skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of all the things that make me wish I were smarter, being able to do something with public policy about heroin addiction is very near the top of the list.

I grew up in the nineties and my set of friends and I were all self-medicating our way through our teenage angst and emotional problems to some degree or another. It seems like almost overnight heroin showed up in our scene, not because anyone was addicted to opiate pain medication, but just because someone's dealer got some, exactly like this article describes.

Within just a couple of years, the collection of friends had an enormous rift right down the middle: half had tried and become addicted to heroin, and the other half of us felt like we had no choice but to get out of the scene and get our shit together.

To this day, I have no idea what factors other than chance put someone in the former group vs. the latter. Those of us that went into the latter group weren't any smarter and we didn't have better support networks. Of the dozen or so people in the former, maybe only 2-3 came out of it successful in the long-term. Everyone else is either dead, in jail, or living as addicts. I've spent a lot of time thinking about this to no effect.

Becoming a heroin addict isn't something I would wish on my worst enemy. It's the most awful thing to see someone you love go through that I can think of. Treating it as a criminal matter instead of a public health matter is absolutely the worst possible way to deal with it.
I came from the same background, and got hired onto a team that uses a modern stack, and it really wasn't that painful to pick up. A few weeks of working day-to-day in such a codebase, and you'll get it. You might not like it, you might prefer the old school ways of coding, but feeling sorry for devs who move to such platforms isn't necessary. We're doing fine.
Inside Amazon Go
This is a very thin article. Wired has a few in-depth articles on the subject:

- https://www.wired.com/2016/10/nerds-cattle-food-technology-w...

- https://www.wired.com/story/the-impossible-burger/

- https://www.wired.com/2016/07/lab-grown-meat-coming-win-hate...

- https://www.wired.com/story/navigating-the-uncanny-valley-of...

The reality is that currently lab grown meat is extremely expensive (thousands of dollars per pound) and we don't even know if we can bring the cost down to a level competitive with cows.

Impossible Foods, however, is already making an impact. They make "burger" meat purely from plants by mixing thing up and adding fake "blood".

They're already shipping (there are 8 restaurants in SF alone that offer their burgers, https://www.impossiblefoods.com/locations/).

People seem to like their stuff (reportedly in some restaurants their burgers outsell the real beef burgers).

They just finished their first large scale factory (1 million pounds per year) and are ramping up distribution across US.

Cost-wise, they're already comparable with organic beef and there's a clear path to make them cheaper than beef by increasing the scale.

In terms of impact and transforming meat industry, Impossible Foods seems to be in much better position.
No real point in routing it through DNS except to entertain a few nerds looking at the network tab.
magit is also a good reason to have it installed outside of it's text editing capabilities.
I agree, Indian food is the one that doesn't make me miss meat.
I’ve heard it posited that oysters should be on the menu for vegans (one’s who are vegan for ethical rather than dietary choice reasons). The rationale is that oysters specifically have no nervous system in the way that, say, a clam does. In fact, from a capacity to suffer standpoint, they’re roughly equivalent to a carrot.

The other thing is that oyster farming improves water quality and the environment. So, vegans—go crazy I guess!
If you want 30 rather than 15 bits of randomness:

echo $(((RANDOM << 15) + RANDOM))
One of the big problems with IIT's measure of consciousness is that it ascribes a bit consciousness to almost everything.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1799
Canary Releases in Practice
It makes little sense to us as well, that's why we've invented the term "DevOps", and offloaded the real work to those (mostly bearded) dudes.
google : inurl:maxdama.pdf
Possibly an option to reduce the amount of time you spend on the phone. Example, I moved and lived from Los Angeles, CA to Lima Peru for 3 years without a cell phone. It was a great 3 years disconnected from constantly being connected. What ever works to cut back on your phone use is better than not cutting back. Phone addiction and digital dependence is on the rise in the U.S. and developing countries. We just covered the topic with an info-graphic.
https://latechnews.org/digital-trends-2018-infographic/
It’s really simple math. The Republicans have 50 of the 99 votes in the Senate (McCain is currently out due to illness). They need 60 votes to pass a CR (or for none of the Dems to filibuster).

