skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is always strange when people who have had an outsized impact upon others die. Prof. Nash wasn't just someone who was killed in a traffic accident. He was someone who touched the lives of many, many people in surprising ways. His work itself has a large sphere of influence that will exist without him, but I'm talking about a more personal kind of influence. He was an example of living to who you could be regardless of what was broken inside of you or what was "missing."

When I was a teenager, I had the good fortune of attending a lecture by Prof. Nash. Although I did not have the maturity to truly grasp what he was trying to explain - the event did influence my later life. I started reading up about him and his struggles with his schizophrenia, the work he wanted to do, the fears he had of never achieving it, and how despite everything he ended up manifesting his work anyway. This influenced my own struggle with teenage depression and made me realise that there was probably more I could contribute beyond the seemingly staunch limits of my own mind. That altered my life trajectory in a "tiny" but measurable way, so that I - a complete stranger - feel moved by the loss.

I'm sure he stands for so much more to so many people and that's a testament to the power of a life well lived.
Are you familiar with the impetus behind Prop 13? (Not the side effects, but the motives.) A lot of homeowners were priced out of their homes because they couldn't afford the property tax rates. Sure they can sell, but then they're stuck as renters.
Oddly, I find the opposite to be true, although I can't really think of a good way to justify why.

I have a GUI emacs-server running that I can open buffers from via emacsclient for "serious editing", but I often end up using vim for quick edits rather than bother with emacs[client] and context-switching.

I imagine it might be different if I could get used to running my shells from inside emacs with eshell or ansi-term, but have never had any success getting them to work right and be usable.

Actually, one reason for preferring the GUI does stand out - quite a bit more freedom in key-bindings, especiallly with ns-cmd-modifier and friends, and some C- bindings that are otherwise impractical in console mode (at least to my knowledge)
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> But Homakov seems to act as if he had some special ethical and legal right to make the fraudulent purchase, even though Starbucks had never asked for his security services.

I don't get why Ars is harsh against him. $1.70 is a grand scheme of things is nothing. Even if he was using it for x10 more without paying it back, it's still nothing.
Well, the BI/minimum income people will now start to tell you that society owes everyone...
Alright, you got me. Now imagine you being the only person in the car and try again.
"Asymmetric encryption (Was: Use RSAES-OAEP with SHA256 and MGF1+SHA256 bzzrt pop ffssssssst exponent 65537): Use Nacl.

You care about this if: you need to encrypt the same kind of message to many different people, some of them strangers, and they need to be able to accept the message asynchronously, like it was store-and-forward email, and then decrypt it offline. It's a pretty narrow use case."

Is this like bitmessage?
I really like the general idea of basic income, but I don't think it's the right time for it now. The only reason I say that is that we need to address the destabilising effects of the banking sector before money is ready to use as a means of providing a safety net.

Control over the money supply ensures that prices can settle, which means that the income you earn (through UBI or otherwise) can give the basic quality of life we want to ensure all have access to. However, at the moment, the increase of money in circulation is largely driven by banks, who serve profit over people.

Solve the banking issue, and you'd have removed a road block for UBI as well as freeing up the capital to do it.

Alternatively, I like the idea of 'basic food' and 'basic shelter' that were mentioned elsewhere in these comments. They'd probably be easier to push through, as well as providing tangible benefits for those in need.
Given that student evals are one of the few tools students have to fight back against truly horrible and capricious teachers, they need to stay for that reason alone.
Your view is incompatible with the idea that I should be able to run any program I can write. Personal freedom ought to trump commercial interests. Once your bits arrive at my computer, they're no longer yours. They're mine, and I can mangle them however I want.
I hate this headline, but enjoyed the story.
Alright. Often there's only one person in the car though, and what I said applies to other things too.
It's a bit of a stretch to say that seatbelt tickets lead to tyranny--driving's mostly a privilege not a right. Seatbelts can affect other people due to an inability to control the vehicle after a collision, more likely use of emergency resources, etc. I generally agree with the sentiment about nanny states, though
I feel like if there was a "One True Emacs Keyboard", it would probably be something like http://mykeyboard.co.uk/microswitch/
Unless you're some serious super-artist that does massively high res painting and lives in Photoshop or whatever all day, their sensors are fine.

