skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite the mental gymnastics. "If we magically enacted perfectly libertarian business policies overnight" <- this assumes we have SOME way to get there. "business would immediately get to work creating new regulations because they're still self-interested like they were before." We would then use that same MAGICAL way to get back to ancapistan. No contradiction at all.
Still not supporting your claim.

> we don't know by how much

This is a measurable (and measured) thing. We know exactly how much the Earth has already warmed. We do not know exactly how much it will warm in the future, but we know how much it has warmed. And the articles are also not nearly as pessimistic about how good our estimates are. You're acting as if we're flying blind just because our models are imperfect.

> but likely not nearly as much as we previously thought

FTA: "He says that the current best estimates of future temperature rises are still feasible, but "the highest values become improbable.""

So no. The current best estimates are still the best estimates. This does not jive at all with your assertion that it's
"likely not nearly as much".
Yeah, I'm not sure if Duo "Push" is standards-based. A quick trip to their website did show that they have an app for Windows 8+:

https://guide.duo.com/windows-phone
No, GA provides a variety of reporting options and formats - from simple to complex - out of the box, it has an active expert community, and its best practices are very well-documented.
Western media manipulates the news? Maybe some things are not 100% correct but what does Erdogan then?

You put the things wrong way around. Erdogan abolished democracy from Turkey. Maybe you are already brainwashed by his censorship?

We have many Turkey discussions here in germany and the Erdogan people don't have any arguments. Sometimes they just lie so hard that it's just ridiculous.
If you support Brexit you are either racist or make common cause with racists.

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For me, seeing progress towards my goals is very helpful. This can be snapping a photo once/week in a mirror, recording your lifting progress, etc.

Another big aspect is sustainability (just like with your work life). You can make yourself train really hard for 2 hour workouts, 6 days a week and see massive progress, but once the progress starts to plateau it will be very difficult to stay motivated if your workouts aren't actually enjoyable. A good workout partner will give a lot of encouragement and enjoyment out of workouts.

Another option is to do activities that you find inherently fun - join a rec sports league, take up cycling, play racquetball, etc. Rather than zone out playing video games or watching TV, put on your headphones and go for a hike. Variety is a good thing.
The whole world is diverse and almost everyone on the planet is friendly, happy etc, humanity is collectively trending towards harmony and happiness by abandoning institutional violence and employing more appropriate solutions for social issues.

The reason you won't see those needles, addicts, mentally ill homeless etc is they get executed.

If you anticipate your son going to school there he will probably be caned.

https://www.reddit.com/r/singapore might be a good resource to explore. Note the hilarious post about the impact on eg, Pokemon Go.
https://github.com/angular/angular/milestones
Math being hard has always confused me; spend just one hour learning computer vision algorithms or neural networks and you'll find them to be very mathematical. It even explains nature so well, what with fibonnacci and so on. So why do I struggle? Surely I should be able to tap into the enormous power that can translate random sound waves into coherent sentences, or a bunch of pixels into an upside down hippo. Nope. Instead when I try to multiply two matrices my head ends up overheating...
I would think that normal GPS maps intended as a navigation aid for humans don't need ultra-high precision. Even an offset of a few meters wouldn't be enough to confuse it about which road you're on and the direction you're headed.
What's the worst that could happen? It tells you to turn right in 100 ft when it's really 105 feet? A human driver wouldn't even notice.
Regarding the leaking of NTP, are you talking about Systemd's default pointing at Google's NTP servers or some other event?
A sibling to my last reply states it best: coups are risky and if the opposition chose the wrong side they'd be the first to go in a large scale purge. The resulting political landscape would be significantly worse for everyone. If the plotters had managed to capture Erdogan early on in the attempt and one of the coup leaders went on national television to show Erdogan's dismembered head then maybe, maybe the opposition could have gone along without taking an unacceptable risk.
> Academics in just about every other field (ex. economics, physics, biology, sometimes even the humanities) also develop software with the goal of actually developing software (to either do the work in some other field you are going to write papers about or to help in education,...) but they run into the problem that software development is not considered a core activity into their discipline.

That's right. I'm an economist, and for the most part, there is no incentive to write and share software. That's something that makes no sense to me at all, because the biggest constraint when doing research in some areas is the insane amount of time it takes to write computer implementations of the necessary methods. In general, writing software is viewed as "not research" because most economists don't understand what is involved.

This is by no means an issue of marginal importance. Take this quote from Michael Keane[1]: "structural econometric work is just very hard to do, simply in terms of the amount of labor involved. It often takes several years to write just one good paper in this genre, and this poses a daunting prospect or the young assistant professor seeking tenure, or the graduate student seeking to finish a dissertation. Using 'simple' methods, one can write papers quicker." Given the choice between writing papers that carry the overhead of doing lots of programming for no benefit and writing papers that require no programming, most economists have chosen the latter. There's a real cost to the refusal to value software development in economics.

