skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Body shape" isn't what people usually mean by 'talent', and I doubt you define it that way either; but if you want to define talent to mean body shape, I will happily concede that talent is important.
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It's already hell in many Northern Canadian communities that rely on ice-roads [0].

From what I understand we're on track for an unavoidable > 2C increase in global average temperatures this century. It's also quite likely that we'll be passing the extinction threshold if we don't take extreme measures to avoid it.

It's quite likely another Syria-like crisis could happen anywhere affected by climate change. I'm disconcerted that these issues are not the most pressing issues of our time. There are many valid socio-political issues to consider but extinction seems to be the most important one to me.

Maybe it's because the predictions are far enough into the future that we cannot fathom a solution right now... sort of like how smokers don't make the decision to quit today because it's not going to kill them right now.

[0] https://news.vice.com/article/canadas-ice-roads-are-melting-...
Around that time Athens conquered many rival states. Aegina was similar to Athens in wealth and number of ships, when it was conquered. Its temple is greater (arguably) than Parthenon.

It was also common to take hostages (relatives from royal family and nobles) from conquered states. Those were executed if conquered state rebelled.
Because the trend world wide is for pop to level off and decline. The economies are based on growth. It'd be good for an advanced nation to work a solution to that problem (good economy in a pop decline).
Maybe Hacker News readers appreciate hearing different perspectives on issues? This leads them to up-vote quality counter points to articles.
Often times they demand that you uphold the fiction in order to work for them, which makes for fun social experiments in deflating mass self-delusion.

Them: "We just really want to find people who are passionate about this work and these tools!"

Me: "Anybody who is telling you they're 'passionate' about making yet-another-dashboards-as-a-service product on top of a tired old Java Spring software stack is lying to you."

Them: "So you're not passionate about dashboards or Java?"

Me: "No. No I am not. What I am is capable of fixing your performance and scale problems so that you don't lose your reference customers and destroy any chance you have at acquisition or IPO. Look on the bright side. At least I'm not lying to you."

Them: "Oh. I see."

Me: "I'm passionate about making money."
Also turned off auto-update but few weeks ago the app signed me out automatically and prevented me from logging in unless I update to the latest version.

Haven't used the app since then. Every social app is trying to do the same thing it's pretty pointless now imo
The temperature increase isn't evenly spread across the globe, it's concentrated toward the poles.
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the roads weren't properly designed for the expected variations to begin with.

Considering that the road has been there for seventy-years, I'd argue that it was designed just fine. I mean, yeesh, who am I going to pick for my SME on road construction, the anonymous dude/dudess on a forum devoted to work that will never involve a shovel or leave a callous on your finger, or the U. S. Army Corps of friggin' Engineers who have built roads in places you or I wouldn't survive more than a day or two?

But all appeals to authority aside, let's assume for the moment that the road was built to account for a variation in temps. Problem is, that variation window moved by a few degrees. You get that, right? That the average temp was (just making up #s) 28F +/- 2F and now it's 30F +/- 2F? With my made up numbers, the road never reached the freezing (EDIT: melting, actually) point even with variation. Now it does.
HackerNews and ProductHunt, yeah. Busy morning!
>Computer keyboards make a mousy tappy tap tappy tap like ones you hear in a Starbucks — work may be getting done but it sounds cozy and small, like knitting needles creating a pair of socks.

I wonder if he's tried a mechanical keyboard? He might like it quite a bit better, even if just for the fact that you can choose your personality of keyboard with your computer, just like he does with typewriters.
> I wonder what kind of programmer works for companies that produce this spyware...

Googling around there's several similar tools available on GitHub... so I guess the answer to your question is lots of people would do it mostly for fun. Definitely sounds more interesting than the stuff I work on most days. And you're not even really involved in the exploitation, just the post-exploitation control.
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it is still a question if companies use case studies or not for hiring, I dont work for the company that wrote article, I work for trivago as you can see also in my twitter profile, and in my spare time I help the company that wrote the article because I just like it. At trivago we have used kaggle but I dont know if other companies also use case studies for hiring,and what the use for. that is what I meant with the question. as simple as that, nothing to hide here
Do you still hold the Russian passport? Also, yes, I haven't said it doesn't take time, unfortunately.
My rant from when I was reading "getting things done" by David Allen: on about 250 pages, the first 80-100 pages are about how good is the GTD system.

I ALREADY GAVE YOU MY MONEY, I DON'T NEED TO BE CONVINCED, I'M ALREADY SOLD, JUST TEACH ME THE GODDAMN THINGS.
> We can still fix this. Don't lose hope.