(50 < 60) => no CR without Democratic support. The Democrats could support the CR but have chosen not to. Therefore the Democrats have at least some culpability.
As I mentioned in my comment on the article, setting $TMOUT if you want a timeout on a 'read' command is unnecessary and unclear. Just use "read -t":

read -t 5 foo || foo='No reply'

Setting $TMOUT affects all following 'read' commands. Also, setting $TMOUT in an interactive shell sets a timeout for a response to the primary prompt, terminating the shell if the user doesn't respond in time.
Your definition confuses the goals with the implementation. You don't need the workers to seize the means of production to achieve minimum living standards, and research shows that there are better ways.
I was also underwhelmed by the Impossible Foods burger, which was a better imitation of meat than other patties, but not necessarily tastier.

The bigger surprise to me was that Impossible Foods does not apparently control how restaurants prepare their burgers—in fact, the restaurant where I ate it even had an Impossible Foods chili. I would have expected IF to put pretty close restrictions around how you cook and present their foods, to make sure that people don't have a bad experience and assume it's the fault of the "meat".
No Honda or Toyota is going to drive anywhere near as well as the equivalent BMW. Even considering modern BMWs.

Pay to play.
can't you plan for 32hr weeks with more employees/machines? and end up with about 40 hours? or do you like the overtime?
There are many various restrictions on the use of photos of landmarks / building - couple of them here:
https://www.shutterstock.com/blog/contributor-resources/lega...

It also states that "Images depicting the [Eiffel] Tower’s lighting design are unacceptable for commercial use" ... which I think is fair.
Install the `tabbar` package using `M-x package-list-packages` or by adding `(use-package tabbar :ensure t)` to your init file and evaling it. To change what buffers show in a bar you can point `tabbar-buffer-groups-function` at a function of your own devising (`C-h v tabbar-buffer-groups-function`) patterned off the default `tabbar-buffer-groups` (`C-h f tabbar-buffer-groups` and follow the link to its definition in `tabbar.el`).

That said, instead of tabs, I recommend getting used to something like helm. When you have 150 files open even windowing and LRU won't help you enough. Switching to buffers by typing in a few characters of their name and then hitting enter can be done open-loop and not having to find things with your eyes is a major speedup.
Ha, didn't realize it was FFA. I thought everyone with a blue helmet was an ally until I was rudely killed.
> wish I were smarter

&

> public policy

IMHO there's a sweet spot where intelligence is only a small (but essential) part of the personality matrix necessary to tilt the game towards justice and healing, prevention and empathy, and just ramping good ol' raw smarts up to 11 ain't gunna help ya hit the target.

What are the other parts besides intelligence? ('O_O) Ummm...

Charisma, symmetric features, healthy microbiome, height, conscientiousness, good humor, preternatural patience, great parents/teahers/mentors (and what does THAT mean?), a thirst for politics, etc...
"Uber only uses two-factor "when certain requests are deemed suspicious," and it is "not an account-wide setting used on every device," Fletcher told Saini in the bug report.

Ensign said the company uses "machine learning to enforce risk-based authentication by default for all rider and driver accounts." The company uses hundreds of signals -- first revealed by Gizmodo in 2016 -- to detect potentially suspicious behavior, like unauthorized logins and fraudulent rides."
Are there any good open source alternatives to that trial licensed serial sniffer, but for Linux? Something that can suss out baud, parity, stop bits, etc.?
American govt is helping or allowing it into the country. Their actions must be stopped first. U.S. Troops Patrolling/protecting poppy fields in Afghanistan. Yeah, go war on drugs....

https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-d...

http://humansarefree.com/2015/02/overwhelming-evidence-that-...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW2YWqVpT4E

http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/14066.html
Rust is significantly different with regards to this stuff:

* There is no reflection API

* Exceptions don't exist

* There's no subtyping, so ClassCastExceptions can't exist. (There's subtyping with lifetimes, and you can't cast them, so that doesn't count)

* final doens't exist

That said, every language has things that you don't realize; we did have a sort of similar moment to this stuff before 1.0 with the "leakapocalypse." Rust will have its own issues. But it doesn't really inherit the problems you're talking about above.
not every story has a bad guy
Unless this stuff is cost-competitive with the cheapest meat out there, it won't change anything.

