skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really insightful. I can definitely picture the person "listening" while they're really just waiting to sell the person on an idea once they've finished. Taking the mindset of true reflection, hearing something that you didn't want to hear and didn't expect, and then adjusting based on that is truly challenging.
I still have a wire wrap tool and a spool each of red and green wire.
This is going beyond ridiculous.
"First, most billionaires don't just have billions in cash laying around usable to buy things. ... The economic loss from this step would be huge."

There would be no economic loss. In real terms, the companies that the billionaires are selling are just as valuable. The sellers might be big enough to cause the paper value to go down temporarily, but it would only hurt the sellers themselves. And obviously, in nominal terms the cash would enter right back into the economy once the coal was purchased. So there would be near-zero negative impact to the overall economy from the asset sales.

"This puts the value of the US coal around 20 trillion (ignoring a few factors like present value, etc., but this is around the total value). To purchase the land right from owners would cost somewhere around this amount, give or take an order of magnitude."

It's hard to get exact numbers, but the total value of US coal is many many times higher than the value of just the mineral rights. The legal right to mine $50 worth of coal is obviously worth way, way less than $50. In other words, you can wipe out a huge amount of coal usage with smartly bought mineral rights, especially, like the story alludes to, if you buy them in such a way as to be inconvinient to everyone around you.

I think the basic idea is sound. The main problem would be that such a solution would be profoundly regressive. Western billionaires literally plunging poor people into darkness. It's probably not a bad plan B if an international political solution fails and things get very dire.
Off topic but before I knew what the article was about, the title reminded me of this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MusyO7J2inM
I actually have it open, and so far, it's not as much as I thought.

Still, the interpreter I've previously looked at is Lua, so it's a lot bigger.
In Defense of “Gentrification”
This is also in large part why people tend to hire/fund younger versions of themselves. If judgement wasn't arbitrary much more diversity should be expected.
The term activist judges is normally used against liberal judges but the corporate lawyers that Bush installed into the federal courts have been overturning long established laws and precedents at an astonishing pace.
Cracking that means either convincing everyone to drop legacy apps for web apps

To drop good apps for web apps.
Pro players are grownups and can make their own decisions about life altering injuries. But I think we'll see the end of high school football very soon, when the lawsuits begin and school insurance steps in.

I predict we'll replace it with flag, touch, and rugby and that will be a further dig to the NFL.
Yep same here actually. Docker certainly helps with the "simple to setup" bit, along with a script I wrote - http://github.com/lukebennett/ovpn
Public sector regulators drawing a salary and answerable (at least in theory) to democratically elected bosses and ultimately the people.
In the 1920s two murderers were defended by science
that is a good point. For the sake of argument regarding this article, there is a presumption that the government owns the mineral rights to lands west of the Mississippi: "But west of the Mississippi, things work different. Especially in Montana and the Mountain West, the government mostly holds mineral rights."

But if one does not accept the government's property claim on those mineral rights, then I suppose the act of paying the government to forbid other companies from mining there could be considered a bribe.

The article is presenting a solution that works in the current state of the world: presuming the current state of property rights and legal structure.
All I need is steam. It's not disingenuous to claim that, because its true :)
"Toxicological information: ... The soluble cadmium content in the pigment is less than 5ppm. Only large volumes may have adverse impact on human health."
It's ok to me for Apple to do this, too. Regulating is what governments and laws are for. Apple can exclude stuff from its ecosystem simply because it competes with its own offerings; excluding it for 'moral' reasons is relatively charitable.
So the PG estimator is clearly problematic. I agree that the yummfajitas (YM) estimator looks to be consistent. In this case though, we're dealing with (small) finite sample sizes, so we need to come up with some sort of test statistic. What would the YM test be here? It seems tricky since you are dealing with a conditional distribution based on left-censored data. I'm also not aware of any difference-of-minimums test, though I am happy to be educated if there is one!
Wind blows 24 hours ...

Not everyone in Mexico lives on the Baja coast.

... 3 times more water ...

What part of "uses solar power to purify water" lead you to believe it has anything to do with quantity?
Unfortunately, wire-wrap wire, tools, and (most importantly) sockets are expensive and difficult to come by these days.
But they do not force you. You can register with your own email without any links to your google or facebook account.
Ten years: We haven't finished inventing it yet, but when we do, it'll be awesome!

https://xkcd.com/678/
Back in the 80s he wrote a book called "The Society of Mind" which I think is an amazing book. The core theory, which really resonated with me and stuck with me, is that we do not consist of a single mind. Our consciousness is a set of smaller subsegments (he calls them agents) that work (generally) together.

