skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ho-hum. The military campaign which lead to these people's deaths was planned by one man. Osama bin Laden, a Saudi plucked from obscurity when the US government began (via ISI) heavily arming him so that he could oust the secular Afghan government and wage a jihad to impose his own vision of an Islamic government. It is some irony that the people in the Pentagon who sent arms to Mr. bin Laden and his cadre would some day have an airliner plow through their building by the anti-imperialist they had empowered.

I guess we'll never see long, mawkish stories in Esquire about the people the US had killed in Afghanistan in the US-backed attempt to oust the secular government and impose the proto-Al Qaeda and proto-Taliban's vision of government. America was gung-ho for bin Laden, when he was killing other secular types. People who "took the other side" on Afghanistan were who were pilloried in the US, beyond the pale, followed by the FBI etc.

Then the US decides to plant military bases all over "Saudi" Arabia. The US refers to the country always with the prefix "Saudi", as if its puppet dictatorship there had a divine right which extended to the country name. Some Arabians, Mr. bin Laden, and some of the fellows who plowed into the aforementioned World Trade Center and Pentagon did not appreciate this foreign military occupation. After all, the US had been arming them for a long time to fight against foreign imperialists setting up their military bases on foreign lands.

I should note that when the US kills civilians with bombs, it accuses the foreign country of having "human shields" around military installations. Well obviously the Pentagon is a military target. By the US standard I just mentioned the World Trade Center is a military target as it had military intelligence and such offices there. So by the US standard, the people who died were "human shields" cast their to die to protect the military intelligence offices in the World Trade Center.

Tired of this mawkish nonsense fifteen years on. The US is who armed this jihadist to fight against secular governments, the US rung his home country with military bases (which in a typical bully/coward way were gone within two years of 9/11 - 9/11 worked, the pitiful helpless giant skulked away in a cowardly manner).

It's kind of like the imperialists of France bombing Syria, then asking for worldwide bereavement, world leaders holding hands and marching through Paris to mourn the fact that some brave Syrian anti-imperialists decided to bomb them back a month later.

I can understand a powerful nation deciding to subjugate weaker nations, but this mawkish mourning about the "victims" of anti-imperialists fighting to regain control of their countries from the imperialist American aggressor is sickening. Americans are who armed this guy to wage jihad on secular imperialism to begin with. Then they decided to ring his country with their military bases.
The Isotope Table? I'm old and rural, but I didn't come across it in high school until I (an atypical geek) went looking for it specifically.
> Why would the Soviet's independently develop a highly flawed project?

Probably a few reasons:

* At the point of starting Shuttle operations, the flaws of the design weren't as apparent, especially not to general public.

* Even though it LOOKS similar, it's actually not all that similar in design. The main difference is that it doesn't actually carry engines (which are the most expensive and problematic part of Shuttle due to their planned reuse) - Buran was taken into orbit by an expendable Energia rocket, which "solved" the problems with expensive engine rebuilds and testing.

* At the end of the day, Buran never got past the prototype stage. It flew a single mission (empty, fully automated), landed and was then shelved. Only two prototypes were ever built.
Why not to just buy one aircraft and reverse engineer its engines? What is the problem with just copying exact copy of existing engine?
>Why is equal representation of races and genders not realistically possible?

Because, realistically, to achieve equal representation, people would have to forced into careers they are not interested in.
Government stimulates the demand for money with taxes. No taxes, no economy.
You have to check if they are the right type if they are binary files as well.

It is far easier to repair and recover an xml file than a binary format.
Well it kind of is. A modified BSD kernel (open source, called darwin) that can't run without heavy modifications on non-apple hardware, with lots of proprietary libraries bolted in.

So they effectively took an open source software and made it hard to use outside their own hardware. So unless I'm missing something, macOS is basically a "tivoized" BSD.

I agree though that NeXT didn't "steal BSD". BSD is liberally licensed, so NeXT was perfectly within their rights to use it. Legally speaking, I don't think they even needed to open source their fork.
Seems easy enough to give BI to folks who are 18+ and not offer more for kids, or only offer more for the first kid, whatever. There's no reason to give a financial incentive to have more kids, and if you don't the disincentive is already built in (kids cost money).

By the way, the issue is not as much population growth as high consumption. What is worse, more people living on basic income or the billions in China and India aspiring to an American middle class lifestyle?
The article is all over the place. I don't even think that we can discuss the article as a whole. Furthermore the premises and the conclusions get mixed up, and there is a lot of circular reasoning going on.
> but I don't think things could get much worse than where we are now.

I suggest reading books and history to understand how stupid what you've said is. Take that as an insult if you wish.
"Fuel" and "economic" do not have to be used explicitly in the article, or is reading and comprehension a lost art?

