skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree, but as someone who has to "maintain" one of those pos-ported-from-windows-95 apps, the actual source code is long gone so it's nearly impossible to make any meaningful changes to the application. I'd venture a guess that most of these things that would break are in a similar boat.

That said, F-it. If updating to Server 2016 breaks it for good, we might actually prioritize a rewrite within the next two decades.
I fear an Armageddon. We are changing the climate faster than we understand what's happening, and we're starting to get weirder and weirder weather patterns. We're threatening our food supply.

We've destroyed most of the ocean's fish, and we're heavily dependent on livestock and crops for food. If we disrupt the weather too much, we're not going to be able to make food. People are going to starve, and not by the millions but by the hundreds of millions. Certainly enough strife to cause war between the countries that are actually trying to do something and the countries that are continuing to ramp their CO2 output.

We don't know when we cross the line from 'severe' to 'dire', but we've got enough destructive technology that if it becomes a global problem, we may end up blowing ourselves up trying to resolve the conflict.

I was recently in Africa, and I was shown the rate at which the country (Cote d'Iviore) was growing. Families with as many as 10 kids. But all I could see was deforestation. Miles and miles of deforestation, something like 30 minutes of driving through an urban area that had all been vegetation in 2011.

This season's weather was weird, and it has made me very afraid of what's coming in the next 5 years. We're destroying our planet's methods of regulation, and at the same time we are increasing the rate at which we're introducing adversarial agents. It's going to be a disaster, because everyone reading this critically knows that the people in power aren't going to do anything about it until people in their own country are dying by the millions as a result.

If you care about surviving the next 20 years, this should be your biggest concern. We depend on a stable climate. Without that, we will not have food. Be afraid.
nice hobby you got there ;) What do you if the company wants to hire you?
> Thinking the crap you posted is any different

FYI the doctor is a "young-earth creationist" who has a PHD in an unrelated subject. Here's him arguing about how evolution is rubbish[1], perhaps we should listen to him because he's a doctor don't you know?

The other two sources are essentially reblogs from patently biased websites with an agenda to push, one by a neo-conservative (wow unexpected) and the other unnamed.

If you'd spend a little time critically thinking about your sources rather than using them to confirm some bias of yours you'd have already discounted them as trash.

1. http://blog.drwile.com/?p=8530&cpage=1#comment-73990
Are you referring to weBOOB.com or scRAPINGhub.com or both?
Great points. The restaurants plugin you cited is using an outdated API. The new API uses triggers rather than a switch statement, which requires a combination of a Command and an Object to trigger a plugin's response (see plugin_weather for the modern API). This helps eliminate many false positive matches. But to your point, you're right, that scenario would still trip it up. I plan to add support for matching on n-grams going forward, so you could define different behavior for "street number" vs "phone number" and it would match the longest (in most cases the most specific) option when multiple matches are detected. It's actually similar to how many routers work.

You're also right that Abot plugins as they stand now do not improve or learn automatically over time. I've done some work on a training system which will enable a Facebook M or Magic-style human-aided training backend. It'll be a plugin just like any other which will eventually be hooked up to a neural net with optional centralized training (so you don't need a GPU rig or tons of data to get started). An early version of that is probably going to be ready going into June with the v0.2 release.

Thanks so much for the feedback. I'd love to continue this discussion and find ways to improve plugins and training. If you're interested, there's a mailing list here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/abot-discussion
Secret aid worker: Why do expats earn more than the rest of us?
c is very important, without ratelimiting services can be easily subjects of DoS.
Deep Algo: Welcome to the Algorithm Economy
This is the one article that made me fully grasp it forever. I've known about this for ages, but it never really clicked until I read it put this way:

http://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/the-jellybean-problem.html
Probably not cdnjs -- there are lots of people who use CloudFlare for an assets domain (since it's free) -- if they are just serving images, it's a problem to display the CAPTCHA. It is probably best practice, if none of those assets are sensitive, to disable as much security as possible on that domain. It might be worth having some packages of defaults for tuning that. (One of the benefits for our enterprise customers is one of our staff works with them to tune settings.)
Go's GC is non-moving and therefore cannot be generational.

http://llvm.cc/t/go-1-4-garbage-collection-plan-and-roadmap-...
Did you consider removing the first sentence of your post and it would have been less smug and taunting, leaving behind something that lifts up the conversation?
Russia made a play at the North Pole a while back:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070802-russi...

