skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's certainly regulated in some places, Iceland for example, and in the UK there would often be the assumption - though probably not the legal requirement - that you'd taken a degree that has been granted accredited status by the national Engineering Council.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_engineer#Regulatory_c...
Hopefully enough by-the-trip rental that you don't need to own one, and that they are used by somebody else while you don't need it, so less need for parking.

Sort of what we do with airplanes. You never really think of until you need them to be all grounded:

http://m.imgur.com/7jGGZaT
"clean" mains power has nothing to do with zapping. Where'd you hear this? I've literally never heard this nonsense before.
Britain Says It Will Ditch Coal Power by 2025
Late reply but thanks for the heads up - I wasn't aware that prng was a term that I could be using as opposed to prd. The above comment is accurate in how I first came across the term as it's pretty commonly used in a lot of games in a lay person's fashion.
I don't know a ton about the subject, but there's some coverage of it in this overview: https://www.khronos.org/assets/uploads/developers/library/ov...
> Now, if this requirement wasn't present then economical forces would take over, places without parking would be ideal for less wealthy people because the prices would be lower.

On the other hand, wouldn't those places tend to have fewer customers because people who are not willing or able to get their without driving will go someplace with more parking, and so would have to charge more per customer to cover fixed costs?
No, but way too many people are now using this as an excuse to express their xenophobia, and it really sucks because this country's good qualities are enriched by immigrants.
Human beings as a species are highly partial (was the word you were looking for) and irrational. Aside from the internet, the low population density, rural areas of the US are heavily pro-Trump.
And you know what? In countries with free healthcare the healthy pay for the care of the sick, even when they are healthy. Doesn't make it a bad system.
1st is incorrect.. Lab-grown of the same quality are more expensive than natural diamonds.
Biggest motivator for those accounts was not the privilege to have a bank account. But direct deposits in case the government wanted to pay the farmers and alike. That was the whole point in linking those to Aadhar too!

Now I'm not saying that this won't be possible. But its just these kind of changes can't be done with a throw of switch. You need to do a lot of incremental work before you can even think of this kind of big risky moves. Roll backs are hard, and in this case impossible(will lead to increase in inflation if done). Nor can you sit down quietly as there is no real way to put money back into circulation.

We all want to change the world. But we have to understand we need to change the world with consensus from people we want the changes to effect. The world is not in a hurry, and everything/everyone has their own priorities. You need to work with all that. Tech idealism is great, but at times something like this comes to remind us we know nothing about the daily complexities of other citizens.
Glad you like them, although I'm surprised — "bleak" doesn't even begin to describe some of the stuff in Banks' novels.

I don't know if you've read the ones I mentioned, but [SPOILERS AHEAD] in Consider Phlebas, every main character dies, the protagonist's species goes extinct in the process, and the epilogue essentially summarizes the whole story as accomplishing absolutely nothing; in Use of Weapons, the protagonist is revealed to have a past as a psychotic, genocidal warlord, and most of the wars he is subsequently involved with as a mercenary go badly for most involved; in Against a Dark Background, everyone except the protagonist dies, and it's fairly traumatic besides (though the unpublished epilogue, which is on the Banks web site, lifts it up a little). Another bleak one is Look to Windward, although the tone is more elegaic; the fate of that sorry anthropologist who studied giant floating aliens is one of the saddest scenes I've ever read (very much reminiscent of PKD's "Rautavaara's Case").

I agree that philosophically, he's on the positivist side of things, despite the amount of sheer death and destruction that goes on in his books. It's a trait, a sort of sarcastic, righteous rebelliousness in the face iniquity, that he shares with Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams. (Speaking of, I found Feersum Endjinn to be a highly Pratchettian novel. It's also quite different from anything else Banks wrote. It's excellent and probably underrated.)

As an example of a polar opposite, I would point to Stanislaw Lem, who seemingly had zero faith in humanity. Solaris, His Master's Voice and so on take an extremely dim view of humankind's ability to do anything except navelgaze and quibble.
Barbaric Beauty
Even at peak demand many spots are empty. The reason for so much parking is that it is legally required. Nothing more, nothing less. Many of the businesses will never make full use of their parking.

Places without parking requirement laws develop very differently, and if parking is provided at all, it's usually in far smaller quantities and it's not free.

Compare, say, third tier Japanese cities that lack subway systems to American equivalents. Parking exists, but it's not universally free, and there's less of it.

You should read up on parking minimum laws.
Yeah no, that won't work.
Insufficient parking is a problem which is so vigorously solved in many places that it leaves a lot of always-empty parking spaces.
"Orbiting" seems like a great way to add unnecessary wear and tear. I imagine an alternative is cars that travel to parking then come and pick you up when summoned.

