skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You know what else isn't likely to cause human extinction? Weaning ourselves off fossil fuels."

You might want to look into where the fertilizer that grows the world's food crops comes from, and exactly how that food gets distributed around the globe.

Extinction? Probably not. Mass deaths? Yeah, that would be very likely.

Caveat: assuming that the fossil fuels aren't replaced with nuclear power, but in general those who hate fossil fuels are even more vehemently opposed to nukes.
Pardon my language, but fuck yea! Been waiting to see something like this happen
Who cares what those people use? Use the tool that's right for you.
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtQa13u6mYM
It is definitely easy to get overwhelmed by so many choices. In the end Pareto still applies, 20% of fewer of technologies are being used in 80% or more of the projects. Right now, React, Angular and Ember are probably leading the pack.
"Physics is philosophy with integrals." -- Well, too bad for physics... But where to look for guidance? Philosophy tries to answer questions that do not have answers; theology studies that which does not exist. What a waste of time. Even Einstein, how many years did he spend trying to understand the meaning of these philosophical "integrals", to no avail? Even his mind was powerless trying to come up with an interpretation of the quantum mechanical theory that would make sense. Should we accept this as an indication that there are limits to our ability to understand, just as there are limits to what we can achieve physically?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11817741
Eh, most of these services are essentially get-rich-quick schemes and there's nothing (too) wrong with that. Most will be gone in a few years, falling victim to unsustainable business models, regulatory obstacles, or a sheer inability to monetize. Some will live on, giving us new services to spend our money on.

This is Silicon Valley's way of throwing stuff at the wall and seeing what sticks. I don't know why the writer takes such an issue with the fact that everyone claims their idea will change the world; we know better. And if we're pleasantly surprised, we'll know in the end.
The nice thing about a book cover is that it tells you which book is inside, saving you the trouble of having to read it every time.
Ideally you touch every part of the stack, learn some new stuff, play fast and loose with everything, cash out leaving your '10x developer' code for someone else to maintain, and tell people you have experience with a million trending technologies while omitting the superficiality of said experiences. It's all about the lifestyle.
Using the same brushes as Leonardo da Vinci will not make you a better painter.
If you re-read the comment, I wasn't talking about Castile: "he better not be obviously resisting arrest" - Alton Sterling. So, you can call me a victim blamer, erroneously. You can say it's racially based, erroneously. But you're the one with reading comprehension issues, Bud.

You might also want to note, that I'm clearly not blaming the victim. You yourself quoted it, "nobody's there teaching these guys how to deal with cops in a civil manner that keeps you alive". I'm not saying that Castile was to blame. I'm saying society needs to teach people to not do IDIOTIC things in front of police. And since this happens to people of all races, you saying it's racially based is completely baseless.
It's about due, but until the publisher decides to update it, I don't get to update it. There are length issues: I'd like to spend another 100 pages covering 64-bit issues, but there's a hard limit of 600 pages on the book. I'd have to cut something else out, and that's a hard decision. When I get the call, I will definitely do an update, but when that happens, again, is not up to me.
The Hacker's Mobile Phone 2016 by Usb
The entitlement transpiring from the answers is appalling and not a good look for our category. There's aholes in every walk of life but we seem to attract more of them than any other profession aside finance. Gross.
> What a waste of time.

A philosophical assertion about what should be valued, if ever there was one.
This is nonsense. All things equal, they would certainly prefer a population that isn't starving to the point of revolution. That's a really fantastic way to end up with your head on a pike.

Venezuela's leaders are certainly putting their personal fortunes and their ideology ahead of the good of the people, and their economy/currency has crashed as a result. But that's quite different from twirling their moustaches as they deliberately set out to starve an entire population as a primary/intended outcome.
IntelliJ scratch files
Which is why everyone needs to spend time in communicating. IRL communication is accidental rather than deliberate. Distributed teams need deliberate communication.
Your example, not mine, was "Corn Belt moves up into, say, Saskatchewan." You're cool with entire Illinois becoming unarable, but you're worried about fertilizer?

