skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean literally more clear as in not mumbling. Also, your focus can wax and wane in a meeting while text is like having built-in rewind and playback.
Then how about Marie Therese Metoyer? She started life as a slave, but ended up owning her own plantation. She was eventually able to buy all of her children out of slavery. According to church records, she owned 12 slaves at the time of her death, but local tradition has it that she was freeing them as well. It's also established that she ran her plantation with no slaves and only help from her sons for many years.

So she's a former slave, a liberator of slaves, and a plantation owner and owner of slaves all in one. Would having her on a bill be in poor taste? (Granted, there are probably more prominent persons who should be on a bill before her.)

(I once dated one of her descendants.)
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Sounds good, but afaik only a few mosquito species actually are spreaders of diseases affecting humans. I suppose I don't know if those pathogens can mutate to use other mosquitoes as hosts.

While we're at it, get rid of ticks.
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My vote is to put Sally Ride on the $20 bill.
> I don't think sandstorm have really thought about this hard enough.

I suspect we've spent far more time thinking about this than most people. We've heard every argument many times. The referenced blog post specifically addresses the security argument (hence the title) because that's the one we feel is most misleading.

I absolutely agree that curl|bash is ugly compared to package managers, but there are some serious shortcomings of package managers too, and it's a trade-off. With deb or rpm, we are tied to the release schedules of the distros, which is unreasonably slow -- Sandstorm does a release every week whereas most distros don't release any more often than twice a year.

We can perhaps convince people to add our own servers as an apt source or whatever, but now the MITM attack possibility is back. Yes, packages are signed, but you'd have to get the signing key from us, probably over HTTPS. No one wants to do the web of trust thing in our experience (I know because we actually offer this option, as described in the blog post, and sadly, almost no one takes it).

The Sandstorm installer actually goes to great lengths to be portable and avoid creating a mess. It self-containerizes under /opt/sandstorm and doesn't touch anything else on your system. This actually means that Sandstorm is likely to work on every distro (given a new enough kernel, which the installer checks for). If we instead tried to fit into package managers, we'd need to maintain half a dozen different package formats and actually test that they install and work on a dozen distros -- it would get pretty hard to do that for every weekly release. (Incidentally, Sandstorm auto-updates, and it does check signatures when downloading updates.)

So, yeah, it's pretty complicated, and we're constantly re-evaluating whether our current solution is really the best answer, but for now it seems like what we have is the best trade-off.
Corruption is a problem by itself - it doesn't make the social democracies wrong.

And expect corruption in the private system, too. There's no other explanation for $500 aspirins :-)
I think we'll find something more interesting if:

- The outputs of this recycling tech can be fed into personal fabrication tech (3D printers, etc.)

- Power generation is decentralized (solar, etc.)

It's part of a set of tech that would allow for the localization of manufacturing, closing the whole lifecycle locally. This in turn brings things back to the community. It's not always about total energy efficiency.
No. It is just that we do not have a cure or vaccine because it does not appear that often. And no, prions will not eradicate entire species because they not living under any definition. Therefore there is no direct evolution, if you are resistant against an outbreak, your are resistant against it. The prion cannot develop to overcome this resistance. Essentially, a prion disease is very like the computer virusses we have today: They do not change their source code, so fixing the issue in your code will disable them.
> EU antitrust regulators said that by requiring mobile phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome browser to get access to other Google apps, the U.S. company was harming consumers by stifling competition.

The real question is, why is it bad for Google to require Google Search and Google Chrome if you want Google Play, but OK for Apple to require their App Store if you want iOS?

Obviously you have the positions reversed then, but it's still the same sort of tying, and I'm pretty sure those are the correct positions for Google too. You aren't pushing Google apps on people who want the Play Store, you're pushing the Play Store on people who want Google apps.
Most cryptographers, if pressed on the question of which secure messenger they would trust most purely based on sound cryptography, would say TextSecure/Signal. TextSecure is one of two secure messaging schemes --- the other being Silent Circle's† --- designed from the beginning to be cryptographically secure, and not as an instant messenger first and a secure transport second.

The other approach, of designing user-friendly instant messaging systems and then layering cryptography on top, has been pretty much an unmitigated disaster. Cryptocat is the post child for these systems --- and the EFF scorecard gave it a perfect score! Some of these systems DIY their crypto --- Telegram is like that, as was Cryptocat --- and suffer accordingly. Others pull in secure cryptography libraries like Nacl/Sodium. Those are marginally more secure, but cryptographic secure messaging is its own problem domain, and Nacl/Sodium doesn't help much with them.

