skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need to create a market for halophyte plants that can be grown using salt water in dessert/saline conditions. It requires extensive marketing investment and skill in order to create a market at each level of biomass (biofuel, animal feed, people food, niche health products, pharma).
My first thought reading this was "lcamtuf works at cloudflare now?" Nope, cloudflare just took an awesome tool of his and made the kernel able to filter packets based on its signatures using bpf. Pretty cool.
I have seen the following happen to me while reading books.

Event driven - you go back to a book based on thinking around a problem and look for information around it. I have found this very effective to understand the content, especially something not so trivial and those that you may not get by passive reading. However, this requires more time and effort from you in terms of self-thinking around problems.

The second way is passive reading - just read because you got interested in the topic. You don't understand a lot of it immediately, and so either your interest may carry on and you may get more than where you began or you may give up.

But if you give up, in the interim you may encounter some things related to what you read and you go into the first mode. Or you find that what you started is not your cup of tea at least for the moment. You iterate over other topics of interest.
The "Acid King," Serving Life Without Parole
IBM to Launch First Commercial Blockchain in September
When I was younger I used to read only the last sentence of the book, and then read the entire thing through. It usually kept me guessing as to what it was referring to, which characters that sentence was about. More often it than not it's something cryptic which doesn't spoil much without the earlier paragraph.

My least (and simultaneously most) favorite one was “He put on a little light music instead.” I think that's the last book I read in that way.
I still laugh about the chapter in the middle of Les Miserables where the author spends something like 20-30 pages talking about the battle of Waterloo. It was interesting, and very detailed, but had nearly no connection to the plot of the story (other that one of the people there left an heirloom for a character, or something?). Later, he did the same thing for the sewers of Paris, and I believe I skipped that. ;)
Awesome work with this one—will definitely try to use it.
Redirects with HTTPS
We don't have a clear picture of normal.

This page has some graphs of ground temps the last 100 years:

http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/arctic-zone/detect/land-permafrost....

They are for areas north of the highway, but it shows temps in 1950 higher than they are today. The text also mentions that the ground has cooled slightly in the recent 20 years.
Why do you still need shortened links? For text messages, aesthetics, or ease of analog communication? Twitter, previously the main use case, no longer counts link length in tweets.
Part of me screams "No, external service dependency is worse than javascript".

The other part says "Absolutely !".

Not sure how to respond.
Fair enough. That swamp muck is even less stable when wet.
Meanwhile in Russia, Anthrax spores are active again because of the thawing of (former) permafrost - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36951542
Improvements in Firefox for Desktop and Android
Russia anthrax outbreak affects dozens in north Siberia
how was the macintosh different?
Takipi: Groovy for Java Developers? Meet Gradle, Grails and Spock
Non-fiction:

* 'Better' by Atul Gawande (also his 'Complications' and of course 'The Checklist Manifesto')

* 'A Short History of Nearly Everything' by Bill Bryson.

Fiction:

* 'Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders' by Neil Gaiman

* 'The Name of the Wind' by Patrick Rothfuss

Graphic novels ("comics"):

* 'Watchmen' by Alan Moore

* 'Promethea' by Alan Moore (actually I'm halfway through this, and loving every bit of it)

Special mentions:

* 'How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big' by Scott Adams - I only gave this a 4-star rating on Goodreads when I finished it, but I'm finding that I'm usefully applying more and more of the things I learnt from this book as the months go by.

* 'Yoga Benefits Are in Breathing Less' by Artour Rakhimov - to be considered more of an article, taught me useful stuff about O2/CO2 balance in the body, their respective effects, and hence ultimately the effects of different rates of breathing.
Clickable: http://tetherdevices.com/index.html/index.html/

Because non-linked submissions to Hacker News are ranked lower, it might make sense to submit the link to TetherDevices without any commentary. Then add additional information as a comment once the new story has been created.

Good luck.
The political and corporate establishments don't give a fuck about us or climate change. We need to stop looking to these selfish demagogues within the Republican and Democratic parties as if they have anything in common with us. These people and their families will be safe and sound even if the planet and environment goes completely to shit. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if many of them would wipe out the majority of life on Earth if their political donors pushed for it.

Be the change you want to see in the world. If you're worried about climate change and you're not vegan, you need to realize you're contributing to one of the largest causes of biodiversity loss and greenhouse gas emissions on the planet. Consider adopting pets or children instead of breeding them into this world. If you're an activist, fight for local political change to bring sound environmental policy to your community and work to expand to surrounding regions. If you're an engineer or scientist, don't forget that you have the key to making this world a better place (and no global warming denier can take that from you). Finally, I believe Tesla sets a good precedent for manifesting these sorts of ambitious ideas within a system of free market capitalism.

