skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Excellent point. It will affect different places differently, and those with means to work around it will suffer less than those without.

For example, Arctic shipping may become a year-round possibility, opening up the shortest routes between the east coast of Asia and either side of the northern Atlantic. Parts of Arctic countries may open up for intensive agriculture.

Meanwhile, the Maldives will be underwater, desertification will claim certain glasslands... this stuff is complex.
Stricter gun control laws don't do anything to prevent mass shootings. Look at the cities who have the strictest gun laws. Places like Chicago and New York City. They have some of the countries' highest gun violence rates. If you want an obscene example? look at Mexico where guns are banned completely. Sure doesn't stop gun violence does it??

You can also look at how over the past 20 years as gun ownership has increased in the US, violent crimes (including gun crimes) have continues to decrease - something Obama likes to tout.

So no, stricter gun control laws do not reduce gun crimes.
> "i fail to see any reason to assume the four canon gospels are 'accurate'"

But they are certainly insightful as to the beliefs of the early church, whether or not they're accurate regarding an actual historical figure named Jesus.

Judas and Mary fail on both counts, though they do give some insight into a secretive movement from the 2nd or 3rd century that focused on ideas about "hidden knowledge".

> "it will present bias that may inform your definitions"

In other words, it's a way to be accusatory. I gave my definitions; you can take exception to them directly instead of via the roundabout approach of questioning my impartiality.
I develop in Scala and I honestly have never experienced the concerns you are raising.

"OOP" implies none of things you are worried about and Scala is a great example of that.

I wished people tried the language before making assumptions based on emotions that are not supported by reality.
I have a handful of friends who left Russia in the early 90s and the pictures they paint of the USSR are highly unflattering in this regard. One, the daughter of Lenin Prize winner, grew up in a cramped two bedroom apartment. My guess is that things were much worse down the social totem pole.
>The gist is that 20% of new apartments in buildings with six or more units will be reserved for people earning between 50-80% of median income. Put concretely, a school teacher with a stay at home spouse and two kids would be ineligible for one of these units.

Are these developments really as "welfare cliff"-y as they seem? As in: if your income goes up, are you kicked out of the house?

Although, most of what I've read suggests that laws which increase cost (such as affordable housing requirements) have a tiny impact relative to laws which increase development time (such as the Telegraph Hill Dwellers calling for a stay of ~everything at council meetings); the latter are far more damaging. On your tool: if you move the affordability requirement from 10% to 25% and reduce the time to approval from 6 months to 4 months, you still build more housing!
Zuckerberg backs Andela, a startup more elite than Harvard
Cue people pinning React or any other popular library because they submitted an issue or fixed a typo once.
But if you pay 9 grand to bypass this limit, it becomes the regular car.
You know what would be cool, if you can have an email list going and send these out on the daily basis to your users.
> Assume a super-leaker who accesses a repository of ALL significant secrets of law enforcement, military, intelligence, and political aspect of the fedgov.

Significant to who? A very good argument can be made that there is absolutely no good reason for our government to keep ANYTHING secret. Any behavior the government thinks that they need to keep secret, they should not be engaged in. The harm done to our country and our "democracy" by the secret (and often illegal and unconstitutional) actions of unaccountable government officials is far, far worse then any claimed benefit.
Once all the weak rockets crash, we can take the surviving rockets and cross-breed them to build the ideal rocket race.
Brake pads are cheap, discs aren't very cheap but are still reasonable. A regenerative braking system? I'll bet that's a lot more expensive.
Works for drum brakes.
The most important secrets are the most mundane to the public: the location and capability of military assets, such as nuclear missiles. Maybe technologies under R&D, such as aircraft, intelligence gathering techniques, or cryptography techniques are at the next level down.

The loss of these secrets would seriously weaken the U.S. in diplomacy since adversaries would know the exact limits and shortfalls in U.S. military power.

Most secrets, as you rightly assume, aren't in this class. Most of them are analysis literally gleaned from the open internet and combined in a report to a policy maker.

I don't think the classification system is a good repository for secret corruption. Tenured federal employees have little reason to hide the impropriety of an elected official; on the contrary, they can get a cash bonus for reporting the malfeasance! In the rare cases when corruption was masked by military secrets, e.g. the Iran Contra affair, the profits were small (in the tens of thousands) compared to the scale of the wrongdoing (the undermining of the rule of law, Congress, and the people).

