skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We think the primary way we have impact is shifting people from options with lower social impact to higher social impact. Tracking "number of plan changes" is a reasonable proxy for that.
We also evaluate what the plan changes were in more depth - doing a quick review every week and an in-depth review once a year where we interview a sample.
I think most people are already 95% vegan, since they are against causing unnecessary suffering and inefficient resource management. The issue is that there's a variable level of sacrifice that goes into making a practical transition to plants.

For some, there's enough motivation to do it; for others, the inconvenience of changing habits and their emotional attachment to certain foods are greater than their desire to reduce animal suffering and environmental degradation.

I hope that plant meats become so close to animal meat that the complete experience can be replicated, except for the slaughtering. I know some people like the slaughtering part, but that's a small minority.
Liberal democracies usually operate under the principle that you can ask anything you want of someone, and it's up to them to say "no" if they find it disagreeable. The law is then there to step in when there is a dispute and say which party is right. Even the Bill of Rights depends upon people specifically asserting their rights; if a person voluntarily chooses to incriminate themselves, they've still incriminated themselves, the 5th amendment just states that if the government asks them to bear witness against themself and they refuse to speak, they have done nothing wrong.

While this can lead to unfortunate power imbalances and information asymmetries, it's hard to see how the legal system could operate otherwise. If people were forbidden from asking - who would do the forbidding? What if this is used to prevent contracts that would legitimately be in the best interest of both parties? What if it were used to prevent emerging power centers from challenging the power of the organization that can determine what's legal to ask? How would you even know that such a question has occurred, if one party says "Don't talk about this"?

Probably the best we can hope for is for Congress to pass a law specifically enumerating what electronic records the FBI may request. That seems to be what this article is calling for - consciousness-raising, and public debate. There's plenty of precedent for this, eg. the Miranda rights came from a court case where it was determined that police could not simply assume that a suspect was aware of their constitutional rights, and had to explicitly have them enumerated. But the fact that this needs to be handled on a case-by-case basis is a feature of the legal system, not a bug.
Hacks can be recovered from. Losing a million dollars permanently to an anonymous attacker with no recourse is a different proposition.
Why surprised? This is HN
Well, I'm glad you said it (:
That's exactly right; but that's happening because vm_respond_to is returning true on a nil method entry. It's a puzzler...
Gates and his cronies specialized in extracting money from unwilling customers and tactics preventing superior products from even reaching the market. What he stole is only a fraction of the economic value he destroyed.
Or the subsidies that hide the facts. Beef is very expensive in the sense of TCO, but not that expensive at the grocery store. See: http://michaelpollan.com/profiles/the-high-price-of-cheap-fo... for a good read on the matter.

a snip:

"The industrial food chain does produce food more cheaply, in terms of the price you pay at McDonald’s or the supermarket,” replies Pollan, “but the real cost of cheap food is not reflected in those prices. You’re paying for it in your tax dollars because you’re giving farmers $20 billion a year in subsidies. You’re paying for it in public health costs. These subsidies make unhealthy food cheaper than healthy food, and so our country is facing an obesity epidemic."
I have a question, that bothers me a lot:

When someone says "there's a better way to do it", aren't they actually saying "[I think that] there's a better way to do it"?

I think I understand that saying, simply, "I don't like the way this is done" isn't helpful, but I don't see how it's necessarily "personal", or rather, that any critique can be anything other than personal. Anything you say is expressing a thing you think. How can it be otherwise?

I have definitely fought hard-lost battles, and everyone came out the worse for them... but it's still hard for me to understand why they happen, because anything you express is, by definition, something you think is true. Leaving out the words, it seems to me, just makes your expression less genuine.
>Is it practical to start a 1-person Micro ISV these days?

I don't think so. I've launched a few 1-person SaaS companies in the past, and some were popular (but not profitable). I've settled on earning a salary and investing as much of that salary as possible.

I still get the urge to build stuff, and I still do, but I now look at it as a hobby.
You're right, there is a difference. A poor white person is still more likely to be successful than a person of color with similar (or even slightly better) financial means. You will likely find it impossible to provide a statistically significant example that proves otherwise.

As for Obama, he is ivy-league educated and probably tests higher on a standard IQ test than you or I. Despite that, people regularly insult his intelligence because he is a person of color.

I agree wholeheartedly that poor people (white or black) have a really tough time getting ahead in society and need help. However, denying the existence of systemic racism and prejudice against people of color does nothing to help anyone.
Instagram is a great story for Django, it's the best argument to bring against doubters of Django's scalability. But I wonder how much Instagram contributes to Django itself. I follow Django's development relatively closely, and I'm not aware of any major work contributed by Instagram engineers. They aren't listed on Django's fundraising page, neither.

https://www.djangoproject.com/fundraising/
Jewel V. NSA Moves Forward–Time for NSA to Answer Basic Questions
I took them for a few years and there were pros and cons. I've transitioned off of meds and onto pure talk therapy + exercise.

