skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His book 'The Lady or the Tiger' came at a pivotal point in my life in my early forties, actually helped lift me out of a deep depression upon being separated from my children. I had planned to write him to see if I could visit him, but never did.
He inspired me, and has touched my children's lives as well.
A great human being. I'm saddened upon waking to this news. I had hoped the NYT was an errant knight in this case.
I completely forgot about PHPNuke. Damn, that brings back memories.
They would be the real winners since it would slap both Google and Oracle.
One point which your post/this post is missing:

Transaction fee = power consumption + profit.

Bitcoin fee has to hit a fee amount which has less eco impact than a normal banking system.
I think one thing that might make a difference in this regard is inclusion in the brew Caskroom list .. I've installed more apps through 'brew cask' than through the Mac App Store, that is for sure, and usually its because I was able to quickly and easily search, locate and discover apps very rapidly with a simple 'brew search' .. its at the point where I consider inclusion in the Caskroom repo's more important than App Store submission at this point. I trust the community software collections a lot more than the 'official Apple' channels, for some reason - I'm sure its not rational, but more just a fear of corporate control and the ultimate denigrating effect it has on the quality of software.

Plus there's the whole 'brew update && brew upgrade && brew cleanup && brew doctor' factor, that gives me - rightly or wrongly so - the impression that I have far more control over the software on my system than that granted me by the graces of Apple.
After a Stroke at 33 a Writer Relies on Journals to Piece Together Her Own Story
I own a couple of these maps covering the area I grew up in (Western Norway). In some respects, the Soviet general staff mapping is more detailed than the maps from the Norwegian mapping authority - they even showed a pile of wood in our back yard! (Presumably misidentified it as an outhouse)

An educated guess is they simply bought a set of the commercially available mapping, then compared it to satellite imagery and added their own points of interest.
The World Passport [1] is a good example of this.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Passport
The windows support doesn't worth anything, usually the supporters can't help coworkers. Also, windows 7 is too unstable to use at work.
They have to compete with brew cask, in my opinion, and that's just not going to happen in a way that pushes the homebrew developers out of the market.

Much better to have community-curation than corporate-curation in my opinion.
If you do GPU computing you can obviously expect your UI to freeze. Consumer level GPU's don't have (generally) interruptible behaviour, so the scheduling is between command buffer submissions and the same GPU is used to run your desktop and display server. So if you have a cuda kernel that runs for a long time for example everything else is blocked. Even worse if you have an infinite loop in your kernel ;)
Thank you a lot for linking the "Is God a Taoist?" Essay. For somebody as young and easily influenced as me (who is currently not very involved in philosophy and religion) it might actually have a great impact on my understanding of both - or at least it is an excellent starting point for further thoughts on the subject.
Whole Foods is pretty awful when it comes to pricing. Sure they can up-charge for convenience, but when I'm out and about and want something like sliced up mango spears, why should I be paying 10+ dollars for 1.5 or 2 mangos sliced up? I could just get a couple for maybe 2 bucks at a regular grocery store and just carry a knife with me to do it myself at that point.
Documentation is recorded by fallible and biased human beings. Much of history is not accurately recorded, whether due to a) not having all the facts, b) trusting the word of third-party sources who may be lying or themselves not be in possession of all the facts, and/or c) being biased to record the history from one's preferred one-sided perspective rather than including both sides of the story verbatim.

Any piece of documentation that was not witnessed first-hand by many individuals, with none of them disagreeing on the totality of the facts, is unreliable and forever suspect. The moment someone writes down a fact that was witnessed by someone other than themselves... that "fact" is no longer actual fact.

Please tell me about the facts of Jesus's time on Earth. Too far in the past? Fine, tell me exactly why the US occupied Iraq. No, not what you were told or what you read - the information you obtained in person during the decision-making process. Can you?
If they don't want people to read for free, the WSJ should simply not serve it.

We're free to send them any Referer headers we wish... in a request. It's up to them to reply however they wish.
Generally it's best to read the post being replied to if you want to make sense of a reply.

stuckagain wrote (above) that "Now we have insane cheetoh in office and we're getting insane cheetoh policy ideas", I was pointing out that while he may support it, this idea didn't came from the current POTUS, there was even a bill proposal during the previous administration.
If you have connected Skype and Microsoft Account you can also login with the Microsoft account.
Glass, but nothing stops neutrons.
I once made a visual comparison between Word and LaTeX using CMR: http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/110219/14827
Our industry's unparalleled track record of success catching criminals, fixing security problems, creating usable and secure software, and so forth continue to provide a great platform for end users. That's why online account theft, hacking, and malware are increasingly small problems.

