skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. The article was a cool read and props to the guy for successfully building a career in science, despite his shitty upbringing. I just wish the headline didn't wildly exaggerate his admirable accomplishments.
Tim and Marissa are both characters. I wonder if they are actually any good. After all, how easy would it be to "succeed" at Google 10 years ago?

That's why I'm always a little skeptical about hiring leaders from one-trick pony companies. Many come to mind. Intel (x86), VMWare (vSphere), Google (ad words) and the list goes on.

It's likely you could be a very incompetent leader at these companies and still show results because the product sells itself &/or has a virtual monopoly for a number of years.

I have seen very, very few Intel execs leave and be successful outside of Intel. In fact, I can't think of any. Are we now seeing the same from Google?
This certainly seems to make the most sense. It does seem like Verizon is chasing the past with this acquisition, going for Internet 1996 and Internet 2000 rather than the mobile future. (I don't buy Mayer's contention that Yahoo is now a mobile company)
The Moto Z is a good phone headed down the wrong path
The more I mess around with Rust, the more it seems to fit the bill as the new --C++.
Turns out the majority of people don't like Communism/Socialism.
> that offers transactions, or "compare and swap"-type operations?

"Things UNIX can do atomically"
https://rcrowley.org/2010/01/06/things-unix-can-do-atomicall...
First Proof That Wild Animals Really Can Communicate with Us
It sounds like maybe you want Apple's "Continuity" features, especially Handoff? It's not quite as simple as your scenario (you'd have to do two separate "handoffs", one for the article, and one for the conversation), but it's close.

Here's a description of them today; their OS updates this fall will also add a universal clipboard. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204681
It would be a disaster for British Democracy. Imagine if the reverse happened.

I would also regard the morning after regrets with a grain of salt. The political establishment (Labour & Tories) were against leaving. The politically influential corporate sectors (especially banking) were against leaving. The media was generally against leaving. The leavers are pretty underrepresented, it would seem. It's not surprising that leave voters seem to have vanished, or changed their minds.

Some may have, but even if there was a massive swing (say from 52% to 45%), the un-regretful leave voters are half the country. They won the vote. How can they trust democracy if they are "robbed" of their democratic right.

Not leaving will create a mockery of democratic process. It would delegitimize the EU, & even the British polity.
If I were to go back and be young - I would dedicate myself to read plenty of books and probably find three genres which would appeal. A measure of a good book is how likely will it lead you to read another great book or how likely is that it changes the perception of another book/knowledge or makes you question-argue fundamental value systems. Wish there was kind of backlink algorithm to measure a book like that. I've found below genre-and-author that appeal more over time and you keep going back to them.

> Tech : C - Kernighan & Ritchie (may be a good python/nodejs book today).

> About tech people : Made in Japan - The Google Speaks - The Everything store - Hatching Twitter - Steve Jobs - Zero to One - Hard things about hard things.

> About non-tech people : Founding fathers - Obama - Einstein - Darwin - Feyman - Teresa - Montessori - Gandhi - Mandela - Che Guevera - Churchill.

> Last but important: Tolstoy - Plato - Enlightenment-Era-Books - Religions(all) - Military fitness.
It is EXACTLY the launch of a new MMO. If you've played WoW on the launch day of a new expansion, very little actually works. Servers are overloaded, there are too many players, basic bugs break core mechanics. The spikes are just too extreme to handle. That being said, everyone sees the new content for the first time, and recognizes its potential. You get to explore a whole new world, surrounded by TONS of people.

The only difference is pokemon go is in the real world. And that is an insane difference.
The question is whether it's a right they should exercise on so little information.
This is lacking tons of features that other boilerplates already have but I think this was a great move because we needed a source of truth for doing app structure in React.

In a different note, I think if you write it yourself from scratch you'll have more control and knowledge down the road when it comes to nasty bugs but I won't blame you for choosing this over spending weeks setting up a React app.
with "most" excluding mp3, which does that at around 192kbps.
"Thinking Forth" by Leo Brodie --> http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/

"How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built" by Stewart Brand --> http://www.openculture.com/2015/07/watch-stewart-brands-6-pa...

