skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
News Flash: Genetic Scientist Thinks GMO foods Are OK. What a shocker, a booster for GMOs who works in ... gene sequencing.
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Yes, I've read almost all his books, there's still a couple sitting on my Kindle.

I disagree with seeing these books as bleak, or indeed anything by Banks (it could be because our definitions of bleak differ, since I agree with you on the other values). The SF part is simply a setting for his strength, which is to detail and praise human character. For example, he continuously breaks the "rules of good writing" such as having dei ex machina (or more properly, dei in machina with some exceptions like The Algebraist) conclude most books but he is an example where it is done in a way that augments the story.

In most Banks stories, characters (including the Minds, for example in Excession) are put in difficult situations made believable by well structured suspension of disbelief ("great craftsmanship"). They get out of these situations using their intelligence and demonstrating courage and a well defined hierarchy of values (including appropriate self-sacrifice for something they value higher than their life). This is philosophically the opposite of Story of My Life and Ubik. Even if the ending is a downer, even if major characters suffer enormously (I'm still marked by Surface Detail years after reading it... truly harrowing), reading Banks had me walk away with my mind augmented somehow.

That being said, on the First contact/alien civilisation front I always got the feeling that Banks' aliens species are always very human, representing different facets of human nature, including the Minds. I think it is on purpose, like Asimov in most of his work he was not setting out to represent truly alien species as Charlie Stross, Peter Watts or Cixin Liu have done but writing novels about human characters and values that happened to be framed by SF.
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How do companies avoid being found negligent i.e. Could a company be sued for hiring someone grossly incompetent on the basis they did not vet the employees competence?

I'd always presumed there were similar requirements (i.e open source licenses often disclaim liability for code released under them)
? What's your point?
"... pretty much the only market for pickup trucks"

I thought, huh? 'cuz where I live it's pickup trucks as far as the eye can see. Turns out that my country has the highest per capita ownership of pickup trucks [1]

[1] http://wardsauto.com/industry/pickup-trucks-reign-thailand
> Its an American problem, but it isn't one you just solve banning cars or something.

We're discussing a law that forces people to provide excess parking whether they want to or not, and your counter example is banning cars?

There's a universe of options in between those two extremes.
Actually the previous time that this was shared on HN, the article clearly pointed out that less than 25% of the accounts are actually active.
Depends, if the benefit is from having them remain there then an annual tax credit or similar seems reasonable. You probably don't want a situation where you get paid more for annual logging and replanting then maintaining a forest in place.
Thanks, "last mile" confused me because it implies a transfer. With CT applied to software updates, I think you really could be suspicious-by-default of your software vendor.

Do you have any thoughts on why codebase.db should exist, versus pushing the same hashes to a CT log and having clients check for CT announcements? Seems like CT is a clear improvement.
I'm really curious as to where you learnt of that 6% statistic. Any links you can provide?
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.
On discovering that buttons and other controls were just different classes of windows, I wrote a few little games that took advantage of it to spawn moving buttons, checkboxes, and other widgets. Their sources and binaries are probably still somewhere, but not currently on this computer. Incidentally, I believe Minesweeper also does the same with its grid --- they're just buttons.
Minimum parking requirements are also a mechanism to prevent businesses from declining to build parking and free-riding on their neighbors.

They also effectively ensure maximum density, which in some areas is an explicit government policy objective.
I'm getting really sick of these media companies pushing their anti-rich agenda. Blaming rich people for parking that causes costs to rise for poor people is just insulting.

I didn't believe in much liberal bias in the media until this election. This is simply another extent of it, it's really eye opening.
Prisons are dysfunctional and cost too much. Why isn't GPS-tagging, curfew and public record sufficient to protect society?

Reform could only be somewhere where >90% people are non-criminal e.g. army, monastery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundredth_monkey_effect
I was working for the leading print marketing company that was starting to have serious competitors and post-IPO we were really concerned that people were going to order business cards from us all the time (since they were almost free) to track our daily internal sales via order number. I can't say that we ever had hard evidence that this was happening but we thought we had suspicious activity once so we changed it.

An aside, changing order number to a hash value can be a huge pain in a manufacturing environment when people have (mis)used it to for a variety of purposes beyond order identification.
> pay more for their groceries to ensure that richer people can park free when they drive to the store.

That seems to assume that the richer people just park there "for free" and then don't buy anything.

How much volume would that store move without those customers, and what would that do to the prices? Hard to say. On the one hand, there would be lower demand. On the other, worse economy of scale.

Heaven fucking forbid that the poor pay even a tiny share for for something that doesn't directly benefit them.

