skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The sad thing is the vast majority of our emissions could be described as discretionary, at least if you live a standard US lifestyle. We don't even need Elon to save us, we just need to live a lifestyle that plenty of people do already. We're possibly destroying Earth's ability to sustain civilization (not to mention cool stuff like polar bears and whales) so that a relatively small fraction of the Earth's population can have more stuff.

If you:
* Eat less meat
* Live in a place that allows you to walk or cycle for your daily trips (work, groceries, etc.)
* Have two or fewer children
* Use LED lighting, have good insulation, and don't live in the most hostile climates in the world (e.g. Phoenix or Siberia)
* Source your electricity renewably, which can be as easy as changing providers and, at least in my experience, adds perhaps $10 or so to one's monthly bill

we'd be most of the way there. It's not like people haven't already shown you can have one fifth the carbon footprint of the average American and not be happy.

Unfortunately, if you _do_ live in the US, or really any place that was built in the last 60 years, you're essentially forced to live a high-carbon lifestyle unless you're fabulously wealthy or willing not to be part of normal society. There aren't very many affordable, walkable developments in places with job opportunities and housing. We've made it illegal to build them through single-use zoning and parking minimums. If we haven't done that, we (and SF is incredibly guilty of this) have made it basically impossible to expand existing walkable places by allowing homeowners to forbid the construction of new homes in their neighborhoods, which is about as logical as saying "I own a bicycle. I can get rich by making it illegal to build new bicycles and thereby increasing the value of my own, so I'm going to vote for just that."

There is no shortage of sprawling developments where houses are cheap and suburban roads heavily subsidized by the taxpayer, though, so that's where most people live. Of course, if you suggest taxes go towards funding rail or buses people shriek that it never pays for itself, but I hardly see I-5 turning a profit.

Fair disclosure: For all this, I am a hypocrite. I cared enough about the above to change continents, but I fly too much. It's shocking how much that emits, and some years it's 80-90% of my carbon footprint, if the online calculators are to be trusted.
see also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12050028
I’d love to see Charles Bloom add LZFSE and ZSTD to his “pareto frontier” charts:
http://cbloomrants.blogspot.com (read down a few posts)
A fair point, but as a society, we have decided that racial discrimination is not a valid mechanism for banks to profit by. That does result in everyone paying a bit more in interest as the risk pool is larger, but a acceptable tradeoff.

In terms of gaming, verification is just as important as scoring If the data you have going into to the system is rigged, and income is not being properly validated, bad things will happen.
My personal situation is complicated, but I think children make specific kinds of people happy.

I have a child, and I really enjoy learning. And we here at HN love the Feynman style "you want to learn, then be able to teach" paradigm.

I want to say I am often inspired by far smarter parents than me here, as my son is still less than 5. But I doubt I can catch up to teach him robotics. One man here once quipped he and his son were bonding over the shared development of typed programming language.

When my son reacts to input and adapts, he is the ultimate compiler, and I am part of one scraggly development team. When you look at parenting this way, I find it to be that cheesy "most rewarding achievement of your life" commentary far less trite and I feel it internally and beam with pride.

I would love to hear counter-arguments, but HN has show me anecdotes where I feel I am reading, coincidentally, the parenting tips of future world leaders and specifically movers and shakers in the CS world by virtue of how they inspire their kids.
You're not the only one, I just migrated my email from Outlook.com to a self-hosted Novell GroupWise install (cheaper than paying Office 365 or Google Apps fees every month for eternity for three mailboxes for my family, no ads and data stays in my control) - so far I've been really happy with the desktop client and just how much I'm able to customize it. Sure, it's not super pretty, but it's not the worst.

Too many 'modern' email clients try too hard to create a new workflow for email, I get an email, I read it - if I care about it I file it away in a folder or flag it for follow-up (at which point it will show in my tasklist in GW regardless of where I move the item), if I don't care about it I throw it in the trash.
Waiting for Snowden to condemn this.
> At the moment, what's their real alternative?

Ada? Chapel? ATS? D if you avoid the GC?

> That said, I agree this isn't acceptable C code for something that runs on untrusted data while using tons of pointer arithmetic.

Why not? It's not the prettiest code ever, but it gets the point across of what's going on.
What about potential imprisonment for a retweet or a repost in a social network? You're trying to make this law sound okay and nothing new, but it's not. It's something from the era of Stalin and NKVD.

Too bad that worse things are going to happen next, but we'll know of them only decades later, since now everyone is effectively silenced by fear.
You would need to either locate it in a greenhouse, or just shut it down over the winter by harvesting fish and plants, and letting the water drain away instead of into the fish tank.
http://asciiwwdc.com/2015/sessions/712 is the best pointer I know, but it does not give details.

