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> Basically, birth control leads to a slow death of civilization.

So does overpopulation. Your argument applies to a society that requires and assumes constant growth, for which it's certainly true, but that model has its own innate limitations, like overpopulation outstripping available land and resources.

> The most tragic thing about it is that you can't do anything about it, as denying women the choice would be violation of their human rights.

There's a myth implicit in this argument, that women would have more children if they could. But surveys reveal that women want to be able to choose, and if they could choose, they would have fewer children.
I talked with a girl that worked at a Starbucks in a Fred Meyers in Oregon. They are technically Fred Meyers' employees, but the deal with Starbucks includes things like the fact that they cannot wear anything except the Starbucks uniforms. On Halloween, Fred Meyers' employees are allowed to wear costumes... except for the ones that man the Starbucks because of the deal.
When I got married and had a child, I went from car free to one car. Still a low car lifestyle (commute and grocery shop by bike, prioritized a walkable location during our house search, etc) but my car usage definitely increased.

Still, it increased much less than it otherwise would have because we love getting around without a car and because driving is not a status signal to our peers. I might be wrong, having not lived through previous generations, but I think actively preferring to not drive is relatively common now, and it seems like there used to be some stigma attached to not owning a car that is now utterly absent.
Everyone can have their own opinion regarding how many rockets and African internet satellites and Tesla drivers and astronauts are worth risking to push technology as far as fast as Musk can. What's harder to argue, I think, is that Musk has pushed right up near the line where one or two more lost SpaceX rockets or dead Tesla drivers could send many of his plans into a tailspin.

There's almost a feel like Steve Jobs in 1985, sword of damocles hanging overhead. History may prove Musk "right" as it did Jobs, but he nonetheless similarly risks losing quite a lot, as do we all in a sense.
And substitute child killing someone by accident to child injuring someone by accident. You are the one who proposed that made-for-TV scenario as if it should justify anything.

Since the law have been set up to prohibit the government from gathering that information, of course it's uncertain - the law was designed so there's a grey area. So, since you don't have numbers (which is why you propose the scenario instead), what about answer the question which isn't subject to statistics gathering?

How come having a gun didn't help Clarence Daniels keep from being assaulted by Michael Foster?
I think public confidence is not as important as the denomination inwhich taxes must be payed...and inflation was happening because they had limited domestic production capacity and could not afford to buy foreign goods.
Overall new car sales are higher than ever. Someone is buying them.
I would assume that the compromise in this case that some developers of nano will do copyright assignment while others won't, and FSF will still do GPL enforcement.

The previous dispute as I understand it is that FSF has a all or nothing approach to copyright assignment. Either a GNU project assign all copyright, or a GNU project assign nothing and FSF do not enforce the projects license.
Additionally, I would like to see Rust, Haskell, and .NET.
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The idea of turtles all the way down reminds me a lot of non-terminating recursion.
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> gun ownership involves the sacrifice of thousands of lives annually

I would put it to you that human nature is such that if guns weren't available, people would turn to alternative weapons. Knives. Bats. Fists. The UK is seeing this progression happen now.

But with a tool like a firearm, any 45 kilogram woman can defend herself against a stronger attacker. Or a 77 kg man against someone stronger than him, or perhaps a group of attackers. In the rural USA the attacker doesn't even have to be a person - it could be a brown bear (which are absolutely huge, BTW), a wild boar (increasingly common in the South), or a venomous reptile. Not having a firearm to defend yourself in those situations means you die alone in the wilderness.

But the key thing to all those examples is that they are defensive uses of a firearm. You will seldom see examples of this in the news because it's not lurid enough. And that most of the time, the gun is never even fired - the credible threat is enough to stop the attack.

I'm guessing that you are European, and as such have never seen a defensive use of a gun. You have only been exposed to negative views of them via the news services and Hollywood films. If you visit central Texas anytime, I'd be willing to take you to the range and give you an introduction to safe operation of a firearm and show you that gun owners are regular people too.
Leah, please consider this: http://contrastrebellion.com
"Mirror" neurons sound more like "concept" or "verb" neurons, rather than a subset of "command" neurons. Firing when its monkey "reaches for a peanut", and when it sees another monkey "reaching for a peanut" sounds like it means the verb "to reach for a peanut".

It also seems unlikely that a single neuron would carry a complete meaning in themselves... like probing a single bit in a data structure, you might be able to tell if it's odd or even, positive or negative, but probably need a constellation of bits/neurons to make sense of it.

