skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The press treats him appropriately. He's a fringe left leader and is derided as such in a wider population. I applaud his commitment to ideology though.
While the overpopulation argument is debatable, the decision to have or not have kids is a personal one. While some believe reproduction is our prime directive as a life form, I would argue passing information to the next generation is our prime directive. Whether it's through DNA or a book, this is the way our species evolves each generation.

On another note, I find it interesting that having been inflicted with cancer at 33 that I have friends who still encourage me to have kids. I don't think changing diapers between rounds of chemo would be a wise decision.
Hi there,

check out Bret Victor's essay "What can a technologist do about climate change?" if you haven't read it, it's very good:

http://worrydream.com/#!/ClimateChange

Discussion on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10622615
It got killed because breitbart.com is not a real news source.
Sorry, I am new to this, but my understanding is that homebrew will verify the hash before installing, right?
Nope. But you should make sure you actually enjoy coding. I did the switch like you (from running a small startup to doing a bootcamp and becoming a developer).

Several of the people in my cohort didn't become a developers though, as they didn't seem to have the proper motivation to put in the necessary work (at least not to manage it in a 3-5 month period).

You can read about my experience going from non-technical to technical here:
https://medium.com/learning-new-stuff/from-non-technical-to-...
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I am using gmail and FastMail at the same time. Currently contemplating make a full switch to FastMail. It's a fast and reliable service with all the functionality I need. I encourage you to make to switch. Be prepared to spend a bit more time configuring it if you are used to gmail.
Enter fracked natural gas, stage left.
China is not suddenly truly interested in emissions cuts. They are interested in preserving the existing framework in which they get to keep growing their emissions while Western countries have to cut theirs. They are being very disingenuous, and good for them, because if they succeed they're going to eat our lunch. I hope we're not that stupid.
> Honestly, it's a lot more complicated than that, and the article itself presents a pretty complicated (and flawed) model. There's no substituting for benchmarks.

Of course, all the models are inherently flawed, and in theory there is no substituting for benchmarks, but going along the lines of "all models out there are flawed, so we don't need ANY model and should do benchmarking instead" leads to the software which is badly architectured to start with (and then no benchmarking will be able heal it without throwing the whole thing away and rewriting it from scratch - and it is not going to happen for most of the projects for many practical reasons).

In other words, if we're already in the vicinity of the optimum (which BTW may happen to be a local one - but this is a very different story) - then benchmarking is the way to go (that is, if those 20% we're chasing, are worth the trouble - and TBH, they really are). However, at the earlier stages being able to realise the order of magnitude without spending time on trying really badly architectured things - is extremely important.

Just one example - no optimisation will save a (non-GPGPU) program which tries to split the load over multiple threads with chunks calculated on each thread (before it relinquishes control to another thread), being 100 cycles or so; I don't need to benchmark it to know that at least in 99.9999% of real-world projects it is a suicide from performance point of view - and this observation directly follows from the diagram.

Or another example - in most of practical cases (actually, pretty much always except for inserts into the middle without iterating through and specialized stuff such as merges), vectors have advantage over lists - and this advantage can easily reach over 100x(!) ( see, for example, https://accu.org/index.php/journals/2268 ). This, once again, follows from the diagram (it is a direct consequence of the main memory read being over 100 cycles and L1 read being 3-4 cycles).

This list of crazily inefficient things (which are still widely used in the industry for no reason) can go on and on. Of course, going into anywhere more detailed analysis than "order of magnitude" indeed doesn't make sense - and it is clearly stated in OP. But for initial estimates when making some architectural decisions (and to avoid premature pessimisation) - such "order of magnitude" analysis can be very useful.
Trump’s 10 radical plans for his first 100 days
If it's not published, its protection comes mostly from not being seen (in private setting) or from trade secrets and associated laws.

If only want to use the tax as a way to make sure orphaned works can be shared, and patent trolls become unprofitable. I believe that an IP tax can help both. I think it is essential to force proper valuation of IP, and I think tying it to recovery (upside) and taxes (downside) is likely to give a proper evaluation.

It is not my intention to try to tax your own painting on your living room. I assume, by default, anything not listed, is valued at $0 for that year.

Do you understand that, regardless for copyrights or patents, your IP is not enforceable unless you can afford the court action?
You're not crazy, but temper your job and income expectations. (though you may get hired because of your PM experience, to do PM) Most bootcampers when they come out are ready to be an intern and start learning. Your life will be much different than your used to, but if you're in it for the long term, that's not a problem.

