skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Use of plastic bags causes huge other issues, apart from just the energy consumed to make and transport them. They are often thrown anywhere after use, are light, so fly around, even to medium distances, clog up all sorts of places, including land and water bodies. In India (and other countries where cattle roam free, even in towns), animals that eat them (or rather bite them to get at some food in the bags), are sometimes found choked/suffocated to death, cows particularly. Also, a big one, poor/homeless people collect plastic waste (not only bags, also plastic pieces used for packing, thermocol, etc.) and in winter burn them at night to keep themselves warm as well as to cook. That causes a lot of pollution, including, I've read, toxic dioxins from burning plastic, which is banned to do in many developed countries. I do know that preventing some of these things are only solving symptoms or superficial causes. But they are a problem all the same.
So long as the secret key was not compromised, then the signature file also just doesn't matter - if it's compromised, the validation fails. One of the beauties of asymmetric encryption, making GPG worth learning about.
This is the same company that has a hard coded root password into their firmwares[1] (a backdoor you might say).

1. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/12/researchers-confirm-...
Thanks. I didn't understand either. I guess I am cynical on this topic because all my career I've dealt with people complaining about DD rather than reframing it into an opportunity to learn and limit downside.
To be fair, the failings there had to do with the source of wealth being natural resources, rather than innovation per se. I'd also add Russia and Brazil to that list, but there are others. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_curse

Personally, I think it's the difference in mentality between lottery winners and builders of successful products (who often work within difficult constraints and have to become very good at problem solving to succeed). There's a reason why lottery winners do not typically compound their success.
There's not any actual evidence of sluggish GDP growth, it's really just anti-Obama pundits, like this guy:

http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2016/04/simply-worst-obama-f...

Have a look here:

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/gdp-growth-ann...

choose "trend line". You'll see that 2015/2016 GDP growth is precisely on the trend line. The main difference in the last 8 years is more stable GDP growth, rather than the extreme peaks and troughs of the previous 60 years.

I live in Canada and don't have a dog in this race, but I find it interesting that Americans are so obvlivious of the facts and willing to believe at face value all the BS that comes out of the likes of Trump.
This is interesting for those of us interesting in squeezing what we can out of older nodes for lower, dev costs or verifiability. Their CPU's did quite a bit for push-button synthesis. The Stream processor linked had impressive capabilities for 130nm. I'm bookmarking it in case it is useful in future.

I was thinking the I.P. might still be useful depending on acquirer until I saw the name: MIPS Technologies Inc. (sighs) I doubt they'll play ball. So, now I think of using its tricks in a RISC-V CPU instead. ;)
You're right, it is an interesting conundrum.
Yes that accords with my layman understanding as well. The body will go down the "path of least resistance" for energy and glucose is easier to metabolize than ketones. Deprived of glucones, the body will switch over and hum along once adapted.
That's a bit like saying a ripped-off investor should have bought stock, not mutual funds.

These companies needed the RINs, not the fuel. If they had bought the fuel with the RINs they could have been assured the RINs were legitimate, sure. But that has all kinds of associated costs (quality control, finding buyers, the cost of the fuel itself, etc.). A legitimate biodiesel producer is probably better positioned to deal with those costs, so it makes sense for him to keep the fuel and sell the RINs to companies that need them.
What do you think will go wrong? Please be concrete.

If such cities suck worse than the alternatives, no one will move to them.

The real worry I think many have is that charter cities will be successful and will demonstrate (by being successful without it) that a lot of existing socially favored regulation is harmful.
"Blockchain", not bitcoin, and "Blockchain" is quite literally a specific application of Merkle Trees and Merkle Proofs, and they've been used almost exactly like this in payments clearing & settlement + dispute systems for tranlog coherency checks and resolution for a long time.

"Reactive", as in http://www.reactivemanifesto.org/, and it's manifestations in various Akka projects like http://www.reactive-streams.org/. Reading the "manifesto" reads like somebody going to really, really extensive lengths to talk about Erlang without actually saying "Erlang" and that's been around publicly, along with its runtime semantics, since 1998.
I guess it's all a matter of your idiolect. It works, for some values of "works". Maybe it works for the macroeconomist studying national GDP growth rates? Sadly, there are also barbers and truck drivers.
I am thinking it's a question of filters. I first encountered 'despacio' in a piece of music. Now that I'm living in a spanish-speaking country, whenever I come up to that word, the first filter is that piece of music; the second filter is the actual meaning of the word.
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Could be non-visible behavior. Perhaps vote manipulation.
On the Democratisation and Escalation of Creativity
And that's precisely the problem. As soon as you start selling something totally abstract in lieu of something that was presumably produced all control mechanisms fail.