But he may be simplifying in this high-level essay, and I haven't read papers in the field.
Sure let's have quotas per sq meter of arable land adjusted for number of crops you can grow in a year? Or better still on yield of the soil. Makes more sense than a straight per sq m quota.
Working link: http://www.waudjs.com/api/
a rocket explodes and suddenly everyone turns on the golden boy.
I recently just stopped driving into New York City from Westchester. I used to have no qualms about driving for an hour and then taking some 10 minutes to find parking, but there is a better way. The Metro North is 35 minutes to Grand Central and parking is relatively easy, especially when I am going in on an evening. I realized it isn't worth my time to drive in given that I can do other things on the train such as read or write or just close my eyes. As a bonus, I am certainly less stressed when I get where I am going.
in other words, journalists just making noise.
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Anybody else use ed(1)?

My main editor is acme, and when I need to do large edit jobs on remote servers I control I use sam. However, when I have to edit files on servers I don't control, or when I have to do a quick edit job and I don't have a sam terminal started yet, I use ed.

Unlike all other editors, ed doesn't erase the screen. I find this extremely useful. Also, ed is always the same. Vi is not always the same on different systems. Sometimes it has syntax syntax highlighting by default, forcing me to make effort to turn it off, sometimes nocompatible is set on or off, etc.

Ed is always the same and has no settings.

Sometimes inside my acme session I run win(1), and sometimes in my win sessions I ssh to some system and run ed inside acme.

I forced myself to use ed exclusively for a week some years back, and since then I stuck with it.
I loved this part.

Greg Autry, a space industry expert who teaches at USC’s Marshall School of Business, said that Musk’s aggressive cuts to the cost of launching rockets “even scares the Chinese.”
Self Awareness is something that is uniquely human. It relies on consciousness.
QQ .. this might be a naive question so please excuse my ignorance ... why did you not go with vanilla websockets as the protocol? I am a big fan of Elixir and would love to use it and Phoenix for work .. coworkers just get the heebeejeebees when I admit the wire protocol is specifically for Phoenix. Would love to understand this better. Btw .. loved the book!!
What school was that at?
It looks very cool
http://bitemyapp.com//posts/2016-09-03-websocket-shootout-ha...

I happened to come across this in /r/haskell today. The results are very impressive.
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When calling a simple function like this within a large loop, would it make a noticeable difference in speed to inline the computation vs. having a function call? If so, what's the best practice for inlining a computation like this? I imagine a macro would be the simplest solution but I'm interested to hear any other techniques that are used
Thanks for the response.

> Out of curiosity, would you say the same thing about Clojure? ...

Fair enough. :)

What is the largest thing you've written in Eve? I've found that Clojure strikes an amazing balance between semantics that help you reason clearly about problems and the flexibility to do things that the language creators didn't imagine. I guess I just haven't seen that with Eve.

However! If you tell me to stay hopeful about Eve, I will. :)
Agreed. The words themselves in a story are the tags. You just need to do some kind of text vector index. For example: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.5/static/textsearch.html
Why are cellular data tablets more expensive than wifi-only tablets?
I would think that carriers and manufacturers both would rather sell tablets that had the option to use cellular data, and consumers would rather buy them. But they cost a lot more.

Is it because of the licensing costs of cell phone chips, is it that expensive?
Sure - but we're all here to learn more, so numbers which we're basing discussion on should have some factual basis :).

If you're really interested in this stuff you should read up on some of the material from William K Black of UMKC. He was a regulator during the S&L crisis and has some great perspective on financial and control fraud.
This isn't what makes CSV parsing slow, there's nothing about Go that requires you to deal in UTF8.
I hope he doesn't up like the real Tesla who ended up broke. Tesla was trying to do some really advanced things like wireless energy transmission.
Similiar to other posters, I read this book in middle school and found it a great inspiration then.

I actually at the time got really big in to Alice[1] a gui based programming environment Pausch pioneered and it led to a lot of my earlier computing experiences.

I'd highly recommend the book for any young teen as it paints an incredibly optimistic picture of the world, which is something to be said when you consider Pausch had terminal cancer.

In all honesty to this day Pausch remains one of my greatest inspirations.

[1]: http://www.alice.org/index.php
Automated vehicles will come in a range of sizes, from 2-seat pods to, at least, mini-bus sizes.

Currently we have about the worst utilization of vehicles possible. Drivers drive alone, and park their cars for long intervals. This is why one can claim that trains move enough people to fill 20 car lanes. At the other end of the spectrum, diesel busses are noisy, smokey, need a professional driver, and go from underutilized to packed, depending on time of day.