You say we are so fucked, but I'm not so quick to agree. I'm not going to say I'm a total optimist, but I think the potential exists, within our lifetime, for weird and exciting technologies that could allow us to solve these problems in ways we could have never imagined. As long as CERN doesn't destroy all life as we know it, I think we're good.
The surveys can change over time.

Also, the state is part of the identifier already, however, you may want to pull it out into tables for a variety of reasons.
Hah. I have been working for UC for a while on a project revamp for the state (CA). Make the table and the screen look just like form # xxx ...

You got it :-)
Wow, congratulations. This is what google should have built for Google Drive and Docs. Best Show HN this year.
Try getting a job in Costa Rica or Panama as an illegal. You'll have to get an illegal job.

But anyway, the response is more about Japan. The long term answer is not the importation of workers, but finding a solution to having a viable economy with a declining population and aging population. It's in our interest that they find real solutions to a problem we will all face, rather than stave off the issue a bit with labor imports.

United Fruit != Many companies. They were in a few counties. They had bad influence, but it was one limited industry making a family rich... The main problem wasn't US companies but rather a very backward uneducated population. Those that put effort into education, Chile, Costa Rica, Panama. Uruguey are doing well. Americans on the other hand did not muck around in Mexico as they did Chile or Guatemala, and see where they are with their nationalism. Who is more racist, the Mexican government and how they dont provide resources for their majority mestizos or Americans, I bet Mexicans get a better deal from the US than they do their own gov't, else they'd enjoy what "Mexico es para Mexicanos" has to offer them rather than emigrate to a foreign land apparently full of racists.
It's guaranteed to not exist in the training set (i.e. to not be a real GitHub repo that existed before 2015). But the model can certainly repeat itself.
"In computer terms, Smalltalk is a recursion on the notion of computer itself. Instead of dividing "computer stuff" into things each less strong than the whole—like data structures, procedures, and functions which are the usual paraphernalia of programming languages—each Smalltalk object is a recursion on the entire possibilities of the computer. Thus its semantics are a bit like having thousands and thousands of computers all hooked together by a very fast network."

That's Alan Kay in The Early History of Smalltalk, which you might enjoy reading in full: http://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/
I decided to drive to the arctic ocean from California in 2014, and so traversed the north half of this highway by RV.

It was a magical, difficult, inspiring and sorrowful experience.

I had never seen a black spruce before (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picea_mariana), but they were enormous, pristine forests of them.

But a lot of them were NOT pristine. For dozens of miles at a time, most all of the trees would be at an odd sideways angle. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunken_trees) The permafrost they relied on for stability was melting.

More than two years later, I suspect that the countless trees I saw leaning steeply to one side are mostly dead.

On the Dalton highway, once past the Brooks range (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooks_Range), there were enormously quantities of heavy rain. I didn't realize, at the time, how unusual that was. It turns out that the Alaskan tundra is typically extremely dry, and while I was up there, more than a years worth of (not very cold) rain fell, turning the road into a morass.

My goal was to put my feet into the arctic ocean, and the only way to do that is to first get to Dead Horse, Alaska (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadhorse,_Alaska). The 'town limits' are several miles from the ocean, and it's rigorously patrolled private land in between, controlled by various oil companies.

They typically offer tours, but I arrived a bit too early, so I was thinking about hiking a few miles up the Sag River (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagavanirktok_River). Fortunately, I happened to talk to an oil worker guy at the gas station, and he said I would not likely survive such a hike. Polar bears, he said, had been getting extremely aggressive over the past few years. They were starving.

At that moment, I felt a unique feeling, that few people experience these days. In my four decades living, I've been in a couple of life or death circumstances. But it wasn't quite like that.

The idea that I had nearly found myself in a situation where I might have been hunted by an enormous, hungry animal. A creature who rightly considered me food, and little else. It was a curious feeling!

Fortunately, the tours started the next day, and I took a bus through the vast oil infrastructure, to a specific spot where tourists got to interact with the arctic ocean.

It was cold, gray and sleeting. The ocean almost seemed like a very large lake, with pretty small waves. The ice had melted early that year, again, and so was not visible from shore.
> Is there any reason to be optimistic about our ability to deal with climate change?

Yes: because failing to be optimistic about it will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Also, you never know what will make people come around. In any process of winning hearts and minds there is always a time before which things seem hopeless. Look at the Sanders and Trump campaigns: when they started, no one believed they could succeed. Bernie came very close, and Trump actually won. (Not that I want to hold up Trump as a model of how to proceed, but just as a data point to show that the unexpected can happen.) Maybe if we get enough "thousand year floods" like just happened in Maryland -- say a dozen of those events in a year or in a month -- people will suddenly wake up and realize the gravity of the situation and find their sense of duty and planetary patriotism.