Talk to a medical professional. I can't speak to what's going on in your life, but there is help and there is hope.

Pros (for me, your mileage may vary):

- They helped me to not feel as intensely depressed
- They allowed me to see my problems / life in a more logical way which was helpful during therapy.

Cons
- I had a few issues with "brain zaps" (http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2014/11/29/brain-zaps-causes-tr...) mostly from missing a dose. Those sucked.
- It took me a few months to ween off of them, which I didn't expect.

If you do decide to go down the meds route I'd also HIGHLY recommend talk therapy and adding exercise to your routine, both of which did wonders for me as I was transitioning off of the meds.

Good luck
Tool that suggests simpler (English) word-choices for international-readers
Worth noting that we also have rich integrated tools for R developers in the full Visual Studio: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/features/rtvs-vs.aspx

And Visual Studio Code includes the R support out of the box: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/languages/overview
Depends what you compile to. Writing a register allocator may be a little tricky (if you compile to a VM/Assembly/..), though if you compile to something like C, it's very easy. LLVM is another alternative which is also relatively simple to learn.
In japan seafood isn't considered meat. If you do then it can be pretty hard.

Also, as far as I understand, they don't use a lot of vegetable oil. So things that would be ok in the west, like bread, more than likely have lard in them.
> Google gave 190,000 - and possibly much more that I'm unaware of

Also don’t forget things like the Google Summer of Code: $6k per student x 1000 students x 11 years = $66M so far.
ALL general purpose programming languages (C++, Java, etc..) are Turing Complete and this is an essential feature for creating decentralised applications (or any software really).
The prevailing attitude in the software security community seems to be, Russia or not, this is probably not just some random hacker doing it for the lulz.

The game theory of publicly hacking the DNC before an election makes zero sense (what happens when/if Clinton wins), but that doesn't mean some other organization couldn't be doing it just to mess with them.
We've asked you before to stop posting uncivil and/or unsubstantive comments to Hacker News. Really, please stop. If your account weren't several years old we'd already have banned you for lowering the quality of the site like this.
Not at all. All campaigns are owned up all the time.
But why did the machine want to go long Salmar ASA?
So it seems to me as well, and even when you're dealing with most kinds of digital commodities, I don't see how a smart contract is helpful. Say I bought some software from valve or microsoft or whoever; I pay (with fiat or crypto) download, install and run, if it does not function or is totally different from what is advertised, I can ask for a refund and either the merchant will honor my request or they won't, but a smart contract cannot codify this type of arrangement.

I don't want to sound like a hater, and I think as a developer it seems pretty cool that you can start receiving funds on the web without relying on a 3rd party gatekeeper, but it seems like smart contracts have pretty limited uses (not that they are useless, just very specialized)
Translate to multiple languages at once
I don't know Bitcoin well enough to understand the LN paper, but I've read articles on the basic ideas and think I understand enough to implement LN on Ethereum, where it's much easier.

If channels were not networked together, then they'd only be good for recurring payments.

But there's a trick that lets you network them, so A can have recurring payments to B, and B can have recurring payments to C, D, and E, and now A can pay all the others via his one channel to B. And it's done in a way that prevents B from being able to run away with money intended for C,D,E.
People still think that oil and butter are bad for you, despite the mountains of research that saturated fat is not unhealthy, and the new research regarding weight loss that the high fat Mediterranean diet is better than low fat diets.

The only reasonable complaints re Indian food are high carbs and low amounts of high quality protein
The homework that inspires horror in families
From what I've heard, dinosaur bones tended to be taken for the bones of giants, at least in the Middle Ages. Dragons were much older than any awareness of dinosaurs; most medieval myths about dragons trace back to the draco standard carried by late-Roman cavalry. (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draco_%28military_standard%29 .)

This, by the way, means that there really were dragons in sub-Roman parts of the Dark Ages world: Wales and Cornwall, for example, where draco-bearing cavalry (including King Arthur's, if there was a King Arthur) were fielded probably until the 600s or 700s.
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You could add fat yourself quite easily. Coconut oil/butter for example.
You can implement safeguards in the contract to revert transactions for instance. A contract can be as centralised in the control sense as traditional software (while living in a decentralised system though), or as decentralised and out of anyone's control as you wish, it's all up to how it's programmed.
My bad, that was supposed to say top 10%.
The current console cycle should drill into everyone that each console is its own mutually exclusive walled garden, with no expectations of compatibility between them. I think everyone got spoiled with PS1 games compatible on PS2. Since then, backwards compatibility (outside Nintendo) has generally been spotty at best, but usually gone.
FWIW there are 22K google hits on MicroISV and variations -
https://www.google.com/search?q="Micro-ISV"|"MicroISV"|"μISV...

