skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMHO the problem with stopping this and many other forms of environmental degradation is that it's better to reign in hell than serve in heaven so to speak.

Poverty is worse than all but the most severe natural disasters. Infant mortality in many poor countries is probably a lot higher than it is in Miami during a hurricane. Poverty is worse than pollution or storms. Even if the sea level rises it would be better to be forced to uproot cities and move them inland than it would be to go without modern sanitation, health care, food availability, education, etc. Only acute natural disasters like severe earthquakes and tornadoes approach chronic poverty in their destructive power.

As a result it is in the self-interest of everyone on Earth to prioritize some level of wealth -- say the achievement of a basic first-world middle class standard of living -- over any environmental problem save the most immediate, acute, and apocalyptic. That's why the response of the developing world to suggestions like CO2 reduction or limiting overfishing has so far been "screw you, we're poor."

This is also why I really think that what I call "abstinence based solutions" to these problems are dead on arrival. Telling people to forego the benefits of energy consumption or modern technology is like telling teenagers not to have sex. The only hope we have is to develop the world to the point that people can afford the luxury of caring about the future beyond the next 48 hours. Only then will we be able to transition to anything more sustainable. Desperate people can't afford to care. It's also a total non-starter to try to sell first world people on regressing their standard of living. They're not stupid.
Flow looks like transatlantic connection with epicenter in Europe
yep. Most of the sites are heavy because of tracking & user analytics part of which make make a huge chunk of the data download( pixel tracking , etc.)
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This is the bigger story around AMP for me at least. I wonder if this would give them the ability to provide impression-level data in Universal Analytics for display ads not run through DCM if a given placement/site uses AMP. If they log the ad loading, and can parse the metadata from it, they can in theory use that to populate impression data and view-through conversions in UA.

Talk about a brilliant strategic move if this pans out since they'll be speeding up the web, gaining a massive dataset they didn't have access to before, and building a nice moat along with it.
MS knows that computing habits for "work" start mainly in university, so this is really just marketing not charity.
If this keeps up, I have no idea how countries are going to deal with displaced migrants. We barely have the capability right now to properly deal with Syrians and African refugees.
Most all languages have warts. They just look clean and simple when you dont look to closely. This wart though is never seen by users and very rarely by library writers. so it doesn't matter much.
in keeping with the spirit of extracting sense and meaning where it may be implied rather than enumerated, I grokked:
1) noise is bad.
2) web fashions come and go
3) the trendy is not always right.

i happen to agree with these points in many regards, so perhaps I'm a poor reader and merely projecting...

but yeah, I'm pretty over the militant "a react in every stack" approach... ditto every other myopic temporary obsession... you realize this after a couple hegelian cycles of thesis, antithesis, synthesis... i mean, when yesterdays baby becomes todays bathwater and it's time to throw it all out, or perhaps consider renaming "common sense" that rare balanced mix of functional object-oriented reactive structured aspect oriented programming as a service platform...in the cloud
Per-capita CO2 emissions by countries, 2011:

US 17.0t
China 6.7t
India 1.7t

Yeah, we should totally talk to China and India.

Source: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EN.ATM.CO2E.PC?order=wba...
That doesn't make any sense at all. How is it possible that someone with a "wide background in science" has not heard about conservation of momentum?

Are you sure it's the same person?
Several of the PIC models have a low power mode where they run off an internal RC circuit somewhere in the KHz range. Just enough to wake up on an interrupt or some external stimuli and really pushes their power usage way down.

For a PIC10KF320/322 you're looking at:

Sleep: 20nA, 1.8V
Operating: 25uA @ 1Mhz, 1.8V
Watchdog Timer: 500nA, 1.8V

Of course that's dependent on what' you're doing with the io pins etc.

See:http://ww1.microchip.com/downloads/en/DeviceDoc/40001585D.pd...

edit: fix typo
And to whom do you think the Chinese and Indians are selling all the products of their export oriented industries?

Or for the matter, where do you think all the American safe, high-paying, manufacturing jobs went?

Outsourcing to a hitman does not make it a non-murder.
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> And it sometimes bases those filters on personal grudges

That I hold "personal grudges" is your personal opinion.

I took care to document the rationale behind my decision to block `sourceforge.net`[1]. Notice that it is not a hard-block, it is a soft-block, which purpose is to act as a warning for the uninitiated. One can easily dismiss and go ahead.

If you followed the project closely you would have seen that I have resisted adding sites as "Badware risks" unless there are enough well supported, credible and repeated references in support of such decision.

[1] https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Badware-risks#sourcef...
sure it starts with decoupling data describing the application state from DOM itself the way I understand it. So you write JSX which is a novel idea in itself and claims to 'bring html to js not like angularjs that brings js to html with annotations' but then you end up fiddling, chasing down which hierarchy of class that gets quite big over time.

