skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except none of that's true.

We already grow sufficient amounts of common vegetables like carrots, and the members of the cabbage family, and potatoes, and onions, and garlic, and whatever else.

Corn and rice and cereal grains are extremely poor uses of the farm land we have. They are nutrient poor, and the last thing we need to be feeding to poor/starving people is nutrient poor foods.

Most of the reason we have starving people in the world is mismanagement of what we already grow, not that we don't grow enough.

I also don't care what the statistical outliers do. The average American lives far shorter lives than our medical and technological prowess would otherwise indicate.
Biographical Memoir of Francis Harry Compton Crick OM. 8 June 1916–28 July 2004
Ask HN: What are the modern conventions for a clean emacs configuration?
I have almost the same emacs configuration since a few years now. It's already divided into multiple files and using cask to install all the dependencies. But I'd like to clean it up and follow the new conventions and benefit from all the recent improvements.

Can you tell me what are the modern conventions for a clean configuration? Is cask still a good idea? Is there any specific tool to check? A good way to organize the different parts of the configuration (one for the look of emacs, one for a given language, one for another language...)? What is the good way to write modern elisp?

I saw people grouping all the configuration variables like this, is it the good way?

(custom-set-variables
'(indent-tabs-mode nil)
'(compilation-context-lines 2)
'(compilation-error-screen-columns nil)
'(compilation-scroll-output t)
'(compilation-search-path (quote (nil "src")))
'(electric-indent-mode nil)
'(next-line-add-newlines nil)
'(require-final-newline t)
'(sentence-end-double-space nil)
'(show-trailing-whitespace t)
'(visible-bell t)
'(show-paren-mode t)
'(next-error-highlight t)
'(next-error-highlight-no-select t)
'(backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/.local/share/emacs/backups")))
'(ac-use-fuzzy nil)
'(line-move-visual t)
)

Any hint appreciated :)
It's the best possible deal only if you don't care that you don't have any democratic influence on all decisions involving the single market - you just need to accept all regulations as decided by member states. Which I guess is fine for Norway and Switzerland, but wouldn't suit every country. For sure it wouldn't suit the UK.
>Is excess data usage severely penalized financially in other countries?

I believe it depends on ISP and on specific plan.

My mom has an iPad with a limited to 3 Gb/month dataplan (Italy), a couple of times she managed to go beyond the limit (due to some updates she did when not Wi-Fi connected), since it is a sort of pre-paid account, what happened was that the device became slow as molasses, as bandwidth was reduced to the speed of an analogic modem or something like that.

She still had connection, but to access a web page it took like 3 minutes.

On the other hand, she changed phone from a "normal" phone to a "smart" Android one (she was totally unaware of this and didn't realize that the cellular data was on) but her SIM (also pre-paid) did have an on-demand dataplan (never used before on the old phone), very, very costly and she managed to burn 30 out of 50 € of credit in a couple days (without using the internet at all, just through the "pings" (or whatever) the Android did in background).
> It's unrivalled social cohesiveness comes at the cost though of a lack of diversity.

Why is that a problem though? Does it make their life worse in some way?
Not since iOS9...
ONLY IF YOU STOP FIRST!
His hate isn't necessarily irrational.
Grey out the icon, and add a "zzz" indicator to it?
Ironically, if you were enamored with that series of cans, the ATH-M40x would have actually been a better set of headphones.

But for the $150-200 range, MSR7s are a much better pair of headphones, and usually go for about $175.
Stuff like that is a bit at odds with the pro-privacy marketing that Apple has been pushing recently. Guess it shows how important certain high-profile apps are for smartphone ecosystems when Uber even got Apple to give them access to features like that.
Sorry, I thought I was reading about the kind of diet where a potato would be the worst thing ever. I.e. avoid carbohydrates. Apologies.

I agree that we grow more than enough food today but we also do not live sustainably, we must reduce resource consumption or hit the wall at some point. At some point there is no more rainforest to burn.
http://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/10012/3867/1/thesis.pd... is one of the best general papers I've read on the subject.
If you're curious about where they're going, have a peek at the job listings for "last mile":

https://www.amazon.jobs/en/search?base_query=last+mile
On Safari for iOS, long-press the reload icon in URL bar and choose “Request Desktop Site”.

You’ll get a diff layout that shows the GIF.
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Well, then also US Republicans would have been considered almost bolsheviks in the Third Reich, what with all this bullshit about voting and all... :D
"something-other-than-c"
Which letter?
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Apple reveals new emoji coming soon to iOS 11.1
They have the best products, believe me! The greatest.
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I never understand why people can get lost at Takao, the place is like a damned Shibuya, packed with people.
This article alleges that there may be a hidden bias against female scientists receiving Nobel prices. If the author had included a long list of female scientists that deserved a Nobel price, but did not receive one, it would have gone a lot further to making its case.

