skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think it's selfish at all to choose not to bring a child into the world when there are still 6+ billion of us to carry the species forward.

But my argument is not about survival or wellbeing of the species. It's about denying life to your children.
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Agreed. The other route which seems popular are the "free trade" agreements, but so long as it's corporations writing them, as far as I can tell such deals are moving in the opposite direction of what would be best for the environment and the vast majority of citizens of the world.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned pritunl. Open source and one click deployment on DO https://pritunl.com
I don't speak German, can you provide a link to the paragraph and/or a translation?
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Link for the lazy: https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
Hello Mr. Cloudflare,
Your whole understanding of how XMR works seems to be wrong; theres no concept of spend outputs at all, to deanonymize tx with a certain certainity one would have to own around 83% of the networks outputs.

Theres a good academic read about this here: https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0001.pdf
and here: https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0004.pdf

And also a privacy improvement which gets into effect in about 25 hours or so with the next hardfork called RingCT, which has been peer reviewed by Ledger journal: http://www.ledgerjournal.org/ojs/index.php/ledger/article/do...

Optional privacy a la ZCASH is broken by design and cannot work, you are still able to have tainted coins and do blacklisting etc, its effectily useless, also it opens up a whole world of other attack vectors like this one: https://github.com/zcash/zcash/issues/1360#issuecomment-2461...

A good read for everyone unbiased tho a bit old is here (which explains the inner workings): https://lab.getmonero.org/pubs/MRL-0003.pdf
some forms of regulation actually do make things better for everyone

Best example is that property rights are such a form of regulation. When it comes to fisheries, wildlife, open public lands, air pollution, and intellectual 'property,' the optimal regulation gets much more complicated.
The list should already be waaaay longer than that.
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http://www.cuanschutztoday.org/common-antioxidant-may-guard-...
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>In my work I use the Nonviolent Communication/Maslow model: every action we take is a strategy to meet a basic human need. There are no "good" or "bad" actions. Some actions meet more needs for more people than others.

That's how I think, too. Wouldn't it be great if we could get the whole world working that way?
That always reads to eof, so it can't be used in the same way.
I do not understand beyond "Open SSL is broken", but it sounds both terrible and important. Can someone please explain a bit more?
> "Kvothe went to market"

This is not a grammatically incorrect sentence; it depends on context. Products are take to an abstract concept of 'market', for example.
The dinner choices were the worst. Where's steak or grilled chicken? Basically, the only meat options were a hamburger (with bun) or kosher hot dogs.
> Hate speech is speech that attacks a person or group on the basis of attributes such as gender, ethnic origin, religion, race, disability, or sexual orientation

> Calling women fat and unattractive for their use of birth control is not hate speech

Something isn't quite lining up here...
>That's not true; many are called "crackpots" and the like

Not a term that is regularly circulated in scientific discussion. More typically these are labels around subjects in which politics has involved itself. When politics becomes involved, the stakes become much higher as money and power are involved and it becomes in ones best interest to silence opposition often by any means because the opposing opinion now is a direct threat to your career, business etc. Whereas beforehand opposing opinion was just that, an opinion with no more power to influence change and not threatening.

We can see this precisely unfold with climate change. Prior to 1997 conservative and liberal views were more closely inline. However, 1997 was the first time a political solution was proposed that favored political world views of liberal vs conservative. All of a sudden now opinion matters and critics became more involved and vocal. I would suspect if the political solution favored conservative world views then the terms 'climate change deniers' would be originating from the right as opposed to the left. The left would have become critical if they felt the solution was an impact to their political world views.

http://www.livescience.com/56396-americans-misinformed-on-cl...
It's been done already. The consensus, IIRC, is that it sucks compared to 'natural' forms, is too strong, lacks the 'secondary' active ingredients that many need/seek, and exists as a profit source and a source of control.

https://www.google.com/search?q=marinol&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8

etc.
Pretty ballsy coming from nytimes. If this election taught me anything, they are not much better than breitbart.
I don't know if I should be impressed by their ingenuity or disgusted by their reasoning.
Which theory suggests that this should be the fastest?
The argument follows from the first thing I wrote in this thread. Our understanding of complex systems is through abstractions, but abstractions (by definition) hide the details. Just as attackers can exploit details that are 'below the radar' of an abstract view, AI with a mind of its own (which it would have, by definition) could probably do things that escape our attention, including social engineering. That is not necessarily bad, but it might be out of our control.

To be clear: I am considering real AI, not that which is sometimes passed off as AI these days.
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Theres are a whole bunch of different downsides at ZCash too:

- multisig with zaddresses seems not to be possible.
- Using Z Addresses on a Smartphone or HW device like Trezor is too resource intensive

Looks like a privacy disaster to me, as no one will be using it.
There are only 807 undergrads[1] at Harvey Mudd (which of course is an excellent school).