Abject failure for 20+ years is no reason to believe this won't work any day now.
The problem seems to be that we're stuck with a poor decision earlier down the line -- allowing the idea that an API, rather than an implementation, can be copyrighted -- and now other courts are trying to undo the damage by making sure nobody will ever really succeed in bringing an API-infringement case.
I'm not sure why you were downvoted. This is legitimate reasoning and you are contributing to the conversation in a civilized manner.

There are absolutely tradeoffs of buying into a walled garden. I personally have mixed feelings. An open ecosystem sounds nice in ways. For example, on my mac, I would be very frustrated if I were locked into only being able to buy software from Apple's App Store. It would be a deal-breaker. However, I've never really found myself frustrated with the iPhone app ecosystem. However, I've definitely been saved hours and hours of family IT support by family members being on iOS.
Gonna think big, Robot utopia like that sepcified in the short story Manna
If Facebook Messenger only functioned as a way of sending and receiving Facebook messages to ones friends, your position would be justified.

But in fact Messenger is a trojan horse app which spies on users and gathers much information about the systems its installed on, without user oversight, in order for Facebook to better profile its users.

Fact: Messenger isn't a messaging app. It masquerades as one, because in reality its a user-profiling app, designed to serve one master, and one master only: Facebook. Not its users.
Your comment actually made me want to respond :D
If you just measure milliseconds yes.

If you measure project costs, including the salaries of the developers and amount of development days, then no.

This is the main reason why there is such a big pressure from trading folks for Oracle to improve Java regarding value types and FFI to native code.
I don't shop at WF because the parking lot is too small, always full, and there's just no place to park anywhere near it.
Lost in translation.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hSo_ND41-6g

It's easier than you think!
You can apply that argument to basically any convenience or luxury.

The answer being, some want mangos and value their time and effort more than the the difference in mango price and sliced mango price.
I think the best you can do as a company is set up as a B Corp or something and try to build "do good" into the corp's reason for existing.

This is a stronger step than "don't be evil".
I typeset my resume in LaTeX, but I ended up formatting it so it looked almost exactly like it did in Word. I should probably update that at some point.

But I did throw a \LaTeX macro in the skills section, so anyone familiar LaTeX should notice.
I work for govt, and I'd like to buy a lot of open source support contracts. As long as they are under the purchase limits that would force full tendering process things should be easy. But I simply can't donate.
> If you define your goal as having a specific redistribution scheme, you preclude all the other ways of fixing poverty. As you note, causing the poor to start working is a way to fix poverty - this achieves my goal but not your goal.

There are only two real options. Either they earn enough money or someone gives them the difference. The first is obviously preferable but unless you can do it for everyone you still need the second. If you could somehow have literally everyone earn an unsubsidized living wage then it would actually solve both problems, but there is no known way to do that.

> This does not follow. Europe has less inequality than the US but a higher cost of living. Therefore you can pay a lower UBI in Europe than in the US?

Typically if you have a high cost of living it's because there are some fat cats taking the money and therefore high inequality. What's happening in "low inequality" European countries is that the money is really going to taxes which go to not always very efficient social programs, or is the inefficiency cost of employment laws that prevent employers from downsizing unnecessary workers and so on. If those things were replaced with a UBI then the cost of living there would be lower than it is.

You have a point in that inequality is not the only determinant of cost of living, but it's certainly a large factor.

Let me restate what I'm getting at here. If you have the resources to lift your country's people out of poverty through social programs then you have the resources to do it with a UBI. Because having the money go to the lowest income people is the entire point, and letting it go to everyone is just the same thing as saying that the phase out rate is equal to the tax rate. An explicit phase out on top of taxes is equivalent to charging a higher tax rate to low and middle income people than higher income people, which makes no sense.
So, where I live, we don't have things like Whole Foods and Sprouts. We have a tiny little specialty store in town that carries a very small amount of interesting, but expensive, organic and whatnot brands (but almost invariably, not what I'm looking for, but they're always willing to order it and sell it to me for far more than I can just order online for)....

I've seen people both worship and shit on Whole Foods, have seen Sprouts described as a "Whole Foods that didn't sell its soul to Wall Street", and I've heard Trader Joes described as "half a grocery store, so you can't do all your shopping there, but its the half you want".

We have two national chains in town with big stores, a couple smaller quasi-chains (IGA, etc), and a Super Walmart, so its not like its some out of the place hole in the wall....

So, what's the draw of Whole Foods (and by extension, Sprouts and the other clones)?
I agree with you, its a total and utter mess.

