skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not a climatologist but I don't think it puts us in unknown territory. You have to consider what the known influences on the system (e.g. volcanic eruptions, solar variation) have been doing and what the known internal cycles (e.g. el nino) have been doing

When you do that then you find Feb was well above the long term trend line, but not by a staggering amount (i.e. it's similar to things we have seen before): https://tamino.wordpress.com/2016/03/13/surprise-but-not-sho...

It does confirm that there was never any 'pause', it was just natural short term cycles (la nina) masking the long term trend. We will likely be above trend for a bit due to el nino, as happened in 1997/1998. Longer term it will average out. (Average out to a steady increase in temperature that is).
The really sad thing is that when those forces critical to resolving this (governments, corporate interests, the majority of the global public) finally come around to the idea that climate change exists, they won't be interested in solving it - they'll blame their neighbours, refuse to change themselves, and will go to war.

Our extinction is coming, and the only tragedy is all the other life we'll take with us.

We're just not that great, and our behaviour is "primate basic" to the extreme.

Children playing with matches.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11281664
Well Apple has signing keys right? The signing keys are a backdoor, and we've mostly mastered "don't leak your secret keys."

Now for a backdoor that you're sharing with a bunch of people...
Client side encryptions has been available for some time, for example https://cloudmask.com/
Is there an alternate link, perhaps youtube? Livestream never seems to work for me.
That's not going to be a very popular option.
Some people go to meetups to socialise with people working in a similar area. It's probably good to de-stress with something like that even if you have an early-stage startup.
Sure, lighthouse logbooks for example.
More specifically, it was arrived at as a target for labour rights campaigners after the 10 hour day had started becoming common. Owen formulated the famous "eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest" slogan in 1817, but it took half a century for the 8 hours day even to become the main goal for labour organizations most places (because they were still fighting for the 10 hour day, or even the 12 hour day), and it took more than a century from Owen's slogan for the 8 hour day to become widespread.

Since then labour organizations in many countries have set goals for shorter work days, and many countries have seen the work days shortened further to various extent, but given how long the fight for the 8 hour day took, we can expect it to take a long time.

But as you say, it has absolutely nothing to do with 'optimal'.
Launch successful so far:

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/ExoMars/ExoM...

Half of the recent Proton losses have been from third stage failures (worked here), the other half of the Briz-M upper stage (still needs to do a few more burns).
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Eh? Sure it is. All politicians agree that fossil is good, all other energy sources are bad. This'll be the case for as long as people will take bribes and as long as humans believe the "he's a PARTY X member so I will vote for him" sham. This is how you end up with a 28 year old MP who has never worked and thinks the poor can just move into their country homes if things are too rough in town. Everyone has a game estate, no? Climate - no hope.

There's literally nobody to vote for who even has climate on their agenda - it's just not important to the man on the street.

Now, where your middle eastern neighbour puts his penis, and what plants the kids next door burn and inhale - THAT matters!
Send Incognito emails back and forth, without exposing your email address
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Mostly, the 'game' is the fact that the site just doesn't work without Javascript.

HN is a very nice exception of keeping things simple.
Caffeine use disorder
WhatsApp does not give an indication of what software the remote party runs, as far as I know. You'd have to trust the third party in order to rely on the encryption.
There's no soil in Siberia
I agree, this essentially cancels out the entire premise:

> For security reasons, I’m not going to disclose the measures that I take to avoid others gaining root on my system. A good start might be changing your root password, or keeping your mail server under your pillow at night.
The true nature of programming skills
Many qualities required for someone to flee their home country in a refugee boat seem to be pretty useful for a CXO too.

(I mean things like taking calculated risks, learning to navigate new cultures -- and just the cold blood you need to face those pirate ships. Pretty impressive.)
> for women are generally outnumbered on Britain’s science-degree courses, especially among PhD

That's really not true. Physics undergraduate in most universities is perhaps 1:10 male:female. Postgraduate (PhD) is pretty much half/half in my experience. My department is physics/space/climate and we have more girls than boys now I think.

Perhaps the scene is worse in computer science, but I've been to a few machine vision conferences and women are pretty well represented.

EDIT: That said, engineering undergraduate was atrocious at my university. I had some friends doing civil/mechanical and it was maybe 1:20. Comp sci was pretty good though, as was maths. Biology and chemistry (and biochemistry) always seem to attract girls too.
And what do you think about companies that perform large-scale medical analysis on genomic data of customers, and keep their research behind closed doors?