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Micro-ISV.html

http://www.microisv.com/ (defunct)

http://www.singlefounder.com/the-day-the-microisv-movement-d...
Their range for upper middle class of $100k to $350k doesn't make any sense.

That's a huge disparity of incomes and, based on the locale, it means an even larger gap in discretionary income.
In fact looking at the numbers without looking at the discretionary income makes no sense whatsoever, as that is the main factor of economic mobility in the first place.
Why isn't this submission [flagged], whereas every /non-anti-Trump/ political submission gets flagged here within few minutes?
I've been vegan for over 10 years and I like where things are going.

My favorite dishes don't contain mock meats (when I went vegan they didn't exist where I used to live, so I just got used to eating lots of legumes, whole grains and tubers), but it's fun to try these foods once in a while.
I remember the Interledger paper since it was one of best I've seen in these kinds of discussions. It was relatively simple, built on existing concepts, had much better odds of adoption, formally specified/verified, and leveraged prior schemes for robustness. That's how this kind of work should proceed whenever possible. Probably any protocol with significant use as well.
>I am also confused about the security properties of the Lightning Network. What happens when one of the hubs gets popped? Can someone steal all of the unsettled transactions? Suddenly this proposed scaling element starts taking on the security properties of Bitcoin exchanges, which are notorious for being popped.

No, the whole point of LN transactions is that you do not need to trust intermediary nodes, or 'hubs', as he calls them. Every transactor has a copy of a valid Bitcoin transaction that will settle payments owed to them and these debts are collaterized by lock-timed money on the blockchain. It is theoretically totally secure.
Mainly because more women are working in two-earner families, and families are smaller.
You nailed it.

Here's the mission, what do you need for the mission, and if all else fails here's my intent.

People think the military is full of mindless robots but in reality that's just how you're treated during indoctrination. Combat leaders must enable their people to thrive in chaos.
So fucking what? Plus it needs to work on its detection.

No swears, ASS is an acronym: https://twitter.com/gitlost/status/744655056515981312

No swears, "shit" appears to be part of someone's name: https://twitter.com/gitlost/status/744601039811149826

Suck is a perfectly fine verb: https://twitter.com/gitlost/status/744587604100710400

Look, it is that same acronym again: https://twitter.com/gitlost/status/744521674536562688
ugh... so much... details are great and all, but this is a lot. summary / tl;dr would be very nice
We're using HipChat at our company, about 50 users in total. Is it worth making the effort and migrating everyone over to Slack?
I've also been creating a programming language recently [1]. I'd recommend looking into the pypy tool chain. It makes it pretty easy to hack together a decent interpreter (that JITs). That and rply for the front-end gives you enough tooling to be dangerous. Here's a good tutorial [2].

[1] https://github.com/DanielWaterworth/plastic

[2] https://morepypy.blogspot.co.uk/2011/04/tutorial-writing-int...
You are being so aggressive. The fact that you are assuming your answers are right, when in reality no one has certain answers. I could point out 1000 books pointing out the opposite. Are you refusing learn and to open your mind to other possibilities? Running to the government to fix things is the simplistic option which your average person runs to. I'm trying to point out that this isn't a good option in a lot of cases.

I think this means you have ran out of arguments.
Thanks for the info...tell Tyler M I said hi!
> But payday loan companies and credit cards that charge 29% interest plus hundreds of dollars in feeds to "help people with poor credit" are fine.

Nope, you do not even need to commit crimes to be targeted by the DOJ:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Choke_Point

https://news.vice.com/article/is-the-doj-forcing-banks-to-te...

Payday loan companies in particular were hit hard by Operation Choke Point in 2013 (I worked at a "lending startup" that was targeted and had to pivot; a lot of payday/consumer lending companies ended up shutting down).
Pork is even cheaper, for some reason. I've been buying boneless pork chops for something like $1 - $1.50 /pound for years from Market Basket stores.
In the case of land, wealth is also zero-sum, which imposes tremendous externalities on people who have not been land owners historically and allows the rent-extracting classes to widen the inequality gap (because the tax/benefit ratio for land is incorrect)
It was just the first hit in google tbh and I already knew it to be true, just needed a link to attempt to satisfy haters.

