skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not worried about China at all, their leadership has a far better chance of listening to science and acting appropriately. As they grow their standard of living it will be using less carbon intensive methods.

Meanwhile, the US is far too entrenched with ideology and vested interests that have captured the political machinery.

Kind of sad that we're in this state, but people keep voting Republican...
Yes, that's what I meant. But I do also consider the distinction between doxxing and journalism to be highly subjective. The judgment typically comes down to ingroup vs outgroup. Once someone is identified as "other", they're fair game.

This all occurs to me as a show trial. They're making an example of him, as authoritarian systems tend to do. And one aspect of that is being dragged through the mud. Being slandered. It's dog pack behavior, and I find it disgusting.
I think M$ is targeting more developers with *NIX background on the desktop side rather than Linux apps on server. So a bash support with uniform CLI is the end-game.
Thanks for clarifying a very counter intuitive problem. I always struggled with this one, not anymore :) Sometimes scaling things up is the best way to understand things. Who knew!
MapD can't wait for Nvidia Pascal for its GPU Database
I've been using Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 for Phonegap and Ionic apps and working on files is noticeably slower than other project types such as asp.net mvc. I just end up using the cli to perform tasks but I'm hoping this update along with the git improvements make things better.
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I kind of don't care about their opinion on a scientific matter. The real issue is building political coalitions to force their compliance through democratic legislation.
Have you forgotten about privacy issues in Windows 10 or you just don't care?
On the other hand, spending billions of dollars on things carrying questionable benefits for humanity would not be news. At least the reason for this would be noble.
The Amazon Echo and Shabbos
It does. It sandboxes the filesystem and registry as well.
At least China is at least giving lip service to caring about CO2 reductions:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/30/china-car...

Every single Republican candidate for president was openly mocking Obama when he was in Paris a few months ago for the climate talks. They're an absolute embarrassment:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/11/republicans-obama-clim...
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http://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ - learn how to save and invest. And no, you don’t have to be as frugal as Mr Money Mustache.

https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/ - read the sidebar resources and ask questions here if they aren’t answered
Public Preview of Azure SQL Database Temporal Tables
Looking at Hanselman's blog on this, was excited to see Redis running. Presumably this makes the Rails on Windows story a bit better?
Honest question, does Antartica have any, what you would consider as, inhabitants? My understanding is that it is only scientists from a variety of countries that live there on temporary stints. However, if the ice melts in any considerable way, I wonder if (some very extreme) individuals might start looking at moving there?

It is a huge continent... if the ices melts, it's terrible in a way, but looking positivistically at the situation, there must be lots of potential.

I'm sure there are some treaties etc on Antarctica that limit exploitation? What if a bunch of people went down there with some guns and claimed some land, what would happen?
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Is Tony Fadell in Nest’s Way?
I remember similar thoughts when the first MacBook (x86) came out in early 2006, as I was just starting university, and also thinking "Hmm, this is all probably going to be huge, and I should find out how to buy Apple stock with this ~$1200 I have... oh, no, I'll buy a MacBook for myself."

Ten years later, I'm totally bored with Apple and OS X. Especially after trying to use Xcode and the iOS Development Cloud Platform or whatever. So yeah, I'd probably switch to Microsoft Linux.

And I could totally play Counter-Strike and Diablo II while pausing from coding bash scripts? Omg!
Let's play a game to make this more clear. I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 1000. First, guess what it is.
Of course not, it's an open SDK that connects to their cloud service. Sadly Google killed Freebase and Wikidata is several magnitudes smaller, so an open source alternative isn't available - although it would allow you offline usage, no spying and no vendor lock-in. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_agent , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent_personal_assistant )
Magic (YC W15) is hiring engineers
Feds ordered Google's help unlocking nine Android phones since 2012
I'm really hoping this allows me to compile LibreOffice on Windows. Perhaps if I worked out how to incorporate the WINE libraries it might make my life easier...
True, but those things don't require money. I mostly spend my money on things and my time on experiences. Reversing that would be a waste of time and money to me.
What specific solutions are you recommending to reverse climate change? Ban fossil fuels? Force everyone to buy Teslas (which ironically depend on fossil fuels)?
ACLU map shows locations of 63 ongoing phone-unlocking cases
Yea, this was pretty suprising, because I never used CGA+Composite
No, they'd point to Kerberos and ask what the difference is.
They actually do syscall translation on the fly from Linux to Windows. I suppose they had to add some calls to Windows for things in Linux that did not exist on Windows (various console ioctls for e.g.) but it is still a one to one translation.
What's in a Name?
Non HTTP Microservices framework
I can see your point, but this isn't the case for Microsoft. This framework may be not accepting PR's yet, but just like the other 100+ repositories that do, I'm sure this will join shortly.
Trump Says Abortion Ban Should Carry Punishment for Women
Is that climate model available in form of source code and original raw data?
BlackRock Plans to Cut About 400 Jobs in Coming Weeks
And various stories have been proven. Including my friend who just wanted to use their computer, remembered to always click 'No' when it asked, and lost operation of her Wi-Fi card when she returned from a bath and her Windows had silently upgraded to Windows 10. I verified the behaviour after rolling it back, denying its request to update, and then letting the computer sit still for less than an hour.