A mix of automated vehicles will be able to much more closely approach optimal load factors at all times of day. 6 or 8 passengers can ride in a car-sized automated vehicle. That makes streets a lo-capex alternative to rail.
This stupid article gets posted here every year. It's a lie.
I'd rather like to see a movement against websites that force users to vertically scroll down page after page to read three paragraphs of text.
So if they try this in the US, I hope they call the new currency the clam. Or maybe the sur-real. <rim shot>
Well isn't it applied in a way, think assisted learning etc in certain applications, but I'm not a computer scientist so I don't know really.
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That's a pretty bold claim to make.
Thanks! I've created one.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12421804
Also old cities have different "suburbs" than newer cities. Boston's "streetcar suburbs" were built along public transit first and foremost so they're the perfect blended suburb for families. Nice and quiet but a short train's ride away from downtown.

We commute by bike or transit as a family in Boston through all seasons. We own a car but it sits parked unless we're going on a special weekend trip or something; the car averages 6k miles per year and I'd estimate that Christmas, etc account for about 1/3 of that.
Not confined to math, but it's helped me become aware that problems can be solved by reasoning.

Also to be measured in how sure I am about something being right.
Last year in LA (lived in mdr for 3 months), I rented cars for the trips. Did Zipcar one weekend to Reagan and Enterprise 19.99 weekend for a climbing trip.

If you're overnighting a couple times a month, maybe it's less cost effective. A person might also might have 1 of 3 buddies that has a car for these trips (I used this for surfing)
Why don't they call it a catastrophe - hundereds of millions of dollars burned in this incident on Sep 1.
I just want to say the style of the article and it's direct, terse language really captures the gravity of the situation and seriousness of the subject.

Very sad, but very well written.
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I disagree about the money. Money is basically a measurement for human labor. Money is human life time. We should sentence people proportionally to how much they steal, which should really cut down multimillion dollar thefts.

For example in California grand theft (misdemeanor) is 1 year max in county jail (not even a prison), and 4 additional years if you stole more than $3.2 million. So in the very worst case you get 5 years.

How long does it take you to make $3.2M? For the average US person with the median income of $37,679 before taxes it will take 85 years, not counting the taxes.
First of all, the level of force used on Clarence Daniels did not clearly rise to lethal, so he wasn't necessarily allowed to use his handgun in reply in the first place (this can certainly be debated, but then you have to add the other people piling on before it was realized who was in the right).

Second, is anyone on my side arguing guns are a panacea to all self-defense problems and situations? As it was, Daniels got roughed up, Foster was found guilty of battery, the system worked pretty well, didn't it?
Ramachandrans The Tell-Tale Brain is certainly one of my favorite books, anyone who is interested in neurobiology should read it.
There are more people than ever.
That makes sense. Yep.
These things aren't catastrophes, they're inevitable and very much expected. Honestly, even "anomaly" might be a bit strong.
I'm just going to venture that most who DO own automatics frequently experience 'heavy traffic'.
Well, heh, anecdotally I know a few families with young kids with no cars. Medium-sized Pacific Northwest cities (Seattle and Portland).

Of course, plural of anecdote and all that, but I'd be curious if there's any actual data on the trend. Know of some?
“This raises serious questions about the reliability of the SpaceX launch vehicle,” said Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute, which receives money from Boeing Co., a SpaceX competitor. “They are taking this technology to the limits.”

Key quote on which the rest of the article appears to be constructed.

SpaceX is pushing the technology to the limits on purpose. This is not because they are doing "too much" but because they are doing everything they can to completely change the way rocketry is done.

When a Formula 1 car catches fire in the pits, do we call a halt to pressurised fuelling, or find ways to improve the safety of fuelling?

When a NASCAR crashes and burns, do we call a halt to car racing, or do we find ways to improve the safety and reliability of racing cars?

The simple answer to the "too much too fast" question is "no". Too much, too fast would be where SpaceX is unable to maintain their progress and makes mistakes they can not learn from.

Right now the focus of SpaceX is getting to the point where they can launch, land, relaunch. They will find more ways that quickly fuelling a rocket with supercooled fuel doesn't work.

Their competitors might simply say, "supercooled propellants are too hard," and stick to existing performance figures and trusted designs. SpaceX is choosing to do the hard thing because doing the hard thing is how you advance the state of the art.

"We choose to go to the Moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too." — President John F Kennedy, Rice University address.

Did NASA try doing too much, too fast? They went from the "four inch flight" of Mercury-Redstone 1 in 1960 to the disaster of Apollo 1 (crew killed in a cabin fire due to high oxygen atmosphere) in February 1967 to success with Apollo 11 in July 1969, with many lessons being learned in the meantime.
> Maybe we have different definitions of the word compromise.

Well if yours is to ask for measures so extreme that I've never even heard of them, then yes, we do.

