skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, I can say that.

The guy is talking about socialization of gender, and proving that it happens how he says because he doesn't personally remember it happening some other way. This blithely ignores that this is an actual field with actual decades of research. E.g., Gilligan's "In a Different Voice" is 33 years old at this point, and that's built on research that goes back decades more.

It also ignores decades of discussion about the discussion of gender and sexism. The blowhard guy asserting that there are no problems because he has never personally experienced them is so common that it is literally a meme:

http://cdn.viralwomen.com/ContentFiles/viralwomen.com/Posts/...

I'm fine with people having different opinions. I'm also fine with people not knowing. But I object to him acting as if he knows without knowing.
> For all I know, the result used by Google is mostly simulation based, whereas Qualcomm did their due diligence on simulations AND lab trials.

I find it ironic that you've been "following this technology", have quick access to Qualcomm filing links, are happy to fill in details, but couldn't be bothered to even skim Google's filing.

The Jindal and Breslin study is well written and understandable. I'd suggest reading it since you seem invested in the topic.
I tried Inky when it was a "show HN" thread two(?) years ago. It was solid then, and I'm sure it's only gotten better now.
Wow, thanks for the compliment -- the Ui is still very much a work in progress.

There is nothing too special going on right now, its basic bootstrap with a little bit of customization thrown in here:

https://github.com/levlaz/braindump/tree/master/app/static/c...

Some JS libraries of note are:

Ace - the Editor
Marked - for Markdown Rendering
Bootstrap-Tagsinput - for the tags

UPDATE:

Most importantly :) -- all of the icons are Glyphicons that can be found here: http://getbootstrap.com/components/#glyphicons
It gets worse that they're "still writing an announcement" to this day.

http://bukkit.org/threads/let-users-know-their-password-was-...
Just for fun, if you extrapolate to 2065 you get something so small it's invisible and practically free, with a cycle time in the hard x-ray to gamma range, more than 150TB of main memory, and an output bandwidth comfortably fast enough for at least ten life-size holographic displays.
Well there is https://www.criptext.com/
Not that I could find, but there is a lot of evidence that higher doses of lsd is very harmful. I'd default to no lsd then.
They still do. People who tell you carbohydrates are the problem have something to sell.
How do you send email with your pipeline? msmtp?
You had me at "gummy"
What my SO and I did: Tell close friends and family by phone, then "announce" on FB so all the distant friends and family can learn about it.
The only barrier to entry for a Bitcoin miner is that you have to have an Internet connection and a computer. That is completely decentralized; anyone can buy a computer and Internet access. I don't understand your point. Surely any system you were proposing would require that as well. Your comment was talking about a blockchain amongst "organizations in an industry that validate transactions amongst each other". That seems like it would require a barrier to entry to me, namely, that you would have to validate to someone that you were actually so-and-so organization in so-and-so industry. Can you more fully flesh out your proposal? I'm seeing additional barriers to entry, requiring centralization, that Bitcoin does not have.

In practice you probably want a special purpose computer that is GOOD at calculating SHA256 hashes. But anyone can acquire these without limitation or restriction.
Do you mean gmail's web interface? That works by downloading your emails from your 3rd-party IMAP connections into Gmail's server.
But who's going to abuse it? Why would it shut down indefinitely? This is a group of people or entities that has decided to do this. Presumably they all feel it's in their interests to make it work. Same as with any mutual agreement of this kind, if there's some kind of a falling-out, they'll probably just figure it out somehow.

(As for invalid blocks - in the absence of a bug in the code that runs the system, all validators will say no to the invalid block(s), so there's no disagreement, and things carry on.)
Your statements in the 3rd paragraph are incorrect.

There is no ongoing trial, just a plan to have a trial start in about a year. The parameters (e.g. location, the monetary sums, exactly which existing social security mechanisms it replaces) are still undecided. But it seems very unlikely that they'd run the test in just a single location like you're suggesting.

It is also not being pushed by a left-wing minority, but by the most conservative government Finland has had in decades (consisting of the conservative party, the centre party and the nationalist party). At least right now the idea appears to have very broad support in the polls, though that could of course change once there's a concrete proposal.
I use Postbox but I'd be interested in hearing from anyone who has used both Postbox and Airmail to see if they prefer one over the other?
Google, Apple, IBM, Microsoft.

What are examples of successful (profitable) proprietary software companies?
Does anyone really remember what kid-them thought of when they read these passages about Turkish delight a decade plus earlier? I certainly don't and I read the Narnia books at least twice.
You already have the necessary experience to answer this question. The people and the business are more important than the technology.