The best way to detect corruption would be to have better aggregation of officials' assets and analysts dedicated to the task. Elected officials and security clearance holders currently fill out an annual financial disclosure, but corruption can easily be obscured from the process.
No, I agree with you. I think a touchscreen has no place in a vehicle, as working one will always be a distraction while driving. I don't need to look at physical buttons to be able to feel when my hand is on the "next station" button, but I have to look at a touchscreen to perform the same task reliably.

I've been really enjoying my Mazda 3's setup though; it's got the touchscreen thing, but it actually turns the touchscreen off while you're driving, and has a little dial near the console that you can move around like a joystick to manipulate the controls. This sounds weird, but is highly intuitive, and once I knew my way around the controls I could easily work the display blind, with my eyes still firmly on the road in front of me. I'm OK with a compromise like this. The system isn't perfect, but the input method seems like it achieves the best of both worlds.
I wonder why it was at 400ppm 4m years ago. Presumably the Earth survived the last time.
I personally am in no rush for this, all my discretionary coding time is currently going to a work sample for an opportunity Starfighter found me at the moment.
+1 for two columns.

It would be great, if you can pin your contributions also. For example, If I create organization for experimenting with stuff and contribute a lot to its repos, my contributions are overwhelmed with experimental stuff. Kinda sad.
My sister lived in Cambridge for awhile. What a shitshow.

They wanted to add a second floor to their home, which would have basically made it look like the rest of the block.

Some neighbor raised a stink, because they had built a potting shed on my sisters land, and the shadow of the higher roof would damage the plants in the shed!
Is the LinkedIn Acquisition Microsoft’s Attempt to Build Its Own Alphabet?
> That $25k min. spend is a sales qualifier and looks like it was successful in filtering you out...

This sounds like an effective way for any company dependent on sales to fail. Especially online advertising sales where your incremental cost is approximately zero.

There should be a term for management that makes this mistake.
Yes, but did they deserve it?
I don't know how I feel about these past few changes. Github is trying to compete more and more with LinkedIn. My user page is now becoming a resume, complete with summary and carefully chosen projects. Where does this end?
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You are exactly describing Apple CarPlay and Android Auto
Excellent Article in the Atlantic

I think one major disadvantage of being stupid is in getting financial services. If you aren't smart, you'll get ripped off. Particularly pre-financial crisis, credit card companies, auto lenders, banks, etc. will come with a bunch of tricks that rip people off. These companies are much smarter than the average Joe. And then as a society, we often say the solution is financial education rather than treating people fairly.
As mentioned below, Netflix has the philosophy "we're a professional sports team". Yet they don't pay people millions of dollars like an athlete. If you really want to be cut throat, great, pay people like an athlete then. Otherwise quit the BS.
Are you on Android? If you are I assume you're referring to being locked into the Pioneer interface and compatible apps.

There is actually a way to use the native Android interface if you have a rooted device: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2451980

I do not use this personally, but I was looking into the Pioneer 4100 NEX myself and plan to buy one after finding this workaround.
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Of all the innovations in modern auto design, I'm not sure that's the one I'd go for.

IIRC, a CAN bus design is essentially a jazz model for connecting different subsystems with no built-in security standards. For some reason, I'm not sure externally connected hardware, OTA-updated software, a vehicle's essential mechanical control systems, and implicitly trusted access from everywhere to everything via a centralised bus is a good combination.

Some of the relevant technology is patent-encumbered as well, which is rarely an ideal basis for standardisation and interoperability IMHO.
Question is if humanity would have been able to survive for the duration of those 4m years; Earth surviving humanity to my knowledge has never been the issue.
Not only will Silicon Valley have to build more secure systems, most importantly people outside of Silicon Valley will need to make themselves willing to use these systems.
> As in: if your income goes up, are you kicked out of the house?

I went to a City Council debate where this was a big issue. Theoretically, yes.

But the city doesn't actually want to kick people out of their houses.

But there was some concern that people had already pulled some shenanigans to make their finances temporarily suck so that they could get a house in Cambridge.
> > The CDDL has a provision that if any part is held unenforcible it will be modified to make it enforceable. As a matter of licensing, that's incredibly devious and bad. There's other super dodgy parts of the CDDL that make it a bad license purely from a license point of view, let alone from "freedoms given to users" perspective.

> No, that's a pretty standard severability clause that helps the user. It means that if one section of the CDDL is found invalid, users can still use the software. The GPL on the other hand, by refusing to have a severability clause, means that if any part of the GPL, no matter how inconsequential, is found invalid, the entire license is null and void and no one can use it. That intentional omission makes the GPL a much more user-hostile license than it should be.

