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Buddhism and Stoicism could both be interpreted as nihilisms. They were by Nietzsche, at least.
After .gov !
The root cause of childhood hunger is more often than not either criminal neglect or parental/financial incompetence than actual cost.

I personally grew up in a single minimum wage income household, which supported 2 adults and 3 children. I'm very familiar with dubious food. That said, it is quite reasonable to meet the caloric needs of a grade school-age child in the United States with little regard for taste or variety for roughly a dollar a day. Adding some variety and nutrition to that wouldn't be much more. Formula for very small children averages between about $40-$100 a month so they are a little more expensive, but you did specifically say school children.

There are 50 lb bags of rice at my local grocery store for $15. I have bought them before, they're short grain and not very good so you wouldn't want it everyday, but in a pinch you can meet your caloric necessities with rice for basically cents.

I actually don't have a very strong sense of taste, and manage to get by on ~$3-$6 of food a day, my diet consisting largely of over-hard eggs, canned fish and canned string beans. I am quite confident I could get by on half of that if need be.

As far as homelessness goes, I don't have reliable statistics on this, but depending on where you get your statistics between 20 and 70 percent of America's homeless have mental health issues.

I am perfectly aware that this is anecdotal, but I have a friend who worked for an organization that housed homeless in unoccupied Homes and Apartments. According to her, the majority wandered off because they did not understand what was going on. In Minnesota no less, it's cold.

My point is simply that there is a sizable portion if not majority who cannot be helped without stepping on their personal freedoms, because they won't allow it, for better or worse.
Would you please do a better job of respecting the civility rule here? You've broken it frequently. That's a problem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes! But not perfect.
1. Some people cannot accept it when somebody else ends a conversation first, but that's their problem. If that's the case, ignore it.
2. After that, the big gun is, "If you know somebody better, let me know." That ends the ankle-biting.
If the ads are embedded in the video, that's a guarantee that I will stop coming back.
Sounds pretty nice actually. I'm guessing there could be pain over time though when it came to maintaining it. Easy to add, hard to remove or change?
So, it's more of a philosophical hang-up than a practical one.

I love apt, but I have no philosophical stake in the game. Both allow me to install things from command line. In that respect, they are functionally identical to me.

Then once a quarter or half-year, I need to do an OS upgrade, and then I use two different systems depending on platform (I use both regularly). Let's say one takes 15 minutes and uses apt, and the other takes 45 minutes and uses App Store.

Then I amortize that over the preceding three months, and in both cases the attention required, confusion created, and effort expended approaches zero rapidly, regardless of system.

Like I said, if you're a system admin, then sure.
Many of the links are not working
use periods please
Could you please not post like this? It leads to low-quality flamewars, and there's specifically a guideline against it:

Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
There are a bunch of these in society that are interesting and very deserving of more public discussion, including that one (broadly communication access).

Given the importance to work and life of having access to the wireless networks today, owned by AT&T, Verizon etc., should they be allowed to blanket deny you access to them as a customer (assuming you can pay)? Especially given the wireless carriers are essentially a group monopoly (spectrum limitations).

Or how we take away voting rights for felons, until a certain amount of time after they've been released, or in some states permanently (unless altered by a court order or governor's action). Something like 1 in 40 American adults can't vote right now because of that. It revokes the ability to participate in a critical democratic function.

I'd expect an increasingly large societal debate about the context of the platforms and what their rights are when it comes to restricting access. Whether they increasingly get treated as public utilities and if the FCC sets down guidelines/rules for them to comply with on access restriction. That overall conversation probably accelerates the longer they're part of a big part of society. I'm not sure how far that debate will get in the US in regards to actions/regulations, I expect it'll get pretty far in some nations though.
The ECMAScript spec is weird. One example: in ES5 RegExp.prototype was itself a RegExp, in ES6 it became not a RegExp but just an Object, and in ES7 it stayed an Object but all of the RegExp.prototype methods have to specially check if `this` is RegExp.prototype, thereby pretending to be a RegExp, without actually being one.

Why does the spec have this churn?
Sure there is, you target based on the context of the surrounding copy, not the context of the viewer’s data.
Speed of light is mythology? Is this some sort of parody?
That's a really interesting technique!

I'm trying to think of what else could be done with the encryption / description, but tracking is a really effective use case.

Could probably encode some other secret messages in there, make a blog post about cheese include a hash to a pastebin.

It also reminds me of the importance of having strong validation around things like usernames, because if I had a username that looked official but contained an invisible character... Related: ICANN explicitly forbids domain names from including zero-width space.
As a European.

In principle: resounding yes

It brings the choice for how your data is used back to the people.

It also forces companies to consider how data is secured and shared.

And it makes certain sleezy business practices unviable (which is a good thing)

The implementation: not so

A lot of uncertainty and FUD has been spread from "consulting agencies".