If you think about the fact that looking at our brain you can see the evolutionary differences compared with other organism,s this starts to make a lot of sense. We have these different systems that have varying ages, with natural selection putting more pressure to develop a new system or enhance an old one, and the brain winding up almost like a tree trunk with different rings. It makes sense these smaller chunks do their own thing then "talk" to other parts. we even have language referencing it, "I'm of two minds about XYZ", and diseases like schizophrenia and hallucinations we trace to various parts of the brain not recognizing each other or not working properly together. We have studies that seem to indicate some decisions being made before we consciously think about them.

About a decade ago I really started to feel like I've begun to recognize different "aspects" and understand why I feel the way I do by understanding this theory. An example is, if I have a big decision, and I find that I'm undecided and really unhappy while trying to come to a conclusion, it's usually because I've actually already decided, and I'm unhappy because I'm arguing with myself, I'm not accepting that decision. Rarely have I been unhappy with the decision I'd already made, too.

He's a brilliant guy with some amazing work going back decades.
There is some controversy about Systemd and Lennart Poettering, one of the main developers.

Wikipedia have more info:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd#History_and_controvers...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lennart_Poettering#Controversi...
I've always wondered how sensible is it to dig temporary holes/ditches that will store excess amounts of water and then later fill it back up once we're done with it. This is similar to how an empty swimming pool may be used to store excess rainfall. Perhaps the work put into it isn't worth the effort?
I'm going to take a contrary point of view: Class action lawsuits (where a group of customers sue a company that they purchased a product from) are almost always pointless and expensive wastes of money, and we should encourage contracts to forbid them.

* Many class-action suits end up with a result of lawyers get $50 million, and everyone who bought a product gets a coupon for more of that product.

* The threshold for what can be the basis of a class-action is extremely low.

* A good portion of "legitimate" class-action suits could also be construed as federal fraud / false advertising suits. (the example of a bank selling insurance that couldn't possibly be used would be an example)

All of these are different from, say, a town suing a company for environmental damage. In that case, there's no contract between the individual citizens of the town and the company, so this trend won't impact those lawsuits at all.
Good to know. I've personally been using write.as for the past few months for stuff like this, as they're more Tor friendly [0]. What do you use instead?

[0] http://writeas7pm7rcdqg.onion
Here's one project that's starting:

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-stormwater-pla...

Enough rainwater falls on LA to provide for all of LA's water needs. Now almost all of this rain goes into the ocean.
Have you watched Mr Robot? This is what happens what you raise hackers. As someone mentioned in the comments, as a Human - albeit a curious human, not a hacker.
Yeah it'd make more sense to tax coal. That will still affect the price of electricity, but at least you'd have some money to mitigate those effects.

Ironically it seems that rich people have the most interest in preventing that from happening.
I'll give you points for consistency. But enough relevant information is already before me. With tens of millions of websites, I have no obligation to look carefully at each one to decide it's not for me.
We haven't heard an official response yet. We did receive a note that applications coming after the deadline (like ours) can take extra days or weeks to review. Nice to know they actually review everything! :-D
I disagree.

A prosecutor has the full weight of a government and the associated resources behind him. To bring those resources to bear on someone they know is innocent should be a crime all in its own right.
my understanding is that dotty could be the new scalac,

ATM it compiles a subset of scala, but the plan is to make it compile everything and then still provide support for further plt research/scala features.

Their readme[0] and initial announcement[1] are as much details as I know of.

[0] https://github.com/lampepfl/dotty
[1] https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/scala-internals/6HL6...
It's not an analogy.

I was giving a different example of an algorithm than the one denoted by the assignment. "Use the repeated addition strategy..." is a clear call to demonstrate the application of a named procedure.

This is no accident, by the way. This is a deliberate design decision of those who created the common core standards. One of the goals is to teach algorithmic thinking.

It's pretty easy to google about if you can find your way through the reactionary hissy-fit memes.
Hi! Typesafe Scala team lead here (formerly in Martin Odersky's lab, where I implemented type constructor polymorphism aka "higher-kinded types" in 2007 and rewrote the pattern matcher in 2.10, before joining Typesafe in 2012).

First of, congrats to the Dotty team -- this is an important (first) milestone! One of our next shared goals is making the Scala standard library cross-compile on Scala and Dotty, by the way.