The guy that draws Penny Arcade dicked around with a Surface 3 Pro and now he absolutely loves it and does a lot of art on it. No real issues reported (and any issues hes reported has been fixed quickly by Microsoft, which, well, Microsoft actually fixing issues promptly fills me with a kind of hope that I haven't had in a long long time).

Microsoft kinda feels like... the Google I wish Google was. I'm not sure how to actually describe this. A company that, yes, makes money, but also makes cool shit and I want to throw money at them to keep making cool shit.

As opposed to the post-Gates Balmer era that drove all their products (sans XBox) into the ground. Well, further into the ground. I'm not trying to flame Microsoft here, but Windows 95 is why I converted to Linux on my desktop full time, and Windows 2000 was the only sane Windows in my opinion between Windows 3.1 and Windows 8.x.
I had to read parts of OpenSSL to figure out how some of the utilities worked. Let me say that it's wonderful that people are trying to write a more readable version and leave it at that.
What about poor old liberica? Everybody forgets about it. Good coffee, more robust than arabica. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffea_liberica
What's the best way nowadays to protect yourself as a user against this? You certainly can't trust anyone to store your password securely, so you're forced to have a strong password per site, and it's impossible to memorize that many passwords.

I'm currently using Password Hasher (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/password-hasher-pl...), but that only works well because I mostly use just one machine.
The parchment was also extremely expensive. The labor for someone to hand-copy the manuscript cost 36 shillings, but the parchment cost 6 shillings 9 pence (6.75 shillings).
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I've pretty much found my Note indispensable. The amount of crap I used to drag along to meetings (notebooks, papers, pens, etc.) is down to zero. I've gone through entire days bouncing around meeting to meeting with my portable "office" in my pocket and nothing else. I can't see going back to a non-pen-enabled device any time soon.

Every once in a while I find myself forgetting about the Note and looking for a pad of paper or a pen somewhere (because I don't have any on my desk any more) and slapping myself because I don't need those things anymore.

I've toyed with getting a Note Pro, but it's just too expensive IMHO. If it was down to within $50-100 of the same sized regular tablet I might dive in.

Bonus: killing time with FlipaClip has brought me more fun than I've had since I was 10 years old.
There's even more to it -- it's that the only thing of value to society is that which can be traded for money.
Why? It would be a major hassle otherwise when visiting cities like SF or NYC if you are not planning to rent a car (if you are, you might be carrying a car seat). I wouldn't be comfortable using a random carseat in the trunk, and in any case, given different age kids require different carseats, it's not really feasible.
Use a password manager. KeepassX is a good choice if you only trust yourself (and your backups).

LastPass and 1Password are good choices if you don't care about letting others host your (supposedly encrypted) passwords.
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Ah yes, from one a week to hundreds per year is definitely going to have an important effect

Bands usually should be using ear protection as well.
I would say that it is volatile mix of very non-pragmatic constructs and lots of real constraints that creates the problem. If you want to see how to build a pragmatic language - look at JAI.
Show HN: Rim – Aspiring Vim-like text editor written in Rust
What if there was an AI that hand-picked resources for me to read?
Well, cletus, perhaps I can shed some light on this troubling question for you. Generally speaking (and there are naturally many exceptions, humans being the delightfully-flawed creatures that we are), the American government prefers to treat its citizens like competent adults who would rather not die if a suitable alternative presents itself. And so we don't generally have laws that require us to look both ways before crossing a street, or laws against poking angry bears with sticks and such like. America would rather you were smart enough not to do that sort of thing.

Of course, we have laws that all children must be suitably restrained in a motor vehicle because, hey, they're not adults. And we have laws that drivers must wear a seat belt because...well, I blame the insurance companies for that one. But America hopes you'll wear one anyway, because it's the smart thing to do.

The corollary, if you'll forgive my noticing, is that your government doesn't think you're smart enough to wear one on your own.

And so it's not really a "moral stance", but rather a general preference that our government not treat us like a bunch of ignorant monkeys. America wants you to live a long, happy life, but hey, you take your chances. Because you're an adult. And America will be sad if you fuck up and don't wear a seat belt, but life goes on. Mostly.