Paying for this and that which doesn't benefit oneself: isn't that squarely the job of the working class? Don't foist that onto the poor, or the rich.
The trucks that deliver the goods that poor people buy (and carry away the waste) are hard as hell on roads - you could say that the car drivers are subsidizing (through gasoline taxes) the massive infrastructure costs of maintaining a road network. I don't know how the numbers would balance out, but I'd bet that the benefits of that subsidy are greater than the costs incurred from free parking.
Does this mean we can write a single binary with GUI which is valid in ELF/COM/Mach-O ?
Bezos owns WP. He doesn't like the fact that the city forces him to build built-in parking for his imported drones so they're not clogging the locals' ability to live in their own city.
Very clever!

Aside from illusions there are many interesting proposals using mirrors.

I think most people don't think you can use mirrors with fibre optics to bounce daylight directly into people's houses for indoor lighting. There is also this cool trick you can do by using something called a 'cold mirror', where the visible spectrum is tapped into for lighting but at the same time the IR portion of the spectrum passes through the cold mirror and onto a solar thermal tank for making hot water.

All this, with mirrors!
Then poverty activists will vilify you for making it too expensive for poor people to shop at your store.

There are so many factions that will attack you for doing something, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't.
Well, I didn't actually say 'lot more == all'. I was just mentioning that PMJDY bank accounts and debit cards would ease things a bit for the people who have them, compared to the days when they had no bank accounts whatsoever (remember, PMJDY bank accounts are specially tailored for people with low income and/or unstructured income). Anyway, you don't need a bank account to exchange demonetized currency notes.
> I'm just googling shit here and I already appear to know more than you do.

Perhaps Google can teach you reading comprehension too.
Not everybody lived a cushy middle class life as you did, you condescending prick. Have some fucking empathy. I bet if you were born in the midst of poverty, abuse, crime, neglect, and lack of education as millions of people throughout the world do, you would be singing a different tune.

I swear, some people...
I'm assuming this is the same phenomenon with a metal-body camera I have - even though it was only charging off 5VDC at ~1A.
Yes but why? Why not put this effort towards simply reintroducing biodiversity to our crops??

How do you counter the very obvious profit motive here? "Gee Beta Carotene I Understand That's Good For Your Health, I'll Pay A Premium For That". How do you prevent that profit motive from minimizing unprofitable research into long-term health impacts? Face it, there will NEVER be a money motive to really figure this stuff out, that's why we're only finding out about BPAs now: there's just zero money in doing anything but the minimum due-diligence, as forced on you by the FDA, which is already bought out anyway!

It's like the nuke argument. Sure GMOs are potentially fantastic but as a race, or at least this capitalist version of a race, humans seem to be incapable of managing technology this fearsome.
>That you huff and puff about scholarship "these days" like a grumpy old man

Are you really going to defend the state of the humanities disciplines? I'd love to read your attempt at a reasoned defense of postmodernist drivel.
In 100 years or so people will look back at our prisons like we now look back on the Bastille.
This is such an important point. In Australia and we have so many beautiful places to live but anyone tied into white collar work like mine basically has 2 cities that have good employment options and a few more with limited opportunity.

I suspect many would head to sea/tree change if ensuring your earnings was not such an important factor.
I never shop anywhere I can't park at
Assuming other sites DON'T do this it helps the security of other sites. But it hurts the security of your site.
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Fire code make everything more expensive. Why have them?
Yes. Now, a lot of PMJDY bank accounts are seeing activity. This could be the case where people actually using their accounts, or could be the case where they are being misused to stash black money. In any case, GoI is looking into it[1].

[1] http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation...
I wonder what effect the new convenient cheap mirror had on the profession of barber.

Did people shave themselves before mirrors became widely available?
I only step foot in the mall when I must. I much prefer to walk to the corner grocery store or take the train to a downtown shopping district. I suppose we cancel each other out.
The problem is sometimes I DO want to watch the video. I just don't want it to always autoplay.
Switzerland Tries to Save Rhone Glacier by Covering It in Blankets
My city just passed a bond measure which includes $36MM for a 300 space parking garage for the high school and city hall, literally meters from where a new light rail stop will be built. 25% of the city's families don't own a car. I have trouble not seeing this as a forced, direct subsidy for the lifestyle of the employees of the city. And this is supposedly one of the most transit-friendly cities around (in the US). But this is an enormous cost, for the benefit of so few... plus it will add 600 trips per day to some of our busiest local roads.

Free parking has all sorts of problems, and when government gets in on the game it only raises more questions, in my mind.

[edited to clarify that the city in question is in the USA]
Interesting. Now you got me thinking more about what things might change with self-driving cars.

Will cars offer an "orbiting" mode where they keep driving in a circle until you are ready to be picked up.

