skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For those wondering what the typical regulations consist of, I found the following article doing a quick google search:

>> In all jurisdictions, the request for euthanasia or pas has to be voluntary, well-considered, informed, and persistent over time. The requesting person must provide explicit written consent and must be competent at the time the request is made. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3070710/

This is fairly comprehensive, which is reassuring. However, the article goes on to say:

>> Despite those safeguards, more than 500 people in the Netherlands are euthanized involuntarily every year. In 2005, a total of 2410 deaths by euthanasia or pas [physician assisted suicide] were reported, representing 1.7% of all deaths in the Netherlands. More than 560 people (0.4% of all deaths) were administered lethal substances without having given explicit consent. For every 5 people euthanized, 1 is euthanized without having given explicit consent.

Just because regulations are strict, does not mean that they are strictly followed, or enforced.
>make sure our computer was set to 800x600

Thaaaaaaaat's nonsense. I had relatively high-res CRTs (1600x1200) in the late 90s and early 2000s.

My father and I were able to get by with Netscape Navigator and Firefox for quite awhile as well.
But how did they allocate the carefully selected key and avoid others generating the same one in the meantime?
But her gender would've been part of a success story, safe to say. [This is why all gender doesn't belong in these conversations, "good" or "bad"]
It's possible. The P85, for instance seems to have depreciated more rapidly. But that might be because Tesla keeps pushing the line out on their top of the line model.

By comparison, though, the 2011 Mercedes SL500 cost around $105,000 and is currently worth (depending on mileage) right around $50k. That's more typical depreciation for high end sports cars.
I hope somebody paints a big face on it.
Who would I contact to make a nasa related html5 game for that page? Anybody from nasa here?
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Sure. The same is true for anything that uses public key encryption (Bitcoin for one). But the amount of computing power needed doesn't exist.

According to this person's math [1]: "It would take ~6.7e40 times longer than the age of the universe to exhaust half of the keyspace of a AES-256 key"

I don't know if Tor uses AES-256, but I'm sure any reasonable encryption algorithm would be similar.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/1x50xl/time...
I can only assume the feeling is mutual.
I don't see that Hawaii is taxing panels. They aren't forcing power companies to buy solar power, but that isn't a tax on panels.

It's also the case that Hawaii is a really special case. I wouldn't look to it being the beginning of a trend.

(Of course net metering will probably decline over time elsewhere, but this is not really a tax.)
Well, do they "not understand it" or do they just have a different way of being religious?
Don't see any signs that it's going to change, Saudi Arabia is still an official US ally.
The Asch Conformity Experiment
Cilk Plus/LLVM: Intel Cilk Plus C/C++ Language Extensions in LLVM
Check out WinRM. You can manage every feature in 2012R2 through a remote Powershell session. Installing and uninstalling programs can be done this way.
Isn't that advertising, rather than journalism?
I don't really see that as a racist cheap shot. The whole point of the comment was to expose the narrow view of the article, which was in my opinion done effectively by translating it to a generalization that some Americans may take offense with. I certainly don't think the commenter meant it as a racist remark from his/her perspective, but rather as an equivalent racist remark that one might say.
It's an excerpt, weird to call that native advertising. Is all of Wired a native ad for the rest of Wired?
>If she had succeeded (I still hold out hope), she would have been a terrific role model for young women everywhere.

What a bizarre comment.

Yeah, if only she had succeeded rather than running a company which may have fraudulently deceived investors and is now under criminal investigation. So, she's pretty much the opposite of a "terrific role model", no? If this wasn't a SV darling, I'm quite sure this community would be calling for her head.
What is SCSS?
When I see the factory videos of the production of the BMW i3, or that interview with the Monroe guy whose company took apart and analysed the i3... It seems to me BMW is well ahead of Tesla in many ways.
Habit is a powerful thing.

It's been nearly a decade since Austin's "Town Lake" was renamed by the city council as "Lady Bird Lake" (in honor of Lady Bird Johnson). To this day, I'm not sure I've ever heard it referred to as anything other than Town Lake. I certainly can never remember to use the new name.
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There was an article (maybe came across HN) not that long ago that details the history of MS-DOS and Windows, and they made note of how originally MS-DOS was going to use \ as a file separator, and instead of C:\ it would've just been C\, but due to some deal with IBM (I think) they wound up switching their path conventions. Because all the old code supported the more conventional pathing it was essentially just left in, and over time it's meant that Windows generally handles \ and / pretty well at the OS level.
it was. it's right in the middle of the article. turns out a bunch of left leaning groups were targeted also.
While 225k might be chump change to the corporations; it's naive to think that $225k doesn't have any meaningful sway with the Clintons. Especially given this statement Clinton made regarding the speaking fees:

> "You have no reason to remember, but we came out of the White House not only dead broke, but in debt," Clinton said. "We had no money when we got there, and we struggled to piece together the resources for mortgages for houses, for Chelsea's education.
If you're the sort of person for whom cloud hosting works, that will work for you. I personally like things that run (a) when the net is off and (b) if the vendor decides they don't like me, but I accept that I'm a dinosaur.