I used to doubt too, whether it happened on its own or whether people made mistakes. Even back then, I believed if so many people can be made to make the same mistake, then it's more like they've been duped than that they all just happened to make the same mistake. Now, when I saw it happenning right in front of me, I was furious.
Antarctica does have exposed rock; it's not all just ice.

Not sure why you were downvoted. What we do with it is an interesting question. There is little harm in looking for ways to adapt to climate change if we don't succeed in stopping it.
It would seem reducing global air pollution, especially in areas that suffer enormously on a daily basis (China is a prime example), is at least as beneficial to human health as focused efforts in medical research. And that's even without asking how this hypothetical "spending elsewhere" is going to be regulated in your opinion, and that is not a rethorical question. After all, similar complaints are heard every time a robot lands on a planet or satellite in the Solar System.
the nile isn't just a river in Egypt, and it may well stop being a river if runaway global warming continues
I really wish there were more tutorials like this on how to set up Spark and other Big Data tools (TensorFlow) on cloud computing, as that personally has been the primary barrier to starting work with extra large amounts of data. (Most current tutorials require running a ton of console commands that are obsolete.)

I took a Spark course on eDX last year, but the environment was set up using a customized Vagrant config with no real-world use. I definitely prefer the Kubernetes approach.
Yeah, YesGraph doesn't want to get in the email deliverability game. There are a hundred vendors who can manage this, and every serious web app solves this problem.

I think it's a feature to use your own email system. This gets really obvious when you start reusing your templates and centralizing your analytics.

We'll implement many more backends than SendGrid -- including easier ones like Mailchimp.
Have they fixed the bug that causes it to hang when updating a project file from outside of VS? (e.g. `git checkout x` from the command line)?
Cortical homunculus
gp uses 'app' the way you did, presumably to mean UWP application. Win32 apps are "programs"/"applications" written using the Win32 api. I don't think there's anything post-hoc in the explanation other than the use of the word "app".
The T540p isn't though. I hate mine.
Cygwin is pure userland. This Linux API subsystem is a small bit of userland (similar to kernel32.dll in the Win32 subsystem), but mostly kernel code.
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The inhabitants of Antarctica are the least of our concerns. Millions of people around the world will be flooded out of their homes
Yea, I think they are going after developers who use OS X because it is UNIXy. Smart move given how en vogue Apple laptops have become for developers these days.
Development atrophy
This is interesting! I spent almost a whole school year (I'm a professor) trying to use Linux as my main operating system, tried Arch, Ubuntu, Mint. Ultimately the limiting factor was projectors. Every classroom I teach in seems to have a different brand of projector and I just couldn't get my laptop to work well with any of them. Windows does whatever magic is needed so that it always "just works" with a projector, therefore, I went back. I have been trying to raise money for a Mac because I figured it's the best compromise, but this could change it.
Individual ability more effective than diversity as antidote to group conformity [pdf]
Cross-platform means you have to test on multiple machines. A company that's taking web development seriously also needs Mac, iOS, and Android devices to test on. Or borrow them every now and then, or sometimes virtual machines will work.

(I do often skip testing on Windows and iOS for hobbyist stuff since I don't normally use them, but I don't blame other people for it.)
I can recommend Gerard O'Neill's The High Frontier. https://www.scribd.com/doc/239652061/The-High-Frontier-Human...

Thanks for the recommendation for The Millenium Project, jasonpeacock, I'll check it out. :-)
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Dan Cohen on “The Digital Commons”
I have to ask! Can somebody tell me:

Am I supposed to click the tiny corners of signs in another square?
If it is a sign that is not a "street sign", such as a billboard, do I click it?

::confused::
Pomegranate v0.4.0: fast and flexible probabilistic modelling for python
That section thing pissed me off so much!

I remember it got me so frustrated I spent the rest of the afternoon writing about my "onboarding" experience:

http://lumakey.net/blog/why-i-gave-up-on-asana-after-15-minu...
You can go down the financial "shenanigans" red flags checklist with SUNE

- complex accounting structure that includes many sub companies funneling money and debt from one to another, check

- late on filing their financials, in fact today is the last day they have to file to be in good standing with the SEC, check

- huge amount of debt relative to revenue, check

- SEC investigation into their accounting practices, check

- rapid growth in the past that was mostly due to heavily financed acquisitions, check.

