skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For others curious, Latin Ducunt volentem fata nolentem trahunt. means "Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling".
If you really want bias with out facts, try reading Chinadaily:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2015cpcplenarysession/201...

They just flat out tell you "China will keep to a growth rate of 6.5% no matter what". All is well because...they promise.
I currently own a 5C and I think I'll eventually replace it with a 5S. The iPhone 6/6S can fit my hand also, but it's not really as comfortable as the 5S and below were.
I feel the same cynicism. But then I remember cynicism !== intelligence. I'm trying to actively cut down on my news, while keeping a few channels open (HN/geopolitics/basketball..), in order to become less of a cynic..
Aren't we "fair game", though? When it comes to winning or losing an election, there's no law that could stop the deployment of these technologies, but merely influence how openly they could operate.

I'm not trying to doomsay here, only pointing out that this would be far from the most brazen that political campaigns are routinely known to be, both ethically and legally speaking.
Of course, pumped storage (or any kind of hydro) is many orders of magnitude more dangerous and environmentally destructive than fission.

The Banqiao Reservoir dam failure alone killed over 170,000 people and made over 11 million homeless.

I worry far more about the hundreds of millions of people living downstream of the Three Gorges Dam than I do about people living near fission plants.
I like regulation. I see these articles about people in China suffering from severe asthma and entire major cities where you can't go outside due to the haze of pollution and I thank my lucky stars our forerunners had the decency and common sense to think of the future and not just short-term bottom-lines.
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Language to get job fast and easy? (C#, Java, Python, or Web Development)
What language has a high demand, and could get one a job easily?
"And of course once you've legalized the selling of marijuana, you're potentially openings the doors for other substances"

I agree you've got to start somewhere. I find the argument that marijuana is a door opener to other substances is flawed though. If pot didn't exist, would the same argument be made for liquor stores, tobacco sales, coffee shops, red bulls at 7/11, cough medicine at Walmart etc? Or is it just because of the stigma around marijuana?
Ok this is going to sound silly, and I apologize if this isn't a nice contribution.

But I believe to have read quite a while back that H2S is why poop stinks so bad for us. It can lead to anoxic events: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...

So evolutionary speaking we might have adjusted our olfactory sense to stay clear of any H2S sources.
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We have to find some way to filter these million above-average kids into a few hundred people who truly make a difference. ... or perhaps we need to simply admit that aspects of life outside of formal education including blind luck and chance may contribute overwhelmingly to these types of transformation later in life. Success and life goals are relative, subjective, and frankly optional anyway. There is an argument to be made for the notion that parents and especially the state have no business over-defining these things for young people, particularly given the rapidly changing nature of the global social and technological landscape.
Very interesting project, although I believe the name suffers from RAS syndrome: Reasonable System for [Cascading Style Sheets] Stylesheet Structure.
When your future economic well being depends on reading tea leaves, you better be reading tea leaves (pay attention to the news). You can't just put your head in the sand.
Why is your being 'sick and tired' of seeing a valid concern negating the value of discussing a valid concern? Nobody's doing anything about this valid concern, so clearly it hasn't been discussed enough.
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I'm really impressed with Fedora 23. My only gripe is the horrific sub pixel rendering. I'm waiting for rpmfusion to come out so I can install an alternative font rendering engine.

It's also lacking netbeans in the repo which is kind of a hassle for me.
Characterizing Self-Healing Software Systems (2007) [pdf]
> I know on the 6 you can double tap the home key to bring the screen down, but that is a bandaid. I also found the double tap unresponsive sometimes, often having to try two or three times, in which time I could have just repositioned my hand.

I think he already know that, and I kind of agree.
The 2012 iPhone 5 (and 2013 iPhone 5C, which is essentially the same but plastic) still run iOS smoothly.

But that's probably because the iPhone 4S has half as much RAM and a 0.3GHz slower CPU.
I just wanted to add an evolutionary perspective on why H2S might smell so bad for us. Sure it's dangerous, but so are many gases that don't smell. However:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permian%E2%80%93Triassic_extin...
Theory: Jar Jar Binks was a trained Force user, knowing Sith collaborator
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Was the tulip bubble based on fractional reserve banking?
I'll agree that I dislike this process but I don't think one judge the company just because they have the coding test first. It's a hiring process, not pure proof of company culture and their thoughts.

