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Seriously thinking this was a result of the Jesse Jackson interview. Likely the new Reddit is going to cater to celebrities and politicians in such a way that the idea of AMA isn't going to be unfiltered anymore. I would expect them to sell AMAs that are wholly staged/filtered/etc just like any political press conference. With the upcoming elections its to be expected, the slant of the current reddit is very obvious and its a new SJW paradise of late.
Same here regarding emulation. When I was about 16, I took over project management for the UOX3 emulator for a year or so when the original author abandoned it. I sure as hell wasn't a good enough coder to have written it myself, but I knew just enough to be dangerous. I made bug fixes and added minor new features (the one I remember best was implementing the "page a GM" queue). And most importantly, got other much smarter--and older--people involved contributing impressive pieces of code. Who for some reason didn't have any problem working on a project being managed by a teenager :)

Ironically, now that I've gone down the sysadmin path as an adult, there's no way I still have the C++ chops to even read the code I wrote back then. Let alone recreate it. Kind of hilarious that some of the best code I ever wrote dates from high school.

One of my most vivid memories of that period was spinning up a new build, posting it to the website, and then leaving for school. When I got home, I had a number of emails saying "hey moron the new build instantly crashes on startup". Sure enough, it did. That was an excellent early lesson in the importance of testing!

(btw, I went by the incredibly terrible handle of "Anthracks" in those days, if that rings a bell for anyone. Still turns up a small number of hits!)
People throw around the word entrapment a lot without really understanding what it means.
> IF Bob lives in China the Chinese government could come and accuse him of selling uncensored newspapers [...] Bob can even say he used a tumbler, but he used it because he purchased a lot of bondage pornography: embarrassing, but not illegal.

Not relevant to the example, but this is totally illegal.
I meant RDBMSes that are not SQLite. For MySQL or Postgres or whatever you usually need to do a system-wide package install and have a daemon running in the background. Portability of (compiled version of) your program disappears. That's why desktop apps - games in particular - tend not to use any database other than SQLite or flat file structure.
This is awesome. Thanks for linking it.

I've had dreams of doing this to an In-n-Out location. Every one I've been to has had all the employees doing every job like a scatterbrained beehive, and it takes 15-20 minutes to get your food.
> Gender reassignment surgery (encouraging gender dysphoria by helping them "become" the other gender) leads to an increased risk of suicide and depression,

This is a lie. It's a particularly vicious lie because you want to:

1: prevent people getting rapid access to gender reassignment treatment (and that delay increases risk of suicide)

2: "treat" gender dysphoria (and your style of treatment also increases risk of suicide).

Those links you provide are not sources. Do you have any actual sources?
Remotely related: I've been interested for awhile in how the same initial terms of a sequence could possibly be generated by multiple rules.

For example, you might have

2,3...

And the rest of the sequence might look like either

2,3,4,5,6...

or

2,3,5,8,13...

or

2,3,5,7,11...

or even

2,3,5,10,20...

Clearly, on some level those sequences are all much less complicated than one defined as "The first term is 2, the second term is 3, the third term is 919243, the fourth term is -1234..."

It's unclear to me how one might rank them in complexity, though. The maximum amount of memory necessary to get an arbitrary nth term? The number of operations necessary to get to the next term?

Another interesting question to me: if there is an ordering of ways to generate a sequence of numbers, given the first couple terms of a sequence of numbers, what are the simplest N ways to generate the full sequence?
I guess I'm the opposite: I got more No's than Yes's. My immediate sense was to find No's. I guess that's why I like 1 star reviews.
"It is not unthinkable that if I would submit a love letter, it would be published sooner than an intelligent scholarly article by a young researcher."
Some pieces already exist, like the pg* commands. Perhaps they could be improved to handle the remaining configuration tasks. The config files themselves could probably use a good redesign as well.

What do other databases do? I haven't used others in a while, but at the time of choosing pg I remember it being more fiddly.
There's this: http://www.producthunt.com/tech/awair-2
Is physical intimacy (no, this doesn't mean sex, though that is one form) a want or a need? Consider the mortality rate of infants who receive no physical touch but have all their classical needs met compared to infants who are held and cared for.
There's no question that
what the NYT wrote is, to
put is mildly, junk.

I believe that they should
be called out on such junk.

Maybe you agree that they should
be called out, and maybe
not. Maybe you like that
I called them out, and maybe not.

Still, what they wrote was junk.

Maybe you should take what I wrote
as a call for the NYT to
up their game by several
notches. You've just
got to agree that the NYT
has room enough for improvement
to stack all the US national
debt in one column of pennies.
Ask HN: How do you run Chromium OS or simulate a Chromebook in a VM?
Hi,

We tried many Internet resources to run our own Chromium OS but none of them worked. I can't imagine that setting up your own Chromebook is so difficult and follow the Apple mantra about buying specific hardware instead of running it on a VM.