Not sure about Antartica.
I personally tend to think the majority of scientists are probably right when they say global warming is happening.

At the same time, I think changing our own standards of proof based on what sways "the majority of experts" is dangerous. There are lots of examples of "the majority of experts" being wrong. For some examples, see the roughly every 200 year cycle that repeats (my observation while reading the book) in The History of Mathematical Thought I-III by Kline.
For some context about what impact this could have on major U.S. cities, the NYTimes published an interactive a few years back[1].

I guess if this new model is accurate, the scenarios on that link which are projected for 100-300 years out could instead happen in a few decades. This would result in major areas of Miami, New Orleans, NYC, and Sacramento all going underwater.

Scary stuff.

[1] http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/11/24/opinion/sunday...
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Three sites were tracking me apparently, and that's with uBlock Origin active. But I opted out of them regardless.
Here's an article outlining why VR will fail again.

http://www.wired.com/2016/01/oculus-rift-price/

Here's an article on why Sony's will fail and MS is partnering with FB on Oculus.

http://www.bidnessetc.com/52551-why-sony-corp-playstation-vr...

Sounds to me like we're about 4-6 years out before VR/AR start to make sense from a hardware perspective.
Yep Safari for Windows was released at WWDC 2007 (~2 weeks before the iPhone went on sale), and I'm sure part of the rationale was for Windows developers to be able to test their web sites with it.

Also note that Google Chrome wasn't released until September 2008, so there was a year+ where Safari was the most prominent WebKit-based browser on Windows.
I'd recommend people to also check out SysOrb : http://sysorb.com/
iOS Payment Gateway API Integration for iPhone iPad App Developers
You might want to re-read my post again, I'm specifically railing against imperative -> RTL/VHDL/Verilog.

Verilog may have for loops but they're largely used for simulation, they're expensive in terms of synthesized hardware(mostly toolchain/process dependent on how they synthesize) and can only be fixed size.

I've got no issue with Chisel, it's a DSL which I think is a good fit. What I'm arguing against is constructs that don't have a clear mapping to hardware representations which means you have to guess at what the compiler generates(see my Mealy vs Moore comment above).
Germans also pay 30 cents per kWh. There are projections it'll be 50 cents per kWh in the future. Renewable power is unfortunately expensive.
Not 100% sure about this, but if you rely only on a pure market approach, then oil & coal will become cheaper & cheaper while they become less popular. Their demand will drop & so the price will go down.

The reality is that we must put an human mandated limit on the amount of carbon fuels to burn.

Think of it another way: If burning carbon fuels causes major instability in the climate, then the fate of the human race should not be determined by the amount of carbon in the ground. It should be determined by humans being determined.
edit: [nevermind, I know better than to post comments on HN]
While I appreciate that this process has been great for you, I would think that it probably sucks for all the engineers and managers whose time you took up interviewing "for fun". Have you ever tried to hire engineers? It is a pain in the ass, and giving serious consideration to every candidate takes up a huge amount of time even before the interview, much less taking a significant chunk of a day for a significant chunk of the team to actually do the interview.