I'm personally more excited about Scala 2.12, though! The new compilation schemes for lambdas and traits are much more efficient in many ways (bytecode size, runtime performance and binary compatibility) than the old one, forced on us by Java 6's limitations. Both schemes were prototyped in dotc and developed in parallel, as part of our ongoing effort in aligning Scala with Dotty (actual convergence is still years away -- in the mean time, Scala versions will gradually adopt ideas that are proven in Dotty).

As always, evolving the language carefully is a feature in itself! (I understand it may seem too slow to some, but most users are happy with this pace, we think.) We have a responsibility to our fast-growing user base to not pull a Scala 2.10 every 18 months ;-) We will, however, keep moving forward, as witnessed by the ongoing deprecation & modularization in the standard library. Eventually, deprecated features will be removed, even...

Happy programming!
> You can absolutely stop trading with CaveBob! You can do this, as I said, by "placing a limit order that doesn't cross the spread." So if Bob is selling $STOCK for $10, and buying for $9.95 and you want to buy you can place a limit order to buy for $9.95. CaveBob won't sell to you at that price but maybe someone else will come along later to take it from you.

Does that solve the issue? Suppose that I'm usually selling meat at 10$/kilo, but the buying side is at 9.50. Then when there's a catastrophe (some other vendor burned down), I could sell them at a higher price, 20$/kilo. If the news reach the HFT 1 millisecond before it reaches me, they can buy it at 10$ from me, then sell it at 20$/kilo for a big profit, but I would much rather have sold it at 20$/kilo myself. Is there any limit order that prevents that?
That's pretty cool. It would be even cooler if it weren't PHP, though.
Does using a solar panel to run a reverse osmosis machine work better than an evaporation-based solar still? If so, why is it more efficient?
I don't know, this here seems pretty popular: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-downloader-p...

It doesn't work with the sites you mentioned, at least not with Reuters or Facebook but it does work with many others. Why is, for example, Vimeo fair game for this extension but Youtube isn't?
This is a very deep topic, but in summary, I believe the difficulty for women looking to marry in this day and age actually has more to do with the supply side.

Marriage is a terrible, terrible decision for any individual with above average income or assets. Given that most people who get married want to have kids, and because of biology women usually need to be the ones to take maternity leave, this creates an imbalance in earning power that only intensifies throughout the length of the marriage.

As a result, the lower earning spouse has an increasingly larger financial incentive to initiate a divorce. Note that this incentive is completely independent of the relationship between the spouses, because of the way marital assets are divided after a no-fault divorce.

Even in the happiest marriage imaginable, if there's any income/wealth disparity, the spouse on the low end has a massive economic incentive to initiate divorce for a payout.

This is why I said in my first post that marriage is an inherently broken institution, and needs serious reform. Incentives matter.
> Would you happen to know of any?

Reading the newspapers for the last 38 years or so is my source, I don't know what it is like where you live but the trend is very disturbing. It's all about 'access' and advertising money today and I'm fairly sure that it wasn't like that in the past (though for sure these are not absolutes, it is merely a trend that the reporting skews far more towards entertainment and embedded opinions than it does towards reporting the facts and letting people draw their own conclusions).
What's interesting is that in Rugby you wear basically no protective gear, which is probably why it has less injuries. With a helmet and armour you feel much more invulnerable.
This is way too easy. The chat is so organized. :-) They will be done in about: 30 minutes times the input delay.

The original twitchplayspokemon took about a month if I remember correctly and it worked because nobody had a concrete plan, unlike here. Their first voting system was very chaotic with an input selected from the chat every x seconds instead of a voting consensus. This time as long as the chat contains at least 50% of voters that vote correctly they will win without mistakes.

A less boring twitchplays would be just a virtual machine with linux and some abstract/vague goal.
I'm tempted to quibble that you can use Beeminder without a credit as long as you never go off track. But ultimately I think you're right, we're guilty of this. Ideally the Quantified Self part and the commitment contract part would be independent but interoperable tools.
As part of my degree 10 years ago we did wire wrapping to make a simple 68332 computer with serial terminals for I/O. The team I was on was weeks ahead of the others, until we were stuck by what turned out to be one wrong wire.

I think it was dropped from the course a few years later.
It would be nice if I could access this article with https, so that my ISP cannot see what I am reading at theguardian.
For the next three years, and then the exemption could be revoked. When industry lobby successfully stirs up other groups with "safety" concerns I don't think it will be so easy to win another exemption.
Of course, this makes the assumption that the actors are actually cooperating.
>> "How do they enforce their beliefs via the political process?"

