skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine that one could attach a "window section" to one of the docking ports. You could build those things up modularly kind of like the ISS.
That's true, and actually amplifies the point I was trying to get across. A low rural cost of living doesn't help low-income rural kids afford college, since the college is likely in a higher income city area and priced accordingly.
#1 could sound like a challenge to the wrong people. Please be careful.

I toohave received emails intended for others. One time I was included ina group email which kept going back and forth and they would not stop emailing me after asking several times. I just started replying with ridiculous answers to the questions and they finally stopped. So I don't blame you, just be careful.
Thanks! I filled out the survey.
They sell them, but that doesn't mean they won't request to know who's in charge should some shenanigans go down.
One of the most amazing disease-related things I've ever read was something about cholera (of course I will never remember the original source), and the fact that it doesn't have to be fatal at all, so long as you rehydrate properly. Apparently in the vast majority of cases the body will fight off cholera just fine, so long as it doesn't run out of fluids in the meantime. If only people had known that they couldn't just drink plain water...

The (possibly apocryphal) article also went into modern educational efforts in rural India, where people were being taught the proper handfuls of sugar and salt to add to water, to combat cholera there.
>can you really complain that you're not receiving benefits from systems that are more optimal when people are clustered together

Yes. Society should always be doing more than what is cost optimal.

Cities are only being focused on right now naturally because that's where the rich people are. It wasn't that long ago that inner cities were quite poor and there were people making excuses like you for not investing in them.
People who aren't aware, this was the continuation of Google Wave, the real time collaboration tool that was, for a while, built into gmail, and then taken over by apache. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Wave
Even an 30min from one of the 10 biggest cities on the USA, broadband is still unavailable to a majority, ambulance times are in hours, and school funding is increasingly disappearing.

The first claim seems unlikely, unless that’s 30 minutes at the speed of sound. I’d need solid citations to bite. The second seems unlikely as well, and given how bad response times can be in disadvantaged parts of cities, I’d wonder if it’s an urban/rural divide, or the usual rich/poor divide.

The third point is absolutely true, and that’s what happens when people leave, and therefore aren’t paying property taxes in that area. A supermajority of Americans live in and around cities, so that’s no shock.

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/27/us/nearly-half-in-the-us-a...

More recent: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_S...

80% of Americans live in cities, so is it really a shock that a majority of resources are focused on the majority of people?
They do still appear on your personal upvoted comments list, which I appreciate.

I've also noticed that certain network issues can cause comment voting to silently not be registered, unless you happen to reload the page and notice your upvotes are gone.
Evidence of modern humans existing in Israel that long ago does not mean a migration occurred. Those remains could be from a group that ranged only that far and died out.

If they can tie their genetics to the genetics of non Africans then yes, you have your evidence for earlier migration, but you still need to show that modern humans could likely have been in Iberia during the time frame of the cave paintings.

The burden of the evidence that it could have been modern humans lays at the feet of those who say it could have been modern humans, not at the feet of those claiming neanderthal did it since there is ample evidence of neanderthal populations all over Europe during this time frame.
pipsi installs into isolated virtualenvs, then symlinks into `~/.local/bin` just like `pip install --user`. Combining pipsi for cross-project tools (tox, twine, nox, etc.) with pipenv for project-specific packages is all you need. You don't need to `pip install --user` some package at that point.
Unfortunately, the children of people who choose to live outside of cities don't have a choice in where their parents live.
Indeed, both were added in late 2003:
- annotate: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/svn...
- praise: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/svn...
Probably referring to the hatred many in the United States have towards urban development. In pretty much every city in the United States development has been slowed to a crawl due to zoning restrictions, despite increasing huge demand. People love to use SF as a prime example but I will point to my city, Somerville MA where rents have been soaring, yet there are only 22 lots that meet the residential zoning requirements. All other lots are over the density requirement. So practically any future development has to decrease the number of people who can live in the city, rather then increase it.
http://cityobservatory.org/the-illegal-city-of-somerville/
See this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16440450

You need to click the [x time ago] link to see the flag/vouch option.
so to put something in orbit you have to do 2 things:

- get it high out of the atmosphere
- give it a sideways kick so that it's going fast enough as it falls back that it misses the earth

Going straight up minimises the velocity lost by drag, but means you have to pull a right angled turn, going straight sideways grossly increases drag but makes the energy for insertion less

A railgun can only put one velocity vector on a launch, you still need a rocket of some sort to pull that turn
Is this even a little surprising? Most people I know aspire to similar career paths as their parents, or adults around them in high school. If the careers of adults who are around you growing up didn't require college, why would you go?
The best news source in NZ currently (in my opinion) is not behind a paywall, nor is it funded by advertising. It is the publicly funded Radio New Zealand (they have a news site along with the radio stations).

