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But unlike ivory, that cannot be made without dead elephants, it possible to create a Persian carpet without child labour. Children used to mine coal, but we still have coal. So we can still have Persian carpets.

I used to live in the middle east and when I left I brought a medium-sized pile of them. They are great and very utilitarian. The one in my living room is nearly a hundred years old and has seen many generations of dogs, cats and in all probability goats. They can be cleaned an repaired in a way rare for modern products.
You mean HN? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11789869
2) I do disagree there. It's a widespread misconception IMHO. Holding cash allows greater flexibility and resilience against bad times. It allows you to move quickly on surprising opportunities that have a short window, and insulates you from swings in the credit market. Lower cash holdings and greater reliance on future creditors make you more vulnerable to black swans. (True for both businesses and individuals.)

Policies that discourage cash holding "'cause investment is good" are failing to model the costs of being illiquid -- both individual and social. Taken to an extreme, this view would hold that the absolute worst I can do is produce but never consume.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8335424
"... back-directed light is the result of partial self-reflection of the forward-traveling beam..."

"the idea of using a high-intensity laser to ionize air along the beam, thus forming a conducting channel of plasma"

Real life light sabers are within the realm of possibility with existing technologies!
I wasn't really wondering about the jurors for this question. I was wondering if I received a lawsuit in the notoriously plaintiff friendly Eastern Texas district if having a company policy of just not dealing with any customers in those zipcodes would be enough to automatically (or at least very likely) allow my case to be heard in a different venue. It might actually be worth forgoing those 3.5M potential customers for that.
Is this really an unsolved problem? If you need that functionality can't you do it with ps or pkill -U and an alias? This approach also allows you to send SIGTERM first.

http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/136552/34801 it's 2 lines.

It's also fine when systemd allows it as an easy knob and cgroups might catch something that pam doesn't (but you could also use cgroups in the pam script and cleanup/atd/cron or systemd timers).

But doing it by default behavior is kind of surprising.

> Besides, the release notes provided the workaround in line, so that interested users wouldn't have to hunt for a solution.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy approach to announcements ;)

But it was announced on the CHANGES file on that github repository works really well for breaking POSIX.
The problem is assuming that a guest is "questionable" based solely on appearance.
If you like this, you might appreciate the very retro homebrew CPU webring:

http://members.iinet.net.au/~daveb/simplex/ringhome.html
> Well yes, that's the whole point. Exclude the people who committed certain classes of crimes from being drivers. They can go get other jobs that don't have the same opportunistic crime risk. I'm not advocating for the idea that every single crime, no matter what, would exclude you, I'm just saying that certain classes of crimes, including violent crimes and sexual assault, definitely mean you shouldn't be an Uber driver.

Excluding these people from jobs imposes an economic cost on society. One which, imo, outweighs the benefits of keeping them out of this position of power.

> Statement not backed up by evidence.

Ah, indeed it is not. But I am proposing that we do nothing, and that places the burden of proof squarely upon those who propose intervention.

But either way, you do not dispute that any violence is self-limiting, and surely you do not dispute that if the market demands a 'safer' alternative, one will emerge. So i'm really not sure what the argument is for government stepping in.

> Neither is this. Certainly, doing background checks is a cost that Uber would have to pay, but it's a far cry from saying that this cost is "huge" or implying it's a burden on everybody.

No. That's not how economics works. Uber doesn't pay the cost, people that use Uber do. And regulation like this actually cements Uber's dominance in the market place, because it creates a barrier to new entrants. If you are a 60 billion dollar company, spending 10 million a year on compliance is no big deal. If you are a startup, it will kill you. That is the true cost of this sort of regulation.

Take a look at the taxi industry. The taxi industry is terrible precisely because of this sort of regulation protecting incumbents by keeping out new entrants. Anyone looking to start a taxi business needs to buy medallions which cost approximately a million dollars each (before Uber showing up made them virtually worthless).

> As for social cost, I don't even understand what you're claiming the social cost is. There's a huge social cost when people don't feel like it's safe for them to get into an Uber alone. There's very little social cost to saying that certain types of criminals cannot be Uber drivers.

If that were indeed true that people didn't feel safe getting in an Uber, then they wouldn't want to ride in an Uber. Uber's ridership would drop and they would feel compelled to do something about it - all on their own.
Oops! I used He's atomic number (2) instead of its atomic mass (usually 4).

I believe deuterium fusion events mostly produce He4, occasionally He3 + neutron. So we'd actually produce between 3 and 4 grams.
Wait, are you saying that politicians should decide which data formats we're supposed to use when we make research data public? Sounds like a recipe for disaster. I think it's great that we have many competing approaches to open science at this stage. Over time, each research field will identify an optimal approach for their purposes and that approach will win. I just hope that the winner is not going to be GitHub which is becoming more and more popular at least in my field. GitHub is a terrible platform for open science because what happens if they shut down or change their pricing or ...? GitHub is just not made for open science and I think an open science platform should not be run for profit. Also, more technically, git histories can be completely rewritten which means that GitHub would not be a trustworthy historic record.
Quite this.