Take the following paragraph, for example:

> For China, the An-225 would open whole new frontiers in commercial and military air transportation. A fleet of civilian An-225s could quickly ship heavy and bulky cargoes of massive scale, ranging from construction equipment to consumer goods. For humanitarian purposes, the An-225 could support disaster relief operations, able to fly in not just large amounts of aid, but also by bringing infrastructure like power generation and water treatment that are normally too big for airlift.

That spells out in plain language why possession of the An-225 and its technologies make economic sense for China. And the paragraph after that state the military reasons why China would need the An-225.
Isn't that blood pressure very low? Sounds like close to something that makes you faint.
What about the environmental impact of chopping down forest to make way for farmland. The impact of billions more traversing the globe and leaving their litter. What about the real scarcity of clean water on this planet, sure we can desalinate the ocean but what will be the unitended consequences of this. What about when we start running out of oxygen when we've destroyed everything else under the vanguard of a human population without scarcity.
The whole point of UBI is universal.

If it's just moving some bits into everyone's account monthly, entire layers of bureacracy, with their buildings, staff, forms, and fraud checking departments, can be removed. It should make it remarkably cheap to run, comparatively.

Make it lower income only and you have to bring all that back.
Well that was verbose

Maybe the four paragraph version was enough
> How do you pronounce the name?

More importantly, how do you Google for it?
Professional athletes are using low carb diets (http://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-calcook-side-20130622-stor...)

And there is no real conclusions for long runners either (http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2014/05/26/bjsports-2014-0...)
Yes, there is, you have a lot of overhead in any case for the same tools.
> Competition will continue to keep prices down

That's an incomplete statement, because it doesn't quantify the effect. Will the effect be zero, or will BI be priced-in (higher prices, lower present-value of BI)?

US college tuition and housing prices increased dramatically, because of decreased consumer price discrimination driven by low-barrier loans.
Hmm.. hard to say, but in 2016 I've probably spent around 5 hours per week on average.

Most of the times I've struggled with ML has been related to the fact that I've been trying courses/tasks that have been above my level. Once I find content which is tailored to my level, ML isn't that hard after all.

I definitely want to do more ML in the future, one way or the other.
In that case, China needs to build some good analog of KGB.
If you don't know how anything works, all you can do is follow, and cannot separate misinformation from truth. It's funny you mention engines because it's widely known that auto mechanics will take advantage of the general public's ignorance of how their cars work in order to profit. The same goes for several other industries. Sometimes the corporations actively try to prevent their consumers from knowing too much. Maybe you're fine with that. Others aren't.

Computers have permeated almost every aspect of our lives. It makes great sense and empowerment to actually know how they work.

As the saying goes, "knowledge is power".
Yes, but sugars and starches are carbohydrates

(I think you mean high-glycemic index foods).
> Now I'm wondering if there are similar things in Australia, too.

AFAIK most if not all aboriginal communities were hunter-gatherers (unless you include torres strait islanders), not settled agriculturalists, hence didn't have large fixed-place communities (and thus no source material for ruins).
I was working in console games during the 32->64 transition, and watched our game engine code suddenly go crazy with data size specificity.

It was a little weird. I don't know whether it's good or bad overall, but there was definitely a reason for it, the need was clear. Suddenly you didn't know how big an int was, and that matters a lot when you're sending ints over the network and stuffing ints into save games, and it matters a lot when you use an int expecting 64 bits, but you're still compiling code for a Wii and only get 32. It matters for multiply overflows and negative numbers and bit flags and for a bunch of things besides deciding how high your for loop will go or what your largest return value is.

As you say, very few people want to decide what size to use when declaring functions. But everyone wants to know exactly what to expect. If you do declare something and don't actually know what size it is, you have a real problem that can and will lead to crashes.

> Notice how smooth the 32-bit to 64-bit transition went?

I'm not certain, but is it possible it went smooth because everyone working in C/C++ started paying attention to their data sizes?

As a user of Ruby/JS/Python, it would be worth checking what happened to the source code for the interpreters of those languages. When you program in them, yes, you're buffered from a lot of data size issues, but the internals of the languages themselves may be just as fixed-size centric as anything.
But faster because parallel.
if it is that literal, I'm sure this would be against the spirit of the law, anyway.
Yeah, it's pretty fucked up.
> Maybe we need a program similar to Scouting, but for adults that have lived all of their lives in or around cities? Would help to bridge the urban-rural divide in both directions. Does such a thing exist?

There are two good options for this, NOLS (National Outdoor Leadership School) and Outward Bound. I went on an Outward Bound expedition where we kayaked for several days on Lake Superior, and I have a number of friends involved with NOLS. NOLS and Outward Bound are similar; they both teach outdoor skills in a group setting. Outward Bound has a little more emphasis on group dynamics, but they're both great programs and they offer a wide variety of courses in beautiful locations.