As for learning to code because of things like the blockchain, etc, keep in mind that bootcamps teach you to build web apps, not that level of programming.
Spotlight on macOS has been able to do both of those for a while. Windows, however, you'll still be crossing your fingers hoping the query "device manager" brings up Device Manager, not a web search.
Well yeah, that's part of the thought experiment and part of the reason it is such a iwildly beyond-science fiction scenario.

Globally, the economic impact of cutting off ~350 million consumers would hurt but if you follow that line of thinking, there are globally, 7 billion other customers you could sell your goods to.

Is America rich per-capita for arbitrary reasons? Because, for some reason we all have decided to say they are?

So think, China can't sell all that cool shit in the US anymore. WHo gets it? CHinese citizens? Maybe they find a developing nation and sell it to them?

What would happen to the US dollar as a mark of global currency if you couldn't trade in US dollars anywhere but within America?

THey'd have to rebuild factories, jobs in running them, there's likely enough food in the farmland, but oil and gas with no imports would mean they'd have to find other sources of energy.

I mean, again, thought experiment. Science fiction.

America wouldn't just suddenly stop because of the end of trade... but how would they respond? What would the impact be to other nations if cooperation and trade was directed elsewhere?

Or would there be war in short order?
It will take longer, but we'll get there eventually. Imagine 50 years from now the Global South becoming inhospitable and hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing flooding, heat waves, and drought.

They'll look back on us and ask "what did they do when they had the best opportunity to stop this?"
I think this move was more towards promoting a cashless economy than towards fighting black money. A large number of people are being forced to enter the banking system this way, and bringing in a lot of money with them. The state bank of India alone has acquired ₹38677Cr. or 5.7 billion USD in just 3 days since the announcement. And this is just one bank, and much more will come soon.

There has been a push towards digital citizenship right from the beginning of this government. The first move was a reversal on the party's stance towards UID or Aadhar - an ID based on the biometric database of the entire Indian population. The party moved from being opposed to the UID, to supporting and even pushing it ahead. Then we saw a push towards payment banks such as Paytm, and a push towards every citizen to get a bank account. The government even opened an API for these payment banks to exchange money amongst themselves. I think the way it works is that users can now get IDs similar to email addresses, like abc@paytm or xyz@pockets and can exchange money similar to sending email, regardless of the wallet or bank account they use.

The demonetization is just one more step in the big project of digitising the Indian citizenship. The next step could be linking all bank accounts to the UID, and enabling payment authentication based on the biometrics from the UID, essentially making your UID your only bank account number.

This is in a way also a global experiment, as if a country such as India can implement a biometrics based ID/Authentication system, integrate them with the payments system and eliminate cash; that achievement in itself would serve as a big push towards a global cashless economy.

As far as the black money is concerned, there are already a lot of people willing to exchange old notes for new ones in return for a 20% or so commission. This is done by showing the money as savings from poor people, exchanging the notes in their name, paying them a small cut and getting away with the new, "white" money. The question is how much can be exchanged this way. Someone with a few thousand dollars over the allowed amount may not have much problem getting the money converted this way, but those with stockpiles having millions of dollars stacked away would definitely feel some pain. There are already stories of people dumping cash in garbage and of cash found floating in oceans.

A journalist from Kanpur published about the demonetization move about weeks ago, so I am guessing a lot of big parties involved would also have known about in advance, and laundered their money in time. I don't know how successful this move would be in curtailing black money, but it is already bringing returns for the Indian banking system.
South Korea's Park faces resignation calls at huge protest rally
Why would he, when he authorized it? Not only did he strengthen Bush's anti-constitutional policies, he enacted new ones, like the NDAA which spits in the face of the constitution.
Its not really privilege, you probably just have no immediate people in your life you care a lot about who are fearing for their freedom in the next four years.

That isn't a negative personality trait either, we cannot as a people expect anyone to have empathy for a group they have no personal ties to, especially in contrast to real threats against themselves.

Both are problems, it is just those who are in danger of suffering from Trump's racism / xenophobia / sexism and their immediate peers see that as the more immediate threat, because he can undo decades of civil rights and equality in the first days of his presidency.

