skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Las Vegas has water that meets the standard of 'very hard' [1], so when I go there and stay with friends it's a challenge to take a nice shower (soap doesn't want to lather), and water from the tap tastes noticeably chalkier than in other places. But my friend has thyroid issues and avoids the tap water due to perchlorates [2], which were produced industrially in Henderson and leeched into the groundwater. Though the levels are considered safe, her particular health issue makes it more of a concern. So bottled water is everywhere at their house, but also at the houses of other people I know in the area. I'm guessing some of it is because it's always hot so it's nice to have a ready-made bottle of water on-hand whenever you need it, and possibly because in Las Vegas, tap water is perceived as expensive (even though this isn't actually true [3])

On the east coast in a metro that ranks as having one of the best municipal water systems, buying large amounts of bottled water is foreign to me, and only crosses my mind if I'm preparing for inclement weather or an extended road-trip. Though I wish our 'best municipal water' tasted more to my liking, a Brita filter adds a pleasant blend of minerals that tastes close to non-store-brand bottled water.

[1] https://www.lvvwd.com/wq/facts_hard.html

[2] https://www.lvvwd.com/wq/facts_perchlorate.html

[3] http://www.circleofblue.org/2015/world/price-of-water-2015-u...
This comment was fine-ish up until that last line. Please edit it away.

I don't think that the person you're replying to is suggesting that the law should remain as-is. Rather, he's suggesting that the law should be modified via the established political processes for doing so. I'm not sure where you're getting the "thought crime" thing -- even if he supported the ag-gag laws, it wouldn't be thought crime to say so, and he wouldn't be accusing others of thought crime by saying so. This is simply called a "disagreement". It doesn't need to be dramatized.

Of course OP has a right to criticize and suspect the government. Who said he didn't? That doesn't mean OP has the right to disregard property boundaries or to enter a private premises under false pretenses, even if the stated intent is to "prove antibiotics in farm animals are causing human superbugs".

If one believes that the local trespassing laws should be modified to accommodate persons acting in this particular public interest, he should contact his local representatives, or, alternately, run against them and lead the charge himself.

It is probably much easier to convince someone in one of the several government bureaucracies to open an investigation than to get a special exception to trespassing laws codified.
Sometimes I find typing grep/cut/awk/etc to be easier to remember than custom flags and thus faster to type. Often times my time spent looking through the man page is better spent just writing a more verbose command line.
> As long as the FOSS/hobby tech world still cares, we'll keep biting away at the new markets closed services create.

I think nibbling away is more accurate. There are still no privacy-conscious alternatives to the big 3 social networks (Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn) and none on the horizon. Yes technological alternatives exist, but not practical ones as I'm not likely to run into someone using Diaspora in real life.

This is similar to GNU/Linux vs. Windows on desktop where Linux gained a little bit of market share but was never a real alternative when it mattered. That defeat is all the worse in retrospect as Windows 10 is now a great vector of privacy invasion for Microsoft.

From a social justice POV, "just don't use the service" may be practical for those with a lot of education and opportunities for employment, but is a non-starter for someone who needs LinkedIn to find work or whose landlord expects to snoop through their Facebook account. We need a solution that helps everyone, not just those with the know-how and economic freedom to use niche alternatives.
These are all turbodiesels, which wouldn't be my first choice for use in a place where you can't get spare parts.
Actually, not: https://mako.cc/copyrighteous/google-has-most-of-my-email-be...

Other problems:

* Services you use indirectly.

* Services your employer uses and reires you to use.

* Services a government service requires use of.

As technological tools become part of the social, corporate, governmental, and institutional infrastructure, "opting out" becomes an increasingly less viable, and more punishing, alternative.

Too: you're denying the specific tools which directly address the situation. Legal and technical means to loudly and clearly state "no", or to sue for damages where this isn't possible.
I like Cory Doctorow. I really do, and I agree that this is a problem. But as I argue, the genie is already out of the bottle, the cat is out of the bag and the barn door is open. What we should focus on instead is mechanisms for mitigating and punishing malicious use of data, AS WELL AS putting the surveillance to good use, eg body cameras for on-duty police officers:

http://magarshak.com/blog/?p=169
It's all of the above.

The secret sauce isn't the technology -- it's the decades of quant models that have been programmed using the stack.
The parts I skimmed all seemed to contradict each other, too.
Got a link to your games?
Someday may be closer than you think -- https://www.nextnature.net/2008/12/scientists-extract-images...
It doesn't, because then you'd have to partially circle everything.
Google drive for everything important, dropbox for random stuff.
One could say that piracy's biggest effect is indirect - by changing the power dynamic in the industry - most users choose ad-based music services.
Why does it seem like every damn thing we do for farmers is awful for others?

