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>The latest major story was that German NATO soldiers (stationed in Lithuania as a part to deter Russia from trying something like in Ukraine) raped a local teenage girl

That might been a BS report, but it's not like that never happens and is never covered up. Soldiers out of duty, especially drunk, do all kinds of similar shit (assaults, rape, drunken fights, etc) around such bases. We had a few around our here parts -- but here are some more from more reputable sources if you prefer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_Okinawa_rape_incident
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmudiyah_rape_and_killings
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/the-forgotten...
http://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=82993
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/LAW/10/18/soldiers.court/

Many, of course, such incidents never see the light of day. I don't know whether this one is one such (and it's suppression is touted as it being false to begin with) or the other side, eager to publish some anti-NATO stuff didn't fact-check or even fabricated it. So, I'll give you that. But as "fake news" goes, this is quite on the mark of what often goes on -- not some Pizzagate level BS.

Speaking of fake news, it's not like the other side would never stoop so low either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony

(among tons of other such BS)

Also "as a part to deter Russia from trying something like in Ukraine" -- so, to deter them from intervening when the elected government is coup-ed by a ragtag coalition (including bona fide neo-nazis) with support from outside (who wanted to pressure Russia)? In a country which is in their borders and has parts with majority Russian ethnicity that felt threatened?

How good of this good-will organization to protect Lithuania. It's not a full threatening army machine itself, promoting any particular national interests in the region at all, nor is it used for pushing increasingly towards Russia's borders and keeping the pressure of them, decades after the cold war ended. And it's never known to invade sovereign countries which have nothing to do with it, itself, for BS or no pretexts and making hell-holes of civil war and "reconstruction" out of them.

Lithuania's story with USSR and/or current relations with Russia have never been that great, to put it mildly, and Lithuania had suffered a lot under Stalinism etc. It's also good to be paranoid about a powerful neighbor. But I think it finds solace in false friends, who, if the need arose, they wouldn't think twice to sacrifice it themselves. Well, not that differently from false friends in WWII...
I agree that happiness is not guaranteed, but also think everyone deserves it, even if they don’t get it. Small distinction, but to imply that someone perhaps suffering from depression or stuck in really terrible circumstances doesn’t even deserve happiness sounds very harsh.
That is why he mentioned "verified phone number" I guess. When you have verified your own phone number you can send texts from it as well.
I am not generally a fan of heavy handed regulations but the government needs to step in and shut Equifax down right now. Literally pull the plug on everything they own.
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Whoops. Somebody should tell the Brits.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/10/britain-could-joi...

“Britain could join trans-Atlantic trade alliance bigger than the EU if there is no deal on Brexit”

(Article only _two_ days old at time of writing!)
I'm currently in the process of doing the exact same thing with my ttrss instance. I am using lxml. I wanted to create "pages" of comics sort of like the funnies, instead of just one big feed, since ttrss can do that already. Would you mind if I looked over your scripts? I'd love to see what your solution was.

I'm also developing something similar to your news scraper but with different end goals. I'd love to talk with you about your approaches in that domain as well.
>To be fair, I wouldn't have a clue what to do with an aqueduct.

I would guess that once you will have a city and a decent number of citizens in it you will quickly find out a possible use for it.
I find them appealing because orchestrating lots of git repos is such a mess.
Perhaps by 'minimalists' you mean 'The Minimalists', i.e. these two dudes, because that statement is otherwise very odd.

But maybe you thought the article and capital letter weren't adding value to your life.
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For everyone who wants to get #7, I have created a mailing list to build this as a service.

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Some argue that PLPMTU should be made the default in Linux:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ipv6/2017/09/msg00000.html
"Yet how many people would rather be an average individual today than a king of a medieval era?"

I presume you approach this from the vanity angle? Given the type of person who hungers after such vain glory I presume the persons who would like to be a medieval king, and who would choose to remain in such a role after trying it out is very small. I know, some prefer a challenge of violence and filth for it's own sake. The best thing one can say is that you can be drunk the entire time and no one will complain.
I'm gonna pretend you really mean crust.
Its 94% as good as the best AV, so not too bad.
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I actually thing "NUMA SMP machines" are about due for a renaissance with the advent of extreme multicore CPUs. Next year we will see CPUs that run 32 cores (64 hyperthreads) per socket, and don't cost an arm and a leg. Current max is 28 cores per socket, at a staggering $13K per chip.

