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Teens having sex and teens getting pregnant are two different things.

There's a whole social/psychological/emotional bunch of things that often goes along with sex and it's probably better to figure that out in high-school when stakes are low and nobody around expects those relationships to last... as long as nobody gets pregnant.
It should probably mention 2016 in the title.
This is a pretty generic statement and sounds like EU bashing without a good base. There are many things to critize the EU for, but calling them out for not intervening on a (discussable) law, that a single country has just pushed through is definitely not one of its weaknesses.
Not to mention that after reading a few you get blocked by their paywall...
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I find it really annoying that top two articles on HN are completely separate from engineering. Since when have posts from news sources been able to not just make it to the front page, but dominate the front page?

Years ago, coming to this site helped me to become an engineer and changed the way I think about problems. But now I don't get that, and instead get plenty of feel-good articles and useless posts that don't contain any real information. I think the articles here should be different from the front page of reddit, but increasingly this viewpoint has become unpopular here.
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You are lucky to get 2000 calories a day
But of all the millions of random experiments you can make while a learning an instrument, only a few of them sound "nice" - and I would argue they sound nice because they sound like something you've already heard. There's a vast universe of truly original music waiting to be discovered - the future of music - for adventurous musician brave enough to embrace truly ugly sounds.
How do you know that a worthwhile check has anything to do with Radiohead's motives? What other artists are you implying belong to this group?
So let’s say I don’t copy 100%... but I asymptotically approach it. At what decimal do I infringe, or as long as I never reach unity am I cool?
I completely agree. Post studies directly, as opposed to mainstream media interpretations of selected studies, especially from political outlets like NYTimes.

I wish HN had less political content, although I think the community does a good job flagging political content off of the front page.
Booze and drugs are often social activities. If everyone's busy there's less time to go get high with your friends.
Are there any maps that show German cities? E.g. Kassel or Dresden.
It's quite poor. Two attempts as a non-english speaker in my normal voice, and 70% british first, then 70% american.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptomnesia

As you see, that’s just part of being human!
Reminds me of the analogy games described by Hofstader in one of his books.

Like "New Zealand is the Scotland of Australia". If i remember correctly, the idea was to take two pairs of countries and construct an analogous mapping between them.

So Spain::Portugal -> UK::USA in this case.
Two of my dearest friends–people who could not be more dissimilar otherwise–teach ethics using, in particular, Greek Tragedy. One is an Army ethicist, the other a Shakespeare scholar who teaches ethics to business undergrads. The latter convinced me to take an undergraduate course on the tragedies, and it was likely the most impactful class on my personal and professional life. I return to Aeschylus regularly to understand the world around me.
You might find it useful to read the HN Guidelines [1]

"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Did the judge ever play guitar? I hear anyone can.
Rust-cpython is excellent.
Well, we already have a christmas tree colour issue. I think rustc could do better here - check whether types differ by only '&' and put out a hint. That is, by adding/removing &, could the error have been resolved?
I disagree. Questioning ideas is the foundation of enlightened thinking.

Questioning something doesn't mean doing away with it just because it's old. It means asking yourself (and others) if it still makes sense from today's point of view.
Ha, my most recent example of this is "Jane Says". In retrospect I'm not sure how I played it for a week without realizing what song I was playing.
How close did we get to nuking them “back”?
"con(vict) college" is a popular term in the USA too
Nowadays it wouldn't be hard to build a program that generates a 500+ hour long instrumental piece which contains 80%+ of all song progression sequences. Then release it under "free for commercial use" and nobody can every sue anyone else in the future. Thank you very much
I second you. Important engineering / tech related articles don't make it to front page, and something's that's absolutely unrelated often does.
it came about because those in power did see the results and understood its effect and saw it as a means to get what they wanted.

it also was seen as about the only way to prevent another nation from actually getting their desired result in starting such a war. WW2 ended because allied forced destroyed both the people and means of production of their enemies. While the people were more mobile than means of production their spirit can be broken to where they are no longer productive which further undermines the regime.

hence we moved after WW2 into a generation where nuclear weapons could do the same but were so efficient at it that neither side dared to use them. both major powers are rational people led by rational people regardless of what the press would have you believe. why are they rational? because for the most part they want to protect their people and way of life instead of prioritizing their leadership.

it is the nations where the leadership is afraid of losing power to its own people than nuclear and biological weapons become dangerous to the world.
Anyone got data (Heartrate etc.) from Apple Watches / Fitbit / Other Tracking devices?
> If you don't live in Hawaii and are having this kind of weird panicked reaction to a mistake

There is a lot of fearmongering just lately around the idea that there's going to be a nuclear war with North Korea because the president likes to talk shit on Twitter. I've had so much practice, with my explanation of all the reasons that won't happen, that by now I could do it as an elevator pitch if I needed to. That's why so many people are having this "weird panicked reaction" - panicked, yes, but not weird, when so much effort has been spent to insist that an arrantly implausible counterfactual is not just possible but likely.