My guesses would be that they have a simulator that computes/estimates power usage, and that they have CPU setups where they measure power usage directly. I doubt they regularly do the "compress things till you run out of battery" thing that that talk mentions. That takes too long, and cannot be used to measure small changes in power usage.
Voting for a mayor is not equal voting against Putin. Your logic is flawed.
Where will you go?

When is your lease up?

>"I could afford to live in the city if I was single."

You're married with children?

#hungryfordata
How does source control work with this?
Are Game Show Audiences Trustworthy?
Most autos in metros run on CNG now
I've actually done this as well, but it's still not super satisfying. There's still no unified inbox so I have to have two tabs open in the Fluid app, and I don't get notifications or any nice native features like that. On that same grain, Boxy[1] is an unofficial Mac app wrapper for Inbox that adds notification support, but is even worse because it requires me to have a window open for each Gmail account (no tabbed interface).

[1]: http://www.boxyapp.co/
As a counterpoint although the article also mentions Manhattan's alleged drop in condo pricing, one could argue that San Francisco is smaller and therefore more constrained. It's my understanding that much more real-estate in SF is under rent control, so overbuilding is also less likely. And if Vancouver is any indication there still seems to be plenty of money interested in real estate coming out of China.
just use mail.app
I was trying to think of how to specify this position more precisely:

1. Certain factors are thought to be causally correlated with higher default rates by individuals.

2. Certain populations have higher incidences of individuals matching such factors.

3. These populations have higher than average default rates.

4. Other factors that correlate with membership in these populations will thus be also correlated with higher defalt rates.

5. For an algorithm to be fair, it must be restricted to using only vectors for which causality can be proved.

One of the questions is, even if a vector is "proved" to be causal, would it be disallowed if it also strongly predicted membership in a protected population?
This is off topic, but the typeface in that article looks terrible in Firefox on Windows 8.1. All of the lower case e's are missing the horizontal line:

http://imgur.com/ShUxi15

Does it look okay in your browser?
>...how many cars they are putting on the roads every day

That, and the fact that abysmal city planning has created unhealthy environments, such as locating chemical plants in suburban Mumbai, where a massive population resides.

Bhopal was a one-time disaster. But the cities of India are a continuous, on-going, everyday disaster.
The city doesn't have enough room to add many more jobs. This is like saying a restaurant that fills its tables every night must be in a bubble because it hasn't grown past its capacity. Right? (Not saying it shouldn't have more room (building). But as a descriptive matter...)
It's still very useful sometimes to have an offline copy of your mail, though. I also feel that email is something so integral that it should be a native app.

I've been using Mail.app for years and it's not bad for my needs, but it doesn't have any fancy features, for sure. But the fact that it's native and works decently with mail providers and allows me to manage multiple inboxes quite easily is enough for now.
Are you kidding? Even 600k is a very significant portion of the city's population! Given that a lot of people are just passive and will never come to public protest, this is an incredible evidence of support for the opposition to the regime from the masses.
I don't feel that anyone disputes that children make parents happier (cuteness, inadvertent humor, fulfillment ...) but the responsibilities associated with them (sleep deprivation, education and care related costs, ...) stress everyone out which everyone acknowledges as well
What has this story to do with parent's comment? Also you don't seem to be telling the story fully. The USSR invaded Afghanistan which posed a great threat to the global supply chain of oil which is a threat to the US national security. That's why the US was forced to back the Mujahideens.
There was an interview with Guy Steele in the book Coders at Work, and in one bit he had something to say about actually referring to the (literate) source code for TeX [1]:

Sometimes I've got a specific goal because I'm trying to solve a problem. There have been exactly two times, I think, that I was not able to fix a bug in my TeX macros by reading The TeXbook and it was necessary to go ahead and read TeX: The Program to find out exactly how a feature worked. In each case I was able to find my answer in 15 minutes because TeX: The Program is so well documented and cross-referenced. That, in itself, is an eye-opener--the fact that a program can be so organized and so documented, so indexed, that you can find something quickly.

The other thing I learned from it is how a master programmer organizes data structures, how he organizes the code so as to make it easier to read. Knuth carefully laid out TeX: The Program so you could almost read it as a novel or something. You could read it in a linear pass. You'd probably want to do some jumping back and forth as you encountered various things. Of course, it was an enormous amount of work on his part, which is why very few programs have been done that way.

[1] link to the page (337) in Google Books https://books.google.ca/books?id=2kMIqdfyT8kC&pg=PA337
>Democracy doesn't work in most middle east nations, it doesn't work in Russia also

Sounds kinda racist, when you think about it. Like we're lesser people or something, and can't enjoy basic human rights.
Autopsy reveals Debian founder committed suicide
True, and then the question becomes, is the stereotypes correct, or is it that the credit score is then propagating a system that enforces this outcome.
Hypothesis: people mostly say having kids makes them happy, because they know that's the right answer and they've never actually stopped to evaluate that statement since the child was 2 days old and the joy hadn't worn off.

