skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I tend to agree with I him I did decide to have kids. And they're awesome, a lot of work, and completely all consuming of your time. That's why this statement from someone who opted not to have kids seems so disconnected:

> You can also say, "Having children is selfish. If you don't have children, you can dedicate your time to something that the world really needs."

Actually, I believe successful (and I suppose my success or lack of is probably still 13 years from proving out) parenting requires complete selflessness. An ability to look past your own desires and needs to focus on those of your kids. There isn't a better trial in life, than having to make the difficult decision about doing something for yourself, or something for your kids. Marriage is similar.

When I explain being a parent to people, I make it clear that you will be giving up significant amounts of your own time and desires. So if your good with that, then when you have kids, try and be as present as possible for them to help them grow into decent humans.
"For instance, a “runaway greenhouse effect”—analogous to Venus-- appears to have virtually no chance of being induced by anthropogenic activities" (p. 90)

http://www.ipcc.ch/meetings/session31/inf3.pdf
I see, another adherent to prescriptive principles, in which case you missed the "out of" part.
Is this because you believe the free market will follow the most economically efficient path? What if the environmentally friendly options are always more expensive?

Without regulation or tax incentives, it's easy to ignore the externalities in your choices. As an example taken to the extreme: if there was no regulation against dumping your industrial waste in the river, the free market should use that option, as it's cheaper than properly disposing of the waste.
I don't buy that everyone at Google is too honest to abuse their power. They are human beings, and there are many of them.
An absolutely awful cement plant in my town is in the final phase of switching from coal to nat-gas, and it is wonderful. On cold windless days my little town would be covered in a miasma of coal smoke. Regardless of fracking's other issues, it is a massive win against coal.
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There's no logic to this. Let me shorten:

'I'm supposed to have feels about people who are dead that I never knew.'

If you do that's fine. Just don't expect that feeling to be universal and don't try to guilt it onto people that don't
Using deep learning to remove glasses from faces
You are presenting a false dichotomy. The choice is not between everyone having children and no one having children.

Stallman even addresses your objection in his post:

> I don't wish that nobody had any children; I don't want humanity to disappear.
The long and convoluted debugging cycle for machine learning really hurts my faith in ML models. This issue - with some practical advice - was the center of this interview (disclaimer: author).
https://shapescience.xyz/blog/interview-data-science-methodo...

I'm convinced we lack decent tools for ML debugging: what could they be?
According to Wikipedia, eletriciy generation from coal is at 73%. And it is questionable if they are at peak coal. If their electricity generation doubles and they reduce the percentage to 60%, they're going to be burning a lot of coal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China

Yes, China does produce a lot of solar but what percentage of electricity is that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_in_China

You are speaking in generalities and not using hard data. That is no way to analyze a problem.
> - the audio is a bit harsh; it sounds like it needs some filtering, maybe just some dead simple high-pass filter would do it

Could you clarify what was meant by harsh?

The HDMI PHY[1] differentially encodes either I2S or S/PDIF (from SoC). This is a lossless digital-to-digital translation, which suggests that audio being a bit harsh is either a consequence of precise emulation of the NES APU[2] or something wonky with the speakers you're using.

I made the assumption that by harsh you meant dissonant sounds of a relatively high audio frequency, which would make sense given how the 2A03 APU synthesizes audio, but wouldn't make sense if you're suggesting that a dead simple high-pass filter would resolve the issue.

[1] http://www.epmi.com.tw/sayapro03.php?id=78

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricoh_2A03
Disclaimer: I am a parent. Regardles here's my 2c:

I can't speak for the places where this article was published but given this site is its only source this will mostly be read by people that are in general interested in programming or have some interest in open source software. I think we need some kind of future where these genes might be needed to actually help turn the tide on most of the problem with overpopulation, the environment and climate change.

This will most likely not be read by people that do not care about programming or open source software or simply do not care about any of this stuff. They will still reproduce and make the problem bigger. I would say the people that DO care about all these things need to be well represented in the future as well if we want to see change in the future as well.

I am not saying he makes no valid points but these points mostly miss their target audience and are read by the wrong group of people.
I heard bitcoin was nothing but a contribution to climate-change /s
To put the values in perspective: I paid a driver to drive me 5 hours to an airport today. The drive cost 4,900 rupees. When I include a tip, that becomes 3x the daily per-card ATM withdrawal limit.
They might not be located near the wreck. This is a small vessel with a crew of only 20 or so. At any given time almost all of the crew would be on deck, even if they weren't they would have if the boat began sinking. The crew likely would have been in the water as the boat sank, and even if they did die they may not have ended up in the same location (a dead body in the sea doesn't sink at first).
I consider Elon Musk of a similar caliber but it's interesting to see how different both of them are portrayed: Stallman is weird, frustrating, and an Aspie, and Musk is eccentric, ambitious and a legend. (All real quotes from HN). The difference of course is that one is the father of the free software movement and the other is a billionaire.
Just keep at it. My bleeding centrist establishment abdomen will be here all week. Let me know when you're done.