Which is why I'm not a fan of these constructs. Even a legitimate biofuel producer will see better margins on the RINs than on the fuel...
Well, at some point you are looking at transistors and 'if's .

How many layers above that you want to hide that fact is entirely dependant on you and the requirements of solving there problem.

I have a problem with people assuming 'their' way is there only way, and generally being oblivious about the vast variety of problems the rest of us encounter.
The idea if carried out, likely would work, I think, but would be fraught with many issues centered around power and influence.

This neocolonialist idea would likely not sit well with lots of the same people who have issues with capitalism and historical colonialism. The specter of European colonialism would be hard to escape.

Then there is power and influence. These new cities would who up the host country and would be the envy of the non neocolonial zones. And further has to potential of subverting local culture for a western, Chinese or Japanese one, in a more immediate manner.

So, I feel there are too many cultural factors we would find hard to ignore, even if in practice, the result would be a net positive for the local population. In other words, politics would get in the way of practicality.

Imagine, Baja becoming a US state, in a few decades, it could be like New Mexico, not the richest state but a lot better than it is now. Now imagine how locals would take to the idea (even if individually they might like to immigrate into the US). And then how the Mexican government would take to the idea -a non starter.
It's in ether, man!

ha ha
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This is character assassination. I've met Paul Romer and have followed his work for decades. People ignore his ideas at their peril. You can't blame him for not being an outstanding administrator at the same time.

It does not really sound as if this project would have worked under any circumstances due to the political issues.
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Even better, Flannel and Calico have merged. See:

https://www.projectcalico.org/canal-tigera/

https://coreos.com/blog/coreos-intel-calico-packet-extend-gi...

https://github.com/tigera/canal
I would say your moral failing is thinking that "others" is somehow separable from "self" in the abstract. If I can decide for myself, then I can certainly decide for others: that's the whole reason I want to be good at making decisions. If I'm only allowed to decide things for myself, then what's the point? I'm basically a corpse who hasn't gotten cold yet. In what way should I contribute to the betterment of human life, if I can't tell other people what I've learned that they should do?

You are an individual. But you're also a member of your family, a member of your country, a member of your species, and a living creature. Your identify is not confined to your individuality. You speak English not because of your individuality, but because of your culture. It is as much a part of you as you of it.

With that said, you have a responsibility to decide what others should do. You have a responsibility to make sure those decisions are correct, and a responsibility to enforce them insofar as they are correct and such enforcement doesn't undermine our humanitarian goals. And instead of being overly-conservative in the face of the possibility that you are mistake, take comfort in knowing that experiments can fail, and that this doesn't mean they shouldn't be undertaken. Make decisions, enforce them, and if they're wrong, you change your mind later. The only alternative is stagnation or 'progress by accident'.

>In any case, I do think that we should strive toward having just a bare minimum of laws.

Why should this take priority over having the most correct laws?
IIRC certain providers do block them, Comcast specifically comes to mind (despite their website giving it a calling rate)
>A while in, I find it won't update the software because /boot or something is out of space

The boot partition is small and Ubuntu doesn't clean out old kernels. You have to do it yourself.

sudo apt-get autoremove

This will remove an old kernel. There may be a better way, because I find if there are multiple old kernels I have to do this multiple times. I also found if I have to remove more than one, it's best to follow with a

sudo update-grub

I previously managed to hose things by removing multiple old kernel versions, seeing a warning about needing to do this, ignoring it, then rebooting. So now I just do it after any autoremove that tosses an old kernel.

This may not be the 100% correct magic ubuntu dance, but it is the one that seems to work for me.
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Which government? I have not seen this in the US, and I purchased quite a few lamps in the last couple of years.

If it happens here I'll be extremely sad. CFLs and LEDs have an extremely strong negative effect on mood for me. Fortunately I can still buy halogens, which aren't quite as cozy but suffice.
What's updog ?
Your comment brings up a good question. Would a spanish-speaker transliterate those terms into a musical context, or into a language context first, since the words themselves are pretty equivalent?
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We hardly burn any fossil fuels for electricity where I'm from (Toronto). And even if we did, it's more efficient to burn them at industrial scale than in individual cars.
You're assuming the server is secure
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You also have to know that the public key you have is the one that corresponds to the secret key that they have.
Clicking through to the full report, I find:

"Between 1979 and 2014 ... there were sizable declines in each of the lower three groups, with the poor and near-poor falling from 24.3 to 19.8 percent, the lower middle class from 23.9 to 17.1 percent, and the middle class from 38.8 to 32.0 percent."