Similar could be said for Australian news sources (the publicly funded ABC and SBS networks being the two best sources of news there in my opinion).
I suspect it's a summary of the first line of the abstract:

> "In an article published in the Northwestern University Law Review in 2014, Professor Shawn Bayern demonstrated that anyone can confer legal personhood on an autonomous computer algorithm merely by putting it in control of a limited liability company."

Given that the first sentence is too long, I think it's a reasonable summary of it, though reasonable people may disagree.

In these cases, it's really helpful to provide what the actual title is (in this case "Algorithmic Entities"), and, if so inclined, a suggestion for a better title. It provides something actionable that a mod can use when updating. Do you have any suggestions for a better title?

And if you've really got a bee in your bonnet, you can let the mods know directly via the Contact link in the footer. They don't see every comment but emailing them makes sure they see it.
Indeed. Asking politely for what went wrong or for counter arguments usually helps. But it does not always.

Two points I got downvoted for without much substantial dicussion was when I said that security through obscurity does work (to some degree) and that tinkering with crypto is okay for everybody, and with certain preparation, can even be used in production in some cases. I stand by these points and are open to debate, but for the big majority I just get silently downvoted or arrogantly spoken to as if I didn't knew what I'm talking about.

I think this is a pity because tinkering with stuff is an essential part of being a hacker.
I've been to Xinjiang also (Urumuqi and other parts of Beijiang). I didn't see a Uyghur get beat up or anything, but this was (a) way back in 2006 before the riots of 2009 and (b) I don't think we would notice much as tourists even IF there was something going on.

Beijing used to have a lot of Uyghurs before the 2008 Olympics, but they were mostly all driven out and not allowed to return after the event.
Sex differences in ability tilt in the right tail of cognitive abilities
> I wonder how well this will extend into other "basic ownership rights" in other digital fields.

It won't, because this is almost entirely about the right of first sale, a doctrine of basic ownership rights in physical items embodying a copyright-protected work. While slips of paper with digital download codes are involved and disks with digital content are involved, it's not really about “digital fields” but physical goods.
I came to mention this as well. I wish more people would look at all the factors before saying "X elevation and Y latitude is what we need, therefore this place fits the bill." Given the active volcanoes and weather in Ecuador, you'd be lucky to find a road and suitable launch complex site over 4000m.

And then there is this whole science and tech imperialism. Maybe Ecuadorans don't want roads and launch complexes cut out of their high mountains. Hawaii is going through this issue right now with new telescopes on Mauna Kea, and Ecuador has a strong indigenous rights movement, including the party in power at times.
I think it’s more like “Seamless team gets taken out by food poisoning from Seamless delivery”.
AirBnB is not a hotel company. They are a platform for people to list their homes for other people to rent for a short time. Never forget that.
I thought we ended "Separate but Equal" as a culture half a century ago, but we're back to Jim Crow era in some regards.
Infertility of offspring is not the boundary line that define species.
It depends on the rate of improvement of AI and what the intrinsic strength of defence is against attack. Arguably, security will start incorporating AI techniques, and by the time AI attackers surpass human capability, AI defenders would likely be too strong for humans, and quite possibly strong enough to hold against a higher intelligence.
The mods here do an exceptional job, but it was also like that before there were active moderators (though it was a much smaller site). I think it's largely the culture here that keeps it civil - commenters that aren't civil get trained to do better by swiftly being sent to the bottom of the comments in an unreadable shade of gray.
You can do alright if you learn a trade, which is typically much less expensive than university. In another life, I might have hung around home and taken up being an electrician, carpenter, boiler tech or mechanic. Cost of living is so much lower, in particular housing costs and taxes, that I could make half as much money and experience a comparable quality of life.
People have had their Google accounts suspended (especially if it's associated to say, a YouTube or AdWords account), and now you have no access to your address anymore, and Googles free tier support won't help you.

With domains there's an ICANN process to get your domain back if it gets hijacked.
Disconnect the servers it's running on.
Meat. Eggs. Cheese. Salad. Broccoli. Other veggies. Avocado. Nuts. Oils. Coffee. That’s the gist of it.
We'll probably get rid of that list or at least change it to show different kinds of leaders. I've been saying that for years, but like an alligator, we lunge eventually.
Simply treat every new version as a major release, everything else is a lie.

Sure, you can structure it by "intent" but don't pretend a bugfix can't break your API
While a bit sleazy on the surface, the point of a funeral is (at least partly,) a celebration of life.

It would be interesting to compare and contrast the american "biker funeral", which I can attest, can also feature such culturally unusual entertainment.
Nice, it seems pretty obvious in retrospect - which all the best fixes do, can imagine it took some good work to get there.
Since ads sometimes carry malware, disabling them is just self defense.