At least you seem to agree that "humanity not going extinct" is a patently silly standard to compare anything against. Well, that's a progress.
The problem is that too many of our innovation energies are aimed at these get rich quick schemes and navel-gazing
"problems". Sure it's a free country. That doesn't mean we can't wish for better.
I found this article to be on the mark.

It's interesting that Google's project director estimates full autopilot will arrive between 3 and 30 years incrementally. Up to this point, most news and my friends seem to think it'll be here within 5 years.
I was paid for that book four separate times, and made plenty of money on it. I want FreePascal and Lazarus to be better known than they are; hell, I want Pascal to just keep its place in that Great Big Bag o' Programming Languages.

One clarification: I have not yet posted a POD edition of the book, though once it gets a little more toward finished I'm sure I will. You can always print it locally if you want hardcopy.
Suit yourself. For others some constructive info: gene editing horns out was successfully done in cows. See http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/27/us/2015-11-27-us-animal-ge... Similar approaches could be explored in wild populations. See https://www.technologyreview.com/s/542886/can-genetic-engine... Gene editing for domestic traits, see http://nabc.cals.cornell.edu/Publications/Reports/nabc_26/26...
I believe they grabbed everything. Do a quick search through this script: https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/coursera-grab/blob/master/cou...

If you manage to download one of the archives, please let me know what exactly is contained in it.
It's not accepting connections right now.
or to be truly locked-down, ChromeOS.
Related thread on the front page right now: "Simple questions to help reduce AI hype (smerity.com)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12062294

Excerpt:

> ...good performance on a dataset also doesn't necessarily imply good performance in the real world. I'd wager that even trivial self-driving car models, given reasonable data, would be able to score in the high 90s if we decided on a reasonable notion of accuracy. The real stickler is the last few percent. When we make a mistake at high speed on a road, potentially under questionable conditions, the results can be disastrous. If the cost of a mistake is high, accuracy really doesn't mean anything, especially over a dataset that might not be representative in the first place.
I personally think that's one of the more sane replies.

It is really important to chop up your JSON files into smaller sub-files. This will not only make it easier to backup and read manually but will usually give you a speed boost (can read to and write to more then 1 part of the "db" at a time).
Standard HTML5 is quite limited in terms of UI, yes.

But in Sciter you can define even windows as HTML. Check this: http://sciter.com/images/sciter-clock.png, this is HTML and CSS[1]. Can you do that in browser or even in WPF?

I've also introduced <popup> element that allows to render DOM elements as popups outside HTML canvas (in separate windows) : http://terrainformatica.com/w3/sciter-tooltip.png

Yet all screenshots on http://sciter.com are HTML/CSS as they use Sciter for the UI. Essentially all AV vendors. Only Kaspersky AFAIK uses WPF.

[1] http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/859098/Sciter-multiplatf...
That's what markets are for. Governments are supposed to insure ethical relationships between their citizens. Markets are there to make sure that those standards are met to the letter and no more, not met where there is little risk of enforcement, and changed wherever this can be likely be accomplished for less expenditure than the savings expected. Markets are meant to optimize things, not humanize them.
I think one good response to "I have nothing to hide" is that everyone has facts about them that could be misused by parties with bad intentions.

Perhaps commenters could suggest some other good replies.
Actually, in some respects it was that book that made my reputation, not vise versa. I wrote it when I was just getting into second gear writing technical articles in the magazines. I was introduced to a book acquisitions editor at Scott, Foresman by my editor at PC Tech Journal in 1983, and he took my proposal on her recommendation.