My read of that is that since 1979, there has been a shift up for all income groups. There are fewer poor and near-poor, fewer middle class, and substantially more in the upper middle class.

Isn't this good news? Doesn't it fly in the face of the 'growing income divide'?

Something is not adding up...
“How Do I Get Good at Music?”
This looks like a really good idea! The only thing is that I’d rather not give it full Dropbox access.
You're forgetting inertia in multiple levels. Moving away from such a place could prove harder and costlier than moving in.
This is so ironic considering Mark Shuttleworth became a millionaire by starting and selling a certificate authority. Ubuntu is literally funded by the early success of HTTPS yet they don't use it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thawte
Also, give it a unique name that's easy to websearch. E.g. No single char names, no common verb or noun, etc.
Availability doesn't appear to trump culture.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/09/upshot/giving-the-poor-eas...
Cap and Trade and a Carbon Tax are equivalent in outcome. Cap and trade would impose fees on everyone regardless of how much it costs them to lower emissions also. The problem with Cap and Trade is that it targets the large scale emitters rather than the item desired to be limited.

Imagine that you had five major producers putting out 30% of airborne carbon, and 50,000 minor producers putting out 70%. The cost of administering a cap and trade system to the minor producers would be incredibly expensive - the legislation would instead focus on gouging the five major producers. Also imagine that the 50,000 minor producers could very easily cut their production of carbon in half.

The price should be set to the amount of damage the externality causes. Current estimates of the social cost of carbon is ~$220 per ton. http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc...

Cap and trade punishes large players - taxes are fair because they impose the same fees on everyone.

Cap and Trade being the least expensive way possible is also a terrible loss for good tax reform. If we implement a responsible carbon tax, the offset income can be used to reduce associated corporation taxes, sales taxes, or even income taxes.

An optimal tax system taxes things and behaviors we don't want, and subsidises things and behaviors we do want.
Let's get rid of an income tax, and replace it with a environmental tax. More money in your pocket, and cleaner air.
Yes. If you assume the server isn’t secure, there’s no point in any of the other things except the PGP signature, the keys corresponding to which I wouldn’t be able to get anywhere without making some other assumption of security.
"The interesting bit here is that is actually quite hard to figure out why what they did was illegal"

I wouldn't go that far. Each RIN needs to correspond to some physical bio-fuel. They were generating RINS but not manufacturing the corresponding fuel. Seems like straight forward fraud. Now had they been actually making the fuel but then dumping it in the trash and just selling the RIN I agree it would be harder to see what it was they were doing wrong but they weren't doing that.
Which movies get artificial intelligence right?
Right - it's a little bit like a design for a perpetual motion machine, using some convolution to distract from the simple reasons for it not working.

The things that make cities open and successful are fairly clear to those who study these things, it's not a secret or a mystery. The things that have prevented potential host countries from adopting those practices successfully on their own (political instability, corruption, whatever) will also prevent them from being a good place for anybody to set up a charter city there.
>Eating vegetarian, or white meat that's quick is very hard to do without sugar.

No, it's not.
I think this really only applies for signatures you can trust. A frightening number of keys used to sign software are not signed by anyone, so they're effectively the equivalent of a self signed certificate.

I've also found some projects where the key used to sign the software isn't even consistent between releases, so you don't even have the (minimal) protection offered by checking the signatures against "known good" builds.
Care about cities? Remix (YC W15) is hiring designers, engineers, everything
It's basically a political project, so political issues seem like a fundamental problem, rather than some external factor to blame.
If the source server is compromised then nothing can help you. All source links can be changed to something malicious and all verification methods can be different to match the ones of the bad file. If the source server is compromised there is no way to accurately verify the file's source (unless using verified PGP signatures which you've already vetted).
True, but looked at holistically it'd be better to have the revenue go to the government, and reduce a tax that punishes behaviors we want - such as employment being punished by the income tax. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
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In the countries under discussion, there aren't very many barbers and truck drivers. There are, however, a lot of starving people.
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For Debian, the author says:

"Official releases of Debian CDs come with signed checksum files; look for them alongside the images in the iso-cd, jigdo-dvd, iso-hybrid etc. directories." No directory or direct links are provided. Verification instructions are not linked to from the download page.

