skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ouch. I moved from Florida to Houston, so I was used to hurricanes and didn't even care. I remember watching the news and that guy in the bear costume dancing on Galveston beach before my power went out for the 2-3 weeks. The power went out and I just hopped on my phone and used it until the battery died. No concern at all for power conservation or anything.

Little did I know the entire TX power infrastructure is above ground and just ready to be decimated by wind.

https://youtu.be/JLykQrCLKE8
Horse may be a better example. Meat from carnivores tends to concentrate more toxins, which actually is a rational reason to avoid it.
I hope Europe will follow the same route after getting rid of Merkel. It's high time to start fighting with real pollutants instead CO2.
> Thats really selfish

And it's not selfish of her to demand spending tons of money 'just because'?
Of course each case is individual, but the whole situation can be a signal for a bunch of bad things (bad with money; can't use logic; don't care about man's feelings; etc). Maybe it is right thing to do to cut losses now.
Pluri can also have asynchronous execution as well, it's just synchronous by default. I will soon add a repository of essential/useful modules that every program make use of. One of them is the "async" module, which allows concurrent operations.

[UPDATE]: Repository has been added: https://github.com/rafaelcalpena/pluri-useful-modules
Finding off-by-one errors in production code is a hobby of mine, but it's also pretty horrifying how often they're security-relevant.
You might want to check out /r/preppers, they're generally rational https://www.reddit.com/r/preppers/

Evaluate the risks for where you live and have the appropriate supplies. In the Bay Area, for example, you should be ready for a large earthquake. You should also be ready for common scenarios such as extended utility outages.
I'd love to know the justification for down voting this comment.
because the law was shitty.

the boiler plate message it allows fails to explain anything. who is receiving the information? for what uses?

the silly message is expertly conceived by published as to fog the reason. most people in the audience think that is a paranoid warning about first party cookies, which are perfectly fine.
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Okay, so that question was too specific.

New question: is the reason one might want to have a gun in an emergency simply to be able to injure, maim or kill someone regardless of a specific reason?

If you say it's "for defense", remember that the concept is subjective; a robber being beaten for stealing may fear for their life and "defend" themselves. Specific reasons are less controversial and more practical.
On the other hand I always assumed it's due to short-term thinking and incentives misalignment. Incarceration is a quick way to quarantine criminals and fill the need for justice of the offended. A person who ends up in prison (especially the high-security one) is likely to be away for many, many years - at which point what happens when they're released is someone else's problem. Humans are good at dealing with distant consequences in the abstract, but extremely poor at it in practice. So prisons are what they are by default.

Of course there are other issues at play too. For instance, a prison can't be too nice, lest it turns into a free vocational school and people will find committing crimes and getting caught to be an excellent way to get education. Or another example - you can't really make prisoners do useful work for the society (as opposed to just rotting in their cells), because it disrupts the market economy and becomes a powerful force for administrators to threaten their local communities ("do X, or else I unleash my 300+ strong force of unpaid workers and drive you out of market").

The more I think about prisons, the more I see it's a very convoluted issue, and there isn't any obvious, simple solution.
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I'm actually impressed that Chrome on iOS manages to be less stable than Safari since it's using the same engine...
And Firefox, please remember the sound volume i set on your HTML5 player for a specific site.
From looking at the comments here, thinking about what I would do/want, and what others have done to scale git GitLab is in the minority of wanting to solve this issue with a Ceph cluster.

> Some are at 20k+ users so they are close to needing something like Ceph

Or they will scale it themselves ala Alibaba: http://www.slideshare.net/MinqiPan/how-we-scaled-git-lab-for... . They appear to have written a libgit2 backend for their object store(among other things).

I don't see a good reason why solutions using different storage backends could not make it into the OSS project. Many companies run their own Swift cluster, which is OSS.

If you're using CephFS and everyone else wants to be using other Cloud storage solutions, that would actually put you at a disconnect with your users and leave room for a competitor with the tools and experience to scale out on Cloud storage to come in offering support. I would at least consider all the opinions in this thread and maybe reach out to that Minqi Pan fellow from Alibaba with questions..

I actually really like GitLab and wish we could be using it at my company; this is why I'm spending so much effort on this topic(and scaling git is interesting). Hopefully my opinions are not out of place.
What does ranked-choice mean in the context of an electoral college?

