skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course they apply but how and to what extent? CO2 is a GHG and we expect some warming in relation to its level. Where is the empirical data unambiguously linking CO2 production and levels to Anthropogenic global warming?

Currently we are talking about endless massaged data from various sources generating a global composite temperature of +0.28 C (about 0.50 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 30-year average for August in an El Nino year.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/09/11/global-temperature-rep....

Moreover - http://notrickszone.com/2015/09/09/spiegel-slams-sorrowful-s...
When this was written in 2012 Facebook didn't have the concept of following at all, only friending. It's easy to forget that they subsumed most of the good things about Twitter.
Thanks for pointing that out to me. I'm sorry; I didn't mean to cause any trouble. I might suggest linking that from the welcome page. If it was shown, I missed it.
It doesn't matter if it's commercial!

https://www.sba.gov/content/home-based-business-zoning-laws

> Most zoning codes:

> Restrict the numbers of visitors to a home-based business

> Restrict the number of employees working in the home or prohibit employees altogether

> Restrict business parking or require that additional parking be provided

[...]

> Restrict or prohibit nuisance impacts (e.g., noise, odors, glare)

http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/68844

> The fact is, unless you've taken the time to thoroughly investigate your city and county zoning regulations, you're leaving yourself wide open to the type of scenario mentioned above. Your business could be shut down before it even sees the light of day-or, worse, shut down when you're already in business.
so, Meteor?
Exactly this was first "head scratching" moment for me. This looked as great idea at first, but as it was mentioned in other posts what about insurance, security, tax/zoning stuff. Not to mention this whole meditation thing, that might be great idea for some people, but I would just feel awkward.
My idea was that this will create space to exchange ideas and work together maybe on same problems not Buddhist temple.
(I'm not sure why you got downvoted.)

The hoffice model means you can look for hoffices that provide a guided meditation or, equally, actively avoid those hoffices. Or you could host your own hoffice that doesn't provide that stuff.
>, create three million Meshes

I didn't watch the presentation so I may be wrong but it's possible you're misinterpret how Mesh was intended to be used.

The "million" objects is meant to be inside one Mesh. Mesh is singular. The vertices are plural (millions).

If there's more than one Mesh, it would be dozens or hundreds of Mesh (per video game characters).
The original version is terrible. C code written in C++. Basically an high level assembly language. Write all your code this way and soon you'll stumble with all the nastiness of manual memory management.

Code like that is the main culprit of C++ is still considered an "unsafe" language, despite a correct usage of it, although more verbose and with more abstractions, brings both the benefits of C-like speed and higher level languages safety.
I'm not sure what you mean by "secular as it gets." Sure, he writes books denouncing organized religion... at least the ones he dislikes... so did U.G. Krishnamurti.

He makes the claim that the meditation techniques of Theravada Buddhism can be taught in a secular way, and he probably has a point. He recommends books by Buddhist teachers, since he believes that Buddhism is a kind of scientific spirituality... and Buddhist retreat centers, since those places are the only "serious" places where meditation is taught.

He attributes his capacity as a spiritual teacher to the long Buddhist retreats he did in India and Nepal. Some of his insight also came through psychedelic drugs. He also recommends books by Terence McKenna and Rick Strassman.

He's an interesting and well-spoken guy, but I wouldn't exactly call him an icon of secular reason. If Noam Chomsky ever records a guided meditation, though... that would be interesting.
1. Ya, looks like it. I'm curious about how long Hoffice will stick around. I personally couldn't find the spare time to maintain an enterprise like this, hence my questions. I needed it to generate at least minimal income to justify any time I spent on it, even just weekends here and there.

2. Hmm... maaaaybe. As someone who needs professional indemnity insurance for my work, perhaps my Spidey-senses are set too tingly for this risk. To test your analogy: would you be happy running a hobby business that facilitates parties, without understanding insurance aspects? I'd hate to get the phone call "So I used your service to organise a party, and now my house is trashed." :) Silly perhaps, just testing the edge-cases.
But if you only ever create a single Mesh, then you wouldn't care to coalesce the allocations, because three allocations instead of one is inconsequential in the course of an entire program lifetime. I agree that there are many vertices and edges within each Mesh, but there better also be tons of Meshes within one program, or there is no problem to begin with.
> Om solves this problem with an abstraction called Cursor, which lets us focus on a path of the global atom and offer the same API as atoms. This allows views to treat the substructure as their data source and even modify it with the same operations as the Atom. I wrote a simple implementation of this concept for using it with atoms and immutable data.