Turbo Pascal's low price compared to most other compilers made it an impulse buy. $50? Why not? And word-of-mouth did a lot of the rest.
the irony is that I ordered a cheap generic jacket and got a cheap counterfeit jacket.

meaning I was OK with generic Chinese merchandise, but it is more convenient for them to supply counterfeits than to produce something actually white-labeled.
Fertilizer production is an ideal match for solar power because it's not time sensitive; it can happen when the sun is shining. Or put another way, producing energy-intensive stuff like fertilizer is one way to solve the problem of storing solar energy.
My wife works with Dr. Chuck and helps produce the university of michigan's coursera videos. She says you should absolutely still have access to those videos, and if you don't you should contact Coursera's support.

If you paid for it on the old Spark platform (over a year ago) those classes were migrated to their new system so you might need to resign up, but you shouldn't need to repay. The URL to use for requesting is: http://learner.coursera.help
Winnipeg isn't considered "southern Canada" by anybody who isn't from the far north, for whom anything south of the Yukon/NWT border is "the south."

I grew up in Edmonton and never considered it "southern Canada"
Height, BMI, and SES: Mendelian Randomisation Study in UK Biobank
Seven Pervasive Statistical Flaws in Cognitive Training Interventions
Molecular genetic contributions to self-rated health [pdf]
> The world would be better served by 1000 scientists.

Why?

"The world would be better served" carries a lot of cultural baggage.
They should take their own medicine. How would one test those three assumptions they make?

As for Mathematics being selectively real, I agree with that totally. Mathematics is just a language we use to describe models and their properties in a most rigorous way. That's all. Can we find a model of the universe from which we can derive all its properties? Unlikely (see Gödel), if so the model would have to be pretty "primitive" and thus too large for comprehension. But so what, we can find great models for certain aspects of reality, and I don't see a limit for how far this can be taken to get better and better models for more and more areas of reality.
Where does the peninsula end and the south bay begin? This has always been a bit blurry to me.
I guess to each their own.

I never found the clubbing in SF to come close to any of the places in Asia (Tokyo, Shanghai, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Taipei). Similarly for bars Japan, at least for me, have SF beat by a long shot. You have your choice of quiet bars. Bars with 5 people. Bars for every type of drink. Themed bars. In SF all I found was extremely loud and crowded bars. Maybe it was just the bars my friend chose in SF the 7 years I lived there.

SF has tons of crime. Walk down any street in SOMA or the Mission and you'll see piles of glass from all the cars that were busted into in the few nights before.

Down in the south bay you lose any of the "city" benefits as it's all just suburbia. If you like suburbia (kids/family) that's great but it wasn't for me.
Well... this is an IRC client. Apples and oranges; both chat clients, but different protocols, as i understand it. There's interoperability, but I don't believe Matrix is a rote IRC client, unlike The Lounge.

The Lounge seems like it'd be better compared to a project like Glowing Bear.
Didn't "learn" it - I just google my way through! :P The docs are pretty good in general. But I guess knowing JS well is important, which I think I do. It is an easy language (leave for the ecosystem...) so you can surely get started quickly :)

I am glad you find my work useful, thank you!
This sounds a lot like how literature coffeescript works.
If you're looking to do something similar at your company, I work at Interana[1], and we're aiming to provide near-real-time insight into analytics; Both slice-and-dice real-time queries and session-stitched funnels.

The founders were the guys who built Scuba, and we're taking a somewhat different approach (mostly driven by differences in scale). We're not quite at the second scale delivery times, and are based on more classical logfile rotation and aggregation mechanisms to get our raw data, and then an efficient sharding layer to get it into our columnstore.

[1] http://www.interana.com/
I like your quote at the end so much that I tried to find a stronger citation for it. The only thing I could come up with was a 12 year old comment of yours from Slashdot: https://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=115306&cid=9766... :)
"It's a crummy commercial!" [1]

https://youtu.be/2-H4LT-WZWE
My understanding is there was a strong Catholic political party that opposed the Nazis, but Hitler made them a lot of promises in exchange for dropping opposition. Then when he came to power he broke the promises.
That's interesting thanks for sharing. I've used Elasticsearch and found all the configuration tuning daunting, but I'm sure I would go through that with Solr as well. I never used ES as a primary data store and I had jobs syncing it up so data loss was never a real concern for me.