The GPL's severability clause says that the section is invalid, not the whole license. But the CDDL allows for the license to be changed after the fact.
Nice catch! It doesn't... the ice core measurements do show that it was waaay lower 800,000 yrs ago at 185ppm. To go beyond that they use other methods that are less accurate, but still good enough to at least get in the ballpark. Its admittedly a huge ballpark... 4M yrs is the conservative estimate while 25M yrs is the upper limit of what makes sense.

Here is my source:
https://psmag.com/when-s-the-last-time-our-co2-levels-were-t...
I think you've asked some good questions.

So, I think children should be disturbing the peace, and perhaps frequently. I see children as being engaged in absolutely critical work, which is trying to build up a set of abstractions, or concepts, that will allow them to succeed in the world as adults.

To do this, I think they have to do lots and lots of experiments. It may look like horsing around to us, but I don't think it is.

As regards being loving, I'd say a couple of things. First, I think children have a natural sense for justice. A child that is treated justly will, over time, learn to treat others justly. Too often, though, I'm not sure that the parents have an entirely firm grip on what justice is, though, and so they might act unjustly towards their children, and then be angry when the child doesn't act in a loving manner towards them.

As regards being irrational, I'd say that that is also sort of the expected-state for someone who is still developing. I don't think all parts of the brain (e.g., the pre-frontal cortex) is fully developed until about age 24 or so. I would also say, again, that one would want to look at what the parents are doing. Maybe they are treating the child in an irrational way, which I think is going to cause them to receive a response that, in their different frame of reference, seems "irrational."

I'm not sure I understand the dichotomy between being loving and rational at the same time. In my view, a rational person is a loving person, rather than an emotionless character like Mr. Spock from Star Trek.

Hope this helps.
The node testing module `tape` also outputs TAP. Recommended. https://www.npmjs.com/package/tape
I'd love to hear more about this-I have a 2009 Camry hybrid that has a janky screen that I've been thinking about replacing with a more modern audio device.
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>In the American business world, you are an employee until you aren't. Confusing being an employee with being "family" is a mistake, both for the company and the employee.

I would say this is just a common philosophy for successful businesses. A happy family is a wonderful unit, but that happiness depends on giving preferential treatment to the least rational people. Which is a bad business philosophy.
Wow, I'm impressed. Not only is "admin-selected content" a complete lie, reddit could delete /r/all entirely and it wouldn't change the fundamental structure of the site.
How did he log in?
> You should not rely on emergency auto-brake systems anyway!
>
> These are systems designed to prevent accidents in case the driver misses something, but NOT for daily use!

But you know people _will_. That's what happens with affordances. Design. It changes how people interact with things, and not always in the intended way. It's _very_ important to consider when you're talking about the operation of machines that can kill.

Indeed, the presence of emergency brakes could very well reduce the number of accidents, while at the same time making people rather lazy and eventually _causing_ some. Like taking bigger risks on your bicycle when you're wearing a helmet.
The car won't stop working just because they do updating the software. At least in America they have to provide parts for at least 10 years. And eventually they won't be able to continue to yell copyright to prevent people from updating the software
This happened long ago with the turn signal solenoid. That clicky sound when you flip your trafficator? That used to be a real physical switch opening and closing with electromagnets. Now most people have forgotten what it really sounded like and they're satisfied with a gentle, fake click-click recording.
Modern US Amish (and related groups like Mennonites) live in their own circumscribed areas in the eastern US. They are exempt in law from some requirements which notionally fall on all residents of the United States equally, and exempt in practice from quite a bit more.

They draw that protection from the fact that they live in a cohesive group in a well-defined (though not, as far as I know, legally set) region. They are welcome to leave, but they would lose the special legal status that the Amish enjoy, and they would then be basically unable to practice their traditional lifestyle.

Are they being kept in a ghetto? Is it by our demand or theirs? Is it reasonable, if we give them their own laws, that we restrict that to a well-defined area?

> I'm looking at a handful of such comments (which call for Jewish presence as cash cows, mostly) across multiple centuries, and an avalanche of comments, texts and laws saying "get them outta here. okay, maybe let them stay this year if they pay more."

How often were they actually expelled?

> What newspeak!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(rhetoric)
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If actually implemented, I could foresee this automation drastically helping journalism. Right now, FOIA requests require the requester to pay for the cost of research and redaction. Potentially one of these costs is going to drop. Also, automated redaction would improve the time it takes to fulfill FOIA requests.