Like most things, I suspect it's an opinion that's formed and then never reflected on unless something major comes along to force a correction of it.

As an aside to this, there's a lot that society and governance can do to make life easier for parents both in the short and long term. Places that do that make the statement more likely to be true, as the article suggests.
Good lenses always have weight, but having to illuminate a smaller image circle definitely helps; the G690 normal lens (A 100mm f/3.5) weighs in at 750g or so; the X Fujinon 35mm f/2? Less than a quarter of the 100mm f/3,5, while still being built like a tank - and probably outperforming the bigger lens in all aspects.

Another major benefit of the X series (IMHO) is that Fuji insist on providing proper dials for the most important functions; a proper aperture ring; dials for shutter speeds, mode select and exposure comp. Most appreciated.
I haven't tried Nylan N1 yet, but I've heard some decent things about it. To be honest I don't usually bother trying apps unless they have an iOS version (whereas while not having a Mac version is still a dealbreaker, I'll still give it a try on iOS).
No need to get personal.

> So much nonsense here. One class per object is absolutely not the stereotypical example of OO design.

I didn't say that. I said: The stereotypical example is "one class per (concept / class of) real world thing(s)". Like "Rocket" or "Duck".

> If that was Acton's criticism, then he should have said that instead of saying that "code should be designed around a model of the world" is a lie.

It needs just a little context or reading between the lines to understand the intentions instead of twisting words to make accusations.

> Now you're just confused. Acton specifically was criticizing one instance per class in the section I quoted, and now you're saying that's what he's supporting?

I am not confused. He wasn't criticizing "one runtime instance per class", but "one per runtime instance per real world thing". That's something different.

The quote reads rest assured that there is a "Rocket" class which contains data for exactly one rocket. I translate, he suggests to combine all "real world rockets" in a single runtime object instead of representing each rocket in its own runtime object.

Concretely, he would make a "Rockets" class instead of a "Rocket" class, because that typically allows for simpler and more efficient implementation. (Of course, if there were also planes or missiles or bullets, he would think twice before making a Rockets class).

As I commented elsewhere on this page, there are very close analogies to relational databases -- especially the column-store flavour.
"And this crushed the SF housing market."

As far as I know even in the previous dotcom burst the housing market went down just a little, something around 10%. In some neighborhoods rents have been increasing more than that per year in the last 3 years. So even if there is a tech burst the size of the 2000 dotcom burst, I don't expect real estate prices to suffer that much.

edit: here is a good analysis; http://www.paragon-re.com/3_Recessions_2_Bubbles_and_a_Baby
You haven't experienced air pollution until Diwali night in a metro
Precision Planting HQ is 2 corn fields away (~5 miles) from the house I grew up in in rural Illinois. Maybe I shouldn't have moved to the west coast to chase startups...
FarmLogs!
Thanks for the correction! I never did any actual Lattice QCD calculations, just looked at the theory, so I was taking a bit of an educated guess on the feasible problem sizes.
> Most importantly, most these applications will go back to human judgement. And humans are far worse.

I think you have to be careful there. Leaving decisions to machines embeds an assumption that all information related a decision can (and has been) encoded in a machine-interpretable manner.

How often are circumstances and context taken into account during sentencing hearings? How often do judges actually try to consider things like whether the offender feels remorse?

Sure, these kinds of things can be encoded into numbers, but should they be? What does it mean to encode remorse into e.g. a 7-valued point system? How much does that depend on the person entering the number, who must judge this, or should it be detected automatically using sensors? Should we be modifying sentences according to an offender's level of galvanic skin response?

This is just an example of course, but my point in general is that you make a huge assumption that factors related to decision making can be encoded properly and in an unbiased manner.

I'd even say that many of the factors that would need to be entered into a computer would have to be judged by a human, and therefore leaving the actual decision-making to a computer is a bit of a symbolic gesture in that sense.

I would guess that, given the same data, a computer could/would be programmed to make the same judgement as a human. It is the data extraction process itself that incurs bias, not the algorithm.

Furthermore, if you really leave things up to only externally and easily measurable data, you might not get the results you want or expect. A computer might see that black people are much more likely to commit crime, because hey, more black people are in jail, and therefore judge that the black person was more likely to be the criminal, given a choice. But is this the correct way to think? Indeed, a human would have to think really hard to correct this kind of bias. In other words, saying that an algorithm is less biased than a human judge is somewhat of a non-statement, since the judge actually follows fairly strict rules regarding what the facts imply -- it is more how he judges what those facts are that changes the sentencing. Meanwhile, on a computer, the programmer has a lot more power than you might assume in controlling how facts are weighted in order to come up with what is seen as a "fair" decision. And that fairness is a human judgement, fundamentally speaking, since it is about the relationship between a community and an individual.

