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Education over regulation.

Eating piles of sugar is stupid, but that doesn't mean I should be legally prevented from doing it.
Wow, did you read this somewhere in an article that goes into more interesting depth? 2000 kwh/day is like $200 bucks a day where I live, that's crazy! Now add in what's needed for the animals I eat. And that's just for the oxygen we consume?

One of the more interesting things I've learned in quite some time.

EDIT: You know, this is something that is so relate-able to the layman, it should be a widely used propaganda talking point.
Netflix Could Be Practical Magic for Disney
That's Haiti. Their gangs are both political and criminal, and have been for a long time, since "Papa Doc" Duvalier set up the Tonton Macoutes as a government-operated paramilitary terror force around 1960. Duvalier and son are long gone, but the gangs live on.

Mexico isn't that bad.
For the same reason that the volatility of gold subsided. Bigger pool of water = smaller splash when you throw the rock in.
There's a more basic problem, here, that'd be better expressed without couching it in the ever popular introvert/extrovert false dichotomy (aside: people really love picking labels for themselves): instant messaging tools don't offer features to help users who aren't immediately available and need to delay replies until later.

Give me tools to queue up a backlog, and to indicate to the sender I'm unavailable. Give me a way to easily review batched messages and reply to them as a group or individually (maybe by making it easy to take batched messages and quote them in an email response). Let me set my phone to queue up alerts until a specific time or time interval and then alert on the group. I'm sure there's many other, better ideas, but you get the idea.

The immediacy of instant messaging is incredibly useful. But we need it to adapt to non-immediate replies as well, and today that's just not that easy.
One related talk that might be of interest.

https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_dennett_on_our_consciousness

Edit: Added Speaker Bio.

https://www.ted.com/speakers/dan_dennett
Easiest (lowest risk) method AFAICT is consulting. Make a webpage, do some SEO & a few keynote talks at big conferences. Once the consulting is paying well, quit your (presumably proprietary) job & only accept projects that involve free software. See e.g. https://blogs.gnome.org/bolsh/2009/02/01/free-software-consu..., there are tons of wordpress shops for example.

Another method is to get skilled in another profession, e.g. law degree, accountant, chiropractor, etc., work in that for a while, build up some custom OSS software to use in that work, promote it & get a userbase, then quit the main job and sell software support / premium addons.

Final method is crowdfunding, for example see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(social_network) as a free software version of Twitter/Facebook, although I think crowdfunding has gotten harder since then so now you need an MVP or something to succeed. It's great for consumer software, particularly for moving codebases from beta-quality to production-ready.
In many parts of China it's effectively impossible to actually purchase residential real estate. Buyers actually only get a 70-year lease (could vary up or down) which is pointless if you want to preserve wealth for your descendants.
There are mitigations and best practices for using any password manager, including Lastpass. I don't think any of them are immune from attack.
Ask HN: Which E-mail hosting and CRM do you use for your startup?
I'm looking for stable E-mail hosting provider for small business/startup. If you have any suggestions, let me know.
I agree, when we're talking about adults, or the decisions adults make for their own children.
I wouldn't be surprised if it could evolve from semi-circle segments roughly the current best.
I am currently learning Japanese, I started only a month or so ago. I have found two amazing resources (made by the same people,) that I'm sure will be of a great help to get you started with Japanese. They have a text book called TextFugu, that not only teaches you Japanese, but they walk you through the hard parts of getting started and essentially teach you to motivate yourself to learn. They also have a spaced repetition online program (similar to Anki,) called WaniKani that helps you learn Kanji.
Maybe, maybe not. Tesla still doesn't have LIDAR. Their sensor suite is still much weaker than Google's or Volvo's or Otto's.
One does not simply....
Anyone else noticing this site to be broken in Chrome? Seems that the CSS files aren't loading due to some sort of security error from their CDN site.
It's been a long time since I've read anything so abjectly ahistorical and anti-intellectual. There is always an underground, "culture" is not singular but a collective noun, and the barometer of cultural value has never been "the limits of what one person can consume."

"What one person thinks others should have access to," on the other hand, now that one has a long, sordid, and sometimes-violent history.

>If a book was never popular then it's not really a part of culture any more than a small business's company culture is.

Demonstrably false.

Each employee of that small business talks about their job, and/or moves on to other jobs where their previous working experiences are expressed in terms of both job performance and managerial habits. This is cultural dissipation (in your "workplace" context, but also carries to others), the primary method by which cultures evolve: a person's thoughts and preferences are expressed to others, verbally or via creative acts, which can appear as suggested priorities, and often are promoted into mainstream culture.