I am constantly picking up my phone (iOS) to make a call or look something up, placing my thumb over the home button, and realizing before its too late that there are some kind of messages/notifications on the lock screen that I wasn't alerted to, previously, while the phone was locked. Its too late because the screen unlocks, but no matter where I go I am never able to re-locate those messages. I just see them, get a clue that there are notifications, but they are nowhere to be found - not in the notifications screen (apparently designed for this purpose), nor in any app with badge indicators, or whatever. Its gotten so bad that I refer to these as 'ghost notifications', and I'll never know what they were.

So I think its just a complete cockup, UI-wise.
Not sure about this. I feel safe and secure thanks to App Store. Won't download any app outside it.
The OP's link is actually a wiki page. If you find it out of date, I encourage you to enrich it with your findings.
>> Read more carefully. "We" is all of mankind, and "them" is mental illnesses.

You're likely right about the parent's intention. It's somewhat ambiguous with their sentence structure as that second sentence reads fine without the first, with the "them" referring to the "most people" after the comma. Upon second reading, I can see it makes more sense for "them" to refer to the previous sentence's "mental illnesses". There should have been a semicolon between and some restructuring. :)

However, I am still not satisfied with that distinction. The "we", even without an intentionally spliced "them", is still being used to try and say "we as a whole", when the reality of the statement is "we as a subset of the whole". Specifically because almost no "mentally ill" person will self-identify as such without having been subjected to years of subjugation to do so. Please find me the group of people, with a statistically significant size, who are both mentally ill and working to define the term "mental illness". They will be few and far between.

This reminds me so much of Jane Elliott's lifetime spent trying to teach people who claim not to be racist that they are in fact flat out racist. It's not a perfect analogy, but the root of the problem is very similar.
You can have as many Bobs as you want, which can all function at a very low cost and compete for users with low fees and high service quality. I can easily imagine registering your transactions to tens of different service providers, making it quite impossible for Alice to pay them all of (or even know who they are).
I am not sure of that. But if Facebook does that, isn't that a breach of privacy?
Thanks a lot for sharing. Have you checked out Socratica's Abstract Algebra series?

YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLi01XoE8jYoi3SgnnGorR...
Greenland needs money. Is a uranium mine the answer?
Solar panels folks. Solar panels. Wind. Batteries. We can do it, no problem. Electricity costs a little more, but your car ends up costing less. Less maintenance on fewer parts - just swap out the battery which declines in cost each year.

Keep fossil fuels and wood for the things solar & wind will have trouble covering: airplanes, ocean shipping, winter heating.
I lived in Reykjavik at the time of the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull, and I had a friend with a giant jeep... So we drove to about 500m from the hole in the ground spouting lava (safe, open to the public, quite a few people there) and had the nature experience of a lifetime.

We literally called it the tourist volcano, because you could get so close and still be safe.

http://imgur.com/a/I1qyv

I am going back to Iceland next week for a few days, and my fingers are crossed that Katla and friends can wait until later to erupt.
Could a future earthquake jolt the reactor back into danger mode?
> I'm not sure if there are any advantages to this

This comes to mind: http://kroah.com/log/blog/2013/09/02/booting-a-self-signed-l...
No we Europeans are just a bit more discreet when taking bribes but we're as corrupt as the rest of the world.
What are you talking about? The most pessimistic estimates predict a sea level rise of 2 m by 2100. Just when are you expecting to retire?
No, it creates 4x effective transaction space in blocks that can now be as large as 4MB. It does not compress data more efficiently or makes transactions smaller in any way, it is a block size increase in every sense of the word.

The only ones who see this as 1MB block are old nodes that didn't upgrade to a segwit-compatible client. But for nodes that do upgrade, the block is simply larger.

But you're right in that 4MB is the maximum theoretical ceiling. That 2.1MB number I mentioned is what we get according to kind of transactions that we have on the network today. It'll go a bit higher as bitcoin users start using more advanced scripts, but not by much.
I didn't use whatsapp. Facebook doesn't know my phone number. It's either a coincidence or what paulcole said. Or Facebook is tracking my location somehow.
I also have done some Postgres deployments for a department that didn't want to follow the IT rules regarding Oracle.

I wasn't very impressed.

Specially regarding the programming language for storage procedures, GUI tooling and lack of support for distributed transactions across cluster nodes.
I think there is an elephant in the room here, which is that app stores (Mac, iOS or otherwise), besides all the requirements for inclusion (sandboxing, approvals, etc.) have become massively unmanageable dumping grounds, full of junk that is very hard to sift through for the normal customer.

Yes, they afford some credibility, trust and security (even though evil devs are constantly pushing the envelope), but even simple mechanisms like search are fundamentally broken on Apple's stores.

And it's not just about devs gaming the keyword rankings (I see enough of that when my kids search for games). It's just hopeless.