NOLS: http://www.nols.edu/

Outward Bound: http://www.outwardbound.org/
Interesting, I am not familiar with the job situation in France so I was basing the sentence on this quote from the article "Second, it has often been blamed for providing an incentive to give up looking for a job". It sounds like whether or not the statement is true as you mentioned basic income still provides an overall benefit.
low carb != zero carb

Zero carb (or if too reduced) is really not sustainable

And you're right, eating an apple is ok.
The religions I've endured attempt to tiptoe the line. They admit to life's unfairness, but they still pretend that by praying in the right way or donating to the right televangelist one can make it a little more "fair" for oneself. Also there's the whole heaven thing, which has been a great distraction from the ills of this world since its invention. Really, 'sullyj3 has it exactly right.
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Well, you don't elect the PM in parliamentary democracies either.

That said, the electoral college is largely a formality. Much more important than the fairly remote chance an elector might vote against the will of his state is the fact that most states have winner-take-all systems, wherein you get all of the state's electors by winning a majority. Even that has only proved problematic thrice: once in 2000, once in 1888, and once in 1876. And I think there are reasonable arguments in its defense: you force candidates to have some geographical distribution of support, for example. If it was based on solely on the popular vote, you could win the election with massive majorities in a few populous states and no support elsewhere.

It's also balanced out, I think, by the fact the Presidency is, relatively speaking, not all that powerful of an office in America anyway - his most important power is "figurehead/scapegoat in a bully pulpit." Other than that he gets a veto over legislation (which Congress can override), command of the military (which is funded by Congress), and gets to appoint some top level executive offices and the judiciary - subject to Senate approval. Hypothetically Congress can also remove him from office via impeachment.
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I strongly disagree with this:

> Pretty much any diet which is free of anything should be avoided.

For the couple of years, I've been trying various elimination diets so that I can see what effects particular foods and food groups have on me. Even if I had ended up with exactly the same diet, it would have been worth doing, as I learned a lot about my body and my relationship with food.

As it happens, though, I want to keep some pretty big changes. After doing my 3rd Whole30 [1], a paleo-esque 30-day elimination diet, I'm just finishing a week where I returned to eating refined carbohydrates. My conclusion: as much as I enjoy those foods, they make me feel terrible. My mood and energy were much less even. They put big demands on my self control, and make me prone to binging. I sleep less well. Starting tomorrow, I'm going to spend a few months without refined carbohydrates again (sugar, flour, juices). I'll probably drop dairy again too.

I don't know that I'd recommend my particular choices for anybody else, but I strongly encourage curious people to experiment with elimination diets. If nothing else you get the sort of exercise in self-control that religious people get from Lent, which I think is valuable on its own. But I learned a ton along the way, and wish I had done this years ago.

[1] http://whole30.com/
Practically every single paragraph in that article, including image captions, either infer or directly address the economic reasons for why China would want the An-225 and its technologies.
How do you prove #2?

When I go to Best Buy I just assume they have licenses to all the movies they are selling.

For copyright infringement, distinct from theft,it has never been the burden of the consumer to know who has a license to distribute.
I understand where you're coming from, however, there is no doubt an existing entitlement issue that is directly based on how much money you have. We have ALL seen this.

Also, what history books are you talking about? I've read some history books but your suggestion was very unhelpful!
> On the right is the infamous voucher system. It has been widely experimented, often with negative results, in fields such as education. The principle is to provide individuals with money and let them find providers on a lightly regulated market. Vouchers often deliver poor performance. The money distributed contributes to inflating the prices as the price elasticity of supply is negative—if only because nobody’s sure that the vouchers will last (everything depends on the next round of elections). Those with lesser means, having only the voucher to spend, are thus trapped with the worst providers (or no provider at all, despite the voucher), while the richest pay on top of the vouchers to secure access to the best offer, contributing even more to inflating prices.

On the left, we find the giant social bureaucracy we are all fed up with. The quintessential bureaucratic social state is the British National Health Service (NHS). The advantage of a system such as the treasured NHS is that it guarantees everyone access to affordable and professional care providers whatever your location and your income level. The painful problem, which turned the NHS into a thorn in the side of every British government, is that in the current context of tax revolt, hatred of government, and fiscal austerity, the quality of the experience provided by the NHS can only go down, with longer waiting lines, less customized care, and ultimately a vicious circle in which everybody loses, patients as well as professionals.

On one side, it's economically unsound, and will require massive taxation to be sustainable. Otherwise, it will only work until all the Angels run out of money, then it will cause massive inflation. Mathematically, there are no other options.