"Programmer's Guide to the 1802" by Tom Swan --> http://www.tomswan.com/store/
This is great. React has this weird dual nature in that on one hand, you can drop it in as a <script> tag and it 'just works'. On the other hand, if you want to build using it, you're going to end up needing things like webpack, babel, etc, not to mention other common libraries, to the extent that it takes over your front-end stack (also because it takes over any rendered document nodes, and if you want to build a SPA you eventually use it to render everything inside <body> if not the whole document). So it's good to resolve this conflict by providing quicker ways to get started with common tools.
>$1200

Well I'm glad I got my 1080 now.
That's great, I'll try it, how does it work ?
The issue 5 years ago for me was that phones were not very good 5 years ago. Now processors in phones are excellent and they are pushing out 1080 or even 1440 res on the phone and have 4+ GB RAM.

For having a full screen version of Office or browsing it looks great. Plus it is only $99 and all my data is on my phone so if it gets broken or lost it isn't a big deal (although if my phone gets broken or lost it is a big deal, depends if the trade off is worth it to you).

I love the idea and I think for some people it would be all the "computer" they ever need.
Under the hood this is Webpack + Babel + ESLint with sane initial configuration.
Love it.
Deis Workflow Basics
Can the majority not be wrong?

It seems like they are in a number of states, on a number of issues, should we not desire a correct government over a popular one? Whether it's a majority that is wrong, or a representative class that is wrong, or a despot that is wrong, should we not have a voice to point out what we see as errors?
Gaming media was never good and was used as a cover to harass women online en masse. MRA go home
What? Nothing you say has anything to do with his point.
I'm sucker for self descriptive "boring" names like "create-react-app"

Also, sweet project!!
Touché, the comparison tests are at http://opus-codec.com/comparison/
Your degree is all about making sure you transform a bunch of effort into a scalar value on a bank's hard drive somewhere which represents your company net revenue. Put another way, your degree teaches you how to better execute an extremely lossy compression algorithm which reduces the complex, multidimensional value of what your company is trying to offer the world down to a scalar and then evaluates your success based on the magnitude of that scalar.

If that sounds inherently depressing, that's because it is. Scalar money commerce is an old hack and a complete wreck that has not kept up with the times, and you just got a degree in optimizing your endeavors to it.

As grim as that might sound in one sense, in another, you're also one of our only hopes for getting past scalar money commerce to a better system.

Another way to think of your degree is as a way to isolate the people inside a company from both the real and the psychological ravages of scalar money commerce, or what I think any entrepreneur would agree is "the roller coaster."

This is an extremely noble pursuit if that is your primary goal, as opposed to focusing on the maximization of that scalar net revenue number. And in fact, I'd argue that if you make this your goal, the key to treating your depression will be to find the right group of people worth protecting.
Why the Songbird’s Serenade Is Going Off Key
This is just how MMOs work. You can play casually for fun, but you'll never compete in end-game content with the hardcore players.
It took them over a year to add an an item-count label to your inventory in Ingress.

These are the same people who made rendering the UI layer dependent on responses from a server. Most of the promised features of the game are missing, many core features don't work, and with each update they've only further broken the app.

A competent company "could" probably add these features easily. I very much doubt Niantic can.
It's impossible to know if any candidate are good until their 4 years is over.

People vote based on their hope that the candidate will follow through with their promises.
Resources for amateur compiler writers
If you have a 40 PCIE lane CPU (and not NVME drives) was the price the thing that actually held you back?
The scaling past 2 cards is also pretty horrible, depending on how much of a performance increase it would most likely still be cheaper to get 2 new Titan X's instead of upgrading your maxwell cards if you can offload them at 400-500$.
Don't know how I missed that! 1996-2002 or so was my usenet era. I guess I didn't spend all that much time on alt.
It's under the "Comparisons" link
> The specific makeup of Lichens though, is an extremely niche field, that doesn't affect the broader field of Biology in any significant way.

