skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"the situation is no way near as bad as it is in the US because of these safety nets for the bottom quartile."

I'm not kiwi-bashing, simply pointing out that rich foreign individuals, using NZ as a bolt-hole are faced with similar situation, just in a more dispersed population.

"Of all New Zealand children, 22% live in
families where the major caregiver receives
income from a social security benefit.[0]
That is around 230,000, or one fifth, of
New Zealand children"

This is supporting what you say wrt to welfare, about the same murder rate (0.9 compared to 1.0) to Aus. [1] The biggest thing I noticed last time I was in the North Island was Waitangi (Treaty of Waitangi). For the Māori a means of citizenship and redress for stolen land. There is nothing like this in Australia (to its shame) and while I can see the results of standards of living supplied by the state, I'm not convinced the type of systemic, race based poverty is not found in NZ like the US. [2]

I still remember the effects of Roger Douglas [3] on NZ in the 80's/90's while studying with my Kiwi mates.

It is worse in Aus, the country is geographically bigger, without a treaty and to compare the two places, Australian Aboriginal males have a life expectancy of 69.1 [4] but from anecdotally it's more like 50. In NZ it is 72.8 ('13).

"I would know. I'm in it."

Kia ora @Tomminn

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_poverty_in_New_Zealand#c...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intention...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Māori_people#Socioeconomic_cha...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogernomics

[4] http://aihw.gov.au/deaths/life-expectancy/#indigenous
Well, it's not that equivalent a situation. I'd feel personally responsible for the particular set of individuals killed by the genie rather than some other set of individuals. That's too much responsibility for me, I didn't ask for this crap, I should know better than to trust random genie bargains.
So where is the benefit over keeping all of my passwords in a non-cloud storage solution with KeepassX2?
Finding Prime Numbers with the Twilio API
Thanks :) Yes, every year we are expected to fill out a bunch of paperwork (generally between 1 and 100 pages) and hand it in by a certain date "or else". The bureaucracy that interprets this paperwork (imho) is a total waste of money (on the personal income tax side), and the time_cost*every_taxpayer is absurd.

For most people, their employer took out (in excess) taxes all year and sent them in, so they get a refund (after the paperwork ritual) on the loan they made to the gov with 0% interest.

I'm not a fan on taxes on things you own because it means you don't _really_ own them. For example a person who owns a piece of property but can not pay the property tax. It gets taken from them by force if necessary, hence they never really owned it. At the very least we should carve out an exemption for property you live on. Transaction taxes don't have that problem.
As a Chinese student，most of my friends（if he need visit blocked website）are using shadowsocks，it is easy 、fast and more stable than vpn，and I also installed shadowsocks in my openwrt router.
The "mass communication" among many academics and researchers is almost exactly that: communicating via published works.

How well this method applies to different sized groups is another question.
Live Streaming of 50p conference in India
sfyimby.org !

there are meetings every month, next one should be posted soon. https://facebook.com/pg/sfyimbyparty/events/
I previously used KeePassX, which was great due to the multiplatform support. However the project seemed stalled, and I've since switched to the excellent KeeWeb; it's Electron based and is in general more modern.

https://keeweb.info/
The ideas I presented are from a long time ago. Arguably, modern military technology made grass roots revolutions impossible in first world countries (or will soon, given drones, etc).

Dragnet surveillance creates capabilities like "shoot the 1% of people in this city most likely to oppose me." A more effective / socially acceptable version is already being implemented in China. They have a number that measures how good of a citizen you are. As I understand it, it can be used to vet people for all sorts of things (employment, credit, housing, law enforcement targeting, etc).

So, now, if you say something wrong in private, you might end up begging for food on the side of the road.

Of course, the input to the score is secret; presumably it can be adjusted up or down by (abusive?) people in authority.

Even if I am wrong about the details of the Chinese system (maybe it has great checks and balances for all I know), it is easy to see how government agents could abuse such a system.
If I turn off show hidden files, it's nice, lean, and clean with only one file..
Unexpected Consequences of Self-Driving Cars
Most 12 year olds could handle being a cashier.
> The true master bullshitters are insecure & smart and surround themselves with pliable people who will work like donkeys.

If the pay was good it might be worth teaming up with them. I can handle the work if they can handle all the other shit.
You could also test the waters with a `2to3` branch.

If you have uncommitted changes, instead of dropping them in as "last before..." you can git-stash them before branching and git-stash-pop them when you come back.
If you go really slow on a freeway with low visibility you get rear ended at highway speed. Which doesn't work out well for you. Or the other person.

Heck if you go real slow on a highway and traffic isn't... you get rear ended at highway speed.
Creator here — there are actually a decent number of folks who have expressed an interest in finding news sources from the "other side".

