skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Malthus's arguments may have made some sense when he made them, the green revolution may have been difficult to predict back then. But any neo-Malthusian arguments don't pass the smell test today.

1) If we were running out of food it would be reflected in the price. The price of wheat in British pounds has stayed relatively constant for ~800 years, staying within the range of 1-5 pounds per bushel. That's right, we've had inflation in everything but the price of food.

A bushel of wheat contains approximately one month's worth of calories. You used to be able to buy a slave for ~100 pounds. Today that buys about a day's worth of labour, but it still buys the same amount of wheat.

2) It's trivially easy to grow more food per acre than today's farms do. There are probably hundreds of different ways we could do so. We don't do any of them because they are all too expensive. If the price of food rose, those techniques would become viable. For example, we can increase production several orders of magnitude in temperate regions by building greenhouses.

We had a food price spike 5 years ago, the price of wheat went to about $10/bushel, a historically unprecedented level. Farmers responded by farming more intensively, and now the price is below $4/bushel.

3) To a first order approximation, food is created from energy and water. We use raw solar energy for food production because it's the cheapest, but we're reaching a point where it's starting to become feasible to use other forms of energy. Given desalination, our water supply is also only limited by our energy supply. Virtually all of the other secondary inputs to food production are basically transformed energy: diesel, fertilizer, herbicides, et cetera.

And every other element required for food production usually has its prevalence expressed as a percentage of the earth's crust. For example, Potassium is 2.6% of the earth's crust. So for all intents and purposes, unlimited. The energy required to extract the potassium is the limiting factor, not the potassium itself.

Is our world energy supply finite? Yes, but we can expand it using nuclear & solar faster than we can expand the world's population.
Here is an Uber engineer's talk about their worst outage ever. 16 hours of downtime for their API as they repeatedly try and fail to promote a new postgresql master and reparent slaves to it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNeZYVIfskc&t=26m54s

https://surge.omniti.com/2015/images/presentations/MattRanne... (Slides 39-63)
If you have ssh access to the remote machine (goes with most methods of automatic synchronization) then you can use TRAMP mode to directly edit the remote copy.
The odds of you vote changing that is tiny. IMO, convincing others to vote for a 3rd party is a bad idea, but voting for them is just as 'meaningless' as any other vote in terms of changing who win. However, the power of voting is in the message not just who wins.

Defacto third party's scare the primary party's so they are quick to gain the talking points as soon as those party gain any traction. Most recently Libertarian message was somewhat co opted by Tea Party Republicans. Though in a very mutated form that for example ignored their drug stance.
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If you like this, you should also check out Ebb, a DSL for physical simulation built on Terra: http://ebblang.org/

Both were presented back to back at SIGGRAPH this year.
By definition, growth is unsustainable in the long term.

GDP growth is totally, completely correlated to energy consumption. In the future, energy availability will at best plateau, or more probably decline. GDP growth then will be a blip in a long trend of stability, and steep decline is ahead to fall back to a sustainable level (i.e. entirely from renewable resources, as it was for the past millions of years).

Data speaks for itself, see many article from a physicist here:
http://physics.ucsd.edu/do-the-math/2015/03/bbc-questions-in...

See immense resources from a specialized engineer here:
http://manicore.com/anglais/documentation_a/greenhouse/kaya_...
Sorry, thought I grabbed the url from the page :l can't edit it either, is this something a mod has to take care of?
There are only a few places they could be, sure. The trouble is they're now deniable; whichever state is holding them would be hard to hold to account if they were ever used.
I didn't want to just dump a raft of plugins into my Sublime setup, but installing them manually has me doing manual dependency resolution. Does Package Manager not provide this or does the author just not take advantage?
The IOC gets the money because they bring the value to the table. All these same athletes are competing all year, every year. Which event does everyone watch?

A javelin thrower isn't making much money? I'm sorry, but I have all the javelin throwers in my life that I need. Not that I would have seen him on tv anyway since it isn't gymnastics, swimming, men's basketball or a track final with an American contending for gold.

Sure this level of performance is amazing, it's just not valuable.
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Hint: you can mute the channel, and read it later during a coffee break.
EToys is quite nice http://www.squeakland.org

It's a Smalltalk environment extended with a drag-and-drop scripting system. All (literally, all) of the graphical objects can be used as turtles (they have a "pen", and methods for "forward", "left"/"right", etc.).