I think it's beyond our capabilities to "fix" in any meaningful amount of time. However we can still survive. If we remain optimistic and plan to adapt to the coming changes.
It would still be RGB with an extra. Like RGB+X
Insurance ought to just price people out of areas that are too risky.

Why doesn't it?
What's broken about Rust? Can you file an issue :)
Well, you can't trust anyone 100% but as organizations go I don't have much problem with Google having access. There was a recent report of 1 in 10 people in England and Wales being victims of cybercrime last year including 2.5m incidents of bank and credit card fraud. That's what I'd worry about which Google are probably better at blocking than most.
It's not a new idea. Since char-rnn came out, people have been using it to generate music, generate fake linux code, write Shakespeare, make chatbots, etc. And before that people were using markov models to do the same things. There have been a lot of markov generators including a fake headline generator, and a subreddit populated entirely by markov chain bots.
Did anybody happen to see anything in the article about what wavelength the extra cone type was actually (most) sensitive to???

The article hyped the "millions of colors" aspect, but nothing about whether it was deeper reds, higher blues, or just more precise yellows (or whatever).
acdha is referring to the cache of rendered bitmaps, not the CPU cache.

Font renderers that cache keep a cache of bitmaps for glyphs that it has previously rendered. Since you need a separate bitmap for each Unicode codepoint or ligature × font size × subpixel offset, the cache could potentially get huge.

So, they cap the number of bitmaps that get cached and evict some. But when you're animating a font's size or dealing with non-Latin languages, you're churning through so many unique bitmaps that you end up not getting much value from the cache.
ok well just slow it in normal and slow-motion and explain to the jury that they may experience bias when watching the slow-motion version
I haven't written anything with electron... how do I install/run it?
https://www.yubico.com/
Long answer to a short post:

Assuming those studies are correct,...

Someone please correct me if I mangle the results in question; I know they've shown up here on HN before.

The ones I recall involve a participant in an fMRI machine watching a screen. The instructions are, when something occurs on the screen, decide whether or not to push a button, push the button (or don't) and then report when the conscious decision was made. The studies determined that with the assistance of the fMRI, they could predict the button push before the conscious decision:

1. Screen flash.

2. fMRI prediction.

3. Conscious decision.

4. Button push.

The usual interpretation is that consciousness and free will are illusions; the decision is made without conscious participation.

But I think there's a problem with that interpretation: specifically that its alternative is a strawman: dualism.

My argument: How, exactly, do you expect a conscious decision to be made before the neural machinery goes through whatever convolutions are necessary to make that decision?

Here's my alternative interpretation of the experiment:

1. Screen flash.

2. "Conscious" decision (although the awareness of the decision, as a conscious event itself, does not bubble up until later).

3. fMRI prediction.

4. Awareness (and reporting) of conscious decision.

5. Button push.

Consciousness and free will are not epiphenomena, but the event in the movie in your head has to appear after actual decision. The fMRI prediction is simply seeing the mechanism in progress.
I have actually opened to book on a random page I don't remember reading, then looked for a relevant sentence.

You're right about excluding information (as in my third example), but my second example has practically all of it and is still much shorter
> How is this even possible? I have always considered phones to be more secure then PC due to additional security measures (such as sandboxing for every app as well as more fine granted permission systems).

Zero Day Exploits are frequently unpatched unless you have a Nexus phone for Android or an iOS device. :/

and/or

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12...

> We have demonstrated that memory corruptions in baseband firmwares exist and can be practically exploited. These security problems are to be taken seriously: practical exploitation of these completely compromises the integrity of the attacked handset. Merely coming into the proximity of a malicious base station is is sufficient to take over any vulnerable handset – no user interaction is required by the bugs we have outlined above. The cost of exploitation is low enough to make these attacks
a reality even for attackers with a limited budget: for the price of a mid-range laptop – USD 1500 – an attacker can buy the hardware to operate a malicious GSM cell with OpenBTS.

User interaction isn't even really required, just a rogue base station + a vulnerable baseband (and those are updated even less frequently, iirc, Apple and the Nexus line are the only ones that update those)

https://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html

Only 13.3% are up to date :/
I interpret it as message passing between independent computing entities. For example, having a global object called "google" and an associated message "ask", or an object "HSBCBank" with a method "getMonthlyStatement".

