skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I could argue that I live a better life without children. Others could easily argue the opposite, though.

My wife and I made the decision not to have children a long time ago, and we don't regret it in the slightest. What we have found, though, is that our friends and co-workers continue to have on-going "problems" with their children.

Issues of sickness, parent-teacher and other school things, dealing with unruliness or other behavioral problems, the on-going costs of raising kids, finding daycare, time off for activities - or simply picking the kids up from school, having to get a more expensive (larger) car(s) because of having a kid (or more kids)...it just goes on and on, all the way through (and sometimes beyond) high school graduation and college. If the parents are lucky, the kid goes to college and moves away. But increasingly, that doesn't seem to be the case - we hear and see about many parents (friends, co-workers, and strangers) whose children stay at home, without a job. So they (the parents) continue to complain about that, wondering when their children will leave, or get a better education, or whatever.

It's gets tiresome after a while; it is also tiresome that you want to tell them about something you bought, or something you're doing or going to do (a vacation, higher education, a new job opportunity, or a business venture) - but you sometimes have to hold back, because you know that you're just throwing it in their faces that "this is what I have, and you don't because you're dealing with your kids".

...then there's the relief we've seen on our friend's and co-worker's faces when they (finally) say that their children have bought a house, and have moved out, or have a job, after graduating college or high-school or whatever; they look like a burden has been lifted from them (while at the same time a bit sad - I imagine because of their kids no longer being around - I can empathize with that).

It seems like children are a double-edged sword. Are there good times and good (great!) experiences to be had with children? Surely! I'll never know the thrill or excitement of teaching my child how to ride a bike, or use powertools, or how to code, or any number of other experiences (and there would be many). But with that loss, I also won't ever know the debt and trials children put parents through, the loss of time and energy, the fear when they don't come home on time.

I and my wife have chosen this; to say our life is abnormal because we came to that decision based on many discussions is to devalue our ability to make our own adult and independent decisions. Similarly, I can't honestly criticise someone for having children. All I do ask is to quit complaining about the decision(s) you made. Because that is the adult thing to do.
> What other game dev tools can a user on a Chromebook use? Or an Android device?

Well, you're kinda making a point for me there. Why would a game developer use a Chromebook or an Android device?

The second point applies more or less to an Electron app, too.
On those negatives: "higher prices" our food prices are rather high due to EU Tarrifs from none-eu countries. Food Prices can fall as the UK free to make trade deals with others. (Specific meat and Australia)

"lower employment" we have low-unemployment and a plan to reduce immigration. Employment will perhaps rise which may not be a good thing.

"lower standards for UK workers" labour opposition myth, its a good one "nasty tories". If they lower standards we elect labour in again to raise them. yey democracy
It turns out that computers are pretty decent at simulating creativity. Do some searching for machine-created art/literature
You do realise that more living beings are killed while farming plants (pesticides, rodents killed mechanically and with poisons, etc) than by raising organic meat? Never understood this argument exactly. If something is large people usually have more compassion for it, probably because we see their faces and we can not see face of a mosquito or fly or a bug dying.
> Almost Nobody has been saying they have

It is there by implication. "Russians hacked out elections". Articles and people on social media somehow always forget to insert the caveat there that there is no clear evidence vote hacking.

Notice how many people donated towards the recount in Wisconsin. That was done in large because of the implication of "hacking" as in "the vote count was hacked". And in the end Trump ended with 3 more votes and Stein with a few million in her party's pocket.

So we can say it is a strawman but I think the strawman is a strawman as well as many people believe that narrative.
Sounds a bit like a project we worked on for a while until various VC convinced us that getting people to change browsers was impossible, especially since you can't change the default on iOS:

http://www.azinman.com/#/stateless/
Mixing Generators into Iterators
No, they can't buy X individual's personal data.