With relatively economical 64 core / 128 thread options with nearly unlimited RAM capacity appearing, a lot more workloads will "fit". Needless to say, single-node systems are much easier/cheaper/faster to get right.
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Throw some ML on there no need for humans
This sounds like the most hypocrytical thing to do. Killing dozens of plans just to keep one small plant alive.

Rainforests are being destroyed to mine different metals. We need oil to create plastics. Coal is burned to generate electricity to run factories. After your devices were made in Asia, they must be transported across the globe on huge ships burning diesel fuel. People are ready to sacrifice such ecological damage just to have a small toy in their apartment. I hope that you realise, that having a small plant has no contribution to the environment.
This is a good development. This proves the point that a lot of ads found on these websites are extremely shady and dangerous, and that we - as users - don't desire these crazy amount of ads on every single fucking website. These cases strengthen the need of a good adblocker because this story will hopefully spread around, causing an increase in adblock usage thus causing an overall decrease in ad revenue and hopefully we will see a decline of websites filled with advertisements
I ended up stumbling on that idea of "double bookkeeping" as well, though in the context of acute drug induced hallucinations.

What made it hard for me is that both sets of ideas are correct about some aspects of my experience and wrong about some aspects. The hallucinations are mostly wrong where they deviate from "standard" reality, but they're not entirely so and seem to be capturing some patterns that my brain is picking up that I can't articulate through other mechanisms. Counter-intuitively, admitting that there were facets of the hallucinations that did make sense made it easier to deal with accepting that there were parts that didn't as well.

I view it as having two approximate models for reality which have different faults -- one model is knowingly incomplete (but scrupulously consistent); the other model is knowingly inconsistent (but has models for any experience, and serves for "experimental" ideas). The goal is to try and work both towards a shared (underlying, objective) truth trapped "between" them in some sense.
Some things haven't changed: land, control over people.

Another way to measure wealth in a comparable way is the proportion of the economic production someone is able to control.
True, if you are not in a position to risk leaving this job then I suggest you save up at least 3 months worth of living expenses and then quit. Bottom line is this company is screwing you over.
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What about a prison that was full of your closest friends, versus a world of your enemies?

You wouldn't be sent to prison in the first place.

"The tortures and punishments of civil justice customarily cut off hands and ears, racked, burned, flayed, and pulled apart people's bodies. In everyday life, passers-by saw some criminal flogged with a knotted rope or chained upright in an iron collar. They passed corpses hanging on the gibbet and decapitated heads and quartered bodies impaled on stakes on the city walls."
Updating James Madison:

If everyone were honest, neither greedy nor malicious, did pay attention, were competent, including securing their apps, and didn’t have either fires, floods or roads, no regulation or government would be necessary.
Trump’s negotiating tactics do genuinely seem quite clever, despite me not liking the man at all or supporting the aims of the negotiation.

He seems to combine the “madman” theory with “good cop, bad cop” to produce a “crazy leader, sensible leader” tactic. It’s probably a very effective strategy, if all you’re interested in, is optimising the short-term, very narrow, very selfish interests of a part of the US population. It’s a strategy I’d like to try in a board game.
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Can anybody explain to me what's this syntax? This is the first time i see anything like it, and i've been programming in C since i was a teenager.

main(argc, argv)
char **argv;
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>>> That can leave you with a large bill to retool your location to a more neutral design.

make sense.

>>> Also, side note, lots of young people think starting a restaurant or bar is easy.

Yeah, I sure don't think that. I always wonder how the chef make it : prepare dishes for noon and evening easily consume eight hours. Then you have to check your suppliers, the accountant, brief the employees, make sure the restaurant is clean, handle bookings, handle taxes,... Or you have to hire a partner but then you'll have to share the benefits/losses which may add another level of stress.

But cooking under stress, damn, it's not like coding :-)
Artificial coin flipping.

As they say, garbage in, garbage out. This is especially true in automated decision making. We do not want the system to actually make bad decisions for sake of equality right?
Now if you want to debias datasets without hurting accuracy or decision results you really need a true superintelligence much better than human. (People are biased, more or less subtly. Bias is somewhat reduced by taking a weighted or flat average of opinions.)
It's reality
There is a lot of advice regarding depression and a lot of things people say may be helpful to many others.

There is, however, also the chance that someone's life really is FUBAR and no amount of exercise, therapy, drugs, and whatnot will change anything. And then everybody says that the one who is suffering "does not want any help", "is not suffering enough to accept help", "is happy with his suffering", etc.

Well, pardon my language, but that's such a giant pile of bullshit! All that's happening there is that the one giving advice is helpless and not willing to admit it. And that's especially true of psychologists and other "professionals".

