skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wasn't suggesting buying a modern plotter, I was suggesting using a printing service as modern large format printers are expensive. Similarly I know pen plotters probably aren't totally out of use, but I can't find anywhere that offers them as a service you can rent (which was OPs question).

Pen plotters have actually had a resurgence lately among hobbyists with the proliferation of affordable CNC controllers and stepper motors, but I don't think many professional shops are operating them regularly. I bet there are some artists using them however, as well as occasional users like you.
If you look at the sources I linked they give the estimates of 1900 vehicles per hour as the theoretical maximum capacity for a lane of traffic, 30k people per hour as the maximum capacity for a single subway line and 10k people per hour as the maximum capacity for a 2.5 meter bike path.

Those are all pretty close to the numbers they gave for each mode of transit, so it seems reasonable to assume that they are basing their numbers on something similar to that. That is an apples-to-apples comparison because each of those things takes up very close to the same amount of space.
Could write to the clipboard I guess.
Well, it helps when one major player unilaterally chooses not to allow support for the closed thing.
She know's it is not the same dog. From the article:

> You can clone the look of a dog, but you can’t clone the soul. Still, every time I look at their faces, I think of my Samantha...and smile.

Why or how is cloning brutal? I assume that the cloning attempts generally fail before any kind of viable multicellular life?
-1 votes, color me surprised.
See: https://www.ft.com/content/7ac14e70-ded8-11e7-a8a4-0a1e63a52...
There hasn’t been a huge push. What law firms did in the 1980s and 1990s was basically decide “we’re going to hire an equal number of men and women.” Eventually, women came to see law as a career women could pursue because there were lots of women in the profession. There were other women to be mentors and role models and friends. Eventually, the need for affirmative measures evaporated.

Having done both, I just find it difficult to believe that substantive preference (rather than the preference not to be in a single gender environment) has anything to do with it. I’m surrounded by highly analytical left brained women who dissect mortgage backed securities for a living. I think they would’ve been great programmers. But the path to being a programmer starts with being the only girl in your high school CS class, and that’s a huge disincentive.
Hitler clones would be interesting. Hitler didn't have a great early life - would he have been different if he grew up in a healthy household with two loving parents?
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> Yes. That was my point.

No, it wasn't. This is what you said:

> Not only do they pay 20% on capital gains instead of nearly 40% on salary

That statement is patently false.
Well, yes and no. For the single insured it is there to mitigate damages that otherwise would be catastrophic. I hope that I will lose money by buying insurance, because that means nothing really bad happened to me.
They did.

IIRC this site was made in Word: https://web.archive.org/web/20060414015434/http://easternsho... (on mobile, can't look at source to verify)
> Telling cigarette smokers to just smoke less didn't work either, but it's just as prescriptive.

Hang on - by what measurement are you claiming telling people to smoke less didn't work?

People are smoking less, both as individuals and collectively. People who want to smoke less or to stop smoking entirely do manage to successfully do that with a decent success rate. Suggesting a smoker become a nonsmoker by smoking less isn't anywhere near so useless as telling an obese person to stop being obese by eating less.

(This even shows up in population level stats: the percentage of Americans who smoke has dropped in half since the 1970s whereas the percentage of Americans who are obese has more than doubled since the 1970s. Stopping smoking actually works - there is advice that works and there are treatments that work and people can just do it on their own. Whereas regarding obesity we just don't know what the hell is going on; most of the advice given is useless at best and counterproductive at worst.)
I think we've heard something similar from them for years now. When will it happen?

Twitter is now part of everyone's life in the U.S. given that the president uses it as a bullhorn. It needs to clean up its act, now.
Cannot argue that f2p where it is cosmetics and trivia is reasonable enough, although that seems to be very much the minority these days.

F2P where it's pay2win, or worse pay to progress, and endless loot boxes is gambling for kids, and I start to find the ethics questionable at best. Doubly so when the whole game is built around the shopping and ruins a decent franchise in the process. EA's reboot of Dungeon Keeper springs easily to mind here.
And everyone is already trying to break it.
You almost certainly read about the South Korean company. (I'm not sure if there are any Chinese ones yet, it's plausible, but they must get less publicity.) Killing dogs would probably cost too much since the yields won't be too great, and more importantly, they have to deliver both quickly and as puppies. No one pays ~$50k for a clone of their dog or cat and doesn't take delivery as a puppy/kitten. How do you know they will grow up to not look like they should? They're just cute little balls of fluff.
I'm not convinced it's a fair assumption that the attempts failed before viable multicellular life.
I'm probably just out of touch, but what's with the obsession with dogs, anyhow?