You also never know what's coming down the technology pipe. This, for example, looks promising: http://phys.org/news/2016-07-breakthrough-solar-cell-capture...

We can still fix this. Don't lose hope.
In other news, Google searches for 'Manse' shoots up 4000%
I like the word "foreign" in the title, which I assume is to imply the US government is not doing this. It's also neat how they point out examples of all the "bad" countries doing this, but of course none of the "good" ones.

Given I'm not American, so the US government is "foreign" to me.
>> I guess "the" is like "distinct" in sql

That's original Russellian theory, in a nutshell (http://www.uvm.edu/~lderosse/courses/lang/Russell(1905).pdf). None of its many variants cover the data.

>> It was a joke

Fair enough!
What about CMYK for tetrachromatic?
Recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11980569
No, it's about liability and risk. Uber is amazing, but offloads lots of risk and capital expense to the saps^H drivers and their judgement.

I associate self-driving Ubers with unicorns and flying carpets not because of self-driving car technology, but because of the total shift in business model for a future Uber.

Self driving cabs require, at a minimum:

- Owning or leasing capital assets (robot cars)

- Maintenance (from mechanical repair to removing puke and vandalism)

- Provide local infrastructure for them (real estate for storage, maintenance and charging)

- Own liability for all of the various mishaps that will naturally happen. (accidents, human-prompted mischief or criminal acts (Uber drive by shootings, prostitution, narcotics transport, etc)
If you like rock and want to feel depressed, check out the current billboard top 10 in the rock category. The golden age of rock was definitely before the advent of auto-tune. (Though even the Beatles could have benefited from being more in tune).

http://www.billboard.com/charts/rock-songs
You're really not. I created Bitfuture two years ago, which did exactly what this site purports to do. Derivabit did the same thing. Writing a platform that does this isn't that hard, getting legal approval is the main hurdle followed by having sufficient money in your market to make it liquid. Derivabit and I both decided to hang it up two years ago when Tera Exchange seemingly made it over the fence and got provisional CFTC approval, but that didn't stop them from being sued and settling [0].

Good luck staying off the radar. I think it's an insurmountable chicken-and-egg problem. If you are going to have enough money to fight your way through the inevitable jurisdictional battles you would have had to start this pre-Mt. Gox to get big enough to survive.

On another note - no one actually wants to hedge their Bitcoin. They are buying it as a highly speculative instrument already, even the players with supposedly large transactional demand for it.

0 - http://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr7240-15
If I remember correctly this method was advised in the comments of an HN article about Concrete Mathematics by Knuth et all. I used this for undergraduate texts, mainly in math that I had collected over the years and never got around to reading, like Calculus (Apostol), Algebra: Chapter 0 (Aluffi), Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Bryant/O'Halloran), a 1000+ page book I flew through as I found I knew some of the material already and used the exercises to test what I had forgotten so I could re-read that material. I also discovered by doing this, subjects I thought I knew and would've skipped, I didn't actually remember correctly and other subjects I thought I didn't know, I could solve without having to read the chapter as previous exercises were helpful enough to understand the problem or I had picked up the information somewhere else.

Aluffi's book also helpfully tells you which exercises require solving previous exercises.
I'm struggling to find what's different in your description from Mr Kay's. I interpreted him as saying that start-ups focus on selling a thing to a customer and your description backs this up rather than challenges it. I'll accept that start-ups (the idealised ones I read about, because I mostly work in agencies and more established companies), research their market, but I don't think this is the kind of research he's talking about. I think he's talking about mining the depths of a problem or of a unexplored facet of nature - and start-ups don't have the time or budget for that.
Show HN: Noms – The versioned, forkable, syncable database
I still don't quite get it though... Is being impractical actually a virtue for a strictly typed functional language nowadays? Like "if it hurts more, you'll learn more" or something?

Why would you drive a beginner towards Haskell and make some many "Haskell for beginners tutorials" instead of OCaml or F# (even Scala fi you're into JVM...) which gives you the same features but slightly more practical (usable records, ability to be impure and imperative when you want etc., some kind of oop-style feature for when they really fit the way you want to model a problem, less "string madness", no "forced verbose" syntax with repeating names of things to type them etc.). Plus friendly new cool tools/skins for them: https://facebook.github.io/reason/ , https://github.com/bloomberg/bucklescript etc.

I agree it seems true, I did learn a lot while struggling to learn Haskell for a bit and hurting in the process, but... why?
Forbes (Cloud of Shame) Wastes over 7 years of human life each month
That's true enough. The key point, though, is that the cold would have come at a typical rate. Typical being extremely slow, by human standards. We would have had many generations to prepare for it.