So that's still a sizable portion of their undergrad students -- even though from such a small sample, it's very hard to tell whether what they are doing would scale.

Also worth noting -- Harvey Mudd is focused on Science and Engineering, so students who pick HM would likely be more predisposed to picking a major like CS, anyway.

But still, an increase is an increase, and they're not out of line to cite those numbers, IMO, they're accurate.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Mudd_College
ZCash is scam.
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess-Paradoxon#Mechanisches_...
Pretty awful choices on everything but breakfast. Where are the whole foods. The only fresh fruit was blueberries with low fat yogurt and an apple listed twice.
i'm writing a web-based crossword app using svg for the grid, and it's a great experience. i got the basic idea by examining the source of the guardian interactive crossword [https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/cryptic/27089 e.g.] which is very clean and readable.
Isn't the whole reason we punish people for murder based on the idea that if the murderer had chosen not to murder (in other words, if they had taken the other route at the fork in the road) then the victim would still be alive?

Obviously, murdering an already alive person is not the same thing as not having children, but is not the reasoning the same? Am I missing something?
Exactly. Not to mention, that not everyone is within reach of a critically-minded citizen; after all, population-density outside of urban areas is very low.
A version of that idea was the winning project from the Reboot Democracy hackathon last month in San Francisco. They called it AdStrike.

https://twitter.com/rebootdem/status/808456933795475456

http://adstrike.us/
Is this seriously the kind of food that Americans eat? If this is at all realistic, then I don't see why anyone is surprised at the obesity epidemic.
That's not covert though, actually it's so overt I generally feel like a douche using it...
Obviously you have no kids and no interest in persuading anyone who does, to be throwing around this "failed parent" talk for anyone raising a child with special needs.
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If you re-read what I wrote, you'll see that I am only making the argument that the decision not to have kids is selfish. I am not making a larger statement about the people who make this decision.
20%. There are tons of coins released recently before zcash on this broken tech.
Traffic is traffic.

Yes only wealthy people's routes are being data mined. However, if someone is going from P to U, you will still learn that R to T is a hot spot. Those hot spots are common to everyone.
That's what I assumed, it feels like there should be an intuitive connection (both are kind of situations where a local optima is avoided by removing the greedily optimal path on a graph structure), but I may be wrong, i dunno.
Sure, I do hope we can focus on one concurrency primitive, but the possibility that we may have async/await and coroutine at the same time seems kind of unfortunate to me.
The article says "Challenge: Construct a day’s worth of eating, from items at a typical supermarket we visited, that meets the guidelines for added sugars." ... then proceeds to let the reader build meals entirely composed of brand name packaged foods.

This article is a pointless straw man, unless the point is a covert attempt at making the reader realize they should skip the food with the brand names on it and eat real food instead... but that seems way too nuanced for the NY Times.
Complaining about "fake news" while citing "BuzzFeed News" as a source?

Mote. Beam.
Yeah, the only conclusion we find here is that cultures with music that follow certain beat patterns are biased towards recognizing those beat patterns. Not exactly surprising.
I think you messed up at the end of your post. Are you missing the word "not" here?

>I become convinced that Google (or a subsidiary via Alphabet) is going to end up being much of a player in the space.
Parenthood is not required though to make the same transformations you have, "shallow, naive, and self-absorbed" to "far more mature, compassionate, and open". It's not required for learning "more about being human than I could have ever imagined".

Procreating has to be about the most normal thing a thing can do. Surely it feels Right, and the rightness of it demands your attention. All of this has become possible through offspring. All over the planet, every one's doing it, or trying to do it on some level.

Feeling higher and lower simply (ha) requires an advanced, growing ability to feel and to think. There are immeasurable life forms on this Earth, and we're all fighting for survival, the opportunity to live. Family is just waiting to come into being, if we support it.

The places our minds are able to go are only as limited as our imaginations, it's a capacity of the brain. There are many mental paths of growth, of life. Offspring takes many forms.

It's great to hear of having kids as a very positive, very negative experience, like it has been for you and your children (and probably spouse). It's not hard to see though that many families don't have your same experience, and it amounts to a net increase in (relative) lows, decrease in highs.

Maybe the world would be a different place if taking care of everyone that's already here, first, was more important than having kids? Maybe we could achieve higher highs without needing suffer so many of the lowest lows.
This is a duplicate from a couple days ago
And one square-mile at a time.