Do you know how to (quickly) setup your own Chromium OS without buying a Chromebook? How do you test Chromebook Apps?

Thanks,
wslh
> If a real estate company owned a significant number of buildings in a downtown area, could they then copyright the skyline of a city as the creative work of their collective architectural firms?

Usually copyright belongs to the architect and can't be transferred to anyone in Europe.

> If you made a large installation visible from space (say, the Palm Islands in Dubai), could you claim copyright on images of Earth with high enough detail to make out your work?

I'm pretty sure that's already the case in many jurisdictions, including Germany where there is freedom of panorama. That only applies for images taken without technical assistance to get the view and using a satellite to take the picture is certainly technical assistance (as is a ladder btw.).
Wages of truck drives in the USA are well over 100 billion dollars annually. Wages of taxi drivers in the USA total over 4 billion dollars annually.

Cost saving is the reason for the rapid replacement of the human-driven vehicle fleet.

It took only 20 years, 1900-1920, for human-driven automobiles to replace horses - which was a bigger change with regard to infrastructure.
You might be right. Very unusual comments indeed. And ridiculous, too. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, but so much commenting here is literally just a catalogue of received ideas.

Tesla are on a mission to solve massive problems for humankind while taking into account modern humans' lack of commitment to solving those problems in a way that would feel like a step back, or that would create discomfort. Tesla's existence as a market solution to the oil and pollution problems is evidence that you don't always need political coercion to solve problems like externalities: Tesla's cars are not only electric cars - i.e. the answer to a problem that could potentially destroy civilisation as we know it - they are also great cars, by any "petrolhead" standard.

As a company and an investment, Tesla's long term mission, its strategy and its step-by-step tactics have been presented in a way that is extremely rare for a company. Most of the work I do for brands this size involves working with a 5-year plan that is nowhere near as clear as Tesla's, and the plans are 5-years because that's when the owners' exit plan kicks in. Tesla's strategy set a clear path for 15 years at least.

So what's not's not to like? I think many investors feel they may have missed the boat on the next great world company. It's quite normal to sit on the edge for a while, to miss out on the opportunity, and to then find a dozen reasons to tell oneself it was good to pass on it.
Karmanaut is one of the few default mods who allows fairly "contentious" comments to stay up. As long as he is top mod of /r/IAmA I don't think that will change.
Your countrymen don't have to think about doing anything for it because their forebears and ancestors already thought about it, and already took the necessary steps so that later generations wouldn't have to.

They may have done it mainly for the benefit of their own heirs and successors, but now that it's done, it's done. All those improvements multiply, and Brits get more because it takes less individual effort to produce the same amount in the heavily-improved UK than in a country where improvements are more easily destroyed or converted. So anyone willing to obey British law, participate in the British economy (accept and spend pounds), respect British infrastructure, and assimilate into British culture should get more than the rest of the world, because those are the practices that allow Britain to be more productive than the world median.

A hedgerow along a country lane does not grow that way naturally. It takes an effort to force it. But once established, it just needs a regular trim and an occasional re-laying to keep the livestock out of the road. You just don't need to pull a new barbed wire fence in front of a blackthorn hedge, so why would anyone complain that no one is doing it?

The resources of the country are preferentially distributed to its own citizens because one country lacks the sovereign authority to force any other country to change its culture and institutions to be more productive. If those other countries wanted to be as prosperous as Britain, they could fork the British system, or selectively merge changes from it into their own repositories. See also: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand.

So those people aren't exactly thoughtlessly doing nothing. They are being British, as hard as they possibly can. And that allows the UK to have nice things like the NHS. In contrast, Americans, in being as American as possible, can only manage a hybrid public-private healthcare monstrosity that no one can examine too closely or for too long, because most of our psychiatric hospitals are cleverly disguised as prisons.

In light of that, there's really only one essential element that needs to go along with open borders. Assimilate the immigrants.
Yes, I am. I mock all stupid, irrational beliefs; accepting these beliefs harms us (see Sam Harris for more detail).

Should a trans-Jew be allowed the right of return?

Should a trans-Caucasian be not stopped and frisk by police?

Should a trans-African American be given preferential treatment in college admissions?

Furthermore, should my drivers license affect my "born" height, or my trans-height?

If someone does this sort of thing, they should be mocked incessantly until they stop and find something more productive to do.
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A circular layout might be easy to use with gesture, something like a rotary phone with radius jumps
I think you're right that a lot of things like roads are a huge net benefit to everyone. But those are things, not money.