I just clustered ES with Docker somewhat recently. It was pretty good at discovery I must say. Well, I'm no great search engineer I just throw these things up when I need 'em so good to know all this. Thanks again.
People who are highly educated like to feel like they are members of a higher species.
How Can I Write a Post on the Forge'it Blog?
> By the way, I don't need an excuse for having an opinion.

Sorry, when you said ...

> > Just look at these statistics

... I thought you weren't giving an opinion, but basing your argument in facts.
Agreed. I'm really unclear on what is is supposed to be new about this post.

As far as I know, it's considered that multiverse is highly-theoretical (potentially non-falsifiable). String theory, a dozen dimensions, etc are still speculative and treated as unproven. Nobody said any of that was proven.
To me, it's all a matter of the empirical data and the math that attempts to model that data. Those two sides of science have continually bootstrapped each other to the point we've arrived at today.

Quoted from the book in the article:

"Our mathematical inventions offer us no shortcut to timeless truth... They never replace the work of scientific discovery and of imagination. The effectiveness of mathematics in natural science is reasonable because it is limited and relative."

I'm not sure what the authors mean by this. Are we to ultimately abandon our attempts at a consistent, logical explanation of what we see? If so, that's when we revert to un-scientific and, essentially, religious ways of thinking. I'd argue that the pursuit of a mathematical explanation of observations is the work of scientific imagination. Mathematics is merely the most reliable way we've devised of communicating what we imagine to other people. And sometimes the math, itself, sings to you and that drives advances in understanding that are totally valid.
Drowning in Space (20130
Now all your space vehicles need to be able to hold together under 1G of force. That means a lot more structure and mass and the cost goes way up.
Meh. It was a half-baked reinforcement-learning algorithm which optimized for efficient use of the lasers, but it didn't invent or discover anything.
What graphics backend do you use there?

If you want it to be used in games then on Windows, for example, Direct2D is the only reasonable option.

It will allow to render UI on layers inside DirectX 3D scenes: http://sciter.com/sciter-and-directx/
The question is (and I think was), what arithmetic do you do with numbers whose values don't matter and what concrete value they happen to have is purely accidental and arbitrary and unimportant.
It's not fun to develop for, either.
Wow, this could be the start of something big. Not often you see people working on desktop UIs anymore, and this of course being cross platform as well... definitely going to watch this one.

Looks great to me.
In that project they ran for less than a minute once every 30 min, on my 1200mAh they lasted around 2 weeks if I remember correctly. There's a lot of reading material online about sending the ESP8266 into standby mode.
> The problem is this is self evident and doesn't explain anything.

Definitely not self evident, vast majority of people don't see things this way. It doesn't have to explain anything, it's something akin to observation. Just a description of how things are, not an explanation.

> Saying that consciousness is the only thing that exists is like saying God created the universe.

I don't get this, how is this remotely similar, what does God have to do with this? The way I see it, history is just mental concept / idea. We take our physical model and similate the current state of the universe backwards - and call this history.

> I personally don't believe this to be the case - I think everything exists and consciousness is only one way too perceive that everything, but that's another debate I guess