By electing and lobbying politicians who make laws.

>> "Last time I checked (in the U.S. at least) you needed to be elected to office in order to pass policy and I don't believe there are that many billionaires in elected office."

Billionaires don't actually have to be in office in order to enforce their beliefs via the political process.

>> "remember that your money spends just as well in Washington as theirs does"

Using money to implement laws via politics is rent-seeking behavior. But although my money may spend just as well in Washington as their money does, the key argument this article is making is: market methods can be more effective than political methods for limiting greenhouse gas emissions.
Please stop sending drug addicts to prison, they're white now
It sort of makes sense. Systemd has many utilities which can replace stuff from Busybox. And Busybox contains its own init system.
Is this not what reservoirs are?
I'm willing to give Apple the benefit of the doubt for now that it was a automated layer or a ignorant reviewer. I'm hoping for a reversal of the decision here.

Regardless, I really lament the dilemma of the open web vs. walled-off apps. Hopefully Apple shares that perspective. My regrets to the FLOSS community, but years of using substandard laptops, lagging user experiences, and dealing with low-level Linux problems has gotten to me.

Please save the "you should try this or that" -- I'm just tired of the whole hassle. I want to spend my time focusing on building things and focusing on higher level problems. For me, that means using a Mac.

It's possible that companies like Apple will push folks like me to see how far they can extend their walled garden. I'll admit, at some point, it would cause me to jump ship. I guess I'll just hope that reason will win out here.
Cool, thanks. I'll see how I can work it in.
Good. Hopefully more distros pick up this stance. systemd is a bad joke.
In practice, you can't: stuff like mod_python was never popular and never really gained a foothold in the shared-hosting market.

Deploying a python script today means either building a VPS or hunting for a niche provider like webfaction (which will still need you to drop to the shell in most cases anyway). It's another level of skill required.
This is about the case that Scott Aaronson mentioned in this Democritus lecture on Free Will:

The misconception committed by the free will camp is the one I alluded to before:
if there's no free will, then none of us are responsible for our actions, and
hence (for example) the legal system would collapse. Well, I know of only one
trial where the determinism of the laws of physics was actually invoked as a legal
defense. It's the Leopold and Loeb trial in 1926. Have you heard of this? It was
one of the most famous trials in American history, next to the OJ trial. So,
Leopold and Loeb were these brilliant students at the University of Chicago (one
of them had just finished his undergrad at 18), and they wanted to prove that they
were Nietzschean supermen who were so smart that they could commit the perfect
murder and get away with it. So they kidnapped this 14-year-old boy and bludgeoned
him to death. And they got caught---Leopold dropped his glasses at the crime scene.

They were defended by Clarence Darrow---the same defense lawyer from the Scopes
monkey trial, considered by some to be the greatest defense lawyer in American
history. In his famous closing address, he actually made an argument appealing to
the determinism of the universe. "Who are we to say what could have influenced
these boys to do this? What kind of genetic or environmental influences could've
caused them to commit the crime?" (Maybe Darrow thought he had nothing to lose.)
Anyway, they got life in prison instead of the death penalty, but apparently it
was because of their age, and not because of the determinism of the laws of
physics. [1]

[1] http://www.scottaaronson.com/democritus/lec18.html
> But there is a difference between what people say and what they do.

I am not sure what is your argument. Voting (if that's what you're alluding to) can have the same real consequences as spending money. Both are a limited resource.

Anyway, I wanted to remark something that perhaps wasn't obvious. When I say "distribute resources democratically", it doesn't necessarily mean to vote about every resource. It can also mean to democratically establish rules that go against the market in specific cases, or choose market in some other cases.

Pretty much what I am saying is that free markets can fail and it should be democratic decision on whether they failed in specific case and how to remedy it.

> but social interaction does not reward honesty

Interesting. Not sure what you mean by social interaction, but it seems that this contradicts the idea that free markets can work in human societies. In particular, it implies that people are rewarded for dishonesty, which breaks down the free flow of information assumption needed for proper market function.
Interference here is targeted functional manipulation. Not fifth degree unintended side effects. The user's wish is not considered. There's a reason not a lot Xposed modules are on Google Play.

Don't like it? Enable 3rd party sources (a function added by Google!) and install those apps from elsewhere.
Actually they recommend not using Youtube but https://media.ccc.de/ instead.