But yes, communication first would always be nice imo.
I believe that's what they call "economic contagion". Capital is trying to find safe returns somewhere, anywhere.
While I'm sure some great hackers worked on Smart Reply, I don't think it's the result of the process you imagine. Smart Reply is using really sophisticated machine learning to advance one of Google's core goals, which is the creation of an AI and autonomous agents. A chatbot like the kind that finds a response to email is just the first shoe to drop.
Arguably, the easiest way to contend with this would be to send Gmail users a private link with the text of your communication. Or encrypting the text.
Here's a changelog for the API:

https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/api/docker_remote_a...

The API is backwards compatible, so you if you don't want any of the new features, there is no breakage! E.g. if you're using Docker 1.8 (API version 1.20), prefix your API calls with /1.20/ and you're safe to upgrade to Docker 1.9.
Property taxes encourage good behavior in making people use their property productively. With property taxes, you just can't sit on property as a form of speculation, which would take it out of use to the detriment of the local economy. In china, even in first tier cities, you have a huge number of apartments that are unoccupied because they are bought for speculation reasons alone.

China has a huge problem, however, in that property was bought already with upfront taxes and the assumption of no property taxes. Introducing a property tax now is going to make those people mad, understandably.
Running self-hosted mail is getting a lot harder because spam engines are much more hostile to it. Also, most well-known mail clients for self-hosters are very dated. There's a few new ones on the way, like Mailpile, but we aren't there yet.
Pumped storage probably makes more sense when it is paired with fission than when not. The power companies built this one that isn't quite so scary:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludington_Pumped_Storage_Power...
Also Chromium and mozilla-central are monorepos, servo/servo is only part of all the Servo code. There are a bunch of other repos under servo/. We also rely on some major Rust libraries like hyper, but those could be excluded.
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>We'll be running out of places for archaeologist to explore one day.

We are also creating new places for archeologist to explore all the time. Like time capsules, abandoned facilities and space debris.
I don't think that people here are complaining about immigration, so much as absentee landlords.
What Do Chubby Kids Eat?
Adam Curtis's "Century of the Self" covers the historical context of advertising, propaganda (rebranded "Public Relations" by Sigmund Freud's nephew, Edward Bernays), and Western politics in the 20th century fairly well.

The rise of advertising and focus groups to design products and politics to appeal to emotional desires.

https://vimeo.com/75776128, https://vimeo.com/75779119 (pt2), https://vimeo.com/10245146 (pt3), https://vimeo.com/75784765 (pt4)
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Everyone has "people" now. Having "people" is no longer for the rich. But they're also not really people.
Using gesture recognition and machine learning to translate sign language to speech - brilliant!

Of all the interesting things people have been doing with Kinect, Leap Motion, etc., this seems to be one of the most practical and helpful application. I hope they pursue it further and develop a product for the general public, it could be of great benefit to people.

They could have volunteers provide more input to teach and improve the algorithm, and even branch out into other sign language dialects..
How Æxecor’s programming error led to 28000 tons of coal delivered (2009)
Looking for some feedback on a project! If you're willing:

1. What other uses can you see for this? (e.g. a 'Burningman essentials' list)

2. What channels should we incorporate other than Amazon (e.g. Overstock.com)?

3. We've heard feedback that 5% isn't appealing enough. What percentage would be appealing? Would Amazon credit be more appealing?

4. Are you currently a consumer of these products (vitamins, cosmetics, etc)? If so, how did you decide on those products and where do you normally buy them from? What inspires you to try a new product?

5. If you made a Vitabee plan, would you be comfortable posting on your social media / sharing with your friends? Why or why not? [Not asking you to make one - just seeing if people are comfortable recommending]
You will be pleased to know that 1Password for Teams does not use Dropbox for syncing and has what we call Better Than Two-Factor™ through the use of an Account Key. From our "Understanding the Account Key" article (https://support.1password.com/account-key/):

With traditional two-factor authentication, an existing device is used to authorize a new one. But the existing device is only used for authorization. The one-time passwords are not used to harden the encryption.

Your Account Key works in much the same way. It is required to authorize a new device. However, your Account Key is actually used to improve the encryption of your data. Both your Master Password and your Account Key are required to decrypt your data.

More in that article. :)
I, too, am hanging out for the 7 series to see if they refresh the 4" display. I completely agree with you that I prefer to use my phone one-handed and the shift-the-screen-down hack that the larger idevices use is really a bad solution to the problem.