The really nice part is that it's "turtles all the way down": the entire GUI (scripts, text, buttons, etc.) is made out of the same stuff as user-created objects; you can write scripts which tell other scripts how to move around; and write scripts to tell those scripts how to move around; and so on.

It comes with a bunch of pre-built objects, including a musical keyboard, a paint program, etc. and there are projects like "physical etoys" for hooking in physical sensors and actuators, so you can make a physical turtle.
I also went to a 2 year school first and paid around the same.

When I transferred to a 4 year school the tuition doubled to a little over 3k. At the time I wasn't making anything waiting tables so I qualified for the Pell Grant. Graduated a few years older than usually graduates but with 0 student debt.

It's most definitely an option but most students are fine with Student debt. Many people I've met have student debt more than the first house I want to buy.
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Starting with 7.4 billion people in 2016 and a population growth rate of 1 % per year we will reach the carrying capacity of Earth in less than 1400 years - the body heat alone will raise the surface temperature above the boiling point of water.

Once we reach the carrying capacity of Earth - no matter when that is - and decide to move into space we have 2685 more years until we run out of places to live in the Milky Way assuming 400 billion stars and one Earth-like colonizable planet per star.

Unfortunately 2685 years is not nearly enough time to reach all the stars in the Milky Way even if you would be traveling at the speed of light, you could cross just about 2 % in that time.

There are very real limits to the possible growth and we are talking about centuries or a few millennia. With a growth rate of 0.1 % per year one can push that to tens of millennia but that is still the blink of an eye in the grand scheme of things. And while I used population growth, things of course don't change if you substitute energy consumption per capita.
There is so much wrong with the Olympics that I suggest you join me in just not watching.
Even if you get a tax break in Amsterdam wouldn't you just end up paying that tax to the US? My understanding is basically your US tax still applies unless you are posting more in foreign tax than you would in US tax.
Anecdote: Logo was used in French 80s National "Plan Informatique Pour Tous" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_informatique_pour_tous (Computing for all), running on Thomson MO5 terminals distributed in many schools. Kids (6-9yo I believe) would learn to "program" using it. For the younger ones it was mostly about moving that infamous turtle, and that was it. It was still something utterly magical, even though the lightpen bundled with the MO5 was also a big part of it.
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I totally agree with you here; statically typed languages (OMG OCaml) are great for making code very readable/documented, IMHO. I just have so much more confidence in my code when the compiler has my back.

Another commenter pointed this out, but Typed Racket is a Racket variant (which is a scheme-ish variant) that implements "gradual typing". I've played with it here and there and am about to dive in again.

https://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/
Part of me really wonders why, considering all of the controversies with the Olympics and IOC over the years, why we haven't seen an alternative multi-category world athletic competition gain some support. Though I do understand it would be very, very hard to compete with the marketing of the official Olympics. But if the Rio Olympics end up being as terrible as some people fear, maybe that could be a catalyst for a new competition.
> it was able to become one of the most widely used languages precisely because, despite all its warts, it implements the core foundations from the lambda calculus correctly

You think that's why Javascript is widely used? I think it's widely used because it was already useable within the browser and people just kept going with it.
"It’s important to note that while the software was the lynch pin in the Therac-25, it wasn’t the root cause. The entire system design was the real problem. Safety-critical loads were placed upon a computer system that was not designed to control them"

They wrote code that depended on hardware controls, didn't document their reliance on the hardware controls and killed a bunch of people. DOCUMENT ALL YOUR DEPENDANCES!!!
> "This is primarily a bug fix"

Followed later by

> "Add an Include directive for ssh_config(5) files"

Edit: my comment wasn't intended as negative, more a pleasant surprise. How often does "primarily a bug fix" release include functionality thats been requested by users for literally years?

Edit2: wow. Very unfortunate typo.
Going by market cap, Alibaba was at $230B following the IPO (their shares were around $93).
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Except the expansion is happening faster than the speed of light.

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/about-us/104-the-universe/c...
It's a bug that's lost its foot in the door.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12188144
I graduated 3 years ago and what the parent said is definitely still an option. Especially if you transfer in to a larger school after 2 years.
Looking at things from Canada, I feel the same way.

These primaries, from what I can gather, are roughly the equivalent of the leadership selection process that happens with the political parties here. There is media coverage of those, but not to the extent that the US has. They're also run by the parties themselves, whereas the voting process seems to be handled by the individual states' election authorities.