Instead, we started to apply OO principles from a software engineering point of view, in order to write big monoliths.
As a typewriter collector and huge nerd this is great. If you want to learn more about the recent revolution in typewriter ownership, etc. check out Richard Polt's book: The Typewriter Revolution. Really nicely done. I keep a 1958 Hermes Rocket in my office and it bemuses the younger staff, and visitors, most of whom have never seen one up close.
Last I checked, it was specifically illegal for them to get that information for insurance purposes.
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> "Body shape" isn't what people usually mean by 'talent'

"Talent" is usually a catch-all for innate features distinct from trained features. ("Body shape" has both innate and trained elements.)
His response was awesome! That was a nice typewriter too.
It uses Chromes speech to text api. But I don't know, if it could compete with https://cloud.google.com/speech/.

There is no training involved/possible.

The spoken Texts need to be corrected. That is why I integrated a grammar and spelling checker. But you will usually have to do some editing.
> the intent has to be taken into account

no offense intended, but ...
The principle of "fact-checking" has a fatal flaw - it gives power to those who have time and resources to fact-check, and even more to those that can control the availability of facts.

Consider information regarding the Iraq war before wiki-leaks - only facts beneficial to the image of the US military were released.
Ah, the dangers of unbridled spell checkers. Of course, that is "write" and not "right".
It's not a hidden delay. It's known to be 350μs. The idea is to prevent anyone seeing a large order to beat them to another exchange (like NYSE) and doing an arbitrage there based on that information.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/06/magazine/flash-boys-michae...
An ironic comment, given yesterday's popular article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12202735
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Currently the DoD does not think that stable states will be disrupted to the point of conflict, but unstable states for sure.

It's unclear who exactly they consider fragile states in their report, but I'd certainly put North Korea, India and Pakistan in there as states that have a potential for climate change based conflict. If China feels any real stress they will stop providing rice to North Korea and we could see nukes flying from there.

I personally don't see large scale nuclear war (above 5 nukes flying) happening unless it's Russia or the US that are feeling the pressure. Russia seems to be in the camp of countries that will gain aritable land and the US has a huge amount of resources and plenty of ways to cut back on consumption before it feels the pressure.

If you are suggesting a donimno effect of refugees then the answer is very different: I don't think a large influx of refugees would cause a state to go to war, more likely they would turn them away at the border and we'd see a horrible increase in a humanitarian problems, racism and xenophobia, but then again we seem to have already seen that with the end results of the Arab Spring.
Most arable land isn't coastal though - and most coastlines are urban. If you flood, say, all of China's, America's, and Europe's coastlines, nobody will have to go hungry. As another poster mentioned, the land doesn't have to be underwater to become unusable, but rising sea levels have a limited reach.
Leftovers will happen only when number of used temp namespaces before crash is larger than number used after crash. Then not all temp namespaces get reused and, as a result, reset after recovery. The leftovers then keep the XID around forever.
Musk is a CEO, not an engineer.
And, if it's a math (or math-ish) book that works through example problems: try to work the example problems yourself, based on the material preceding it, _before_ reading the author's worked-out solution. Then you'll be able to make a lot more sense of the presented answer. (I wish I had figured that out as an undergraduate).
Because the goal of the course is to teach PURELY functional programming (watch the first video for a full definition of that) and Haskell is the most practical language in which to do pure FP AFAIK.
You've just made a very astute point. I've been thinking for some time now that we are reaching a critical mass of technology. An era when people will start to become bored and detached from technology, and yearn for something tangible, and able to wrap their heads around. For me the allure of a typewriter is the fact that I can see how it works, I can fix it myself, and I can tinker with it.
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How about spending the first 40 hours of work with passion? There seems to be this belief that workplaces have to be demotivating and therefore all learning has to happen outside of work.
> As a side note / issue: culturally this site discourages low quality posts (like this one would be if I just said a quick 'thanks for the link' like I intended to), but sometimes manners dictates an acknowledgment even when you have nothing else to add.

I see what you did there ;). I sometimes too spend a while figuring out something constructive to write when the only real thing I actually wanted to say is "thanks!". I agree it would be good to facilitate this use case better, but I have no idea how to approach it. For now, if I can't for life find anything else of value I could add to my reply, I'll just write "Thanks for the [link/explanation/whatever]!" and hope it won't be treated as comment spam.

(As an aside, I tend to upvote honest "thank you" comments whenever I see them. As a way of encouraging civility, I think one should not only reward the good comments, but also expressions of gratitude.)
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> I believe it should be possible to have rust compile to a library
> that could be called from a normal C program.

Not only that, but languages where you can use C as a way to extend them. Rust has been in production for years as "a Ruby gem written in Rust", for example.
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Here is an example of the sort of press reaction I'm referring to (this isn't a particularly egregious example, but it demonstrates the point): https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/0...