And now you may point out all the places where this convenant breaks down. The Drug War. The "Broken Windows" model of policing. The (up and coming!) Surveillance War. Well, fair point. Sure, we're flawed, remember? And so we try to make it better, over the long slog of decades. Sometimes it even works.

But the key idea, I think, is that by letting people fail, by letting them do stupid things, by treating them as fallible but sovereign citizens rather than a bunch of ape-men that need to be continually managed, they might become better, all on their own.

We'll let you know how it goes.

I hope this helps.
I use these: http://www.amazon.com/Vater-Percussion-Musicians-Ear-Plugs/d... – the same if not slightly better than the Etymotics and more likely to be available at your local music store.

++ advice to adjust the depth. I'm always modulating them based on the environment / band / track playing.
Don't be silly. Clearly he got caught up in the battle between Uber and the taxi monopoly and they decided to rub him out.
They are not one-size-fits all
It's been a few months since I first presented my little project here on HN [1], I hope a new thread is justified after the changes that has been made since then.

When posting my last thread, you could basically have a buffer loaded and view it in multiple split windows by moving the caret around.

Since then the following functionality has been added:

* Proper key handling: Commands can be bound to key strokes such as Ctrl-W followed by V, with a timeout between keys.

* Different modes: Basically binds different key-to-command mappings to support say "normal" and "insert" mode.

The two above are arguably one feature, and they combine by binding modes on different "levels" in the key handling module. Putting this together, you can have one mode partially overlap key strokes in another, and have the timeout force keys to be handled by a lower mode.

* Multiple buffers: More than one file can be loaded at a time, and each window will keep state sane for every buffer it has viewed.

* Deletion: Last time there was functionality for inserting text into a buffer but it wasn't "hooked up" for the user, now you can also delete text.. (woo)

* Editing: All this is finally tied together and hooked up so that you can start rim and edit a file. (not by your choosing!) While doing so in the focused window, hopefully scrolls and carets and whatnot is kept sane in the other windows whether they're currently viewing the buffer being edited or not.

All in all, it should hopefully feel a bit like a very primitive Vim.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8965608
Those are not the same seat backs that school buses use. School bus ones are far more "cushy" and flat.

Also, that was an... odd collision; getting rear-ended usually does not eject the driver out the front nor flip a bus on its side.
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It is mentioned in the article. Apparently, most people don't like the flavour.
I perfectly understand your position of freedom. However, you should understand that the articles you read, are written by people. They have families to support. If you as visitor are not willing to pay, who will pay the salaries of all writers in the world?

The website is a trader, the visitor is a customer. The trader is agreeing to sell the content to the customer if the customer pays the price - view ads (or pay subscription). The visitor agrees with this and receives the content. If the visitor (with the help of the third party tool - browser or extension) disable ads, the visitor is violating the user agreement.

If this option "Disable Ads" is OK, and is accepted by all browsers, this mean there will be nobody willing to write content, because ads are main source of revenue of most of the websites.

I simply cannot understand how this could work.

For me, it's clear that Mozilla will negotiate with Google and other Ad providers to receive some money to remove this feature.
To have fast compiles be within x2 (or thereabouts) of optimized build is very important for plain productivity reasons. Therefore it's a very valid concern.
Also in Germany, where the driver is allowed not to wear a seatbelt while carrying passengers, but has to wear a seatbelt as long as the taxi is empty (passengers are always required to wear seatbelts).
"The total area covered by Arabica and other types of coffee is about 400,000 hectares." [1]

"Almería in southern Spain has developed the largest concentration of greenhouses in the world, covering 26,000 hectares" [2]

So, a small town in southern Spain is within 5%. It would be costly and prices would go up, but its not impossible. At some point we need to start looking at this type of stuff for certain luxury crops (e.g. cocoa beans). Jordan and Norway look like they are doing some stuff using seawater, so I would imagine others are thinking about this kind of stuff.

1) http://equalexchange.coop/history-of-coffee-in-ethiopia I assume their facts are correct for this part even though it is a political site.