(Probably not a big issue right now, but it could be in the future).
I just don't get it. If some film is unavailable in some region, piracy in that region has no conceivable impact on sales. And so how can there be any damages? Do you argue that piracy notwithstanding, people would be migrating to places with better licensing deals?
GraphQL/Relay as Change-Enabling Architecture
Exactly. IMO, this is a big problem in some areas of computational biology right now. Code to a famous project gets released, and instead of independently validating the results, other researchers (rationally) choose to just build on top of the famous project. It's faster, easier, and the "collaboration" leads to social prestige for everyone involved.

The end result is that empires are built, reproducibility is (paradoxically) harmed, and we're someday going to end up finding out that some big, high-profile projects were built on pillars of sand.
Testing of the ScyllaDB
Share to HN: What if AlphaGo lost the game on purpose [from a Chinese website]
I have read an interesting article in Chinese. Here is the point of view from the Chinese website.

It says a clever AI will know when it should lose to save the dignity of human and protect itself. If it keeps winning the game, human will start to be afraid of the AI. Human may destroy it or stop giving the AI more power on its development.

Therefore, one day if a machine knows when it should lose, human is facing a larger disaster than just losing to a computer.

http://toutiao.com/i6261771085746799106/
Sure there is. It's just frozen.
If it keeps being THAT fast after they've indexed the whole web, I'm switching search providers! :)
Bear in mind this is Beta 1.7.3, which came out in July 2011. A lot has been added in the last 5 years.
>Do you have any examples where an interaction between a citizen and a cop is made better by the presence of a gun on the citizen?

Better thought: Do you think a completely unarmed populace is a better idea given how bad police abuse their power?
In that case, why would we need a CLI tool for trying out packages?
As a non-German living/working in Germany (I'm EU citizen, can pick where to work), let me tell you that Germans in general were very naive with this kind of mass migration.

They really believed the narrative of a war torn nation that needs to help kids and Syrian mothers to survive. What they were not counting is that neighboring countries use "refugee" as a free ticket to economic advantage.

And so this was the problem. Official stats about who was really a refugee were not transparent, it is difficult to believe in refugee claims when you cross all countries south of Africa to only settle in Germany. Then came the isolated rape cases that got hidden and grew into the horrible mass rapes in public events, just for fun.

The news in Germany censor the public opinion. Migrants are attempted to be hidden as much as possible from public sight. Yet there is fear. Go to any swimming pool and you find warnings written in Arabic so that migrants do not harass users. Parents get together in swimming pools to protect their kids from harm. Despite my good quality spoken German, the fact that I look Turkish/Arabic now marks me a potential aggressor and basically ruins the good reputation that we have been building over decades as hard workers.

And around here we all question, why? Every migrant coming to Germany (like myself) had to work hard and fit into a society with scarce help from Government. Yet, we didn't complain because when you work hard you go far. Why are illegal migrants breaking the law and permitted to behave in such animal manner: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=7b4_1454075336

I'm in favor of helping war refugees, I'm not in favor of helping wise guys to game the system with a "refugee" card. This is the reason why you see Merkel isolated today.
I made something similar a while back : http://benvan.co.uk/js-quickload/

It only works with web libraries though. Try searching for 'moment.js'
Interesting. I think your instructions could be more clear.

@clivebot: follow <<team name>>
I think this starts receiving from the specified team. Do both teams have to have the same channel name? How do you stop it, "nofollow?"

@clivebot: go live
I think this starts transmitting you team's entries in the channel. Do other teams have to use the follow command or do they automatically receive from any team following them? I guess the follow command is necessary if you're thinking of this like live blogging where the blogger wouldn't want to see everything written by the audience. Again, how do you stop it?

Can a team have clivebot be active in more than one channel?

I don't know about the one-way live blogging aspect but I could see Slack adding two-way inter-team channels as a non-free feature.
As a parent, I have quite an opposite experience to your claims.

> Parents spend lots of time in do and don't and giving specific instructions on everything from how to use toilet to how to construct a correct sentence.

What you're missing is that the child is initially a blank page. He has no knowledge of language either, so giving instructions to somebody that doesn't understand your language is challenging, to say the least. And acquiring language is something they do just by listening and observing others, in a very cool game of trial and error. At some point a child starts mimicking what the parent does, repeating words or gestures and then notices the triggered response.

They learn best by observing what you do and not by what you say. They also learn by discomfort. I taught my boy to use the chamber pot, not by language, but by letting him without diapers and letting him pee on himself, until he got the hint that he should use the chamber pot :-)

And of course, you might classify this as "supervised learning", but these are just shortcuts. Because of our ability to communicate in speech and writing, we learn from the acquired knowledge of our ancestors. Isolate a couple of toddlers from the world and you'll eventually see that they'll invent their own language and they'll learn by themselves to not shit were they eat or sleep.
Quite there, however "Intent to commit murder" is when you actually try to kill somehow, you did make some actions to actually try to kill.