FWIW Om Next moves away from cursors and towards something closer to GraphQL/Relay queries.
curl in verbose mode.
My approach to tight budgets is simple. There are just two rules:
1. Get to something that works ASAP
2. Always work on the most important thing

Once you have something that works, you can run out of money and still have created value. I don't tend to call this a MVP, but the idea is the same.

Working on the most important thing is hard, because it requires that you and the client/stakeholders communicate often and well.

If you can get this right, you shouldn't need to worry about the budget other than wholesale feasibility. (You still need to evaluate whether you can do the project at all.) Once you have something working, you just keep improving it until the cost outweighs the benefit of more work, then you're done.
If this disease is induced by prions, living in human brain, I suggest cooking elderly brains properly. You should not only heat the dish, but also apply more than 100,000 psi pressure simultaneously. This require a special oven. Glad, the Western culture is mostly immune, since this is not a normal addition to American diet, despite huge number of recent movies to promote this dietary habit.
I believe that the main problem is not allocation time (games already have loading times, that's not a problem), but fast access and not breaking the cache.
Under such a system, a photographer would presumably have to register each photograph before hosting the image on her website, or risk losing copyright protection.

This seems extremely onerous for a wide range of creative professions.
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Hey, I didn't say one was worse or better but merely suggested some arguments as to why one might dislike that signature.

Clearly, as you demonstrate, the syntax described can be shortened—but it wasn't.

And by the definition being tied to the implementation I mean that it's not possible to write, e.g.

foo :: Type1
bar :: Type2

foo = ...
bar = ...
So linear growth starves the economic beast, and would force us to abandon our current debt-based financial system of interest and loans.

Debt, interest and loans are not dependent on economic growth. Debt is fundamentally about reducing the latency between consumption and production; rather than having to wait until after you've produced something of value, you can consume some of that future production today, in exchange for promising to divert some of that future production. There's nothing here that requires the whole pie to keep on growing.
The company makes the usual claim that because they hash your MAC address that your privacy is assured.

Of course if you have the database and someone's MAC all you have to do is hash it and look it up.
What I don't understand is why copyright applies for so long (life + 70y so typically 120y+) and why intellectual property (patents) applies for such a short period (20y). Fundamentally it is the same thing. And one could argue that code could be treated either way.
No it's not futile.

I've done it (completely Google free). It's actually very easy to do and the comment about inferior UX is indicative of someone who hasn't seriously spent any time researching alternatives.

This article is just the author attemtping to justify to himself his unwillingness to do without Google services.

That's fine, if you want to use Google services you should be able to. Just don't pretend like everyone else is having the same difficulty moving away from them to make yourself feel better.
Like other posters here, I think your description does not sound like you are particularly slow. But even if you are, slowness is something that needs to simply be worked on--not despaired about. As my adviser in college used to say: turn your weaknesses into strength.

That may sound ridiculous when it comes to something like being slow to grasp concepts. It is something I have been struggling with as I've taken to studying Calculus almost 15 years later than most people. But I have been greatly encouraged by some of the things Barbara Oakley has to say. Here is a quote from chapter 12 of her book A Mind for Numbers, "Learning to Appreciate Your Talent":

If you are one of those people who can’t hold a lot in mind at once—you lose focus and start daydreaming in lectures, and have to get to someplace quiet to focus so you can use your working memory to its maximum—well, welcome to the clan of the creative. Having a somewhat smaller working memory means you can more easily generalize your learning into new, more creative combinations. Because you’re learning new, more creative combinations. Having a somewhat smaller working memory, which grows from the focusing abilities of the prefrontal cortex, doesn’t lock everything up so tightly, you can more easily get input from other parts of your brain. These other areas, which include the sensory cortex, not only are more in tune with what’s going on in the environment, but also are the source of dreams, not to mention creative ideas. You may have to work harder sometimes (or even much of the time) to understand what’s going on, but once you’ve got something chunked, you can take that chunk and turn it outside in and inside round—putting it through creative paces even you didn’t think you were capable of!
Hey cloudflare, how can you do all these impressive things yet your dns editor ui is so bad?

Try exporting your dns and then importing, compare the mess it makes on what should be a simple zone file, TXT records are slashed, records are out of order, TTL is changed, and the columns are so narrow you cannot even inspect the records for errors.
> No it wouldn't. Tuitions would plummet.

To whatever the "middle class" can afford.
it's difficult to call github a startup by any means.