But the main reason for wanting things local, for me, is that the sole reason I have a Windows VM is to plug various devices into it for which there's no software for OS X or Linux. Yes, there are hacky methods for some USB use cases, but I don't think having the logic controlling my laser cutter executing 12 hops away is going to go so well.
I believe all prick exams need some level of squeezing ( did one a couple of weeks ago, giving a couple of samples from the same prick) it didn't hurt too much though
How many lawsuits would Microsoft face if they bundled VS in their OS, the way IE is bundled? Will they be accused of holding back developers because Eclipse isn't bundled?
Right. Issues that were caused by people distorting the truth instead of giving it to you straight.
So true. Im not a developer but work in production, so much paperwork bogging down productivity.
Which also tends to be the subset of people that have studied abroad, various repatriated huaqiao and college students at some of the more metropolitan colleges and I guess tech people/white collar workers.

Cracking down on college students seems like a really dumb idea.
Yes! It's "name" is probably some registration number anyway.

And regardless I doubt anyone will call it "Boaty McBoatface". It'll be abbreviated into something anyway. BMBM or Boaty or something.

And it will demonstrate that resistance is futile!
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Total agreement. The suite of tools is, for me, a no-brainer. I'm happy to pay.
Make sure keeping your old insurance via COBRA isn't the right choice. That's what I did. Comparable plan on my own would be much more expensive.
> They would be eating Linux's lunch if they were used in any wider scale.

Linux took 20 years to make its way into the enterprises, and well, SmartOS has to start somewhere. We are only at the beginning of the journey, but with one major difference: unlike Linux, which is still maturing, an illumos based operating environment has 37 years of enterprise abuse and hardening behind it.

> A primary objection to Solaris zones and a reason they're not used widely is that they run on Solaris and not on Linux.

What exactly is objectionable about running a Solaris-like operating environment? If it is software, SmartOS provides ~14,000 packages:

https://www.perkin.org.uk/posts/building-packages-at-scale.h...
Google didn't sell you your phone, why were you asking Google for a new OS for your phone? Sony got Marshmallow from Google, Sony is refusing to give it to you.
For BMW and others, they should have the advantage. They already have R&D, factories, distribution, and the workers in place. Tesla is having to build up everything from scratch including a battery factory.
Like the Swiss are custodians for the Vatican, not the Italians.
you can't simplify the tax code without carving out a bunch of corporate welfare that got them elected.
It's amazing to me that people compare a job that we have 7,000 years of experience with (making buildings) to a job that we have 70 years of experience with (making software).
Because voting for someone based on their gender is a good thing?

I am not looking forward to a choice between a corporate shill and a racist fool.
yeah, exactly.
As someone who grew up in Tromsø, Norway (69 degrees northern latitude), I've always found the idea that long winters and depression go together a strange one (That's not to say there aren't a lot of people in Tromsø that struggle with sleep[1], or that there are no winter depressions).

As a counterpoint to this article's title (but not content, really), there was an interesting piece a while back about seasons and psyche:

http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/07/the-norweg...

TL;DR: Mindset matters. If you don't like winter, then a long dark winter isn't much fun: "The survey results indicated that wintertime mindset may indeed play a role in mental health and well-being in Norway. The Wintertime Mindset Scale had strong positive correlations with every measure of well-being we examined, including the Satisfaction with Life Scale (a widely used survey that measures general life satisfaction), and the Personal Growth Composite (a scale that measures openness to new challenges). The people who had a positive wintertime mindset, in other words, tended to be the same people who were highly satisfied with their lives and who pursued personal growth."

[1] On a somewhat related note, I highly recommend the Norwegian original film "Insomnia" (the basis for the American remake with Al Pacino): http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119375/
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Typically the problems we've had with pathing on Windows is when the module we're trying to use doesn't handle Windows paths as inputs, the other way around hardly (if ever) caused us a problem.

I am pretty sure it even resolves something like /Program Files/My Program correctly to C:\Program Files\My Program. We just had a lot of modules barf when they got C:\Path\whatever and were trying to parse the path by hand or do other weird stuff like split on '/'.
I was just being charitable. If I had to bet, he has no idea and no way of knowing (because the FBI isn't going to go around disclosing whatever intel they got from the phone). But maybe he had a way of knowing, so I asked. Turns out he didn't.
> [Boaty McBoatface] represent the will of people who bothered to vote on an issue most people likely don't give a dam[n] about.