Paywalls are marginally sensible for really major publishers, but not that sensible because we're in an environment where we consume articles individually from lots of different sources.

Micropayments per article could work if enough of the article is available for free so I can decide whether it's worth paying a tiny bit to read the rest. To get halfway back to the original topic, maybe cryptocurrency could help with that.
The person who sets that up.
Beyond that, it's a power asymmetry as well.

If you have to collect info on someone "the old fashioned way" (like being siblings with them or marrying them) the power differential in the relationship is bounded by definition. To me, privacy is almost like a vector with two components—the level of privacy, plus the degree of intimacy of the relationship.
I just don't see the behavior the op is describing.

I tried searching for the last 5 or 6 books I've read, in every single case the results that came up were Amazon and Wikipedia, but also Goodreads, the authors website, at least one review or article about the book, and several had wikis.

In the main results I never saw more than two places to buy the book (unless the authors are selling it directly through their site, I didn't check). The bar on the right side of the page did include additional places to buy the ebooks, but it also includes places to borrow the ebooks, which is a cool feature I didn't even know existed until now.
There are labelling requirement for sale of food. A product you buy in a multipack at Costco marked, usually, “not labelled for individual sale” just means that the manufacturer has not provided the mandated labeling on the individual packages, so that commercial resale of those individual packages as-is would violate the law.
America's and Europe's urbanization rates have basically stabilized. I'm not sure where growth would come from, except via immigration and from other less prosperous cities (e.g. moving from Detroit to Seattle).
>choosing to live in an area where you're geographically separated from other people

people aren't created out of a vacuum and randomly choose a place to live. What if your 70 year old mother is simply too frail to move to a city? What if you desperately need the monthly paycheck and cannot just go months without pay looking for a job because you care for your child? What if you simply do not want your community to rot away because every abled bodied person runs off to the city?

People aren't just amoeba in a lab experiment.
I wonder if the idea that you may be interviewing or be interviewed by any of the people you are conversing with means that one “behaves” better?

I am convinced that the combination of voting up good comments with strict, clear and fair moderation is an important reason. Add to this that reputation among peers may matter to people and maybe that is the formula.
Why should the world focus on cities?

Those who are born and raised in rural areas can't just uproot their lives the moment they turn 18 and start to afford, or even enjoy city life.

Because the commute is closer? It's still at least as slow in many places, because of traffic problems generated by tighter clusters of people.

The idea that cities are the most optimal is an idea, not a proven fact. Your experience may support the idea, but mine certainly does not.

The point here is that there are more people living in cities than in rural areas, simply because that has been true for a few generations, and people don't tend to change lifestyles.

People who grow up with one lifestyle realize the advantages it provides, and grow up with a bias toward that lifestyle. That bias coupled with the population difference is the real reason the majority of people don't care about rural areas. Personally, I think we should fight that bias.
It’s where a large majority of all people are.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbanization_in_the_United_S...
Or alternatively space warfare will trigger Kessler Syndrome, and we'll be trapped on this planet until we find a way to clean up all the debris.
he also wouldn't have gotten any traction if people had no concept of envy. yet eliminating envy is just as stupid as eliminating natural differences between individuals.
Importantly, also [1994].

This is not the first time the PC wars have raged.

I like David Foster Wallace's essay, "Authority and American Usage" (2005) as another take on things -- he was around for the PC wars in the early 90s too.
Ah yes, you have to click the [X hours ago] link and directly flag/vouch from that page.

Otherwise it's not an option on the normal comment page.

Thanks for clarifying.
Even ignoring air resistance, if your hypothetical spacecraft centrifuge had a radius of one mile, then the spacecraft would still experience 114 g at 3000 miles per hour. If you more realistically spun up Apple's new headquarter with a diameter of 461 meters [1] to one revolution per second, that makes 3240 miles per hour, the spacecraft and the outer wall of your centrifuge would experience a centripetal acceleration of 928 g. Not going to happen. And 3000 miles per hour is also pretty slow, about half the speed in a geostationary orbit, for a low earth orbit you need about 17,500 miles per hour [2] which is almost 6 times faster and would increase the forces 36 times.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Park

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital_speed
Having separate page tables for user space vs kernel space seems like the right thing to do from the beginning -- I was surprised that they were shared.

Could you elaborate on "we allocate the two top-level page tables next to each other so we can just flip a bit to switch"?
I can also recommend using NSP [0] to check your .lock files for security issues, for what it's worth.