> I was so devastated by the loss of my dear Samantha, after 14 years together, that I just wanted to keep her with me in some way. It was easier to let Sammie go if I knew I could keep some part of her alive, something that came from her DNA. A friend had cloned his beloved dog, and I was very impressed with that dog. So Sammie’s doctor took some cells from inside her cheek and the skin on her tummy just before she died. And we sent those cells to ViaGen Pets in Texas. We weren’t even sure if the cells would take.

I mean, imagine if someone said this and it was a human. You'd look at 'em like they're insane [1].

[1] By the way, this is literally a Black Mirror episode, S02 E01 (edit: Thanks for the correction!)
Some cloning is duplicating half the donor dna - which results in some nasty recessive gene problems? So its a 'clone' in the sense it had one parent (donor) but not in the 'identical to the parent' sense.
This is rather biased against China. OK, so Chinese authorities have arrested citizens who have posted "illegal" material. I don't see that they've grabbed citizens of other countries off the streets, which the US and Israel have done. Or pressed other countries to extradite their citizens based on criminal allegations, which the US commonly does.

And about takedown requests to Google etc. MPAA and other "rights holders" do this frequently. Indeed, the US government uses DNS poisoning to censor sites that it considers illegal. Or requests that other countries raid hosting services, and impound servers. Has China done that?

Anyway, just sayin'. I do believe that everything should be takedown-proof, for what it's worth.
Yes. A recent twin incident proved that nurture plays a surprisingly large role, larger than was expected by the investigators.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35220779
>please have a sane remote API

https://github.com/Luminarys/synapse/blob/master/doc/RPC

Pretty much all torrent clients can recheck the files.
$50k to clone according to the company's website - take that money and put it to a far better use.
That second one needs to be in all caps, bold, and repeated about a dozen times.
So, shooting down UAV is not air defense?
While I agree with your second statement, a bond with a dog can be very strong, if that helps you understand your (first) question.
>I'm pretty sure that humans make pretty lousy fuel.

Aside from moral/cultural qualms and a difficulty achieving scales of efficiency, there's no reason human remains couldn't be used to produce perfectly usable biodiesel.
Just because you've never dreamed up a situation where it might be useful doesn't mean that they don't exist.
Essentially it meant that your OS / browser combination couldn't be a first-class citizen on the web unless Adobe felt it was important enough to port Flash to it. I definitely don't think Adobe wanted to use this to squash alternatives, but it still had that effect.
I already named them and dumped the documents, and stated facts. I worry that doing anything to proactively impact their lives in a bad way could be used against us in a trial, because they could highlight it to paint a pretty bad picture, making us look really bad in front of a jury. We haven't done anything like that yet.

It doesn't matter that they started it or that we are in the right. If you ruin someone's life, it looks bad even if you had a good reason to do it.

They're the ones ruining our lives right now. I think a court will also see it this way. I think that helps us get them to walk away.
Tripod pre-Lycos was an amazing learning space for me in the mid nineties. Domains and hosting were significantly more expensive than they are now (especially for a freshman in high school) and Tripod was an amazing lifeline. Little did I know that my time spent building fan sites for punk rock bands more than 20 years ago would end up having such a significant impact on my career even today.

That said, I'm ashamed of all the sites that I built with Image Maps and Frames and glorious tables!

It really is sad that the rise of the social media has meant that so many people will not have the opportunity to have this type of experience in learning front end development from the ground up.
A lot of them do fail early, but those that don't fail early (or even succeed) have problems.

For instance, https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=98360&page=1
At least they sold us some cheap crap.
Mm. That's on point. It is as illogical as having the means and knowledge for prevention and not applying it. The crazy shit (booting theater active operational assets) was implemented by authority. Not patching theater active assets leads to death.
Okay, they ban you, you lose all the US revenue. Then, other companies see that they may get banned as well and lose their revenue, so they give in.
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I agree with the first two but for the third one (performance), I suppose that was quite a few years ago, when websites were reasonable.

Now that all the crap that was previously made in Flash has shifted to the modern web technologies, things are terrible again.

When it comes to size, Flash files are usually in the hundreds of kB, compare to today's web pages which routinely take several MB. And because Flash typically use vector graphics, it often looks better in modern very high resolution displays.

Of course, modern web technologies can be light and efficient too, but it shows that the problem isn't the technology itself but how it is used.
> but can't remember what the distinction is.

The strong hypothesis says that language determines and bounds your thinking, the weak hypothesis is that it influences and conditions your thinking.
Look up Diku MUD family. I used to hack on a population CircleMUD derivative many many years ago. We had virtual currency...people regularly bought and traded items for gold.
Facebook suspended Mr. Guo’s account. In a statement, the company said the account published the personal information of others without their consent, which violated the platform’s policies.