The vast majority of people still buy their food solely based on what's most affordable, with little to no room to account for "ethical reasons" beyond that. In that regard, "organic" or "ethical" often amounts to paying double if sometimes quadruple the price of "regular" products.

If artificial meat can undercut regularly produced meat, price wise (without tasting too bad), then that could be a real game changer, but until that happens it will remain only interesting to the fringe demographic of people with too much disposable income. Which isn't that big of a demographic and as such will never have the potential to enact the desired environmental impact change.
I would tbh recommend make (bsd make is a wider-supported subset of gnu make) over a shell script, because it can automatically detect which source files need to be rebuilt and which can be kept from previous builds, greatly reducing compile times. Also, it supports parallel builds, although this one is relatively easy with a shellscript.
In the External Links section is a link to a SCOTUSBlog page that appears to be kept up to date on the case:

http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/united-states-v-m...
But it really sounds like you're telling me about things Emacs can do. If I don't use Emacs, what advantage does org mode hold for me? This link is for org mode in vscode, which I do use, but from what I can see it doesn't do any of that fancy stuff there?
Interesting. But not Turing-complete? So if I run into a case it doesn't cover (which I will), I have to drop to another language/tech. Then why not go with that language in the first place?
Along similar lines, The LA Times' series on opioid addiction was gripping. It offers a story of how some people fall in to worse and worse spirals.

http://www.latimes.com/projects/oxycontin-part1/

I hadn't seen that Cincinnati Enquirer article though, so thank you for sharing. I'm not looking forward to hearing about the suffering, but I feel the need to educate myself. I worry this is the new normal.

Edit: God, the pacing of that article...all the lives lost in short vignettes, names unknown, punctuated by daily death/overdose numbers for just one city? Horrifying when you realize what a tiny facet this represents of the national suffering due to this epidemic.
>The worlds and experiences are reminiscent of Stephenson's Snow Crash or Cline's Ready Player One in so many ways. It's eery, fascinating, and altogether odd.

It looks more like VR Idiocracy to me. Especially if you check out twitch and see donation stuff and stream overlays. It's just a platform for vomiting memes. https://imgur.com/ZkJq1cr

On the other hand, if it were super-serious-Deus-Ex-plotting-the-control-of-the-proletariat-VR-Chat, I don't think I could take that seriously either (and would be quickly overrun with Uganda knuckles anyway).
I am not that familiar with Tor. Maybe someone in this thread will experiment with this idea.
GPU Price Gouging: Nvidia Tells Retailers to Sell to Gamers, Not Cryptominers
> Cost-wise, they're [Impossible Foods] already comparable with organic beef and there's a clear path to make them cheaper than beef by increasing the scale.

We buy organic ground beef for around $7/lb at Costco. A restaurant I talked with said they pay $11/lb for Impossible Foods "meat". Do you consider these prices to be comparable? Or are you aware of restaurants paying much less than $11/lb?

To be clear, I understand prices of IF will come down—I'm just trying to get clarity on current pricing, since a 40% price difference is material for restaurants.
I use tabs for managing multiple contexts, where each context is a set of open files. Some tabs might have four different files open at once.
org-mode support would be awesome!
So if I don't use Emacs, org mode is sort of pointless then? This link is for org mode in vscode which can't do any of those things?
Raspberry Pi ROS and OpenCV Robot Kit for Makers
To help model financial systems, some economists are turning to biology
Amazon Go is finally Go this Monday
I've found Skype to have a great quality. It's normal phone calls that are terrible, especially mobiles and across continents.
We couldn't afford an Oculus so we built one
True, but it should only be done after getting a working compiler, to get good error handling and messages.

