skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>The war is not meant to be won. It is meant to be continuous. The essential act of modern warfare is the destruction of the produce of human labour. A hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. In principle, the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects, and its object is not victory over Eurasia or Eastasia, but to keep the very structure of society intact."

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four_(film)
What is the impact on the battery?

That'd be my first concern for any WebGL game.
6.3 KiloWatt Ground Mount Home Solar Array
>in fact I've only seen people who are the exact opposite - and you seem to give off such vibe - where something is "evil by default" because it's not "natural/organic/whatever buzzword here".

I don't speak for organic, Whole Foods etc BS. That's another racket. You can buy perfectly fine non-organic vegetables, meat, cheese in Walmart if you go and look for it.

But american popular mass produced food is of the worst standards compared to what people eat in Western Europe (and I presume Japan). And the food industry there is crappier than average. That said, it's pretty bad in Europe too: a packet of chips or some mass market ice-cream is the same shit everywhere.

>I mean I'm all for eating quality and fresh stuff if you can get it but the arguments like this are just nonsense paranoia.

What part of what I wrote looks like "paranoia" to you? That big manufactures like Nestle, etc. are greedy and would sell any kind of crap?

>Corporations will do unethical things for money but individuals will not ?

Individuals will too. But people don't buy much food from individuals, they buy it (most of it) from corporations. Plus individuals don't do mass production and the kind of food people buy from them (from some farmer's market for example) is not that amenable to adding all kinds of food chemistry crap.

So the distinction I made between individuals and corporations is not that individuals can't also be greedy, but that individuals don't manufacture mass produced food -- corporations do.

A piece of meat is a piece of meat (at worse it will be fed crap, given hormones). Vegetables the same. A bread bought on the supermarket on the other hand, can have all kinds of BS in, excessive sodium, tons of sugar, BS preservatives, etc. And there's all kinds of "microwave dishes" etc with the lowest quality of materials and tons of added flavorings, preservatives, things to give them specific texture, and other crap that doesn't occur or belong to a "Salisbury steak" for example.

>You can get crap from your "organic local natural farmer", just from the top of my head a few years back here in EU people were dying from ecoli caused kidney failure because the organic farm manure contained the bacteria.

Those things are orthogonal. You can also die from ecoli in food sold by large corporations, e.g:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/business/14nestle.html
If 60% of men exhibit mating behavior x and 60% of women behavior y, that's a clear statistical difference but there are so many exceptions that it's not useful in daily life.
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Btrfs maintenance toolbox
I think too few people know about this sort of problem or care about it. Dropbox is another example of a well-known CPU hog: on a Mac, it still insists of watching and processing all filesystem changes, not just those inside the Dropbox subtree, so any file operation you perform anywhere on the computer has a Dropbox tax. You pay with your battery life. And yet, after so many years, this is not enough of an annoyance for them to work on it.
Inequality isn't there because the rich hoard actual dollar bills in their basement. What you suggest would affect the poor and middle class more than the rich.
As I recall the early virus guys were more like vandals who wanted to cause problems for the thrill of it than guys operating international rackets like they are now. When was the last time you heard of a virus that just formatted your hard drive or whatever?
I am still not convinced that local anything is more eco/carbon friendly. Think the Law of Comparative Advantages - in certain areas my lunch will be way more eco/carbon friendly if I only spend the whole day producing guns instead of butter. Also I suspect that huge farms employing high end software, hardware and even weather prediction technology are more eco/carbon friendly than any local farmer can ever be.
It is a good thing. NAT is an abomination.
Yes, all the farmers got free bank accounts, as well as everyone who buys from them. /s
Singapore has one of the highest income inequalities in the world. It has one of the lowest violence rates in the world. You can say the same about China too and many other countries in Asia.
> For example, there is significant disagreement within economics on, say, minimum wage. It would be an abuse of authority for an economist (for example, Paul Krugman) to claim we ought to raise the minimum wage because there is an economic consensus that we should do so, when in fact there is not and the said economist wants to raise minimum wage because it's a progressive cause.

There is disagreement, but everything I've read has been more along the line of disagreements as to how severe the side effects were, but that they're almost exclusively weighted in favor of the upsides. Feel free to link me if you've read otherwise.

And disagreement within science is good until you can have irrefutable proof (although apparently this can still be ignored). But having policy based on science even when disputed isn't bad. You can always change it according to new results/studies.

> ...and as a progressive he clearly is under the impression that such a technocracy would come to nearly exclusively progressive conclusions. But of course this denies the fundamental truth that he could find a perfectly rational opponent for any of the causes he supports, from public funding of science to Britain's membership in the EU.