I actually went so far as to buy a new 5S a couple of weeks ago after I got drunk and threw my old one at the ground one too many times and smashed it to pieces. It was due for replacement anyway because the battery was hosed and losing charge way too fast. I could've paid a bit more for the 6 or 6s and I love the shape and construction of the phone, but the size is simply a dealbreaker for me.
Then what isn't 'petty'? It's not like it's zero-sum, there are also people working on using AI for recognizing cancer cells on medical imaging, or to manage climate change risk. And if we don't try, we'll never know what is 'petty' and what is useful. And also, we can learn a lot from the 'exercise' we get in developing small-scale applications of machine learning, which can then be applied later to more 'worthy' applications.
Just realized the team is a pair of 18-year-olds! My goodness, so smart and socially conscious.
Note: GMail actually tells you exactly what it matched to when displaying the warning.
You can run the numbers for thermal storage. It's not fantastic. Probably a 60-70% return on input + plus waste heat. However thermal storage are very compact. Rough estimate I get; 100MW for 10 hours with a 2.5 acre footprint. One also gets about 40MW of waste heat which could be used for commercial or industrial heating.

Currently though, complaining about storage has a cart before the horse aspect. Since for the immediate future photo voltaic plants are competing with gas fired peaking plants not nuclear or coal fired base load plants. (If you ever wonder why the Koch brothers really don't like Solar plants it's because solar cuts into the market for natural gas)
Looks like https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YeL_ZLTmrGJDYtI5LNif... needs to be updated
Couldn't you use ssh and build something with sshfs?
Yes! I can't wait for my ESP to arrive so I can try all this out.
I've been watching these 5 RCs for a while now because of great additions:

- Build time variables: https://docs.docker.com/engine/reference/builder/#arg

- docker volume subcommand, finally we have a sane way to clean up left over volumes which are left by default.
It's not pre-computing an answer, it's training a neural network that will be able to answer that and similar questions with minimal or no human interaction.

Whether that works out or not remains to be seen, but it's definitely worth investing research effort in to.
I'd love to see this extended in future to include:

- using mannerisms I have used with the sender in past emails

- scan my calendar schedule and have an idea of my availability and use that in the response

The product in its current form sounds great and I'm keen to give it a try.
Now that you can buy servers in tiny linear increments, it seems more interesting (but less headline-y) to talk about KB per connection or CPU per connection. It looks like this is about 41KB per connection.

For comparison, I checked my not-very-optimized go server, and it looks like (based on VSZ value) to use 25KB per connection in go, with 43KB per connection used by nginx (to provide SSL termination).
They could eventually use these as order pick-up points for customers or launching points for drone deliveries. The biggest pain when using Amazon is having to worry about the package getting stolen or going and tracing it down at the shipping office. I'd rather just drop by the Amazon store on my way home from work get the package and be on my way.
> More importantly, people have looked for such alleles in the Ashkenazi population and have failed to find them.

They have? I'm not aware of any GWASes targeting intelligence using Ashkenazi samples.
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> But to say that someone has 'impossibly high standards' is another way of saying that they have an inflated self image.

I would disagree. They're similar but different; one is internal and external, the other is internal.

As someone with impossibly high standards, I sometimes find myself holding other people to those standards and feeling like they're frauds as well. I know many other people with similar exhibited behaviors.

However, I feel like having an inflated self image would be different; it would only directly affect the person in question.
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> Aside from the creepy factor (...)

One man's "creepy factor" is another's superbly useful feature. The feeling of creepiness probably stems from being surprised and defaulting to negative reaction. Remember that GMail was never supposed to be a dumb mailbox. If you want a dumb mailbox, there are tons of alternatives (i.e. almost every other provider and various open-source UI packages).

Honestly, I really enjoy those "creepy" features and want much more. For me, they can, and definitely should.
Equating nuclear (in all it's forms) and fracking is not particularly helpful. They're very different approaches, with radically different considerations, not to mention that some reactor designs can actually consume existing stockpiles of nuclear waste as fuel.

I'm as big a critic of fracking as you're going to find, but being overly emotional and applying the fallacy of equivocation isn't helping anything here - and might be hurting if the appropriate application of modern nuclear technology can actually solve many of our issues (or at least help). For that we do need solid analysis which does take into account the "huge costs in the form of negative externalities" - which is bound to come from outside the pro-nuclear industry.
Wish they removed the backdoors this time.
Well, they did it because it was easy. And cheap.

If you want safe nuclear power, including demolishing the reactors safely, safely getting rid of all the materials, nine nines safety, etc, then it won’t be profitable.

If you want for-profit nuclear power, then either the government has to subsidize it, or it has to be unsafe.

Usually, it’s both unsafe (companies save money everywhere, including stuff like not securing the generator cough Fukushima cough) and barely profitable.
> The weaknesses you outline in the introduction are pretty serious.