In Canada, Elections Canada doesn't really get involved in the process that the parties use to select their leader. It just does the general election, by-elections, etc.
I have it. All it did was move the prompt from installation to app startup. AFAIK the permissions themselves did not change, and it definitely still has the problem of overly-broad generic groupings.
Of course the bitpass website is dead, as are micropayments. Now we have all you can eat subscriptions.

I think the fundamental issue is there's too much stuff, if item A costs money, items B-Z are also available for free.

Bandwidth costs appear to be 0 now, you can pay to listen to music without also downloading a video, or download the video to listen to it for free.
"“We’re fast approaching the day when people will expect accuracies of centimeters in real time out of their handheld devices and then we’ll see a lot of head scratching as things no longer line up,” Smith told Scientific American three years ago. It looks like that day has arrived"

Has that day really arrived?

I doubt, given the fact that most consumer navigation systems are reliable (directions on Google Maps, pick up on Uber and alike) as long as they are not being blocked by major hurdles.
Net Neutrality victory won't solve the problem/
One such multidimensional extension of Eigen is from Google and I believe was extracted from TensorFlow:

https://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/src/039efd86b75ce1b72befb7...
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That may be clear to you, but to others the fact that the legal system was utilized to leverage the existing parties' power over smaller parties' ability to reach voters is what indicates a legal monopoly.

Besides all that, I don't understand how you say there wasn't a legal ruling which enforced the monopoly, when I just presented several examples in which there were.
Mobile phones and beacons can help airports manage queues
I am a Kagi supplier too. Although I stopped selling with them some time ago, I still have a lot of customer data in their database. I was surprised to hear of the closure and received no notification from them.

I have been using Share-It for over five years. They have a solid system for running licence generators and although it's not the most modern, I can recommend them as an equivalent service to Kagi. If you sell in the EU you'll want to check the fine print on their VAT policies.
This perspective is self-fulfilling. Vote for your best candidate, Dr. Jill Stein and Gary Johnson are real candidates, and could win, just like Bernie Sanders (which no one expected).

We need to force the two parties to loosen their grip on the political machine in the US. The only way we do that is by supporting third party candidates.

If you want to vote Green, go convince a conservative to vote Libertarian. I did this just last week in PA, a conservative that I don't agree with is completely upset about Trump and is going to vote for Gary Johnson.
Maybe I've been in big companies for too long, but why not Teradata? Yeah it's expensive for the amount of storage Uber would need, but it's going to scale for them and perform well.
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> That's the law, yes, but when it was written there weren't private TV networks

The version I quoted is from the 2013. Private TV and radio existed by then. It has been reworked and rewritten, new media such as apps and online media has been included in the scope, partially by the constitutional court. The actors that try and prevent that as much as possible are the private TV stations.

> I'm not saying there shouldn't be culture per se,

But you did: "to produce just what the mandate requires, not daily soaps, game shows, " (taken from your previous post)

> but the amount of money spent in the networks is disproportionate to the positive effect it has these days.

[citation needed] A lot of german tv shows and niche content would not be produced if not for the public broadcast. They also produce a lot of stuff I consider waste, but that's my personal opinion, others may like it. I dislike opera and dance theater as well, but meh - it's still state sponsored as are other cultural venues that I do frequent and others may abhor. Funding culture is a wasteful process per se. The alternative is privatization of culture, so that mainly culture survives that either appeals to a large enough part of society or to a private wealthy donor.

> One could argue that technologically we could and probably should easily replace most of the programming with something that requires paid-for access keys. That way, one can reduce the mandatory part to a bare minimum while still allowing those who want it to get rest of the content. Then the argument would be that it has to be accessible by everyone, though with that argument you could say analog TV may not be turned off as long as there is still one analog TV set around.

This is contrary to the idea. The whole mandate aims at having a broadly and freely accessible canon of news, educational and cultural media that reflects as much of our society as possible.
Or Bossy Betty
Simple. One and a quarter Wombats, or five eighths of a Funnel Web Spider.
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From the point of view of what the Olympics were supposed to be about (independently-wealthy amateur athletes competing to be the best amateurs in the world), this actually makes perfect sense: none of the athletes needed to make money, and it is perfectly fine to give a volunteer executive travel expenses commensurate with his station in life.

Given what the Olympics have become, it makes no sense. The sooner they are dropped for good, the better.
Wasn't this basically expected/intended/inevitable? Considering Musk was one of the founders, along with his cousins that currently run it.
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strong math knowledge needed to understand it.
polish notation could be also confusing.
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> People are investing in their education at record levels!