Will stores offer a driving ring where cars can drive around in circles off the main street in the case where no parking slots are available?

Will cars be able to drop you off, and park themselves when a space becomes available? Will the cars notify you where they parked, or will they always come to your location? (And what if you are standing in an area that is impossible to drive to...where does the car go?)

I can't wait for self-driving cars. This will be a lot of fun to see how the world changes in both the large and small.
The way I try to explain it is in absolute (ish) coordinates:

If you face north, your image faces south. Your left hand is on your west side. The reflection of your left hand is also on the west side. If you grab the mirror and turn so you face west, your reflection faces east and both your left hand and the reflection are on the south side.

If you reset the mirror and then stand sideways (facing east, mirror to your north), your left hand is to the north and right hand is to the south. In the mirror, the image of your left hand is to the south and right hand, to the north. But your reflection is facing east, just like you are.
Ah, from viewing the site on my desktop, I can see the link to the main site. It appears to be a paid app (but still in pre-release)

EDIT: link to actual site: https://fman.io/
You aren't looking for productive discourse. You are promoting a very dangerous idea and pulling a single phrase completely out of context as a cheap excuse to be dismissive.

I also used to pay accident claims. I have paid claims for dumbasses whose lack of gun safety practices maimed a child for life. I also denied one where his carelessness was so beyond the pale it was not covered.

I don't feel any need to "respect" your supposed right to promote this terrible idea.

If you want to prepare to be Mad Max, take up archery. A bow requires real skill. You won't be empowering some random jackass to kill you with your own weapon.
So you think that companies who only take cash will pay higher wages thus keeping that money locally? I would assume that lower cost would lead to lower prices rather than higher wages.
Nah dude, that's too much logic for washingtonpost.com
Stores within walking distance of lots of customers have more customers, but we made that illegal so we could stratify neighborhoods by income.
Nice work estimating for yourself.

Did you try manually counting a strip of the street and then comparing it to your density estimate?
Eastern State Penitentiary is considered the first "true penitentiary" Wikipedia[1] has pretty good coverage of its history, including starting with an all solitary system.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_State_Penitentiary
But most of those places are exactly the same kind of echo chambers...just for a different side
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> a 1/3 or 1/2 pound burger made with this meat would cost about $50 in a restaurant.

More than that. A 1/2 burger would cost, using the 30% food cost rule of thumb for restaurant pricing, nearly $80 assuming that everything other than the patty had no food cost.
The notion that there should be no prisons at all is nuts in my view, there must be a way for people to protect themselves from others who repeatedly act violently.

But the fact that prisoners frequently have to face rape is sick and shows how dysfunctional the current system is. I even read some time ago an article that stated that the US is the only country in the world where more men than women are raped. (due to the fact that so many men are raped in prison)

What I personally believe would be a good way to treat this issue is to have prisoners work in the private sector while their payment will largely be used to pay for prison and to repay their victims for the damage they have caused them. The prisoner is set free once he has paid for all damages. (or as much as is reasonably possible)

Prisons will have an incentive to make sure that their prisoners earn as much as possible (trainings and education), victims will receive payments for damages and the prisoners themselves will have an incentive to get out of prison as soon as possible. Of course this can't be done with every type of felony and there's the question if damages are always accurate.

Also with this approach some types of felonies cannot be punished. One example would be drug abuse. You are only harming yourself and since no third party can claim damages it also would not be punished. (this alone would hugely reduce prison population)

You could even make the case that selling drugs would be legalised since there's clearly a buyer willing to buy and consume it who's not hurting any third parties directly by his choice.

I believe it is more reasonable to have prison sentences reflect the damage caused instead of ideology and prison life be more about making it up to the victims (as far as it is possible) instead of creating the most nasty, brutal place imaginable and having people suffer there.

It's probably also a better lesson for an offender to have to repay someone for destroying his car than subjecting him to repeated rapes which will likely break him psychologically.
No sir, its not 2 or 3 people, its far too many to count now. I've seen many of these cases where Trump supporters just want to send (legal or not) immigrants to their countries. And yes, not all Trump supporters are the same, but people are using his ill messages as an excuse to express their xenophobia to critical levels.
As Bryan Stevenson says, a person is more than the worst mistake they've made. The inhumanity of American prisons is reprehensible, and limits the potential of our most vulnerable populations. Imagine if Obama has been imprisoned for smoking a joint in his really years. Is that moment of indiscretion worth voiding a whole life?

For those interested in keeping up with our contributing to the effort to fix the US prison system, please check out the Ella Baker center, http://ellabakercenter.org. Started by Van Jones twenty years ago, they've been on the forefront of resisting unnecessary prison expansions, reducing the rate at which juveniles are put in prison, and more.
In urban areas the parking actually doesn't attract many customers. It is often government mandated, not something the store necessarily would choose to provide.