Didn't get the connection with "killing in self defense".

It is true that theft and fraud are all crimes where the intentions are important, however it applies after the crime is already been confirmed.

That we don't punish intentions but only fact is a major cornerstone of the western jurisdictional system; in my opinion is actually weird that we are discussing this.

Please note that the common definition of intents is different from the legal one.
I know you're just trying to be funny, but I don't think it's funny at all.

The Linux kernel undoubtedly many features that the Hurd system lacks, but that is due to the severe lack of manpower of the latter system and the billions of Dollars being poured into the former.

On the other hand the Hurd has features that the Linux kernel can never hope to achieve because of its architecture.
gotos are sometimes used in C for error handling (to release resources), it's a simple way to do cleanup:

void foo() {
int* foo = malloc(...)
if (foo == NULL) goto err_foo;

int* bar = malloc(...)
if (bar == NULL) goto err_bar;

/* code */

err_bar:
free(bar);
err_foo:
free(foo);
}

That's a use of goto that's often considered non-evil, probably because the alternatives are typically a lot more ugly.
Well put. Some seem to think that the earth belongs to us and not the other way around.
I agree 100% that there is a lot more to be done than simply reducing deforestation, however it is a simple action to be taken. The growth of just trees/plants is only one method of sequestration, all the insect and animal growth are also CO2 and energy sinks.

There are many things that we can do to attempt to tackle the issue of a developing hostile climate. however trading carbon credits is not one. We need simple engineering solutions, but biological CO2 sequestration is quite efficient. especially algaes, plankton, grasses, insects, etc.
Honestly, I remember making less than a 100k binaries playing c64 sid and doing a whole bunch of other stuff about 15 years ago(I would have said 16kb, but I don't really remember the numbers). I believe I mostly disabled RTTI, but I wasn't very good at reading manuals and understanding C++ back then, so I ended up patching the compiler instead.

You could argue that if you end up disabling all the fancy stuff from C++ why use C++ at all. But anyway, you can definitely use C++ in low memory environments if you really want to.
When we would occasionally get an extra cold day or cold winter, climate change deniers would say "where's the global warming if it's so cold?" and the response would be "you have to average it over decades, not just cherry pick the anomolies." Here they're cherry picking an anomaly. Any actual dramatic change will gradually become more and more certain as it sustains itself over months, years and decades. We won't just suddenly notice it oneday.
Well, they are the ones funding the research teams and equipment, so it's a different scenario IMHO.

I think we can agree though that knowledge should converge into being easily accessible, all while reducing the collateral effects of doing so (as the article explains: tenure, promotions, prestige…).
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They're vastly overestimating the scope of a recurrent convolutional neural network.

The concept of dignity does not compute.
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Fifth cohort here.

- Everyone else here seems to have a doctorate in machine learning, have three of more degrees, and be from Impbridge. I'm an anomaly in terms of being a generalist with kernel -> UX experience. Teams are always two tech cofounders, there's no 'business guys', just another programmer who knows a lot about business metrics.

- e.f. made a solid difference in unknown unknowns - things that retrospectively seem obvious. In my case the effect of webcrypto on my funnel, but that's a pretty specific example.

- Here's my revenue before/after joining e.f. http://imgur.com/3ImMybc : if you want the Y axis book a meeting.
Stop looking at the red dot. Take a step back and look around you.
"True" AI is here and it's been here for some time. You're communicating with it right now.

It's just that we find it so hard to comprehend it's form of "intelligence", because we're expecting true AI to be a super-smart super-rational humanoid being from sci-fi novels.

But what would a super-smart super rational being worth 1 billion minds look/feel like to one human being ? How would you communicate with it ?

Many people childishly believe that "we" have control over "it".
You don't. We don't.

The more we get used to it being inside our minds, the harder it becomes to shut it down without provoking total chaos in our society. Even with the chaos, there is no one person (or group) who can shut it down.

But "we" make the machines ! Well... yes, a little bit..

Would we be able to build this advanced hardware without computers ? Doesn't this look like machines reproducing themselves with a little bit of help from "us" ?

Think about the human beings from the Internet's perspective - what are we for it ? Nodes in a graph. In brain terms - we are neurons, while "it" is the brain.

But it's not self-aware ! What does that even mean ?

Finally, consider that AlphaGo would have been impossible without the Internet and the hardware of today.

And that "true" AI that everybody expects somewhere on the horizon will also be impossible without the technology that we have today.

If so, then what we have right now is the incipient version of what we'll have tomorrow - that "true" AI won't come out of thin air, it will evolve out of what we have right now.

Just another way of saying the same thing - it's here.