- high short interest ratio, check.

Though to be fair to the last point their SI has come down alot in the past couple of months as the stock became too expensive to hold borrow, and now that its at 50 cents/share, its not longer a good short target as the upside/downside is no longer that compelling. People probably have KBIO still fresh in their minds:)
> In some cases, members of the general public may think they are contributing to "Science", but actually they are contributing more specifically to "Paywall Science".

There are other options:

1) contributing to corporate science, which never gets published outside of internal journals but may end up influence what the company does.

2) the not-for-profit equivalent of 'corporate science'

3) contributing to "file drawer" science, of work which isn't novel enough for a journal to accept

For an example of all three, consider when the general public contributes information about dietary habits, where the company/not-for-profit decides to not promote X as a dietary aid because it doesn't seem to do anything, and where no journal would publish it because negative results are boring.

> In all these cases, I think that those people contributing to Science would not be happy if they realized up-front that their contributions are actually supporting Paywall Science.

No, I don't think that's the case. Plenty of people do exactly that. Look at all the people who send their DNA samples in to for-profit sequence companies, who publish some of the results but who also turn around and sell aggregated information to others.

Look at those who contribute their body to science, where it might be used to train doctors rather than produce publishable papers.

Look at those who volunteer for drug trials for for-profit industries.

> Are donations to scientific charities tax-deductible if those donations are used to support the creation of Paywall Science?

Some scientific organizations have a mailing list or a publication for members only. One is 'Chemical & Engineering News'. These publications can include scientifically useful information. I can point to papers which cite C&EN, for example, even though it's not a traditional peer reviewed source.

Do these sort of newsletters count as 'Paywall Science'? If so, should they be eliminated? If not, why not?
Wow, this saved me a shit tons of time. But Im wondering if they will add ofshored prices for development.
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Pollution reduction does improve human health.
> I grew up a Windows user, and switched to OS X because of the unix-like command line environment that more closely matched the servers I was working with in my job environments.

Out of curiosity, why would you not just go with a Linux desktop for that?
Microsoft implemented a minimal POSIX subsystem in Windows NT 3.1 as a checklist feature because at the time some government procurement rules required POSIX compatibility. They didn't expect anyone to actually use it and it was so limited that you couldn't really use it for much in practice.
What Does Spotify Want to Buy with a Billion Dollars?
Safari does support WebGL and can do 360 video playback: https://360fly.com/videos/aiHPVUMLZHUPJEoiZ2yXia/

It has somewhat more restrictive CORS requirements than other browsers which not every 360 player has addressed. There's also the issue that Safari on iPhone can't play 360 videos because of the media player taking over fullscreen playback.
I'm not commenting on the "good or badness" of this move - it's a brilliant power play from MSFT
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Between proposal and vote, this was changed from "forbid sales of gas-powered cars by 2025" to "push to not sell any gas-powered cars by 2025". Chances are there will be discussion over how hard to make that push.

Also, sales of electric cars in the Netherlands were very high because subsidies made then extremely cheap for some people; if you managed to let your company buy a Tesla model S as a business expense for you to drive in instead of paying you its cost in (taxable) income, after subsidies and tax breaks, it could cost around €25,000 (less than $30,000)
Awful lot of hate in the comments on this one. The arguments are coming off as petty at best. I keep seeing something analogous to:

"Microsoft finally add a temperature control knob to their toaster just like all the others!"

Comment: But it isn't blue, these corporate behemoths don't know what they are doing.

As a user and lover of all the ecosystems, the argument from the non-Microsoft crowd is beginning to appear quite desperate.
This is dead-on. It seems actually the majority of open source projects are driven by politics.
s/without/despite/
I think what the parent is getting at, is that you've got the same problem regarding IE on Mac. There are IE specific issues that I as a OS X developer cannot debug.
Just use linux.
Those who can, code
Additionally, the ice and snowpack of Antarctica contain ~70% of the fresh water available on the entire planet.
English Translation of Horologium Oscillatorium: http://www.17centurymaths.com/contents/huygenscontents.html

I think I've been under appreciating Huygens: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Huygens
Antecdata: most of the scamming directed towards our startup comes from Tor exit nodes.
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What solutions are you proposing exactly to reverse climate change? The trillions in investment so far in clean energy have yielded minimal results. What specifically are you recommending?
They're the ones with all the beachfront homes, though...
Basketball has 5 person teams. Team performance is highly sensitive to the performance of individual players, for example if your team's injury-plagued point guard stabilizes and becomes in the later half of his career, one of the greatest shooters in NBA history, you might do more than okay. I'm sure the Warriors new management has made some good decisions as well but let's call a spade a spade.
There are sooooo many that have been proposed.

A revenue neutral carbon tax at about $80/ton is popular enough that oil companies use it in their planning for the future.

