skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Parents have dedicated their lives to providing a good future for their children. They absolutely are thinking about the impact this will have on the younger generations, because tarnishing those generations, at least those expected within 100 years of the voter's death, tarnishes themselves and everything they've worked for -- namely, providing a good future for their posterity.

Parent-and-child identity are not separated. The success of the child is the success of the parent, within basic parameters.

It's very naive to assume that an overriding self-interest prevents a parent from tending to their child's needs.

You may disagree with your elders on a subject, which is fine, but it's unfair to characterize them as selfish or unthinking just because you disagree with their perspective on what will benefit their children. (Children frequently do disagree with their parents, and are usually proven wrong.)
I'm not even sure what I'm supposed to be upset about here. Working more to make more money isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's certainly the most realistic option available for people who want or need more money. Money solves a lot of problems in life. Money can make your life better. If there was a $30 minimum wage or universal income many people would still choose to work more if the option was available. You shouldn't assume the hamster on the wheel isn't enjoying the experience.
The film The Summit (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2363471/) does a great job showing the dangers of 8,000m of elevation. Fascinating to think about what drives people to climb these mountains with survival rates of 10% or lower.
"NuScale is already partnering with a consortium of Utah utilities to build a 12-module power plant on land in Idaho owned by the U.S. Department of Energy." -- I wonder if they would run all the wires over the border to a giant data center right there on some DoD owned land. :-) [1]

The TRIGA reactors are similar [2] although much smaller. I'm surprised they would share a pool though I'd think having them in separate pools would provide both better encapsulation if something was to go wrong and easier maintenance and disposal.

[1] Actually the NSA's data center is south of the Great Salt Lake so it would be a fairly long run of wires for that.

[2] http://www.ga.com/triga
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> it creates a cognitive load, that someone needs to invest a significant amount of effort to truly learn it.

To benefit from SELinux, I don't think you need to "truly learn" it... but you do need to invest some effort developing troubleshooting skills that are specific to SELinux. But the thrust of your point is right. We need to invest some effort to benefit from it.

I think postings like RedHat's are useful because they show us in a concrete way why it might be worth the small effort to develop the troubleshooting skills, or even worth the large effort to really understand SELinux.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13397372

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Yeah I kind left that out as it's their choice how they spread their gains and losses over the medium term. I agree it's likely a monopoly play but it doesn't feed straight into my point about their "efficiency" coming from a non-level playing field. One can debate if taxis should be registered or not however those stating that uber is more efficient are not comparing like for like.

Even that is a side-point to my main comment stating that credit expands to capture new productivity via land and that tech has made a marginal activity possible such as uber part-time-drivers has given access to more credit for early entrants which then forces everyone to "earn more" so that they can all bid more and pay greater interest on greater loans to the bankers.

And you can be as productive as you like because the bankers keyboards are not going to run out of zeros any time soon.

How do banks create money, and why can other firms not do the same? An explanation for the coexistence of lending and deposit-taking:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057521914...
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One wonders what kind of future technological breakthrough it would take to make the traditional characters easier to enter in a computer system ( rather than going through pinyin first )- I've seen that handwriting in simplified characters is probably on par, in terms of speed and readability, with pinyin, so it doesn't seem that far fetched, given that many phones and computer can accept stylus input these days.
Thats generally what superior means when talking about survival of the fittest. so yes.

All life is constantly trying to out-bread others. The ones that are bad at out-breading are called extinct.
This is a riot. It's almost like a Homestar Runner parody of "old-timey" speech. I'm particularly fond of the recurring verbal brohug, "just between (or among) ourselves". Like you're being let in on a little secret from one of your chums from the bar.
Thanks for the clarification; as a US citizen, I've never gone through the process myself, so I only know the bits and pieces I hear second-hand.
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Hopefully posts like this one help make the benefit more visible.

And much of the extra work is one-time work, not ongoing effort.
It's a two way street. I had to leave the US as my US tax bill on foreign income exceeded my US income. I would have prefered to stay but I draw the line at paying to work.
so far I can't find a single state where you don't have to notify the DMV of a title transfer. I don't agree that this is some crazy "only in California" type of deal.
In all honesty, I've never actually done :!make (or :make) as I nearly always have it wrapped behind my own build scripts
I really like Password Chart[1] as my "password encryption" scheme, since it gives me nice long wacky phrases out of something memorable, per-site.