However it only names one (Vera Rubin [1]). However one possible case seems insufficient evidence to prove a bias here.

Not saying such a list cannot be drafted - just saying it's not presented here, and so it's hard to buy into the bias argument.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Rubin
Earlier discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15411533
"At this point I’m not sure there’s a need for normal users to actually turn off Wi-Fi"

To preserve battery. I don't know about iPhones, but on my Android phone, Wi-Fi is certainly the largest battery hog, if I leave Wi-Fi location scanning on.
Thank you. And why does it seem to require a third party server ?
Microsoft's Paul Allen Is Testing a Tech Solution to Stop Illegal Fishing
That's incredible. Have you done any writing on your lifestyle/how you maintain it?
Looks so awesome :O
I interpreted it as "great" compared to the average American city.
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"Code breaking." Interesting. I think I agree. I learned to read around 4 years old, and I did so by trying to follow along and predict words as my dad read to me. I can recall thinking "ok, there is a word coming up that looks like 'be'" and then verifying it was correct when he read it. I taught myself in that fashion. I can recall passing a road sign and reading "tippecanoe" aloud and surprising my parents shortly thereafter.

When we taught our own kids to read, I was surprised that this was not the way that they would learn to read. We ended up having good success with hooked on phonics with our first two and the last one did well with vast amounts of repetition and memorization of his favorite books.
You say these things like the US isn't doing the same things;

> Russia invaded Ukraine & Crimea, ended up downing a civilian airliner killing them all.

The US invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, pretty much paved the way for the rise of ISIS.

> Slaughtered hospital workers in Syria after following victims of regime chemical weapons attack to the facilities.

The US bombed a civilian hospital in Syria, killed about 30 people.

> Has been funneling heavy weapons like T90 tanks into sub-state militias, including the designated terrorist org Hezbollah.

The US has been selling weapons to some lovely places. The terrorist factory of Saudi Arabia for one.

> What will it take to get you to understand Russia is at war with the world?

What will it take to get you to understand that the US is the new Empire, at war with the world?

> Does another civilian airliner need to be downed? Should another analyst/journalist get kidnapped and brought into Russia to be disappeared?

Does another hospital need to be bombed by US airstrikes? Do some more journalists and civilians need to be murdered by some dumb-ass American shitheels in a gunship that thinks its funny to do what they did?

Dude the lack of self-awareness in your post is astounding. People in glass houses and all that jazz.
Not on my Android phone, a Motorola Moto X Play. Wifi is by far the largest battery hog.
I've only seen Edward for the first time today, and it looks quite nice.

Could you (or anyone else) comment on why would you choose Edward over something PyMC3? How does it compare?
The only real way of learning vim is starting with nvi (the real BSD Unix vi) for basic editing before going anywhere near vim.
Does this apple's corruption suprise anybody? Apple, google and Facebook are corrupted to the core!
> No it is not.

It really is. How else can we move forward without discussing these things as a collective? It's no good if just one group decides the rules for everybody. Laws need to reflect society's norms.

> just unrealistic.

I'm sorry but I don't accept that we ought to abandon progress because it seems unrealistic. Self landing reusable rockets seemed unrealistic. International flight seemed unrealistic. Even progress on women's or PoC's issues seemed unrealistic.

If you're okay with letting people get hurt while things proceed at the natural, ambling pace of society, or whatever, because it's too hard to do otherwise, I get that, but I'm not okay with that. I think we have a duty to make things better for people. And there's no way to do that unilaterally, it has to be inclusive of the diversity of our societies, and build on the work that everyone before us has done, otherwise we're just reinforcing the existing power structures and narratives.

This kind of legislation, supporting the work people are already doing in their lives and online on places like Twitter, and Reddit, etc, would be ground breaking. And it's really not off topic, because it's the exact same type of legislation as deciding, as a society, which materials, or speech, or narrative are too harmful to be consumed or propagated. Material and speech that supports oppression and structural disadvantage is harmful, isn't it? As is material and speech that supports terrorism and violence. Maybe these things don't affect the majority, or happen all the time, but that's sort of the point.

I understand it's not easy, I understand the hassle, I understand the gut instinct to avoid anything that seems to impinge upon freedom, but some of our seeming "freedoms" are actually based on unsustainable practices, such as when our "freedom" to express a particular idea, only reinforces oppression, or normalizes violence, that ultimately hold everyone back. And policing some forms of speech, or narrative, or information as unacceptable helps make a free and just society. We shouldn't tolerate everything, especially not things that harm us. Take an example from biology, cells have walls for a reason, they are permeable, but they don't just let everything in.