There is also the possibility of having your car work for hire to help you afford to buy a new one sooner :D
If anyone is interested, you can look up what single payer costs[1] are for various procedures in Australia, you can pay more than what is listed if you go private, but it still isn't anywhere near the cost of what procedures cost in the USA.

[1] http://www.mbsonline.gov.au/internet/mbsonline/publishing.ns...
Double insulated appliances are fine, the circuit just needs to be designed with double insulation in mind.
A little nitpick, the slider is hugely unnecessary.
Trump to supporters harassing minorities: 'Stop it'
It was a very strong tradition on Usenet!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13#Usage
I spent my afternoon hanging out with an ex-con and entrepreneur I met through Defy Ventures. They're a great organization that are giving second chances to the incarcerated. If you're looking for a practical way to make a difference, check out https://defyventures.org and sign up as a mentor. If you live in the bay area, they have a day trip to Avenal State Prison coming up next month and are looking for volunteers to help as business coaches.

Today I asked this entrepreneur for his perspective on what needs to change in our judicial system. Not surprisingly, he gave me a long list of things that are broken, including the corrupting influence of money which incentivizes tough laws and full prisons. And the money which allows people with money to walk away with a slap on the wrist for committing the exact same crime that put him away for years.

When he was released, he was scared to leave prison. He shared how the free world is terrifying to those who've been incarcerated for years. He'd been locked up in high school and never had a chance to get a proper education. He couldn't find anyone to hire him. He couldn't find anyone who'd even rent him an apartment with a felony on his record. The only people who reached out to him were his old gang members. Imagine spending the majority of your life behind bars and then being thrown into a world with smart phones and the internet -- neither of which existed when you were locked up.

Many of us in this community agree on how unfair the judicial system is in America. Many of us believe in the concept of second chances and redemption. And many of us (myself included) could do a better job at demonstrating that belief with our actions.
Awesome to see the Michael Geary show up on HN! I believe MakeProcInstance was originally created in order to allow apps with multiple data or stack segments ('huge' memory model), but as you noted, is certainly not necessary for the majority of them. In fact, if you were careful or using Asm, even the 64K tiny model would've been sufficient for a lot of applications.

...and I never thought I'd see x86 segment registers and JavaScript closures mentioned in the same comment.
Here's an in-depth article explaining it:

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/09/how-amer...

tl,dr: it's because people who incur the costs are not the people who pay for it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=list+of+electors+2016
Everyone knows about it and yet everyone does it.

It is like getting a luxury brand car or a watch or living in a certain part of town. All aren't practical.

When social pressure is already there, you are asking the female partner to break the norm which can be tough.
So i am guessing the UK plug wont have this problem?
> It could be different in US, but in modern European installations the PE and N bars are separate

In the US a single PE+N wire feeds into the building. All building wiring is separated as in Europe. They are tied together in only one location, usually wherever the main switch is.

Just like Europe, really old installs in the US don't have ground (PE). Some are retrofitted with ground like my house in SF. One thing people should never do is connect neutral to ground at a secondary point. It can be tempting when you don't have access to run a ground wire but creates a serious potential for safety problems. The way to handle that is to install a GFCI (RCD) plug and put a sticker on it stating "No equipment ground" - the outlets actually come with those stickers for that purpose :)

As far as I know in European systems where the building has separate PE+N feeds they are still bonded together, it just happens at the transformer. I could be wrong about that though!
To me, they looked strikingly like the circles people draw as a Zen exercise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D

(Not too similar to how they were described in the story.)
Would your needs not be met by finding Ansible users and interviewing them directly (similar to UX or requirements research)?
Increasing the quantity demanded at a lower price sufficiently can reduce the optimal, profit maximizing price for the seller.

Your thinking of usual asymptotic behavior of idealized competitive markets, which while it has some relation to the concerns of a single seller in a real market facing real changes in ranges where the factors which dominate in the asymptotic case aren't the only important factors, it's not a perfect guide for them.
You, a single person, not meeting a single Trump supporter may not be surprising. You may tend to meet only like-minded people. But the media is/must be a different animal: they should spend time trying to gauze the social moods from different strata of the society. But in USA, it seems most of the mainstream media is serving to Saudi funded Democrats [1]. So there is no news critical of Clinton, nor Islamic ideology. That's one of the important points what triggered people's support for Trump.

edit: added link

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9ldUHSgjs
Can you share the certificate you were served?
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Can I just say — stoked to see all the kiwis on HN!
Well, I think this is probably a case where a bit of number crunching will save the day - considering a world in which driverless cars are the norm and fully embraced by the city, the coordination system can likely determine based on historical data and also current queue request pressure how many cars to launch into traffic at any given time to satisfy demand for a summon in less than 5 minutes or whatever target they want. When not summoned or being sent to meet demand, the cars return to an enclosure outside the city for maintenance.