Each space requires land, and in urban areas land is not cheap. Even worse, it's land that could be used for more retail, office, housing, etc.

I'm on mobile and don't have access to links, but IIRC each space costs like $10K to provide.

In many cities parking minimum laws stiffle growth by making new buildings impossible to build as the parking requirements are quite onerous. It's either get much bigger scale (also illegal) or get a waiver for parking (difficult for small scale property owners to navigate).

We're not even talking about environmental effects.

Honestly, if parking is so great and rational, why do we have laws requiring X spaces per Y square feet per Z use?
It's not just about welfare, its also about political power. For example, New York houses tens of thousands of prisoners from New York City in various upstate prison towns. The population of these prisoners is counted towards the populations of these upstate towns, even though the prisoners cannot vote and aren't from that area. For purposes of gerrymandering, funding, and anything else related to population these prisoners are literally political ammunition. This added clout puts representatives in the statehouse that exist only to flood the prisons with more prisoners, completely beholden to prison guard unions and other prison-related industries. They spend their time blocking any sort of logical criminal reform, marijuana legalization, or anything else that would slow the steady stream of prisoners. Its a corrupt system to the core.

http://www.demos.org/publication/census-count-and-prisoners-...
Cars moving take up more space that stationary parked cars. What you've stumbled on is actually a concern for transit planners - more traffic because self driving cars are circling without any passengers.
You're right and you're wrong - trucks generally don't pay the true cost of their road usage, but neither do motorists, at least through gas taxes and tolls. Much of our road funding comes from other sources like sales taxes and such. Which seems really funny when public transportation is constantly expected to pay for itself, but far more inefficient private motor vehicles don't have to pay their fair share.
Cash recovery has been less than 6% of the undisclosed income
seized from tax evaders, shows an HT analysis of data from tax
raids from financial year 2012-13 onwards.

Financial year 2015-16 saw the highest black-money detection in
the period, of which 6% was cash.

Source: http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/cash-has-only-6-sha...
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What? Increased demand does not generally lead to lower prices.
Due to EMI reasons, for switching converters, the hot and neutral terminals of mains input is generally capacitively connected to the Earth prong via high frequency capacitors. That means if the earth prong isn't properly connected to actual earth, the earth prong now has your mains voltage divided by two on it. If the earth connection happens to be connected to the chassis, there's your shock.

It probably won't kill you unless you have a weak heart or if you're really unlucky because the EMI suppression caps are small enough to not supply lethal current, but can be really annoying.
Indeed, that's the goal: reliable! :)
For reference, a single car space in Sydney sold for over $100k[0]...

[0] - http://www.domain.com.au/news/kirribilli-car-spot-sells-for-...
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Not only that but the suburbs built up around these streetcar networks are typically the preferred places to live in cities these days, due to their walkable neighborhoods.
Mirrors reverse the handedness of your coordinate system.
There is atleast some indication that the Modi government took some steps in the prior years/months to strategically encircle the medium to big hoarders of black money and soothe the impact of the drastic demonetization step on the poor. Having said that any action of this magnitude is bound to have misplanning, unintended consequences and hardship

2013
Under previous government
Replace subsidies with direct deposits in bank accounts of poor citizens[1]

2014
Under Modi
Massive push to open bank accounts for poor people which seems to have bought banking to many households who never previously had one[2]

2015
Renegotiation of Tax treaties and Information sharing treating with tax heavens[3][4]

Window for hoaders of black money to declare it for a flat penalty[5]

2016
Demonetization

A more detailed step by step account
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/prime-minister-modi-surgi...

[1] http://www.voanews.com/a/india-replaces-subsidies-for-the-po...
[2] http://qz.com/257548/the-response-to-modi-governments-first-...
[3]http://swarajyamag.com/economy/campaign-against-black-money-...
[4]http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=146245
[5] http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/10-things-to-know-abou...
... and whose fault is that ?
Totally agree and it is the best approach. Here in Wellington, New Zealand, we have a free workshop for everybody who would like to learn JavaScript, and we build a project together. The transcript is available online and totally free for everybody worldwide here: http://yoember.com
How does it violate FCC regulations? You can turn it off.
I think this might be the paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1602.05110.pdf

My trick is to search for the paper's title with `filetype:pdf` appended to the query string.
Given the choice between a mall with paid parking and a mall with free parking, I'm picking the mall with free parking.

Even if there's some sort of validation system if you buy something, dealing with the whole ticketing system on entry and exit is annoying, and in the circumstances where I don't end up buying anything I have to deal with paying for the parking. It's much less of a hassle to just avoid all that.