I do:

- https://www.debian.org/

- https://www.debian.org/CD/

- https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/

- https://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp/#stable

- http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/8.5.0/amd64/iso-cd/

And here, along the images, there are difficult to miss (and GPG-signed) SHA256SUMS and SHA512SUMS files. Moreover, the last page clearly links the verification instructions in the "How can I verify my download is correct and exactly what has been created by Debian?" section.
Just FYI, I asked a pretty similar question a few months ago here [1]. The main arguments for pattern matching seemed to be that:

* [at least some] compilers will check for exhaustiveness

* "Pattern matching isn't just conditional matching. It's also binding, and even some common operations. "

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11159321
My main reservation with these discussions is how much unsubstantiated claims there are, based on anecdotes. You're assuming such a thing called "natural talent" exists, and ascribing success to it. There are other plausible explanations.
On both sides of the fork.

The bet is that one side would die out, and most of the exchanges agreed that they would stop operations until a clear winning fork is determined.
Some people, when their posterior doesn't match the facts, update their prior.
I'm guessing it is simply too weak to be able to move if someone is on it.
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sending kids to random locations, what could go wrong?	professional ethics, ever heard of it?
I think your St. Louis Free Economic Zone might get too many people coming for the free money and health care and not enough coming to pay tax for the books to balance.
I think you just don't understand how a cap and trade system works. You should try doing a google search to read up on it. It's confusing at first, but there's nothing inherently uncontrollable about it. The only reason these scams are allowed to happen is the EPA doesn't have enough manpower to constantly watch over every facility to make sure fuel is actually being produced.
sorry, what? A tax is simple, like a sales tax or VAT, and there is a strong incentive to collect it at a centralized source that is pretty easy to monitor.

How is that complex vs. creating a new commodity in the form of carbon credits, and checking that the emission is backed up by credits?

At best, cap-and-trade is equivalent to a carbon tax plus some corporate welfare to return the tax to the polluters.

In the most likely scenario, it's an opportunity for rent-seeking politicians to dole out the credits to those who either currently pollute most or just have their ear, for worst current polluters to cash in on opportunity to reduce pollution, for financiers to make big bucks trading credits.

At worst, it's a fraud where people will buy credits from people who don't reduce pollution or would have done so anyway.
JSweet is not a magic bullet in the Java world, because JSweet is not Java. JSweet borrows the Java syntax to have well-typed JavaScript. Of course, not all transpilers have a focus on typing and not all of them have great tooling to back refactoring (not only renaming... you have plenty of other kind of help you will get when using a good Java IDE). But the focus of JSweet is typing and tooling (through Java).

I think that Christian Maioli Mackeprang is right. Some languages focus on instant productivity. They are really good and powerful to sketch a program in a few lines of code. But this quality comes at the expense of other important features that are really important for a language/development environment. People need to consider this or we will end up with poor programming environments and languages that are great for prototyping, but that don't scale up for complexity...
Green idea: One could skip the bow and replace it with CCTV HD cameras and keep the crew in ground level on the middle of the ship where it will be least rocky. Shouldnt that reduce air drag even more?

Something similar with CCTV has been done for remote air traffic control towers.
http://www.popularmechanics.com/flight/a20075/saab-remote-ai...

Also add superhydrophobic coating and or supercavitation to reduce the water drag. That should be able to reduct fuel consumption even more.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercavitation
http://www.gizmag.com/ghost-super-cavitating-military-boat/2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhydrophobic_coating
https://www.rochester.edu/newscenter/superhydrophobic-metals...
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With regards to 'ta', isn't it just a casual way of saying 'thanks'? That's what it means in British English. In Britain, it's mostly used in the North of England. Here's an example of it being used from a British advert from the 90s:

http://youtu.be/XEEU1nQeGNA

As for 'daggy', it strikes me that it's the kind of loosely-defined word that ends up being a useful filler word. Much like 'cool', I suspect you can't really define it without knowing the context in which its used. Would you say daggy has one meaning or multiple overlapping meanings?
Without modern medical intervention, the carb-rich diet most humans have been eating for the past 12 millennia causes health problems such as tooth decay. So "we've been doing it for thousands of years and it hasn't made us extinct" is not synonymous with "we've been doing it for thousands of years and it's made us healthy".
As California's attempts to tax mileage of hybrid and electric vehicles proves, if you create an additional source of revenue for the government, tax levels will bear no relation to the harm they're designed to compensate for. It becomes just another way for the government to raise taxes without admitting to doing so.
THANK YOU. >3000 words to 36. These long form articles are not for everyone, a TL;DR summary is always welcome.
The same is true of the surrounding dysfunctional country (e.g. Honduras). Charter cities add more options, and generally make exit easier.

I.e. exiting Honduras is easier if a charter city is right next door.