skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depends on how quickly the climate changed. Lets say one year winter came and spring never did. It simply went from less cold to more cold all year long and deciduous plants stopped growing north of say Dallas Texas.

All sorts of food stocks simply die. No corn, no wheat, no cows, chickens, or pigs (in year 2) and no vegetables. Fruits from the tropics perhaps but another huge die off in that vegetation as well as temperatures drop into the 40's at night. There is no "other place" to go, so generally you see (depending on your model) 70 - 85% of the population outside the middle lattitudes die from starvation and general unrest. If you are lucky, you get someone smart enough to create a defensible space in the mid lattitudes that can support the population inside of it. The fisheries will crash in year 3 as the remaining survivors use what is left of the world wide fishing fleet to haul in ever more valuable food (aka fish). Then the people in the defensible spaces need to hold off the people outside those spaces until those outer people die and are no longer a threat. That can take a while and since the outside people will be scavenging weapons from the whole frozen world they will have a lot more ammo and war fighting resources than the people in the defensible spaces.

If it changes fast enough, the people trying to survive kill off everyone. It has happened in colonies before and it can presumably happen on a more global scale.

Would bands of indigenous jungle tribes survive? Good question, anything that moved would be hunted as food, jungle would clear cut to make farmland as quickly as possible.

If it happened slowly? Like over a couple of decades? Sure that would probably allow people to survive relatively intact save for their ability to actually make any new things of any level of technological sophistication.

Look at maps of the late Pleistocene where the glaciers were and plot those out on a modern globe. Now look at what is under those glaciers and try to figure out how long it would take to relocate that capability south. More importantly how long it would take to relocate it south. That sets the parameters for the maximum rate at which the species could tolerate the onset of a new ice age.
It helps not to get too theoretical when it comes to morality. Someone that eats turkey and not vegetables out of moral conviction? That's not a sane thing to worry about and compensate for. There is a 0% chance of that being the case. If you worried about preferences that obscure/made-up you'd forbid every category of food, every color of food, every texture of food...

On top of that, it's very likely that every ingredient in the "turkey loaf" was something that would not be out of place in an actual turkey loaf. In other words, no ingredients being secretly added, just one being removed.
Imgur was the epitome of setting user expectations way too high. The service they offered was fantastic but costly, but users came to expect they should get it for free without clutter and monetisation wrapped around it.

It's a reinforcement of how important setting expectations with customers early is very important to avoid stepping on their toes later on.
Funeral Held for 2-Year-Old Boy Killed by Alligator at Disney World Resort
I would love to see a Tesla laptop, or Tesla phone, being powered directly from my Tesla Sunbeam Convertor. Totally ready to ditch Apple if that happens.
More info on Chomsky's argument here: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/noam-c...
You can't put your kid in a room full of crisps, sweets, alcohol, drugs, pornography, and expect it to come out ten, fifteen years later as a healthy individual that is not an addict to none of them

I know this is bandied about a lot, but is this actually proven? With the exception of drugs, all of those you mention have been within easy reach for me (actually, as a Dutchman, even softdrugs were just one step away if I'd wanted to). Yet I don't consider myself addicted to any of those.
Nope. Desktop. Phenom X4, GTX 750 Ti. My hardware and Linux seem to be allergic to one another for reasons I've yet to pin down. Fedora is one of the few distros that behaves at all on my machine.
That's what "injective" means :-)

Also, I think that serialization is actually injective by definition. If you can't deserialize it, it's not a serialization, it's just an arbitrary sequence of symbols that you maybe happen to have generated based on some non-serial structure.

And actually, it's not just the safest way, it is the only way. Though it's true that the hash is not injective, it is collision resistant (based on current understanding), that is what makes it a cryptographic hash function. The only theoretical alternative to (injective) serialization would be to feed the data into a collision resistant function that takes tuple inputs, which by definition would be a cryptographic hash function, which would make it pointless to feed the result into another cryptographic hash function.

The solutions you suggest are good advice, though. Also, don't forget to tag message types if you use a key for multiple purposes, so one message cannot be replayed as another type of message.
That there is an earthquake risk doesn't mean it isn't properly dealt with. The plant is built to withstand significant seismic risk, 10 times more than the faults around it could produce. That's right there in the wikipedia article you linked to.
Even if Musk ends up in prison for some ludicrous financial crimes, he still built a frickin' rocket company and got us properly on our way to frickin' Mars.

So, I think he has a seriously larger scope of riskiness to him. I mean, frickin' rockets ..
Is the President a good guy that we are obliged to follow? I think you have it backwards. The FBI derives it's power from the people it serves.