I know it's not, we reap the benefits in lower food prices, but does beef really need to be cheap enough we can eat it 7 days a week?
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haha, but of course you mean ctrl+F9 -- you probably edited multiple files...

I completely agree with the parent and grandparent posts! I worked with one of the SecDB clones for three years at a Too Big To Fail bank, and it was criminally bad (imho). It's snake oil.
Is it common for Chinese people to give their children English names, or is the intended audience native-english-speakers who are living in China?
Now, I'm not a genius

And yet you also told us:

I was reading calculus textbooks when I was 10 years old.

I scored in the 99th percentile in math on the California high school exit exam.

I transferred to a university as a junior at 17.

Regardless of the nature/nurture debate, if you can achieve those things at those ages with any amount of work then you are clearly far smarter than most people, at least when it comes to mathematics.
My thoughts as well. IMO, any successful company needs to spend some money in illustrations, designs, presentation, etc...
> If someone wants to walk into your private property and research your operations, you should have the right to tell them to beat feet.

To the extent that there is a valid right here, how is regular, generally-applicable civil and criminal trespassing law an insufficient vindication of the valid rights at issue so as to require special additional "ag-gag" laws providing additional privileges to a particular industry?
Very good news! Once I am ready to start my company, I will definitely be applying.
The perspective here is interesting and totally different from my experience as a sysadmin.

If bad code is the most common problem, then maybe it's time to tighten up the testing and deployment procedures first. The reason operations is a different job is that they take care of much much different parts of the stack. Developers aren't going to be effective at their jobs if they have to also worry about tuning Java GC settings, analyzing database I/O bottlenecks, ensuring network security, worrying about network drivers, open file limits, and MTU size.

In my experience, the stuff that happens in the middle of the night more often involves infrastructural problems that ultimately have nothing to do with the code. And so it makes sense for the developers to sleep. By all means, assign an on-call developer that the operations staff can page when it's determined there's a code problem, but if that has to happen very often, then something else is wrong in your procedures.
My mom (Cantonese) once told me at least part of the reason many restaurants have "garden" in their name is because the sound of the word is pleasant to the Chinese ear. "gar-den" means nothing in Chinese (or at least Canto) but it just sounds good, and in the English language it means a pleasant place, making it a good choice for a restaurant name.

Status-symbol names aside, I wonder how many of these names get chosen based on the pleasant sound aspect?
CO2 is cheap, but not when Sodastream sells it. People that want cheap carbonated water have modified their sodastreams to accept larger beverage-store CO2 bottles:

http://www.frugalwoods.com/2014/08/11/how-to-cheap-homemade-...

Higher fixed costs, but if you drink a lot of carbonated water, you quickly recoup it.
The reason is that you can buy a case of clean bottled water for ~$1-2, providing you clean, good tasting drinking water for a month. This is something even people at or below poverty level income can afford and dramatically increases quality of life.

The individual has little to no control over the water or pipes that runs the water to their home. It is a take it or leave it situation. If you own your home, then you might be able to install a water filtration system. This might be at the very least $200+. Okay. That doesn't compete with the price of bottled water. What about just a water filter pitcher? $30+. Well, now that's far more reasonable, but still represents 20-30 cases of water.

Bottled water IS the cheap, easy option. Should people fight and vote for infrastructure improvements so that they have clean, good tasting water? absolutely. But while we're working on that, we'll drink bottled water.
A generation or two of people that can handle written english good enough to use products and services only available in said language.
Asian parents, right? Don't ask how I know...
With respect to your point about different legislations, some states in the US have extra regulations and consumer rights. That's why you often see state-specific fine print in purchases. In the case of California, environmental regulations are stricter than many states, and CA market requires product modifications for cars and motorcycles. Sometimes these stricter regulations result in product modifications nationally.
CAs have been caught issuing CA=YES certificates and Mozilla have done nothing.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=724929 WONTFIX
And I'm sure some homosexual men just haven't found the right woman yet.