Using Clojure will not prevent the CEO from turning out to be a maniac and hothead.
Talinn is a beautiful city. It feels a bit Scandinavian, but newer, smaller, friendlier, more optimistic, less rich but faster growing.
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I think I prefer the Elliott 405 than the Raspberry Pi Zero ! (Joke)
What I know of what he knows is what he said. In particular, the statement I addressed is one that no reasonable person would say if they had real knowledge of the topic.

If you can find some way to interpret him otherwise, I look forward to reading it.
Whoops, that was us. Dropped.
Too many variables to control and you wouldn't be able to offer free shipping anymore.... you'd have to offer a single bend radius and only 30, 45, 60 and 90 degree angles...
Technological progress is an excellent example of how deflation helps the average person. Your money buys more and more compute power each year.

Central banks are targeting inflation, which slowly robs the saver of purchasing power.

Areas with high government regulation and control suffer from price inflation, where you get less and less each year for the same money: healthcare, education, war.
Because the different transports have vastly different abilities and limitations that are a source of frustration if you attempt to obfuscate the differences between them and aren't served by a unified UI?
Atheist material.
we can't have negotiations with all 100k library authors between themselves

Yeah, it's the "nobody is ever going to pay for bash, vim, top, netcat, ..." problem.

Apple has found a good middle ground though. Pay developers millions of dollars internally (infinitely growing stock) then they release what they work on as open source code. It solves the (reasonable) compensation problem for individuals while letting new software spread purposefully throughout the world.

We're just missing a middle ground where you can write open source software while not being owned by the most valuable company in the world.
> there's not much for an American to dislike about turkish delights -- sugary, gelatinous etc

Evidently the American palate is slightly more nuanced than "we'll eat anything that consists mostly of sugar." Who'd have thought?
I assume that this has cost advantages over machining. The feature sizes are quite unimpressive:

>Minimum hole sizes depending on stock thickness

>Try to avoid designing too small holes as it might be impossible for the laser to cut through. Keep a note of the following:
1.0mm minimum hole diameter: 3.5mm
1.5mm minimum hole diameter: 4.0mm
2.0mm minimum hole diameter: 5.0mm
3.0mm minimum hole diameter: 6.5mm
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Following _1491_: home to millions of people, the jungle mostly consisting of fruit-bearing trees (the modern Amazonian tribes are living in overgrown orchards), and in possession of miraculous sanitation/fertilizer technology.

Everyone should know about terra preta. It turns out it wasn't a soil-enrichment technique, it was sanitation with a side effect of soil enrichment -- and could be very applicable in the developing world (and the developed world!) today. An experiment in Germany -- look up the paper "Terra Preta Sanitation" -- showed that a slightly modified method of terra-preta production can sanitize human waste to well within First World standards.
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The Linguistics of 'YouTube Voice'
What entrenched economic interests are on the "global warming is real" side? There are a bunch of upstarts, of course, but nothing entrenched that I can think of. Given that the whole movement only took off in the last few decades I don't even see how it would be possible. Further, I frequently see companies on that side making choices that are against their own economic interests, by spending more on electricity to ensure it's from renewable sources, using more expensive but more recyclable packing, and similar.
> First-party services fall in a different category; quite aside from net neutrality, that raises potential antitrust concerns.

Anti-trust law in the US is only relevant if the company has a monopoly.

That's exactly why net neutrality is important, and anti-trust law does not suffice. Because two competing ISP's both charging netflix to get the data you are already paying for to you, are not a monopoly.

(Notwithstanding that where I live Comcast is basically the only broadband option -- I still don't believe they have ever been legally determined to be a monopoly (yet?))
I wonder why, in the debate about fossil fuels, we never bring up the point that oil has been the cause of a lot of issues in the Middle East. Many guns and bombs have gone off in order to get to the Middle Eastern oil, and much of the funding behind ISIS comes from oil money in Saudi Arabia. Oil has had a pretty steep moral price tag.
Oh dear, the M-word!

Out of curiosity, are there any other theories you'd advance, outside of the "decline of virtue" theory?

In any case, your point is a good one, although what keeps it from being completely locked in is that this is correlation, not causation. Did "bread and circuses" truly bring down Rome, or was it a symptom of the collapse of Rome?

What does the counterfactual look like? Let's say everything else stays the same, but the Aediles are incorruptible, leaving a large, mass of hungry Romans with nothing to do. Isn't this the recipe for insurrection and civil war? Wouldn't the Senate decide that the best solution to this would be ... bread and circuses?