They are investing in formal qualifications. Certificates.

As Thiel points out, a university degree has transmogrified from "investment" to "insurance" to "tournament".

The reality is that the previous generation knows jack shit about the environment facing the current generation. Their 'common sense' can be thrown out nearly entirely with few exceptions. In today's environment most of them wouldn't stand a chance.
Almost every state allows for early voting, and some like CA allow permanent voting by mail selection.

Do this on some weekend. Before the election date, why wait for the actual Election Day at all?
It's interesting to see where google sees this will go, given BMI tech is in its infancy. Has anyone else heard more about this?
I'm not sure if you're flaming or not.

In the most market/libertarian sense you are right: athletes in highly visible sports do seem to make a lot more than those in not-visible sports. Market forces at work.

However, the salaries of the brass are made up off money made in television deals and other promotions. Network effects do have an impact on the size of the pie. So even the javelin matters if only for the size of the pie. It wouldn't be the Olympics with only soccer, it would be the World Cup.
I'm not sure I'm ready to install it, is there a description of what it does and how it works?
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The thought that the ground we stand on grows more than we do is weird...
Thanks @wolfgke and @pudo. I asked on twitter and they said it'd be fine:

https://twitter.com/prototypefund/status/760086652815564800
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> Also, I have not included MySQL for obvious reasons: fun for toy SQL DBs where sqlite isn't a good fit, but not for enterprise use by any means. Uber switching to MySQL over Postgre is rather scary, I wouldn't want to be a Uber investor right now.

I've been running a few MySQL setups for a decade, why do you think it is not a good fit for enterprise apps? InnoDB solves most of the previous limitations. I also think MySQL is slightly easier to deploy/scale than Postgres. I believe Facebook is still running MySQL for instance.
Excellent read. Thanks.

Something I've always tried to understand is the value of these digital things. How much would it cost, in 1970, to have a library of all the worlds music? Today it's 10 bucks a month.

How much value do we put on information? What is the value of the bits of information that make up the Wikipedia page "Smallpox vaccine"? How about in 1960? Can you even put a dollar value on it?
imho the main service of Kagi (and similar services) was not payment processing, but robust and secure licence key fulfillment.
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"Content" describes me perfectly too when people ask "have you tried {Atom,Pycharm,Vim,etc}?"

Nothing in ST3 annoys me enough to push me away. Nothing elsewhere looks good enough to pull me in.
What caught my attention in the article is where the high pay seems to be going. The first example of the president making 250k+high class living actually seemed _low_ if we compare to top executive compensation across the board, and actually made me raise an eyebrow at their whole argument. However, the low pay for athletes seemed both supported and reminiscent of the attitudes around college sports in the US. Later in the article additional points supported this, e.g. Nike sponsorship money. Converse incentives between execs and employees (athletes) should be something very familiar to those of us in tech, and I'd imagine an athlete has as little or less bargaining power than we do (citing many recent HN discussions on the topic) unless they are a rock star among rock stars, so I can appreciate that scenario.

I'm not sure if I had a point in this, but to try and wrap up the ramble: I think there's some interesting "lemma" in that the money is accumulating "in the middle" so to speak that someone smarter than me might make, and also that there seems to be a universal pattern for employee taking-advantage-of in situations of misaligned incentives.
Because enough people didn't like it/are threatened by evidence going against the narrative.
No higher commission & no coding option:

* JotForm (+Stripe or +PayPal)
I think that this is basically what SCTP is/was (maybe with a few improvements: I don't recall how SCTP handled client mobility). The problem, as drdaeman indicates, is that too many networks consider themselves TCP (really, TCP/{80,443}) networks, not actual networks providing IP the way they are supposed to.
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Just because someone sacrifices their lives to do something doesn't inherently make that valuable - there is no society in the world where that is true.

There's a significant argument to be made that the Olympics were originally setup to demonstrate who was the greatest in the activities of the day, and the activities now are no longer relevant.
Definitely the best I've seen in any online news media websites.

Their election tracker and real-time update of votes in the primaries were very well done.

Even the summary after the vote looks neat:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/us/elections/primary...

http://www.nytimes.com/elections/results/california

After some digging, found out they have open-sourced this library:

https://github.com/sjwilliams/scrollstory

MIT license, so we can use it for ourselves!
IIRC IPv6 requires ICMPv6 to work. I'd be in favour of SCTP support as well; dunno how it compares to QUIC for mobile devices though.