I agree things move slowly. But that's why strong efforts are needed. And I also agree that so many people have become involved in this work, and I think that's why legislation needs to take some of the burden. I mean, the groundswell is an indication of a norm, no? And thank you for giving your consent for me to reply here, but as this is not just a conversation between you and me, I don't think that's appropriate nor required, because other people are reading and interested in what we say. It was good to talk! And I respect the way you made your points. I think they are a good way to live, but probably not a good way to progress society.
> Is this really the best response? A deflection? Do you know how tiring it gets? How little it advances discussion?

What you posted is also a deflection. You are turning false equivalency into a logical fallacy here.

How about you address the similarities instead of dismissing uncomfortable truths about your own country while simultaneously attacking others.

It is the worst type of jingoism.
Not free but rather cheap (around 30€), but you should look at the Affinity suite (Photo in your case, and Design if you are at some point interested in vector drawing).

I made the exact same research a couple of years ago: I couldn’t afford Adobe’s products and wasn’t feeling Pro enough to use Photoshop nor Illustrator.

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Best software purchase so far.
Natron is worth a look as well: https://natron.fr

Mac/Linux, Python API, mostly usable docs, and the source is available.
Somehow this reminds me of that guy who landed spacecraft on a fucking comet yet got bullied for allegedly sexist shirt.

A bit of advice to journalists who try to spin this up: Sometimes it is what it is, and for Christ's sake let people do the real science and switch your focus to describing fascinating background of gravitational waves discovery instead of bullying Nobel Committee for not promoting minorities.
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> my guess is they're applying drone like KPIs to humans and it doesn't look very humane.

That sounds like a very Amazon-esque thing to do.
A bit of discussion in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15415472
Also agreed.

(You're going to have to try harder for an argument ;-)
You are so full of shit it is hard to know where to begin. End to end encryption means that WhatsApp does not have access to the messages, so the NSA most certainly does not. What is most annoying about delusional paranoid comments like this is that you distract from where the real fight is.
And.. these folks keep mysql open source community... what a joke!
Ken Thompson quotes
Another rust proponent lecturing the world on how they should rewrite everything in rust. yawn
Ok, but it doesn't take away the point that very often the database can still be stored in memory, except for large blobs which are stored in flat files. Access of those files is usually sequential, so you will not need a special library.
> the gender-imbalanced dating market (the imbalance hurting both men and women)

I'm curious about how an excess of men can hurt women in the dating market.
There is a verification process: Only institutions capable of doing proper KYC can hand out BankIDs.
Not OP, but that was a significant part of it, yes.

Both the quality / topic of posts, and of discussion, faded quickly.
The rust evangelism strike force stages yet another sortie!
>I can't imagine...that anyone has ever learned to use git by reading the man pages.

Perhaps not, but they easily could. The Description section at the start of the man page says:

"See gittutorial(7) to get started, then see giteveryday(7) for a useful minimum set of commands."

And if you do `man gittutorial` it has, as you might expect, a tutorial on how to get started with git.
Adding 'Blockchain' to your company name may cause stocks to surge
I used the friends/foes on /., but never thought much about it. Filtered out a number of vocal nutcases.

But wouldn't this sort of create your own cozy echo chamber, where all opinion is streamlined?

I think it would be interestring going the other way around, a bit like some sub Reddits don't show comment score for a day or two, to not cause self reinforcement in moderation.

Maybe even take it a bit further by anonymizing the commenter's name for a limitid time, could be interesting as the comment would then rely fully on content, not reputation or score feedback reinforcement.
Netflix’s Price Increase Signals Original Content Isn’t Enough
".org" domain suggests (to me, at least) that this is a free service, however, it won't stay free.

There is no information about how it works, let alone some technical aspects - interesting, especially considering the name. About link doesn't work as well.
Come sbarazzarsi dei peli sulla schiena
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Any employer willing to pay my relocation and compensate me $250k + equity, I would consider it.
Talk is cheap; show me the code. There's a lot of talk about rewriting some crucial pieces in Rust but no actual work to follow it.
Banks and other issuers of credit just need to have high penalties for libeling people when then give false information to credit bureaus. $5,000 for a wrongly reported debt might make the banks more cautious about libeling people when fraudsters steal money from them by impersonating someone else.
This is worth a read:

https://blog.codinghorror.com/we-hire-the-best-just-like-eve...

There's also (the slightly contradictory) advice that because the bad programmers are the ones without jobs, a large proportion of your application will be from a tiny percentage of the developer spectrum.
This is a symptom that has to be fixed at the source. Minority prize winners would emerge on their own, if the academic and scientific community fix the funnel for women. Giving awards on quotas would be like giving treadmills to paraplegics.
Why should I learn VIM? I still don't get it, a sudden waterfall of articles about VIM>
Cool, but Mr. Blow can sometimes be a bit of a bully on Twitter, so that clouds a bit my reaction to other things he says on the topic of emotions.
Interestingly enough, Singaporeans were supposedly the world's fastest walkers back in 2007: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/05/02/walking.speed...
Me too. Maybe the imbalance makes all the guys batty?
The bugs he mentioned, are nothing but small fry. The guy is obviously overworked or something.