It took 200 years for most anybody to consider Baruch Spinoza as anything more than some old excommunicated shitbird. Palmyra is currently being reduced to dust and memories. There are more examples.
Yes, many of our customers in the public utility industry use CSV. Use of JSON is somewhat rare, but XML is quite common.
"Learns enough to do this"... in what sense? If you compare this to a puzzle, are you claiming they have all the pieces, or are you claiming they actually would be able to put the pieces together if you asked them to? The proof steps are tricky, it's not just a straightforward evaluation of some expression.

Also -- are you really claiming every STEM student at your university learns calculus of variations as a freshman? Because that's the only way I've actually seen others prove this. While doing it with plain calculus isn't impossible, it requires a similar kind of thought process that you get after learning calculus of variations, so I'm really skeptical what you're saying is the case, unless you're thinking of a different proof or something.
They're about $2 per on ebay.
Is there a way to get the number of properties bought via a foreign entity? I'm sure with 3-4 different LLCs to shift cash through it's near impossible to tell.
> Why the focus on unions, which are very weak in the U.S.?

Weak in general, yes; but very strong in the public sector. They push through all sorts of measures because they control a large voting block (and often public sector unions support each other without questions; for example, if the fire fighters union is pushing for something, you can bet the police officers union will support it too). This really magnifies their power.
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Japan (not sure which city), at least for a while but only for a while (not sure if I could keep up 10 years there). I love the culture.
Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari discusses what the war on drugs has caused all over the world, with a focus on Central America and Europe. Learn about the origins of the drug wars in the USA, how that flowed around the world, and promising developments on what to do next.

Spoiler alert: let's stop the war on drugs.
If I had to wager an uneducated guess, I would propose that the recent mainstream acceptance of Solid State Drives as a viable, affordable alternative to spinning disk drives, has created a sudden demand in Flash memory that's caused that industry to thrive.

At least at the retail level in the Best Buy where I worked until recently, I watched Solid State drives transition from something only high end computers had to something that was standard even among the lower priced value machines. We had customers complaining about the smaller drive sizes because they were so accustomed to the gigantic storage offered by the spinning disk media at its height in popularity.

I'd love someone with more industry knowledge to chime in though, as my own experience here is pretty limited. This is simply what I've observed in my own corner of the world.
RAM is more expensive to produce in general (more transistors, more stringent specs as you mentioned), but as to rate of change, that seems more likely to be due to competitive pressures and maybe more rapidly increasing demand for flash in recent years versus RAM.
Funny - I woke up this morning and found this majoras mask Zelda tribute https://youtu.be/vbMQfaG6lo8 and then the behind the scenes and was suprised it was cgi on top of on location forest video that ends up looking rendered. Sometimes reality looks so good it looks fake so this was a interesting spin.
You're talking about a plant that anyone can grow in their home. The cartels can't do anything about that.
I find this is only a problem for people who don't understand what asynchronous communication is. Explaining this ahead of time should clear up any anxieties on both ends.
Gsuite, or the like. Don't spend too much time on this decision
Where are you getting the object to which you're going to send messages?
> Python's list comprehensions were modeled on Haskell's list comprehensions, which were in turn modeled on the much more general concepts of monads.

It's true that Python borrowed the concept from Haskell.

But Haskell in turn took the concept from set theory, not category theory.

List comprehensions are modeled after set comprehensions. Here's an example that uses set-builder notation [0] to define the set of Pythagorean triples with sides bounded by 10:

{ (x,y,z) | x,y,z \in {1,2,...,10}, x^2 + y^2 = z^2 }

In Haskell that becomes

let u=[1..10] in [ (x,y,z) | x<-u,y<-u,z<-u, x^2 + y^2 = z^2 ]

The creators of Haskell worked hard to make sure the syntax was a spitting image of set theory.

For a motivation behind the creation of Haskell was to use it to as a lightweight calculator / computer algebra system (sans heavy algebra) to teach set theory to students.

List comprehensions have been around since the dawn of Haskell. It was around even before Haskell, viz. in Miranda circa mid-80s.

Moggi's work on PL monads was only published in 1991.

I think you've mixed up monad comprehensions--which came much later--which is the observation that this notation and concept can be generalized to monads other than lists. Monad comprehensions segue into topos theory, understood as a monadic generalization of set theory, quite nicely.

Hopefully, the next 700 monad tutorials will give more visibility to topos theory.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-builder_notation
$2 per on ebay. Just throw 20 bucks at it and buy one for every pair you have.
I recently had the same experience at a different float place in Seattle that I don't normally go to.

I went as this place had huge tubs -- about 6 ft by 8 ft. Also the ceiling was at least 6 foot so people could stand in there. It felt good to not touch the sides like I do occasionally st the other place.

However with a really tall ceiling it was hard to maintain the correct temperature and humidity. Salt began to crystallize on my body and the air temp was noticeably cooler than the water. So the effect was off. I bet this was the same place in Seattle that the author went to.