[1] https://editorialexpress.com/jrust/research/JE_Keynote_7.pdf (page 41)
Ann Arbor (pop 114,000) has well over ten libraries -- at least four public, and I can think of seven university libraries I have been to.
My breaking point came almost a decade ago, but it was a similar story. I tried ruby out of frustration, and in a single afternoon as a brand new ruby developer replaced a week's worth of date parsing code written in c++. Easy integrations of regex, a repl, nice text parsing, etc. I've never looked back. The only downside is the rest of the world discovered ruby and python so I can no longer just be a 10x developer by not using windows/c++/mfc.
Differential GPS can hit ~10cm level accuracy.
I've only recently started to check in my dotfiles.
The Eurozone is suffering. All economic areas have up and downs. Being in a shared monerary union, you sacrifize some advantages for others: we compromise - I know, strange word.

We are building a stable, long term monetary union. We are learning, we are improving and we will have a strong currency going forward.

Next time another economy area is in distress, as it will unavoidably happen, remember about our crisis, and how we together saw it through.

Nowadays it is fashionable to attack the Euro. When the crisis is mastered, all know-it-alls will praise it. We do not need to care for the ones or the others. We do our thing.

And yes, the most practical consequence for induvidual citizens is that I do not care about currencies, at all. Except when I travel to Poland.
hah I had the same experience with the same game and basically haven't played a video game again in like 6 years. Once they perfect VR though...
I think I prefer unclogging people's toilets than providing technical support to your average Windows user. Pay is probably better as well
I don't know, did Keynes ever understood how capitalism works? Capitalism is competition. If your employees work less, your competitor's employees will work full time and overtime, getting their product to market faster and reaping all the rewards. It works with entire countries as competitive agents (see China). "Winner takes it all" operation mode of modern markets amplifies the magnitude of the problem.

Another issue is management overhead. Managing 10 people working full-time is easier (perhaps exponentially) than managing 40 people working 1/4 time. Easier means cheaper, which means that you are better positioned in the competition. This is why every rational company will hire 10 people full-time and leave the other 30 unemployed, instead of hiring all 40 for quarter of the time.

I see no solution to this problem in peacetime (Keynes' own solution famously didn't work). In wartime, of course, there are nearly no unemployed.
Switzerland does have access to the EU single market and implements many features of EU law, such as free movement of people. The UK might end up with a similar arrangement eventually, but if we adopt most of the EU principles but without any political influence I fail to see what the point was. Even if we manage to find a satisfactory solution, we will have to go through a lot of pain to get there, and we were already doing very well as a member of the EU.
What doublethink are you talking about? There is no internal inconsistency in my position, I just disagree with you.
Do you mean DDT?

Anyway, beyond the 'philosophy of science' issue of whether you can prove something, there is good affirmative evidence that existing GMOs are safe for numerous reasons.

First, there's no mechanistic reason to think they would be dangerous. T-DNAs are not somehow magically toxic to humans; everything you eat is riddled with millennia of t-dnas, old viruses, transposon blooms, etc. etc.

The technologies themselves should be safe as well. BT is well understood and embraced by the organic community as an applied natural pesticide, so you would need to find evidence that the localization somehow makes it toxic. Glyphosate resistance is also unlikely to have any effect a priori because it affects a metabolic pathway completely absent in animals.

Argue all you like about how nothing can be 'perfectly safe', sure, but there's no reason to think that GMOs are dangerous, and people have looked quite hard.
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Finally, just look at the Seralini pile-of-bullshit for evidence that there's plenty of incentive to publish anything critical of GMOs. No one is sitting on career-making evidence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A9ralini_affair
Saved my bacon couple of times. Definitely not for regular job, but a very good thing to have for just in case situations.
The events rehashed here were already covered at

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12166248

It's noteworthy that wikileaks has responded to criticism on Twitter by blocking people, defaming their critics, and lashing out with anti-semitic tweets. The NYT covered their willingness to put innocent lives at risk in 2010:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/world/24assange.html

The previous HN story was flagged and killed, and this one is under flagging attack now.
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> If you'd be happy to see GPL-style licences become less popular/relevant, by all means ignore the issues people have with them.

If compromising the core principles that make the GPL and copyleft software special is what's necessary to get people to use it, then we've already lost.

I honestly don't see any lack of clarity in the license unless you're actively trying to find a way to make proprietary software that utilizes GPL components. The courts might not agree with Stallman about the word derivative but the spirit of the license is clear and simple. If someone releases their work under the GPL and you use it in yours, then the combined work must be Free Software.
That is a moment. Thanks for sharing.