I use reddit more-or-less as a blog (https://dredmorbius.reddit.com). What I particularly like is the extended community, Markdown, mod tools, Wiki (though it's underpowered), search (though it's posts-only, no comments), and, through RES, some nice features for composing, and viewing images in posts.

But that last applies to a very small subset of readers. And as I make a fair bit of use of images (to illustrate and document points in my essays), that's a considerable pain point.

Ello, whilst lacking many other features, and having broken Markdown (notably: no blockquote support), does have phenomenal image support.

Other options are fairly thin, though Medium might be worth another look.
I am struggling to understand what being a hawk and her email server have to do with liberal vs conservative views?
Let's go back to your original statement, that baited me into responding:

>You even just hint that you wanna see more studies on their safety you will be torn limb from limb

So what more studies do you want to see on their safety that hasn't yet been performed, or would not be required by law for a new GMO?

You started with persecuted hyperbole, but now it seems to have come to this:

>Considering that it is indeed possible to create a harmful GMO, and considering that we barely understand how regular old nonmodified genes operates in relation to the entire organism, it is neither unscientific nor absurd to question whether subtle problems could arise from transgenetic modification

which is essentially "we don't know everything about gene regulation, therefore anything could happen." This is somewhat fallacious.

Well, really, nearly anything could happen. But it's all about chances of bad things happening. Maybe due to random quantum fluctuations, my fingernail turns into a blackhole. The risk of that is extremely small.

We spent many many decades bombarding plants with ionizing radiation in order to mutate them into better species, a roll of the dice every time. Most of these mutations were not desirable, but a very small few were desirable. Now we can be more focussed rather than just rolling the dice billions of times.

We base risk on the amount of experience we have with things, certain behaviors become less and less likely. Introducing non-native species to control some part of the ecosystem has proven to be exceptionally risky, for example. Randomly mutating plants with lots of radiation has not proven to be very risky. So far, genetically modifying them has not proven to be risky either.

If there's some potential risk that you can specifically determine that should be tested for, but is not currently, please publish your findings. But in all these paragraphs you've said nothing that would not be considered in the first five minutes by a thoughtful scientist, so I doubt that you have any deep insight here. I'm officially putting you into the nutter category. Consider this me wanting to tear your metaphorical limbs off ;) You have been vindicated in that sense...
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Many instructions of machine code can be written as one C statement. There are some cases of things the cpu can do that are not standardized in C, like "arithmetic shift vs. logical shift." Maybe these instructions would be inlined.
For the host? Definitely! For AirBnB? Definitely, since AirBnb serves not only guests, but hosts as well.

If I can't choose who to allow into my home, I am not using AirBnB as a host. I am confident that almost everyone shares this sentiment.

Imagine if AirBnB required you to let anyone stay at your home. AirBnB wouldn't last another day.

I agree that you shouldn't make judgements based upon only the profile picture. On the other hand, if they post things I find unattractive (like making fun of people of another race), I'm definitely not going to let them in my home. (OP seems to be a victim of the former and I sympathize with him)
I know you're messing around, but that's a lot of unnecessary risk for a reward that I can just delay for four or eight years when the Olympics are in a reasonable country.
I still find it very implausible that first mover advantage alone made Valve into a sustainable multibillion dollar company for so long with very little lock-in and very few anticonsumer practices. They have consistently outmaneuvered all their competitors for over a decade on multiple fronts. Their foray into hardware is just the most recent example. I think pointing to an outdated version of WebKit contained in the app is really grasping at straws for trying to find a way to make it look bad.
Source[1] hasn't been updated in over a month, so it's just a repost.

[1] https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/master/docs/docs/thin...
Meanwhile, you'll be paying for 24 weeks of coverage. And, so, 24 times $511 means, the maximum payout is $12,264 in taxable income, so maybe $8,000 in net cash.

So, at the 7 year mark (or maybe right now), just start questioning whether a simple, ordinary savings account would have been the better idea.

And, oh yeah, you don't get 24 weeks coverage until you've paid for coverage for 6 months. Otherwise, you just get back maybe $600 at best, and then The End. So you'd better have six months living expenses (or a solid job), AND $600 to pay into the policy, before even bothering, otherwise you're still screwed.
It seems as though some of the principles involved with the creation of the DAO are asking for investment to build a security framework on top of the DAO to secure it from some types of known potential attacks.

Clearly I don't understand the scope of the proposal but my gut thinks either this group should have built security into the system from these known potential attacks before raising $150M.