Seeing as you'd rather attack than do some useful work, I'll do it for you. See below:

"A healthy diet should consist of roughly one to four times more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3 fatty acids. The typical American diet tends to contain 11 to 30 times more omega -6 fatty acids than omega -3, a phenomenon that has been hypothesized as a significant factor in the rising rate of inflammatory disorders in the United States[40]. Table ​Table22 shows significant differences in n-6:n-3 ratios between grass-fed and grain-fed beef, with and overall average of 1.53 and 7.65 for grass-fed and grain-fed, respectively, for all studies reported in this review."[1]

[1]: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846864/
Facebook is spending a ton of money to get people to watch live videos
Mark Zuckerberg covers his camera and audio mic jack
Exactly. I don't know enough about the topic personally, but I'm genuinely curious if stenography is detectable enough to provide a viable list of targets.
> You never heard of World Bank, BIS, FSB

None of these is referred to as "a UN Bank". Only the World Bank is a part of the United Nations system. It makes loans to developing countries. The only way being "kicked out" of the World Bank makes sense would be if it refused to lend to you (which it does often and usually with minimum consequence). Note that the World Bank System lends to many non-UN member entities, e.g. private businesses and non-profits. China got pissed off at the World Bank and IMF last year and effectively kicked itself out by starting a competitor in its "New Development Bank".

The Bank for International Settlements is a discussion forum whose recommendations are not binding. The United States, for instance, added its own touch to Basel III, Switzerland layered on a "Swiss finish" and China, India and many others simply ignored it. Being "kicked out" of the BIS would simply mean you don't get to go to its meetings. Many countries do fine without being BIS members. The Financial Stability Board is an even smaller group with even less tangible activity than the BIS. (It published a book report on rules it thought sovereign wealth funds should follow. Compliance is voluntary and one need not be a member to read or implement, or as more countries have done, ignore, the report's suggestions.)

The closest international financial systems one can be "kicked out" of with consequence are the electronic-dollar transmission system operated by the New York Federal Reserve [1] (you can still use printed dollars if America "kicks you out") and the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) [2]. SWIFT is not a club for only central banks–many private banks are SWIFT members, too, and many get "kicked out" for doing varieties of stupid things. They can still move their money around by asking other banks to do it for them.

The international financial Illuminati you think exists does not.

[1] https://www.newyorkfed.org/aboutthefed/fedpoint/fed20

[2] https://www.swift.com
Because it presented views opposite of your boss?

Disgusting...
There are a plenty of in-process 'databases' for Go starting from a simple built-in map and ending with something like https://github.com/boltdb/bolt or even https://github.com/hashicorp/go-memdb .
Does it matter? The machine saw a pattern, and it responded to the pattern. We don't need to know.
Seattle light rail boardings are up 79 percent since new stations opened
Nothing that provides people with optionality is a "bad idea". Trial and error, and development, will produce ever better (and more secure) applications on Ethereum.
Schrödinger's cat in code
The rsync.net warrant canary is 10 years old this year.

https://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt
Not looked at OPs code, but if you build this stuff how a compiler book tells you to... The front end of a interpreter and a compiler is the same. You build a AST, if you interpret you well interpret that. If you have a compiler, the AST is turned into the target language, in most cases asm. The front end is the scanner/Lexer, the parser and most likely semantic analyser. So to answer you question :), if you make a non optimizing compiler, turning the AST into asm is trivial. The hard part of making compilers is the optimization. Most of the front end you do not need to write actually! There are compiler-compilers for that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract_syntax_tree

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiler#Front_end

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_analysis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_analysis_%28compilers...
I just Ctrl-click when I want it in a new tab. Always expect a single click to open in the current tab, otherwise it's an annoying surprise.
In the iron.io blog post, they write that their CPU load was drastically reduced as well.
Isn't all of Manhattan too close to an airport anyway? I haven't had a chance to look at the updated regulations yet.
Access to what type of data would you like to have?
If you could have access to any reasonable and lawful data, that could give an market advantage to your company, what type of them you would like to have?
As far as I know, Disqus (https://disqus.com/) and Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com/) are also major users of Django.
Hopefully a course like UC Berkeley's "CS10: The Beauty and Joy of Computing" can point the way: http://cs10.org/su16/

"But this course is far more than just learning to program. We'll focus on some of the "Big Ideas" of computing, such as abstraction, design, recursion, concurrency, simulations, and the limits of computation. We'll show some beautiful applications of computing that have changed the world, talk about the history of computing, and where it will go in the future. Throughout the course, relevance will be emphasized: relevance to the student and to society. As an example, the final project will be completely of the students' choosing, on a topic most interesting to them. The overarching theme is to expose students to the beauty and joy of computing. This course is designed for computing non-majors, although interested majors are certainly welcome to take the class as well! We are especially excited about bringing computing (through this course) to traditionally under-represented groups in computing, i.e., women and ethnic minorities."
Yes, that was the first thing I tried. Unfortunately I ran into all kinds of weird issues with the rendering after they were installed. Washed out colors, missing UI elements, general weirdness. I wasn't able to find a fix so I reverted to Nouveau since I mostly use Windows for gaming anyway.

I might try again with Fedy or the manual way at some point next but just haven't had time yet.
This isn't a great comment to post to HN. In-depth content, and even effort on the part of the reader, are encouraged here.
The Bose QC 35 headphones are fatally flawed, and no one believes me
David vs. Goliath: Corporate Font Piracy in the Global Marketplace
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