Unless you were in a large design agency it doesn't make sense to add the abstraction overhead for majority of today's single page apps can be pulled off with jquery libraries from unheap.com
I would have been satisfied if the forms use the django templating system, instead of trying to use string manipulation to create HTML somewhere in the bowls of a python file.

How great would this be?

name = BooleanField(template='switch_not_radio_boxes.html')

Your template file spits out HTML for flip switches instead of radio boxes (e.g. Https://proto.io/freebies/onoff/), and the template can add javascript/css to be bundled into a singular location with the rest of the Form fields static assets.

It'd be simple.

But nope, instead BooleanFields use a widget that creates HTML & sprinkles error messages upon it through some byzantine means.
There was also a Brazilian priest (Landell de Moura) who broadcast human voice in 1900: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landell_de_Moura

I've no idea if he knew about Marconi's and Bose's efforts.
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Not sure why you were down-voted as it is a legit question.

I'd honestly be pretty surprised if they didn't just opt to support all IAB-approved ad formats. The one format I could see being a big question mark is "native ads." Outside of their increased Gmail ad presence, Google has been curiously absent from the native advertising landscape.
I can confirm this works. I only do it when I really needed the item on time and got screwed. I believe each account is limited to X requests, currently about 10 according to some folks on Slickdeals.
What kind of problems do you see with redundancy?
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Interesting that they have enough data, since I doubt even 1000 companies have gone through YC and counting the few hundred that have, probably only a small fraction of them have exited or died.
Basically it looks like it's nearly the same API with minor variations.
Next day shipping for Amazon UK is pretty reliable, but I have to say I'm relived every time delivery is by someone other than "Amazon Logistics". Last time they delivered a parcel (value ~£100) I got an email saying it had been left in "my preferred safe space" (which I have never set) and had to go looking for it. Turn out they had left in my bin, at 9pm the night before the bins were due to be emptied.
There's lot of room in Canada. Warm it up and it makes great farmland - there is plenty of freshwater nearby.
Eventually you've got to restart something. Virtualisation actually adds a layer of complexity. Strikes me that's going the wrong way.
Air travel is responsible for a very significant percentage of our pollution into the atmosphere, greenhouse gasses that are causing huge amounts of global climate change and will cost a fortune to adapt or fix. Any solution to rapid, high speed travel that significantly lowers greenhouse gas output is a very valuable thing, and certainly not a solution looking for a problem. The problem that hyperloop solves is high speed travel without gross pollution, something that no other solution has offered yet.
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I see connections coming out of north korea....
There's a difference.

Of course, if someone says "My country was so hot last year, this proves global warming!" then it's BS. On the other hand, since we know that global warming is happening, it's totally legitimate to say "My country was so hot last year, it sucked, and thanks to Global Warming we can expect more such years to come in the future. Why aren't we doing anything about it?"
Ah yes, an El Nino "this proves global warming" versus a La Nina "weather is not climate" year.

I hate that this is the narrative. Can people just ... stop doing this? Maybe? If you try to use the "record breaking heat, it was warm this one year" argument to argue for acceptance of theories of climate change you are only going to be hoist by your own petard a few years later when natural weather cycles result in record breaking cold years. It's the wrong playing field to be on.
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The ACLU and lawmakers just made a huge push for digital privacy
Aside from EV, they might also continue to sell DV certs if the price is low enough (sub-$10). Let's Encrypt is cheap, but it is massively inconvenient, and a lot of people would prefer to "waste" a few dollars on a streamlined process than spend hours trying to get Let's Encrypt working with their platform/infrastructure/etc.

I just spend $9 renewing with Comodo's "PositiveSSL" because Let's Encrypt was too much hassle.
The findings confirm what people who talk about urban planning say, but it never seems to trickle into the wider world. You still hear people say that we have to restrict growth to keep costs down, widen highways to reduce traffic, etc. even though those ideas are thoroughly discredited.

It's incredibly disheartening.
Why only 6.5g? This isn't launching hamsters. Numbers like 100 or even 1000g are an option when dealing with tiny sats. There is already a small industry surrounding building electronics capable of being fired from artillery guns.
Nuclear Power, until those who care about the environment accept that the only clean at scale power solution for base load is nuclear power we will get no where. "Renewables" are great and should be in the mix but they are not an at scale solution.

http://www3.epa.gov/climatechange/images/ghgemissions/source...

By going mostly electric for our transportation and nuclear for power generation we could really make a dent in 58% of this pie.

There are people who simultaneous worry a tremendous amount about global warming who will actively protest against nuclear power.