The Southeast alone has acres upon acres of rural settlements (okay, fine, towns) with low population-density; it would take a significant expedition to spread "opportunity" to a noticeable portion of that population.
This doesn't seem to be the case for me

-> % python test.py 2>&1 | python test.py
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
[snip]
python 24150 someone 0u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
python 24150 someone 1w FIFO 0,8 0t0 72772851 pipe
python 24150 someone 2w FIFO 0,8 0t0 72772851 pipe
python 24150 someone 3w CHR 5,0 0t0 1049 /dev/tty
COMMAND PID USER FD TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
[snip]
python 24151 someone 0r FIFO 0,8 0t0 72772851 pipe
python 24151 someone 1u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
python 24151 someone 2u CHR 136,0 0t0 3 /dev/pts/0
python 24151 someone 3w CHR 5,0 0t0 1049 /dev/tty
someone@arch-two [01:29:00] [~]
-> % echo $ZSH_VERSION
5.2
someone@arch-two [01:29:16] [~]
-> % cat test.py
import os
import sys
import subprocess

with open("/dev/tty", "w") as f:
subprocess.check_call(["lsof", "-p", str(os.getpid())], stdout=f)

Edit: Ok so I misread your comment and you were talking about >&2. Which is weird because it actually has different behaviour in bash vs zsh. Having said I can't think why you would want the bash behaviour, although the bash behaviour does seem more consistent.
I have that Dell at work. It's... interesting.

I am not happy about its brightness level -- it's noticeably dimmer than an Apple Cinema Display, and turning brightness/contrast up just gives you a washed-out image.

The other thing is that the width, for me, doesn't add much utility. I like my windows centered so I am looking straight ahead at what I am working on, and keeping certain things (like log outputs and dashboards) in the periphery of my vision is just distracting. I know some people enjoy tiled window arrangements and vertically-split editor windows, but that stuff just doesn't do anything for me. So I am not using the horizontal space very efficiently. The best use of the width is being able to read wide diffs or other things that go side by side.

I also couldn't get it to work as a USB hub, not sure why. Thunderbolt would have been better, at any rate -- then you'd only need two cables instead of three.

I am considering replacing my home monitor, a Cinema Display, with the Dell 27-inch 4K, but it's just so damn ugly. It's got the thick bezel instead of the "infinity edge" one or the black glass of the 5K (which I can't buy since it requires two DisplayPort connections).
Not _all_ cryptocurrencies, no - it's mostly just the scammy ones of little genuine utility and/or technological merit.

Both Bitcoin and Monero have fair distribution; development of neither is done by for-profit LLCs financially supported by any pre-mine, miner tax, insider investment/ICO, or other fancy scheme paid out by either the underlying monetary system or taxed from the users and/or those securing the network, and while Blockstream Inc. does employ Bitcoin Core developers, Monero development is entirely decentralized without even a foundation to its name.
Very neat. Thanks for the link.
Just because something is simple doesn't mean that it's easy.
Not all Americans. I think it probably also varies by income levels.

I don't eat any of the foods on the "breakfast" or "lunch" tabs, and only 1 from the "snack" tab (apples). I make up for all that deficit by consuming a copious quantity of ice cream.
http://webcomicname.tumblr.com/post/154211839894
Can you take the gnomicism down a notch?
BuzzFeed News has actually become a pretty reputable organization in the past couple of years. They have quality journalists working there (according to journalist friends). I was also surprised when I heard about this since I associate them with listicles, but appearently that's how they fund things...
As someone who semi-regularly cooks, all the prepared food choices looked really unappetizing to me.

It's easy to avoid added sugar if you make your own food: just don't dump sugar in while you cook.

I think the bigger story here is that for most of human history, every single household cooked because it was the only economical way to feed yourself (restaurants have always been a luxury good). In the US, we've recently had this weird economic inversion where it's become cheaper to feed yourself off of junk food, so now cooking has become some sort of luxury good.

Come to think of it, exercise has followed the same path. In the past, only the rich could avoid physical activity. Nowadays, it's rich people who can afford pricey gym passes and personal trainers while their poorer compatriots also work in a call center or some other sedentary setting.
Tail employs a large read buffer as well, but it does not matter because you wouldn't use it in the same manner.

Tail is the right tool for the job here. But if you wish to stick with your idiom, read will reliably consume a single line of input, regardless of how it is implemented:

(read -r; cat) < file
You should check out http://gafferongames.com/networking-for-game-programmers/wha... for better ways of handling that first issue.
I've always thought about integrating this functionality into elvish https://github.com/elves/elvish but cannot cone up with a good syntax. dgsh has a good one, but unfortunately using & breaks its traditional semantics. Does anyone has some idea of a tradition-compatible grammar?

Also, to nitpick, this is more accurately called a directed acyclic graph shell, or simply a DAG shell. The language doesn't seem to allow cycles. dagsh reads nicer than dgsh too.
How do people make SVGs these days? Inkscape? By hand? A combination?
How far do you sit away from it? I can't imagine sitting with a 55" monitor less than a metre from my face.
Completion dates are low much like for reasons that completion dates for MOOCs are low.

I have a scheduled time and place for meeting a doctor. Not going will inconvenience many people, so there's a lot of social pressure to go. I've already put it in my calendar, so mentally I've accepted that I'll be doing this for a couple hours. When I go, the next meeting will be scheduled, locking me into a virtuous cycle of commitment.