Indeed the vote was obviously silly and did in fact achieve its desired goal: publicity for arctic research. The officials are insane if they don't go along with the choice. It's an opportunity for further publicity on arctic research for decades to come!
Why did they bother to wrap it in a <div> tag but have no body or even html tag?
I.e. it's hard to disagree with Communism as an ideology, but every time it's put into practice it gets perverted into something ugly.
I'm not sure this the best opportunity to proselytize. Also, anecdotes about famous people don't really mean much.
When I was traveling in China, I would have had no access to Facebook if it weren’t for Tor. All I needed was my USB drive with a Tor + Linux and I could access the free Internet from any computer. Providing anonymity of identity is just one of the many uses of tor. [1]

[1] https://www.torproject.org/about/torusers.html.en
>When a loved one dies, all of the love they gave and words they said exist in some form or another within us

Yes, but all of that would still exist if they didn't die, so it's irrelevant.

>Acceptance of Death

There's a difference between coming to terms with the likelihood of ones death, and thinking it's a good thing.

Death is a horrible thing that we should seek to prevent if at all possible.
And by sitting in traffic, you save money that would have been spent on things to do!
Because it's still somewhat structured instead of not structured?
The battery factory is owned and operated by Panasonic. Tesla itself operates out of the former Toyota/NUMMI factory in Fremont and has re-hired a substantial number of skilled autoworkers in the area.
Are there any object marshalling/serialization solution for Ion? (Like GSON, Jackson)
The software that builds and displays the experience is the browser. Most webpages could be cut by 90% and be visually and functionally indistinguishable. For 90% of the last 10%, the functionality cut out would improve the user experience, especially on mobile.
Note though you have to divide it into two camps: there is a "smugness" associated with Hillary Clinton and a "smugness" associated w/ critics of Clintonism such as Thomas Frank and those aren't the same thing.

Note the Republican establishment also is "smug" towards Trump voters.

Practically both sides of the establishment "use" voters by pushing a few hot button issues. For instance, the Keystone XL pipeline was neither going to destroy the Earth nor was it going to revitalize the US economy. While people were arguing about that, they were not talking about any real environmental or economic issues. (Looking at the oil price drop recently, I wonder if the government saved Transcanada a huge amount of money by stopping Keystone XL.)
In this case, very very little would change. People would still link their own, as they do now.
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It's interesting that this is the result of a country practicing a hands off policy, instead of the "cultural imperialism" many complain about. The Saudi's chose to work with the US over the brits because we agreed to firewall our operations to keep their culture/society "pure" as possible.
People on HN have actually argued that "its private / a valid authentication factor"?

I'm rather surprised. To me, this seemed like a longstanding given (in this community).
At least the UK seems to be making moves toward a better system, Terry Pratchett had a bit to do with it. The rest of the european countries are blind to this issue.

This is something that hits very close to home, as I'm in the same path as Pieter and your father and I see that path getting me to the same end. If that happens, I'd like to end on my terms, not as the husk that you describe and not after having my family go through all the pain that you describe.
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A banner would be safer
I don't know about how typical it is necessarily, because I have a more similar experience to you, but I've definitely worked at jobs where I wasn't only told what to do, but how to implement it (usually by architects).
The problem is that it's firefox-only.
pseudoscience at its finest. A CEO injecting herself with her company's experimental gene therapy, written up as a press release? This is a comic book plotline masquerading as marketing, not science.
>very unfortunate anti role models recently

I think there's a huge difference between the two. Sure, Ms. Meyer floundered running a big (struggling) company, especially when so much was made about "Female CEO!" But really, her "failure" is pretty average when it comes to corporate executive misadventure; nothing she did makes her unworthy of being a role-model.

Ms. Holmes, on the other hand, may have overseen a massive fraud.
We trained them to be killers. Two of the guys were there for the money for the bills. Hunter was the psycho. Are they responsible - yes. Did society failed them - absolutely.
I think GM would have gone straight out of business if they hadn't had their joint venture with Toyota (NUMMI). You can say they didn't learn as much as they could have, but I don't think you can say they got much out of it. You could say that GM owes its existence to Toyota.
@dang: Can we point this to the source article: https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/42320.html ? "Circumventing Ubuntu Snap confinement" It is much better than the zdnet blog spam.
I just spent over a year with someone who died of cancer on Tuesday. I don't know if she would have opted for suicide if it had been legal here, but I do know that the last few weeks were extremely difficult for everyone involved. I have a very clear image of how cancer kills a person now. We did our best to maintain her dignity, but the body is not on your side. It's humbling, to say the least, which is a profound lesson in and of itself.
IMO another very powerful thing is to stop saying "do the very next thing" and say "do any of the next things".