However, they can do what everyone else does; buy anonymized data for the area person X lives in. They can then use countless techniques (that have been demonstrated repeatedly) to de-anonymize the data and find out about person X.
> People are being prodded to give up their sovereignty to a supra-national bureaucracy, and to be assimilated into a hetrogenous body politic with hundreds of millions of other people with which they share little other than said bureaucracy.

It's just not true. People of the European continent have been mingling with each other for about 2000 years. The whole continent's juristic thinking roots in the Roman Empire, so do Romance languages (like Spanish and French). What's more, in the past various countries formed alliances to protect themselves against threats from the orient. There even have been "economic zones" like the Hansa which could be understood as a predecessor of the EU and so on. In short: EU countries do have a lot in common and these commonalities are part of national identities. Countries do also feature peculiarities and these may or may not decay (thanks to the EU). But change is inevitable anyhow.
> Employers were not willing to give those concessions without a fight.

Today, they don't have to fight. They can offshore, outsource, or automate your job. There are a lot more options these days then there were back then...
In D it is part of the standard library. ;)

https://dlang.org/library/std/range/pad_left.html
Advocatus Diaboli: then Buddhism is obviously not a "real religion".

/s (for "scottish")
We have some docs about it here: https://fly.io/docs/agents/

It doesn't say service discovery (it should!). This will mostly let us build some neat features, though. We can let people build rules to send traffic to a particular branch.
LIFE ON ONE ROULETTE SPIN
I have coworkers (at Google) with that arrangement. I have family members at top5 bank with that arrangement.

It won't be publicly broadcast, but if you ask around it is an option.
Ah, great, I shouldn't be so critical of a beta product.

Looking forward to a video of the new product. I watched one of the 2nd version and it looked interesting.
Right, to be clear the variation is that it always goes up for auction.
While I agree that I wouldn't use jQuery in just about any meaningful project going forward I wouldn't dismiss it when you're on the learning path. jQuery serves as an incredibly good bridge between "I can write a for loop" and "I can build non-trivial web apps". The real trick is teaching why jQuery is useful without letting it become a crutch.
s/strawman/red herring/
Yes, you probably could. Local person votes twice, 5 people commit fraud type stuff is incredibly hard to prevent and probably happens every election. As long as it requires X people to move X votes fraudulently, I would say we are going to be OK. Can you move a local election in a small town via this method? Probably, but our election system has defense in depth (recounts, election judges, polling, every-knows-everyone, voting receipts, etc. etc) so this isn't exactly easy.

It becomes a problem when 1-10 people can change the outcome of a district+ size voting block. "Hacking a voting machine" falls into this category. If 1-10 people can change a Red state to Blue via any method, that is what we should be concerned about. Again, defense in depth applies here. They would have to do many things perfectly AND get lucky for this to even be a possibility (no recounts, no voting machine inspection, no election judges intuition, etc. etc. etc.)

If my crazy uncle wants to vote twice, eh go ahead. Its difficult to do, takes a medium amount of effort and might work or might not.
Hey thanks for the response, I already had a conspiracy in mind :-) I searched for some parts of the plain text but couldn't find an answer so I just dropped it here with success. Thanks mirages.
Tesla updates Autopilot, Autosteer now works to 80 mph in new cars – The Verge
Which is shame, because it could just fix so many of our energy problems.
Ask HN: Idea factory?
What is an idea worth? If you are the best coder in the universe but you have zero useful ideas you will most likely be coding someone else's idea. Is it worth 10% of your new company that yesterday had no ideas?
Maybe I don't understand DNS well enough, but I assume all the tech sites that recommend everyone change their DNS servers to google's 8.8.8.8 or 8.8.4.4 understand that Google is heavily data mining and monetizing every lookup.

And the FCC has never attempted to regulate that level of privacy.
I depend on many things that hinge on the right people being in power for all eternity, and so do you.