[1] http://passwordchart.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantonese_phonology explains the reason for the disagreement about the number of tones in Cantonese. If you still think there are nine tones, you should be able to provide some minimal pairs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal_pair) to prove it.
If you have to revisit your projects to ensure that they work properly, then you wrote them improperly in the first place.
I've had a similar thing recently. Somebody asked me about learning "old
technologies", like Perl and CFEngine. Perl 5.x was published in 1991, four
years after initial version, Python was published in the same year, and Ruby
merely 4 years later. CFEngine 3.x, a complete rewrite that carries over very
little and only very high level ideas from earlier versions, was released in
2008, three years after Puppet, and only one year before Chef.

Some people just lack the perspective.
But in this case evidence was presented that the person is a shill, and in addition there were fact-based arguments against the position advocated by the alleged shill. Seems what you are saying is that we shouldn't be allowed to defend ourselves against shills by any means.
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> You shouldn't assume the hamster on the wheel isn't enjoying the experience.

Where to begin to describe how out of touch this comment is with working class America.
It increases the threshold of money involved, increases the amount of potential accounting tricks they have to do, and it raises the bar.

Political measures don't need to be absolutely effective to be useful. Raising the difficulty might be enough to deter a large number of fraudulent applications.
Please watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj1bHpPvSuE. In it you see Rahul Reddy, an immigration attorney, discussing with a group of "body shop" owners how immigration reform can be bad for business and what can be done to lobby against it.

Immigration attorneys have much to gain by trapping more people in GC backlogs.
Just an agreement. I make a point of using some LSM everywhere I can, but in practice selinux is still hard to debug properly. The level of abstraction in module doesn't help here. System-wide integration means that patching single app profile sometimes involves patching the system profile package, sometimes just one module. And that's just on redhat-like system - anything else gives no guarantees about selinux working at all.

Sure, apparmor has fewer options, but it's trivial to manage a profile along with the package itself. The learning and reporting system is much simpler. And there's no need for debugging the "where did I miss the context setting this time" problem in deployment.

I can deal with both and either one is needed. But selinux simply wastes my time way too often.
This claim is a bit disingenuous because nothing that runs all the time can be 100% powered by renewable energy. When the wind is not blowing, the trains run on fossil fuels, nuclear or whatever.

Sure, there is some paperwork that claims their electric bill is financing wind construction, but in the end the windmills put power into the grid with all the other power and the trains consume it.
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That is amazing, thanks for sharing.

I'm gonna steal some ideas from asyncBash
Vim users are breaking out to the shell to use git?

Try emacs with magit. It's really great.
This is a strange post to me.

First, where's the evidence that the Apple Watch is about to fail? Every day I keep seeing more and more Apple Watches in the wild. Just the other day I was getting lunch and noticed that at the table next to me every single person had an Apple Watch on. Every time there's a get-together in my family, I notice one or two extra relatives who've ended up getting one. That's pretty impressive for something that's on the verge of failure. It actually feels comparable with how smartphones slowly started assimilating into our lives years ago.

Second, consumer VR right now is for video games, period. Maybe that will change later on, but that's what VR is all about right now. So comparing it to laptops/desktops/smartphones seems strange. What are the dimensions of this comparison? Turning on Steam VR, then putting on the headset doesn't feel all that different to me from turning on the TV, then sitting down on the sofa.
It's actually subtly above the line of death in Chrome: https://i.imgur.com/dEootju.png

And Firefox greys out some browser chrome: https://i.imgur.com/JfJ57qA.gif

But these things are probably not going to be noticed by your average user...
it could be that mi phones are so good that people like me and my wife do not want to buy a new replacement.

i dropped my mi 1S on hard ground one year ago. the screen glass was torn, but not detached; however, the touch is not affected at all. the face camera still works but the pic is blurry due to torn glasses covering the face camera.

last week my 4yo son threw my wife's mi 2. screen torn (much worse than mine, but the scars do not cross important areas like front camera), touch ok, camera ok.

i asked her if she wants a new phone? she flatly said no. it still works great.

i had a chinese no name brand tablet. dropped wooden toy on it, screen torn, touch broke, 'mouse' jitters. luckily pointers still functions with normal mouse (use utb-otg) after detaching the touch sensor ribbon cable.

so yeah, xiao mi phones are robust and ours are 24/7 abused. they (mi 1s and mi 2s) still get great build even when the prices are just around $100. the second thing less abused in my house is my lenovo yoga (ultra-slim laptop). oh wait, probably the most abused is my cisco router.

we do have more high end phones like motorolla and asus; however, they are not used as much as the mis. not because they are more expensive so we care more. it's just painful to use say asus. it's power hungry, and data hungry, often betrayed us on critical moments. we just don't use it. the asus z5 is now used by my 4yo son to watch youtube.

on last note, we like that our mis do not have a brand printed facing us, unlike the ASUS or SAMSUNG. i never like printed brand on my personal stuffs just to show off. printed brands on inside, not to show off, are ok.
Did you know some slave owners granted their slaves semi-autonomy as long as work got done?
Isn't it a good thing that companies like Uber are creating jobs?