You say that, but can you though? I'm honestly considering the possibility that fact based politics has somehow been smeared as "progressive". Especially on public funding of science. That is something I can't even imagine a possible counter argument against. Sponsored science is at best extremely tricky, and most often simply tainted.

I'm not a fan of deGrasse, but in this I can't help but agree with him.

You're under the impression that him being "progressive" colors his views on science. I'm of the impression that it's the complete reversal.
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I used Django a few years back for a large project that involved facility management. It was a breeze to work with. The Django Admin functionality alone saved us weeks of work.

That was version with 1.3! I wonder what the current state of the framework is. I need to get back into writing Python and using Django
I already paste everything longer than a single line to my non-terminal text editor (e.g. sublime) before I paste it to my terminal or vim. Perhaps I should start doing this for everything.
Not all of the 1289 packages are event emitters. npmjs now does full-text search. Therefore, some packages would simply contain "event emitter" somewhere in the description, e.g. documentation.
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> Can you give the approximate route?

Philly to Atlanta.

To be honest, I thought the Supercharger coverage along the route was excellent. I don't know what the individual sites are like (ie: would I really want to hang around an hour or two), but the spacing and locations looked really quite good.

> If you're not taking breaks, the effect is larger.

Yeah... we usually do take breaks. (Without breaks, it's a doable drive, but not easy.) A supercharger station in the middle of a cluster of restaurants would be a good opportunity for cross-sales, etc.

> I'm not trying to tell you not to care about this, mind!

Understood. To tell the truth, I don't think this specific use case is necessarily a huge deal. Even though it did impact us, it's a low priority event.

> As far as battery swapping goes, Tesla did develop this,

Interesting. Based on what the article was saying about the battery's interface to the car, it didn't seem like a quickly swappable component.

Are the supercharger stations usually staffed with people to assist? I'd thought they were self-service. It may be that the reason they haven't pursued the battery swap idea more aggressively is that it requires more staff at supercharger stations, as well as all the logistics around keeping a stock of pre-charged batteries at all the stations where you can do the swap.

One other comment I should make here is that despite what it might seeem I generally am very positive about electric cars. This is true, both as a means of of transport, as well as a way to (potentially) manage the electrical grid's use of solar/wind/etc. power. (Power sources that might not be as continuously reliable as something like a Natgas plant, etc.)
Hi, thanks for offering your help! A couple of questions:
- Which resources (books, courses, tutorials...) would you recommend to learn how to use OpenNMT? I am a programmer, with vary basic knowledge of NLP concepts.
- I see a dictionary integration in the Systran demo. I assume this is a Systran product, not something included in OpenNMT? Or am I wrong?

Thanks!
Who are these mythical self-made 0.0001%? All the ones I've heard about relied on family wealth and connections, inheritance, and most often worker exploitation.

The filthy rich do enjoy this ego-feeding narrative that it was all just talent and hard work that gave them a disproportionate slice of the world's wealth, but it's not borne out by the facts.
Thanks. Weird enough.

The link is in the middle of the article, but I must have ignored it because it looks like the links to unrelated stories that are popular now in newspaper pages.
> I normally see the irrational fear (crypto-racism) argument from people who want to limit refugees

I question your probability argument that concerns around guns are irrational.

Just because heart disease is the most common cause of death doesn't mean concern about anything else is irrational.

I think being afraid of something that can kill you is absolutely rational.

> All of which are vastly more likely to happen than being shot, which itself is an order of magnitude more likely than an innocent person being shot.

If fear of guns is irrational then why do licence-holders need them?
No, because with your vegetables you get lots of peels and seeds and remains that will be just great to feed a couple of hens for instance. Sustainable agriculture, even at a very small scale, always combines plants and animals.

That's the fundamental blind spot of vegans. Anyone actually growing some vegetables and fruits in his backyard will understand this. I know many starry-eyed hippies growing organic stuff in the countryside, and if many of them are vegetarians (eating dairy, eggs, etc but no meat) absolutely 0% of them are vegans because it doesn't make sense from a producer perspective.
Not really, at this point of time I just love that it's now possible to write a code, run and debug my project in both of Windows and Mac OS, that's a huge step forward.
I would love to see Prof. Steven Pinker review this. He wrote "The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Better_Angels_of_Our_Natur...
> when I go to a physician's office

Why the fuck are you going to a doctor if you don't want advice that will treat your illness?

And this is the point: a lot of health problems are preventable, and it is your doctor's job to tell you how to avoid those health problems.
There are a couple of bugs with IE and older versions of the stock (deprecated) Android browser using flexbox, but I think they're all handled easily enough. Also, they don't work with IE9 - God forbid you're still supporting that browser.
What part of this is considered unreasonable?
I didn't mean gone in that sense, I meant gone from the list of topics on the White House website, gone from the list of topics the government wants to be associated with if you want.
Except it was taken mostly from people who paid taxes, e.g. VAT on produce, or those who are beneath tax brackets.
I moved from Rails to Laravel due to clients/projects.