It still seems to me that the situation that had developed in Rome produced only two outcomes: either the inhabitants of Rome keep voting themselves bread and circuses, or they rise up in rebellion until someone gives them bread and circuses.

Basically, I don't see a "third way" that solves this problem. Absent that, it seems like the origins of Roman collapse need to be traced back farther. Bringing this back to the point of universal income, if universal income creates a culture of dependency like the one described, the analogy implies that this is a symptom of the conditions that created a need for universal income.

tl;dr: if this is true, society had already collapsed. Bread and circuses only prolonged the patient's suffering.
It's unfortunate the thread was locked, I feel like it's an important topic to discuss. I only hope the official announcement thread stays open for discussion.
Looks cool.

My advice to the authors is to take care on the little things. For example, the compiler segfaults if there is no input and there is no message if RITCHIE_HOME isn't set. Fixing those things early will increase the feeling of polish and will probably help keep quality high to the very end.
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But Midgley and Kettering were from GM. And if you look at least at oil company PR these days, they're touting clean energy and taking warming quite seriously.

https://exxonmobil.com/Benelux-English/energy_climate.aspx
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/12/07/3728921/exxonmob...
>> It blows my mind that people judge scientific work based on its funding source over its content and merits. Not saying its irrelevant, but good science is good science and bad science is bad science, regardless of who paid for it.

I don't think anyone would argue with that, but I think determining what is "good" science and what is "bad" science is out of the reach of most people, let alone people who understand the scientific process. There's also often more than one conclusion to be drawn from any data, as well as the difficulty in gathering sufficient data or even knowing whether the data gathered is enough to provide any kind of accuracy. I think the "who paid for it" question has been used more and more try and provide more context (sometimes useful, sometimes harmful) into scientific or psuedoscientific conclusions... of course it gets misused as a non-sequitur just like everything else in rhetoric.

Again, not saying it's right, just trying to provide the context for _why_ people might use financial motives to judge scientific merit.
Not really. There are plenty of eras where ideas are clearly surging forward -- and sometimes not particularly good ideas (monarchism in the late 17th century, communism in the late 19th, fascism in the early 20th).
Developing countries are following China's example because it works. Renewables such as solar and wind are expensive and can't keep the lights on.

People in developing countries want "real electricity, not fake electricity" as villagers in Dharnai, India told the Chief Minister of Bihar state when he came to inaugurate a solar microgrid. (subscription required) http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/stories/1060026477

Yes, Beijing's air quality is bad, but you can put pollution control systems on power plants and China is doing exactly that. A very large problem for Beijing is uncontrolled pollution from automobiles, scooters, trucks and other small engines.

The point about coal is that it keeps the lights on and it is affordable. That matters a huge amount when you don't have electricity.
To be clear: Red Hat is a $billion business that is purely Open Source (nothing they sell or do is not open source, and when they acquire things that aren't open, they open them within weeks or months of acquisition), which is pretty amazing.

I've been involved in Open Source based businesses for almost two decades now, and I still don't grasp how to build a billion dollar business on entirely open source software (though I've made a decent living at it most of that time). But, I stubbornly keep trying.
The cheap ones don't have ECC, the PX-Line & Dell servers have it.

The're pretty cheap when compared to some other server providers, though.
> It has a bug though, every time you start the server it requests a new certificate, so after a few restarts you will get your domain temporarily banned from let's encrypt.

There is a bug in the case of a failure in which it doesn't write the successfully-obtained certs to disk, but that will be fixed in the next patch release. Caddy does reuse certificates if it already obtained them before; it persists them to the disk for next time.
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I agree with this based on the 20 or so people I've known to go through this process to join a large company (amazon, google, etc). I've heard first-hand accounts of people even re-negotiating deals just to get out of the golden handcuffs they thought they could tolerate but couldn't. I understand this sounds a bit hoaky and I would love to give names and companies here, but obviously can't.
That depends on the goals of the founders.
I think it's a highly relevant distinction and leads to a very different view of the future.
Absolutely. If you (or anyone) think you see signs of organized downvoting, please email hn@ycombinator.com so we can look at the data.
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I think the science will take a long time to harden beyond its present state. We can project forward estimates but this will refine over time. It's a long-term project.
On iOS at least, apps can't run in the background. Carousel could only upload photos when you open it (or, as a workaround, when your GPS location changes if you've given that permission).

Carousel's "Flashback -- Discover This Day in the Past Year" feature strikes me as a very clever social workaround since it gets you to open the app at least once a week.

The Dropbox iOS app has the same limitation. Presumably you opened it more to do unrelated tasks, so it makes a lot of sense to bundle them.