Look at the language there. Scientists "pinpointed 15 locations in our DNA that are associated with depression..." [emphases added]. There is no sense of nuance or any caution in conclusion here. Even reading the whole article, which perhaps most people won't even bother with, you don't get much sense that there's any degree of uncertainty here. There is no indication that the field at large is still wrestling with how best to analyze SNP studies at all, despite publishing studies "practically ever week". There is little qualification around the data set here (it only briefly mentions that 23andme's data is based on saliva, not blood or other cells... which may be problematic. But also it should be noted that disease outcomes in this study were self-reported and from a self-selected subset of the general population who sought professional help... and there are many, many other nuances to consider). Instead, we get the fairly flat-out impression that this is a definitive discovery and, not only that, but it is of huge significance in the field as well.

It may well be. But caution is warranted until time and replication hopefully do their work. Unfortunately, this is a pattern in GWAS studies and their public relations. And while the underlying methodology in the field has improved tremendously over the past 5 years, there is still a lot of debate within the field about how much more improvement needs to be made (on data sources, on analytic techniques, on review standards), and how to adapt to forthcoming changes in available study data.

I think this study appears to be more robust than many others. So, I'm not picking on it. In fact I gave it particular praise for being relatively robust compared to some other GWASs. But I do think generally people should be more cautious about interpreting GWA studies or over-generalizing them.
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This is the correct answer.

We don't know if or how we can deal with the problems coming up. But giving up will surely make things worse.

Further, we have to choose to not give in to excessive alarmism. I am typing as someone who struggles with this every day, since I've been watching climate change closely for quite a few years now. Things are objectively accelerating, so it's easy to give in to panic.

But that might be even worse than giving up.

We have to approach this with focus, an iron will and with an even temperament.

Every scary climate related news item should be practically drowned in data, as hard and objective as we can get it.

Because, these days, nothing puts people 'to sleep' the way unfounded alarmism does. Because people are numb to all of the alarm handles being pulled, all over the place.
What some of these miss are context. It matters who threw the first punch. If snub you because you keep insulting me...
I wonder whose fault is that.. if you build a feature that almost on one will use, then is the 'API' too arcane, everyone too lazy, or are there no tools available to ease the pain?
A change of X degrees in the global average temperature does not mean a uniform, across all times and locations, increase of X degrees in local temperatures.
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Sure, we've updated the title.
So you "hacked" novel reading. I think one more hack is stop reading a book you know is not worth the time. It's a hard habit for me, but I've finally realized there are too many great books out there to waste time on ones that aren't. Put the book down, it's OK.
> Stockholm syndrome in action.

So here's a language feature that you don't like. Other people don't like it and then, after they get more experience, decide they like it after all. And you call it Stockholm syndrome? By saying that, you're asserting that there is no possibility that the feature could possibly be anything other than harmful. That's... pretty arrogant, actually. Both the language designers and the users who like it are objectively wrong, and you're right?

Look, you don't like it. That's fine. It doesn't work with the way you like to develop. That's fine, too. But your assertion is that it is worse than useless for all users, and that's a bit more than you have the knowledge to assert.
The "crime by necessity" argument is well known and well accepted in moral philosophy (even if not always in jurisprudence). The real question is unnecessary crimes: You choose to steal cars and ride around. Can we convince you not to do that (and other, worse, things), or are you simply broken?
I don't think it's about side projects. When I am on a good project the 40 hours for my employer are really interesting and i may spend more time at home reading up stuff because it makes sense. But it's hard to spend 40 hours a week with some dull, uninspiring work and then go home and be motivated do something cool. The dull work pretty much drains all energy out of you.
Your examples just look like spelling errors ("contact", "framework", "Word", "square".) I got a lot of ones that looked indistinguishable from real repos, at least on first glance. E.g., "WebDashApp", "PlayFrameProject", "check-bat", "language-1", "data-cores", etc. As a random sample of just the first 5 I got.

I wonder what libdog would do. Is it meant to be used by dogs, or used by humans to interface with dogs. Or perhaps an accessibility library to make regular apps usable by dogs.
I wasn't suggesting that HIPAA compliant businesses were "blase" about data protection, just that (like many other businesses) they place way too much faith in Microsoft, sometimes sidestepping important and legitimate debates about their OS and where it's going.
I second Scott Adam's book. I am listening to the audio version now.
Can you elaborate a bit on your developer experience?

I've started building an app for Instagram and would like to know. Apart from the newly introduced sandbox and app approval requirements I haven't noticed any major pain points yet.

It's true that most libraries are only seldom updated, but on the other hand the API doesn't change much and it's REST with OAuth after all.
Perhaps there should be a [2008] in the title? It doesn't look to have been updated since then. Still very interesting, though.