skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difference is that while the cost of performing electronic surveillance approximates zero for each individual in a society as a whole, these people believe that the government will pay X agents $N salary to spend time to target them specifically.

Individual surveillance of course happens - but it probably isn't happening to most of these people. It isn't reasonable.
If someone made me choose between the Bay Area and Toronto, I would pick Toronto. Every day of the week. Toronto's great.

Sure, it's like the planet Hoth for a third of the year. But in every other way it's a more liveable city. The public transport in the core of the city exists and works, rather than being a cobbled-together mishmash of uncoordinated systems of which 2 out of 3 seem to be broken at any time.

The rent is a shit ton cheaper, the people are much nicer, the food is more varied, the city is gorgeous in summer, it's big enough to have serious amenities, small enough to be walkable and the people who look like lumberjacks probably are.

I live in NYC, because I prefer it to SF as well. As an Australian citizen I find it significantly easier to work in the USA than in Canada. But if Toronto's scene were on a rough scale with NYC's and if the immigration thing could be sorted, I'd be tempted to move.
> The web is already decentralized

Considering that we depend a lot on CAs and the DNS root the web is distributed, not decentralized.
I don't know any better than you, but I have been charged for using Dankort a few times, mostly online, and charged more when I used a foreign credit card in supermarkets.

Ticketmaster charge 0.66kr, for example: http://www.ticketmaster.dk/help/gebyrer.html?language=en-us
Telomeres are lengthened in women when their eggs are made, while still in their mother's wombs. Men are constantly lengthening telomeres in the cells that form sperm. This is one reason why children of older men tend to live longer. Of course, this benefit only really comes from fathers in their late twenties, because otherwise other paterrnal-age-related pathologies can outweigh the benefits.
It helps to think about the basics when talking about telomere length and cell behavior.

1) Telomeres shorten with each cell division in ordinary somatic cells. When they get too short, cells self-destruct or stop dividing. So average telomere length in tissue is a function of cell division rates.

2) Stem cells support their associated tissue type by providing new cells with long telomeres. Thus average telomere length is also a function of cell replacement rates.

3) Average telomere length is at present usually measured in white blood cells. The rates of division and replacement here are tied in to many factors, including general health, autoimmunity, infection, state of the thymus, and so on and so forth. It would probably be better to use another tissue, such as skin, but that isn't the way things worked out in practice.

So telomere length is far removed from first causes in aging - it is largely a marker, largely of stem cell function in most tissues, but in immune cells with their varying rates of division according to circumstances, also a marker of all sorts of other unrelated or partly related things.

If telomere length is globally extended, you have cells that can divide more often without the need for stem cell support, and you also have more energetic stem cells. But those cells dividing more often are more damaged on average. This may or may not be important enough to do bad things such as raise cancer risk significantly in our species: more data needed.
I agree with the article, it really does feel like something special is happening in the city. I work at TWG, a software dev agency in Toronto and we've worked closely with many of these startups and are pretty well connected to the startup culture. Happy to answer any questions you might have about our local scene!
SF’s affordable housing shortage will likely be exacerbated by a new law
Hidden externality.

Retailers eat the cost in order to get the customers.
Cc processors earn the cost. Banks, in order to get customers, pass some of the dough back to consumers in marketing and rewards.

So it's somewhat fairer now than it was ten years ago with similar fees but less rewards. But an economist would say that optimal would be to massively reduce fees and take away rewards.
I'm curious, how could Uber have been cheaper than driving your own vehicle?
Toronto is the seventh largest metro area in North America. 2/3 the size of Chicago.

About the same size as Washington and Philadelphia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metro...
A lot of those seem to be pretty universal... http://finnishnightmares.blogspot.com/2016/01/just-browsing....
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Yes, these are local projects, but with the amount of chaos they're creating with construction, I'm willing to believe that once it's finished they'll make much more frequent trips to Toronto. I believe there would be demand for it as the King/Victoria area is changing rapidly. Google just took over a building that was an old derelict factory with broken windows 2 years ago. This building is within feet of the proposed transit station. Lots of new apartment buildings going up in the area. The communitech hub has also been getting much more busy in the last few years.
It's not a scam. It's a service.

You may be too young to remember when a person had to carry a significant amount of cash around all the time, and/or a checkbook, to pay for routine purchases. When every payday involved going to the bank, waiting in a queue to deposit your check and get enough cash to get through to the next payday. It was a PITA.

Compared to the convenience of direct deposit, ATMs, and card transactions, most people would think it's well worth slightly higher retail prices.
Airlines are almost the only place you will see these charges in the UK.