If I found out someone had interviewed with me "for fun" I would be very tempted to send them a bill for "employment search consulting services" at my team's market rate per man hour!
Maybe we can also liquidate the assets of oil companies to help pay for carbon-free energy research.
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"Being a programmer is as close as a human can come to being a magician." I have this quoted in my twitter. But I have to point out that without teamwork, a developer alone can only accomplish up to some point.
Also, it's not a problem that threatens the continued existence of human life on Earth.
Given the trend I'm starting to see in my peer group of (non-asian) minority developers having difficulty finding work at their skill level or with appropriate compensation combined with the number of white developers I know who get turned down and told things "well, you just don't look like a developer" because they aren't frat-bro/hipster enough, I think that matching culture fit at the end instead of the beginning is (consciously or unconsciously) because people don't want to get sued.

You can always say that some other candidate was 'objectively better' if you bring everyone in and give them a bunch of arbitrary challenges to complete.
Tynt basically did this exact thing as a business model[0].

[0] http://daringfireball.net/2010/05/tynt_copy_paste_jerks
> within 10 years

Is it really 10 years? Within our lifetimes? Within 50 years?

I really wish someone would nail down a definitive timeline to when someone should really worry about climate change.

I mean ordering the world's problems big to small, I'd say unemployment, income inequality, and stagnant economic growth are more important things to worry about.
I have a bittersweet feeling about all these APIs. On the positive side, this is something we can take and use, possibly saving ourselves tons of time on some routine tasks. On the negative side, this particular flavor of AI-as-a-service from a big company like Microsoft means that algorithms will be reduced to a black box which you don't really understand or control in any meaningful way.
So does this mean I can compile Swift on widows?
I agree. Sleipnir claims to still provide this font smoothing on Windows. http://www.fenrir-inc.com/us/sleipnir/
It's time that people stopped using the term 'Windows' for this operating system. The Free Software Foundation created the bulk of the userspace, under terms that allow anyone to share, modify and fork the programs, and then Microsoft came along with the one last missing piece of the puzzle - the kernel, and completed the full operating system, which, to be frank, users find completely unusable and worthless without the free software provided by GNU.

The kernel is an important part of the system, sure, but only one among many important parts. We therefore think that, to give full credit to the authors, the whole system should be termed GNU/Windows.
Randall Monroe's Simple Writer editor only allows top 1000 most common words
I would also have to imagine most of the H1B fallout is at the initial screen, not after multiple interview rounds.
That's the main reason I switched over to Arch Linux for development boxes. I was fed up with being stuck with 2 year old versions by default of everything on Debian/Ubuntu (git, gcc, cmake, valgrind, etc). Git is already flagged as out of date on Arch and will be updated to 2.8 within a matter of days.
Reduce or eliminate your consumption of animal products. I think this is the easiest and most impactful step any individual can take. It doesn't rely on politicians or corporations. You just need some temporary will power to learn and change a few habits.
Great soundbite, but in the real world, things aren't always that easy. Like when you plug in a USB to Serial connector, and the driver doesn't attach.

For windows, a little google-fu reveals that you want the device manager. For linux, command line solutions are easy to find. Gui ones exist, but they vary, and aren't easy to find.
You're welcome! It's a small detail but better safe than sorry with these kind of issues.
Globally, sea ice is declining, and has been for a while: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=85246 (That's pulled from the end of the blog post I linked elsewhere.) Quoting directly from what I just linked:

Claire Parkinson (http://science.gsfc.nasa.gov/sed/bio/claire.l.parkinson) has been studying polar sea ice for about four decades. She has been speaking to public audiences for nearly as long. And it was those public audiences who provoked one of the NASA climatologist’s latest research projects.

“When I give public lectures or talk with people interested in the topic of polar ice, somebody will often say something like: ‘Well, the ice is decreasing in the Arctic but it’s increasing in the Antarctic, so don’t they cancel out?’” said Parkinson. “The answer is no, they don’t cancel out.”
They have one shot, I respect them for taking the opportunity now while streaming is not yet massive to take on the market. I really love their product and I hope they succeed.
A lot of people do this though—my finance friends have been interviewing for internships and jobs there's no way they could get for fun and practice. Essentially they've wasted people's times for 2-3 years so by now that they're seniors any interview is a piece of cake.