Is this good or bad ? Well, that's a totally different discussion.
Should you hire nasa to fix your car
Firefox most likely holds a lot of data, for various reasons.

Start a new instance with a clean profile. I doubt it will go over 100mb, probably less.
Working on it :) Maybe next year.
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Probably worth noting that DSPAM is no longer in the Debian repos.

See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=754810
| The news in Germany censor the public opinion

Got any proof of that? Because I don't think so.
Alas, no resource sliders, and a tech tree instead of tech ladders with holes in them. So more like a reboot of MoO2 than MoO.
There must be thousands of people who could use free access to research papers: PhDs and Masters now in industry trying to apply the state of the art, engineers who have worked their way into a subject, concerned citizens who want to read the source material.

I am a PhD who'd love to be working in industry, but I'm shit scared that once I leave the gates of the university I'll simply lose touch with the state of the art because the papers will no longer be accessible.
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From the kitchen link,

"A PDF is a weapons-grade tool for piracy"

...

"This is despite the fact that the publishers’
action directly addressed a very real
economic problem."

This "very real economic problem" that the author describes is not making enough of money off of textbooks. The publishers have lost all relevance by having contorted themselves over the years to fit into a model which no longer makes sense.

Journals can run themselves (with proper software) and historical impact factor needs to be abolished.
No, the point was to show that there are lots of Linux systems without a terminal, but not GNU/Linux systems.
JavaFX is in java.desktop too
I'm not an America, but I understand that there are always independent candidates. Maybe you don't notice them because they aren't buying so much advertising. Try voting according to your own research instead of what the paid advertisements tell you to.

Many people who would support an independent presidential candidate decide not to because the thing they want the most, above all else, is to keep their pet enemy party out of power. They'll even vote against their own interests and politics to try to achieve that. Yet their pet enemy party (democrat or republican) always wins every now and then regardless. So it's a futile effort with no long term value.
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Finn here, although just drinking tea :p Can't understand why people drink and drink that much of bad coffee and bad beer in Finland. There are good artesan beers in Finland but those are not consumed that much compared to the classical Finnish big brand lagers.

(somewhat offtopic:) Had a conversation with a Korean girl living in Finland and she complained about the quality of tea in Finland. I ROTFLMAOed as the tea culture in Finland started basically in the 90s with horribly over aromated teas compared to longer than dynasties tea cultures of Asia. Nowadays there's bunch of nice tea shops at least in the bigger cities, though.
Indeed, a GA would work quite nicely here - but I guess you'd need a cluster of machines simulating (not playing) Minecraft for this to be a viable experiment.
I've used occasions when I had the flu to quit, figuring that I feel shitty anyway, so the withdrawal symptoms won't matter that much.

Of course eventually I took it up again - unfortunately after a couple of weeks of withdrawal, it tastes really good.

But what fascinates me is that being easy to quit might be part of why it is hard to quit. It's easy to say "heck, I'll quit tomorrow, it is so easy after all".
How is this different from all the other claims of an antibiotic that can deal with MRSA?

(Yeah, before sharing this link, I did a quick Google search and skimmed the results and there were claims back to 2014 that various parties have "cracked the superbug".)
> they'll blame their neighbours, refuse to change themselves, and will go to war.

Seems like a good description of the state of the world right now.
Ask HN: Coming from server/client, what client js framework to pickup?
Angular? Metereor? other? Thanks
Couldn't we have a wikipedia equivalent for research? The peer reviewers do voluntary work anyway. I'm not in the system, so this is a genuine question.
Gnah!
> which let a few willing developers build an API around it.

Wow. That must have been a feat. Even if you have the symbols an optimizing compiler is going to make this a nightmare with all the inlining etc.
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A Lucene.net killer
So, today, your guns are basically useless against the government, because the government has ways of overcoming that obstacle.

However, strong crypto and privacy are not useless today. I would bet that strong crypto has done more to protect, for example, Snowden, than guns.

In other words, crypto is the new guns - they are currently a tool that is useful for protection against a rogue government (at least in theory).

Well. Thank you. Your sarcastic reply helped me justify my pro-encryption and anti-gun stance :)
Try React, look at this https://github.com/ipselon/sdr-bootstrap-prepack
This is the UK. Independent candidates tend to get nowhere fast. Main parties all oppose change. Greens oppose nuclear and have a weird political agenda bolted on to their environmental policies.

Tell me about that realistic alternative again?
> For me the biggest question is why is that period of time considered the "baseline".

For convenience. It allows you to compare the last two 30 year periods: 1951-1980 vs 1981-2010
Modern C++ from ground up
This is not really useful for anyone.
A new wiki based on github on how to write programs using modern C++. It starts with a base knowledge up to details on how atoms are implemented in different architectures.
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