I've used credit cards for almost all purchases for many years, and the only other place a surcharge is likely is a tiny, struggling business, like a convenience store or a rural pub.
> Finally, a plea for some compassion

I can imagine kids online would eat these folks up without realizing what they're doing.

Do mental health professionals recommend that paranoid people take breaks from the internet?

I like to debate online. I try to do it in the most respectful way possible. After reading this story, I imagine that a paranoid person could perceive disagreement as an attack.

Food for thought for me. Thanks for sharing your experience.
> 10 million people on one side 10 people on the other.

10 million who are not involved in the slightest and would not even know about this without seeing it in the news.

So your argument is, since x billion (not just million) people don't know something we can already conclude it doesn't exist.

I'm attacking your numbers argument, nothing else.

And your "someone will always disagree" is completely out of place - it's true about about something not present in this story at all. So by throwing in some random true fact you made your 2nd argument.

Last, the comparison with "climate deniers" (others in this thread) is bogus too: The difference is that topic was WAS discussed at great length - and the "deniers" did get heard. So yes, after hearing all sides there is no need to give everyone equal time. In this story however we hear about it for the very first time, and while I certainly don't expect to give them equal time for their views, and personally would not bother one iota, it makes me wonder:

What happens when we hear such stories and always automatically assume they are wrong? For me it's not about this one single story, but how we handle such stories in general. Always throwing the "majority opinion" view around seems misguided. I'm not much concerned about this particular case, but about the generalities thrown around here like the the "10 million people" argument above. Just because those people are sick doesn't make your justification/reasoning correct - somebody else being wrong doesn't make you right automatically!
Yes, it does. This is the main reason why I am considering NOT getting my US citizenship in a couple years when time comes.
I don't think the fingerprinting requirements have taken effect yet. Uber and Lyft just chose to leave as soon as they lost the vote to stop them because they thought it'd give them more leverage.
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The 'Broomgate' Controversy Rocking the Sport of Curling
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Also sadly it boils down to "My country doesn't have this problem, yet".
I guess if problems with unicode are the bar for "garbage" then Ruby must be a garbage language?
Florida terror attack kills 50 in deadliest mass shooting in US history
Hmmm.

From an engineering perspective what are the MTBFs for the various human components; are a dearth of White blood cells a prime reason for aging and death?

Great progress has been made in genetics surely one could read the DNA of a few thousand cells and have an extremely strong confidence of what the unmutated DNA for a person once was.

And from this you could make new white blood cells et voila.

This all seems rather Blade Runnery. Mind you there would be societal problems with people who can live much older: slowing of cultural evolution, career blocking, and monopolising property; we've got that now but it would get worse.

I'm worried about the Brexiters kicking out the metric system;that and fascist tyranny.
We have ASM.js/WASM, and it is pretty mature. If these platform owners really wanted to make it work, they had done so by now.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#History

\r\n, CR+LF historically speaking was the first, but \n, LF became dominant because of Unix.
I recently started watching Crazy Ex-Girlfriend with Rachel Bloom, who got popular from her video about Ray Bradbury [1]

It's renewed my faith in comedy.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gONl3jXrzBE
In Canada, direct debit is by far the most popular payment method (it over took cash over 15 years ago) and Visa plays no role in direct debit purchases. 100% of all direct debit transactions are handled by the ubiquitous Interac network, not Visa or MasterCard, and everyone with a bank account has an Interac card.

So, while dropping Visa is still kind of a big deal, it's not quite as big a deal as it would be in other countries where Visa handles both credit and debit purchases. Certainly Walmart will know how much Interac is used over Visa.

But here's the thing. Interac has no rewards program, and it charges the consumer a flat fee with each transaction ($0.15 I think? I don't know, I stopped using Interac 15 years ago). Yet, Interac is hugely popular.

Meanwhile, we're all paying a hidden 2% tax on everything to cover the credit card interchange fees whether we use a credit card or not. It's a completely unacceptable situation and it's hard not to be on the side of the side of the retailers (even when they propose ham-fisted solutions like CurrentC).
The mistrust of science
Not sure about it, I've tried with my FF Beta and it seems it can't fingerprint my browser in such details.
Just saw this tweet from Rich Hickey [1]:

> If you think you know how I ought to spend my time, come over and mow my lawn while I expound on the problems of dev entitlement culture.

All due respect, but I don't think Rich gets it.

Other people are spending _their own_ time as well, researching, writing and reporting issues, and in many cases, would be perfectly happy to submit fixes for those issues (and in some cases, they have). It doesn't take any more work for Rich or someone else to look at an issue and say, yes, this is a problem and thank you for fixing it, then it does to say screw you, WontFix. And that is where Clojure has a problem.