All while an extremely large amount of pollution is being burned all around us. Be reasonable we need a now solution or there wont be a when.
The graphs here show that in 2015 every month was warmer than 2014 apart from April.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/hottest-year-on-record/

So the question is when did the effects of El Niño start having an impact in 2015? Unless it was significant for almost the whole year, it would still have been a record without it.
It is especially sad because often these attempts fail to consider the elements of the original that caused it to "suck" so bad in the first place.

so even when they do survive, they're seldom any better than what they've replaced, because no one's bothered to actually reflect on how the project affected the social atmosphere of the place.
There is a 10F difference in temperature between my upstairs and downstairs without any heat turned on. There is a 4F difference in temperature between the front of the house and the back of my house.

There are so many factors as to how temperature is calculated, how exactly can we take a temperature today and compare it to values from years ago? I'll buy that satellite imaging will produce values that are useful over large areas, but those only go back 20-30 years. To compare against values before that seems like pseudoscience at best.
>2015’s sharp spike in temperatures was aided by a strong El Nino weather pattern late in the year that caused ocean waters in the central Pacific to heat up. But the unusual warming started early and steadily gained strength in a year in which ten of 12 months set all-time records, scientists said.
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re: legacy q/a issue.. an archive search is now available: https://archive.appcelerator.com/
> Amazon at least mitigates this loss risk by unquestionably resending the package without additional charge. This exercise has grown tiresome.

It's interesting that Amazon finds this to be cheaper than shipping it properly to begin with. Although it makes sense if packages sent through USPS are low-value and not just small.
I am really into C++ but it has the same problem that Perl has – it does not try to stop anyone from using it to express themselves in an ugly or inscrutable fashion – and this is a frustrating aspect of dealing with the C++ ecosystem/community.

Personally I spent enough time writing Python to acquire significant coding OCD about things like whitespace, file/directory layout, documentation. When I write C++ I have two prime directives: 1, keep it compulsively tight and legible; 2, use the idioms of C++ to sort out other peoples’ APIs (as opposed to reinventing wheels). I stick to these rules like they’re a diet, it is easy to let your mind wander and find that you’ve spent half the day writing a framework instead of solving your problem; metaphorically this is the equivalent of forgetting to go to the gym and then ordering pizza for dinner. Along these lines I give myself one premature optimization a week, like as a cheat.

I find it is most productive when you are using C++ “against” something. For example I just wrote a bunch of templates that eliminate like 90% of the requisite API boilerplate the Python C API calls for – that was simultaneously satisfying in both the “I totally solved that specific problem” and “dogg check out this clever snippet I wrote” senses of ‘satisfying’. Contrastingly, the last time I created a class hierarchy it was a sprawling regrettable mess – I am more “structure-oriented”, versus “object-oriented”, but still.
That is super interesting, thanks
Usually countries stop burning coal and use something that emits less CO2 as they develop. Except the US. It's still burning the most coal per capita, by far.

Getting rid of coal is a great place to start.
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Total CO2 emissions by countries, 2014:

US 5.3 Gt
China 10.5 Gt
India 2.3 Gt

Yeah, China and India are totally relevant to global CO2 emissions. The global climate doesn't give a damn about how many people are responsible for a given quantity of emissions, it's completely and utterly uncaring.
??? Microchip's IDE has always been free; the XC compilers all have free versions, the only restriction being that you can't use the higher level optimizations (-O2 and -O3 for XC16 are premium; not sure about XC8 and XC32)
> things like Consumer Reports
^^^^

If it wasn't clear, that was only one example. Every reviewer, search engine, friend-who-already-bought-one, and so on is a resource available to get information.

This is, however, straying from my point, which was: just because people aren't informed about your particular product doesn't give make it ok to try to trick them into buying your product with manipulative advertising, and throwing your pitch at someone unsolicited is still (at best) rude.
Exactly what I was wondering. These sorts of studies usually make assumptions about the rate of mutation across time in order to estimate the date of various divergences or of the ur-form, but these rates are difficult to calibrate. For a cautionary tale, see also glottochronology.
Is anyone aware if there is reliable data prior to say 1880? [1]
Is there any possibility that large scale climate trends could be outside of the observed window of time available? For instance, some large scale natural state-shifting appears to occur on the order of hundreds of years (reference is about earthquakes, but maybe relevant?) [2].

Based on everything I've heard/read/etc about this, it seems unlikely that humans are not impacting climate, but I get concerned I'm hearing lots of motivated agendas about it rather than facts.