Zuckerberg wants to be in China in such a bad way. He's learned Mandarin, plays up his family connections (via his wife's family), and puts on the charm when visiting China. He's created relationships with officials at every level. His representatives have talked with companies which may be partners or acquired at some point.

It does not surprise me one bit that Facebook will bend over backwards to accommodate officials on censorship demands. This is the cost of doing business in China for a tech company. Media companies learned this decades ago - read up on how Rupert Murdoch was able to operate there, it's quite fascinating.

Now it's Silicon Valley's turn, especially companies that specialize in communication -- social networks, phone manufacturers, companies that sell networking hardware, etc. The Chinese government's survival depends on information control, and if they can't do it themselves, then they force local and foreign companies to do it for them.

Don't think that this issue will be limited to human rights activists. It doesn't matter who you are -- your social media comments, family relationships, WeChat and Facebook messages, work connections on LinkedIn, and other digital footprints that reflect your attitude or influence will be used to build a social media score that determines your level of access to the country and ability to do business in China.

The scary prospect is that other countries will do the same thing ... if they haven't done so already.
Yeah, some of that sounds way too far-fetched.
Some dogs are born and have to be euthanized since they don't meet the results they want. It's a hope and see process. They hope it will be good but there's no way to know until you have a real dog in many cases.
generalizing that idea just a bit: what if, for each murderer who was executed, the government cloned that person first, in an effort to allow them to have a normal, crime-free life?

would it count as a form of rehabilitation?
Pyramid shaped refers to crap like HLF where the only way to actually be successful is to get more people to do the exact same thing you did.

You can have a successful In-N-Out and your success absolutely does not depend on someone then buying a franchise on your referral that you skim off of.
That's true. Get a few more people together and you could have a real HN commenting team.
The Canadian federal government seems to have been compromised as well, there is significant amounts of serious financial and drug crimes occurring in Canada that is very clearly disproportionately (to put it nicely) associated with immigrants from mainland China, newspapers are regularly reporting on it, there are anecdotal stories all over the place, but there's no "evidence" because law enforcement will not touch them, and the Canada Revenue Agency will not audit them. It is obvious something very unusual is going on behind the scenes.

I'd love to know what sorts of things are going on in Africa.

It's nice to see the mainstream finally starting to wake up from their long slumber though, perhaps there's hope yet.
i just launched http://startmydomain.com
as I want to quit the 9 to five grind.

The premise of the site is that you can create a coming soon website without any coding or even hosting

would love to get some feed back
Chromes click-to-run model is broken for half the sites where I still need flash. I've almost switched to Firefox to deal with it
I think that should be illegal.

If a consumer buys something, there should always be a way to return it to the state it was at the time of purchase.
So "any time" = one time then. The financial crisis is hardly a recurring event.
If you are referring to the same QV paper I read, it spends most of the paper arguing for money but then at the end suggest a virtual currency at the end for those who can't accept their argument for allowing buying votes with money.
Some public schools, such as Ridgeview Classical Schools in Colorado, teach English and Latin from Kindergarten through 12th grade. A Greek program starts in 3rd grade. They add modern languages (French, Spanish, German) in high school.

https://www.ridgeviewclassical.com
I always found it wryly amusing that Wing Commander III had bigger name actors in it than the Wing Commander movie did.
Yeah, a real shame too. I really liked the simplicity of `finance.google.com`. It appears new development has been done at `google.com/finance`... a different interface with less information.

And it surprisingly still uses flash. So.. who knows when it will die?
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It might work if the limit were more extreme, like: “160 characters per day; make them count”.
What I’ve come to understand by studying history is that countries without a superior military get subjugated by countries that have one. You can either play the game or lose without putting up a fight.
Sounds like you need to hang out with more marxists :P
"China has passed the US in military technology" [citation needed]
Why all the Micro$oft hate? J++! Those were the days.
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Yeah. I'm the friend he mentioned. Achaea.com was the first game in the world to use virtual currency/goods as its business model, back in 1997. Still live today. My company's at ironrealms.com. I mailed you offering help.
This example, and others like it point to the central weakness of neural networks for image recognition:
No matter how much data you feed it, they never really develop concepts or abstractions of what the objects it is classifying really represent or mean. The weight and biases that get fine tuned by gradient descent, are no more than a highly complex function mapping the input pixels to discrete classes. While this may well represent how the visual cortex works at the lowest level, what appears to be missing are higher levels of abstraction and meaning. Perhaps machine learning needs to be coupled with some of the older paradigms of AI which included modeling, logic, reasoning, to achieve understanding. As of right now, a well trained convolutional neural network is no more than a mechanical pattern matching algorithm on steroids.
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> now China has passed the US in military technology

China hasn't come close to passing the US in military technology in fact.

