now. Why do most tumblr blogs look like geocities-era thin vertical strips of annoying gifs filled with tiny blocks of hard to read text?
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> ehmmmm standard C has floats and doubles. so they are valid C

Sure, but the standard says hardly anything about their behaviour, making it practically impossible to write code that actually does anything with floats and doubles that will behave correctly on any standards-compliant C implementation.

I suggest you refrain from personal attacks, especially based on your own misreadings of the comment you're replying to.
Yea, they are like, different people.
They are competing with mattress manufacturers, not furniture stores.
I went with this decorator in the end, works a treat! https://github.com/jjgreen/mvpoly/blob/master/src/python/mvp...
There's nothing wrong with the SSL certificates, except for the fact that it's a 'news' site for open source and not using Let's Encrypt -- and this is by no means a criticism, just something to consider.
Sadly, at this point Amazon has the network effect of both consumers and suppliers. They've got the eyeballs, so people want to sell through them, so they've got a diversity of items and people check there to buy first, repeat repeat.

Be that what it may for the market: I think they've been a lot less mercenary than they could be (they could likely jack fees a lot higher now without much fallout), but the potential is certainly there.

Great for low cost optimization, bad for great feature development.

PS: The whole only-being-able-to-price-sort-in-a-single-category is terrible too. How do I know if Thing X is in category Y or Z? It successfully reproduces all the fun of wondering what aisle the grocery store stuck trail mix on.