But clearly most homosexual men just don't like women no matter how attractive they are. Is it so hard to believe that some people see math in a similar way?
Exactly, I would love to have real valid AR glasses where we can add metadata to everyday life. If it could be built without the posiblity to take a photo it would be better, but you would loose half of the functions and people would not use it, cause whats the use of a camera if you cant take photos or video. Also with the IoT stuff coming online, it looks more and more like these AR devices wont matter in regards to private as everything will be recording everything anyway.
Yeah, but there's a difference between saying there exists in reality some exact value for the square root of 2, and saying that it's possible to calculate the square root of 2 to arbitrary precision.
It never fails to amaze me when American's are so comfortable to comment on other cultures they know little about when making criticism or analysis.

Obviously there are cultural differences, however there isnt therefore an implication that Europeans somehow work less productively or even differently than those in the United States as some commenters seem to be suggesting.

I guarantee that Spanish startups dont fail because they have siestas; language barriers, distribution issues and international laws will have so much more sway in success than any minor cultural difference such as how chilled out a group of people are.

A food delivery start up starting in Texas can probably scale to surrounding states pretty easily compared to one starting in Spain and expanding into Belgium
According to your link to box office mojo, number of tickets sold peaked in 2002, and has been declining since then, even as population has been rising.
I mother died from this in her late 60s after a operation on her back. It was MRSA and we made sure that made it on the death certificate.
> My source says 38 hours.

Care to cite your source then?
Some of the great developments of th 20th century were proofs of limits, of what cannot be achieved even in principle: for example the incompleteness theorem and halting problem, and the uncertainty principle.

IMHO, there is an "abstraction boundary" that limits what humans can ever know even in principle. There are some phenomena that are inherently "unabstractable". We may know that a glass of water has a wave function, but we will never know the particular wave function of any glass of water ever.

The phenomena in our universe that we can "understand" are those that can be modeled, those for which abstractions can be created that will fit in our brains. There may well be phenomena in the universe (or elsewhere) that are not amenable to modeling in any way that is compatible with human cognitive machinery.
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What is this supposed to link to? This pages displays: "The page you’re looking for can’t be found".
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Yup, quaternions are also at the root of any good skeletal animation system as you won't find a better/faster way to do pose/animation blending/interpolation.
> Are actually there studies that claim a special ability is due to genetics only?

Of course there are, like tetrachromacy [1]. Or even more mundane: XY chromosomes prevent men from having the ability to give birth.

I also think you're vastly underappreciating the results from genetic studies. Twin studies have repeatedly shown that identical twins separated at birth and growing up in wildly differing conditions, still largely end up with similar temperaments, similar world views, and similar intelligence.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrachromacy
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>If you want me to eat something, don't shove it in my mouth,

To continue that analogy further, perhaps babies feel insulted too.
"Reduce phone costs"

Fat chance
I used to feel strongly about not trading my privacy away for some convenience. For a long time I took a luddite pride in not being on various services, having a dumb phone, keeping it turned off, etc. Over time, though, I've found myself having a change of heart. What started as little inconveniences have turned into big ones, as I'm more and more out of touch with my peers, contemporaries, and family. I don't like that. And for what? Companies can still track me, my data's still out there.

But I still care about privacy. It's a basic human right. What I've realized is that our laws are lousy at enshrining that right--companies can largely do what they want, etc.,--and we're lousy as a society at recognizing the value of that right.

So I'm curious, are there any cities, counties, states with any sort of legislative efforts going on to strengthen the citizens' rights to privacy and ownership of data? Is there anyone we can look to as a model for "privacy and data ownership done right," something to work toward implementing at a national level?

Is there any awareness group working to raise these issues in a way that's actually accessible to the general public? (Are they doing a good job at it?)

I don't want to give up, and I don't want to check out. I like my shiny devices and assistants now, they make my life easier in little ways all the time. How can we balance that with the basic human right to own our data and retain our privacy?
So how are you supposed to charge one of these phones and use headphones at the same time, with only one USB-c jack? Do they use some big, clunky Y-adapter (USB-c to USB-c and 3.5mm, plus included circuitry)? That basically defeats the whole point of removing the 3.5mm jack in the first place, which is to save space; now you have to carry around a clunky adapter just to use your headphones. This is at least as stupid as eliminating easily-swapped batteries and SD cards.
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SF water is clean and good tasting, but many of the 70+ year old buildings have corroded water pipes that can add foul tastes and sediment to the water.
> The declaration of independence obviously has direct bearing on this question, and therefore obviously has direct bearing on interpreting the constitution.