We've seen what the wrong people in power do. Mussolini, Stalin and his gulags, Pol Pot and his genocides, Kim Jong-il, Slobodan Milošević. This isn't a statement about the current US President, but we depend on having right (enough) people in power in a lot more ways than this one policy decision.
> If startups have to spend a lot more, it changes what's possible. We'll have fewer startups.

Paying higher salaries and spending more on development are related but distinct things.

You might be able to get more done by having fewer, higher paid employees. Or maybe you need have more of a mix of different ability levels to keep costs down.

> If startups have to spend a lot more, it changes what's possible.

Sometimes the business plan is just not workable. Why blame employees for expecting higher pay and not customers for not being willing to spend more? Or other cost centers for not being cheaper?

> There are a lot of factors here, but I strongly believe that much higher living and operating costs is one of them.

Yeah, that for instance.
I love it when I've bought jewelry for my wife and every damned ad is for the same jewelry store. Hard enough hiding a gift, now I have to hide my browser like I'm sneaking around watching porn.
There's a cooling system(at least in the EVs where you don't want fast battery degradation) so that is the only "large" maintenance item.

Even then it's only at ~45k and runs about $700.

Overall running costs for EVs are incredibly low. At 48k miles right now and my cost in tires($1k @ 30k mi) is actually my highest per-mile cost, even above electricity.
How would you know what excessive might be without valuing the company?

Seems reasonable for a company with estimated current valuation of around $300k.
Original author here. Feel free to ask anything.
Let's have a contest where different AIs compete to get the best election results. Hmmm... that sounds like a plot to a movie.
Keep going man, this is great. How would you feel if Don Trump kissed you and grabbed your dick without asking?
It makes sense. Poor people can't pay for privacy, now that it became a feature instead of a right.
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A Case Study in the “Fake News” Feedback Loop
$3.5M crowdfunded drone campaign flops, lawsuit alleges
The wikileaks stuff did have some effect, but not as much as Comey's last minute lie about finding a laptop full of Hillary emails.

Russian hacking was more influential in the congressional elections where "Guccifer 2.0" worked directly with Republican congressional campaigns providing them internal DCCC info.
The S/NES allowed for some software drawing tricks (for which this article is a decent starting point http://www.racketboy.com/retro/super-nintendo-snes-games-tha...). But you're right, typically the CPU and whatever rendered stuff onto the screen worked cooperatively to render things.

On the NES, the PPU would render a bunch of scanlines, and then during the vertical blanking interval, would trigger an interrupt on the CPU telling it to make whatever changes it needs to the graphical memory through a particular port. However, the CPU is still running while the PPU is rendering things, so it's possible to modify the graphics memory during rendering to pull some interesting tricks.

On the SNES, you could do the same (but now faster, with more memory, with Mode 7, with variable size sprites iirc) but on top of that, you could use external coprocessors as part of the cartridge to extend the existing hardware, like the Super FX or Cx4 to name a couple. With these, you could draw actual realtime 3D graphics to the screen.

So in a sense, on the SNES, you could provide a chip that would have direct access to the renderer. It was just never directly controlled from code on the main processor.
Yeah, I was somehow projecting his chairmanship back to beginning of the 3/5 partisan pro/anti-neutrality split.
It was implemented a handful of times, but only one of any significance. It was a small town newspaper, but it was taken down within a year.

Of course the value was not for visitors but for links to your site. One quality link might do a lot for you, so it's hard to say whether it'll be worthwhile.

I think my problem is that sudoku is simply saturated. But not many sites have pencil marking ability, and my site ranks high on Google for that.
Pollution and privacy are just two examples of cases where we use regulatory laws to curb the natural tendency of for-profit corporations successfully. That the regulations are implemented differently isn't very relevant; they're both regulations that a) shouldn't be relied on according to the article's rationale, but b) have proven effective in the real world.

> I think what the author is saying here is that we shouldn't bet our privacy and safety on who is in charge, as we are always one flick of the pen away from losing those protections.