(On that note, I expect the next wave of articles and op-eds to revolve around Hawaii's recent "close call", and why it means everyone should be much more scared than everyone is already. Who cares about externalities like the health of the republic when there's attention to be monetized?)
This is an engineering article.

Edit: if you're an engineer and you disagree, then you're the kind of engineer who's more likely to accidentally convince millions of people they are about to die and you are exactly who should be reading this kind of article.
In Kassel, the allies dropped 2 bombs per m^2 on average in a couple hours.

http://www.kassel.de/stadt/geschichte/zerstoerung/
Sang Polish national anthem and got 72% American.
Amazing but simple explanation. Really allowed me to grasp JIT.
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Growing up I got the impression that a fallout shelter was a purpose-specific room deep underground. So every time I saw the "Fallout Shelter" sign on a building, I figured it was built with one of these "secret underground rooms". Think dedicated, locked stairwell that goes a thousand feet underground; after all, that's how it was pictured in my "Way Things Work" book. When we went to the bank, it was something of an intrigue, where the door to this secret underground cavern really was and what was inside.

As I got to go into more city buildings throughout my life, I noticed many of the rooms designated "fallout shelters" were just some spare room in the basement, complete with ventilation to the outside and really, not much farther than a few steps to the front door.

There may be a lot of "fallout shelters" in NYC but I get the impression that the labeling wasn't very strict and that many of these "shelters" won't really protect you from "fallout".
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I deleted mine too, but recently I wanted to see someone else's page and was not allowed. Not even a detail shown without login.
Any study/articles on how the boundary of starting a nuclear war and being the first one to launch a missile is much lower after that incident?
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Radiohead only gave up a tiny percentage of their rights on "Creep", so yeah they can still make claims on it.
It id absurd to copyright a melody IMO.

Consider flamenco. It has about 10 base styles each with a specific scale, melody (yes you are reading right!), beat, and structure. Then there are a variety of variations, that perhaps change the structure or mix in another melody.

Between the base melody parts, there are falsetas which are unique melodies. These are also shared between guitarists. Some are considered popular and are untraceable, if their first appearance is near the time of the invention of recording devices.

The lyrics are also shared between singers. In fact it is quite rare for a singer to compose any new lyrics of his own!

Furthermore flamenco does not really have “songs” like pop music has. There is simply performance, where singers, guitarists, dancers and palmeros play. Never a specific song, but just one style so that the structnure is agreed and known. No one owns a verse, a melody or a dance move.

Flamenco is a music world totally incompatible with the western notion of copyright, because it falls apart. Really the o ly thing that can be agreed on is that one particular recording of a performance can have copyright.
As for a 'British' accent, there is huge diversity within the UK. Cornish, Northern Irish, Yorkshire, Aberdonian, etc.

It used to be even more pronounced, with neighbouring villages in England having distinct accents. Nowadays, i suspect that the differences are disappearing - although perhaps some will always remain.
Well, if Trump wasn't there we wouldn't be talking about this "engineering" problem. He is the one that triggered the whole nuclear story.
We need to update email protocol to help reduce information overload
If you notice about receiving notifications in your phone from apps or from services like twitter, it is often seen as a stream of notifications. Missing some will not cause problems.

However this is not the case for emails. Thus if left unattended can lead to information overload.

Don't you think we need to update email to make it more human friendly from an information overload perspective?

Here is some potential ideas:

- Metadata by responsible sender to suggest when to self delete if required.

- Metadata by responsible sender to suggest visual priority. e.g. show a notification in notification bar, but without alerting user.

- Metadata for allowing sender to assign tags/categories. You can then use tags to adjust priority of different types of emails. There is a regular tags defined by the email standard, and a flexible tags which are utf-8 strings that are not covered under the standard.

Obviously this is based on how responsible the sender is, but if they are not responsible you can always press the spam button.