For some, this is because they were shocked by the election results (Brexit, Trump) and want to understand what people on the other side are thinking so that they can try to find common ground.

For others, it's very much an opposition research play — they've realized that if they don't know what news (or "news") is circulating on the "other side", then they can't effectively combat it.

It's true that there are many people who have no interest in reading news that doesn't make them feel right/smart, and we're not trying to tell folks that they •should• feel this way. We're just building something for people who have decided that they want to get a view from the other side, either for their own personal edification, or to be aware of how the "other side" is positioning things.
But the most common alternative is Keepass in Dropbox... Which is effectively very similar
Why It Seems as If Kindle Is Not Good for Reading Textbooks?
No, that place is a Crisis Pregnancy Center (an anti-abortion facility set up to look like a real repro health clinic). You can tell from the scaremongering about abortion they do here, for instance: http://www.realoptions.net/options/abortion/

They are not an alternative to Planned Parenthood, they are a vile unethical pretend-clinic taking advantage of the confusion of desperate women.
Regular everyday murderers kill orders of magnitude more Americans than terrorists.

Jeffrey Dahmer wasn't a regular everyday murderer, he was a serial killer - a category which does not kill orders of magnitude more Americans than terrorists, and a distinction which is entirely apropos in this discussion because unlike regular everyday murderers, serial killers are generally quite hard to identify with usual police investigatory methods.
Modify system settings permission is needed when your app needs to change network state. Previously using the Change Network State permission was enough, but since Android 6 it's no longer suffice. I imagine that app probably need to access the watch accessory over Bluetooth and need that permission to make the Bluetooth turn on automatically.
Depends who you are and what fits I suppose. I worked from a super young age and got to a point in my 20s where the idea of working for someone would drive me crazy. I also hated the concept of someone being able to fire me or make a bad decision above me. I like having no one to blame but me, it allows me to sleep well at night.

Some people love their 9-5 and I find nothing wrong with that at all, Its not a one size fits all solution. What I will say though is you learn a heck of a lot about yourself when you are responsible for "everything". I love the challenge of it.
I wish everyone were forced to program everything on a machine with the resources of a Pentium I-class processor and say 64MB RAM.

Learn to conserve your resources, learn to eschew that which is not needed, and for crying out loud learn to not write bloated stuff. Even today, most programs I use on Windows 7 were written back in the days of Windows 95/98 and they still work faster than any current modern implementation you can find, and they're smaller.
So every decision is a trolley-problem style tradeoff. Remember that your null action in this case is "save four lives but kill five people who otherwise would have lived." Where's your cutoff point?
The comment I replied to was arguing against high fines, with a recommendation to use that formula.

Personally, I feel there's a disparity here between punishment for the rich (make the fine slightly higher than the expected profit) and the poor (put them in a cage for years).
It's an "extension" that launches the client app.
There are no nerves in the epidermis.
Agreed. Level 5 autonomy as described by the article was basically "magic driver that can handle any situation ever." By that definition, a competent human driver who's paying attention in clear weather still doesn't quite qualify. There are plenty of conditions that will cause a human driver to pull over, or (worse) to confidently continue without realising how little control they have over their vehicle (just look up 'snow driving accident' on YouTube).
Add the sfbarf/ sfYimby calendar to your google calendar: http://www.sfbarf.org/

As you can see, there's at least one thing to do per week. Our monthly meetings are the 1st Wednesday of the month but there is a ton of stuff to do besides that.
That's an average price of Iowa farmland statewide. But as you know there's a wide variety. I have no problem believing the price of $10,000 to $15,000 per acre for the premier land.

However as you probably are aware sometimes competition among neighbors boosts those prices into the stratosphere.

Then there's Detroit where you can buy city lots for $50. Assuming an average size of 50 by 100 ft or 5000 sq feet that is $435 an acre and it comes with water!

http://auctions.buildingdetroit.org/sidelots
So you don't need a password manager. Just save to a encrypted txt file and grep them.
Bruce Scheneier designed Password Safe: https://pwsafe.org/

It's not one multiplatform app, but there's an equivalent format app on every platform.
Average land price is similar here, but you won't be producing anywhere near 200bu of corn or 60bu of soys on that average land. Maybe 2/3s of that, if you get really lucky, but more like half in a more typical case for average and below. So, I still maintain that it is quite cheap.
I must say that this is the essential step that has been taken by Google in order to protect user’s information in the latest version of Google Chrome56.

There are the number of hacks and vulnerabilities and the numbers have been increasing, and there the number of audience or people, who are not aware of this essential security.

Hackers may breach their identities, including user_id, password, financial details, banking information, etc...

Certainly, addressing a user about “Not Secure” page with little warning in the address bar will help them before they put their valuable information in a website. It’s prerequisite now that every website must have encryption to retain the interest of the user in a website.