From my experience most people don't use parser generator tools due to lack of knowledge that they even exist.
And some people refuse to take elevators. Just because you came across someone once who behaved in a certain way doesn't mean "ohmagerd feminists hate men holding doors for them!"
Honest Question. What is breakdown of market share angular versions market share? does anyone have these stats? I know not a lot of new projects are being done in angular 1 but I am under the impression that majority of jobs are still for angular 1.
How can I change the purple background color of the lock screen on Ubuntu 17.10?
unfortunately the rehab industry is filled with questionable players and downright con-artists:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/27/business/new-...

(the entire nyt series is this from is excellent)
The Joys of Victimhood (1989)
I thought in QM you couldn't know both the degree of rotation and the direction of the axis for a particle. If so, I wouldn't call that "well-defined".
Device creates particles with negative mass, and a novel way to generate lasers
"Sigh. Hit ‘up’, ‘left’ until at the ‘p’ and type ‘e’ and return.". My solution for this one would be :

UP
CTRL-A
RIGHT RIGHT e

Which needs less thinking and 6 keystrokes instead of 8.
Hmmmm can we encode information in neutrinos? I thought they were so few and far between it's difficult to reliably harness them.
Cannot delete items yet
Thank you, we've updated the link from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Corp._v._United_Stat....
Literate programming/ops

More obvious nesting structure

It manages many structures for you so you don’t have to type the text

Time tracking

Agenda mode and associated task states and due dates
If you succumb to cancer or another often fatal disease - "fail to resist" it -- that clearly has to mean death. If you succumb to a cold -- failing to resist it just means you are stuck in bed with a bad cold. So I think it's probably because you are used to hearing it used with more serious illnesses, and in your mind a seizure is closer to cancer than a cold.
PayPal's Max Levchin makes exercise and healthy eating a routine
Tech reporter guilty of rape scheme gets nearly 3 years
1. To submit to an overpowering force or yield to an overwhelming desire;
give up or give in. See 'yield'.
2. To die, especially from a disease or injury.
Is there any talk of legalizing heroin to make it easier to provide treatment options?
Wouldn't secure Wire[1] be a better replacement?

It's crypto-audited[2], open-sourced[3], has native mobile clients[4], Swiss based[5], and pretty well known[6].

[1] https://wire.com

[2] https://techcrunch.com/2017/02/10/messaging-app-wire-now-has...

[3] https://medium.com/@wireapp/wire-server-code-now-100-open-so...

[4] https://github.com/wireapp

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire_Swiss

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12148596
I did the same as you. Also took the learning as a challenge. It's also just so nice sometimes to start anew and learn something from zero. (I do also understand it takes time. But take it as motorcycle maintenance ;)

EDIT:

Also with emacs: you get synergies with the default mode of bash.
Quite simply because there is not ethical imperative to stop- and its about nourishment rather than just enjoyment.

Do we have an ethical imperative to stop cats from killing birds? All complex animal life on this planet consumes other living cells in order to survive, it is just a matter of scale and type.

This is especially true for animals that exist so that we may consume them. Hundreds of millions of chicken live only so that we may be nourished- similarly for cows, sheep and so forth.

Raising them in a minimally harsh and 'humane' environment can be an ethical good but that their lives are shortened by our 'harvesting' process is irrelevant, since they exist only due to that need to begin with.

Now killing an animal and discarding the resultant bounty- that is unethical and wrong, unless needed to ameliorate some other harm.
Hey thank you! And please don't hesitate to create GitHub issues or let me know about any problems.
I have a close friend's mother with lung cancer that is currently being treated with an experimental drug. After reading the "no difference" multiple times I am not too optimistic. I do not know which drug she is taking but :(
Just because "succumb" is euphemistically used to refer to death doesn't mean it's the only meaning. Perhaps "Users suffers a seizure..." would have been a better phrasing though.
Your 2d version is a great way to prototype and test game strategies for actual 3d pubg.
What I look forward to the most is it will make majority of the farmland obsolete (land is mostly used for growing food for animals anyway). As someone who's living in the area (in Eastern Europe) where there's no decent forest in 100km radius, due to everything being turned into farmland, I can't wait for the era when forests will reclaim those lands.