Insofar as the intent of framers of the Constitution (a set distinct from, though overlapping, the drafters and signatories of the Declaration of Independence) has relevance to interpreting the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence has very little value in establishing that intent, not only because the people are different, but because it is separated by fairly critical events from the drafting of the Constitution, which was, after all, not a response to the conditions that the DoI was drafter in response to, but a response to the perceived failures of the system of government adopted under the Articles of Confederation.
If you have (an extremely)good internet connection, appetize.io beats all emulators. we do over 100 builds a day on appetize.io and the whole team can see the same emulation with near to no startup/installation time for the emulator.

If appetize.io could be run locally or on our servers it would be a delight!
Ah, I see, yeah that is pretty dishonest.
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Not sure if you read the sentence in context, but the OP said that it was the easier of the two choices he presented.
OK and how do you locate and invoice all of these morally responsible individuals who have led to this resistance? It's hundreds of thousands of doctors. I doubt their malpractice insurance will cover this. And then aside from the unnecessary prescriptions, because the ignorant patient-consumer demanded it, is the ignorant patient-consumer who doesn't take the entire prescribed dosage which is itself the far bigger problem that lead to resistance. How are they punished and insured for their immorality?
I had a Sodastream, but I just didn't like it as much a La Croix. The cost difference isn't large either (I pay about $6.75 for a case of 24 La Croix at Costco). The biggest decider for me is simply counter space. The Sodastream crowds my counter, and I don't have a convenient place for it in the cupboards.
At the CPU level wouldn't you just not bother attaching the address lines above X bits?

Then design your toolchain so that you have knowledge that the address space is only X bits.
We really need to stop with this practice of clicking web to work around their paywall. It doesn't work on mobile and is basically a dark pattern.
> There are still no privacy-conscious alternatives to the big 3 social networks (Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn)

I'm not a member of LinkedIn so I'm constantly a bit confused by it. Does it offer anything compelling besides a list of the places you've worked and studied? Why couldn't I get the same benefit by putting up a static web page with a content form? Am I missing out on something?
I don't get it. He only provided one test run of ent and failed 4 out of 6 of the tests in that run. There should be multiple tests with multiple test suites. Ent and Diehard would be good, or Ent and Dieharder (though a couple of the dieharder tests are suspect, the rest are good).

I only see one run of ent on one data set and it only passed the Chi Square Distribution test and the Arithmetic Mean test. It failed entropy, compression (badly), Monte Carlo Pi (badly), and serial correlation.

Because it is impossible to prove non-randomness (maybe the output really was 1111111111111111111 randomly) neither I nor anybody else can claim that the device doesn't provide good entropy, but there is no evidence that it does either.
And given that he and the PM are buddies, one has to wonder if this is India's own NSA masquerading as something empowering and progressive.
It depends what you do with it, which is why I suggested turning it into something concrete like writing.

If thinking about something makes it 'click', that's useful to make a note of, as it may help someone else come to understand it. If something is still unfathomable after lots of thought, that's useful to make a note of, as someone else may be able to help, it may uncover a misunderstanding, or it might give someone else comfort to know they're not alone in their struggle.

Less trivially (and less likely, but worth pursuing) it may lead to original thoughts, new perspectives or analogies, inspiring others, revealing previously ignored aspects of the world, etc.

I don't know if amateur reflection on sports would actually have any impact, and even if it did (e.g. calling the Denver Broncos to tell them about some new strategy/etc. you've come up with), it wouldn't have much impact on the world. The names in Marty McFly's sports almanac might change, but even after just 1000 years those ripples would probably have faded to nothing.
Is it about Europeans being lenient to typos or faulty grammar in another language than their native tongue (i.e. English)? That's for sure.

But for instance, French people are not lenient at all with typos or faulty grammar in French...
>> Now comes the GOP with the "ag-gag" laws

What states are you referring to? Most of these laws that were introduced in the 1990's have all been deemed unconstitutional in the states where they were passed. Not to mention, any other states that have attempted to pass these laws have failed.

I'm sure you enjoy demonizing the GOP, but I don't see much merit in your argument if there are no states where these laws are currently in effect and nobody has been successfully convicted of violating these laws.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ag-gag
Well, we do have a lot of social contracts. Thats basically how we function as a society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigiNotar
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Fair enough, as a chat client the Linux version isn't too bad. I used it for a while too (also not my decision). It wasn't meant to be a mere chat client, though.
Millenials in my team think like you so I think It' s not that bad. And for some time I was a a hudge advocate for a js testing library named "testacular" which is far worse in retrospective ... " What's in a name" ...
iPhone 7 announced with water resistance, dual cameras, and no headphone jack
“node-os is the first operating system powered by npm”

Good God man, this is satire… right? RIGHT?