The "right" has favored cap and trade schemes in the past (specifically Reagan), but suddenly became allergic to the idea.

Your "solutions" are ridiculous anti-market solutions, presumably exaggerations that you would use to describe the solutions that have actually been proposed?

Also, Teslas and other electric vehicles do not depend on fossil fuels, even if they can potentially be powered by fossil fuels (at much higher efficiencies than fossil fuel vehicles)
Why are you enumerating your close relatives who use Linux? I can list more relatives that use Windows. What would that prove? Nothing.
It's called technical debt because it's supposed to be paid down.

Real debt is too.

Both have their positives of course. Just because there is cases of technical debt gone bad and not being repaid, there is horror stories the same with real debt.

Software often needs this phase to get started, or maybe tech debt is incurred to put a fire out / solve an emergency.

If you are on a high functioning team or maintain software that has been around for a long time, technical debt does reduce. It's not fair to name it any different in my opinion.
You can create a tag for "Doing" since that stays tied to the task rather than creating a section for "Doing". It's still a hack but gets the job done. As soon as you think of workflow, that extra dimension works better in Trello/Kanban systems since Asana nails the hierarchy via projects/subtasks.
"Maybe it wouldn't even be enough to pack up and move all R&D out of the US (e.g. injunction on US sales until the foreign Apple company complies)."

That'd be an interesting possibility. Government, to U.S. consumers: "YOU are not allowed to buy the products you chose, because a foreign company refused to perform work for the U.S. Government." ...
Trump isn't a partisan he's an opportunist. He's found the low hanging fruit and he's saying what they want to hear like the chameleon he is. This is theater to the nth degree and the only distressing part about it, is there is a small chance he might become the next president, if Hillary can't raise her likeability level to that of a homo sapien.
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Can somebody tell me straightforwardly whether a linux kernel is actually involved in this WinBuntu thing or not?
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I'm not sure what "ownership" is supposed to mean in this context. Legally speaking, how does one "own" a security vulnerability?
Microsoft 'Seeing AI' project narrates the world for visually impaired engineer
A decision they had every right to make for themselves, but that they have no right to impose on anyone else. I'm pretty sure Tavis Ormandy agrees with me.
It's mentioned right there on the download page:

https://developer.apple.com/safari/download/

"Compatible with
OS X 10.11.4 or later"
Ugh.

Every time I see imperative language X adapted to RTL/VHDL/Verilog I want to slap someone.

They aren't the same, gates are a fundamentally different primitives. You shouldn't be using a language built around serial actions for something that's inherently parallel. You bring all sorts of baggage along that you don't need.

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They don't even specify if their state machine generated is Mealy vs Moore. This is the stuff that you want control over and not abstracted away by some language that you don't know how it will synthesize.
It depends on the IDE; in particular, whether it competes with Microsoft's own line of business. Microsoft has historically had non-compete clauses in its dev tool EULAs. It was an EULA violation, for instance, to use Visual Studio to write a word processor, database, or spreadsheet program.

I don't know if it still holds for the cuddly "new" Microsoft... but tread carefully. Windows Store is curated and thus more restrictive than straight Win32 app development would be.
Looks like Contributing.md was updated 35 minutes ago to "BotBuilder is currently accepting contributions in the form of bug fixes and new features ..." (Significant contributions still require a CLA/CYA, but that's not uncommon.)

https://github.com/Microsoft/BotBuilder/commit/78e7730f49574...
It all comes down to people spending more time in messenger apps than anywhere else.
> Climate Model

I'll believe it when I see it. We have at least 40% larger ice sheets now than in 2012, and more than in 2006 [1]. See also [2].

These models have been shown to be wildly inaccurate at empirical prediction [3], so I think we need to work harder and exercise more scientific skepticism before creating alarmist headlines in the mainstream media.

[1] https://www.commentarymagazine.com/culture-civilization/popu...

[2] http://blog.drwile.com/?p=12927

[3] http://objectivescience.net/warming-predictions-vs-real-worl...

Edit - to the downvoters, please explain why I shouldn't exercise scientific skepticism relating to how the mainstream discusses climate change.
No, it is not.

> A team of sharp developers at Microsoft has been hard at work adapting some Microsoft research technology to basically perform real time translation of Linux syscalls into Windows OS syscalls. Linux geeks can think of it sort of the inverse of "wine" -- Ubuntu binaries running natively in Windows.

http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2016/03/ubuntu-on-windows.htm...
Last time we heard linux was coming to Windows, what we got was Powershell. I remain cautiously optimistic because Im hoping this doesn't lead to the same disapppointment.
Thanks for this.

It was a welcome surprise to go to View->Other Windows and see this. I'll have to update soon to the new version to see the additional features it's gained.