Rich's argument is really a strawman. Nobody is telling him what to fix, but neither can anyone force him to recognize the importance of fixing long outstanding bugs _in his own work_, even if, thanks to a great community, fixing those bugs wouldn't require him to lift a finger.

1: https://twitter.com/richhickey/status/741982205392617472
By your standard, truth is determined by consensus. Ignore the number people involved, because it's irrelevant, and just look at ideas and arguments.

It's not about creating a numerical balance between groups of people with differing views, it's about refining an idea by challenging it. If those 10 people really are wrong then the evidence will dismiss their point immediately and you have nothing to worry about.

Presenting an idea without challenging it, or worse challenging it with straw man, makes your work less persuasive.
The target scalability for this version is ~2 billion rows on a server class machine. Right now 500 million is about the best you can do with reasonable performance on a laptop.
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Depends on the salaries they offer, doesn't it?
I still haven't seen any of the places that are described as being the "next Silicon Valley" actually become a huge tech hub organically.
Don't the "best" models make surprising predictions that we go out of our way to design experiments to collect data for - and find that they are, in fact, accurate?

Has string theory made a single prediction anyone went out of their way to test, finding it accurate?

I don't have a problem with shoveling in a bunch of dimensions. If it's shovelled in carefully so as not to predict anything that can be tested, I can get that entertainment from watching flat Earth videos though.
Interesting, but he doesn't seem to take into account the fact that his source image is in sRGB colour space, as opposed to linear.
huh, I was not aware of this study. Thanks!
Given both Trump and Bernie (to a lesser extent) it looks like both the main parties are pretty crap at this.

Basically Both American political parties are still 18th century alliances with no strong party discipline.
> However, he said everyone also has a winter car, a Subaru or similar, because the electric range is so severely limited by the cold.

Article seems to suggest otherwise — population of 5 million, but only 3 million cars on the road.
About Mises

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EDIT: Source: https://mises.org/about-mises
They are based here: 518 West Magnolia Avenue
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US Presidential Candidates Reactions to Orlando Mass Shooting
Obama couldn't get anything done for 8 years becuase of massive obstructionism, fueled by a persecution complex on both sides.

Trump and Cruz are ideologues which have valid criticisms of some things but take those to extremes. Cruz acts like Christians are getting beheaded on American streets in his complaints about religious liberty.

It's just more of the same in different packaging. The other party is "the enemy" instead of people with valid complaints to be engaged.
They have taken effect, it's just that the city has decided to not enforce them.
Yes, that and the many different ways to check the type of errors.
well to do that you'd need to move to 1m1v (one member one vote) and scrap the primary system.
> Figure out which part of the rack points north, stick a really strong magnet there.

Such a strong magnet can be detected, too, e.g. with four 3-axis compasses.

> Also, spoof the GPS signal to avoid your next attack, wrap you in a faraday cage and broadcast an identical set of WiFi/Cellular signals.

Nice idea, but in case you're using a cellular uplink, as soon as the faraday cage is in place, your trigger fires. Also, spoofing GPS signals requires expensive equipment and IIRC also cooperation of the Feds.

> My point isn't that any of this is more or less practical, simply that any protection you can dream up can be defeated if they know about it and are expecting it.

Which is why you don't publish every detail of how your farm is protected ;)
I think the only reason to reach for octave is if you've got a ton of matlab muscle-memory or have some kind of external force influencing you to use matlab and don't want or can't afford the license.
Women "give blood" monthly and tend to live longer.
Second generation Muslim man killed fifty people and injured approximately fifty more. Shooting took place at gay nightclub.
Ok, let me tell you my experience: Fyi I am left wing guy, like european left wing guy :), currently living in Bucharest, Romania. Here the taxis are regulated so the supply is limited but you can't really buy a licence, there is some kind of queue in place. Anyway we have a few dozen of taxi companies, however the experience is abysmal comparing with uber. What I can't understand is why there is no competition between the taxis to provide a better service, even in this restricted market: If some company would try to provide better service for a slightly higher price I would be the first to give up uber and use them ... But they don't care I think they are colluding to keep the costs down and that's it. Very sad.
I agree. The Visa Mastercard Amex system in the U.S. is crap. And I'm glad that Congress capped debit card transaction fees while issuers screamed bloody murder, and then as a result dropped all rewards from debit card purchases. But now it's on a level playing field akin to cash.

But the terms that forbid passing on the transaction fee cost to the consumer is wrong. It's an externality that causes us to all make the wrong choices. The business gets hit with variable transaction feed per customer, but that's aggregated, the merchant has no way of knowing which cards cause the highest fees to be incurred. If it were possible to charge the actual cost of transaction to the customer right at the moment of sale as I line item, just like government tax, we'd all be making smarter choices.