Yes, and what I'm saying is that the same is true of every other regulation, which is why it's not a compelling argument against this one. You may have noticed that the same Congress currently gutting privacy protections is also gutting air quality protections...
>Nuclear waste is stable

So long as it's stored in stable geologic formations, or controlled by stable human institutions. Where "stable" is a period of time longer than human history in many cases.

>does not migrate when handled properly in containment pools

Which are dependent on active management and security indefinitely. This is challenging as the service life of the plant where the pool is located and revenue is generated is less than indefinately.

> can be reprocessed if required.

Which is also a proliferation risk.
Statistical innumeracy is what causes the exaggerated categorical fear of nuclear's risks vs the empirical and very present risks posed by fossil fuels. You don't get to just "be against" fossil fuels; you have to propose a credible alternative. Wind and solar are just now starting to become credible, and aren't even all the way there yet. If we had had a less hysterical nuclear policy 40 years ago we would not be in as bad shape now as we are. AND we would also not be stuck with 1960s reactor designs.
Heh, I hope this sort of attitude prevails on both sides of this. There's no need for nastiness and lets hope the outcome is relatively positive with the repective parties feeling more free to pursue their own directions.

Bon Chance!
Week in Ethereum news – March 26
There's a correlation between substance abuse (not addiction) and infections.

> “Chemsex is a rapidly emerging pattern of drug use, not just amongst men who have sex with men as often assumed, but heterosexual patients as well,” Dr Richard Ma of the Royal College of GPs’ Sex Drugs Group told the Telegraph.
[https://www.rt.com/uk/320758-chemsex-hiv-outbreak-doctors/]

I see this as something related to the bar/disco/club culture rather than something linked to condoms.
What's the relationship of this project to Bokken (GTK+ r2 GUI, <https://bitbucket.org/inguma/bokken>)? Is Bokken just dead?
Having done a lot of A/B testing on pricing, don't be worried about playing around with the price via experimentation. As long as you grandfather existing customers.

You should consider doing what newspapers always do, offer an expensive high-end package that you don't expect anyone to buy, then offer a reasonably priced primary version which comes with a big (seeming) yearly discount. Then include a more expensive monthly option.

There's some great books on the subject of pricing. I recommend this one:

https://www.amazon.com/Smart-Pricing-Businesses-Innovation-P...
To be honest he looks more like he has some sort of pituitary disorder...
The location of the plant, next to the ocean, placed it in greater danger from the tsunami. Had the plant been located up higher, above the centuries-old tsunami warning stones, then there maybe would have been a different outcome.
Glad to hear it :)
But, but, but, the Daily Mail says Brexit is good! It's absolutely true if it's written in the Daily Mail!

I'm sure you've heard this song already, but it is worth a listen again to remember how Britain got here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
I would also love to read a C book by @antirez! It'd go up there next to my K&R.*

I think a redis book is good, but your docs and blog articles are already excellent. If you combined them into a single document (slightly updated or curated blog articles as chapters, with the second half of the book as reference section/appendix for redis.io commands) then your book is done. You could probably even just hire someone to handle this formatting.

The C book sounds really fantastic.

* (btw, antirez wrote redis.)
Old urban legend, that is notoriously hard to find any evidence of, and just so happens to nicely dovetail with the "Redpill" ideas about crazy, manipulative women.

If you didn't know the man in question, which would you find more likely: that a woman emptied a condom in herself in order to secretly make herself pregnant, in order to claim alimony; or that the couple failed to practice safe sex correctly (either through omission or due to an accident)?
You're absolutely right that a broad regulatory solution would be a good thing - but we shouldn't ignore a technical solution when it's available. By analogy, we have pretty good regulations about the contents of your home not being stolen. But you should still lock your doors when you leave.
Re:Lax – Reverse Engineered Parallax Library for tvOS
A "smart" union needs to consider the health of the company. If they get a salary of $1million per yer for each employee it is obvious that no company cannot afford the salary and will go out of business in a few months and all employees get 0 after that until they find a new job. (This is a strawman argument, but it makes the point clear) A union that is smart should force the company to do things that will keep the company in business.