Alternatively, what I envisioned with my proposals, the security measures should simply be included within the individual contracts. For example: This very security proposal is asking for 125,000 ETH, the contract should provide for a identifiable review team (say 1 well know coder and 1 well known lawyer) and an insurer for the contract their fees will be built into the contract. If the contract meets its investment goal, before the funds are released the reviewers must approve the contract and provide the investors a summary of the terms. If approved the insurance company will guarantee the investors money is not lost due to either fraud or some bug/error in the code causing a loss.

Edit: Submitted a DAO proposal to fund an insurance company to review and insure smart contracts on the DAO in the instance of bug/error in the code.
I don't want to move my hands, legs or any other part of my body so much. I watch stuff on my phone because I am too lazy to watch on TV . This stuff seems like so much work, do you really want to move pieces of puzzle when you can just flick your thumb.
You don't seem to understand that Thiel has funded more than one lawsuit. Of course, you also don't seem to know how to spell Bollea's name, so maybe you haven't been following this all that closely.

But yes, meritless lawsuits pursued because of personal agendas are an actual threat to First Amendment rights. Which is why anti-SLAPP statues have become necessary, and why 28 states have passed them in recent decades. As a NY Supreme Court justice wrote about strategic use of meritless lawsuits: "Short of a gun to the head, a greater threat to First Amendment expression can scarcely be imagined." Thiel has found a new twist, where he can assault public participation without actually being a plaintiff. But he poses a very similar threat.

And yes, of course I can complain. Thiel is creating a systemic distortion around publishing the same way, e.g., tobacco companies funded systemic distortions of science. That the individual scientists have a right to free speech does not mean that I can't complain about how they use it. Or complain vociferously about the tobacco companies' damage to science, no matter how much they mewl about "fairness" and "seeing both sides". As a citizen, it's my job to make sure our democracy keeps working.
Assuming insurance companies are profitable, insurance is a -EV bet for the consumer. The only reason to ever buy insurance is if the potential loss would be ruinously large. Gaps in unemployment simply don't generate that kind of huge loss the way a house fire, extended illness or million-dollar lawsuit would.

According to numbers earlier in the article, this pays out $536.50 * 24, about 6.7 weeks of pretax wages or 12.9% of your annual income.

If you put 10% of your income into an emergency fund, you can build it to the level of the payout from this insurance in a little over a year.
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"Squeal", like a pig. Not "Sequel" like 'Babe: pig in the city'.
I am not even sure what ' deep learning techniques utilizing robotics' even means.
> This patent troll is an NPE, which is usually (along with, you know, suing) the defining trait of patent trolldom.

Look at Goodyear. He was an NPE. He invented vulcanized rubber. Never saw a dime. They even stole his name and built a company around it. He didn't have the resources to sue.

Look at Robert Kearns. He was an NPE. He sued. It destroyed his life.

There's no special qualification to come up with an idea. Patenting is a painful process. But it's a way to protect yourself. Just because people are involved in a lawsuit doesn't say or mean anything.

Regardless, this company is not an NPE. They have a working implementation of their secure messaging patent that is available on the app store.

> In what way is it "doing harm" to the patent system?

It's doing harm by framing inventors as villains rather than innovators. You've judged this company based on no other information than that they are referred to as patent trolls in an online article. If it's that easy for a large company to quell innovators, then the purpose of patents in the first place - to foster innovation - is gone.

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Regardless the verbiage is frequently inappropriate and certainly in this instance.
I definitely encourage you to try out your ideas. I'm a software engineer by day myself and dropped out of college. It seems like a crazy idea to me but, why not? I try to not live with regrets. I think that when I'm on my death bed, I would regret never trying my ideas out.
This is straight up rude and definitely not welcome behavior here.
I played with the numbers - for GA for $120,000 for "information". It was $50 a month. Not bad for an extra $785 a week. It would give me some breathing room not to take the first job offer and to be more picky. I might also be willing to stay at a job I like instead of leaving at the first whiff of distress.
I had no idea the bangs didn't have to be the be the first thing you enter. My life is now a lot easier, thanks!
Yeah, they just can make a deal - drop the case in exchange for former employees silence about whats going on in the company...
I guess we're moving into the sour grapes stage of the litigation. I guess corporations really are people:
1. denial (tick)
2. anger (TICK)
3. bargaining (tick)
4. depression (coming soon)
5. acceptance (#NeverAccept?)
Or more countries could go non-territorial like the US!
But wait, scientific articles are hoaxes made for tax money, so now the lies are freely available to anybody!!! We need to cut more taxes on billionaires and publicly fund more oil projects so we can get these inconvenient science articles out of our way. Where's my next iPhone?!
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Talk to cruzio about point to point wifi if you are line of sight of the Wrigley plant.
For a large number of people, I totally agree. However for, say, a software developer in Silicon Valley I doubt it would take nearly that long unless they wanted it to. Note that for non-tech industries the monthly premium goes up significantly (+$40 for Leisure and Hospitality, for example), so the break even time gets longer.