An online thing I can do on my own time? Ha! We've gotten pretty good at ignoring reminder emails, no set time was put into place, and there's no set rhythm.

The "right" way to test the effectiveness of the program is to still get people scheduled to go to a doctor's office, but instead of talking to a doctor, you use a computer (and schedule the next visit).

For people like me, the main advantage of college wasn't access to the professor's, it's the set timeframe, place, and penalties for not showing up. Same sort of thing applies here I think
I agree. Though I might not be quite so uniformly positive about it. My kids have brought me great quantities of annoyance, but they also bring me great joy. Something about the laugh, the cry, the learning, watching them turn into a sentient being right before my very eyes -- it flips a bunch of switches in the right way.

I agree that it's definitely not for everyone. I don't judge. I waited until I was 35 to have kids, so I've been solidly on both sides of the divide. I didn't like being asked 'where are my grandkids' and I won't ever ask anyone else a similar kind of question. Do it, or not, all I recommend is that you do it on purpose because there are no give-backs; only do it when you think you can give it your best.
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Why? Just because Google made a Linux distro makes it no longer qualify as a Linux distro?
It's not, of course. But it takes a lot of awareness to eat well in the US, especially if you follow traditional nutrition advice such as that taught in most high schools (if you were lucky).

Recently I had a friend complain about his weight so we went shopping for groceries together. After he loaded his cart with the usual stuff we went through the labels and he was shocked at bow many empty carbs and sugar he was eating (he had plenty of canned fruits, instant oatmeal, apple sauce, bananas and grapes, all stuff that's usually considered "healthy").

Helped him pick out some chicken, fish, vegetables, nuts and real cheese instead.
The way to do the auction is, the engineers with the highest salary offers get to come (national security permitting). This way the slots would be used only to bring in people who were truly highly valued in their profession.
I can only assume he was joking
When I was in a hardware store last year, I had a chance to compare a 4k and 5k iMac side by side. IIRC, the size was the same and it came down to PPI.

For casual use 4k was plenty, but where 5k really proved itself for me was small terminal text. I was able to take the font size in terminals down noticeably smaller on the 5k while still having readable text.

That's why the 8k interests me - when doing programming, my particular work-flow usually ends up with lots of open terminals, documents, and web pages as information and source code are woven together into a program. The smaller the readable text, the more I can fit on the screen at once and see at the same time. With 275 PPI and large screen size all in one, this sounds like it might be the dream coding monitor...
That kind of book would be a great service to humanity. I don't know if you will sell many, but anyone inventing a new ETL tool would be served well by reading it. Perhaps a paper for a journal like ACM would be a better format. Or you could make it into a wiki. Or an "ETL Nightmares monthly" newsletter, with best user submissions.
This makes sense. I bet if anything the the NYC issue may have just hastened the release of this.
They are spineless/get the fear of being involved "illegal" businesses.

I'm inordinately curious why you chose to characterize this as "spineless". Even as someone who is 100% for, and actively campaigns and lobbies his representatives to consider some of the bills in his state's upcoming legislative session-I completely understand why a payment processor wouldn't touch this with a ten mile long pole-given where we stand when it comes to Federal legalization of cannabis.

You can be an activist and stand up for the right to blaze all you want as a company, but if the Federal government and more specifically the IRS decides you've nipped it in the wrong bud (pun probably intended), you and your company are in for a very difficult battle that will almost certainly end up with said company shutting down and one or more of your management team facing Federal indictment.

And even if those people walk away scot free, it absolutely is not worth it unless you have an infinite supply of money for legal fees fighting-of all entities-the judicial behemoth that is the United States Attorney General's office.
Brave, with its tomboyish princess Merida is one.

Disney even got some flak for "glamming" her up to be like other Disney princesses [1]

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/may/16/disney-princess...
Marijuana is still illegal at the federal level. Companies big enough for everyone to know their name have no real choice but to handle things conservatively. If some little guy is doing mj related stuff, the feds may not notice. If BigCo does it, it is pretty much guaranteed to become a horrible shit show.

They are in business to make money, not foment revolution. This is how it works for very big companies.
Name checks out! (As they like to say on a certain other message board where snarky comments are de rigueur. )
I wonder if there is any perfomance benchmark of this graph shell? Especially on some complex pipelines running huge datasets?
A lot of connections made in that article, with no data to back any of it.
SVGO is interesting. One of my biggest complaints over the years has been that most tools that export to SVG do it in such a way that the file is so difficult to understand and edit that the results are useless.
> I want my own kids.

> If I believe that we both have higher genetic potential than a randomly selected human then it makes sense to ensure that our children have those genes.

Do you believe that? Isn't it kind of like everyone believing they're above average?