Technologically they're behind the US in: destroyers, submarines, helicopters, drones, laser weapons, satellites, integrated command systems, aircraft carriers, ICBMs and general nuclear weapon technology, tanks, bombers, jet fighters. In several of these categories, China is extremely far behind.

The Germans, French, British and Russians also have countless military gear that is still technologically well ahead of China. Overall, Russia's military technology capabilities are well ahead of China. China still struggles with primitives like jet engines, which Russia has long since mastered.

China still can't field a single long range aircraft carrier. Currently they're unable to push their military projection much beyond Japan and limited parts of the Indian Ocean. The US has true global force projection to practically every corner of the globe. Will China catch up? Plausibly; it'll take 30 years for them to build all the bases necessary to do it.
Only in the broadest of terms. Naval air defense doesn't worry too much about UAVs currently. Most UAVs that the USN is facing are small drones that aren't a serious threat. They're easily handled by Phalanx. When the USN talks about air defense, they're primarily talking about manned aircraft and anti-ship cruise missiles. These are handled by Evolved Sea Sparrow and Standard missiles managed by AEGIS.

Though these lasers are capable of downing small UAVs, they're really intended to counter small boat swarms (Boghammer type vessels) favored by Iran.
Thanks...weak sounds a lot more plausible than fully binding.
Did Mr. Guo in fact publish the personal information of others? If so, should Facebook make an exception for him because he's an activist?

(If he didn't, then of course Facebook should, first, not suspend his account to appease China, and second, not lie about why they did.)
"Any profits there are not worth jeopardizing all of the privacy and precedents that are being slowly pushed."

Counterpoint: Scrooge-McDuck-Money-Bin.gif
Gui Minhai, citizen of Sweden, was kidnapped in Thailand and secretly imprisoned in China.
I'm not sure how entitlement is relevant here, except to excessively shame her. Entitlement is the view that people owe you something; it's not like this person had the moral expectation that society owed her anything with regards to her pet.
And yet, raising an army to be defensive just makes your neighbors arm faster to try prevent THEIR demise.

I suspect the details end up having a lot more nuance than one or two sentences can describe.
The disposable income went down for the vast majority of the population. Don't look further.
> Why I Cloned My Dog

"Because I have money"
Give students a choice. Let them do their own research and figure out what is best for them and offer more than one option for an intro to programming class.
Ask HN: How do you validate an idea that it will work?
I just launched http://startmydomain.com
and im trying to validate the idea.
I'm not sure if its a good idea or a crappy one. :)

Time will tell I suppose. The idea is that you want to create a coming soon website, with responsive design and you want to collect visitor emails
for people interested but you don't have alot of time as you are busy building the main website.

Lets say it takes a week to build a coming soon website and your time ( or someone else's is worth $30 an hour )
that's $1200 dollar just for a basic coming soon website. with http://startmydomain.com
you can build a coming-soon website with zero coding and zero hosting and i'm making it FREE while its in BETA or I might just keep it free if I don't get alot of signups

I am basically looking for validation and I'm making this up as I go along:)

Would love to get some feedback though.

Is it a thumbs up or a thumbs down ?

cheers!
This is not true. There are a bunch of businesses that use there moral positions as advertising to great effect.

This is why Apple doesn't sell away your data, why every city is filled with local and organic restaurants, etc.

The market does select for moral positions, you just might not like those positions.
Because of buy backs the net of amount of investment financed in the US stock market is less than zero. The purpose of equity markets is not to raise capital, it's for equity owners to cash out.
Her net worth is $340 million. $50k is not a huge amount for her.
For what it's worth, I do weekly consulting and coaching with founders who don't have sales experience. If you're interested, we can talk a bit further.
Nothing is; that's great. (Let's see how long it lasts!)

But we've seen a huge embrace of censorship on our dominant communication platforms (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube).

There was a time when Twitter prided itself on its commitment to free speech. They patted themselves on the back and chuckled as Twitter helped foment revolutions in other countries.

Now its caused a fair bit of political upheaval back in the good ol' USA, and the official line has become "we didn’t fully predict or understand the real-world negative consequences" of "public conversation."

Censorship culture.
Quoting Stalin? Classy. Have any good Hitler quotes you want to share while you're at it?
I can only assume this is to somehow launder money from China?
Honestly, the defacement is at least as interesting as the original document.