The article mentions how the symbiotic relationship discovered in 1868 cleared the way to our better, broader understanding of other ecological systems. I can see how the current discovery could lead to some deeper knowledge. Maybe it hints at how complex living things appear. Maybe we understimated this processess and they deserve more eyes on it.

I agree with the trailer thing on the title, no need.
Well in today's world you'll handle the media folder by hosting files in the cloud (e.g. an S3 bucket).

Most of the times if you use volumes, it's because of poor design[1] than anything else.

[1] modern web-app design guidelines: http://12factor.net/
This is really neat. especially the fact that I can 'eject' at any time when I need more power. Love it!
You misunderstand me, I think.

The original question was "how could we falsify the claim that CO2 causes global warming"?

One answer is: "show that they're not correlated".

Since they are correlated, the claim has not been falsified. That doesn't make the claim unfalsifiable.

Questions of validity and presence of the effect are another matter altogether.
I noticed one of the photo captions in the article. It was suffixed with the following phrase:

"David Chang wears a Michael Kors sweater; Levi’s jeans; Satellite Wave watch by Citizen."

I would expect such a caption more from a fashion magazine than from a publication like WIRED. Is that a WIRED policy to treat its article subjects as fashion celebrities or was that just something added by a Photo editor/agency?

Fantastic article in every other way though.
Anyone have any benchmarks of a phone CPU compared to a Chromebook CPU (Celeron or Atom I would guess?)
I just got it, Peter Thiel is literally a Bioshock villain in real life.
The problem I see with this is that, even if the phone is work property, it's still often used for play as well as work (because who carries around a work mobile as well as a personal).

Blackberry tried to address this problem, but I think we all can agree that they were unable to address pretty much any problem at that point.

A little OT but...

I'd very much like to see a Qubes-like OS for my phone, so I can use one VM for e.g Work, another for Banking, another for Personal, so I don't have to worry about a messed up permission system or my Banking creds being leaked by some rando gobble-all-your-info app-of-the-month.

Of course that's just a dream until battery life and ARM CPUs approach laptop performance.
And there will be gigantic deficits that somehow will be compensated by some future economic growth.
That's great and I want one... Oh wait, it's a phone that costs over $500 with ancient hardware that probably won't see the light of day anyway.
Just "lost" an hour of my life. Thanks! :)
Twitter's Vine Source code disclosure bug
Relevant to your interests:

"Marketing hacks 4: Hacker News" - http://ineptech.com/index.html?blog&post=20
True not just for doneness but other attributes as well. Having ingredients chopped not too uniformly, charring only some of the surface, throwing in the same ingredient later in the cooking process, etc. are other ways of getting the same ingredient on the plate in different ways.
Can we stop claiming 52% is any sort of clear majority? 52% doesn't mean "most people want this", it means "the country is evenly split, so we flipped a coin, and it came up Leave". You need much more than 52% of the population behind you to have a revolution (of any sort).

There's a reason that most functional democracies have a constitution can only by changed by meeting a higher bar than simple majority: it's too important, too sensitive, and too irreversible to be decided without something closer to consensus. I would argue that that logic applies here.
Yahoo did serve one purpose, it was the exit system for a lot of almost successful startups. Hope that continues under Verizon, though I doubt it.

On Mayer, well eh she put her hand up and suffered. but then Yahoo was pretty much past saving. Hopefully, she's learned from her mistakes and moves to something more productive.
What a 'revolution'. Each and every politician who spearheaded this has since quit in cowardice.

edit: Most, as Johnson remains as Foreign Secretary.
> It's not. Reddit could easily sell targeted ads based on subreddits (e.g. inking a deal with Uniqlo to advertise on /r/malefashionadvice or /r/femalefashionadvice).