(Edit just to clarify the sarcasm, as I feel you won't get it if I don't: if you check upthread, the metaphor I picked originally was "spitballs". I escalated for effect when it became clear that SwellJoe was more interested in yelling at the corrupt DNC establishment elites than in discussing what to do about a Trump presidency, which was the original topic.)
As I read this I stared thinking about the "wildest" scenarios I could around China attempting to enforce climate action on the USA.

With the understanding that it is a somewhat "beyond science fiction" level scenario. What would happen if China imposed trade sanctions against the US such that they just stopped shipping goods entirely?

I mean manufacturing would obviously restrung to the US but not right away. What would it be like if ALL Chinese manufactured goods just stopped? For sake of argument maybe include other nations that agree with the necessity of climate action. (India, Europe, etc...).

What would America be like if global manufacturing & trade to the us halted and full trade sanctions (like Iran/Cuba) were imposed?
Excess water is not beneficial. It isn't associated with social instability like drought is, but it does lead to loss of harvest.
>history will remember Trump as the Neville Chamberlain of the climate catastrophe

I'm not sure this is true, but not because the sentiment is wrong: It implies that at some point, climate change will be as universally recognized for its negative effects as Hitler is, and that people will go back to examine how it happened. I don't have a lot of faith in the U.S. to get to either of those points; if I've learned anything from this election, it's that we have an astounding capacity to look at all the facts and just say, "ah, no thanks."
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Nonsense. He gladly gets in bed with terrorists, for example.
In the same way that google Sheets is a shameless ripoff of MS excel.

You might not like it, but it is generally legal to create products that clone others.

edit: spelling
I don't think this the reason - there were archeological expeditions under Societ Union, and it's been 25 years. Was there some technological breakthrough, or some other political change lately?
> > OS X and Unity and Windows Vista/7/8/10 all give me app searching as a primary launch mechanism; it’s not a selling point of GNOME 3.

> This is just false; "app searching" as a "primary launch mechanism" works perfectly well in GNOME 3.

I think your parent's point which you quote was not that GNOME 3 doesn't do this, but rather that it's not unique in doing it—which is why it's not a selling point. (Just as, for example, one wouldn't mention, say, multi-tasking as a selling point of a modern OS, even though it is surely crucial.)
I certainly hope that's the next move. I suppose they wouldn't want to release that first or this one wouldn't sell so well.
There is no sense in rehashing the same old 'climate change 101' arguments and data here. If you were truly interested in, and knowledgeable on, the subject, you would know exactly what evidence there is and we would be discussing the merits of the evidence. As it is, you cannot be distinguished from the average parrot or troll.

Anyone who does not at least agree that there is evidence that is worrying and worth discussing does not know enough about the subject to be having opinions and posing suggestive questions about it. If you don't at least start with: hey, I understand you are not a total idiot and I understand how it may seem like there is strong anthropogenic climate change going on, but here is why I think that that is not the case, then discussion is pointless.
> I failed to understand why to go behind poor 80% and trouble their daily life

Taxes. The gov't can lock your bank account or take money from it if you don't pay your taxes. Then they are going to invent more taxes to be able to pay skyrocketing sovereign debt. Fines also. Then they will make you register other assets such as gold, art etc. and have it confiscated if you fail to do so. And it's not only India, it's allover the world. Good luck trying to pay in the EU with 500 euro bills or even 200 euro bills. Maybe after you exchange them at the bank and have your personal data on file. The US? Try to pay with cash in excess of $100. You do not have a credit card? Then you must be 1. a terrorist, 2. drug dealer or 3. laundering money.
exaggerated behavior but interesting
The Black Sea is huge, even sonar sleds have fairly narrow widths, so it would take a ton of work to find potential wrecks, and you need to visit all of them to determine which ones are modern and which are older. And that's a very long and costly process since it's well below diving level and very dark. You have to send down an ROV which can basically see only a little in front of itself and in a narrow field of view.
This is great comment! I always wondered why people were ok eating cows and pigs and not cats and dogs. It's got to be how we are conditioned from childhood to obey conventional thinking. Dogs are faithful to humans so we cannot eat them....
Implications would be that future generations of people would have a functional planet to live on.

Stallman is making the argument that it's acceptable to not have kids for very good reasons, and that many people might be better off not having kids. He is definitely not saaying everyone should stop having kids.

I think all too often people who will turn out to be horrible parents are pressured into having kids. Not everyone should have kids.
> Thank you for telling us the consensus of people who literally depend on government grants for their paychecks.