I mentioned this to the people running the place and they said it is a problem of humidity and they are installing infra red lamps to control it. I'm a little suspicious that this will fix it.

So for now I'll continue to go to the original place. The vats are more like tombs; you can barely sit up in them. But they are warm enough it is hard to tell what is in water and air.
That doesn't jive with history. The mafia became dominant during prohibition. Alcohol becomes legal again and what happens? The corporations take over and the mafia loses some of its power although not for long thanks to bans on cocaine, heroin, marijuana. Organized crime thrives on black markets. Reduce them, and reduce their power.
Didn't the DARPA grand challenge show self driving was a software problem, not a hardware problem?

Tesla has a level 4 autonomy demonstration video on their site. Maybe computer vision is superior to LIDAR; not a lot of human drivers with laser arrays on them driving around.
Paris from Camus’s Notebooks
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Chinese grey money buying whole apartment buildings for investment, which drives up prices

The nice thing about housing is that one can easily build a lot more of it, and it makes a great de facto investment: http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/05/19/exporting_hou.... The only thing stopping most municipalities from pursuing this reasonable outcome is politics and resistance from NIMBY incumbent landowners.
For some historical context this is worth remembering:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRAM_price_fixing
I can see your point, but then it wouldn't be instant. Further, I think the dopamine high that people get from responding to IMs significantly outweighs their ability for self control to read messages later. This is easily confirmed by looking at drivers texting on their phones.
David Foster Wallace’s Struggle to Surpass “Infinite Jest”
It's not uncommon for it to be better financially to always rent and just invest the difference between rent and mortgage+maintenance+taxes. With interest first mortgages as they are it is generally a long time before you earn any equity at all.
Looks fine to me. Windows 10, latest version of Chrome
That's awesome.

Maybe this is out of topic, anyone know where is the better resource to learn sketching, especially sketchnotes?

I found this website [1] that gives sketchnotes courses so far. Now, I'm looking for another resources. I love sketchnotes because it's good for visualizing ideas.

[1]: http://ideasnotart.com/
Webfaction. Most of the cases it does all: Create multiple mailbox with multiple addresses, email redirections, multiple users, and with no users/alias limit. Other mail hosting only services, are to much for what you normally need. If it's just about receive and setting up accounts, Webfaction is more than enough.

If you are going to send transactional or marketing email, use Amazon SES, or Mandrill if you don't want to deal with setting up AWS SES. I had lost lot of my time trying to use the same email hosting for marketing purpose, don't recommend that to anyone.

For CRM, I really like https://insightly.com when I used it really helps me to get back on contacting users quickly, however if I have a bigger team in the future, I will try http://pipedrive.com.

But being real, 60% of the cases and spreadsheet and a share contact folder in Google using the Delegation option had been my day to day tool.
That works to the extent they do not already have above-threshold control of the economy & the ability to use force sufficient to at least deter the government. Under those circumstances it becomes self-perpetuating absent a significant & violent effort to uproot it. Witness, eg, the 'Ndrangheta, which although heavily involved in the drug trade predates it and has significant other "business lines".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/'Ndrangheta
My experience with Electron has been phenomenal. It's a whole new ball game when you can shell out with a button click. (I have a commercial app built on Electron.)
I love Dashlane!

I've been there since Beta, too, and it's in the highest price tier for password managers, but it's often lauded as having the best user experience on desktop & mobile, and one of the simplest managers for even non-technical people. The local decryption also makes it uniquely secure and less susceptible to attacks like the LastPass attack in 2015.

Great product and happy to support the Dashlane team! You can store passwords, secure notes, payment methods, and even IDs like passport or driver's license numbers, with great autofill support.

Before Dashlane, I used a KeePass database that I synced with Dropbox, so I could access it on macOS or iOS, but the clients varied in quality, and when I switched to Dashlane, the experience was fantastic with autofill available on both macOS and iOS.
In India, "grey income" is called "black money". It is a hot topic in India right now.

Recent activities on this:

Note ban (Nov 2016) => https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_black_money#Ban_on_1000...

Using analytics (today's news) => http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/policy/i-t-...
Wonder why the British Isles isn't in there; unlikely to be EU stuff as NL is on there.
Is there anything like that for vim?
Boulder, CO.
I thought around 500 times to buy myself a car on christmas and then I see this
But if you start throwing the dice and you keep all the sixes you get along the way, Yahtzee-style, we expect you'll have 20 sixes in about 25-30 throws.

But this scenario has the implicit assumption of a deterministic outcome (all 6s), and also that after each throw, the outcome of chance is being analyzed according to a set of rules, which are being applied such that keeping/discarding dice is done to produce a deterministic outcome.