The official documentation has been late, is long and unreadable for non-laywers, and is unclear in key areas.

My take:

It is mostly a documentation and cleanup exercise, stuff that would have been good to do anyways.

Way, way, way to large loopholes for exporting data to the US.

A single large issue is still debated/unclear.. what about "the right to be forgotten" and backups..

One cannot selectively delete stuff from backups (especially incrementals). Most people (laywers/law profs/techies) I talk to think a best-effort must suffice, but most also think this will go to court to be cleared up.

The impact: Who knows.. might go either way

A lot of EU regulation really helps the consumers (and even if they complain alot about it, the companies survive too).

Some legislation is a little off-target (the cookie-law is probably the most recognizable).
Except, I can choose to not use Google and still be adversely impacted.

Google controls the vast majority of search, and if they decide to not include me in their results because they don't like me, I am negatively impacted. Ditto for Youtube, its the default online video platform. If they don't like my content, they can just ban my account. Sure I can host it elsewhere, as long I don't care about advertising or dealing with the scale that video brings.
https://certification.ubuntu.com/desktop/
Y'all know by now that FB/Google doesn't actually delete anything...it just hides it from you seeing it.
I see, early reports seemed to indicate the shooter was at a party, possibly inside. Really sad when employees in the bay area, which is generally very safe, have to fear for their lives because of something their employer may have done to piss someone off.
GDPR applies to all EU residents, not just citizens.
"While joining the Privacy Shield is voluntary, once an eligible organization makes the public commitment to comply with the Framework’s requirements, the commitment will become enforceable under U.S. law" from [1].

I'm not a lawyer, but it's fairly obvious that web services built in accordance with the jurisdiction of incorporation take precedence, especially when the software/service makes no customization to appeal to the EU. Maybe one runs a blog with content critical of China, but since they're running said blog as a US corp on US soil, China cannot apply it's laws on the said blog.

[1]: https://www.privacyshield.gov/Program-Overview
Surprised google survived Panda and related changes that more or less stopped unpaid traffic to sites. Yes, it's their platform blah blah, but when people kill you for looking at them the wrong way, shooting at the "person" that took away your livelihood is much more understandable. I was making $1000x, now I make $x, no money for rent, food...and people go into revenge mode. My life is over anyway so, at least I'll get some of them with me.
So looking at her videos on Telegram (https://t.me/nasimesabz1), she was anti gun. She was a very weird individual with clear mental health issues.

I don't even know what to make of most of her content on that channel.
> My question is, should such a shooting have any impact on that conversation?

Did you expect that the shooting would have a meaningful impact in the debate? Certainly, people will mention her name in the next few months, because of the infamy of her acts. But no, I don't think Google is going to openly say that an attempted mass murder of their employees was an incentive or disincentive. For likely the same reason why governments don't typically negotiate with ransomers and terrorists.
Ah, shit.
You should be comparing per-capita total homicide rate, not per-capita gun homicide rate. Having people die differently is not typically considered an improvement! Indeed, it would often be worse, since a shooting is less awful than many alternative ways to die.
There are correct ways to start a discourse around censorship.

Shooting people is not one of them.
The Shape of a Problem Doesn't Start Anywhere [video]
Ham radio is often a gateway (and a destination, too) for people interested in electrical engineering.
We haven't used cash since before the second Great War.
Isn't there a client by John McAfee?
This is exactly my point, the rare exceptions are the ones capable of actually pulling off a real revolution; they get sucked into the American Dream.

This leaves everyone else without effective organization. Look at all the occupy stuff that was supposed leaderless; did it accomplish anything?
I heard on the radio just earlier that it was declared a "domestic dispute" by local police.
Not because it's a particularly good service. Mainly because everyone is on there. It would also be fine if everyone was on Google plus or anything else but it's the only place where I know I can reach most people I know.
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Give me one good reason why blaming a random Google employee lunching in the cafeteria is "fair".

(Disclaimer: I witnessed the shooting today, so not quite unbiased)
I feel like most meaningful contracts probably already involve some level of trust though - so it's not much of a stretch to add a little more.
Is there seriously an "AudioJungle" audio watermark at the start of the promo?

Am I just hearing things?
> Just be careful who you call quacks...

I just really don't care for the term. It's derogatory. Since when did a derogatory term have anything to do with science? I've studied science all my life, and I've come to the conclusion that I'd rather be personally called a quack pseudo-scientist than ever find myself calling other people quacks for having the courage to stick with unconventional or marginalized ideas.

Here in the U.S., anti-fluoridation activists have been labelled "quacks" for years. But the evidence keeps flowing in that too many fluorine ions in your body can cause trouble, especially if you're a developing embryo or child. It even seems that the evidence has been actionable, since in 2015, the DHHS cut the maximum recommended water fluoridation level in half. The DHHS maximum limit is now 0.7 mg/L, but the EPA's "enforceable standard" is 4.0 mg/L. ?