He can set in motion programs to destroy the climate more in the first days of his tenure, but it will take years to suffer the consequences of them, even if they are much more permanent than immediate regressions in liberty. For individuals, permanence does not matter - your time is limited, and everything Trump takes away represents days or years you will never get back of oppression.
Just as entropy increases over time, adaptability to change decreases significantly over a person's lifetime. Assuming you are a millennial (based on your claim of your generation being accused), you got an education which prepared you to use technology and learn things on the internet - critical skills for this idea of a "modern employee". Besides, the coal miners in Appalachia aren't exactly known for sitting on their ass.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-02-03/from-coal...
Probiotics improve cognition in Alzheimer's patients
Fascism was all over the country a long time before recent events. I'm not a Trump supporter but assuming that this problem is something that should be of people's concern only now is just childish.
Migration is undesirable because people don't like migration.

Have you been paying attention at all to European or American politics? Even the very small amount of migration being driven by the Syrian civil war has caused massive amounts of discontent and unrest in the richest nations on Earth. Now imagine whole regions full of people wanting to move because rainfall patterns change, or sea level rise displaces them.

Social unrest is the biggest risk that climate change creates. People like things the way they are, and get very upset when they think things are going to change.
"Clean coal" is the e-cigarettes of energy.
Yes, No, Yes. However, it's possible to be a parent, read and understand his position, and not get into personal attacks. I respect Stallman a mountain, including his choice not to have kids, but the essay is muddied.

It starts with explaining why it wasn't good for him and continues on to urge others to not have children, with the reasoning that not everyone will read this essay. It's not a complete thought. It's like saying that you've seen bad software projects, and the time for those people would have been better spent somewhere else, so everyone reading this comment shouldn't do software, because there are more than enough software engineers. There's a better version of this essay within itself.
Given that Trump believes that global warming is a scam made up by the Chinese to suppress the US, I highly doubt he'll listen
On the other hand if no one called out on the security holes of flash, and your data was sniffed by the wrong people.

A phone is an extension of you. Security is paramount.
>> not really profitable for the drivers

Maybe(altough why do people still work? ) . But again, if they(or some other model) sucseed in scaling true sharing , maybe than would be the time to intervene a bit in behalf of drivers ?
Thoughts welcomed!
Don't be evil, Google. This one has clear evidence. I doubt that it is a bug. It only affects Protonmail not others.
> ... just won't shut up ...

sometimes i wish the Uber and Lyft drivers would just shut up. and turn down their loud choice of music.
I don't think it is cleaner, because usually we architect our applications in logical blocks.

For example when sending a data packet over the network and it fails, I don't care if the error was in the communication, buffer, socket level or network layer, just that the packet could not be sent.

That is what we need to retry, sending a new packet, not the lower level operations.

Languages with exceptions, which I use since 1993, allow me to choose using an exception, transform it into a plain error code or monadic error. I can have it all and choose which flavour I want to use, depending on the use case.

But as you say, it is a matter of style.
Oddly enough, despite the fact that the Dutch political climate is more left and quite different from the US, I'd say that many 'progressives' here also hate 'traditionally their' parties (usually Labor and Greens and the like).

The term 'regressive left' is becoming more common in my surroundings, and ever since Pim Fortuyn (2002, the precursor to our Dutch version of Trump, and I don't mean that in a pejorative sense) there's been a growing sense that our 'left' not only lacks an answer to populism, it's part of the 'evil neoliberal establishment 1% elite etc.'.

There's a sentiment around me that Labor/greens/D66 (center-left democrats?) are mostly an intellectual elite that doesn't understand the problems we face. They call for integration and multiculturalism, but don't feel any of the adverse effects or problems that result. And somehow they seem way too much into privatizing things, dismantling our welfare state, and general Neoliberal-tasting things.

Now, I don't know enough to have a very strong opinion on all of this. But I do sort of get the intense hatred of the 'intellectual left elite'. It feels degrading and shitty to be told that you're wrong and your problems are bullshit and you're being manipulated by a populist, and you're a racist, and all that, and I can totally see how that could make one respond with a big middle finger and a vote for exactly those populists. Even if just out of spite. And even regardless of the consequences.

Of course I have no answer to this problem. I'm a well-educated, left-leaning, academically-minded, LGBT-affiliated white man and I'll probably do fine no matter what. I feel the way forward for me is to start engaging more with those who feel like they need to 'fuck shit up' with their vote, and to try and properly understand why all these things are happening that I didn't predict and that don't make sense to me.