Google Photos has the same limitation as well on iOS. I find Carousel's syncing and Google Photos' syncing seem to be roughly on par with each other.
I really hope this is a Poe. The idea that a person sincerely believes trillions of tax dollars are going to "warmists" is too much to bear.
Amen to this. The tour of the factory in Cashmere is worth the drive, if only to get to eat free samples!
I haven't watched through the whole thing, but the C code I saw from skipping through looks like it's actually the output from CWEB [1], one of Knuth's literate programming tools. It combines C source code with long-form documentation, and it can either be preprocessed to TeX (to give that nice, pretty printed document that Knuth shows in the video) or to standard C source code to compile and run.

CWEB is one of Knuth's languages of choice, and he's got tons of code written in it on his website [2], including versions of some of the stuff he's demoing on-screen.

[1] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/cweb.html

[2] http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/programs.html
amyjess, if you read this, your comment is showing as dead, don't know why, sometimes the moderation on HN catches out people that don't deserve it. Thanks for passing on the stories.
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> They ask for bug fixes and feature improvements that would take me six months (or more) of full time work. They don't offer to pay (or then even balk at the thought), they just keep saying "you should support us for free because it's open source."

If you ever do business with corporations, you will get used to the fact, that they will for the moon and expect it for free. It is your task to tell them, what you expect to be paid and stick to it. They won't volunteer any money they don't have to, and will use any excuse that will make it possible (the procurement bonuses depend on money saved). It's up to you to not accept that excuse.
We need to get a lot better at managing ALL parts of a ecosystem before they will be viable.
A funny exercise, though sadly we will not see the growth rates we saw this past decades for the next 50 years.
That's exactly what CRDTs are all about. The garbage collection problem is a real issue in practice.
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Is there a large palate difference? Even many Indians agree that their sweets are too sweet.

That can be fixed though. For example, take gulab jamun, drain off the syrup and replace it with old monk rum. Suddenly it's an alcoholic bittersweet delight rather than a blast of sugar.

And Chinese sweets don't differ that drastically from American ones - they are usually less sweet, and incorporate a few uncommon flavors and textures (red bean, green tea, glutinous rice), but they are actually surprisingly close.
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It would still be fraud, but at least it would not be copyright & publicity rights infringement.
On the other hand, I thought Dropbox was squashing Box like a bug in terms of users. Not sure if that translates to revenue though. Wouldn't investors want the most profitable company to IPO?
It's actually worse than the online post here indicates. There was another <script> tag at the bottom of the page that had remained there, seemingly missed after the password theft script had been removed.

Ultimately I think the site's been serving foreign (potentially malicious) JS for about two months with Curse having been aware for probably a month without users being informed. The password theft script was definitely there for at least a month before it was removed. It's great to hear Curse are working on a bug bounty programme but I as I mentioned in IRC it's disappointing to see such a big company respond like this.

There's some more information available from the channel IRC logs: https://korobi.io/network/esper/channel/bukkit/logs/2015/12/...
While I honestly agree, people have been saying that for decades...
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I doubt that's true - most people simply aren't equipped to understand it. I know I am not, but I have an old friend who is, and he ran me through the high points. I wish he'd write down what he'd told me - it helped.

I still assign a nonzero probability to finding out we're wrong. Because, y'know, science.

We should pay applied math PhDs to just answer questions as a general service :)
"Aplets & Cotlets" are basically Turkish Delight, manufactured in the USA.

http://www.libertyorchards.com/
The examples don't support that assertion though.
"Secondhenge"
Not to criticize taxing CO2 emissions (which has a solid case), but there is indeed an analogous dynamic here to Pascal's Wager: just as you ask "which God", one could ask "which emergency?", sampled from the set of events that respectable scientific movements have demanded immediate action on.

In the 70s, for example, one respected movement held that there would be an overpopulation crisis that justified drastic measures to halt the birth rate. There have been similar movements against nuclear power.

Alternatively, if we took immediate action on the crisis global poverty and got everyone up to Western living standards, that would conflict with the goal of reducing our environmental load. (Just as taking Pascal's Wager for God one conflicts with God 2.)
Another happy backblaze user here. I use synctoy to backup data on a local USB drive and let backblaze sync everything to their servers.
If 5 degrees is a mass extinction event (I'm just using your numbers here, not positing them as facts of my own), how can you characterize 1-2 degrees (20-40% of your mass extinction event number) as a "small" issue?

As an "engineer" (note: software engineer, not a real engineer), I'd prefer to leave as much wiggle room as we can possibly muster on the spectrum of activities heading us towards "mass extinction event".