4sq and Twitter could be startups - I'm not sure if they found a business model or not.
Trying out variants of older approaches would probably work, though; a system which grants a short (say, 14 or 28 years, like the old terms were) term of copyright automatically, but requires registration to extend the term beyond that would solve the orphan-works problem, and allow people who really wanted to maintain copyright on their old photographs to just batch-register them at the extension date.
I've done this --- see:

http://cluecc.sourceforge.net/

It compiles C89 C into Java, Javascript, Lua, Perl and Common Lisp. Pointers are represented as an array pointing at the object and an offset into the array, so sizeof(void * ) == 2 and sizeof(everything else) == 1. This allows efficient pointer arithmetic while still using one native allocation per object.

It relies heavily on C89 undefined behaviour. Alas, C99 adds (IIRC) a defined mapping from an object to bytes and vice versa, which means this approach won't work. Also, the compiler frontend I was using, sparse, had bugs where it would try to convert a pointer to an int, do arithmetic, and then convert back again. So it's not suitable for real work.

Performance was better than I was expecting it would run C on Java at 1/3 the speed of native. That's pretty good for a naive toy. Running C on LuaJIT was amazing; very nearly the same speed as native. (For a set of artificial, non-representative benchmarks.)

Java, Javascript and Lisp are all crippled by not having goto. goto allows you to express arbitrary basic block graphs, which C supports. Without it, I have to use a big switch statement inside a while loop --- JITs hate this. Emscripten gets around this by using algorithms to try and represent the basic block graph as much as possible with structured control flow statements, but this can't work in all situations, so it has to fall back to the explicit state machine if that doesn't work. Which is, of course, slow.

LuaJIT does support goto. When I converted from Lua 5.1 (with no goto) to LuaJIT, I estimated about a 30% speed improvement.

Languages without goto statements are toys, dammit...
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If people are willing to spend money on something that is apparently "worthless", then who are we to complain or be "high-morals" about and make illegal? It obviously represents some value to them, therefore they are willing to pay money for it.

Are they worthless, scammy degrees? Who knows, maybe. Are some people told lies and believing in it? Maybe the case, too.
My initial reaction is: "Scumbag permissions":

For Twitter signup:

> This application will be able to:

> Read Tweets from your timeline.

> See who you follow, and follow new people.

> Update your profile.

> Post Tweets for you.

> See your email address.

For Google it wants to see my email contacts.

This is very off-putting and makes me wary about giving you my email address.

The privacy policy (which alleviates some of my fears) should be linked much closer to the signup box rather than at the bottom of the page.

Also: it's asking for a password in a way that doesn't trigger Chrome's password manager.
They don't actually attribute the article to Bloomberg the publisher, it's the display name and links to the page[0] for one of their 'authors' who has apparently written over 100,000 articles in the last 2 months. :)

[0] http://www.ibloomberg.net/author/thanhcong/
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That is exactly my point !

Its a self-selection bias rather than anything. If a student is smart enough - he shouldn't be forced to shell out 5-6 years worth of his expected earning upfront to maybe add an exponential expected future productivity.

Its a terrible deal for students - and society.
I worked on a project for a client some time ago [1] where extraction of text from PDFs was a big part of it. Researched several products, tried them, settled on xpdf - the C library, used it from my C code. It worked well for many PDFs but not for some others [2].

[1] There could be better products by now. Also, had heard good things about PDFTextStream, which another comment here mentions.

[2] Some data would get corrupted, e.g. characters interchanged, missing characters, etc, in the extracted text.

There are technical reasons inherent in the nature of the PDF format, due to which 100% perfect text extraction, including correct character positions, is not always possible for all PDF files (only for some) - that's one thing I learned from working on that project. Some of that learning was from a key person at the company that sells and supports xpdf. His support and knowledge was very good. They even quickly fixed a bug or two that I found in the product.

But things do work for many cases. As an aside, I also developed a small program that used heuristics to identify cases in which the PDF extraction was incorrect. Was fun.
Alternative and nuclear energy use is still energy use. It may not create the same pollution as coal or oil, but that doesn't affect the arguments from the article.

Growth of energy use is unsustainable, and that may mean economic growth is unsustainable.
If we're on the subject of citing sources, what are your sources for saying that:

> the thesis is 100% incorrect

and guessing that:

> Facebook is crawling every piece of data possible (pictures, messages, etc) and then draws conclusions of my interests there. In addition to this, all FB user info is being hashed and compared against consumer spending data

That's a pretty sweeping statement. You'd be surprised at how naive (and distinctly not-amazing) the machine learning algorithms used in-production at places like Facebook can be (in-production, as opposed to cool research papers that aren't actually used in-production).

