skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the parent meant something different. Men were "disposable" in the sense that they went to fight wars (whereas women were only killed when the wars were lost, and even then many would just be raped/kidnapped, not killed). Women dying at childbirth had nothing to do with cultural norms, it was simply incurable (until recently).

Statistics show that 60% of women reproduced, historically, as opposed to 40% of men. Now, it's possible that there's some artefact in the data, but the obvious explanation confirms parent's logic.
Maybe I don't understand what you're asking, but when I think of embedding I think of the embedded component running in my process. Is that not the case with chormium? If it's its own process how do you interact with it?
Yes, lets add explosives, that will make it safer.
So the clickbait title is pulled back in the first sentence, then reasserted through the rest of the article?

This looks to be another philosopher airing out a personal grudge against science in general and Richard Dawkins in particular.
That's exactly how the "sharing economy" ended up working in practice. Skirt the law, dump externalities on third parties.
The iojs TC have agreed to move to the Node foundation
For whatever reason, these things come in waves.

Four suicides at one high school in one year increases the likelihood of a fifth.
No, but a lot of the people in PA aren't CEOs and execs. Upper class, well educated and affluent doesn't mean they are all VCs.
If you are still running page like ads and not driving traffic offsite to your own pages, you are doing it wrong :)
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9533502
Yes. In addition, the tax rate varies by state, by county, by city, and also by sub-city zones (1 mall in the city I went to college has an additional city tax that only applies to that mall).
Because enforcing a thousand tiny regulations like, no higher than x decibels, no more than 10 people, and no leaving doors to common areas open is difficult. A short term tenant finds it easier to get a way with breaking these rules because he knows he will be gone tomorrow, and it is more difficult for people to associate him with a particular apartment if he's only been there for a few days. Most cities realized that length of tenancy is a good heuristic, so to make enforcement easier they developed zoning laws around it.

There are real objective difference between living in a building with short term vs long term tenants, and there is no easy way to force short term tenants to behave like long term tenants.
Yes.

In the US if you go out for dinner and order the caesar salad (listed at $6), the skirt steak (listed at $15), and a glass of the house red (listed at $8) you will be presented a bill for $29 + sales tax, in NYC for example the bill would come to $31.58. Then you will be expected to leave between 15% and 20% on top of that as a tip, so generally you would be expected to pay $36-$38 for that meal.
The drug abuse part is interesting... The highschool I went to had drug problems, mostly smoking weed and a bit of cocaine, run of the mill shall we say. As a senior I made friends with kids from a private school nearby... every single of one of them was a drug addict, in fact a number of them have since gone to prison. I always thought it curious that parents send their kids to private or high end schools thinking it will protect then, when in my experience it has always been the opposite.
> We also have bonding, insurance and civil liability, which serve the same purpose in a more flexible way.

Those solutions are useful, but only sometimes work and when they do they only provide money after the fact. In many cases, such as injury, death, or crippling fraud (e.g., an elderly retiree loses their home and savings), that's not sufficient.
Oof, not to bring down the level of conversation, but fuck that (the environment you describe, not your comment). I am concerned for my kids' future lives, but I'm not overly concerned about perfect scores or anything like that. I would prefer to instill in them a passion for something--anything really.

I went to a pretty good school (Northwestern), and while I don't regret it, I also don't think it's particularly affected my life one way or another. A state school diploma could have gotten me into my first position, and from there on out it was my performance that led me from one step to the next. It wasn't until I started to learn and build things for the love of it that I really started to create bigger and better opportunities.

I now live in a community in Austin that has some similarities to what you're describing. Super-competitive, high-achievers. But I think it's important to maintain a healthy appreciation for the artifice of it all. And while we encourage and try to feed the strengths and interests of our kids (I am helping my 6-year-old prep for an advanced math class), I think it's more important to try to raise happy, well-adjusted, non-jerk kids.
Mining only appears always to increase as time goes on because Bitcoin is increasing in popularity, but the protocol itself doesn't mandate that at all. Like ikeboy said, difficulty is adjusted to keep the average time to find a new block at about 10 minutes. The network is perfectly content to let the rate stay still if no new computational power is added to the network.

https://blockchain.info/charts/hash-rate?showDataPoints=fals...

As you can see, the increase in hash rate has been stagnating for nearly a year at this point.
It's not a magnet. Horace Mann is more comparable. Similar socio-economics and pressure, and everyone is up against the same thing. They draw the wealthiest, but not necessarily the smartest.

Stuy and Bronx Science are entrance exam based, so those going there are at the top of the heap academically to begin with.
In very rare cases will you ever make a considerable amount of money when you take an equity deal as an employee. As we've seen from many buyouts, the VC get paid first and the employees usually get paid last after the owners.