You make responsible gun owners look like nuts. But thanks, you've done a wonderful job of illustrating the problem I was commenting on.
I would remove them from that list. They've had several security incidents if I recall correctly but here is one I https://status.linode.com/incidents/ghdlhfnfngnh
The real Tesla wasn't a billionaire before he started doing big stuff.
We cover insurance, but often not the realities of liability. Insurance has deductibles and limits. And often, people who get in accidents under insure (no collision / comprehensive) and postpone repairs to their own cars.
I can't agree with this sentiment enough, you have to ride defensively on the road, you're seen as a second class citizen, and drivers don't act with the same respect as they do other cars. However, I've never lived in France so I have nothing to compare to.
If rocket failures were a Poisson process with a low rate, you'd expect to see some clustering by random chance. And if they're being watched by the media, you should expect to see people making much of it, whether or not there's a systemic problem.

As with most news, I recommend waiting a decade and buying a history book.
You are fined one credit for a violation of the Verbal Morality Statute.
The license is less saying that you have sufficient skill to operate the vehicle in question, and far MORE saying that you are aware of geo-spatial relations and laws related to being legally responsible for operating such a vehicle.

Just like having a permit saying you can legally own firearms would not mean that you are in any way proficient at their use; just that you know when you should and shouldn't use them.
Yeah, because a rocket exploding is not important when you run a rocket company...

I mean, couldn't they focus on all those rockets that did not explode?
Surprised no one has mentioned the TADDCC instruction that Sun put in the 32-bit SPARC ISA for Franz Lisp, short for "Tagged ADD and set Condition Codes". This instruction, along with performing a normal add, would also set the overflow bit if the two low-order bits of either operand were nonzero. Thus it had baked in the assumption that the fixnum tag was 00. A subsequent instruction could branch on the overflow bit to the bignum/overflow handler, or if the implementor wanted to use a trap instead, there was the TADDCCTV variant that also trapped on overflow.

The 64-bit SPARC ISA has no such instruction. I guess it was concluded that a superscalar CPU could do well enough with a short sequence of general-purpose instructions, and it was better not to build in assumptions as to how a Lisp implementation would want to represent numbers, and Lisp was no longer very commercially important anyhow at that point in Sun's existence.

Anyway, if I ruled the universe, I would declare arbitrary-precision integers to be the default, but provide ways for the programmer to turn off the overflow check for specific operations as needed. This is exactly what Common Lisp does, though its notation for suppressing the check is rather verbose.
I was taught that too. Never bought it then, nor now.
Do I understand you correctly that you _only_ get around via Uber/Lyft? That seems expensive or at the least, very boring because you don't get out much.

Really, I think the minimum knowledge needed to use a bike for transportation is quite small. Walk into a local bike shop, list your needs/abilities, pay money, and start riding a bike. When you stop, use the u-lock they gave you to lock up the frame. Every week, put some air in the tire and recharge your lights. If something breaks, take it back to the shop.
Python 2.7 still reigns supreme in pip installs
That guy here. I'm also interested in rolling a version that only supports standard delimiters so I can forego rune parsing. Rune parsing accounts for about 30% of the processing; not sure how much a bytes implementation could save, but I'm hopeful.
> Anybody know if I can do a DNA test on food at home? How can I build a lab at home?

A MinION sequencer from Oxford Nanopore is $1000. With this alone (and a kit of chemicals and enzymes to prepare the sample) you can sequence DNA, but sequencing a random piece of DNA may not help you in identifying the animal or plant species used in a food product.

So probably you need to use PCR to amplify a suitable piece of DNA, so you know what you are sequencing. For this you need enzymes, which probably cost in tens or hundreds of dollars for each use, and then in principle you can do PCR "by hand" (I have done this) with the enzymes, some test tubes and 3 water baths kept controlled in certain temperatures. Or buy a machine that cycles the temperature in a controlled manner. They are really just thermal cyclers, but they are commonly known as "PCR machines". You can get a used one for about $1000.

Then at least one micropopipette (surprisingly expensive, almost $200, or buy used) and some glassware etc.

If you have the knowledge, $3000 to $5000 should have you up and running. Some stuff, like enzymes, are consumable, so you need to use more money to restock when the lab is running.
isn't the point here that you can share vaults with other people?
What Is It Like to Negotiate a VC Round? pre vs post money valuation
Manual transmissions are almost always a custom order. You can walk into any dealer and ask that $800 be knocked off and chances are you will get it. But this only applies to the cars on the lot, which are almost always automatic.

If you are lucky the dealer might have a cancelled order on the lot with a manual transmission.
For string comparisons, wouldn't case sensitivity and normalization be an issue in some contexts?
I think the most interesting part of this for me is the fact it relies on the the SpeechRecognition api to return swear words redacted with asterisks.

See for example George Carlin's "Seven dirty words" as returned by the SpeechRecognition demo https://cl.ly/3A1F0r3U1H1D/Screen%20Shot%202016-09-03%20at%2...