It's a loose, circumstantial, conspiratorial aspersion, which has nothing to do with the facts of climate change. Maybe they could make more by providing credibility to the oil and gas industry.

Again, look up IPCC reports. We're not a forum of climate scientists. I believe gravity also exists; I haven't read the papers myself and don't have time to find them.
#2 isn't going to happen anytime soon. Governments worldwide are cutting funding and subsidies for micro generation, and even though it could lead to a small profit over time, nobody wants to pay say $20k upfront[0] to have a solar system fitted.

Its kind of funny, because if we paid more in the short term we could do a lot to limit climate change, and even reduce energy costs in the future - but everyone just wants everything as cheap as possible now.

[0] Although I have seen companies offering to install panels on your property, which they own, then they pay you a % of the profits from energy generated.
He addressed that: "I don't wish that nobody had any children; I don't want humanity to disappear. But there is no risk of that; for the numbers I could hope to influence, the influence is for the good."
You can use it as a nice calculator too. say, search for '1m in inch', or simple calculations like '2+5*23' etc.

Can windows do that? I don't know
>Piketty's theory is not that capital's share of income is increasing.

and

>His theory is that wealth grows faster than the economy, and that it creates wealth inequality.

This is the same thing..

Whether the 'income' is in capital gains or in dividends, if wealth grows faster than the economy, it means that capital's share of earnings is increasing.
You would not be using the internet were it not for research done by scientists on government grants, moron.

Nor would your or your loved ones' lives be saved next time you're in the hospital.
All imap clients operate this way. They sync from the server so you have identical representation of you mailbox and its folders on all devices. Once the sync is done, they can operate in an offline fashion.
What evidence is there that climate change could cause more war than it could prevent?

What evidence is there that climate change could cause more famine than it could increase crop yield?

Why is migration undesirable?
The biggest impact most people can have on climate change is not having kids. Think of all the energy they'll use in their lifetime(s). You can prevent all of that.
Trump is a businessman by training. Business pivots a lot. He will probably try different things and pivot as needed in his administration. I'm sure nothing is cast in stone. With enough opposition, he will change his appointment.

He fired his campaign manager for poor result in the primary and brought on a new one who brought success to his campaign. I'm sure he will fire a number of people in the coming days.
So wait, let me get this straight. You're asking if any evidence exists refuting your questions, excepting the entirety of the output of the community dedicated to studying the problem?
"If you have chosen to have kids, or sworn to never have them, your position will be irrevocably slanted."

This seems to me to be the first step towards an ad hominem argument. Perhaps it would be better to analyze a particular argument's logic rather than its source. If I'm mistaken, I apologize; please advise.
The best way to remain anonymous in this situation to say nothing.

I mean if Google is going to penalise them and risk their search integrity for a quip what's to stop them asking a bud over at HN to see if this account's IP is associated with another?

Infeasible of course but around the same likelyhood of happening
Find a newbie, stand behind them, and watch them struggle to use your program. Don't help them at all.
Thanks for your insights. Clearly, I should have put more thought about the whole project before showing it to the world. You're absolutely right on most points, this introduces more moving parts, another unnecessary service, and defeats the purpose of an RPC. In fact, I have had to implement my own XML-RPC client (and an RPC-over-HTTP client too) on a certain occasion, and I tried to remember my gripes on that occasion and avoid them with this approach.

Regarding your last line:

> So you say Redis acts as a magic faerie dust that eases integration process? How?

I guess what I said was too vague. It should have been "it makes an RPC-like system easier to integrate when you already have Redis".

Shisetsu is not a magic bullet. It won't make things magically easier for everyone. All it is really is a niche project that, given you already use Python and Redis, is something for you to consider. If not, then you can move along, there's absolutely nothing to see here. :)
The point about discrimination against minorities seems overblown? I've read that the Uber/Lyft model works a lot better for blacks trying to get a cab.
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Because you want people to pay for something they don't see any benefit for. It's like trying to get a company to invest in better security, except harder because there is little in the way of the climate change equivalent of security breaches.
It doesn't necessarily need to be your own kids that you teach these skills to.

There are lots of programs to which you can donate your time to help teach children, and we should all be doing that more.

Yes, there is some amount of genetics that will not get represented, but I don't actually believe that the human genetic pool is so focused that we will actually miss out on some next evolutionary step.
Same. It's great.

Can even run it in a Docker container.
https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-tt-rss
I think the grandparent's point is that it doesn't matter whether it's technically possible for us to prevent climate change, it's politically impossible even with a Democrat as president. Which I hope is not true, but with Trump in office it seems all the more probable.
jrcii posted this an hour ago and (s)he was, for some reason, downvoted until it was [dead]. But I think it's a relevant and newsworthy article:

"Killing Coal: The Obama Administration’s Intentional Assault on an Industry"
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/01/19/killing-c...