For me, the most important question in a secure messenger is whether it's actually secure. The second most important question is how many people can I talk to using it. A very, very distant third question is "how usable is it?"

There's no one system that gives you all those attributes, so I suggest looking at secure messaging as 2-3 problems, not just one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11454172

If it was up to me, there wouldn't be scorecards for secure messaging systems. I think they intrinsically oversimplify a complicated problem. But I have a lot of thoughts on what would and wouldn't make such a scorecard less terrible. I'm waiting for EFF to release the "re-done" scorecard to write them up.

† Silent circle is at an uncomfortable intersection of being closed source and not particularly popular, so it doesn't get much attention.
It sounds like a biological multiquine.

http://mamememo.blogspot.com.au/2010/09/qlobe.html?m=1

http://forums.xkcd.com/viewtopic.php?t=107115
http://www.radiolab.org/story/cellmates/

The most recent Radiolab was about an idea that the existence of cellular organelles are the product of an extremely unlikely merging of two cells that didn't immediately die afterwards.

Stemming from the observation that we had an extremely long period of simple life, coupled with a sudden explosion where life rapidly increased in size and complexity.

A 0.0...01% likelihood event will still happen, given an entire planet of simple cells and hundreds of millions of years.
xkcd estimates that in a similar case humans would survive 32 months: https://what-if.xkcd.com/105/
Chicago has a dense transit infrastructure that spreads across the whole city, and pretty decent transit throughout the whole metro area.

Obviously, San Francisco is hemmed in by geography, but even if you compare the metro areas, Chicago is better suited to hosting large-scale companies than SFBA.
Right, and that is also why I am very interested in AI that can do sorting of this kind. There are probably several component tech:

- Vision and/or tactile pattern recognition (deep neural nets). Maybe chemical sensors

- Robotic gripping and sorting. This one will be harder. Amazon and other logistics companies are keen on solving this one.
Bioequivalence and pharmaceutical equivalence are different.

It's true that generic drugs have the same active ingredients in the same dosage and form, and they're tested to have the same general absorption characteristics. This does not necessarily mean that a brand drug and its generic version are completely identical. For example, many patients prefer Synthroid (a brand-name synthetic thyroid hormone) over levothyroxin (its generic equivalent). The inactive ingredients sometimes affect how a drug's active ingredients behave within an individual, and these are allowed to differ between brand and generic drugs.

This usually doesn't matter; most of the time, brand drugs and their generic versions are close enough. However, generic drugs aren't exactly just a different label on the same medicine, and the differences can be clinically significant. Thus, the medical world has the ability to specify "dispense as written" on prescriptions and on the corresponding insurance claims.
I suspect our ecosystem would collapse and humanity itself would be collateral damage before that actually came to pass, maybe I'm overly pessimistic though.
maybe it's that new vegan place down the street? /s
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> I really like Andrew Jackson

On what grounds.
how do I pronounce Monod?
JSONB is definitely in 9.4. We used that at the company I worked at previously. There might be improvements to it in 9.5 that I can't recall but it's definitely usable and production ready in 9.4

EDIT: Looks like [1] talks about what he was mentioning, there's a number of functions they added to improve the use and experience in 9.5.

[1] https://www.compose.io/articles/could-postgresql-9-5-be-your...
I find modern cars are very expensive to fix and I have no interest in learning how to do it myself. I bought a car over a few years with the intention that when it is paid for I would enjoy a few more years for free. But the maintenance costs went up and it would breakdown. Frequently simple repairs would be $1-$2k because of the cost of labour to get to the broken parts and replace them. Maybe I was unlucky but I prefer to lease a modest vehicle so I'm always driving a newish one and I don't have to worry about breaking down or expensive repairs.
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There are self-modifying computer viruses that mutate to avoid detection.
What specific ideas did you apply?