Interestingly, the numbers seem to indicate that they expect people employed in Public Administration to have the easiest time finding a new job. The premium payments for that are less than half what they are for IT.
> I cry so little my wife had me tested for
> Aspergers...and she was right. I tear up about once a
> year at most

It's important to not conflate crying with feeling strong emotion. I was clinically depressed for a year and cried a sum total of once during that time.
I was about to post but saw yours, so I'll reply with basically the same position.

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This will be a contrarian opinion, but personal insurance, in general is a ripoff.

You are taking a monthly bet (ie an insurance policy) against another party that an event will occur. The other party must administer the insurance and also make a profit, so the overall expected return is negative. The only smart reason to get these types of insurance is if you know you can make a claim in the short term (in other words you have insider information that you will be laid off soon).

The smarter thing to do is save and build up your own "rainy day" fund, where once you have funded it properly, you no longer have to pay into it.
Have you been on the roads much?
There is a plethora of static site generators in just about any language, nearly all of which have some decent-looking templates you can use. Then managing your site is just a matter of writing markdown for text content, and pushing it up somewhere for hosting. Github can handle this, as can many other services (e.g., S3).
Sounds like fun https://github.com/newmana/haunted-house
I'd agree with that. When I've been a hiring manager, I've definitely gone to a lot of trouble to "attempt to counteract the institutionalized discrimination against minorities". Lawsuits were never my worry.
Interesting: CDC chief says not to postpone:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-36401150
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I totally agree. I was diagnosed with Leukemia(AML) at age 24. I am 31 now. I had cancer 2 times, both times 20 years before it would have killed me, but because of all the research I get to be alive, I have a son and a wife and a family who I impact every day. Sure I understand I am more prone to getting more cancers down the road, but having the road to go down is way better than a dead end at age 24. Keep the moonshot going baby.
* A personalized search engine.

* portable software that is in a usb that stores your medical records. The problem is that all medical records are disaggregated and you have to bring them everywhere with you and the systems are incompatable. However, if you made a portable system agnostic applicaation using something like electron and sqllite that allowed your doctor (or any doctor) to run it when diagnosing or taking patient history, then he gives it back when completed that would be awesome. Could export files for doctors records. even files woul dbe upgrade on their end, as currently I had to fax over my records but also show up and bring them in person because that was unreliable(possibly because it is half centrury old tech). probably hipaa compliant as you would be responsible(but in control) of your data. would payoff big in 5 years whne personalized medicine is a thing. can't do it on mobile because it would be too vulnerable, must interface with anything with USB.
That "15 percent" dividend tax is on top of venture returns that are taxed at 35%. It's like if people were saying you have it easy because you only pay 5% taxes, without mentioning that you have to pay regular income/FICA taxes, before it hits your bank account, and the 5% attaches the second you start to spend it.
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Thank you. Given that CloudFlare is basically replacing the public internet one site at a time, I feel better that there is at least some third party accountability on your power.
Oracle better stop fucking around. Larry's gonna learn a late lesson.
apparently the GPL has only ever been challenged once in court. From "THE STORY OF BUSYBOX AND THE FIRST GPL LAWSUIT"
http://torquemag.io/2013/03/busybox/

quote:

>Fascinating. Strangely, the BusyBox seems to have been the very first U.S. lawsuit to enforce the GPL so his statement seems to suggest that there were cases before that – I can’t seem to find any.
The wiki article says what I said, that's why I asked why you were having a hard time finding it. It is not my site, it is his son's site. Try reading.
> where there is a devastating lack of supply and vicious competition for minority candidates

My guess is that if this is true at all, it's true only for a relatively small number of prominent companies, and that it has only recently become true. There's certainly a lot of public discussion, but I suspect it only weakly correlates with private discussion at most tech companies, and that in turn weakly correlates with actual action.

Like you, I'd like to see it reproduced. A few years back, when bias-denial was more entrenched, I paid a researcher a few thousand dollars to look at reproducing it. It's certainly doable, but there are a number of challenges, and ultimately I decided it wouldn't move the discussion forward as much as I hoped; the denialists and the foot-draggers would just pick nits or find something else to use as a shield. And the people who understand the problem don't really need more proof.

But if you (or anybody (or a coalition of anybodies)) would like to drop $20-50k on doing a tech-specific version of this, drop me a line and I can put you in touch with researchers and share my notes.
Wow, this is a really clever technique, and the results are really alarming. I suspect we'll see some careers unravel as a result of it.