2) http://geographyfieldwork.com/AlmeriaClimateChange.htm
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How does liberica taste in comparison to arabica and robusta? Arabica is much sweeter and less acidic than robusta, which is why this more fragile plant is so popular.
Can you say more about how you got the idea people want to be scheduling meetings? I find I often want to bail out of meetings, not encourage them.
Front & rear seat belt laws vary by state; here's a summary of each state law, though it doesn't mention the taxi exemption.

http://www.ghsa.org/html/stateinfo/laws/seatbelt_laws.html
Most ATMs now in my experience scan & return your card to you at the beginning of the transaction, so you don't forget it in with all the other details.
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Fine someone for hurting themself? How nanny. Just note that negligence is liability for their injury medical costs.
Thumbs up for KeePassX too!

Also, there's Mitro, encrypted password manager living inside a Chrome extension: https://www.mitro.co/
I gave up on cable TV 8 years ago. Before that I would always mute commercials, I despise my attention being broken to sell me stuff I don't want. When we had company they would think it was odd at first but then realize how awesome it was to not have an announcer screaming about dirt, cars and fast-food. I have a serious problem now when going to someone's home and they don't mute commercials, but instead try to talk louder over them.

Side note, my wife lost 35 pounds after ditching cable. She noticed her cravings for fast-food and pizza subsided when she wasn't being bombarded with food adverts all day long. TV commercials are designed to tickle your insecurities and then sell you stuff to lessen those insecurities. That was how we were taught in advertising school. Being aware of the tricks still doesn't always work at lessening their impact.
White hat security has got to be one of the most important but thankless fields in computer science today.

At best, there are bug bounties that may or may not be worth it depending on the severity of what you find and how many hours you poured into it.

Frequently, you get shit like this where the threat of imprisonment is very real (not that I think anything will come of this because it would be a PR nightmare, but the threat still looms).

And of course, at worst, we all can read about what happened to weev (admittedly exacerbated by him being a complete tool).
It's important to realize cryonics/plastination research is not just for people who want to extend their lives. It's going to be a crucial component in long term space flight.
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I can live with the tasty bananas getting wiped out, but no arabica?

Does anyone know what % of these plantations in Ethiopia use grafted trees? I know grafting is very common in wine (vinifera on labrusca/..) but I haven't learned much about coffee. I did find a source stating it was done in certain parts of Latin America, esp. Guatemala: [1]

Arabian coffee (Coffea arabica) produces a higher grade of
coffee than Canefera coffee (Coffea robusta, the kind used
to make instant coffee), but the former is nematode-
susceptible while the latter is resistant. Scions from
seedlings of C. arabica are grafted onto seedling
understocks of C. robusta for coffee plantations in
Guatemala and other parts of Latin America.

A very short PDF I found discussed more than one study, the most recent being in 2010: [2]

In India, D’Souza et al (2010) carried out many graft
combinations between and within different Arabica and
Robusta varieties. They found enhanced photosynthetic rates
with Arabica-Arabica scion-rootstock grafts over ungrafted
plants. Arabicas grafted onto Robusta rootstocks showed
lower net photosynthesis, but also decreased transpiration
rates, suggesting that there is a productivity penalty for
increased drought protection as found by other authors.

Finally a found a large PDF [3] mentioning the prevalence again in Guatemala at high elevation (>1000m) and nematode presence. The paper then mentions grafting on a low-land (400~1000m) Arabusta hybrid might produce good yields in Africa.

So now I'm back to my question: is grafting prevalent in countries other than Guatemala? At which elevations, and on what root stock? I'd love to know more about this situation.

[1] http://www.hort.cornell.edu/grafting/reasons/ReasonsGBFrm.ht...

[2] http://toolbox.coffeeandclimate.org/userdata/tool/media/graf...

[3] http://hortsci.ashspublications.org/content/36/2/269.full.pd...
Ask HN: PC I can buy today to add/make Hackintosh?
I know I can DIY a PC Hackintosh but I want to buy a PC and put my legal OS X onto it. So what PC can I buy today?
Sergey Ruxpin https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7750/17817390518_249abb34a7_o...
If you can build arbitrary amounts of new housing the only way that anyone will be displaced is if (marginal cost of building new unit, amortized to a monthly rent) > (what old tenant can pay).

You are right that new Pune isn't the same Pune it used to be (or so I'm told) - now there are Gujus, Punjabis, Africans, white dudes and other non-Marathis there. As an American I'm a bit unsympathetic to "there goes the neighborhood".
We're not talking about other things. We're talking about seatbelts.
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