I've had too many friends that got nothing after working months and even years at a job they hated hoping they would be able to cash out on their equity. I, myself, even got my equity liquidated to 0 after the CEO decided to completely dissolve the LLC and create a new one (A Silicon Valley trick talked about in the Social Network to push an undesirable partner out).

So, I would take the money every single time.
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That's the same issue as with Uber - generally laws tend to evolve in response to the environment. Yes, they accumulate cruft, but there is always a reason behind the way it looks.

Chesterton's fence comes to mind:

http://www.chesterton.org/taking-a-fence-down/
Your first paragraph sounds so dramatic that I was expecting you to laugh the idea off as a joke at the end, but you didn't. It sounds like you're 100% serious. Is this actually the case? Don't mean to pry, but it sounds a little extreme, and I wonder if this has happened either to you or anyone you know. I grew up in Irvine (mentioned below as similar to PA) and no one I knew would have banished anyone for getting B's or not getting a nice job. We were normal kids.
RFC 7539: ChaCha20 and Poly1305 for IETF Protocols
It's still practical since it makes things harder as opposed to one central location for a server.
How about a book written by some famous investor? Buffett, Lynch, Klarman (supposedly rare), etc? Binded printout of all of Berkshire's annual letters?
We've been redefining what it means to be a man and the suicide rates went up.
Maybe you should educate yourself on the topic before getting all worked up about it.
Yes. Sales tax is levied by the state, not federally, so in every state sales tax is different and which items are subject to sales tax changes.

For example, in Massachusetts, the sales tax on most products is 6.25% so when purchasing most things you must multiply by 1.0625 to figure out how much it will cost. Most uncooked food does not have sales tax, but food served by restaurants does.

When eating at a restaurant, you're supposed to tip 15-20% on the total bill pre-tax, though a lot of people tip on the post-tax price depending on how cheap/generous they are. Many restaurants calculate the tip for you, but certainly not most.
Nobody who has any kind of interest in selling or implementing Agile anywhere would. That doesn't mean that the reality of the situation doesn't cause it to happen.
So you have to tip taxi drivers in US?
> To be fair, serial ports are actually really important and while we frequently don't have physical serial ports anymore, tons of devices still use serial emulation because it is such a simple technology to understand and the hard parts of the protocols are done in userland rather than drivers.

To be sure! But it's not always necessary.

> When doing unattended windows installs, a lot of people use floppy drives to store the Autounattend.xml file.

> Most people still use CD-ROM images to install operating systems,

Also both true, but they shouldn't be available unless you need them.
They couldn't even if they wanted to. E.g. Better social welfare, law enforcement, and education means less crime. Less crime benefits everyone in some way. Perhaps if it were made legal to commit crimes against people who don't pay taxes...

Even then, it would be basically impossible to avoid benefiting in some way without leaving the country altogether. There will always have to be at least some "core" services that everyone has to pay into, but that doesn't mean techlibertarian's idea totally lacks merit. Maybe some things should be partially opt-outable. Maybe people would start to question whether America really needs to spend half of its tax revenue on the military; maybe there would be more pressure to get some of the presently useless (and very expensive) 2.3 million prisoners back into the workforce.
Problem with Uber is not users or drivers. It's the Uber upper management itself that's being dicks. Scale or lack of it won't make a difference here, unfortunately.
The words they chose are OK, but the pronunciation and delivery are awful.
> You're not generally required to take any specific course as a graduate student. When you come back, take classes that interest you, not what you require to pass the exams.

Sadly, all my classes are compulsary, except one, which we get to choose. They're also really interesting, in a field I love, and I've enjoyed them thoroughly. What has been a real struggle is the work load. I've effectively worked 10 hours a day, 7 days a week for the past 8 months (with some time off at Christmas). At this stage, I am mentally and physically exhausted.

> I damn near committed suicide. The depression lasted for three years. It was a struggle just to survive.

I'm very sorry to hear that. If I am honest, depression is not really something I have ever suffered from or something I ever felt: something that I am very grateful for.
Canada. You don't have to, but it often seems to be expected.

EDIT: if you fail to tip a driver, it's unlikely that there will be consequences for you. Failing to tip at a restaurant you frequent could affect your service in the future.
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And yet, some things never seem to change.
Silversheet Raises $2.9M to Manage Medical Credentials
A TEDx talk dated 7th Nov 2014

Though there's a BBC Video dated Oct 4, 2013

(Incredibly annoying BBC World interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBsl3HlB8VE )
Not really, with enough money, you can buy jigs and milling kits that make it as easy for you as possible to complete upper receivers:

http://www.cncguns.com/tooling.html
A company I do work for has been doing a million+ or more in monthly credit card sales from iOS and android devices since '08. The iCloud Keychain didnt really increase numbers measurably at all.