Admittedly, there is a lot of planning that needs to happen for even a prototype of this to happen, as well as some major cultural shifts, but when it does happen, I think it will run pretty smoothly. The biggest issue in my mind isn't the logistics as much as the cultural attitude that will need to happen - right now everyone seems to assume ownership of driverless cars, but the more reasonable approach seems to be summoned fleets instead. I can envision something like the city owning the control infrastructure and leasing slots to competing companies, or even just competing companies and leaving the city controller out of the picture.
It feels like cutting a tree with a kitchen knife. Too complex to use directly
Polling data tripped up by same problem  that caused 2007 financial crisis
Isn't this an egregious violation of most of the TOS / agreements for paid SSL certs?
Gas stations and car mechanics give cash discounts, sometimes as high as 10%.
That might apply in cities, but I don't believe parking spaces at suburban malls are typically regulated.
Preparing for natural disasters and emergencies is a reasonable facet of life strategy. Disaster preparedness can be useful when more conventional strategies for dealing with life needs (education, a good career, saving) are temporarily less viable in the face of extreme conditions. I say this because prepping is part of a life plan not the entirety of a life plan.

Many of the lists that exist are useful places to start. 3 days of food and water, utility shut off tools, flashlights (don't forget the extra batteries) and the like are good basics. Prescription medications are often overlooked in preparations. Waste disposal and sanitation can also be issues if one has to shelter in place in an urban setting.

This post could turn quickly into a TLDR nightmare so let me throw out a few more specialized items I like that are beyond the basics:

1. Auerbach's Wilderness Medicine. This massive two volume text is the gold standard for medicine in austere environments. It comes with online access which makes wading through it much easier.

2. Powerfilm solar collapsible solar panel. The US military uses these panels. They are well made and durable. They are expensive but it's better to have one of these that works instead of a cheapy that doesn't.

3. Multi-tool and sturdy folding knife. The ability to cut and shape things as well as apply torque can be extremely invaluable.

4. There are a lot of engineers on this site. A basic HAM license is easy to get and in some areas HF is a reasonable alternative to modern networks.

5. A friend who went through Katrina as a surgeon at a level 1 trauma center said sat phones lose utility quickly as media outlets tend to lock up bandwidth.

6. Plastic sheeting - A few rolls of 8-10 mil plastic sheeting

7. MSR Dromedary Bags - Love them. You can go a long time without food. Water not so much.

Don't forget your brain. Lots of smart people here on HN. Think about contingencies. How will I leave if there if there is no gasoline? Where will I meet my loved ones if we are separated? What do I have that will be valuable if for some period of time cash is not so valuable? Are my preparations easy to access and have I practiced with any items that require skill such as fire building or water purification?

Don't get lost in the rabbit hole. List the conditions you are realistically likely to encounter and plan for those. If you live in Hays, Kansas plan for tornadoes not terrorism.
Why not? Hospitals used to use isolating transformers for surgical electrical supply precisely to prevent any possibility of electrocuting patients.
It doesn't matter. Besides, most have no clue it's even in place.
I'd be very surprised if shared self driving cars lead to a major reduction in excess parking, or lower the number of traffic jams.

People want to do the same things at more or less the same time: Having time off while your social circle is at work is not as fun. Many jobs require customers, and others require entire groups of people to be there together. This means the minimum capacity needed to handle peaks is not going to be very far off from where we are right now.

Think of your typical morning traffic: One side of the highway is in gridlock, while the other is doing well. In the evenings, the directions reverse. A lot of people want to be at the office at 8:00, so you need capacity for that. And what do the cars do now that it's 8:05 and they are downtown? Probably nothing, as there is no demand for that much capacity for most of the day.

Same thing with a sporting event: People will get to the stadium to watch the 49ers, but Santa Clara doesn't have any use for 40K+ cars for 3 hours on sunday morning. The most you can do is have the cars do some otherwise useless miles to park in a cheaper area further away from the stadium.

I'd love to be wrong on this, but this phenomenon would make it surprising if we got a double digit decrease in traffic with shared self driving cars.
Also if you die in your 80s you will have collected way more social security money then if you die in your 60s. I wouldn't be surprised if things like smoking which tend to kill you right before retirement age actually saves us money as a society.
Please clarify "Current insurance plans" - Current ACA insurance plans? Because I just checked my recent physical including blood panels and, yes, Vitamin D levels, and all I paid was a $15 copay.
I think I should be more specific with my definition of bleak.

It's possible to write a novel where the setting, and the story lead to dark places, and finish badly for the heroes, but without the heroes giving up on life or thinking. There are many instances in history of people standing their ground in hopeless circumstances.