But anti-fluoridation activists activists are still being called "quacks" to this day.
We've posted two conflicting answers to this question and I think that's indicative of how little the law is understood, only a few weeks from going into force.
Ask HN: Add an option to disable karma count numbers in navbar?
I personally find it really distracting!

I can't seem to stop looking at it no matter how hard I try.

I know I could create a special CSS rule to cut it out which would be the HN way to do it... I'm just curious if others find it unnecessarily distracting as well, really.
That's averaging over 3 hours per day, 365 days a year, for 17 years. Daaaamn.
Amazing (funny) pitch from SXSW
There's the "BYOND engine". It started out as a scripting language for creating MUDs, but then grew to have 2d tile graphics.
Religious flamewar is not allowed on Hacker News. Please take/keep this elsewhere.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The best teaching I've seen in a MOOC is in Introduction to Financial Accounting / More Introduction to Financial Accounting by Brian J Bushee on Coursera. (This used to be one course back when I took it.)

The subject matter is probably not that interesting to most hackers but it is a great example of making the MOOC-format work.
That used to be the case until the "limited state" was introduced specifically for videos that don't break any rules but are not politically correct or are otherwise uncomfortable or controversial, which makes them not appear in search results, removes all voting and commenting, and basically makes YouTube a content hosting provider, not a content platform, for the creators of said videos.
okay, maybe i don't get that. Is that what the point that was in the supposed shooter's screen grab with 300k views and 10c of payment was about? I had forgotten about the problems around terrorist or violent racist videos and ads for random stuff showing up on them so youtube was going to cut off advertising on such videos - I guess google screwed it up and went too far?

It seems very unfair the way this works at youtube and there's no human to appeal to. I can see that would be frustrating. So there's no other place to take their videos to get money?

I remember a time when there wasn't a place where people could get money for playing video games, except maybe a few people working at computer magazines writing reviews.

But I also still think theres also a lot of similar content for certain broad categories. Like say exercise videos.
What about the disadvantageous aspect of djb’s curves, like that they have a non-unit cofactors? That’s a huge foot-gun that has already maimed a few people.

Also, deterministic signing nonces have NOTHING to do the DSA/ECDSA vs alternative signatures scheme. The library you recommend just uses its own deterministic signer internally, just as any ECDSA implementation can and should (e.g. bitcoin’s does).
So an EU business has to treat me under GDPR if I’m a EU citizen even if I’m abroad but a US business does not.

That kinda makes sense?
I don't think you're arguing against what I actually said. I said in 20 years it might be possible to replicate a printer using nothing but raw materials and a lot of work, but it wouldn't make sense economically. That's very different than saying you'll be able to print all the parts you need in one go, or that you would want to, which obviously isn't viable without molecular-level assembly. That's a holy grail in the distant future. But making PCBs is already possible without specialized equipment, metal sintering gets you pretty far on components needed for things like steppers and threaded rods, etc. If you follow the research being done (ex. [1,2]) it's pretty clear that the boundaries of what's currently possible are being pushed in interesting directions.

To me the biggest hurdle is the electronics, which currently do require special tooling to even produce basic components. You're probably right that we're more than 20 years from self-replication ability (again, not practicality), but I'd be surprised if it's more than 50 years out.

[1] https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/1.A33409
[2] https://3dprintingindustry.com/research/
Is there still some sort of traffic "balance" requirement for settlement-fee peering?

Cloudflare sends so much data out that they probably want to get more sent to them so things balance out. The more garbage traffic, the better! :)

I'm totally out of my bailiwick here, it can't be that simple, can it?
The presence of the 'Advertiser-friendly content guidelines' document isn't an answer to the question, which is why the guidelines aren't consistently applied.
Where can I find a full list of zero-width characters?
Impossible Foods boosting burger sales and raising hundreds of millions
> some variant of Make without the C obsession

Make doesn't have a C obsession (although the docs do), make works anywhere you have a dependency graph that can be expressed as a file timestamp. Here's an example compiling a c# project: http://flukus.github.io/rediscovering-make.html . It's much simpler than any .net build tool (and I've tried them all).
> I let it take care of downloading the jdk, gradle/mvn, and then let it download the world as a separate docker layer before letting it build the software.

Including your source code inside your Docker image unnecessarily inflates the size of your Docker image, including (seemingly from your description) the entire version control history. For big projects (especially big projects where junior engineers didn't get the memo that you shouldn't check binary files into Git...), this can easily add hundreds of megabytes if not gigabytes to the size of the image.