When I cross a bridge on Danube and take a look from the hight (the bridge is quite big and tall) at the countryside I live in, all I can see is a farmland. And I can't help but imagine that only 200 years ago there were forests there, as far as you can see.

But once the meat is grown in the lab, I hope that it would stop making financial sense to farm the land for animal food.
Those are not things that emacs does outside the context of org mode. From your comment, the implementation of org mode in vscode sounds sparse. This is not a deficit in org mode but rather the implementation.
Nice time-less relational formulation of Newtonian gravity:

http://fqxi.org/data/essay-contest-files/Barbour_The_Nature_...
I there a similar clone of Scorched Earth? It was quite fun before the Worms days.
I have definitely considered this, not exactly sure what it would entail as I never really got into org-mode, started using Workflowy and then BulletNotes instead.

Do you mean just importing an org-mode file? Or an actual integration?
The Prime Number Shitting Bear [2001]
Damning with feint praise.
> Why, in spite of high wages and cultural/economic importance of tech, has the number of CS majors has been basically flat for 15 years?

https://medium.com/@simon.sarris/why-is-computer-science-enr...
article is from Nov. 2016, so might be interesting to see what an updated perspective looks like.
I used to feel conflicted about this, much like you, and then one day it made sense to me that I just didn’t need to feel conflicted about this - I went vegetarian. Now I no longer feel like every bite of my meals is conflicting with my sense of integrity and ethics.
Your condescension is unnecessary.

I never suggested there is a grand conspiracy. I stated that as a career ends up with more women in it, wages drop. It doesn't take a central planning or a conspiracy of any kind for that to be true. It takes only a dominant trend of valuing the work of women less than the work of men, which is what the evidence supports.[0]

"The national average starting teacher salary is $36,141, while the average teacher salary in America (non-starting) is $56,383."[1] "The Labor Department reports that software developers made a median salary of $100,080 in 2016. The highest-paid 10 percent in the profession earned $157,590 in 2016, while the lowest-paid earned $58,300."[2]

If a hypothetical group of people find that they are largely excluded from both careers, it seems reasonable to think they would be more upset about being excluded from the one that pays roughly twice as much.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/20/upshot/as-women-take-over...

[1] https://articles.niche.com/teacher-salaries-in-america/

[2] https://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-develope...
Now that neovim is a thing, we dont need it in vim, we need a vim editing front end to orgmode.
> I don’t know Rust well

That is one problem and i don't want to attack you. This is something Rust needs to work on! Rust is indeed a relatively hard language to learn and understand and it is not really clear from the beginning nor in the intermediate level if its worth the effort. I can only speak from an empirical standpoint. Time showed – to me and maybe i am the only one – that i have fewer bugs in general, especially in the late stage of development. Rust tends to feel a little viscid in the beginning but it catches up later where you don't try to find a race condition in a 100k cloc Program. Rust has a good way to reason about your program especially in a multi threaded environment. And this is where Rust is fundamentally different of what we – as programmers – have experienced in the wild. Yes there are many efforts in academia and research languages but non of them are used outside.

Rust does nothing new or has concepts that are not strongly researched in academia. Rust is trying to bring those findings into the wild.

In Rust practically nothing can throw null pointer exceptions or class cast exceptions. Rust don't let you express ill-defined semantics with multi threaded code – you can't have data races.

And this implies – of course – that the set of programs that you can write in safe Rust is smaller than in C/C++/Java/C# ... you can't possibly write programs with data races or dangling pointers / null pointers. Thus making like 60% of all CVE's (i pulled this number out my ____) impossible to write.

Rust can't prevent you from making logical errors but it can help you preventing various categories of bugs we see in the wild exactly now.

Rust has many problems of its own kind, but none of the ones you listed above. immaturity in its ecosystem due to its short lifetime, steep learning curve and many more. But it can deliver very well in certain disciplines today.