Well, you only have perceptions (what you see, hear, feel, ...). It's the only thing you can be sure of. The "real world" is in its essence a thought, idea, mental model. Think about what does the statement "Eiffel tower exists" mean. It's a probabilistic statement about future perceptions - if you go to Paris, you will probably see it.
yes, but it's so cool though
This is probably sensible. JSON is a text-based format that requires you to parse the entire thing just to get an outline, unlike well-designed binary formats.
Consumer protection for UX
For those of you in Seattle, what are your thoughts on the Seattle Freeze?
The Bongard Problems
Everyone who has looked at the website usesthis.com? Use the tool that's right for you, but that doesn't mean it's not interesting (at least to many) what experts use, whether we're discussing software, golf clubs or tennis racquets.
How about sleeping in a centrifuge? No need for the entire spaceship to spin.
All roads lead to Emacs
Usethis interviews John McAfee
You definitely don't have anywhere near that left over unless you somehow don't pay your taxes.
Philosophy of Ghost in the Shell
How is it "pragmatic" to assume infinite connectivity instead of working to solve the problems when that assumption fails? That word does not mean what you want it to mean. I've worked on those problems for a couple of decades too. I also bemoan the relative lack of attention given to them. That's exactly why I find his attitude so disappointing.
Why are they moving back to .csproj?
Michael Nielsen – Notes on Striking User Interfaces
It's generally considered to be where San Mateo county ends and Santa Clara county begins, in other words, between Palo Alto and Mountain View.
Made an NPM for simple file uploading, enjoy! :)
I find my views are somewhat similar to idealism, solipsism and dualism. Interestingly, it seems those are minority views, but I believe that this clearly the correct worldview.
Have you seen the things people have built with Electron? I wouldn't underestimate the capabilities of HTML/CSS/JS for desktop apps when you have projects like Slack, Atom, Visual Studio Code, GitKraken, the Brave browser, etc. all using Electron to build their desktop apps.
Only in theory. The induced hyperopic shift from axial length reduction of the eyeball would likely be reversible after the patient's intracranial pressure is brought back down under control. Moreover it is nearly impossible to find the sweet spot for just the right amount of hyperopic shift to negate preexisting myopia, not to mention that astigmatism cannot be corrected this way.

The more important and irreversible side effects include elevated intraocular pressure leading to glaucoma risks, and poor blood perfusion to the optic nerve leading to non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuritis (as mentioned in the article inflamed optic nerve), both result in permanent loss in parts of the visual field. The choroidal folds are unlikely to cause any change in vision though.

So all factors considered, it's really not a great way to correct myopia.
Yeah, the clubbing in SF has nothing on other places.
If you really dig into what they're talking about, it presents potential avenues for "solutions" to issues from why physical laws are what they are to how consciousness and free will would be possible. It's a lot more than just angels-on-head-of-pin stuff, and goes far beyond Smolin's previous critiques of string theory.
A slightly more approachable introduction to EMI-based testing: http://blog.regehr.org/archives/1161
(Found while googling around for the actual Orion tool mentioned in the EMI papers.)

Very neat ideas. As the regehr.org article points out, it's particularly impressive that 110 of the 147 found compiler bugs were actually fixed.
Side comment: the author is using first person in his paper, which is slightly odd. I know he is the only author, but would it be more suitable to use some other form?
I must have found the only buyer's agent worth a salt. 4 offers all closely lumped together, and the seller's agent wanted to do anothe round of best and final offers. My buyer's agent convinced him not to, that he would tell us not to make another bid, that we were overly qualified to buy the place, that it would close fast, etc. The seller's agent said ok, you got the deal. He basically pulled some bullying mind control tactics and got us the place without having to go through crazy Bay Area bidding wars.

Considering he actually got us into our place, at a good price, and without stress; I think his commission is definitely worth it (especially considering appreciation since).
They don't seem to take anti-materialistic monism seriously either! :-)

It's hard to get tenure these days if you ever mention solipsism, the direct conclusion of Descartes' cogito (which he never seemed to quite get to himself) or solipsism seriously. Individually or in some creative combo move. I don't know if that's because people think that Kant has been beat up enough that they don't want to be seen standing near his stinking corpse, or thinking about it just makes some people feel 'icky' or what.

Which is too bad, because I find that Johnson's (to Berkeley) "I refute it thus!" to be more of a hissy fit than a satisfying response. IDK. Maybe I'd just like someone to use more words? :-)
These days I see a lot of non-genetic evidence as well.
Intermarium, Poland and Freedom
Well, they're wrong. What exactly do they mean when they say that the physical world exists? When you say that the moon exists, you basically mean that when you look up at night, you expect to see moon. It's a statement about your perceptions / consciousness.
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