Death often has that effect, for sure--it's painful, but can be inspirational at the same time.
> Occasional Fasts

There was a white paper on /r/science about how decreasing amount of sugar one consumes, lowers chances of developing some kinds of cancer (can't find an exact link, something along the lines "less sugar starves cancer"). Pretty interesting, thanks s for sharing!
Well said. I don't remember where I heard this, but it's been said that time travel is really a secondary super power to the player's empathy in this game, and I whole heartedly agree.
I'm new to Go and I read some documents [1][2][3] on what 'vendoring' means but I still don't understand.

What problem does it solve? Why is it needed?

Is there an 'explain for a 5-year-old' version, or better yet, an 'explain for someone who is used to other packaging systems that may not be entirely elegant but work pretty okay most of the time, like Java's Maven or Node's npm'

[1] https://engineeredweb.com/blog/2015/go-1.5-vendor-handling/
[2] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rMoZ0rmpxw6dShalHnkuPtia...
Text classification with word embeddings and deep learning
I'm curious what aspects of Haskell have changed to cause this book to be dated, i.e. are there examples in this book which would be done differently now?
pip's lack of backtracking is doubly irritating, because it installs packages as it goes. It would be great if it would fetch all of the required manifests and make sure that the install was going to succeed before it starts spewing stuff everywhere, but instead it will happily back itself into a corner where A->B->C(v1) and A->D->C(v2) conflict and so it leaves the system with A, B and C(v1) installed and prints a nice red stack trace.
Angular 2 uses Typscript which did come out of Microsoft.
32% complete - I think release will be in December ).
That's a moment I think a lot of us can relate to.

I love Linux/Linux-like OSes. I also like stuff working without having to tinker with it--not that I dislike tinkering (it's great fun) but time is more of a factor now than it used to be.
If I'm understanding this right, you could include the public key in the web page itself, served over HTTPS. There's still a webpage being served from your server. It just delegates most of the resources to be accessed over webrtc.
Well, it isn't. But you need to have autocomplete for a better experience.

There's Xamarin and other IDEs as well (I'm sure there's an Eclipse plugin but I wouldn't go there)
Entrepreneur's Paralysis
It's illogical from a rational, maximum-utility-for-all perspective.

However, looking at it from the point of view of a primate status hierarchy competition, it makes perfect sense. The apex individuals derive pleasure from subjugating their lower status colleagues, and thus seek to make their lives as miserable as possible.

From this point of view, all of human history makes sense. We are but primates, and no amount of highbrow pontificating can change that.

Starting today, if the powerful wanted to, they could design a rational system that maximizes happiness and minimizes suffering for the largest number of people possible. But then, there is no incentive in the primate brain to foster such an endeavor. Even philanthropists, instead of uniting and agreeing on a shared vision, compete with each other for status amongst themselves by virtue signalling their own superiority over their peers.

It is nature red in tooth and claw. We are no exception.
Research sleep hygiene, for starters.

Set yourself a "no screens" curfew every night. After that time, don't touch anything with a screen (or anything else that causes stress and mental stimulation). I set mine about 2 hours before I go to sleep.

I use that time to clean, cook for the next day, read, and walk my dog. I often think about increasing it to 3 hours, since it boosts my quality of life so much.
Wouldn't oxygen producing organisms such as plants and trees be a cause for oxygen levels taking off?
You have so many regulations because modern economies are extremely complex - not the other way around.

Food for thought on economic complexity: https://medium.com/@kevin_ashton/what-coke-contains-221d4499...
At parts I would agree, but at least the first 2/3rds were pretty surprising for me. First episode gives this wholesome teen drama feel, and then suddenly you are dealing with serious adult moral choices that made me put the controller down and reevaluate things.
I wonder where the happy medium is. Setting up React/Redux/React-redux/react-router/react-redux-router/react-redux-router-thunk/webpack-hot-module-oh-my-god-what-am-i-doing takes forever.
>1) Meditation, I used to think it was something hippies did. I now think its worth 10 IQ points. I honestly can't recommend it enough.

I wish this was true && that there was well compiled evidence that could convince me that this is the case.
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1. Good diet, exercise, and generally taking care of my health. Seriously, this should be the top priority, if you know that you're being stupid about how you treat your body - fix it as soon as possible.

2. Writing regularly(fiction or nonfiction). I think it's one of the most awesome skills you can develop, and the younger you are when you start practicing - the easier it will be. Just create a blog, and try to regularly post something valuable there. It's truly awesome, in so many ways, and the longer you keep doing it - the more awesome it gets.