Even if you deny that there is traditional "intelligence" in the process such as a dice thrower, the scenario still fails to answer why there is even a set of rules for evaluating these independent dice throws in the first place, where these rules came from, and why those rules seemingly guide events of completely random chance in a pre-determined direction at all (all 6s).
If you can go 100℅ browser, +1. Do just a little for mobile and you'll probably double your users.
RAM is written to faster than any other component other than the onboard processor cache.
This very similar to cockroachdb, only mysql compatible instead of postgres compatible.
> Put a cost on renewing copyright. This is actually how it used to be. Half way through, you could pay a fee to have copyright extended. Very few people paid this fee (because most works aren't economically valuable), so most works went into public domain much sooner. Journals charge $30 to access obscure ancient papers. But I bet they wouldn't pay even $30 to keep the rights to those same papers.

I agree completely. This would go a long way towards bringing old works into the public domain, by making sure the artificial privilege of exclusive control requires active interest to maintain.

Ideally, I'd suggest making the fee scale exponentially (or at least non-linearly) with age, as well. That would lead people to ask questions like "is this decades-old work really worth millions to renew again, or should we make something new with that same money that'd reset the fee schedule?".
According to this logic, civil rights legislation is also an authoritarian infringement on employers' right to discriminate based on their racism, sexism, etc.
>First: actually read the resume and letter. Learn about the experience this person has.

>I don't use challenges, homework, riddles, quizzes, etc. anymore.

Unless you don't get many resumes, I find it hard to believe that this is a good hiring flow for you at all. A lot of people who agree with me will often say that nobody has time to be reading hundreds or thousands of resumes, but I'll take it one step further: unless you are rigorously verifying the information on resumes, resumes are basically useless.

It is way too easy to lie on a resume. I don't mean mere embellishment or exaggeration. I mean straight-up lying. I looked at your profile. You have an impressive resume. What would stop me from copying your resume and submitting it as mine? Your impressive positions would be harder to fake, so I'd just lower all the CTO, head, VP, and chief titles to lower level titles.

Let's take this even further. Let's pretend that you actually call the references for the positions on all the resumes that you read. What's stopping an applicant from giving you a friend's number and having them pretend to be their former manager/employer? One could argue that the same sort of deceit works for challenges, quizzes, etc., but there's the additional barrier of at least knowing a decent enough programmer who can take the challenge or quiz for you.
The US has far stronger rule of law than Mexico (one of the reasons so many Mexicans desire to come to the US), and I'm primarily talking about the difficulty of uprooting the narcos in Mexico.

That said, yes, I would expect to see a rise in cartel violence in the US at least out into the medium term. "Attack a farm" is a bit cinematic, but "threaten executive's children to extract kickbacks" is quite plausible in certain areas. Their area of influence now tracks traditional drug trafficking routes & illegal immigration routes, which covers a hell of a lot of the US. That doesn't mean they're necessarily dominant over that the same way they are in MX, but is something one should be aware of.
Essentially.. except possibly the most used feature: autosteer on HW1 works up to 90MPH on highway (but since the recent update it is now limited on non-highway to the current speed limit on HW1), but with HW2 and this rollout it is limited to 35MPH. This is being called "Low Speed Autosteer (Beta)".

https://www.garyshood.com/tesla-autopilot-features/
For general purpose email: GMail

For transactional email: Amazon SES

CRM: self-hosted SugarCRM
Animated GIFs of intricate Japanese wood joinery
I think this works by providing a second application for older chip manufacturing facilities. For SD chip designs, speed and size effectively do not matter (the controller will matter a hell of a lot more for final speed than actual storage chips speed). So they're using the chip fabs that everyone else is abandoning.

As a second bonus, even on old systems SD card circuits are relatively small (compared to a 5-60" LCD they certainly are). Wafers are round and old wafers are used to manufacture LCD displays, so small chips can be placed around them in the manufacturing process and get really good economics by having lots of manufacturing options.

So same reasons displays are getting cheap, except they're even better. So the race to the bottom is happening pretty fast for SD cards.

Not entirely sure about this. Might be entirely wrong, but I'm not sure how to confirm this.
Especially when rent for young people is around one third to one half of their income (I would know, it's about 1/3 of mine). Would take me about 6-8 years to save for a deposit on an older apartment.
As far as I know, "instant" refers to the delivery of messages, not actual processing by humans.
Is a heavy crane operator making $400k/year plus benefits "working class"? That sure sounds like wealthy to me.
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Every infrastructure project is its own shitty snowflake in the US—many arguments within the article stem from this. If we simply committed to more, budgeting slightly less on the assumption that kinks get worked out, and threatened cost overruns highly public, I bet things could work out.

The multitude of governments and jurisdictions problems is more worrisome however. That kink won't fix itself.