Redaction isn't actually a difficult task, just tedious. The redactor (?) has a copy of the classification guide for that topic, and redacts anything from the document that hasn't exceeded its declassification time limit according to the guide.
A good and recent video explanation about Earth natural cycles https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztninkgZ0ws
Permit delays introduce huge costs. While a developer is durdling around waiting for building approval they still need to finance the damn thing. At current interest rates every month in delay should work out to something like a 0.3% increase in costs. When we're talking about developments hovering on the border of profitability, this can make or break a project.
It was shown on their profiles even without pinning.
Oooh, interesting.

- Human intelligence assets would be executed, as you mention. Witness protection program participants, too.

- Signals intelligence targets would stop using (or feed false information to) compromised systems.

- Consequently, the government would lose what little understanding it has of what's going on in the world, threats, likely outcomes of foreign policy, etc.

- It would also be incapable of any sort of undercover/sting operation, because every target of an investigation knows they are the target of an investigation.

- Diplomats can no longer talk about 3rd parties behind their back. No more conspiracies between allies to keep another nation (i.e. North Korea) in check. No more back channels.

- Diplomats must negotiate with foreign leaders in full view of their populations and political opponents. No more reasoning with leaders, brokering secret face-saving solutions. (Giving foreign nations an opportunity to back down without appearing weak is a staple of diplomacy).

- The budget required to replicate our military technology (including nuclear arsenal) shrinks dramatically, amplifying threats currently below the threshold of "serious."

- The nature of our defenses and locations of troops, installations, ships, etc. becomes public, lowering the bar to a successful attack.

- Some of the government's secrets are your secrets too. The full name/DOB/SSN mapping used to authenticate yourself to financial services. Home and family addresses for federal employees like prison guards, judges, and prosecutors.

- We've blown confidentiality, but some systems are not read-only. Properties like integrity, authorization, etc. often depend on the confidentiality of passwords and private keys. When the admin passwords enter public record, we have to assume all government databases and infrastructure (taxation, payroll, Exchange servers, PBXes for federal offices, etc) are promptly trashed by bored teenagers (or even better, overwritten with subtly wrong data/configuration for the lulz). How long before the email password of the Secretary of Defense is used to announce a foreign policy change? How long do you think the signing keys for a valid nuclear launch order will sit on Wikileaks before someone uses them?

- Do we count the federal reserve? Authentication factors needed to make arbitrary bank transfers are out in the open too.
This also works in reverse, take google full of fresh graduates filtered thru a process of 20 whiteboard interviews and you end up with 150ms audio/input subsystems lag
I wouldn't want to live there. It's too sparse and suburban for me. (The kind of city I like is even more illegal in America.)
College courses without textbooks? These schools are giving it a shot
>when something breaks and you're fifty miles away from anything, you can actually crawl underneath and fix it.

Where are you going to get the parts if you are 50 miles away from anything?
Agreed. I'm moving to Malden because I can't spend this kind of money.
Ah, I now get your point. Thank you for clarifying.
Why are there NIMBYs? [pdf]
Actually burning the wood works just fine, provided you can sequester (see BECCS, along with recent developments in basalt based CCS).
Paywall. Web link didn't work for me, but trying to print the page produced a readable version.
Yeah but if they contribute more to other stuff it replaces one time only repos.
Microsoft offers an extension to DXVA on Windows 10 for decoding VP8 and VP9:

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=491...
I am a bit worried that stock fighter is the wrong approach. If Susie wants a better job inwould recommend my path:

- if you want to find a better paying job, take each lunchtime and call every job advert you qualify for that pays 20k more than you earn. Do this for three months. You will get the raise.

- even better is to supplement this with LinkedIN, blog posts, network maintenance (when did you last have call or have coffee with your previous boss?)

- do this for the next three jobs.

You are now at the pay ceiling for your skill set. Well done.

Now ...
err ...

Start your own business, preferably selling something that scales (your time does not scale and you are selling it at pretty much the max - say 100-150k)
This is a cute hacker-mindset solution until it voids your warranty and/or you don't get an update you actually did want to keep your car safe.

The solution to this issue isn't treating the car manufacturer as a hostile party and trying weird tricks to circumvent their future actions. The solution is ensuring that the car manufacturer isn't hostile in the first place.

Ideally I'd like to do that with market forces, but that requires the average consumer to understand a lot more about the technology and its implications than is realistic so they can protect themselves.

A more realistic alternative is probably statutory regulation and penalties for non-compliance that can become an existential threat to the manufacturer's business.
Have a look at "Why are there NIMBYs?"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11919667
Damn, only Buffer could exploit the firing of 10 percent of their staff with a promotional post.

I don't know whether to be impressed or offended.