(side note: Should email also be extended to allow for subscription? e.g. like twitter).

So what's your idea? And how do we push for these changes?
Electronic artists are limited by the rules programmed into their software, and very few people realize how severely limiting those rules are - they make 99% of the decisions for you. The fundamentals are never questioned, but it's only by questioning those fundamentals that true can innovation happen. If you want a mainstream audience, fine, if not, throw your laptop out the window :)
> Is calling someone a moron the [most information optimized] ...

Think of it not as "please be rude to me, that's optimal".

Think of it as "I'd rather have the truth delivered rudely than a polite falsehood or slience."

You may say that's a false dichotomy — surely everyone should just tell the most informative truth and be polite. But this is often just too taxing, or not even possible depending on language and social skills. This is especially true on contentious topics.
Just like the increase in migrant crimes has "real world consequences" in Germany, including citizens voicing their opinions online, causing the "government" to pass a law to outlaw just that...

Whats their next research paper about? Water is indeed wet?
Judges are humans not computers. The downside is, some sentences are incredibly unfair. The upside is, it works pretty well most of the time.

Just look at the Fair Use doctrine. It seems to work reasonably well for literature. Why can't it apply to music? In particular this:

> The third factor assesses the amount and substantiality of the copyrighted work that has been used. In general, the less that is used in relation to the whole, the more likely the use will be considered fair.

If a song has 500 words then wouldn't you say copying 20 is fair?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use
> like – maybe Rust is not for people who are already C++ experts and who are happy with C++? I don’t know!

I think Rust is very good for C++ experts. Some key concepts like ownership / RAII and etc. are well known in C++, and they should be easy to understand.
I'm starting doing this today https://www.t-nation.com/diet-fat-loss/tip-eat-rice-without-... Already cooked the first batch

And yes I know that reducing the calories of a staple food is the very definition of a First World Problem...
This looks really interesting as it will be the first headset where you don't notice the pixels.
I think it's more of why don't you talk to them -- there are more demands on our time or different demands. I get home from work and I normally don't go back outside to socialize with anyone. I might talk to my neighbor when I am going in or out; but, that's about it.

In addition, are newer houses designed for causal chats with neighbors? I recently moved. On my street are houses that are over 100 years old and houses only a couple of years old. Most of the older ones have been well kept or renovated. What's the easiest way to tell the old ones from the new ones? All the old ones have porches big enough for at least a couple of chairs. When I was first looking at my house, I saw people hanging out on their porches and people walking by stopping and chatting or people waling across the street when they saw their neighbor out on the porch. It's a lot easier to stop and talk to someone when you see them outside, than going up and knocking on their door.
A hiring manager told me recently I need to work on “curating [my] linked in presence” in response to how I could position myself better for the job
What we see right now is the beginning of the "intellectual property" lawsuit wave. Music producers, artists, and record labels have always known that pop music doesn't come out of thin air and is highly repetitive. For some popular chord progressions and main melodies you can literally find thousands of practically identical songs. Until recently, copyright holders have avoided lawsuits except in cases of blatant copying, because of some form of legal MAD.

However, as sales are declining and it gets harder and harder to make a sustained living even for fairly popular artists, this will change more and more. Laws have been implemented almost solely in favor of copyright holders (=companies and usually not the artists) and in almost complete disregard for art.

There will be many more lawsuits of this kind in the future, and once the dam is broken, more large companies will jump in, too. Hobby musicians will get sued more and more, too, or at least their shares will be taken away from them.

The vast majority of all pop songs is not original in the pro-IP and anti-art sense that lawmakers have facilitated over time, so it's going to be a large bloody legal slaughtering for the remaining bread crumbs.

But maybe hobby music and private performances will benefit this in the long run. Mainstream music will become even less melodic and weirder than it already is, as these songs (e.g. in contemporary "R&B") are developed to avoid lawsuits while still kind of "sounding like a hit". It's a tricky business.
If I was a lawyer I'd strum those 4 open E chords on a guitar then play all three songs.