One that I got from that book and have found to be rock solid is that a room feels more alive when it has a window on more than one side.
Cultural overcompensation worked out so well in the 60's, so why not do it some more? But really, that stuff is just surface. The real problems are systemic and economic. Gender politics is being used to pit disenfranchised angry young women against disenfranchised angry young men. The outraged masses can be rallied to vote and demonstrate, and at the same time, their energy is directed away from the underlying problems.
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Replacements exist for all of them.

search: bing, yandex, baidu, naver

email: fastmail, hotmail, yandex email

maps: bing maps, nokia maps, open street maps (or whatever the collaboration is called)

browser: firefox, etc
This is one of those ideas that sounds genius on its face, until it's actually implemented. Kudzu? Grows fast, prevents erosion, let's pay farmers to till it into the top soil. MTBE? Prevents engine knock, makes for cleaner air, let's mandate its use at the federal level. Whoopsie, once it's in the water we can't get it out, and its a carcinogen.

Let's kill all of the mosquitos because we find their presence unpleasant. Well, that's done and...oh, shit. Turns out there was a value to mosquitos after all. Anyone think to save some of that DNA?
I don't think that's true. Tchaikovsky's "Rite of Spring" caused riots when it was premiered. The audience was laughing derisively, getting into fights, throwing things... and this was at a ballet!

Galleries and museums are often the site of protests about their own content. I've been in the theater during a really terrible movie where the audience starts loudly heckling the movie itself as if the people who made it could hear them.

When you make the case for acceptable behavior on the part of the audience as an attack on someone else's idea of acceptable behavior on the part of the comic... that seems like shaky ground to me.
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I'm not personally familiar with the anthropological evidence, but I strongly, strongly doubt that 'constant verge of starvation' accurately characterizes even a small percentage of the past reality.
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If not her, who? If not now, when?
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Hey I'm concerned about the biters too, as well as the disease carriers. Get rid of both and I'll tolerate the rest buzzing around in my ear. :)
> Every single thing you said is complete hogwash [...] obliviousness of nix fanboys like you

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"I’m so glad I’m a man. Not only do I not have to give birth, I don’t have to have periods , or change any as many diapers."

WTF?? Seriously? I mean, I assume he's trying to be funny, but really?
When did it become normal for parents to pay for college? I always thought that was something you do as basically a huge gift. I came out with a bit over $100k but I chose that school knowing full well it would mean 10 years of higher payments and it was worth every penny in my opinion (I got so much out of college - I feel like the only person who came out with a huge loan that's happy with it). My parents paid the interest on my loans all through college and made the first couple payments while I transitioned into the real world -- I am eternally grateful they did even that for me.

I see it more and more that parents are expected to pay for their children to go to school - which also means that a big part of my loans are probably because of my father's income being counted when I did the FASFA. If the non-dischargability of the loans is based on a lack of finanical history (which I know I'm in the minority but I do feel that's fair), then the applications for financial assistance really shouldn't take it into account unless your parents are actually paying for your school.
I'm black, and I feel as if I'm in a brotherhood of common experience with other black people. I'm perfectly fine if someone from that same experience calls me brother or bro. But take it from me, I get bro from white guys who don't bro other white guys, and it's not once in a blue moon, it's more like once a week.

My sister calls me bro, does that mean I'm somehow obligated to take it from you or that she's disrespecting me? I'm not remotely offended when another black person calls me "nigger", because when black people say that to me, they're referring to a position in society that we both know that we're in. Does that mean I have to take it from you? Because you definitely don't mean the same thing. Also, I don't personally say it because every black person doesn't feel the same way, and I don't have any cause to impose my belief system onto them.

> Likewise it would be stupid to say it's ok for girls to call each other bitch or cunt, but not ok for a man to do that because he is a man.

I'm not sure why you think that's not disrespectful; telling other people what they should be called and by who.
Depends how you define it. A biological system is not deterministic (at least on the scale we typically observe) so from that point no. Else you can see a cell or an organism as one computer but then you can also define the universe one big computer.

I would rather say life is the result of an optimization process.
I ended up using CloudMagic due to its large number of integrations.You should have a look at that too.
I'm no expert with Erlang either, and thanks for the explanation. I have to look into Tcl/Tk for #1, but #2 makes sense to me now.
The scientific research into happiness is summarised in the book “The How of Happiness.”