[0] https://disjoint.ca/til/2017/11/10/managing-package-dependen...
There were active moderators from day 1. The set was mostly {pg}, but few people have any idea how active he was.
I beg to differ [1]. I know people at Facebook, and from what I’ve heard, people just kind of... do stuff; there’s very little organization. Maybe that’s not true anymore, though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10066338
I'm a big fan of Flask. For more performance oriented projects I'm dabbling with Go, going to attempt a non-trivial project with it soon.
> ultimately income tells a very small piece of the story

There may be other pieces but income is a very large one. Change the incomes of those people to $15,000 and we would see very large differences in their lives.
Why writing a linked list in safe Rust is so damned hard
Muller assumed office in May 2017. The allegations of Russian interference we’re going on in summer 2016, and at the time there seemed to be nothing of substance to them. I’m thrilled that 18 months later there are concrete claims being made, but can you not understand why I might have stopped caring in the interim?

There’s lots happening in the world. The mainstream news media wants to focus on a few pet issues and I just don’t feel well informed when I listen to repeated hand wringing about the same subject. Today I’ve been spending most of my work day listening to the political debates in South Africa after their state of the union. It’s a fascinating subject and one that I feel comfortable assuming is not well covered by US news outlets.

You obviously care about the Russia investigation. Great! But you accuse me of being generally uninformed just because I don’t follow this issue. Please. I don’t care about every twist and turn of this investigation. If they can convict somebody great, but I don’t see the value in following all this when so much else is going on in the world.
I've always thought that a possible compromise between per article micro-payments of a few cents and monthly subscriptions might be daily or weekly one off payments.

You could visit a site and read an article or two for free so you have some idea of the quality and then have the option of paying something like $2-5 for full access for a day or week with no obligation to unsubscribe because it really is a simple payment - like purchasing the daily/weekly paper.

This might work better for online magazines or blogs that publish relatively few articles than for newspapers that feel they may have a better chance of attracting traditional subscribers.
I kept expecting the author to recommend this book, but then he never did...
There are little to no diligence checks for seed investments. There are plenty of people who have straight up lied about their history to get seed funding.
Hybrid Database (TiDB) Capturing Perishable Insights at Yiguo
Policies, Principles, and Protests
My understanding is that most jobs involving moving around millions or billions of other people's money tend to be the opposite of low-stress.
Looking at the actual paper the Examine article is based on (https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26731...), you can see that the so-called low-carb diet still included 30% of calories from carbohydrates. That's way more than most low-carb diets, including those promoted by Gary Taubes. The main benefits of low-carb diets come from switching into ketosis.
He was referencing the grand-parent comment, that stated companies in Germany could own other companies.

His point was that companies can do this anywhere, not just Germany.
Ok the troposphere is 4 miles up at the poles, and 12 miles up at the equator. So 6000m (about 3.6 miles) is not even half of 12. Still, its half-pressure. But you have 8 miles to go to get out of it. So maybe somewhere halfway? Seattle? There the troposphere is 6 miles up; Mt Rainier is 2 miles high. Maybe a better deal?
It can be on certain subjects, but I would argue it is reasonably open to discussions as long as one argues well and civilly.
That's how I've got it - remove all birthdays, create a calendar just with people you actually care about
FYI you don't need NAT if you have a firewall, since the firewall can provide identical protection while being harder to bypass. Pretty much every home router can act as a firewall, but most won't by default.
In Asheville, the cool thing to do is to put a King-sized inflatable bed on the river and fall asleep with a mosquito net cover.
A) That's passive income, and B) I'd like to know where you're getting those steady 10% rates of return.
I never thought C/C++ was memory safe because you can still do inline assembly.

https://www.cs.uaf.edu/2012/fall/cs301/lecture/10_01_link_wi...
Coincidentally I answered this in a sibling comment at the same time you asked. Long story short this doesn’t require configuration and is pretty lightweight.
YouTube did that a while ago too, when they were trying to get everyone to make a Google+ account.

Websites also do that screen-covering style popup on load with the two options like:

Yes I'd love to sign up
I'll sign up later

Neither of those are my true answer of "no" and as dumb as it sounds I don't really like lying by clicking the "I'll sign up later". Their loss because I usually just close the site instead if the box doesn't close when I click outside of it.

There's the other type where they imply the user is an idiot for taking the "no" option, as in:

Yes I'd love to sign up
No, I hate great deals
Not the GP, but: nope. Someone grabbing 5 cents from my wallet is not the same as me giving someone 5 cents voluntarily.
https://archive.org/stream/HarrisonBergeron/Harrison%20Berge...
Crypto/Blockchain Safe Harbor
Repression in Urumqi will likely be an order of magnitude more intense than in smaller municipalities around the province. The CCP is still working off their own revolutionary playbook from the 30s and 40s, when they effected change through organization. The "right to assemble" is one of the most feared rights in China.

Enforcing QR codes on knives is one thing. The real weapon is forbidding all social media apps except for (the thoroughly government monitored) WeChat.
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