Are they, overall? Are they expanding the total amount of money paid out to workers in this industry? I'm not so sure that's the case.
That's a funny comment, because you are "taking liberties with facts" exactly as lamented by shykes above.

You start with a grain of truth — something that actually happened in reality. In this case, it was a joke protesting systemd hegemony.

Perhaps you thought that joke was in poor taste. But lets leave that aside for now.

So you start with an actual fact. Then, you exaggerate/falsify it, changing the details pretty wildly, and present this story of something that supposedly happened. In fact, nothing like that happened... but it sort of feels like something that might have happened. It vaguely resembles the actual event that did happen (in that, a Docker employee did wear a badge with an opinionated phrase on it at a conference).

The key thing, though, is that what you describe is completely and utterly different from the thing that actually happened in reality world[1].

You might not even be the person who changed the details to make the story more compelling (and false). Maybe you got this information from a post shared on Facebook, or from an email forwarded by your uncle.

Either way, though, the impact of your comment is to pollute the body of discussion and degrade the collective understanding of this topic. (If this process feels familiar, it's because it is exactly the process that eventually caused the failure of the American democracy... just at a much smaller scale).

Personally I don't have any stake in the Docker/RedHat relationship and I don't care about it. I only looked up what actually happened[1] because the idea of a Docker employee wearing an official badge that says "I reject red hat patches" seemed so unlikely to have occurred that it sent my bullshitometer into the red.

Suggestion: when something smells like bullshit, don't eat it without conducting a bit of research.

[1]: https://www.facebook.com/hackerspace.budapest/photos/a.40703...
The movement problem is already pretty much solved. Teleportation works amazingly well in games where that's not inconsistent with the in-game universe, and when fluid motion is necessary games like Onward have managed to make it work quite well. Keep in mind that Onward is a competitive military sim, so there's not a lot of room in the game for players to be fiddling with locomotion. The fact that the game has been such a success is pretty strong evidence that locomotion is not the contentious issue in VR that it was a year ago.
My understanding is this: Hooft is an "instrumentalist" as described in this article. He does not believe that quantum mechanics describes "what's really going on" and is interested in classical models that explain why QM makes such good predictions.

"Superdeterminism" is a very interesting perspective that Hooft feels could resolve this dilemma. Others feel that superdeterminism is not falsifiable, so there's no point in discussing it.

I came across this interesting article on stackexchange from a few years ago: http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34217/why-do-peop...

The first response is from Peter Shor, presumably the discoverer of Shor's algoithm. Kinda cool that such intelligent people with the highest academic credentials use a public forum.
Unlikely any time soon. They've only done 13 of them. There's loads more (http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Category:Toy_Story_characters) ... although they may want to avoid "Stinky Pete".
Generally speaking, people should feel as free as Japanese tourists to snap photos. There are some caveats --France is a bit funny about some buildings (like Eiffel tower at night because the operator owns the rights to the likeness enhanced by the lights. Military installations are typically a no-no as well.

But, if we went ahead and were timid about pictures in this place or that place, no photojournalism would take place, if we took it to extreme. I give photography a pass when it comes to cultural awareness. Otherwise we'd have people say things like "Robert Frank had no right to portray "The Americans" the way he did, he wasn't American and didn't understand us". Of course, have personal awareness --some people are weary of strangers taking their pictures --say Bruce Gilden taking pictures of the Yakuza in Japan.

On the other hand, be decent and don't take gratuitous pictures just for the yucks (someone in very embarrassing/compromising position that really don't add anything --a drunk/homeless in the street in their vomit, for example.
If you're going to ask for historical examples, don't complain you're given historical examples.
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> from their own willful decisions that affect only themselves

Handing your savings to a con man affects more than just yourself. It destroys your family, which increases crime, etc.

No one person wants to be constrained, but en masse these kinds of things can destroy a society. Especially when they are well-known cognitive exploits that work on people despite their own stated preferences.
It indeed is probably used a synonym of narcissistic and/or selfish.