Significant digits before insignificant digits. If you're gonna fix something, fix that.
Actually I think it is some rich whites, countryside whites but not middle class city whites with the exception of Mormons and Jews for cultural and historical reasons.

The great irony is that the people in the cities surrounded by lots of competing mouths and only a few days supply of food at the shops are also the least worried about starving to death.
Ive always believed this was true and now youve provided the science to back up my assertion.

Any difficult concept I've learned has co. e to me when I havent been actively rhinkong about it, Voila moments if you will
Your solution is to add multiple layers of complexity, which you then must rely upon?
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I don't have anything prepared. It doesn't seem necessary, either when I lived in the UK or now in Denmark. About the only natural disaster in either country is flooding, and that's usually a slow affair.

Does anyone in boring-no-disasters Europe make any emergency preparations?

I get the impression half the Americans here can't wait for some disaster; a chance to prove their mettle and lead their family into the mountains to survive for a week on army rations and purified water, while shooting wild bears and anyone who approaches.
I call prison "criminal university". It's just fucking stupid.

We get a whole bunch of violent / profession criminals together so they can learn from each other and build their networks. Then brand them as criminals so they can't get a job when they come out, thus ensuring they reoffend. Oh and we incarcerate for non violent crimes, so entry level criminals have the opportunity to learn from the best and progress their career.
You probably can't do anything about the actual prison experience, but you can help the individuals both before, during and after.

There are organizations that try to keep people out of prison by giving them activities or trade training.

And there are organizations that try to help people find jobs after leaving prison.

You could find some you like and help them financially.

Another positive influence is the religious community, so you can help those as well. People with strong religious ties tend to have a much easier time joining their community after prison.

There are also some religious communities that try to reach people in prison, and you could help them.
I do a minimal amount of prepping. I always have 1 weeks worth of bottled drinking water. I try to always have one weeks worth of tinned food. I'm thinking of buying MRE style long lasting self heating packs.

I have a couple of boxes of candles, and a couple of boxes of matches.

I have a very basic fist aid kit.

My county flooded a few years ago and it caused a bit of havoc, even for houses that were untouched by floods.
Your list seems to be too simple for me. Do you really need a sabbatical for doing those things? Maybe I do not get it because I am not married and here in Germany we have more holidays, but for me life without such basic activities is not worth living.
This is terrible advice. I grew up with guns on the wall. My dad grew up on a farm, spent 26.5 years in the military, was awarded a purple heart. I grew up with gun culture and eating food dad killed himself.

If you are not actually going to become a hunter and seriously learn to shoot and become part of gun culture, don't go buy a gun "in case you need it, some day." That's utter insanity. It will just result in you helping to arm other people (that you don't want to arm, that will not be your protectors) and upping the stakes in the process.

I was a fine shot in my youth. I would be perfectly comfortable being around guns for the right reason, under the right circumstances. This is not it.

Instead of preparing yourself for some Mad Max bullshit scenario where you imagine you will play hero, having never done it before in your life, just work on continuing to improve supply chain, emergency response and so forth -- in other words, keep building a more reliable and more civilized civilization. That is your best bet right there.

If you actually are a part of gun culture and know what the fuck you are doing, I am not talking about you. So don't give me shit for telling ninnies to not do this.

Thanks.
Use your brain to follow your heart. If your heart's not in it, your brain will have to work harder to succeed. If you love what you do, it's not work!
Even if there are only 3 million real accounts that's still massively problematic for people who have one.
You're 500km north of epicentre and felt that. Im 150km south of epicentre and felt nothing.
Seriously? You've just changed the scenario completely.

If the person trying to steal my beans will go away if I say "stop I have a gun" or simply barricade my door then I'm sure as hell not shooting them. It's a last resort.

I am hoping to never need to use my emergency kit again.

Also, you should talk to cops about pepper spray, tasers, etc. and how often they fail.
tl;dr: Few people passively watching a non-interactive VR movie on their headsets while sitting naked in a tent together.
> I would use barricades, tazers, pepper spray, traps, smoke, fire, light, sound, and other means to dissuade the thief

You have time for all that? Using a tazer or peper spray means your basically in well within pistol range and very close to hand-to-hand range. How exactly are you going to deploy your sound or smoke weapon?

> Guns are mainly useful for offense. Maybe that's why some preppers want them.