Second, who's going to administer it? Governments, being made from people, are notorious for corruption and scandal, and poor service.
Niantic was an internal startup at Google before spinning out into an independent company in 2015. By that point they already proved out their business idea with a cult hit game called Ingress, off which Pokemon Go is based. So technically yes, you're right :)
IANAL but I believe it is illegal to read mail in this way. You have an expectation of privacy with a letter. Same with your house, you have a reasonable expectation of privacy within it. That being said, I believe if this is cheap enough they will start doing it in secret and the courts probably will not stop it. Whether or not they will attempt to use anything gained from it directly in court is debatable but it could lead to parallel construction cases.
In this case U.S. government restrictions probably restrict China from buying U.S.-manufactured planes. I doubt Antonov wants to sell its only An-225.
Having a country where people are thrown in prison for refusing to help other people who, through no fault of the imprisoned individual's own, are in unfortunate circumstances, is a basic indication of authoritarianism.

Like something the Sparrows in GoT would justify.
> by definition Basic Income is unconditional. Anyone who applies should get it.

Doesn't have to be. Some versions are, some aren't. Given we are talking about a system that does not exist, not sure why you say it is one thing or the other. Some versions give to minors, some do not. Some only give to citizens in good standing (no felons). Conditions can exist and should exist in my opinion.
(2014)

Here's the previous comments from the submission a couple years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8908462
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Why Apple removed the headphone port from the iPhone 7
> XP mode exists in Windows 7

Simply, it does not. Do a clean install. It's not there. That is why you have to go to that web page and click that big "download" button.

> Out of interest, which XP-era software just works without it?

Almost everything.

PS: I was on the windows team during development of 7.
Thanks for taking the time to read the article.
Being vegetarian and being "low carb" is to some extent oxymoronic, you are getting your calories from somewhere and if it is vegetarian it mostly going to be fatty acids and carbs.

A few months with "light exercise" doesn't mean anything, your personal feeling is also not a quantifiable metric, if you were actually setting yourself a specific physical goal like to run say 10KM under 40min, or deadlift X lbs you would not be feeling very well without carbs.

Overall what low carb diets excel at is to cut people away from "bad foods" which means it's very easy for them to be in caloric deficiency (sometimes considerably higher than what they should, you do not want to have a dietary caloric deficiency higher than 200 of your BMR (not the BRM part not total caloric expenditure), and 500 is the max for even extreme diets) but if you are already willing to not eat processed food cutting good carbs like rice, full grain, and many fruits and vegetables out of your diet is simply silly.
That's every society that has taxes and social programs, which is what.. every society? Sounds like you are not happy with the compromise democracy has to offer. Not sure what to tell you, but if most people want BI then it would be authoritarian to not give it to them in a democracy.
> Seems easy enough to give BI to folks who are 18+ and not offer more for kids, or only offer more for the first kid,

So absence of scarcity will totally be a thing if everything just goes according to plan. Got it.
In cases like this, use Tor Browser.
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http://cbor.io
actually recent evidence point to below 100 to be beneficial
I think people overlook the fact that the author made an even more strong point by using shell scripting, which is relatively inefficient compared to using a compiled language. I guess it would hit the I/O cap without even going parallel.
Machine learning is an interesting case, in that the gap between theory and praxis is quite wide.

You can basically create, run and evaluate a model within 10 minutes (e.g. with scikit-learn or Tensorflow). It would even be an acceptable model that might solve your company's problem.

But you have to plan in a few years of deliberate practice to work through statistical learning theory and its prerequisites to get an overview and to be able contribute to the scientific or open source efforts in that field.
Really? I haven't had a chance to dig into it and a quick google-based look-see didn't pop up immediately obvious results, but I would have thought that two areas where one would want to use C would include specific bit manipulation and explicit memory management. Both of those violate the high-level principles that I thought Rust was supposed to be about. So, either I was wrong (which happens more and more these days), or Rust has a work-around, or it's not a good fit for that last bastion of C use-cases.

Thoughts?
At $dayjob we use capnproto as our primary interchange format. I google for 'capnp'.
I purchased a Toyota Tundra truck in Utah in 2007, and then drove it back to Arizona where I lived. The truck was new to the market and not available yet in AZ. The dealer had no problem whatsoever with titling the truck, financing it, and paying the taxes on it to Arizona and not Utah. It was very painless. The dealer told me that they do it all the time, and it was totally normal .

So my personal experience - easy, no problem. Only paid taxes to AZ, not UT. No lines, no DMV, no problem with registration, nothing. I just flew in, got the truck, drove home.
It's possible. In this video you can see 8+ people jumping within a couple of seconds of each other from approximately the same place: https://youtu.be/b9QN3AkydYY?t=344
try going for fish or seafood instead of red meat, I love steaks but I started to balance it out with more vegetable proteins/fats (avocado) and oily fish like salmon