Going off of your simplified example, there are tons of contexts in which someone might say "run" without meaning anything related to the athletic activity. That's the definition of shitty targeting (false positive).
Seems to follow how upvoting works here.
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That's the nail on the head.

Once you start getting into these sorts of assumptions about trends and correlations, you really have to have a good understanding of all these inputs. They are all suspect to different degrees across different time horizons and scenarios.

What you really have when you put together these predictions is "Given A,B,C & D, this Y is likely to be whatever." That only works when you understand A,B,C & D quite well and keep them in your head. It's also bait for our biases and grand worldviews.

I had this massive argument 10 years ago with a politically active friend on the left. He was/is a sort of modern socialist-environmetalist. He brought up exactly this energy-gdp correlation and was extrapolating a log way into the future. It also played into his general sense that GDP growth is an unbecoming central goal for a society and that economic progress is at odds with the environment.

It's not a nonsensical perpective. That correlation is relevant. But, you need to get into the subtleties.

Even the concept of "economic growth" is an abstract thing. GDP as a measure of economic output is becoming less and less useful metric. Wikipedia consumption contributes nothing to GDP. Some kid torrenting game of thrones contributes nothing to GDP. These things have value, but monetary exchanges are not good proxies for them.

Even within the "energy intensive manufacturing" paradigm, an iphone's utility-to-energy cost ratio is a funky thing to try and fit in to the GDP concept which ultimately uses money to measure value. A 2015 iphone is worth more than a 2010 iphone. You can see this if you try to sell one and if you could go back to 2010 in time with a box of 2015 iphones you would see it as well. But beyond that, trying to do price adjustments (which are the basis of "keeping interest rate constant") on a rapidly developing technological product puts you in the weeds.

This complexity is exactly why these correlations and trends are interesting They cut through the messiness. I think we should still do this. But… you need to treat these in the same way you'd treat Kurzweil's theories. Interesting, but built on a lot of unknowns. Too many to make you too confident.
This is very unlikely to be a real conversation. A real economist would note that the economy can grow through provision of services that require very little energy relative to the value they add. Consider Google, for example. Sure, they use some electricity, but relative to their revenue that's extremely limited compared to a factory.

So this whole "discussion" is totally wrong-headed.
I admire your optimistic outlook :)

Like I've said, it's not whether it is a business, it's whether it looks like a business that will attract tax inspectors.

A tax inspection is not trivial. If you come out clean, congratulations. But if you don't relish the prospect of the tax inspector saying to you "Okay show me your accounts plus invoices and receipts for everything for the past 5 years", followed by several weeks of accoutancy grind-work, then it's wise to be prepared in advance.

Cars on the front lawn and a sign in your window are definitely reasons that the council (not the law) may visit you.

Okay -- I'm done with this. I've said my piece :) In summary:

1. Good luck Hoffice! Looks great.

2. Hoffice and hosts, understand your responsibilities regarding tax and insurance.

3. Tax inspectors and council inspectors are real, and they knock on doors of people like you and me every day.

4. You should try to predict tax/legal liabilities beforehand.

5. Saying you're legit doesn't prove it. Proving it does :) And that can be a real headache.

Edit: typo and formatting.
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Marxists don't have a concept of the 'middle class', so not directly.
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It's easy to forget, because it never happened. Following is not "a thing" that's popular to do on Facebook. Likes and friending are really the dominant interactions.
This one of the problems the internet brings as a pull mechanism. The great thing about Blendle is that younger people actually pay for content and have the possibility to read articles from multiple outlets (which is better imo than only reading only single newspaper)
My understanding is that the notification on phones when a new key is added is built into the OS and can't be easily bypassed. That notification shows up when the key is added. If the key isn't added on the device then messages won't be signed for it.

Also, I thought the consensus was that Apple was 'backdooring' iMessage by giving LE access to iCloud backups which include iMessage, not compromising iMessage directly?
I think it evens out. Most people are pretty open to reasonable, objective expository writing. There are fringes that will dislike anything that challenges their beliefs.

Also I assume that opinion and advocacy pieces are clearly distinguished from straight news? Just because something is on the front page of the NYT or WSJ doesn't mean the writer doesn't have an agenda.
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"You’ll need Ruby and RubyGems."

Nope you'll need a decent webbrowser + f12

Additionally some plugs like tamperdata,EditThisCookie etc...
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If you enjoy reading about the early history of MI6 then you'd enjoy "Mission to Tashkent":

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/0192803875

Riveting stuff.