It is in all our interests to have healthy functioning governments that serve their communities well. (Is there any other role of a government?) That happens through discussion and debate, not through doing whatever they tell us to do.
Rails 5 supports adding comments in migrations
I guess it was the decrypted arm64 kernelcache that was discussed elsewhere on the net on the second day of WWDC, a week ago. So, perhaps this is stale news to those in-the-know.

Interestingly, only the 64 bit ipsw was left unencrypted, not the 32 bit. The inconsistency may imply it really was an error?

As for the impact, apparently it's been possible to decrypt 32 bit kernelcaches on A5 and lower processors for some years. I don't know if that holds for more recent versions of the OS, or just those from several years ago. But, it's not entirely unprecedented that it's out in the wild. Apple just gave the exploit searchers a head start this time.
USGS thinks the Diablo Canyon plant should be shutdown (http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/PG-E-USGS-disagree-on-Dia...)

Then at the NRC, there's been multiple DPOs (deferring opinions) (e.g. http://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML1425/ML14252A743.pdf)

The UCSUSA has weighed in on its concerns (http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-power/nuclear-power-accidents/...)

When the USGS, NRC, and UCSUSA think something is a bad idea, it's worth listening to them - these aren't anti-nuke people.

There are serious complaints from qualified people about the safety of a specific thing. Please don't inflate this to some generalized "anti-nuclear" movement - it's not about that.
Will Andrew Ng's machine learning course be staying?
Ah I see, that's quite interesting. So the idea of a system that could explain its own decision-making and inferences?

Neural networks definitely are black boxes, at least at an individual level. Sure the concept remains the same generally, but the internals are different and hidden from case to case
Amazon released their data migration service a while back, which allows you to transfer data in just about anyway you might want to, they'll migrate data between different RDS engines (MySQL to Postgres for example), and to databases outside AWS. They even support near real-time replication to database servers outside AWS, so you could hypothetically replicate your RDS instances to a fail over environment with another provider. There's very little risk of your data being locked in now.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/dms/?nc2=h_mo
There are also 'experts' in these fields, so your point is moot.
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They have thrown him the CV and the candidate does not know the company was run by idiots? You must be joking.
As much as I agree and support the use of nuclear power to meet our energy requirements, I think the most obvious downside when a nuclear plant fails also happens to help remind the public of what a nuclear failure can create.

The only two Level 7 nuclear events in the world — Chernobyl and Fukushima Daiichi — have have rendered large swaths of land unusable for a significant amount of time. Whether or not the exclusion zones surrounding these two areas need to be as large as they are can be argued. However, when a hydroelectric dam fails more people die initially, but as the cleanup happens and the reporters fade away, the event fades into the background. With nuclear incidents people are persistently reminded whether through apocalyptic movies or people going into the exclusion zones to photograph the ruins that are left behind.
Misreading ‘Eichmann in Jerusalem’
Don't forget the carbon credits: by owning the panels on your roof, solarcity (and others in the same business like sunrun) own the carbon credits. Which they can then sell in the carbon markets.

When you buy your own panels, there's no way to cash in on the carbon credits. I'm waiting for some startup to provide a way to market them...
While I do agree with the broader point that nuclear power is probably a good idea, an estimate like "1 per million years" is, by definition, absolute bullshit.

There is no way to reliably estimate an event that rare. And to publish such an estimate at all is insanely irresponsible.
Has any country achieved this feat?
[update]
Has any country achieved this feat at this cost?
Mark Zuckerberg has his microphone and camera taped up on his laptop
Double pro-tip, if asked stupid questions, or better yet, they yell at you and trow anything at you, do not walk, run away.
Using Windows 10?
> It is easier for you to control the updates, iterate faster to improve your idea, and have better discoverability.

Absolutely right. This is also my experience.
How come the US hasn't eliminated homelessness before launching satellites?

You don't have to fix every other problem in the world before doing something advanced.
Somewhere else in the comments here one off the engineers on this project said Aurora was still in beta at the time but they went with MySQL so they had a reasonably simple migration path later.
I am working full time with Elixir and Phoenix for more than one year now and worked with Erlang before that. It is great to see how well thought out all the abstractions are (both in the language and in the framework). I saw couple of companies cautiously introducing Phoenix in their stack and then going all in. One of such stories will be presented at Erlang User Conference: http://www.erlang-factory.com/euc2016/ben-marx

Comparing to Ruby: Phoenix promises to be as productive as Rails, but more performant and it keeps the promise if all the libraries you need are already ported to Elixir. Even if not, people consider writing them from scratch.

Comparing to Erlang: Elixir fixes a lot of problems like encoding or inconsistencies in standard library. It introduces many new concepts borrowed from Ruby so it might be a little overwhelming for Erlang developers (Erlang is really small and simple language - the hard part is OTP).