Xcode could always be better, sure. But personally I'm having fun coding this and that in Swift 4.
LGPL also contains the re-linking requirement as a wrinkle. This makes a LGPL library impossible to use in mobile apps. The walled garden ecosystems are in conflict with it.
More examples of other countries (and their solutions, not particulrly hard) in this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15210634

The "secrecy" of the SSN is seemingly an US only problem, that all the rest of the word has already solved, one way or the other, so, no it it is not "harder than you think", it is "not hard at all" ...
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ICOs – Regulation or Due Diligence; the Way Forward
Agreed. If there are more men in the city, women should have more selection.

However, the diversity of men may be limited (e.g. they are all software engineers...). It would be like going to Baskin-Robbins and all they had was various types of strawberry ice cream.
Digital Ocean Spaces
Google, Inc: Google account IDs to accommodate amateur radio callsigns
Musk says Tesla could rebuild Puerto Rico’s power grid with batteries and solar
Relevant?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_dogs_in_Moscow
Rubyist makes some Python code 5x Faster
Now we need article explaining the 'why' part.

I'm usring cVim for Chrome because that's a great wey to navigate pages.

And I've got a VS Code plugin for more or less same reasons. Just a couple of 'shortcuts' for when I need to work on a large csv file or something like that. But coding? No. Still can't get it.
All the time, but then I do a lot of embedded programming.
Increasingly desperate behaviour, high-pressure dating and a refusal to take no for an answer?
All true in general, I imagine probably less relevant for Scylla though which is presumably tuned for running in a more dedicated setup.
Or, 'Union'. :(.
I’m excited that a post of mine is of such an interest to some of you ! :) I will be super glad to discuss any question you might have!
Only if you are using a phone with a 3D Touch sensor, which the SE does not contain.
"So there is the question, which you must ask yourself, and your team, do you want to be learning skills specific to the technologies you are using, or do you want to be learning skills that are specific to AWS?"

If you are running a commmodity product like MySQL with the AWS hosted offering, then AWS is effectively replacing the network, server hardware and server OS layers that your organization would have to acquire and manage some other way. It is definitely true that it requires a different set of (non-trivial) knowledge, but the time and cost of acquiring them is significantly lower than for learning equivalent on-premises infrastructure. The MySQL knowledge is more of a fixed constant, since you need that regardless of how you host the databases.

It is definitely true that if you invest AWS/Azure/GCP, then you still need some Ops-orientated people, and many developers don't have much interest in it. There is an issue of Dev and Ops being different mindsets.
If anything, it makes the women batty by inflating their ego. Where else in the world can you be totally average yet have your pick of six-figure earners? Anecdotally, SV women are the most materialistic, the least attractive (relative to their self perception), and have the most myopic personalities I've been around.
Had Apple been anything like Microsoft, you would be able to stay there for another 10 years while they sorted things out.
You can't have cheap food in expensive real estate. The rent for the floor area of chair and table occupied by the diner becomes prohibitive.
> So why are you delivering it at 11am when you know I'm at work?

The driver has a 200-250 stop route optimized for efficiency, they attempt delivery when near your house. At 7pm a driver has been on the clock for over 10 hours; this is unlikely to change due to air delivery commitments. Over peak season 14 hour days (DoT limit) is very common, with a 14-hour delivery window it's simply not possible to get everyone's packages to them in the evening.
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This seems like a necessary step to automating delivery (like their drone delivery program). I'm not sure anyone thought they were going to convince UPS/USPS/FedEx to start using drones or other mechanical means to deliver mail: they need their own delivery service to test from and roll out to.
If I go to appleid.apple.com and log in, it sends a verification code to my iPad. It also displays a link "Didn't get a verification code?" where you can request it to send an SMS. Does that work for you?
You’ll love Teh C if you ever visit Malaysia. The real secret to good hot milk tea is using evaporated milk.
Yeah, why have an iMac on the site when you only have an app for Android?
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150K isn't anywhere near the stated "most programmers".
Unnecessary ceremonies that are imposed on teams, like forced stand-ups, retros for everything, the Scrum Master role etc.
Nothing comes for free. I expect to have to trade something for security. It seems we have to trade speed and size. Ok, it shouldn't matter to us: this should not be developers' call. Instead it should go into a costs benefit matrix with plenty of other technical and not technical stuff. Developers will advise on their part of the matrix, marketers on their own, etc. Managers will make the decision and be held responsible for security breaches (or plauded for the lack of) as much as for every other feature of the product.
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