Docker isn't a build system (which is responsible for the creation of both inflated-but-easily-debuggable as well as optimized-for-production), it's a combined packaging system and runtime.
Well, they would probably think I am happy as I was laughing in tears and some mumbling was heard in a form of "people.. are... really using this... they are really using it..." ;)
You should check out Dwarf Fortress.
Can you expand on that? Did she make irrational comments, accuse people of impossible acts, was she threatening? I looked at the 1.5 minute video someone copied out and she was upset but not frothing at the mouth.
Hello n, what you described is what Cambridge Analytica did. Zero chance Facebook would risk their business, AGAIN.
The Economist criticizes Vestager for fining Google and Apple. It concedes that both were anticompetitive, but complains that there is no proof "that consumers were denied a superior service as a consequence". But that's an impossibly high bar: no one can guarantee that competition will emerge; regulation can only provide a level playing field. So I don't think that this is a good article to prove your point.
This is a man who got out of his limo to confront a mugger in Manhattan. (old news articles cover it) I think that this is evidence enough to suggest that yes, he actually would do it.
Also goes away if you log into Medium.. but your suggestion is better if you don't want to set up a login!
Hey! I love MUDs, been playing since probably 2007 when I was in middle school. I've usually stuck around IRE's games (Achaea, Aetolia etc.) but also have enjoyed others such as Armageddon.

They've always been a reliable escape for me and only recently have I actually pulled myself away from them, but I thoroughly enjoyed building up my own character and a life of their own through roleplaying. It's sad to not have experienced MUDs in their heyday but I'm happy that a decent amount of people still play enough for some of these games to still be considered 'active'. Long nights and days have been spent totally immersed in their settings, and their influence on me as a person is something I have to acknowledge.
Is it problematic that we're moving to a djb crypto monoculture, with 25519 and ChaCha and Poly1305 and even NaCl all as recommendations? Or is he the hero we need to fight bad or weakened crypto?

I've loved the CryptoPals series, even just reading the challenges for the more advanced parts while I poke at the easier stuff. Please keep them up, and hopefully I'll get all the way through "Shackling the Masses with Drastic Rap Tactics" someday!
>On the other hand, I have been hearing a lot about YouTube demonitization, censorship, etc. Should this shooting be a part of the discussion about censorship? Should YouTube and the tech community let it affect the discourse around censorship?

I think the answer to this is clearly no. I feel like people here feel very strongly about censorship, so maybe they'll disagree. But I think we need to get a bit of perspective here. She attempted to kill people to get what she wanted.
const zeroPad = num => ‘00000000’.slice(String(num).length) + num;

What a bad way to declare a function. Starting with the word 'function' will make the code much more readable. Arrow functions are supposed to be used as a small callbacks, not to obfuscate the meaning of the code.
What does your SDE say to these allegations? Does he agree at all? Whats his feedback?
Ask HN: ARM Cavium ThunderX (96 Physical Cores) for Web Application Servers?
Hi,

While reading the BlackBlaze Compute Story I came across, Packet's ARM Offering. (https://www.packet.net/bare-metal/servers/compute/)

Their c1.large.arm offers ARM Cavium ThunderX with 96 Physical Cores running at 2.0 Ghz.

Has anybody used such a configuration for Web Application Servers? Possibly something running Go?

Since many web applications need high concurrency and wait on DB queries, I think having these large number of cores might be beneficial.

Any thoughts and inputs on this will be well appreciated.
What is coming in Groovy 3.0
> Did you expect that the shooting would have a meaningful impact in the debate?

Not upstream comment author, but I can see how it could. People make a living off YouTube. YouTube purposefully hides the metrics by which they judge videos and choose to promote them to or hide them from different audiences, and which cause a video to become demonetized, which means no revenue can be obtained from it. They have valid reasons for wanting to do this (which isn't to say those reasons should win out in the end, it's an active debate AFAIK), but on the other hand they heavily encourage content creators to make it their full time job and embrace YouTube.

The stress of having your livelihood drastically affected due to an algorithm change in some opaque way that nobody will explain may contribute heavily to stress individuals feel. That doesn't in any way excuse the actions of this person, but if it contributed, is this not a valid, if extreme, data point about the impact in people when they feel powerless and in the dark about their livelihood?
A person who attempts to shoot an active shooter therefore satisfies the definition of an active shooter.
If the only way is down, no one would have bought at current prices.

If the only way is down, the price would have corrected itself to the down level already. So there is no only way down anymore.
"Specific laws for data privacy": GDPR at the least.
you can use them without being tracked by watching in anon mode, or deleting your cookies first. google doesn't block you. i watch it that way all the time. and its free.
Nodal and Feathers.
Why does it distract you?
Many modern phones don't turn off all the way, and continue to ping towers.

I can't find any official documentation, but several Android phones I've owned over the years have powered themselves on when switched off and receiving a phone call.