There's no weakness there that's not fixable. Replay protection can be easily added in the layer above, and rolling the topic key can also be done. The nonce problem can go away with using the wider Salsa variant.

> How to exchange the topic key is described as out of scope, but totally critical since you also propose renewing the topic key as a way of attaining forward secrecy.

Where did you see that? I go into a lot of detail here: https://stringphone.readthedocs.org/en/latest/protocol.html#...

> You totally hand-waved away the exchange of participant keys.

See the previous point.

> I'm pretty sure you've exposed some cryptographic weaknesses in the core protocol but I'm not going to spend the time to keep analyzing.

Hmm.

> Solutions will come in the form of standards adoption, hegemony, government regulation, and probably a combination of all three.

"Don't bother working on it" doesn't sound like very useful advice...
That's odd. I just tested it and it worked fine.

No worries, I copied your e-mail from your profile and added you manually
Tesla CEO Elon Musk: Cars all go self-driving in 20 years
"Only".

EDIT: VW should be heavily penalized for their behavior. One might argue, "Its not a big deal. Its just environmental regulations." Would you feel the same way if they had submitted a stronger vehicle for crash testing and then proceeded to use lower strength materials for production vehicles? They're only people.
So it looks like smartphones are going where computers did. That's encouraging!
A retweet puts the tweet into your public feed, as if you had tweeted it (of course, in the UI it is correctly attributed to the original author). A favorite/star/heart/like/"the other button", just flags the tweet in your account so that you can refer to it easier later (in another, less public feed).
Oh. Never mind.

I somehow had it confused with a JavaScript implementation. Not sure how I had that misconception in my head.
Rob, thanks for the personal reply - much more impressed now :) That all makes perfect sense, & is much more detail than I had before.
> To use your myostatin mutation example, the increase in muscle mass does not lead to significantly faster animals as the supporting structures are not there to utilise this increased muscle.

It leads to significantly stronger animals. That's not useless, for either prey or predators.

> Human intelligence is an emergent trait like speed determined by the co-ordination of many sub-systems.

We don't know what human intelligence is on a neurological basis. Imaging studies are linking it to a number of things, but it's still preliminary and so it's premature to baldly assert that there's no possible single mutation which might help.

> As an aside I remember reading a paper from long ago that suggested that high intelligence was the result of the relatively absence of mutant alleles at the various intelligence loci.

Mutation load hasn't been found to be strongly correlated with intelligence in studies which have looked at it directly, and the GCTAs already upper bound any such effect: "The total burden of rare, non-synonymous exome genetic variants is not associated with childhood or late-life cognitive ability", Marioni et al 2014 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3953855/
"A genome-wide analysis of putative functional and exonic variation associated with extremely high intelligence" http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/mp201510... , Spain et al 2015
For one, the argument that "solar takes a ridiculous amount of area" becomes less compelling if you realize that each home can supply its own energy using existing roof area.
As another commenter has mentioned, Japan is kind of a special case (although it would be great if it weren't). In 1600, when the shogun rose to power, there was a real threat of deforestation. Many laws were passed to stop the cutting of trees. Japanese people endured many hardships over the centuries because of these policies. However, there was an understanding that the forests were key to the ecological balance of the area (they control water run off, which helps the farmers and allows rivers to deliver nutrients to the sea which helps the fisheries). My understanding is that in the Edo period (from 1600 to the late 1800s) virtually everything was recycled and then when it couldn't be used any more, it was burned as fuel -- there just weren't resources available to do otherwise.

There is an ebook [1] extolling the virtues of Edo society, and while I think you have to take it with a grain of salt (it paints a very rosy picture), it is very interesting.

I noticed another book [2] which looks like it would be an interesting read, but I haven't done so yet.

One of these days I'd like to learn more about current forestry practices in Japan. I live in Shizuoka prefecture and I see some areas cleared occasionally for tea fields. Also, some of the cedar stands are threatened by invasion from bamboo and you can sometimes see them trying to clear the bamboo and replant cedar. But firewood is currently so cheap that you can often get it for free in my area, which worries me slightly.

[1] http://japanfs.org/en/edo/index.html

[2] http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520063129
I found this video speculating that the pyramids were built by floating the blocks in water kind of interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1y8N0ePuF8
with 100s millions of user, each question will become a common question.
No direct support, but you can use scripts like https://github.com/adlogix/docker-machine-nfs to do the mount sharing yourself.
Are you taking the piss, or do you have a reliable citation for the presence of backdoors in previous versions?