There is growing agreement that what we are facing is going to happen very quickly, even by human standards.
I'll take that. We weren't dilligent enough.

That's another reason I'm not going after him legally. He tricked us, it's my fault for not being dilligent enough.

There is someone going after him legally (We were not the only people involved) and they have a stronger case, so I have given them all of the information that I have.

I agree public shaming is crass - an investor of ours was going to write the story if I did not and he is far more prominent than me. I expected this story to only be read by my friends locally so they could be forewarned about him, not do business with him. I was also telling the story individually to my friends. So I posted it on my facebook feed, it somehow ended up here
The blog post is really excellent.
It's been feeling pretty foreign to us Americans lately as well.
> come to the wrong conclusion

How do you know which verdict is wrong or right in order to say that though? You can say that slow motion makes people convict more, or convict less, or whatever, but unless you have an oracle to tell you which was the correct verdict in each case, and we don't, this data tells us nothing.

Maybe people are systematically underestimating violence when they don't get to see it in slow motion, and the acquittals when they don't have slow motion are the wrong conclusion.

Or maybe people are systematically overestimating violence when they do have the slow motion and the convictions are the wrong conclusion.

Who knows? But it doesn't really give us anything to go on does it?
>So, we're being haughty then

Well good, you've reached the second level on the hierarchy of disagreement: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Graham%27s_Hierarchy...

Do you have something more substantial to say, or is that it?
CMYK is three colors. K is just black.

You could analogously call the RGB color space RGBW, but it wouldn't mean you were suddenly working with four colors.
sorry, it was the first that came to mind.

"WRite like You Talk e" The main idea is, that it is easy to google.
in, real, life, I speak, like, William Shatner. I think my writing should reflect that
Thanks for detailed reply! This really puts things into perspective.

From the NLP side of the data munching isle, it sounds like a lot more complicated variations on language processing problems.

Comparing reads to each other is like approximate string matching (or fuzzy matching) we use to account for spelling errors in words, but genome chunks are longer and you don't have dictionaries to check against.

And finding the best arrangement of those reads is akin to language modeling where we assign probabilities to word sequences which later can be used to predict the most likely sequence. In case of genomes, though, with so little data, no standard "words", and the error rates in reads, it's like trying to put back a shredded book of in illiterate author only having few other books of illiterate authors as reference.
> "griend" (friend + grind?)

"grindfriend"? Sounds like a good way to call people playing MMOs with you. Or an alternative for "coworker". :D.
Since this article's been written, the eslint-airbnb version chaos has been sorted out and is fixed with v10.0.0. It was a pretty annoying mess for a while, there.
node's module resolution will not likely ever be fixed. Too many modules depend on its undocumented implementation details and there isn't the will to improve it. A major source of problems is node's symlink resolution scheme that depends on fully resolved paths, counter to how other UNIX programs use files. Because many module developers know how the resolution scheme works they often hard code behaviors and paths into their code that would basically prevent any alternative module resolution scheme from working.
Thanks for the tip off on that, it looks like a decent work around for what I'm looking for. Except that I hate getting a lot of email, but I'll have to live with it.

One of the things I get frustrated by with online conversations is how frequently they just sort of die without making much progress. I'm usually not interested in just scoring points with searing rebuttals followed by a mic-drop. I like hashing things out. That these conversations take place on HN so frequently is put in an entirely different context now that I see how poorly the site facilitates it.

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. Some means of doing that beyond an anonymous upvote could be kind of cool.
I don't think he was saying that it was, only that at least the 1st time the vision was romantic and idealised by comparison. The second had no bones about ditching that to chase $$$.
The article describes fingerprint sensors, iris scanners, and facial recognition of increasing complexity for each one. But all of these things could be fooled with not-unforeseen technology.

Biometric data is a username...not a password. It can be identity but not authentication.
So, I've been curious: here's a chart of the mean annual temperature departure for Alaska (1949-2015)[1](source: [2]), the past two years have been particularly hotter there with anomalies > 4.5°F.

The NOAA has more detailed datasets but it's a bit more work to extract meaningful information.

Also I'm sick of hearing that people believe (or don't) in climate change when it's just factual data.

[1] http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/sites/default/files/ClimateTren...

[2] http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/ClimTrends/Change/TempChange.ht...
I like the romance of the typewriter as much as the next person, but does anyone miss the terrific amount of labor that went into those things?

I mean your hands really had to work hard at typing. These days, I am trying to keep even keyboard typing as low stress as possible.
Your Brain Does Process Information
This type of reading is described in Adler's practical book. It's called "syntopical reading" in which you read multiple books about the same topic in furtherance of some particular idea. In this style of reading, you're encouraged to skim, skip sections, etc.