So, such steps from Google will make the user aware of their basic security needs.
Its a no brainer really. You will immediately save more than the $100/year Costco membership if you're using it to purchase a vehicle.
Actually, most people could get more sleep of they chose to. Or at least they could get more rest. Stop watching shows and movies, put down your phone, close your eyes, shut up and sleep.
Another move in the war on general purpose computing.

Printers (and 3D printers) are as much of a threat to IP as the internet was/is. Nobody would argue that the costs of that threat outweighed the benefits, we all understand it was worth it. I think the same will be true for 3D printing.

I'll enjoy ignoring Lexmark next time I buy.
General availability of conda 4.3
> There have been more than just the one fatality. I know of at least one other, but who knows if that's the extent. And there have probably been plenty of crashes and injuries.

Yup. The Tesla accident in Hong Kong (or Heibei province?) [1] seems like another likely case. We only know about that because the driver had a dashcam that saved the video, and the parents found a lawyer to sue. Tesla claims they don't have data on whether or not autopilot was active at the time of the crash. Yet the dashcam survived..

Tesla and others need some regulation with teeth. They should be required to have black-box style data recorders. They should also be required to report accidents involving autopilot.

Currently, car companies are not required to report accident rates involving autonomous-driving modes in most states. I think only California and a couple others require it.

[1] https://electrek.co/2016/09/14/another-fatal-tesla-autopilot...
I gotta say, this "new, open Microsoft" is really surprising me. I think what this signals is the end of selling software. Microsoft has seen the writing on the wall and realize that the money is in subscriptions and services.

Due to piracy, a company can no longer just release an incremental update of their software package every couple years. They have to have rolling updates and constant improvements to keep the money stream rolling in from their customers.

This is why MS is focusing on Azure, Office 360, Windows 10, etc.
So basically by your definition, level 5 will never ever happen? Seems a bit useless then TBH.

Also, as pointed out in another comment, Level 4 does require driver changeover, it's just that the car is supposed to safely handle the event of driver not responding to that request (e.g. by stopping in the middle of the road).
Regarding your second question, you imply that it would be easier to automate the vegetable production than to automate livestock production. In fact, current dairy farms are in many ways more automated than crop farms.

Modern dairy farms feed, milk, vaccinate, etc. automatically--without any human intervention. The automated systems alert humans if an animal does not show up for food after some threshhold of time. Otherwise, it can even supply custom rations per animal, detect various ailments, track weight gain, monitor milk quality all by itself.

For the more general gist of your question--complete self-sufficiency on a single acre, that is more problematic to automate. Industrial farmers already automate a lot. They have automated machinery to re-level fields, plow fields, plant fields, and harvest fields, and irrigate. but those systems are largely practical only for large parcels. They operate on fields of, for example, 40 acres. And they are sufficiently expensive as to require many hundreds of acres to justify their cost. Also, they tend to be single purpose. They can only harvest corn, or only wheat. Planting a variety of crops within an acre would require a variety of automated tools. Think how different your equipment would have to be to harvest carrots as compared to barley.

I don't mean to say that it can't be done. But it would take a lot of work from where we are now.

Incidentally, your seedstock.com link is not impressive because it is "advanced." It's most impressive feature is its size. Hydroponic greenhouses tend to be more labor intensive (but have higher yields), although you could put the same attention into earth-grown crops if you chose.
I'm still scratching my head a little, so lets reframe it another way:

Why isn't it news that Planned Parenthood has a monopoly on this health service contract? (Perhaps their extended operational history made them the most qualified)

Why is the only part of that contract in question related to one of the services they provide?

I'll skim wikipedia, I suppose. I understand the convenience they offer and I don't expect to get the answers here. I think it will be non-news after they get defunded and continue operating on a fraction of the budget, I mean, or not.
Are you under the impression that it's possible to not pass gas? I mean, it can be pretty unpleasant, yeah, but I can't actually shut down my digestive system on command.
I think some day in the future we might get to a point where political speech writing, or maybe just the writing industry in general, develops a dichotomy a bit like hacking where you have white hats on the one side using speech analysis tools and generators to create works and test them against mock audiences, and black hats on the other side using similar tools to figure out the audiences they were targeting and the parameters involved.

Take this to the extreme and you get neural nets analysing your live speech, finishing your sentences with viable suggestions, each suggestion optimised for sentiment and meaning towards personal goals and relationships with your audience. A little guy in your ear to tell you how you're statistically doing in your job interview or date and suggest some things to say to steer you toward your goal. Of course the person you're taking to also has the same little guy and they are both trying to outplay each other by predicting the other's next move.

Also, this is cool, nice work! Feature request: hover over the data points to see the year and name of the president.
>...he has been so slippery on many issues and... stand for and against something at the same time.

Because ObamaCare is not 100 percent all bad or 100 percent all good.