I like both, I prefer Laravel.

Great community, easy to reach out and connect with people.

I like the frequent releases, always great new features coming out.

Amazing packages.

LaravelShift.com is a great tool to updating repos to the next release.

Deployment is a breeze with forge and envoyer.

It's fun to develop in.
Cert pinning ignores root certs. This is by design :(

>The Chromium browser disables pinning for certificate chains with private root certificates to enable various corporate content inspection scanners and web debugging tools (such as mitmproxy or Fiddler). The RFC 7469 standard recommends disabling pinning violation reports for "user-defined" root certificates, where it is "acceptable" for the browser to disable pin validation.
51% includes also respiration of cows, which should be net zero, because it is exactly the CO₂ that was captured by the plants before. (which is not okay to do)

Also 51% because equivalent calculations are not done over the span of 100 years, but shorter (methane becomes more dominant) and deforestation is also accounted for - (which is both fine).

So it is somewhere in between the results of renovated studies that say it is around 31% (e.g. Tukker et al) and the 51% worldwatch report.
I think when this came up in the debates, Trump all but admitted this is just an initial negotiating position and he doesn't expect to have to actually follow through with it.

So will just have to see if other nations call his bluff, and whether or not he will then back down from implementing the tariffs.
> usually, if you don't get to have a SO, chances are that there is something wrong with yourself too.

As a single guy, sure there's plenty of things wrong with me. But another factor is that not everyone values having a relationship in the same way.

To use a car analogy: my brother is really into cars, he likes to have a really nice car and is willing to spend a lot of money on one. Would I like a nice car, sure, but I don't really care enough to spend the money on one, and that is fine.

Same goes for an SO: would I like one, sure. Am I willing to spend a lot of time and effort finding one, not really. And that is fine too.
Inequality is not inherently a bad thing. People should be compensated for the value they produce. Profits are a signal of how much people value what is produced. For example, people love iPhones, it no surprise that Apple is the most valuable company in the world.

What causes resentment between classes is lack of mobility. This, IMO, is caused by government regulations and a banking system that hurts the middle class and below and benefits the people at the top.

We have a banking system where the federal reserve can make money out of thin air and inject it into banks. This shifts purchasing power to people in finance.

Regulations like minimum wage and higher taxes on larger income make it hard to hire the next marginal employee. Minimum wage prices out low skilled workers, who would like to work and obtain on the job experience needed to climb the ladder. High taxes makes it more expensive for business owners to hire someone. I'm not talking about large businesses like Walmart (they actually support minimum wage). Small businesses are going out of business, or are just not able to start with increased costs of doing business.

This is a vicious cycle where government intervention leads to rich getting richer, and the poor being more dependent on government programs and finding it harder to move up the ladder. So to fix this people beg for more government intervention, which worsens the problem...and on and on it goes.
This is pretty common.

It isn't just the popup, though. "make sure you have anti-virus installed or else!" was the mantra drilled into people's heads 20 years back. This was the environment some folks learned to use the internet with. Perhaps she's seen her fair share of infections as well.

My mother is fairly similar in that regard, though she always blamed by brother and father for the infections. Since dad died and my brother isn't home, she may be easier to talk into change now.
Off topic but I just read a comment on the link

> These examples remind me of a paper I came across a few years ago using probability to show why the author would never have a girlfriend. It's a fun read and can be found at https://logological.org/girlfriend if interested.

It actually refers to the article on the FP. Nice co-incidence!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13490063
Well, people use them with angular 1/2 and aurelia so im quite sure it should work with vue/react.

I did bundle my components into single file - even throwing in sass compilation so I think the problem is elsewhere ;-)
Welcome to the wonderful world of super-portable web-tech-based apps.
When it comes to passive surveillance (cameras, dragnet internet tapping) probably not that far behind.

But when it comes to more invasive measures like internet censorship [1], or requiring suspects to give over encryption keys (else potentially put them in jail if they refuse) [2] or simply the way you are treated at an airport. The UK is much, much worse.

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

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_disclosure_law#United_King...
I find it hard to believe that Twitter doesn't have some method of adding additional security to high-profile accounts; and that they would not necessarily publish it.