I don't claim to know what basic income would do, but I worry for the supply side of the equation. I used to work in a factory making windows. It was a terrible, terrible job and nobody would do it given a choice. So if everyone has the choice not to do it, what happens to the supply of goods like that?

While I'd like to believe that the job could be made good enough to be attractive somehow, I can't think of an amount of money that would make me agree to go back. This, of course, makes me wish we could free the people stuck doing that, but I wonder just how many goods there are like that? We're suddenly playing with the 'free rider' problem for our entire society. Sure, we can print enough money for everyone, but what happens when it's nothing but worthless paper because there's nothing to buy?
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Conversely, I am (or at least claim to be) a person and historically my doctors have been people.
You are right, but artificial intelligence, deep learning and machine learning all use words related to human activities and the roots of machine learning perceptron, neural networks, feedback and other terms are also imitations or analogies of terms for human activities, in the end the goal of deep learning is learning patterns that are not available for neural networks with few layers. The insight is that the human mind and perceptive organs feed the mind with structures that are similar to layers. Your retina see patterns that are hard coded and are th result of evolution. Perhaps I am not selling snake oil.
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They can also better fit their own needs. Maybe a smaller worse shelter wouldn't be an issue for them, but they would much prefer to have warmer clothing (smaller and warmer in comparison to peers in the same location). Maybe they forgo milk to buy even more lentils.
Do you think mocking people is an effective way to change behaviour? Or do you think it just entrenches that behaviour deeper?
>> `AnotherBrandNewOs`

> Why?

This is kind of irony about today situation in the world of OSes.
1) Most start-ups fail. If you join that start-up and it fails, leaving you looking for another job, are you okay with that? Is that an outcome you can live with?

2) Chronic stress is very bad. Can you set aside your philosophy and avoid stress by being genuinely okay with following someone else's philosophy during working hours regardless of whether it's the philosophy you would have chosen?
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On paper, this logically follows from the tax regs Chicago already has on the books. They have an "Amusement Tax" (Orwell couldn't have named this better himself) which applies to co's that sell tickets to shows, etc.

From my understanding what this new rule does is to no longer exclude cloud providers from this tax.

Be that as it may, this makes Chicago seem insanely tone deaf and outdated in their response to the changing times. My perception is, there's already a brain drain in Chicago in terms of young, technically minded talent. Crap like this certainly doesn't make Chicago seem more appealing tech savvy people who are considering a move.

One might argue that on paper the money involved for an individual won't be that much, which is sort of true but the bigger issue is perception. This makes Chicago seem like a greedy money grubbing place that's gonna nickel and dime you any change they can get.
No, that was their final destination. Brazil had by far the largest slave population in the world. Haiti was the crown jewel of the French empire and the envy of all nations. The caribbean slave trade began to decline when Toussaint L'Ouverture rose to power in Haiti (The Haitian and French revolution were very closely intertwined) and slavery was abolished.

The seminal book on this period of Haitian history is "The Black Jacobins" by CLR James.
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Agreed. I gave a similar definition in a parallel thread. My question is, is it being used in that sense here by Nacraile. My followup question is, is that's how it's usually used? I get the stronger sense that it indicates that one is a hacker, than that it's being used for an otherwise missing concept.
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I can most definitely see how the AI made the mistake. My point is that it might be possible that the human creators of those programs might have had an unwitting role that lead to that mistake.

What is "slanderous" about stating the truth regarding someone's opinion? People are free to criticize those who oppose gay marriage... no one is free from public backlash to backwards opinions.
Ask for an exec-level title if you pick #1. In an early stage startup, it's easy to get. It makes it harder for them to hire someone over you later.
Yes, it even has a built-in pass ls (which uses tree). It might be a feature, depends on how you look at it.

Frankly, just encrypt the entire drive. Otherwise, there will always be a leak somewhere. If not in the file structure, then in the swap.
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This says it all - "run by high-caliber people in an industry I love, working with people who share my philosophy and principles". No brainer.
It won't. The more industrious will barter at a gain while others will barter at a loss. Consider food stamps. Some will trade them $2 of stamps for $1 of cash. But others will buy food, cook and then sell the food, bringing in $2 dollars of cash for $1 of stamps.
Veritasium, a pretty interesting youtube channel, posted a video on this experiment a while back. I found the discussion afterwards to be more thought-provoking than this article.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKA4w2O61Xo
In place of the promised evidence, you've just provided an argument that makes zero sense. Your argument amounts to proving that average people are above average.
Not really, they were sent there to work on the sugar cane plantations (and other products).