Source: have lost three people who committed suicide and in two cases I would say that there really was no other way. We, as a species, totally suck at helping.

And, yes, there probably would have been ways to help above people, but it would have taken time and dedication and who is willing to invest that? It's so much easier to try a quick fix and when it does not work, blame it on the sufferer. Unfortunately I was young back then and did not understand that...
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It sounds like you have really don't know deep depression can go. I can understand this attitude from someone who has never been there.

Your tips are a little insulting to someone truly suffering. There is a difference between feeling bummed out to feeling like you shouldn't be alive any longer.
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Perhaps you didn't know how the button was supposed to look like? Seems like it's better to get false positives than to miss it.
Ghetto A.I. haha TM

Some interesting things to look into maybe? Temp, humidity, pressure, maybe put the plant in a transparent pot and flash a light through it (what?)

I don't know I've connected a solar cell to the web and have been gathering data cool to see/check while at work.
don't start with the moral consistency, you'll just make yourself sad. Its not really possible to live in the modern world and be consistent like that. Almost every act you do here destroys the planet. To remain ethically consistent requires either living on a kibbutz or an incredible depth of research about every aspect of your existence that consumes so much of your time that you become drastically less efficient then the people that don't care and drastically outnumber you.

For example: every time you take time out to save remember the student flat my brother once lived in where they didn't bother de-frosting the freezer and just left it open, forever trying to freeze the world. We try to save water in our house yet three doors down the guy who washes his car leaves his hose running for ~30 minutes every now and then.
How can I hate the people of the world that do that when its permitted as a norm? When the developing world has a burgeoning population poised to make those same mistakes again? Its a very sad problem of scale.
I'm not saying don't try, more just try not to mad at people when our culture enables it so.

Let this person have their silly blog. The problems are so fundamental in our society that this represents some of the least harm. We should focus on regulation and culture instead. For example the 40% of food waste that the EU practices is an example of an institutional problem worth the effort because the gains are immense.
On a somewhat unrelated note: If you scroll down to the second image in the article (not counting the slider) there is an image of some people standing in a room with a table that has a few lamps above it. Can someone tell me which lamps those are? I'd like to find out if I can afford them for my living room.

(http://ww1.hdnux.com/photos/66/50/52/14322364/3/920x1240.jpg)
Genetic algorithms didn't have millions of core available for training. It's a different optimization of the same problem.
On my Mac I'm getting

$ yes | pv -r > /dev/null

[34.9MiB/s]
The problem is then debiasing data. That in itself requires strong AI to work reliably. Dumb methods like say PCA/ICA do not work on multidimensional datasets. (They become unworkably slow and often trade biases between dimensions.)

If you debias manually or declare subspace manually you're actually cheating and potentially introduce your own biases.
I recently stayed in an AirBnB studio in Paris smaller than 9m². The toilet was shared among the five studios on the same floor.
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That's a K&R (Kernighan and Ritchie) style function declaration. Compilers still support it but the version you'd be more familiar with (ANSI C style) has been standard since at least the late 80s IIRC. ANSI C was standardised in 1989 but that process had been in progress for something like 5 years beforehand.
What a wonderful Orwellian world we live in! Government agencies that develop dangerous hacking tools which end up in the wild are the good guys and the anti-virus company who finds them out is the vilain of the story.
I always went with local sim. This is a great resource - http://prepaid-data-sim-card.wikia.com/wiki/Prepaid_SIM_with...
I agree. My interests shift back and forth, somewhat unpredictably. I'll work on a given project for a few months, then abandon it for about 2 years. Things that I haven't used in a long time often find themselves imaginatively re-purposed.
People who fly on a whim definitely can't call themselves "evironmentalists" or pretend to be versed into preserving our planet.
One major roadblock to something like this is the precision (and invasiveness) of the probes. You can get very imprecise probes that are not invasive and you will get an average reading from a large number of neurons. This may be enough to make predictions but likely much too noisy to actually “read” any thoughts. Alternatively you can get very precise probes that are connected to single neurons (or at least a very small number), but it’s invasive (you literally have a wire connected to the nerve tissue). You can now very accurately read individual values but you probably need a lot of these to actually determine what’s going on since a single neurons state isn’t enough data. Additionally, such invasive probes so far eventually are always rejected by your body.