For all we know, that could be a honeypot setting, with the additional layer of security not visible outside of Twitter's internal authentication mechanism.
Where have you gotten that from? The only numbers I can find for observed Δv changes are some 100m/s for USA-212, which is a third of the OMS' rated 300m/s with a full cargo bay.
Not a very reasonable analogy at all. Of course you and your ilk need to resort to such nonsense to waste everyone's time.
See OpenTimestamps: https://petertodd.org/2016/opentimestamps-announcement

It timestamps to Bitcoin, and you don't need to own any Bitcoin for it to work.
Still, he'd have been better off staying quiet about it, in case he changed his outlook in years to come.
I'd like to throw in ArangoDB (multi-model NoSQL database) which I switched to after RethinkDB was shut down.

https://www.arangodb.com/
I had the same issue (no ARM+USB3+gigabit boards) so I had to build a board that had all of that plus mSata and minipcie.
Guzzle, an extensible PHP HTTP client
The HN-ranking algo is not ideal. If you hit a popular discussion early you get way more points because you float on top of those who come later.

I fooled arround with it for a bit and now I'm at 740 points (still less than one karma a day). But mostly through consistent commenting and most of my comments remain at 1 point XD. Helping out with a wesite hugged to death by posting a google cache link makes people happy though.

but yeah, nobody cares about internet points.
> being heckled or killed

Not being a native English speaker, I had to look up the meaning of "to heckle". Before I looked it up, in the context with "killed" I thought it would be a cynic derivation from "Heckler & Koch" (a gun manufacturer), just as "to hoover" (in British English), "to taser" or "to google". :-)
There was an interesting article few months back about Bitcoin mining in Venezuela[0].

TL;DR "Bitcoin mining is arguably the best possible use of electricity in Venezuela because it's providing the country with what it needs most—a relatively stable currency that retains its value across borders."

http://reason.com/archives/2016/11/28/the-secret-dangerous-w...
AKA "'sleep(2)' is not a synchronization primitive".

Not that this issue is necessarily due to sleep itself, but likely due to active polling instead of event handling.
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Exhibit A: Iceland
https://prestoninstitute.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/p101014...

You can't grow crops on that. No one's watering it. The only energy use is rounding all the sheep back up.

As for methane... well it's not the land that makes that, but the sheep. You're going to have that problem as long as you're rearing ruminants to eat. There's a lot of research being done on that - it's possible we'll be able to engineer low-methane sheep...
But not the more massive and essential rural India. United someone is going to pay for this.
PostgreSQL, Go micro-services, kubernetes based deployment and isomorphic React (Webpack, hot loading, ES6) frontend.
I told you I'm a sarcastic person ;). I confess using the rutabaga example knowing its bad reputation for the sake of aggravation. Although I grew up in that region with food-conservative parents,[0] I'm still fan of occasional rutabaga mash or rutabaga gratinée - withstanding the lack of understanding from my flatmates.

[0] Means: regional/seasonal food not as ideology, but because it's the food one has eaten since childhood; or in other words: "What the farmer doesn't know he doesn't eat."
ODROID C2 has a quite OK mainline-kernel booting, check out the linux-meson.org project. Or latest build status: https://kernelci.org/boot/meson-gxbb-odroidc2/
We know that cannabis use prior to driving increases the risk of an accident.

Alcohol is probably worse.

Allowing people to research cannabis would let us know what the risk is.
I work as a security consultant for a major tech company and my clients are almost always Fortune 500 (with some Fortune 100 companies, and at least one top-10 company). When they hire us, we get to learn everything about their security infrastructure.

The trend is clear: AV is out, Carbon Black (or Crowdstrike, etc) is in. This is especially prominent in the financial industry. My wife works at a tiny local bank and they're doing trials of Carbon Black.

AV is terrible software, the chemotherapy of the security world. It only exists because it's slightly better than the alternative, and if you don't have an active disease, it acts as a disease of its own. You're glad its there when it saves your life, but you curse its name every day. Application whitelisting tools don't interfere with the day-to-day workings of your computer, but don't let the bad stuff in. You're only allowed to run the software you need to run, and nothing else.

It's not set-it-and-forget-it like AV, but it's a damn sight more effective and less annoying to the users.
I had a real, authentic interest in my chosen degree subject. I really, genuinely wanted to know all about it. I didn't ever want a job (and I still don't want one). I really, authentically wanted to be good at it for no other purpose than the pleasure of being able to fluidly understand it and play with it.
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Installed it, turns out it requires a Facebook account. Deleted it immediately.
It does not work with certificates installed by the user.
Yeah but that sort of thing is also a hook...once you do it once they begin to own and have greater control over you. Similar to how even when the individual might not want to take anything in return for information, they will want to get the individual to take money or something else in return (free trips to stuff, ego stroking, sex, drugs etc). Especially on a regular basis.

This means the individual has a) compromised themselves and now cannot feel "clean" in this previous environment and b) are starting to get used to/spend the new perk/cash so pretty soon they can't live without it. The power relationship then swings more towards a needs based one. Suddenly the handler(s) are the only people who really know the truth about how the informant truly is. Also the handler(s) are the only people how can meet the new need that the person has got hooked on.