Unlike Mexico or Peru, there was not enough native population to exploit and lots of work to do in Brazil. Hence the much higher percentage of African descendants that continues today.
> asking any government to take money from the people [...] and magically produce a net benefit to the people is [...] impossible

But that happens already in the country where I live. People pay taxes, and via taxes, we are able to provide health care and university education to everyone. I like this system, and I'm one of them who pay taxes. It's good for me if everyone is well educated, and healthy.

Whether or not a basic income would work, depends on the number of citizens. Fairly few, and many efficient machines and robots that can do most of the hard work, then it'll work okay. Too many people, then basic income won't work I think. In the future, thanks to contraceptives, I think there won't be too many people.
I feel like this should link to the blog post[0] on building the blog instead. Regardless, I love how multipurpose the Jekyll + GitHub Pages combination is. It's used for tiny project sites all the way up to fully-featured blogs like yours.

[0] http://blog.stackexchange.com/2015/07/how-we-built-our-blog/
> This is an edited version of mcguire's comment that was needlessly inflammatory

We appreciate your desire to make HN threads less inflammatory, but posting edited versions of others' comments under your account isn't a good way to do that.
It was the original HN title only a little while ago. Only he didn't poison anyone really. A good title rename.
> Some pieces already exist, like the pg* commands

I don't think those really help? You need to start a server for that and be allowed to connect. If you have that you can just as well feed a file to psql to do all the setup at once.

> The config files themselves could probably use a good redesign as well.

Hm. I've dealt with postgresql.conf files for a decade now, so maybe I just don't see the problem with the format itself. I think we should make more parameters auto-tuned, but that's something different to the file format itself.

If you're talking about pg_hba.conf: Wholewheartedly agreed. That's the one thing I remember being terminally confused about back when I started using postgres.
No. They used the slaves there for sugar plantations, among other things.
Well, the developed world is in a crisis, with unemployment levels not seen since the inter-wars period. At the same time, robots are happening, and visibly so.

It would be strange if people weren't think about it.
> luxury car service cost

I was under the impression that they have less service costs due to fewer moving parts. Or maybe it comes out all the same since there's less to service, but when something does need servicing it's more expensive than usual.
No it isn't - and it's even more annoying that you make assumptions on my behalf. You should make a better effort not to make assumptions about people or their motives.

1: I'm someone who suffers from gender dysphoria

2: I considered and researched gender reassignment for 6 years before deciding that the evidence largely shows it is not beneficial and often leads to regret and depression that is worse than pre-op. Given I won't know how I'd react to it until after the fact and it isn't easily reversible, I decided against it.

Here is the Sweden-based study I hinted at: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....
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We've only just allowed gay people to get married. Black people, women, gay and trans people are all routinely predjudiced against, and sometimes subjected to violence (even to the point of death) just for being who they are.

It's not particularly surprising that people wanting to transition keep quiet about it.

(I don't think your post deserved a downvote.)
You wouldn't say that if your Tesla got stuck in acceleration and the brake didn't work.
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What more would it have than a simple script in a crontab that pushes the job every X ?
That's the opposite of the impression I get, for a while I was pretty sure HN was a cult that worshipped their Lord and Savior, Elon Musk :)
It's not so much a matter of being able to distinguish one wavelength from another as it is being able to distinguish one wavelength from a combination of other wavelengths, or one combination for another.

For example, monochromatic orange light falls between about 590 and 620nm. But if you get a beam of red at half[1] the intensity of the orange mixed with a beam of yellow/green at half the intensity of the orange, you won't be able to tell the difference between that combo and actual monochromatic orange given a simple RGB array.

[1] Substitute "half" with whatever the appropriate scaling function is for the sensors and wavelength ranges in question.
That's kinda what I was guessing, but I'm willing to consider an argument.
I actually avoided going that far to avoid getting bad data. I was trying to answer the question, "What does the experimenter THINK his rule is?" rather than what will the computer do. Since the computer can't be infinite, it will inevitably fail with overflow, underflow, and such.

I was relieved, in fact, when it worked with negatives and floats in a "safe" range.

I also tested with 1,1,2 and 1,2,2 to make sure that the required increase applied to ALL of the values, not just a specific pair.
If a job is so unpleasant that people will only do it to avoid abject poverty and its miseries then something is wrong with that job. Probably that window manufacturing job could have been much more pleasant given the right process changes, but the factory owner was not incentivized to try because they could find someone willing / forced to accept that job as it was. In essence, basic income does away with wage slavery, but that is a good thing. Those goods will still get made, but they won't get made in the same way. Though to be honest, most places will probably not bother making the job nicer and will just move it to somewhere where wage slavery is still legal.