I think they would love to do that, but for whatever reason Uniqlo and others won't buy in. Maybe someone will correct me, but I think they've been trying to sell more ads for many years with little success.
Title of Blog Post is "The World Bank Open Data site is officially launched". There's no reason to editorialize it.
The elephant in the room: Sheryl Sandberg (VP of sales and ops at Google before FB).

John Doerr was also a sales executive at Intel in the late 70s.

Also, most executives don't become famous. There are dozens of ex-Google and ex-Intel executives you've never heard of chugging away as executives at other companies, presumably succeeding (because they haven't been fired or demoted). But you've never heard of them because they aren't wildly or prominently successful.
While I certainly agree with that, I would also think that a lot of people that wanted peaceful revolution no longer want it; these are not the types of determined people that turn to violent revolution.

The Brexit was a piece of political propaganda, sold as something easy and hugely beneficial. When it becomes clear that the promises will not come to fruition, few will want to pay an even greater price. The Brexit leaders have all quit their jobs, there's no more leadership pushing this forward.
Seems really opinionated, in a bad way:

> rates are internally converted to 48 kHz

> only frequencies up to 20 kHz are encoded.

> In particular, software developers should not use Opus Custom for 44.1 kHz support

There are times when I need to not drop non-audible frequencies. Like when my microphone is on one system and my voice recognition is on another, voice recognition needs the full spectrum for accuracy. There are times when I need 44.1kHz and not 48 kHz, like on an embedded system with everything running at that and no performance left for converting or extra PCM channels for playing with different settings at once.

They keep saying it is designed for the internet, but did they miss the fact that all major players now have voice assistants like Siri, Google Assistant, Cortana? Did they miss the fact that more and more sensors are cheap embedded throwaway IoT devices? It's like it is designed for the internet of the 90s.
They're only 16 bits though so you will get a lot of false positives.
It's relatively easy to write a game that will run on PC, Xbox and PS4. At a high level, they're very similar platforms. The Wii U is a very odd duck. At the very least, they have to address the touch screen at least minimally.

So I'm sure most developers decide the Wii U just isn't worth the effort.
Off-hand:

Yahoo Fantasy Sports is very popular, considered by many to be the best online fantasy sports site.

Yahoo Finance is popular.

Yahoo Mail has a lot of people who would do anything to continue using it.

Digging around a bit, here's what they consider to be their "core services" that are getting their focus lately: Search, Mail, Tumblr, Sports, News, Flickr, Lifestyle and Finance. You can argue more about some of those than others.
Zelda: A Worksheet
Many people felt that the EU was too undemocratic. Too often it decided what to do, without letting people vote on it. And when people did vote against the EU's plan, the EU found ways to ignore or bypass the vote.

This was a big part of the reason for the Brexit vote. If that vote gets ignored, there's going to be trouble. I don't know what form it will take, but there will be trouble.
"Ever stunned when your boss suddenly asked what you've done yesterday?"

I thought the same as you. Then I read this line and thought, "Man I'm glad I don't work there."
That pricing calculator isn't correct.

From the AWS Lambda pricing page:

Duration is calculated from the time your code begins
executing until it returns or otherwise terminates,
rounded up to the nearest 100ms

So it would really be closed to $1 million per month.
I don't know of any game makers that do this.

They probably should, like how Dota 2 will put players who abandon games often into games with other leavers, but most popular games go through "ban waves" to get rid of groups of cheaters at once (Valve has done this many times with CS: GO for example).
Some laws are good for individuals, bad for the specific company and bad for the ecosystem. (example: Ease of suing companies)

Some laws are good for individuals, bad for the specific company, and good for the ecosystem. (example: No non-competes)

Some laws are more ambiguous. (example: Minimum Wage)

Laws in bucket 2 are what help California. Laws in bucket 1 hurt. Laws in bucket 3 are harder to determine.
Well, then we should maybe change the rules of elections. Maybe before people are allowed to vote they should take a test to make sure they know what they are doing. Or we can simplify and say that you need a master's degree to be allowed to vote, organizing the test may be too involved.