When I started work for them I didn't believe so many people were willing to buy via mobile devices. Luckily, so was the competition, whom were not on their game and didnt want to accept such truths... so we ate their lunch. ;)
10 lessons I learnt from a side project
Node.js and io.js are merging under the Node Foundation
Yeah, it seems like kids from more affluent backgrounds often get into greater trouble. A lot of the kids I knew felt tremendous pressure to do everything right. They had to get into Stanford because that's where Mom or Dad went. They had to get into an Ivy or their life was over. Most Palo Alto kids, even the "slackers" are very smart and capable, so they could pull it off, no matter the cost. But it certainly took a huge toll on them.

I knew several kids who exploded in one way or another. Some years ago I got a call from an ex-girlfriend who had just gone through AA; she partied like crazy all through high school. Intense home background with parents who were doctors and expected much from her. She is now better but had to go through hell to find life on her terms.
Except the end of that video shows it working in a forest... https://youtu.be/Us0BqJvsF9k?t=6m14s
The mantra of the fundamental materialist is always "it is only a coincidence" and it is quite useful to recite to explain away topics that might make one uncomfortable. Another good one is "correlation is not equal to causation" (except when it agrees with my preconceived reality tunnel). If you repeat it enough times or with enough conviction it might even start to sound true!

I attended Gunn in 2006 and this was happening in waves before I got there and continues to happen in waves since. There are guards that sit by the tracks (sometimes 24/7) to look out for students who are looking to take their lives in this specific way (buy them a coffee or donut on a cold night, they'll appreciate it). This is occurring at one of the most educated, affluent areas in the world. Hell even Radiohead poked fun at how perfect the place is. My AP CS class covered topics that weren't even included in my undergraduate CS degree at top ranked UC, and my social network from this school is more influential than any networks I made in college or graduate school.

If the suicide rate did meet some statistical "norm" then that would be exceptional. Why are kids killing themselves in utopia? Why are some of the worlds most intelligent, rich, and power adults burying their children?

EDIT: "paid guards" -> "guards".
I agree that it's cultural. The pressure growing up in Palo Alto is unbelievable.
One useful but of course not absolute generalization is that grade school teachers "want to teach kids something" and high school teachers "want to teach something to kids." Which is to say that high school teachers are more likely to be motivated by subject first and grade school teachers are more likely to be motivated by kids first.

For something like computer science, It's going to be a rare person with a passion for computer science who jumps on the grade school track in a college of education. A grade school just isn't a place conducive to expressing that passion.
The fight is long from over, but everyone should be calling for Snowden's unconditional pardon and then a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
"language in the post, such as discouraging frequent make-up wearers and people with diagnosed mental health conditions from applying"

yes, they have lots of strict rules, but I don't see a problem with either of these.

It seems these days that everybody not only wants to be able to do anything they want, but no matter how outlandish, annoying, or potentially dangerous, it needs to be socially accepted.
Cool. They're stopping that one spy program everybody knows about.

How many more do you think there are that are even more egregious but they don't have public pressure to end because nobody realizes they exist?
"But most teams aren't great"

Most teams work hard enough to become great. Most teams work long enough hours to become great. Most teams are smart enough to become great. Most teams even have the desire to become great.

So what is stopping them?

At the developer level: Lack of autonomy, lack of purpose, and lack of mastery. These issues aren't fixed by Agile.

At the management level: High turnover. Lack of attention/focus on things that aren't easily measurable. Lack of leadership. Constant arbitrary deadlines. A short term focus. Politics. Again, none of it fixed by Agile.
That is pretty unreasonable. Are 2-ton trucks and cars dangerous on the open road? Are they 99.9999% reliable?
> They're stopping that one spy program everybody knows about

Yes, I'm sure it will stop.
It's well known.

"in 2008, 2009, and 2010, the Dui Hua Foundation estimated that 5,000 people were executed each year in China – far more than all other nations combined.[2] [1][3] [4] However, the estimated number of executions fell to 2,400 in 2013.[5] The precise number of executions is regarded as a state secret.[6]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_China

The US executed 40 - 50 people per year in those years. The US information is publicly available, of course.

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executions-year
Being a libertarian, I don't want to do all the knee-jerk stuff on here in response, but for context we must remember that bulk data collection was never authorized in the first place.

So it very well may be that metadata collection ends under the Patriot Act and continues under some sealed executive order from the G.W. Bush years.

If watching DC over the last decade or so has taught me anything, it's to be very careful noticing the difference between what things appear to be and what they actually are.

ADD: Just to be clear "Congress votes (and the president signs) a law to outlaw bulk data collection" is one headline. "The House of Representatives fails to authorize some forms of bulk collection by no longer continuing certain provisions" is another. The House is not voting to end anything.