The Hollies - The Air That I Breathe,
Radiohead - Creep,
Lana Del Rey - Get Free

Then maybe I'd make some argument about anyone who made 3 left turns and a right turn to get to the court house today owes me a royalty for using my elegant route without my permission. If you want to get to the court house tomorrow you have to figure out any other permutation but mine.
Good example - I was also going to mention Sam Harris. Another thing he does is state his guest's position in his own words, and then ask the guest if he got the position correct. It's a good way to start a discussion and avoids the occurrence of two people arguing about a caricature of each person's position, instead of their actual position.
I don't see why this isn't just another example of a broken system - copyright is wrong, always. It was invented by the Inquisition, after all.
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I am aware that people have tried it, ROX Filer knew about AppDirs, I think WindowMaker/GNUStep supported Application Bundles, there are currently (in keeping with Linux Desktop tradition) at least 3 implementations of the concept (FlatPak, Snap, AppImage), all of which are overengineered (but AppImage is the closest to correct by a wide margin).

But there is no system I can install today that makes it the primary way of doing things. That's what I'm trying to build, a new OS (or perhaps "operating environment" would be a more precise term), not a "distribution", on top of the Linux kernel, that takes the good ideas that already exists and makes them the primary way of doing things.

It's likely that even if I did finish the project people would ignore it. Maybe only I think these are good ideas, maybe I'm missing something, but I don't care. When I look at the future of the desktop operating system I see Windows 10 continuing down its path of becoming increasingly uselessly stupid, and the Linux Desktop, and those two futures make me want to become Amish. I'm building this because if I don't build something like this because if I don't I'll probably just leave computing altogether.
especially item 2. wrapping a critical section in a lock is great. I prefer to have the default state be "running", so if the maint script ends for any reason the lock is discarded. If the maint proc gets stuck you can see it's holding the fd on the lockfile, or you can put a watchdog on it (implementation depending on your supervisor).

i love these little bash gems, the only downside for me is I do feel like I'm stepping back into the 20th century whenever I do any heavy bash work...classic systems programming...
Almost uniquely in art, free jazz retains the power to shock even sophisticated audiences. There is a brutality to the work of artists like Albert Ayler or Milford Graves that transcends the intellectual.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwkHCLI1j1w
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Thanks to Rust's great C interoperability, hybrid can be a great approach. I've really been enjoying re-writing sections of node.js applications in Rust. It fits fairly seamlessly and can really broaden the scope of what is possible.

https://github.com/neon-bindings/neon
The document sees the 51% attack originating from token holders, not miners.
I'm currently living in Japan. So obviously I have a plan for nuclear war.

First, I'm going to press send on the doomsday draft which is sitting in my e-mail.

Second, I'm going to go to youtube and play "We all go together" by Tom Leher.

Third, I got a bottle sitting in my desk that I'm going to pop open. Presumably I'll be in the office at the time so one final round with the coworkers.

The people in this article seem much more stressed and have not yet come to terms with the fact that sometimes life ends abruptly (nuclear or otherwise). If you actually get a nuclear war warning for real, my plan is just as good as any other. At least I didn't spend my last moments frantically running a bathtub and panicking.
Using a digital thermometer (dual probe) to monitor the actual temperature of the food. An instant-read digital thermometer is also handy. It is a game-changer for meat preparation. Although the best (Thermoworks) are circa $100 you because they have larger displays and read times of only 2 seconds, you can get a circa $15 one now with 4 to 5 second read times which is good enough most of the time.
They are seeking 100% of the profits for that song. They could ask her to remove the song from the album if they felt like she was biting their music and had no monetary motives.
I think it's right to ask whether observed changes are healthy, so long as you don't default to saying "change is bad, mmkay".
> Not sure what you mean by "no forward references"?

I'm guessing they are talking about having implicit mutual recursion between items in a module, like Haskell has.
This was the state of Hawaii's fault. Not USPACOM. The answer is not even a little bit because the military never saw an actual threat.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15924779
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Super exciting for sure. I wonder what the requirements will be. I kind of assume I’d need to double down on second GTX 1070 to be able to run in 60fps.
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Sad but true. Clients look me up on linkedin (I know because they mention it to me) and I'll bet if I didn't have a linkedin page they'd think that's weird.
> Windows XP had shown that we were victims of our own success. A system that was designed for usability fell far short in terms of security when confronted with the realities of the internet age.

Interesting point I'd never considered. Talk about a requirements shift.
Stupid question: why would you fill up your bathtub?
> Mainstream music will become even less melodic and weirder than it already is, as these songs (e.g. in contemporary "R&B") are developed to avoid lawsuits while still kind of "sounding like a hit". It's a tricky business.

I think this is a great example for what you're describing:

Anne-Marie - Ciao Adios

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqob4D3BoZc

Sounds actually quite fresh!