I guess that's more useful than just for fun though.
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> Here's what I think. People are being overly alarmist and it's driving policy. Nature goes it cycles, on the order of maybe hundreds or thousands (or more) years. It's been way colder in the past than it is now, and it's also been way warmer in the past than it is now. We should reduce CO2 emissions insofar as it affects the health of people, such as smog in China.
But have we definitely teased out our effect on the temperatures from what the earth is doing on its own anyway? I'm still skeptical. Who knows, maybe there's a pattern in the earth's cosmic orbit that accounts for 99% of the warming. Or maybe it's only 1% and we're the 99% cause and Al Gore was right. But until I see this definitive proof, I have to stay skeptical.

Here: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/

These, by the way, are a common defenses used by skeptics: this might be a cycle and not understanding what is meant by global warming. The preferred term is climate change. Yes, it has been colder in the past, and yes, it still snows. What has changed is the pattern of cold weather. Here's a relevant XCKD: https://xkcd.com/1321/. Essentially, it get cold, but it's doesn't stay cold. Also, the patterns of storms have changed. We've always had blizzards and tropical storms, but the intensity of these storms has ramped up.

The claim of a cyclical nature is questionable considering the data highly suggests a correlation between rising CO2 levels and the global temperature. The point that is missing out is that this is referring to the global average warmth, and our weather systems are VERY sensitive to this. Even a small change, like 2 to 4 degrees will have devastating effects.
Kind of a misleading headline. Look through the list of third-party cookies in your browser if you want to see who is tracking you. This is a list of ad companies who have agreed to offer an option not to track you.
I'm enjoying your exchange buts it's obvious the other side has a serious agenda to push, and it's not "let's realistically make the world better".

I just wanted to say that "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" seems to be a common tactic along with high levels of straw person arguments.
So many people point to politicians as the problem, but remember the people who keep them in power. Politicians are just people who play the numbers, which is exactly how a republic is supposed to operate.
Good one.

Saw it was below 0 and upvoted you even though I guess "your side" is the one who is busy downvoting me.

Downvoters: can you please stop downvoting based on assumed political belief and start judging content based on quality? Please?
As opposed to the conflict of interest where the people who make money from the status quo, and the scientists on their payroll, say there is no problem?

I understand the scepticism, but if there is a problem with the status quo, that is the only way to find out about it. The people making money off selling oil aren't going to volunteer to shut down.
Mayo Clinic Discovers Cure for Virtual Reality Nausea
And Cleartext[1] is a desktop app for OS X based on the same principle.

[1] https://github.com/mortenjust/cleartext-mac
Plenty of countries have claimed overlapping areas of Antarctica. Currently an international treaty reserves Antarctica for mostly science and nature (no military, no mining) but the treaty isn't permanent.

https://youtu.be/DbKNlFcg02c
WAIS is 530,000 cubic miles of ice. This comes out to 2x10^18 kilograms of ice (assuming it's all at glacial ice density; in reality the upper few hundred meters are less dense) which will correspond to 2x10^18 liters of water to dispose of. This is 100 times the volume of lake Baikal or the Great Lakes (and only ten times smaller than the Arctic Ocean), if I did all my math right...
Same history here. I did actually use Linux for quite a while but ultimately gave up because Linux just isn't good at the one job only an operating system can do, which is to make the hardware available in a reliable and efficient manner.

I just got tired of fixing sound issues, trying to make a scanner work or investigating CPU states to fix heat and battery draining issues on yet another laptop. Ultimately, I think, all of this is a result of the unresolved issue of who should write and test device drivers.

It doesn't help that I disagree profoundly with the prevailing package management philosophy of Linux distributions, but that is a comparably superficial problem that can be worked around.
I upvoted because it's an interesting perspective, but I'd like to know where you get this information from. Is it a first-hand account? It makes sense that jobs are a priority and that politicians prioritize helping companies. And I'm sure that "a lobbyist will convince a politician to support a measure they wouldn't otherwise support" happens at least some of the time, but I don't have a sense of how frequent that is vs. legalized bribery and regulatory capture.