In short, I don't think you can replace humans with machines when it comes to making decisions about how to deal with humans. The machine can only provide inferences from facts, but the values that those facts imply are a fundamentally human concept. It is a social thing, not an algorithm thing.

Another way to put it: if laws could be perfectly encoded by logic, we would have no need for lawyers and judges. These roles exist because as a society, we are constantly re-evaluating the logic of our society. The rules are not something that can be written statically. They must change as new ideas, problems, and circumstances change.
Yes, you would need to top off in times of little rain.

Unless you have a ton of rain, I don't see losing the nutrients as a problem.

That is something I looked into. For $150-$200, you can buy a kit containing the DC pump, a battery, a solar panel, and a timer.

That is something I considered, but I thought it would be simpler to start off with just one offering.
It's probably because happiness is a difficult thing to pin down. I could see them as decreasing happiness, but increasing fulfillment. But then, since fulfillment is a big component of happiness, perhaps I'm just defining happiness wrong.
I agree. The only questionable part is the stuff like

*(uint16_t *)q = D;
q += 2; // non-aligned access OK
*(uint32_t *)q = literal;

instead of

memcpy(q, &D, sizeof(uint16_t));
q += 2; // non-aligned access OK
memcpy(q, &literal, sizeof(uint32_t));

which is better defined behavior (i.e. doesn't violate -fstrict-aliasing) and possibly faster.
Startup launches replica of Alexis Ohanian using artificial intelligence
About 10. 2 are superperformers, 3 strong, the others mediocre. The hives are at the only place in the valley which is flat enough to mow but has not been mowed so there is very rich vegetation. This is in Upstate New York near Ithaca.
>The researchers caution that their findings don't mean that American parents are less happy than other parents around the world, as some media outlets have reported

Like for example the headline of this very article. I guess it was not written by the author.
I'm the exact opposite. Put all of the common functionality on dials (like fuji does), so I can instantly see what the settings are at a glance instead of clicking through 4 different menus with tiny buttons on a screen that you can't see in bright sunlight.
Hmmm that's not great. It looks fine for me in Firefox/Chrome on Mac. The base font is a Google webfont though (Merriweather) and sometimes I see those have random rendering problems for whatever reason.
He already did, a while ago: https://boingboing.net/2016/06/27/snowden-publicly-condemns-...
It gets updated once a month, based on FEC's data release schedule
Please don't bore me with a comment that really means nothing.

Why don't you point out the nationalism and foolishness in my comments?

I have neither defended nor justified India's actions. I don't think I've pushed any of my ideas as complete fact, which the other poster has by relying on a single data point.
You seem to have made this about you, which is fine, but why should we care what _you_ like? Are you a person whose opinion is deeply valued and sought after? Because if you are, then certainly a subjective statement will be weighted by the knowledge, experience and the expertise of the person saying it. So my question is, why does it bother _YOU_ if someone, somewhere, finds value in this and prefers this to whatever other way you think other people should do it?
These are different things. A sufficiently smart compiler is a hypothetical compiler that could theoretically optimize a high level language so that it could be faster than some low level language. This isn't what we're talking about here--we're talking about the concrete ability of the Rust compiler to preclude certain classes of errors.
I just use gmail, it seems ok to me.
> In all fairness, the US economy has it's own version of ghost malls, which is defense spending. We spend billions of dollars on military hardware that just floats and flies around with nothing to do and no purpose except to fight a war that's almost certainly not going to happen in that equipment's lifetime.

That's not its purpose. Its the power the US projects that it could quickly win in the event you engage with it. Said defense equipment fulfills its mission simply by being gassed up and ready to go.
Hawken System Requirements
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Why not? You don't think it raises interesting questions about what data is available around political donations and what can be done with it?
So do you belive Scotland has more sovereignty now, being in Union with England, than it would if it was independent?

What exactly is your definition of sovereignty?

Am I correct in assuming you are a supporter of the TTIP because you belive it will somehow increase the sovereignty of the EU?
> in 90s

"90s" that you're referring too actually lasted around 7 years, from 1992 to 1999.

Putin is already full 17 years on his throne and there's no longer any point in blaming anybody other than himself in any shortcomings. It was enough time to do whatever he wanted. He wanted to build a kleptocracy and that he did.

> Putin has 80-90% support in the nation.

Putin says so.

> Around ~10k max in Moscow

Putin says so.

> i am writing that as liberal person

Why then are you repeating Putin's lies?
> I'm pretty sure it is, due to basic economics...

Not being funny, but basic economics also rules out a bunch of other stuff that exists. For example, in Medicine Hat, Canada, they just provide you with an actual home of your own if you're in a shelter for 10 days.
No, but I work from one location or another. Laptops are pretty easy to carry.