3. Reading and information diet. Trying to minimize inane internet browsing, news, social media, and maximize the healthy information that I consume. Audiobooks are the best thing ever. Enjoyable and satisfying to listen to, and incredibly valuable. Just get in a habit of reading/listening, and you will soon learn a massive amount of great information.
That doesn't make any sense to me either. To avoid accidents - do they mean so the car doesn't drive off the road when making a turn? Surely the car uses visual feedback as well.
As I said earlier, there are alternatives which are both moral and can verify effectiveness without having to repeat the original experiment.

You chose to not verify, and insist upon repeating, thus likely consigning people to unneeded pain and even death.

I'll give a real-world example to be more clear cut about modern ethics and science. Ever hear of TGN1412? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGN1412

It went into early human trials, and very quickly caused a reaction. "After very first infusion of a dose 500 times smaller than that found safe in animal studies, all six human volunteers faced life-threatening conditions involving multiorgan failure for which they were moved to intensive care unit." (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2964774/ )

Here's a publication of the effects: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa063842 .

Is it moral to reproduce that experiment? I say it is not moral, and must not be repeated even though it is possible to do so.

Can a publication about the effects still be good science even though medical ethics prevent us from repeating the experiment? Absolutely.

What say you?
It is true that the grass is always greener on the other side.
I wasn't referring to landmines, but to stuff dropped from the air, by our government.
Maybe, but it will take you 3 weeks to set it up.
Smalltalk expected the image to hold the authoritative copy of your source code, adding friction to the use of any tools that were not first ported to the Smalltalk you were using (e.g., your favorite editor, version control, code review).
Could you share real projects(not todo-like applications) which use NG2?
Any meditation tips?
I've gone through multiple fits & starts but I just can't keep my mind from wandering.
Not a single us city. Pathetic.
I think your's and the parent comment are both right, just addressing different extremes.

Sometimes you find evidence that doesn't quite match up with previous work, but if an explanatory framework isn't forthcoming, it can be difficult to say who's results are right, and what they mean. On the other hand, sometimes you come across something blatantly wrong, so you do your follow up experiments to confirm and you're all set. It's only the latter case that will quickly make it into a manuscript.

I will say, I've seen some big corrections (like this-allele-was-actually-a-completely-different-mutant bad) that just get buried in the results section of a subsequent publication, and no retraction was ever submitted for the original paper. That was definitely a failure in the field, and likely the result of the status of the authors involved.
As bad as things are in the red zone environmentally, they aren't as bad as having been strip mined, no? Except for all the stuff that wants to explode...
Even with a +/-3 meter accuracy, a systematic 1.5 meter shift still makes a difference.
You should bear in mind that:

(1) At the high school level, for most students, a teacher's value-add is diagnosing and remediating misunderstandings. It's odd that we expect high school teachers to create curricula from scratch when it'd be better for a highly-optimized lecture (e.g. celebrated teacher recording a video lecture) to convey knowledge to lots of students and let teachers focus on the high-touch, one-on-one work of figuring out what individual students are misunderstanding and working with them to correct it.

(2) Teach For America works with students who are often far behind national standards. My students in Mississippi had one year of science between 5th and 9th grade, so most of the nuance of a physics PhD would have been wasted on remediating things like basic atomic structure. My anecdote is particular to a very low-performing region.
Agree with all three, but #2 for me has now become the very important due an incident last week.

I pulled an all nighter and next day rear ended a vehicle near a traffic signal because I dozed off for a second. The impact was minimal and no one was harmed. It was the first accident with my fault in 15 years of driving. I am approaching 40 and have 2 young kids. I cannot get my priorities wrong at this point. Many lives depend on me and hence it is imperative that I take care of my health.

I am sharing so people in my situation may recognize importance of our health at this stage in life.
Thanks I've never heard of The Great Courses.

edit: Woah where do I even start on that?
>Self-driving cars, for example, must have infinitesimally precise location data to avoid accidents.

I'm sure surveyors, machinists, and physicists would be interested in how "infinitesimal" location data can be obtained. This article doesn't really spell out what is going on. Did Australia use some other datum than WGS84 and now they changed it?
Lots of fraud in China where the death sentence is used.

Your position is unsupported by facts and unsustainable.
I'm still mostly working through my textbook, but I've read part of an interlinear translation of the Anabasis. I'm reading through parts of Plato's Apology with a group. My goal is to be able to read at least one of Aristotle's books, and perhaps Herodotus and Homer.

Regarding Anabasis, the scene in which the 10000 put on a show for the Queen of Kilikia (who is rumored to be sleeping with Cyrus), ending it with a fake charge scattering the onlookers struck me as profoundly humorous.
Yea your smarter than the average Hong longer. Oh actually your not your a MORON.
> it is boring

It might not work for you, but for me, the joy in running comes from using that time to let my mind wander. Sometimes I use it to think about work and sometimes I just daydream. It can be a great meditative conduit.
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