Learning Elixir is like learning to touch type. Initially it slows you down, because you have your habits. You need to learn new abstractions, because old solutions just don't work. After short period you are as productive as before. After a month you can deliver hight quality code quicker which is the ultimate goal of every programmer :) And it magically scales on more machines or at least utilizes all of the cores.
Examples of the word of 100 experts:

* LTCM implosion

* The Great Recession

* Libyan and Syrian wars

* Fukushima
Why is avoiding negative side effects a wasteful proposition?
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Wait, isn't this all free energy, waiting to be harvested?
As a non-native speaker myself (Italian), I too often notice what seem to be patterns in other non-native speaker's English writing that seem to be typical of some larger geographical area (eastern Europe, northern Asia, southern Asia). Though I can't put my finger on it and say exactly what those patterns look like, nor pinpoint where the writer's mother tongue is, I can usually tell that something is off in a certain location-specific way. It's interesting and, to a certain extent, a fun exercise. It's a pity that I'm too lazy to sit down and compare samples of writing from different areas and come up with an organic and formal description of what I'm noticing, assuming that's even feasible without being a linguist and well-versed in all the languages involved.

No offense intended for the author of the parent comment, I hope he won't take this the wrong way either!
IIRC the US and Russia have launched something like 30 satellites.

But, nevertheless, impressive.
From the article:

The record for the most number of satellites launched in a single mission belongs to Russia, which sent up 37 satellites in 2014.
Of course they are not. But the merits of India's space program are a debate worth having in my opinion. All the other space programs (except for NK) were started when their nations were doing okay socially at least. Sure, the profits may be redirected to fixing those social issues but lives are being lost the longer they delay that.
My first attempt at publishing an app with Apple for (at that point) the iPhone 5 was met with extremely limited exposure in the app store itself. Based on our web referral metrics from the main website and client usage our downloads were driven (in over 90% of cases) by web referral to the app store, and not by app store searches natively. The app itself was quite successful and served its purpose, but the app store alone is not the best way to gain exposure for a new app, it really needs a combination of web advertising and active endorsements elsewhere.
Anyone has cost/kg to LEO for this launch system?
Python and Django on Windows Nano Server
"This is absolutely true. Many, many strategies that are viable at small portfolio sizes fall off very quickly when millions, tens of millions of dollars start to be used for them."

I've thought this for nearly a decade now, yet have never seen or thought of such a thing. Of course I'm just an idiot so the fact that I didn't think of any means nothing; but you'd think that in all that time looking for it, someone somewhere would have described such a thing, even if only to make money on 'how to find small-portfolio investment strategies' ebooks and seminars.

So I'm curious what makes you say 'absolutely true' rather than 'I think so too'.
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Indeed, you can use Lua tables within an object-oriented paradigm, or you can use them for other things as well. The power is in metatables, which allow you to alter the behaviours of table operations according to your needs. So in that sense, Lua allows table-oriented programming indeed.
Read the article:

> The record for the most number of satellites launched in a single mission belongs to Russia, which sent up 37 satellites in 2014.

Also, it's not exactly a feat. If someone really wanted, they could stuff a rocket full of nanosats but I imagine there's more risk in launching that much at once. (They could be released in sequence but still, more chances for something to go wrong.)
Maybe the money received for sending US and German satellites can be used to construct toilets.
And what do you want to discus? It will start just another flame-war. Indian program is pretty cost effective, and there is a good chance it will become profitable.

And US has 44M people on food stamps ;-(
It takes 3-5 business days for a bank transfer. Bitcoin takes 10 minutes, and ethereum takes seconds.

10 minutes is more efficient than 3-5 days.
I think the author didn't want to include any spoilers. That the red eyes aren't gaffes is even hinted at with "How strange! I’m sure it won’t turn out to be significant". This phrase pops up again at a later time in the article around a similar plot hint.
The Boeing RC-1 was a design for an enormous cargo aircraft intended to haul oil
If you don't mind fanfiction, then Friendship is Optimal is quite interesting read: http://www.fimfiction.net/story/62074/friendship-is-optimal

Also the related stories that explore this idea: http://www.fimfiction.net/group/1857/the-optimalverse
Some downvotes come from Republicans too.
Especially as Imgur is already giving Google that information for free (from the Imgur source):

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Imgur.Util.getGoogleTracker();
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</script>
So infuriating, see [0]

[0] http://blog.arronhunt.com/post/66973746030/stop-scrolljackin...
This is very similar to a POV that I've espoused for quite some time, though I phrase it somewhat differently.

A symbolic debugger is good for verifying your premises, but the actual troubleshooting should be done by thinking about the problem, thinking about the code, forming a hypothesis about the potential causes of failure, then confirming (using a debugger as necessary). Too many young and inexperienced developers fall into the trap of running straight to setting a breakpoint and watching what happens, which doesn't scale to more difficult problems such as concurrency and IPC.