We don't even have to cap the cost, if people could see this, they'd overwhelmingly make a smarter choice possibly even driving the cost down less than the debit card fee cap.
A stack trace is not an error stack. The GP was lamenting the fact that a 3rd party package is required to create error stacks, not stack traces.
Interesting. First that article compares GDP per capita, then explains why it is wrong and adjusts for cost of living. Then it compares those adjusted numbers to the still unadjusted numbers from europe and calls it a day.

This would be a really nice comparison, if the cost of living in any random european country happened to be exactly the median cost of living over all US states. As it stands, that article is prettified data garbage.
This is absolutely true, but many of these patients are at best ambivalent about treatment. They do not believe they are sick.
I had no issues reading this with an iPhone 6 using safari.
No doubt the result of adding another layer of complexity: "type" in cmd is basically Unix cat, it just reads the file and writes it to standard output byte-for-byte. PS probably does some hidden encoding-autodetection and attempts to perform translation, but doesn't always get it right.

You can see the difference in philosophy here, cmd (and bash, to a certain extent) are simple and don't try to do sneaky things silently, even if it means you might have to do a little more yourself e.g. performing character set translations explicitly. The behaviour is straightforward and predictable. PS attempts to be more "user-friendly" by doing some hidden conversions presumably so the user doesn't have to explicitly do character set translations, and when it works it works well; but when it fails, it fails spectacularly.
Can't you see? It's so obvious!
Or just `sed -e 's|\r||'`.
You're right. Paris does suck in many ways. And I know the smaller cities have their charms. But none of them prove the points of the authors, that French are better at parenthood, weight control and seduction. None.

We have to try to compare apples to apples with the supermarkets. Monop and Inno are actually at the high end, so you should compare them to Whole Foods or Safeway and you can't compare it to the downmarket chains. And in that case, Whole Foods wins on variety, freshness and health by a long shot, while also beating sparsely stocked places like Naturalia.

Downmarket chains in the US, like Walmart, might be compared to Ed, Champion or the German invaders Aldi and Lidl. And the shopping there is not pretty. Most of the food is processed.

France hides a lot of inequality, so I'm not sure we know it's true measure there. There's a much stronger habit of offshoring one's wealth to places like Switzerland and Monaco (and sure, the US uses the Caymans, but w/e). The rural poverty and alcoholism is pretty bad. Sequestering the immigrant populations in the high-rises of the banlieues is pretty bad.

Many people have a problem finding even one job, let alone two, and they are physically isolated from the rest of the economy.

Homelessness in Paris was actually pretty visible when I was there, in the tent cities around the Canal St. Martin for example. And it wasn't just Afghan migrants, but people that France itself had produced, who had no home. And when you get out of Paris, you can still see shantytowns of tarp and trailers shoved between the freeways.

Happy to concede that French children get more vegetables. I hope that's true.
And they've done it so many times now that I've lost count.
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The correct answer is: It depends. Because there have also been times when I went into the hall, fully aware that my neighbours were there. The mood required is one where one has enough energy to interact with people, and that includes ignoring them. But I'll confess - because I am unfortunately human - that attraction is likely to be a factor as well.
You can just choose not to speak in the in-game chat, although you might get reported for lack of communication.
Yes, but Uber seems to be relying mostly on things that people already have (car, smartphone) as well as software that seems fairly straightforward to replicate (I am not an experienced programmer, so feel free to correct me if this is not the case). Where is the "magic" that only Uber can add? At this point, it's in various incentives to drivers and riders, which is not a long-term strategy for making money. They also have their brand name, which is strong, but could easily be replaced by a company offering better cuts for drivers and/or cheaper rides. I think Uber completely understands all of this, and this is why they are pouring resources into autonomous vehicle research--Uber thinks that this will give them an advantage over other ride-sharing apps in the future. I'm not so sure, though. What's stopping Google or Ford or anyone else who develops autonomous vehicles from stepping in and offering a nearly identical, less-expensive product? I also fail to see their advantage in the delivery space. I'm bearish on Uber in the long-term, though I'm certainly happy to use these 50% discounts that they keep offering me!
Germany, really?! Germany is an export oriented economy (45% of GDP) and had to hold Greece hostage to Euro. If Greeks had drachma, they could have devalued and probably would be able to wrest some industry away from Central and Western Europe.

Germany is a bad bad example, one thing automation will do, is bring back manufacturing locally, since the labor costs will diminish, so export oriented economies like Germany are for misery in next decade.

I would take 'Murican economy over German any time from on set of 1900s to today and way into future.

edit: also Germany 'really' did not pay off money that was injected during Marshall plan.