[1] https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cag/time-series/global/globe/land/...
[2] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-...
O'Reilly post also released today references the Apache Dataflow submission:
https://www.oreilly.com/ideas/the-world-beyond-batch-streami...
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I think the key here is don’t try and build a Snapchat or Facebook unless you are an insider. Build a business that works first and once you have the experience, skill, and most importantly contacts, then build a VC-only business if you really want to.
A terrorist is different than ISIS. They're not the same thing, and I just don't buy that a lot of intelligent people are joining ISIS, although there could be good ideological reasons to be a terrorist (none that I agree with).
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You can be repulsed with someone and still tolerate them. If you operate a shop, you continue to sell to them. If you're friends with their employer, don't tell your friend to fire them. If you are neighbors, you continue to acknowledge their existence when they greet you. And you let your kids play with their kids, so that your values diffuse outwards. When they try to engage you, you give them your attention. If they're homophobic but at the same time they do a good deed, you continue to praise them. When an opportunity arises for you to explain to them, with compassion and respect, their ignorance, you take it up. If you partake in these activities rather than ostracise them from your society, you are tolerating them, repulsion or no. A person who was brought up a racist, but have the attribute of tolerance, will continue to engage the target of his prejudice, and eventually learn of his own prejudice, and his repulsion would be cleared. Tolerance connects a person to reality - it gives a chance for reality to affect change in the person, and vice versa. This is how tolerance can increase society's tolerance. If you wanted to change the world for the better, I think it works better than ostracising and locking up the intolerant.

Tolerance means accepting something is part of your reality, even when you don't like it. If tolerating means accepting something only if you like it, it wouldn't be called tolerance...:)
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It's not like we are forced to deal with them.

They can also be relocated to cold but uninhabited places such as Siberia.
One cold morning, with a very clear sky, no clouds in sight, I overheard two old ladies discussing how when they were young the sky was bluer, they both agreed. This was in Salamanca, Spain, not Beijing, so no smog to account for.
It's been a few years but I also remember a program size restriction on the free compiler.

Honestly, it's a difference in approach to tooling, Atmel took the approach of better, freely distributed tools. Now that they won't be around I don't know that Microchip will have a competitor in that space to keep them honest.
Idries Shah's collection, World Tales, from 1979 strongly suggests common origins to many stories. It's also a wonderful children's book.
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The point is that transaction is not profitable but overall the system is.
They get soaked on the 3c button, but as most people dont do this, they can absorb that cost and subsidize it with the rest of their profits.
I wonder if there is a planned study of the melting of the permafrost, since I've seen on Cosmos that it will be one of the "irreversible" side effects of global warming.
Also: It targets FreeBSD 11-CURRENT only and is far from ready for prime time.
It just seems backward to me. I understand that YC are in the business of jump-starting startups with potential. A handful of those startups might succeed. Their entire business model seems to focus on the returns from that small handful of successes. If I were them, my primary reason for taking these companies onboard and helping them to succeed, is purely to see a profit at the end of the line.

Hence, dilution is very bad. That would be my primary issue.I just don't understand why it was stated as a minor side point to the whole discussion. Surely it is absolutely important?
Lots of people keep saying this, but I really don't think it's true. Solar and wind work fine at scale. There is nothing un-scalable about them. What they don't do is work at night, and in that case nuclear is a fine option. Although batteries that can run a house overnight aren't that expensive.
A source http://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/apr/04/usa

This surprising reappraisal of American and European physiques is the work of researcher John Komlos of Munich University. 'Much of the difference is due to the great social inequality that now exists in the United States,' Komlos told The Observer last week. 'In Europe, there is - in most countries - good health service provision for most members of society and plenty of protein in most people's diets. As a result, children do not suffer illnesses that would blight their growth or suffer problems of malnutrition. For that reason, we have continued to grow and grow.'

http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pko37.htm The height of US-born non-Hispanic children and adolescents ages 2-19, born 1942-2002 in the NHANES Samples

http://econpapers.repec.org/paper/lmumuenec/466.htm
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Labor and environmental laws. They make manufacturing more expensive in the progressive countries that have them. Then they can't compete without tariffs or subsidies.
> "But this record, we literally smashed. It was over a quarter of a degree Fahrenheit, and that’s a lot for the global temperature.”

We literally smashed it Thomas? Literally? The record is broken into pieces and scattered around the literal floor?
Besides, 10 days by sea?
Earth has a set amount of uranium that is destroyed when creating energy.

Currently we have about 200 years of uranium available for economical extraction. But if we tried to replace all fossil fuels with nuclear, we would be out within a few decades. Then we'd need to move to other non-renewable materials (thorium?) or start mining astroids.

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glob...

And the mining of uranium looks awfully similar to the mining of coal. (Of course you need far fewer uranium mines for the same amount of energy.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_mining#/media/File:Ara...