Also, maybe old people should not be allowed to vote since they're gonna die soon anyway, what do they care?

Also, maybe only land owners should be allowed to vote, after all, if you don't own land maybe you're not really part of the destiny of the country.

Also, maybe you should have been a citizen for at least 10 years to be allowed to vote, to make sure you've had time to integrate the values of your new country.

How about we stop assuming that just because things didn't play out the way the elites wanted them to it must mean that people are stupid, racist, uneducated? I can only imagine the reactions if the "remain" had won, and we were now talking about the UK leaving anyway.
What most people are missing is the third option, how Britain can both avoid leaving the EU and staying in the EU: Namely that the EU in it's current form stops existing before the Brexit can be completed.

There are compelling (or at least popular) arguments both from the left and the right against the EU in it's current form, but for some kind of international European organization. It's not too far fetched that (due to various crises like in Greece, the Brexit, etc.) the EU would break apart at some point. In that case, due to necessity and realpolitik, I don't believe it would leave a void, but would be replaced by a leaner organization, more individual multilateral treaties etc., and hopefully something more democratic. And as I said this idea is popular with the left and the right - I believe this restructuring could be positive and utopian, or regressive and apocalyptic (you choose which side is which).
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It is extremely disingenuous of you to avoid disclosing in your comment that you are heavily involved in "gaming journalism" and its direction, as that is directly related to the points you attempt to raise and would offer readers a clear understanding of which angle you're approaching from.

Not to mention the false equivalences that others have already pointed out. Par for the course I suppose. "Ethics!"
This is indeed poetic: sculpture bemoaning gentrification realized through the kind of technology that is celebrated by bearded hipster millionaires that drive up housing prices.
Shall we discuss hard epistemology? Fine.

> You have no idea how he got to his position

False. I cannot prove how. The objection is pure sophistry. Were I to ask him, "how did you arrive at this position", his answer could be a lie. Would you commit the fundamental attribution error and assume that he would tell the truth? Perhaps he secretly doesn't even believe what he claimed to believe!

I doubt very much that you live your life doubting all things beyond your own thoughts. Trotting out a single fallacy mode and applying it in a scope carefully limited to bolster your argument is a rhetorical method for scoring debate points, not sound logic.

You are attempting to use "intellectual honesty" as a cudgel. Who wouldn't want to be intellectually honest?! Of course, you'll be the judge of when someone has met the criteria for honesty, and that will depend on whether they agree with you or not.

I am under no misunderstanding as to what I can and cannot know. I am completely comfortable with using mental shorthand to navigate the world. I do not need to stop and listen to every individual born-again christian to discover if they are the one that holds the key to my finally knowing the truth.

I do, in fact, have a very good idea as to how Thiel arrived at his position. I have a very good idea about why Strom Thurmond opposed the civil rights act of 1964. I have a very good idea that the sun will rise tomorrow.

> you go on this big rant that places you above him in terms of virtue

Yes, precisely. We all hold values. I find his to be in conflict with mine.
It ceases to be free software when it is adopted by many people beyond the administrator, as they lack the freedom to study and modify it.

And it's certainly not decentralized - each instance of the software is its own walled garden. I can't install my own instance of say phpbb and use it to communicate with an existing forum.
JavaScript, Once Again, Leads the List of Top Programming Languages
As much as I'm opposed to Brexit, we can't simply un-ring this bell and pretend it never happened. The issues which lead to the Leave result aren't going to disappear, and ignoring the result will just add further to the (already scary) rise in far-right sentiment in the UK.
No, but I plan to start one soon. It's true that having children gives you a new perspective on life.
Curious: what do people think of the RedMonk rankings, generally?
> If this ends up going through for the reported 3.5 billion...

The article states that "Verizon is discussing a price close to $5 billion for Yahoo’s core internet business..."
My team has wasted so much time configuring webpack. This is a big win for React IMO.
Build Mechs and Fight for Control of Eastern Europa in ‘Scythe’
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Related, you can try it if you have a Nexus 5 today.