So no wonder RogueAmoeba makes more money off the App Store. Even discounting other factors, their (rather specialized and very, very cool) apps are just easier to find via web search.
The Tao is Silent.
What is competing with brew exactly ?
What changes are you referring to?
I don't understand why organic food is this expensive in the US in places like WFM.

In France for example 'bio' tagged food is getting cheaper everyday, some products are sometimes even cheaper than their counter-part.
This approach doesn't work anymore (at least for me).
I always get redirected to a page that prompts me to install Messenger.
> you're benefiting from this exploitation.

So what? I'm sure there's things you benefit from thanks to the Nazis.

Personally I prefer to not encourage bad behaviour and change the world in a positive way than worry about philosophical arguments.
No because the Java license lets you do that.
> No, it does mean Rust has no useful safety properties. To do anything, you have to trust a lot of code.

That's also true with any memory-safe language ever: you have to trust the compiler and VM. So if we accept your claim, then we also have to accept the claim that no memory-safe language has any useful safety properties. Needless to say, this is contrary to all the evidence.

> The reality is that one of the core selling points of the language was discovered to be unsafe due to some particularly complex combination of library features right before the 1.0 release.

Consider the chain of events that would have to happen to cause this unsoundness to lead to real-world problems (say, RCE), and compare that to the chain of events that routinely happen in order to cause a use-after-free in C++ to lead to the same problems. One is vastly more probable than the other.
> Almost every single item is 40-50% more expensive.

This study begs to differ, and it was done 8 months ago. Regular produce is about 20% more expensive, and meat is 50% more expensive, as it turns out. http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-more-expensive-is-wh...

> I don't care if $2.50 poor people grocery store PopTarts kill me 15 minutes sooner than the Whole Foods bullshit whatever alternative.

The "Whole Foods bullshit whatever alternative" is making your own toast with jam, which is orders of magnitude less expensive. If you're really concerned about food budgets, processed foods are the worst possible thing you can buy.
>The entire financial system and tax code are designed to support this. There is no other country in the world where you can just get a loan that leverages you up 10:1.

It's actually the same in most or all western countries.
mbasic is different from the normal Facebook mobile site. It doesn't even seem to have any JS as far as I can tell. More designed for WAP etc
CO2 toxicity and climate change: a serious unapprehended risk for human health [pdf]
The idea that people who create security flaws in C are "morons" is contrary to all the evidence. In fact, the biggest security problems are usually caused by the best programmers. That's because they write the code that people actually use a lot.

To be concrete: libpng, libjpeg, FreeType, etc. are not written by "morons". Can you write a JPEG decoder faster than libjpeg-turbo?
> Segwit is not a block size increase but it's supporters started branding it as one to better market it.

Segwit allows twice as many transactions (of the mix being used today) to fit in a block. It does so by enlarging to blocks to up to 4MB.

How is that not a block size increase?

https://segwit.org/is-segwit-a-block-size-increase-705df6a87...

https://www.weusecoins.com/eli-segwit/

> It isn't even guaranteed to increase transaction throughput which is the larger reason for wanting a block size increase.

It is guaranteed to increase transaction throughput as soon as miners activate it and wallets start producing segwit transactions.

There are currently over 20 wallets that pledged to adding segwit support, including all the most popular software ones and all 6 hardware wallet manufactures (Trezor, Ledger, KeepKey, OpenDime, BitLox and Digitalbitbox). About half of them already have their SegWit implementation ready (before segwit even activated!).

https://bitcoincore.org/en/segwit_adoption/

So, yes, its very certain that wallets will start producing segwit transactions as soon as its activated by the miners.

> It actually encourages some types of large transaction by discounting the witness data.

All transactions have witness data and they all enjoy the extra capacity and lower fees that segwit brings us.
Housing is a lousy investment from a purely numbers point of view. I became an owner very reluctantly and it has cost me dearly. Taxes have gone up 15% every year. While they house ages it breaks and I am on the hook for everything. $75 in weed/bug stuff today... next week it will be something else, and the week after. I've spent multi-thousands on this thing outside of mortgage that I will never recoup... also time and it pisses me off.

Whatever makes you think you don't pay for those things when you rent? Sure, rent can be cheap if the landlord considers it "free money" while waiting for the property to increase in value, but if home ownership becomes a relic of the past, you can be damn sure rents will be more than enough to cover taxes, bug sprays and every other expense, plus some margin.
That's a false premise. There is a block size increase when segwit activates. The debate is mostly if we should have a hard fork as well as (or even instead of) a soft fork.

I think most developers are rightly scared of a hard fork, especially as we've seen what happened to Etherium lately. There was double spending as every node was not perfectly aligned with this. And then, contrary to expectations, the old chain survived. "Would you like to pay with Bitcoin Classic, Bitcoin Core or Bitcoin United?" That's not what anyone wants.