It is, of course, a spectrum. You can get a middle ground between the two extremes but it’s still a trade off between invasiveness (and the problems and concerns that come with that, such as rejection), precision (how many neurons worth of data is being averaged) and the need to probe many neurons to build an accurate model.
The crybully is similar but he rotates through all three phases of the Karpman Drama Triangle often in order to play hero. My hypothesis is many sociopathic leaders of different stripes use/d similar tactics to hit people’s emotions and bypass their rationality. It is what it is, and many people are seduced when times seem rough that someone has a panacea or a plan to make everything better. I wish people focused more on manipulating him into doing what actually needs to happen and less on useless demonizing or lionizing. Polarization is gonna kill more people by not tackling huge problems like locked-in climate change... the world needs CDR, solar shade or whatever scales as fast as possible, “moon-mission”-style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karpman_drama_triangle
How do you deal with the legality of scraping?

I was hired to scrape some economic related pages and build an excel file and email it, I got that done but not sure if I should try to host this and turn it into a service or just set it up for the client and let them deal with it. It's just personal use on their part.
I never said it was my job, but I know people whose job it is to help (though as someone who is planning to match to a psychiatry residency this coming year, my job will be to help people with depression, among other things). You are right in that when offering advice one needs to be mindful in how they frame it, something that I find much easier to do in person than in an anonymous online forum, hence me not able to consider your personal circumstances when giving general advice.

You, an individual commenting on Hacker News, might have already considered that diet, exercise, mindfulness and therapy might actually help, but believe me, many people out there don't consider these factors and don't know the overwhelming scientific evidence out there showing their benefit. In fact, the author of the blog post that we are commenting on himself said it took him a while to get around to therapy. Sometimes it takes uncomfortable prodding to get people to do things. Like I said, it doesn't work for everyone, but it has for enough people that I will always make sure to recommend it and make sure eating healthy and having an active lifestyle is something that is prioritized because the myriad of benefits it provides.
I automated child care by giving my daughter my tablet.
Probably premature, but if takes years to discuss it will be ready when we might need it.

Maybe it's only a way for the manufacturer/developer to say "not my fault, sue the bot" but I don't expect that and won't welcome it.
Requiring any kind of computer is no different.
Not so sure - what are his successes? Another interpretation is that he panders to his own base by talking tough in public, but then pleads in private with his supposed opponents. For example, his tough talks on refugees contrasted with his private begging to Malcolm Turnbull after he was elected.
It doesn't say how much this actually cost but, as a taxpayer, I'm happy to see this development. One can only hope for more of this plus a combination of services of those that actually need the help. I think SF is far more complicated than other cities and, for once, would love to see money going into the root of the problem instead of simple finger pointing from both sides of the aisle without any action.
We have one plant in our household, no other plants have survived. It lives in my living room and I have no idea what kind of plant it is. It had long thin leaves, each one is about 10 to 15cm long and 1cm wide and long thin woody stems.

We water it randomly, at one stage we estimate we forgot to water it for around 6 months. Other times due to a lack of communication we have both watered it multiple times in a week. It appears to be invulnerable to poor watering discipline.

Currently it is living in direct sunlight but it has lived in permanent shade for a extended period as well.

I don't know why I'm telling you this, it probably doesn't help knowing that your friends has high maintenance plants when there are invincible ones like ours in the world as well.
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What, saying it's a direct threat to democracy itself? Care to link to examples of you arguing that 10 years ago?

The Telegraph has a good meta-discussion on this topic, about how modern "liberal elites" (ugh, hate that name) have embraced totalitarianism:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/12/brexit-barcelona-...

(unfortunately it's paywalled)

When a billionaire newspaper owner like Omidyar writes an article in the Washington Post that repeats dubious conspiracy theories, calls targeted ads "dark posts", and just in general argues repeatedly for people exactly like himself to control the flow of information on the internet, this is not based on anything new. It certainly isn't anything to do with social media.

It's just the same thing that's been going on for millenia - people in power getting scared and confused when the little people start rebelling, and concluding that censorship and control is the answer. If Trump had been elected in the 1990's exactly the same kind of article would have been written but instead of "social media" it'd have been talking about "the internet superhighway" and "the World Wide Web" instead, as that'd have been the newest form of information dispersal at the time.
env::args().nth(1).unwrap_or("y".into());

this ridiculously complicated syntax to perform such a simple thing is why I will never accept Rust. What a clumsy, ugly language. I’ll just stick with learning ANSI common LISP, that pays immediate dividends.
I'll one up you on that. I arrived early at a party my now wife was organizing and she put me to work preparing food. The knife I was using was terrible and she warned me about. After using it for a while, I casually commented:

"I have much better knives at my house".

OK, it was not the first thing I said, but it didn't scare her away ;-)

BTW, I met my first wife in a chat room on a Minitel-like system.