Guns are plenty useful for defense. Have you ever received any gun training?
What are you on about? I'm not talking about emotion; in case you forgot, we're in a thread where you provided some pseudo-scientific claim about the nature of consciousness. I'm questioning the validity of that claim. You seem to have gone off on a tangent about the nature of emotion.
I took only ex-military MRE entrees with me as meals for six days of hiking in the wilderness. I'm alive, but I'm never doing that again. Yuck!
Kew also runs the Millennium Seed Bank, which is keeping seeds from all over the world in a nuclear-bomb-proof vault in a relatively remote bit of southern England -- tests they run there is where the seed viability data comes from.

http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/collections/millenni...
I gave my wife a moissanite and seeded are to-be joint saving account with the 10k we saved. You just have to remember that the burden of wearing the moissanite is on the woman. The choice is obvious but the social pressure is huge. Women love to look at other women's rings and chat about it. If she is open to the idea, just remember that she's the one being brave and breaking out of the mold more so than you :)
AppHunt has been my side project for 1.5 years, now I think the product is ready to start growing. I would love to hear some feedback from the community. Thanks!
What about people who want to communicate and socialize but want some privacy?
Do you not find it's the case that you can generally perceive when people are talking behind your back?
You're the real MVP. Thanks for your understanding of my question and the info. I get what you're saying about cumulative energy release over time and it's interesting to note the effect that earthquakes' periodicity has on how we need to sample the data. Very useful.
I don't think those things run in the same process in Chrome, and Firefox is moving towards a multiprocess model as well.
Next her. Honestly and from personal experience.
You seem to know something that others don't. What's your source on that?
It's not so much what goes in, or what comes out.... more what doesn't come out.

MREs are for combat situations. Lots of the things you need to stay awake, run, fight, and survive. Not much of the stuff you need to live a day to day with.
There are some good alternative ideas. At a point in my life I was learning 3D modeling and planning to have a ring printed by Shapeways.

The moon rock is a cool idea, but unless the couple met while working at NASA I don't see the significance.
> See for example regular expressions, parsers, garbage collection, databases, file systems, CPUs.

Of course we're all standing on the shoulders of giants. So does the milk-man, who goes door to door using a vehicle of which he doesn't know much about how it was built/what its underlying principles are (is it a Otto-based engine? or a Diesel one? does the milk-man need to know the laws of TD?), but that vehicle is paramount to the milk-man's financial success, so to speak.

All I'm saying is that we don't all need to be like Rudolph Diesel, Nikolaus Otto or James Clerk Maxwell, we can still do our jobs as programmers perfectly fine the same as a regular milk-man does, we don't need to know the theory behind CPUs, garbage collection and the like in order to write code that does stuff.

Don't get me wrong, I get what you're saying and understand your points, I just think that right at this moment the programming world needs more "milk-man-like programmers", because if we build walls around our profession ("you can only be a programmer if you know CS theory" and the like) then nothing good would come out of it. I mean, we will certainly build some cool, nice programs, but the world right now doesn't needs just some, few "cool, nice programs", the world needs lots and lots of code. In order to have lots and lots of code we need more programmers.
I have a feeling Apache leadership probably did the right thing here. It is after all, their brand. Recently there have been some strange things happening with the Cassandra project. Hopefully not another rethinkdb.

For example, a longstanding Cassandra bug makes it hard to build the database from source if you have a modern version of maven installed. Though Cassandra builds itself using ant (why?), simply having modern maven installed is a big enough incompatibility to break the build. That's weird.

Another recent weirdness is that Cassandra was shipping a non working command interpreter (cqlsh) for at least 3+ months as recently as a few months ago. That's now fixed in v3.9. I have to admit, the first thing I thought upon seeing that brokenness shipping in the binary distribution was - Is this because Datastax needs more sales?
"I've done this before for similar input purposes and the only caveat is that some applications are able to 'push' topmost windows to the bottom - there are some workarounds, though"

Are there? I would think that is a weapons race you cannot win. If you can force your window to the top of all other windows, including those of other applications, so can others.

The only way out of that is if the OS has a notion of "this is the one and only topmost full screen window".
Having a keyboard at a lower level than your desk can help with this. Investing in a monitor and keyboard tray is probably a good idea.
North Dakota DOT https://www.dot.nd.gov/divisions/maintenance/winter-preparat...