In fiction, I think the best depiction of what I mean might be Letters from Iwo Jima (the movie, not the actual letters which are relatively sparse). Kuribayashi's character goes through hell consciously but his extraordinary resistance - down to refusing to banzai charge as is customary in those situations and instead patiently drawing out the fight to maximise enemy casualties, drawing out the pain for himself and his troops in the process - is a phenomenal description of character. It is specifically in Eastwood's depiction that this comes through although the real Kuribayashi was every bit the depicted one. So I do not consider the movie or the book "bleak" but incredibly awe-inspiring despite its content and ending for the protagonist.

Meanwhile, the main character in Ubik and most of PKD's novels is continuously failing to have any agency, thwarted by unknown and unbeatable forces until he just accepts his fate and stops moving. I always thought that this book in particular and PKD's work in general were close to depictions of depression, which is where the bleakness is. I'm in a rush right now so can't immediately come up with a good example but many modern works of fiction depict wonderful conditions and stories with very bleak characters incapable of appreciating their luck.
Or it just means wasted work on deadweight loss activities, instead of doing something useful to increase the value of the shopping experience.
I'm looking for alternatives. If you can create something that reacts to heat like meat and provides the same or a similar flavor profile, and that contains similar macronutrient ratios, then I would jump ship.

As it is, whey doesn't have the right flavors and cookability, tofu doesn't have the same flavors and has a lot of carbohydrates, and mushrooms don't have any protein in them.
That was fascinating, but I don't quite see the application here.
Seattle locals are opposed to parking for exactly the reason the WaPo explains -- it's a subsidy paid by non-drivers to support drivers. Locals would do better if parking lanes were gone and buses had those lanes.
Has temporary imprisonment ever been shown to have a positive impact?
Yup, that's it. Nice.
A factory is not going to produce a states worth of meat. Possibly a small city's worth, but Americans eat 1 billion pounds of meat per year an this stuff is going to take at least hours if not weeks to grow.
Accuracy takes power: one man’s 3GHz quest to build a perfect SNES emulator
It floors me that businesses are allowed to keep their parking lots off limits during non business hours. That alone would go a long way to freeing up spaces.
I discovered you can also switch the on and off by connecting and disconnecting your feet from ground.

Feet on the floor => shocks.

Feet on the beam of a wooden stool => no shocks.
I can buy myself a car. I can't buy myself a train. That's the problem.
I actually find it weird even just seeing myself in a mirror. It's a bit like hearing your own voice in a recording.
Perfect handle for this response.
New York City's Graveyard Shift
Is your point that both of these options have an equal or negligible effect on the poor, that one option is better but those damn "poverty activists" can't see which one that is, or that attempts to accommodate the poor shouldn't inconvenience businesses?
You missed my point. I don't care what you happen to believe.

I'm pointing out that people probably objected to inserting a debatable & unpopular held view as a subclause in another argument. That forces people to either go along with accepting your point or getting into a pointless & unsettleable argument that's not even being discussed.
Why wouldn't google use this as an advantage as an example. Making bad SEO an advantage. Other search engines would have to have a competing strategy to give better results for their consumers.
Are you teaching me a lesson? Or trolling? Real question. Because your approach isn't very constructive.

The guy apologized and maybe he thought his advice was good. I admit though it was blunt and the part about divorce was rude.
Does Your Finance Department Consume Your Time or Add Value?
How much farther will you drive (wasting time and gas) to avoid paid parking? It's the 21st century, paid parking can be a radio transmitter in your car or on your receipt.
No worries :)

> seems a bit disingenuous to highlight suicide, while at the same time not including injury, rape, or loss of property that result from home invasions.

Nothing disingenuous about it.

In fact, statistically speaking, the situation is even worse. Introducing a gun into an already violent encounter significantly increases the risk of injury and death.

There is tonnes of evidence to support this. Here is one, very specific study that indirectly confirms exactly this.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/249715169_Have_Gun_...

And here's another fascinating study PREDICTORS OF FIREARM USE AND EFFECTS OF WEAPONRY ON VICTIM INJURY IN VIOLENT CRIME

http://etd.fcla.edu/CF/CFE0002722/Libby_Nicholas_E_200908_Ph...

It's a long read, but well worth it if you are really interested in what the literature has to say about the often surprising ways in which guns affect the outcomes of violent crime.

And finally here's a pretty honest take on the matter from a comedian. NSFW for language https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rR9IaXH1M0

The humor may not be to your taste, but the points made are fair
Bummer. It works 99% for me but some ability to choose the percent chance threshold would help.
I don't really get why trams are better than buses. Do they really carry a ton more people than buses? Why are people more likely to ride them?

Buses come in short/long/articulated/double-decker sizes and don't need to be on rails or require overhead electrical lines. The only argument I can think of is that you get a smoother ride and no need to burn fuel with a tram.

(I've only ridden the trams in one city, and they were pretty much slower buses on rails that happened to make a lot of dinging noises. Worked fine in the central district, I guess.)
>My understanding is that India's new rules on the high denomination notes was intended to curtail corruption...

How can this curtail corruption?