Note that unions, management, and investors are often not smart. This is often to their long term harm.
I can't help but feel you are downplaying the procedure by saying that it sometimes doesn't require pain medication.

In the clinic I went to they hand you a subscription for pain medication as routine and give you an ice pack to put on your scrotum.

I was happy to have taken the pain meds before the anesthetics wore off I'll tell you!
Yep I don't want to abandon the C book... Since is already halfway and is something more general and long lasting than Redis probably. The book indeed has certain Redis internals examples, but isolated so that you don't need to understand the Redis code base.
I would point out that you are relying on government statistics for your "poor or jobless" point - and many have pointed out sources of bias that call those stats into question; and also, you are assuming that the Flynn effect will be ongoing rather than just reflecting a topping-up due to better nutrition and more widespread education.

Others have calculated that USA/UK have lost as much as 14 IQ points since Victorian times. see http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2730791/Are-S... .
Only techies will be setting up VPNs. What about the vast majority of everyone else who don't understand what is happening when they connect to the internet?
A4s (and to a slightly lesser extent all other Audis) have been, up until very recently, among the most unreliable new vehicles for sale since the model's inception.

Combine that with expensive Audi parts, expensive and zealous dealership labour, and they are unbelievably expensive to maintain.

I own a 2006 that I bought for a song--I do my own service, so I was willing to take a bit of risk. The cars are very difficult to work on, even an oil change involves special tools and working around a poorly laid out engine bay. It takes me twice as long to do as any other car I've done.

The previous owner of my car put 120,000km on it. I only have the last 50,000km or so of records, but in that time it was towed to the dealer at least twice according to the service records, and she spent upwards of $10,000 on regular service ($250 oil changes? yep) and fixing broken stuff that shouldn't break at that mileage (turbo blowoff valve, ignition coils on more than one occasion, brake lines, the list goes on). She spent over $1000 on every trip to the dealer in that time.

I do not understand anyone who buys a new Audi, or for that matter any German car. It's ridiculous.
Some people have been saying "renewables don't scale" for decades, while renewables steadily beat projections for cost and installed base every year.

Here are some example studies of where things could go: http://blog.ucsusa.org/mike-jacobs/suddenly-the-future-is-cl...
When there is something that can be monetized, an MBA will eventually find it.
Lit Git – Dank Git aliases for a VCS workflow that reads like plain english
It's like painting. You don't start with cats and flowers. You start with circles and straight lines. Don't think about how to make the game of your dreams, but consider if this is worth spending a half-day-job amount of money for the next 5 years on it. If not you can just stop there. If it is, start with something simple like tic-tac-toe.
A refutation of Metcalfe’s Law and a better estimate for the value of networks [pdf]
I have to add a 2nd response - this is the great misdirection: nobody is saying he's GUILTY CRIMINALLY OF SEXUAL ASSAULT based on the tape, at least nobody reasonable.

Doesn't mean he isn't on tape admitting to being a giant flabby pervert who disrespects women, probably has committed sexual assault and definitely shouldn't be president.
I think we can all guess how that came about. Back in the day there was no contraception and the church was at the center of community life. Imagine the inconvenience and heartbreak to everyone involved from unwanted pregnancies! Especially those from teenagers, who I'm sure were pressured into suddenly abandoning their own ambitions to become unwitting parents. Pre birth control of course church leaders would council people to simply say no to pre-marital sex. Sure it'd be difficult for some, but I'm sure avoiding any unwanted pregnancies was worth it for everyone involved, and better for the community at large.

Fast forward a few centuries and that (very practical) advice has become 'word of god' moralistic. Now with modern birth control we have better ways to avoid pregnancy than abstinence. But (unsurprisingly) the church's practical advice hasn't caught up with modern technology.
Just don't use a damn web browser, problem solved.