Solipsism carries a different connotation with it. Narcissism is usually associated with ego and self love while implying someone is "solipsistic" doesn't necessarily imply an overblown ego, assuming they really mean "an adherent of the philosophy," which is probably very seldom the case.
would vr worsen myopia?
The richer half of the country _own_ 97.5% of the wealth. ( http://www.businessinsider.com/15-charts-about-wealth-and-in... ). It is hard to not pay nearly all of the taxes in that situation.

Note that the "richer half" starts at the median income. For the US, the median income is about $52k. That isn't particularly wealthy. When the bar for "nearly all the wealth" is set at that point, it is not surprising at all.
> I have a pile of examples, but not the time to elaborate - I'll add them later.

Please don't forget to share, this sounds very interesting to me as a novice.
No worries. As far as Trump's policies go, I think they'll work well enough domestically. Not too long ago, tariffs and deregulation were fairly orthodox economic policies.

And his pro-pipeline stance will be good for Canada, though for Alberta macro issues affect us more than any policy issues.
As a vehement supporter of VR and early Vive adopter, I agree. My Vive has been stuck in a drawer for several months now, and I'm strongly considering selling it.

Though, to be clear, most of my issues with current-gen VR is because of the state of the technology: low-res displays, bulky and heavy HMDs, clunky wires, etc. In a generation or two once this is addressed, it will be a much more enjoyable experience.

The other issue is in the software itself: there are just no must-have VR experiences yet. Technical demos, unpolished experiments, and shallow gameplay make up 90% of the current catalog. Plus there's the motion problem we haven't figured out yet, where most games rely on teleportation as primary movement mechanism, which is terrible UX.

Here's to hoping this isn't yet another failed VR attempt and that the industry will keep evolving, as the possible level of immersion is truly remarkable.
Not sure education alone can do what you desire. In the case of cigarettes, education was coupled with ever-increasing taxes to decrease the percentage of smokers. And speaking of cigarette taxes, they are certainly used, as you say, as a form of monetary control for the public's benefit.
I am pretty suspicious of my meat-based random phrase generator. A lot of the analysis on the entropy of correcthorsebatterystaple type passwords assume the words are uniformly drawn from a vocabulary of whatever thousands. But if you have a large enough dataset of passwords I bet you can find the true (non-uniform) distribution of words people actually draw from and the entropy will be a bit lower. And if you further restrict it to be almost grammatically correct phrases it will be further lower[1].

Am I just paranoid?

[1] RNNs can learn the distribution of your grammar easily http://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness/. The worry is that human generators will condition their random words too much. e.g., "correct" ooohh brain just did a adjective let's throw it a noun next "horse".
Interesting. Your use of `git commit -am` resounded with me. I can't stand doing `git add .` ; `git commit -m "message"`; `git push`. I aliased "commit" to "ci" in git-config, and then do `git ci -am "message" && git push`. I'm sure at some point I will add a hook to have the push done automatically (though sometimes I prefer to do it manually, so I will have to make a decision.)

I am an avid emacs user though. I really should check out vim.
Well, even languages with no defined tones such as Japanese have some intonations to distinguish homophonic words in context. And English speech synth still sound robotic because it lacks the full tonal range of a human speaker.

The simplification of tones in Northern Mandarin predates Pinyin by hundreds of years, similar to how English developed a writing system that is often inconsistent with speech.
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Another famous source of the "bags of water"/"bags of meat" phrase is the short story They're Made Out of Meat by Terry Bisson.

http://www.terrybisson.com/page6/page6.html
Sounds OK by me :-)

> Paypal founder Peter Thiel becomes marijuana's first big investor

> https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/jan/08/cannabis-in...
His point is absolutely not applicable. Rust is a _very_ new language. The community will eventually converge on specific crates for specific purposes in time.
I think the fundamental premise of this article is wrong. The author seems to assume that the "side hustle" is on top of a full time job. But I think the intended implication is that uber drivers are for the most part people who do not have a full time job. They are semi-retired, or only working part time at another job, or between "real" jobs and working at uber to help make ends meet until they can find a new "real" job, or they're mostly househusbands or something like that.
I assume the lawyer would spell it all out in closing arguments. The difference is that at that time the lawyer can comment and interpret, and there isn't a witness that might respond unpredictably.
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I just took an uber ride where the driver told me she left her granddaughter's birthday party to drive people. Maybe she has different priorities than I would, but I think it's more likely that she's economically desperate enough that she has to miss those moments to make ends meet. As much as I like the service uber provides, I don't think we should pretend people are working for uber without duress.
zsh was even the default shell for an OS X release, 10.3 or 4 can't remember at this point.
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