But dear God I'm trying my best to bite my tongue and not blindly disparage Trump or our own populist movements. Because 1) it seems counter-productive, and 2) a surprising number of my highly-educated, intellectual-type friends are in favor of those movements, so I can't afford not taking them seriously.

And I suppose 3) most people are smarter than they seem, including the really dumb ones.
If a climatologist "denies" that climate change is a problem, there will be less government spending on researching that problem. Furthermore, he won't get a job from the purse that thinks it's a problem - generating data that shows that it isn't a problem would take away the purse's job too.

You seem to be conflating the benefits of society with the benefits of a living, breathing academic who has kids to feed and bills to pay. There is no conscious "government" - there are only conscious individual actors.
AutOSINT – is an open source intelligence gathering engagements
This has always been one of my biggest fears as well.

IMHO this was the one thing that allowed the Nazis to create the kind of power structure they had. They spied on themselves to no end, bugging their own officers, hitler youth teaching children to spy and report on their parents.. everyone was afraid to speak out or step out of line no matter how bad it got.

It would be terrible to see these systems used as a method of control.
This account has been posting only fluffy one-liners. That's not what this site is for, so please stop or we have to ban the account.
This seem to sum it up

https://web.archive.org/web/20080827140005/http://www.wired....
I believe that it's fear that drove people to Trump. With quotes like "they want to turn off the lights all over the world.” It isn't surprising that many on the right vote against their interests because they fear far worse from the other side.
I used to work with Myron Ebell. Setting aside his views on climate change, I don't believe he's qualified to lead a federal agency. His position at the Competitive Enterprise Institute has involved almost no leadership experience. And I don't know how anyone could expect him to keep any part of the environment clean after seeing his office. You couldn't see the floor under all those books and papers.

I doubt Myron has the ability to lead the EPA in any direction whatsoever.
Yes you are correct. Does anyone know how many cycles that is comparatively?
The EPA's Clean Power Plan rule--a major priority of the Obama administration--has the implicit goal of closing hundreds of coal power plants. Although the EPA has not said so out loud, plenty of other people have.

It is currently stayed by court order; a Trump administration could decline to defend it, and thereby permit it to die in court.

Low natural gas prices are in part because the Obama administration has strongly resisted any significant restriction or regulation of fracking. They have resisted it because they want gas prices to fall and displace coal.

When it comes to energy development, it's hard to think separately about technology and policy; they are both factors in every change.
So is there a Hearthstone-like card game builder for aliens? Robots? Replicants?
!u works too
China exports 800 million tons of steel and the US only imports 1.9% of that. Burning coal here will have very little impact on China steel operations.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-column-russell-steel-china...
http://www.ita.doc.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/imports-us.pdf
Uber basically figured out how to be a cab company without having employees and without following laws. No overheads on salaries, employee benefits, taxes, or regulations. This is the "sharing economy", really: a libertarian dream. It appears that this has garnered Uber and Airbnb a lot of goodwill because whenever they're discussed online, they always seem to be portrayed as some champion against the evils of the cab or hotel industries. I personally have never felt as slighted by cabs or hotels as everyone seems to be whenever they are discussed online.
France has intervened multiple times in Africa, so their armed forces are at least operationally ready to do something like Russia's invasion of Georgia.

Outside of France I fear it's mostly paper tigers, even the UK. France is clearly one of the most militaristic nations in Europe and the only one who has demonstrated willingness to use force (see UK's parliament report on the Lybian intervention).

I still think Russia is a lot stronger than people think.
> Whether it's through DNA or a book, this is the way our species evolves each generation.

That's a great point and although I am currently raising a toddler I really don't feel that I've 'contributed' to society or humanity in general at this point. Many colleagues talk about their hope that their kids will 'grow up to do something great' but that's abstract and wishy.

My wife was very keen to have a child before she was too old to accept the risks, so we did so. But I'd much rather have put the time and money into research for a book that would propagate at least a little knowledge forward in time.
Satya Nadella: The man who is transforming Microsoft
I've seen this comment in various guises over the last few days, and I struggle to understand what it's intended to accomplish.

If you think the problem is old news, that doesn't make it any less urgent to fix. It's like seeing firefighters arrive and tell them not to bother, because the house started burning hours ago.
Mission accomplished? I would be interested ;-)
ITT: Lots of people talking about how Stallman is this, Stallman is that, when Stallman is once again 110% right -- this time, about Uber.
Having to move constantly is one of the core grievances people have against modernity and globalism. Some people care about having friends, roots, history, community.