Sometimes you get side-tracked determining the "proper order" of your little tasks in excruciating detail, which feels like work.
Manufacturing is slowly moving to be "on demand". That is, a consumer purchases something, then it is built and shipped to them. It doesn't make sense any more for a company to predict market volume and then produce goods to match the prediction, especially since technology turns over so fast.

With that in mind, I could see Apple having simple components being produced in a number of different countries, then shipped out to wherever their products are in demand. Then the components are assembled by robots locally and the final product is picked up or shipped down the street to the consumer. I remember reading that this is where the auto industry is heading. They want to produce interchangeable car parts which get assembled at the dealership when a person purchases the car.

So to your point, China is already done. Instead of huge factories producing consumer ready goods, Apple just needs a handful of smaller factories making much simpler intermediary components. It's much easier to setup and move these smaller factories around, rather than these huge factory cities managing a massive production line.
Prince's vision for lifting up black youths: Get them to code
Machine Learning made accessible through a Google TensorFlow online tutorial
Prompted me to do a little experimentation with google query parameters. Some potentially concerning stuff out there...

This one seems offline, but a typical example:

ftp://asapdata.arc.nasa.gov/incoming/BOB/HyspIRI/data-bob/00_README.MASTERweb_updating.txt

3. Login to MASTER database:
http://asterdb.jpl.nasa.gov/log/dbstart.asp

a. User: eric; Password: Upd8t3r
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How do "Earth-based observations of the dark portion of the moon" work?

Is that the dark part of the light side, where the sun won't overexpose the video?
Nominally.
We don't have to, these (108-7) billions of people will (sadly) never ever come back.
We have just 7.3 bln people and a planet with more than enough resources to sustain them and then some more (I could give some practical computations regarding the limits to growth, but I won't waste our time doing that here).
So your whole argument about all people that have ever lived is basically a strawman.
I live in California, so state schools are very good and can even be prestigious (Berkeley, UCLA).

I'm not limiting their options. I guess if one of my children is absolutely determined to jump into big time debt to go to Harvard, I probably wouldn't stop them.

But I won't destroy myself financially just because I'm afraid to explain to my children that choices have costs (list price of Harvard is something like $80k/yr). Also, my children are more different in age, so if I go broke on the first one, the next one wouldnt have the same opportunity.

The choice I'm offering is really not a bad one. I'll pay something reasonable, and if they can make up the difference with work and scholarships, great. If they want to do research, they can always go to MIT for grad school.

Also, by the time they go, things might be different. So many people got burned by the "go to whatever college you want, regardless of price" idea that it might shatter the prestige of any private school below ivy league. Or more people might do the first two years at CC before going to university, and that might carry less stigma.
“We absolutely, most certainly, should NOT ship libraries with operating systems.”
I have no doubt the Clintons have been careful about hiding any evidence of their corruption. They ran their own private email servers and make sure to create 'legitimate' reasons for all of their policy decisions. As it is they refuse to acknowledge any of this as a conflict of interest and refuse to take steps to reduce the conflicts of interest.
that makes sense since my voice is my passport. [verify me]
> Can the training sessions be replaced with online tutorials?

In many cases they have. And generally speaking, I doubt they communicate with any central checklist system, likely because one didn't exist. Until now. And pretty much every department has its own checklist. Hell, I worked for a university and I'm pretty sure the automation processes I wrote for new account creation didn't absolve departmental IT from additional work for hires specific to their department.

The other fun thing is the process that constructed the current system. Something bad happens, and another annual training is added to the list. Over time, a lot of bad stuff happens. This leads to scenarios where military officers literally have more training requirements than hours, and cut all kinds of corners and lie about it: http://www.armytimes.com/story/military/careers/army/2015/02...

The problem isn't moving paperwork or tutorials online that's already happened. The problem is one arm of the administration imposing requirements on another without regard any sort of budgetary analysis.
I've recently tried using FB via TOR (Browser) for the first time, but was unable. After entering the onion address and my FB credentials, I was informed that the account is temporarily blocked (presumably because of first access via TOR). I was presented with an option of unblocking it by recognizing a few photos of friends and matching them to names - but unfortunately, all those photos showed as blank, white squares!

So, I wasn't able to login via TOR via the purposefully created .onion address. Also, sent an issue report via non-TOR login about this, but never got any response.

Note also that this seems to mean to me, that there may be people who are cut off from FB via TOR same as me, but who don't even have a way to notify FB about the fact. And thus not having any chance of having the bug fixed.
Why would not just use a asymmetric crypto and just use the public key to encrypt files for automated back ups without needing a password? Seems like a lot of work to produce something with less security.