North Dakota Department of Emergency Services https://www.nd.gov/des/get/severe-winter-weather/

The photo on the last link tends to point out the problem

[edit: you haven't truly driven until you've attached a red flag to the front of your car (at an angle pointing forward) to warn people at a 4 way that there is a car]
Yes, Wine implements the Win16 API. I just tried tetris and ski and the both worked fine in wine-1.9.22 (Staging). Didn't even need to even create a 32-bit profile.
For not buying a ring at all maybe, but for a nice ring with different stones I really don't think so.
I highly highly recommend both of Phil Rozenzweig's books, The Halo Effect and Left Brain, Right Stuff.

The Halo Effect in particular is a clinical deconstruction of the fallacies the business book genera. It tears Good to Great and company apart.
We need to bring Exile back. That and death sentances federally.
We have fruit trees and berry bushes, the produce of which ends up canned and jarred and dried. We bake our own bread and as such generally have about 30kg of wheat flour in storage. In the barn there is about 100kg of oats, meant for horses but edible to humans. Add to that another 20-30kg of rice and pasta and we're set for carbohydrates. Cheese and eggs and (extruded) soy provide proteins (my wife is vegetarian so we generally don't eat meat, even though I'm the one mostly responsible for food preparation) but the forest is full of additional protein (deer, elk, boar, etc.) ready for the taking in case of emergency. Water comes from our own dug well which is not dependent on electricity. The house is heated using a wood-burning stove and a wood-burning cooking stove, also not dependent on electricity.

If power fails - which it does quite often here in the Swedish woods - we can live more or less like we're used to. If the power failure lasts longer than a few days we'd have to empty the freezers (containing fish and some venison, vegetarian wife notwithstanding - Bambi got stuck in the fencing so what could we do?) and salt the contents. Yes, we have a 30kg bag of (road) salt handy for those occasions, it doubles as dishwasher salt.

I don't consider what we do 'prepping', just common sense in that we reduce the amount of external dependencies to a minimum.

Someone mentioned guns but failed to mention his domicile. I assume that to be the USA given the insistence on having such. Sweden also has a fairly high number of guns (a bit more than 30 per 100 inhabitants) but the USA is in another league (more than 110 per 100 inhabitants) [1]. Most guns in Sweden are hunting rifles, the number of hand guns is relatively small. A hunting rifle is good for hunting but not that useful for threatening a group of people as the first shot fired will most likely also be the last. In the USA the number of hand guns is a lot higher and with that it is more likely to be confronted by someone carrying such, possibly necessitating a defence against this threat. Having a gun is not the same as being able and willing to use a gun. Having a gun but not being willing or able to use it carries the potential of having said gun being used against you. In that case you'd be better of without one.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_guns_per_c...
I can't take this website seriously. But the project seems interesting.
everyone forgets the obvious: line ups don't work.

you got a broken concept, and throw expensive technology that only contribute to the illusion but doesn't address any of the flaws, just make it easier for the enforcers of the broken system. the result is people abusing even more the broken system, because now it's easier, and some tech provider getting very rich, and then sponsoring campaigns so that the system never change.
relevant: http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a7121/the-curious-sc... and http://www.gkstill.com/Support/crowd-density/CrowdDensity-1....

I checked: about 20 per "row". To get the number of rows, figure out how long the street is and then divide by 2 metres. That's roughly how many people there are.

EDIT:

according to Wikipedia, Wiltshire Blvd is 25km long. I somehow don't think there are that many people in the crowd
link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hIQaJg3lVM
so sad. im glad that in the age of the internet stories like this can come out and reach many people. I just hope that the next generation of leaders who grew up on the internet exposed to many differing ideas will have the courage/determination to find real solustions fix problems like this.
Hotel FD/Auditor here, we get to deal with all sorts of backflips for lower rates late at night. We used to have rates as low as employee pricing but these were being abused and had all sorts walking in over making proper reservations. I don't negotiate, or match. Quite frankly I don't give two shits what rooms at Motel 6 are supposedly going for. If it's past AAA you're not getting it.

>Our last road trip, I booked 4 rooms over 300 miles and cancelled in the afternoon before stopping in.
Oh, you're /that/ guy.
It would be nice if the start/end date could be a range
it seems tied to a specific start date for a conference, rather than any conferences starting after this date

it would be nice to see the fields filter down as other parameters are defined, if i set USA as the country, I should just see cities hosting conferences in the USA

Love how clean and quick it is though
Why not just not tell people that it isn't a diamond? Noone is going to notice, and it doesn't really matter that it is a lie.