Please don't kill information simply b/c you disagree with it; otherwise there can no dialogue and ycombinator becomes little more than a billboard for the current dominant political whim.
No thanks! Once we've stabilised the climate, which is more urgent, then we can deal with (legacy) waste problems. Besides, not an issue with technology under development like thorium and the many fusion projects which I hope we all support.
What kind of legal problems would I have if I created a hosting or VPN service?
I am really interested in making a service as mentioned in subject, but I am worried about the following:

* What happens if someone uses "my connection" to do something illegal?

Any insights from around the world regarding this?
Publicly. That's for you, not for them.
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Trump to Angry Mango a Chrome Extension
Fair enough. Your comments made it look like you were arguing that Clinton didn't have experience, etc. I can understand wanting to discuss and understand this, because it seemed like an almost impossible result.
4) Without talking to a immigration attorney, probably. That's the place to start.
It seems you never worked with OWA Office Addins, they are not prehistoric but unusable.

I can complain all I like because I am a Microsoft customer, premium MSDN, etc.
If you're interested in the big data side of things there's Spark (http://spark.apache.org/) and MLlib for it (http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-guide.html). H20 (http://www.h2o.ai/) also provides ML algorithms on top of Spark (and I think independent of Spark as well, not sure of the current status). These are all written on the JVM either in Scala (Spark) or Java (H20).
Non paywalled stories

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKBN12W349

http://www.salon.com/2016/11/01/when-china-calls-out-donald-...
There's nothing wrong with government grants.

I only point out that there is an incentive to agree with the hand that feeds you. This goes for labs employed by industry as well.
Let's not forget Christie railroading the Fort Dix "terrorists"
This is a site which works through further arguments.

http://vhemt.org/
This is why the Austin Thumbs Up! initiative matters and companies like ID.me with their identity proofing/vetting capabilities can solve the issue.
Thanks; that's useful. A couple notes:

* It's from 2009

* It's not an official report or conclusion, but appears to be more of a discussion aimed at "scoping" the next report.

Still, it's far better than what previously informed our discussion here.
um... Pennsylvania hasn't been reliant on coal since the 60's. it's all natural gas now. go visit Pittsburgh and compare it to pictures from the 50's and 60's.
Equating a 45 year old man with minimal education, a mortgage, and generations of family history in an industry with a 20-something software developer with none of those things is... not reasonable.
Your graph stops in 2011. They hit peak coal in 2014

http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v9/n8/full/ngeo2777.html
The big energy companies love this because it deflects attention away from them.

I stopped flying, sold my car, cut down on meat consumption and generally try and live a low impact life, all it's done is lower my standard of living compared to my friends and neighbours. I don't regret it but you soon realise asking individuals to change their behaviour isn't going to get you anywhere.

The only real solution I can see is to shift taxes to carbon as it comes out of the ground then let the market find alternatives.
If the U.S. withdraws into itself, that will dramatically accelerate all of this. China knows it can't beat the U.S. in a shooting war, but it also knows the U.S.'s #1 interest in the region is "no shooting wars." The U.S. wants peaceful stability. China knows that we don't have territorial ambitions in Asia. Lots of other countries do though.
Yes, I use Alan Kay's pyramid image[1] in my talks about software architecture[2][3][4]. But then I compare it to the Cologne Cathedral, which encloses a vastly larger space with vastly more light using 1/50th the material, yet it's the same kind of material: cut stones piled on top of each other.

So there is hope, I think, and that hope, I think, is improving our understanding and practice of software architecture[5].

And it's not like there we don't have examples in software. Let's take Bentley's challenge[6]: Don Knuth with 12 pages of (literate/web) Pascal, Doug McIllroy with 6 lines of shell. Or Nile/Gezira, a modern graphics subsystem (think Cairo or Quartz) in ~500LOC. Yes, 500LOC.

So we need to figure out what makes these examples work so much better and how we can apply what we've learned to make our lives better. That's what I am doing, care to join me? [5]

[1] http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1039523

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5hGmXFHQS4

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKY-0atLDAo

[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OAtHOLIg84

[5] http://objective.st

[6] http://franklinchen.com/blog/2011/12/08/revisiting-knuth-and...
Yikes, "Tronc". I assume "Tonic" was taken? Because that would be dramatically more sonorous, fit the same general pattern of drawing from "Tribune Online Content", and additionally contain playful suggestions of "healing tonic" (heal the broken media) and "gin and tonic" (reporters drink like fish).
In The Bestseller Code, Archer and Jockers touch on this to explain why literary criticism is out of touch with popular reading. They mention Uses of Literature by Rita Felski as as a "manifesto" of sorts about how criticism could take it more seriously.

I haven't completed it, but the sample from Amazon looks promising.