And besides, if a politician passed a bad law thinking he did a great thing for society because corporate marketing was very convincing, does that make a difference?
I had nine. On another computer, I had eight (less Yahoo).

Both computers have uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger, and the built-in Firefox tracking protection.
The American justice system that hasn't punished Wall Street?

But let's assume American justice system works. But still it seems arbitrary and not clear cut.

If Rolls-Royce is banned from operating in US, does that mean Boeing won't install Rolls-Royce engines on airliners they make for their customers?

Samsung is composed of many subsidiaries that do not look out for each other and it may be that just one or few of the Samsung subsidiaries are involved in bribing. Samsung phone division buys chips from qualcomm instead of Samsung chip division because qualcomm is cheaper (or whatever reason). Will US court ban Samsung from US? Then what happens to the billion dollar chip plant in Austin, Dallas that supplies CPU chips for Apple iDevices?

I don't condone bribing but to me I'm not surprised bribe was needed to get anything done in the nations listed. I'm pretty sure anyone and everyone who has any kind of influence in the said nations require bribe before doing anything. A billion + dollar from US went into Iraq that can't be traced. What's a few hundred thousand or a few million dollars? I highly doubt these companies eagerly bribed people, but they to get anything done in those so called nations, they probably had to bribe.
Alright sure, the 40 year trend differs from the 10 year trend. That's a good reason to be skeptical of my original claims (seriously).

Maybe you can provide more counter-argument to my skepticism of climate changes being man-made.

Take a look at this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/Phaneroz...

Sea levels have historically gone all over the place, definitely without us driving SUVs way back when.

Now this: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Post-Gla...

It's pretty stable during the industrial revolution, when CO2 production really was kicked up a notch. Also, the rate of sea level rises rose at a much faster rate say 10,000 years ago than they're rising right now.

What I'm trying to say is that I think these temperature trends are more macro on the order of thousands of years, and probably mostly out of our control. I think what we're seeing now with contemporary research - 10 years ago, or 40 years ago - is mostly noise.
Neat project. I haven't signed up and tried it out yet, but I see that this allows you to upload map data on top of OpenStreetMap stuff and share it. Depending on how the data is mixed in, the OpenStreetMap ODBL might require users to share their data back with the OSM project. Are you aware of this? Do you notify your users of this as well?

The ODBL is kind of like copyleft license for databases (gross oversimplification)
Very interesting!

What is your approach to speech recognition and speech synthesis?
For a second machine (maybe a cheap laptop) then yes, I would consider it.

As a side note, Windows NT had a POSIX layer as one of its three main APIs (Along with Win32 and OS/2), so in theory, at least, it should have been easy to port true UNIX apps to it. I have no idea what state the POSIX layer is in now; probably in a similar state to the OS/2 layer.
That's an excellent approach. It's quick enough to get meaningful results, it's interactive, and it's not artificial in the wtf-coding-without-an-ide way that whiteboard coding is like.
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See this screenshot showing uname -a: https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PTJrez4z0Jc/Vvr-VH5DQOI/AAAAAAAFH...
Nice project. I encountered a really slow speed loading your website from Chile. Please consider using a (free) CDN (Maybe cloudflare) for your front-page. Cheers :)
I think you can estimate how many companies are tracking you by noticing how many things that you had to disable to get this page to work.
The Sliding Scale of Bullshit Jobs
Time to buy some property in Chicago I guess...
My understanding is that MyHDL is in fact more like Chisel/Clash, it specifically says "It does not turn arbitrary Python into silicon" in their getting started guide (and as sklogic says).

See also: a MyHDL UART: https://github.com/andrecp/myhdl_simple_uart/blob/master/ser...
For me, surprisingly yes. I had no interest in having Windows as my primary machine yesterday but now I would seriously consider it.