I find myself using a debugger when:

1) it's a trivially 100% reproducible problem
2) it's a completely new codebase that I'm unfamiliar with
3) it's a language that I'm unfamiliar with

Otherwise the only reason I use it (or print/log statements) is, as stated, to verify the premises upon which I am basing my reasoning about the likely causes.
I think an easier strategy might be to work into your contract that if you happen to fix FOSS software on company time (to fix things your client notices), your patches go back upstream.

This, at least, is the implicit policy at the company I work for. It's used in the pitch ("we use and contribute to open source software, which we believe leads to a better internet" and so on) to the clients who appreciate such things.

That said, there might be too much legal tape to get that into a contract.
Right, also the judge is American.
Ofcourse with Sailfish OS, because the Scandinavians love Tesla.
I wish there was a follow-up to this, Peter Norvig has hinted a few times he is going to write one.
I just hope the keys are not his home/office keys. Please do not secure the access to your digital life with an U2F token and break the security of your real life by putting a picture of your keys in the open...
Just curious, why is a latest newpaper headline part of a warrant canary?
>And US has 44M people on food stamps ;-(

That's how social programs work. It wouldn't be working if they weren't giving them out to the lower distribution of the US income.

I'm not sure what point you were trying to make, that food stamps imply the country is poor? Would highlighting that the UK has 100% of its people on NHS also imply that their citizens are poor?
The majority of the corruption issues with MySQL comes from using the innodb engine. AWS built their own MySQL engine called Aurora that I would be shocked if Netflix wasn't using. It's designed for distributed workloads and should be harder to corrupt.

I'll admit I'm confused about picking Cassandra as well, but not for the same reasons you are. They're only storing subscriber data (billing address, subscription type, etc). That data is going to remain static for months at a time. When changed the only potential problem that could occur is the billing process using old data, but I'm guessing their system is smart enough to try again in thirty minutes.

Oracle may be fast, but it's also expensive. This is billing, which means batched jobs running in the background- they don't care how long each individual transaction takes, and I'm positive it's going to be cheaper to roll up more servers to compensate than it is to pay Oracle's licensing fees.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightcraft
I like where Rancher is going. There are still some load Balancer issues which hopefully get fixed in the near future. https://github.com/rancher/rancher/issues/2179

Same thing holds for Kubernetes Ingress https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/19333
Okay, I don't believe you would suffer at a psychological level either, does that give me the right to take your blood without your consent?
What's the efficiency of RF harvesters? 1%? 5%? Not worth it.
nice analysis. My experience with DNB is that it definitely slightly improved my working memory after quite a lot of practice. One side-effect I noticed was an improved ability to track people's arguments and notice inconsistencies. However, in order to get to say 4-back took a lot of practice and it only worked when I was well-rested and nourished. When I was tired I simply could not improve. And DNB is ever so boring.
Did any of the documents release suggest that they were helping HRC _against Sanders_? Or just that they did work that would help her against a GOP candidate?
The rest of the world (including a significant portion of EU) still isn't, though. You can sell from basically anywhere with PayPal or FastSpring, not so with Stripe.
Glad I came to the comments first. Thanks for this.
and the cost of compliance, and to business, individual freedoms and trust in government is compromised in the process
I used emacs-live for development for a while. The color scheme is just horrible, however, emacs-live did a good job of showing me what was possible with emacs.
There is a problem with the simple economic models that don't claim to predict real world behavior because they capture only one aspect of reality (everything else being equal...). They are not really scientific because they are not falsifiable. Math works and it seems to reflect reality, but we have no epistemic mechanism to verify this.

If we can do this eventually, then perhaps we can make our way to models that capture a larger fraction of the truth and can be tested against reality.
He implies the obvious: the evidence is hearsay that hasn't stood up in court (and apparently nobody is even trying) - though it seems to suffice to ruin the guy's life.
Burgers are not bits.
It surprised me just how much of a piss-taking loon Norvig has turned out to be. How much fun do you think he had inventing the comparison of Chomsky to O'Reilly?

Frickin' hilarious Pete, almost up there with the powerpoint presentation.
The whole blocksize debate is pretty strong evidence IMO that bitcoin's leadership is completely broken. They took what was a trivial to implement, obviously correct (in the sense of program correctness) fix: double the block limit. And turned it into two complicated solutions that do little to address the underlying issue.

It's hard to imagine a more clearcut example of exactly the sort of bad engineering practices that will doom any project.

Ethereum on the other hand has serious issues, but they seem fixable. If Vitalik is willing to seriously rethink the design of Solidity and make greater efforts towards formally verifiable contracts, and then they get proof of stake working, I think there's some chance it could actually achieve some of the hopes of cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Unfortunately i'm not sure how willing they are to modify the language to make it more verifiable.
Do you have a link for this? I really want to be able to link directly to the information.