Mr. Headline Writer Person: please do not confuse these two completely different scenarios.
Home Owner's Associations are just mini-governments. Why is a government consisting of a 4 block home owners association deciding to ban AirBNB okay, but it is not okay for a city government to do this?
It's not really an exaggeration of what it's like growing up in Palo Alto. When people marveled at someone's GPA, it would be how far above 4.0 unweighted it was. I think one kid at my school had a 4.8 weighted GPA.

Anything below a 3.9 and you were seen as not all that interested in academics.
I suspect he's just working in the wrong restaurants. According to indeed.com, the average salary of an executive chef in Seattle is $54k, with a high of $83k. Time to look for a new job, and either negotiate a huge payrise or tell them to stick their $15/hr job.
> "Agile is great for innovation where there is no deadline and no limited budgets"

that rings very true with me. I'm nearing the end of a 3 year project where scrum was prescribed and followed, but the truth is we've basically shoehorned agile practices into a waterfall model because of business needs.

My experience with agile projects is probably far removed from how it should be implemented, but it still feels like it's fundamentally flawed to address business needs which rely on fixed scope and accurate estimates from the start of the project succeed (e.g. critical 3rd party tools being end-of-lifed, product mandates beyond company control, renewing client licenses based on feature completion).

I guess until something better comes along, I'm stuck with being told to do some strange type of scrumfall/water-gile.
You aren't literally banished. What happens is that if you can't succeed at a high enough level, then you won't be able to afford to live in the same type of community as an adult. Economic banishment, not social, although the social separation happens as a knock-on effect. As social/tribal creatures this is absolutely a huge deal psychologically.
It's far better than having no idea what your items will actually cost at the checkout.

I remember walking into a McDonalds somewhere in the US deserts, and ordering three mcchickens off the $1 menu. A cheap way to get lots of biomass when travelling on a shoestring. "Certainly sir, that'll be $3.24". But it's 3 items... off the $1 menu... which should be $3. I honestly think that half the hot air around taxes in the US is because the mechanisms for actually handling them are irritating. Lots of loose change, ridiculously complex tax environments for accountants, inability to know beforehand the final price of something...

Back here in Australia, if something costs $5, that's it. It doesn't matter to you whose cut goes where. You want the object, it's $5. Not $5.40, discoverable later in the chain. The tax in this system is less opaque, because it's right there, included in the price. It's not something that suprises you at the end as an irritating thing making the process more complex.

In any case, when you buy something, no-one complains that the retailer made 20%, the distributors made 30%, and the wholesaler made 40%. People only whine about they government's 10%. Most people are utterly clueless about which business parties get what sort of cut (witness the endless complaints about online app stores 'stealing' 30%...), so why should specifying how much the government makes be special? If your receipt instead told you how much the wholesaler made, or your system added on the wholesaler cut after the sticker price, everyone would be complaining about those greedy wholesalers.

And, as others have said, sales tax certainly has accountability. Australia's GST has been 10% since it was introduced in the mid-90s (replacing a confusing hodge-podge of existing sales taxes). It hasn't changed, and the political parties fear changing it because it is a huge political negative to do so.
Wow. I did not know that.

It might actually be effective, as family impact is a big part of the culture and social responsibility in Japan.
What happens to records already collected?
I worked once with a recent college graduate who grew up in a very wealthy neighborhood. He drove a Ferrari to work. His mom was a supermodel and his dad a hugely successful big-city attorney. They lived in a $2M mansion. (Keep in mind that this was not in CA.)

He probably made about $60k.

It was clear he was having a hard time grasping the vast gap between the life he was able to afford on his own and the life he had growing up. In under a year, he quit to take a 100% remote job specifically so he could move back in with his parents.
It's with those thoughts in mind that usually deploy Xen dom0s without QEMU installed at all (so only PV guests). You just have to read through past Xen CVEs to see that HVM presents a lot of attack surface, admittedly I'm unsure if PV is smaller but shallower (certainly you leak more info about dom0 to guests but for guest escapes it seems there are just a lot of opportunities with QEMU in the mix).
As was once told to me:

"The first rule of design is 'use your own material'.

The second rule of design is 'use your own material'.

The third rule of design is 'use your own material'."
Is it just me or does this guy never give anything close to a coherent explanation of his point? Why does he want us to keep our tips?
50 what? %, $, etc?
If true, another Snowden, Binney, Drake, or Wiebe will emerge to help end it.
The biggest aid to preparing minutes is to prepare and distribute an agenda before the meeting. Then run through the agenda briefly noting the outcome of any decision and briefly outlining any new business.

Meeting minutes are not a transcript. They record actions not process or speeches. What matters is what is binding. Keep the minutes brief and to the point. Distribute them to attendees for comment immediately afterward and you're done.
"And Affordable Care Act or not, the annual tax penalty is far more affordable than buying health insurance."

Doesn't anyone else find this to be a concern? I wonder how prevalent this is?
well its about time.

but i am sure they will come up with another clever name for it and just keep on doing it.