And the whole book is precised in the following eight-minute rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyryRRYty4Y

(I find the visuals distracting and unhelpful.)
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Certainly, the reproducibility crisis in social science and cancer biology is important, and deserves attention. But this article mostly strikes me as profoundly overstated. Yes, science is done by humans, and is thus imperfect. Yes, science's approach to truth is nonmonotonic. (I think most working scientists would consider this obvious.) Yes, scientists have various incentives to hype surprising results, cut corners, and even cheat. Yes, a lot of bad science gets published. But clearly science is making progress, since we clearly know more than we did 5, 10, 20, or 50 years ago. Are there things that could be done to improve the way science is conducted? Almost certainly (e.g. preregistering experimental trials, requiring power analysis in published papers), but this article is remarkable quiet about such things. In the end, what is author even really saying? That lay people should trust scientists less than they do? That doesn't seem correct to me. For instance, on climate change, it seems that normal people trust scientists a good deal less than they should, instead placing their trust in talking heads, politicians, and people who are unambiguously paid by oil companies to advocate on their behalf. So: yes, science as practiced in 2016 is imperfect. But what exactly do you propose replacing it with?
On reddit, I remember seeing something like "Research assures government that killing mosquitos would have no negative effect on world ecology"... right above another thread titled "Scientists underestimate ecological impact of species destruction"...

Do we actually understand Mosquitos role in the planet's eco system?
SYAC: It is the Alex St. John presentation...which is years old and he didn't even live in Silicon Valley
How does FreeCAD compare to SketchUP?

Does anyone know of a FOSS 2D drawing tool? I do a lot of pipe drawings (P&ID) and Visio is not ideal and AutoCAD is prohibitively expensive.
Cash.
When I was there, managers were guided to PIP (performance improvement plan) to make these numbers. Whether that meant grinding people into the ground, natural attrition, or making up excuses to out people - I saw all of them happen.
The temerity of those Europeans. Demanding companies that do business in Europe comport with European law!
I find all representations of identifiable historic individuals to be in poor taste.

I liked it when Liberty herself was featured on the coinage. I'd vastly prefer it if the currency denominations featured various depictions of Industry, Agriculture, Liberty, Justice, and Science/Truth rather than politicians and/or revised and sanitized historic figures. The other side can feature economically significant animals.

Besides that, the money portraits seem a lot like icons of the Americanist pseudoreligion (as satirized to great effect in Bioshock Infinite), and a betrayal of the idea that the US is a nation of laws, not men.

For instance, a Saturn V rocket is a suitable subject for a money engraving. A portrait of Neil Armstrong is not. A Model T is an acceptable subject. Henry Ford is not. A Texas oilfield is suitable. John D. Rockefeller is not. A railway locomotive is okay. Cornelius Vanderbilt is not. The light bulb is acceptable; Thomas Edison is not. A harvester in a productive wheat field is acceptable. The politician that penned the farm bill is not. Blindfolded Justice, with scales in one hand, and sword and laurels in the other, would be great. John Jay would not be.

Real people all come with baggage. Ideals are clean.
> We’re told that scientists must work hard to find a new vaccine, as if that would be the best solution to the problem.

Because it's probably easier than just preventing mosquitos.
Sure, it's true that a given technology by itself doesn't lead to job losses.But this really doesn't scratch the surface concerning the way that the labor market has been transforming.

A human being is remarkable flexible that can do lots of things robots and computers can't do as well as program himself/herself quickly to do things it takes a long time to program a computer to do.

If a human being is also really cheap, and they are in many places, then a human being is a really good deal. And the situation of automation and (even more) the globalization of work, is that it reduces the margin price of labor - there's still demand for people but the demand for people at a lower price - and being flexible, people have accommodated.

But when life is cheap and work is constant, it degrades all those things that makes human society pleasant. Except for those few with money to burn and to some extent even for them.
I'd imagine students at lower ranked schools had lower SATs scores, and thus didn't get to similar colleges.
Interesting that this article shows up now, given that this one just poped up five days ago:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/3284/what-if-we-era...
Wouldn't mosquito predators effectively die off as well? Birds, larger bugs, bats, etc.
How many bugs and spiders rely on mosquitoes as part of their diet? Out of all of the ideas in this article, not once was the impact to the biological food chain discussed. We can kill all of the little annoying things, but how many beneficial organisms are being supported by them?
Absolutely, if you stayed, the numbers definitely add up to what you see here. However, because the attrition was so high, you were not likely to stick around to get a bonus to make up for it.
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People living in malaria zones find mosquitos a little more than "unpleasant".
At least I will say that my feelings here are consistent -- those examples you provided are also unacceptable.