Trump, like everyone, is allow to like the good part of ObamaCare and hate the bad part of it.
In the least convenient universe (and therefore the most useful for examining this moral quandary), you don't have the luxury of dodging the question. If you choose to tell the genie to do nothing, then you're choosing for X people to die to save Y.

(The scenario needs work, though - it should be Y people chosen from the road users in question, not just Y random humans.)
Do you have a source for your claim about the there being a point in density where infrastructure costs stop scaling linearly? Intuitively, economies of scale imply the opposite of what you're saying--that infrastructure becomes less expensive per capita as density increases.
The biggest gotcha listed there is how Redshift gets bogged down if you're loading a lot of tables, frequently. You can't run a production Redshift with lots of tables at <15m latency. But in most cases, Redshift is still an overall better choice than a timeseries database because:

* It has all of SQL, including JOINs

* You can use it for both timeseries data and all your other data.
I never posited that, and of course we should not throw away our liberties. I just happen to think that defending your liberties requires a healthy dose of realism about how the police and judicial system actually work. As difficult as that may be to accept, that also requires some level of trust in those institutions and in what the leaders of those institutions say.

When police or FBI say that current laws and processes are insufficient to deal with a changed environment and they need help, I've seen that the left tends to demonize them, question their motivations (like of course cops want to set up a surveillance state), and then give a hand-wavy argument that 'well, getting a warrant worked in the past, so it must work fine today'. Basically accusing cops of lying about having problems, or lying about needing new tools and processes.

That doesn't seem very fair, and it's certainly not a way to have a constructive discussion. I mean, these two statements are basically the same:

1. You can't any trust climate scientists, because of course all they want is to scare you into giving them more funding and power

2. You can't any trust cops and the intelligence services, because of course all they want is to scare you into giving them more funding and power

IMHO both these statements are false. Even though they're imperfect, our cops and intelligence agencies by and large try to do right, and it'd be better to understand challenges from their perspective and come up with innovative, privacy-protecting ideas that work, rather than to blindly accuse them of malice when they suggest something that we disagree with.

If you think people are doing things wrong, first try help them do right.
"just a case of bad luck I guess"

Middle class americans priced out of SF are among the global 1%. It's stupendous luck.
Where do you live? Prime land in California? Average acre in America is $4000 [1], so wouldn't call $7183 an acre cheap.

1: http://www.agweb.com/mobile/land/farmland-value-guide/
How to protect yourself against the WebEx vulnerability
Giving the camera app access to location data is useful though. If you do that, the photo app can automatically group your photos by location/city, which is very useful if you take a lot of photos and travel a lot.
Building a Bandit: Part 1
My rule is, if they use a cane or walker, are visibly hunched, are steadying themselves with both hands, or seem to be actively looking for a seat, I get up. Otherwise no. (The older population in Boston is pretty fit; if I offered my seat to everyone with grey hair I think I'd insult quite a few perfectly hale people.)

Also, pregnant women tend to hold their bellies. Overweight people don't. And if you accidentally offer your seat to someone who's chubby and has indigestion, well just tell them they looked like they had indigestion.
The guy that cuts the checks doesn't know if the programmer is sacrificing long term maintenance for short term problem solving.
Hopefully it will be of some help for this effort: https://github.com/KhronosGroup/glslang/issues/362

I'm kind of surprised that this happened, though I've heard it could happen from glslang developers. It helps reducing DX/HLSL lock-in, and it's as if usual MS management responsible for such lock-in fell asleep, and developers managed to release something good for the world for once.
I'm going to take a slightly controversial point of view and say: Android should have been ported to chromeos.

Newer phones should've shipped with the ping-pong update system, and the secure permissions system that permeates Linux.

Instead we're left with, what is really 75% a hack, Android. The update system sucks. The "recompiling" of app sucks. The permissions system sucks. The bloat really sucks. I am pretty sure my Nexus One was more responsive than my last Nexus phone, or any of the competition (which also, despite Google's best (awful) efforts have deviated in user experience greatly).

Google, once a golden god of the entire computer/software industry has fallen so far. It's really depressing. I wonder if it is even possible for a business to succeed the way Google used to and be profitable.

It's only a matter of time before someone eats their lunch, just the same as Microsoft. In 15 years $COMPANY will dominate and we'll be in the same spot.
>The more you go against natural human behaviours and start treating humans like machines with very low tolerances, the more it makes sense to just have machines do the job...

Isn't the autonomous software systems used in these cars a lot less like a machine and more like a piss poor excuse of a human being? I mean, it is not a machine like the printing press, or a factory assembly line made of robots.

I mean, these systems are "fuzzy" enough to stop them being considered as a machine in the usual sense of the word. So letting the "machine do the job" might not be as good an idea as using a washing machine.
Speed Reading is Bullshit