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In software you can track the program and detect what instruction is not doing what it is suppose to do. In machine learning there is no program to track, it is not a set of instructions with a purpose, the whole thing either works or not. In order to discover what could be failing, you need to have a deep knowledge about a lot of stuff (maths, statistics, CS) to figure out what is wrong. And sometimes the answer is that the problem doesn't have a solution.
Wow, thanks for the heads up!

I might try out deleting the app, using the browser site and manually entering my location from now on. Although it still keeps data on your rides and you still can't pay cash, so it's definitely not a Stallman solution.
What evidence is there that there could be a runaway greenhouse effect on any non-astronomical timescale?
> why is this still so controversial?

IMHO, this theory explains that and many other mysteries of the beliefs of the right wing: A large segment of U.S. society now prioritizes ideology over fact. Climate change is fact, but fails their ideological test. Thus, they reject it.
Defeat ignorance with cleverness. Create a solution that is far superior to what coal and oil have to offer. Make it so affordable that you cut the coal industry off at the knees without relying on politicians to get the job done.

This site is full of very smart people. Get this shit done!
Ha don't jump to conclusions so quickly. We spend > $50k/mo on AWS and you better believe our solution architects deeply understand our product and architecture.
And see their status score which is a result of their credit score, Facebook likes, linked in profile and Google searches.

Then you get a whole generation who is obsessed with this score and go to extremes to manipulate them.

Yeah it's going to be awesome /s
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How would this have changed if we were mining our own coal? If they're using an amount that far outstrips everyone else combined, the environmental damage would be largely the same with or without US coal.
Every person is somebody's child

"Implications to humanity?" There's no humanity if people don't reproduce. It's that simple
Does it not?

Can you explain how entanglement works as an entirely local phenomenon?
> At the rate we're messing up this planet, we'll need to find another planet real fast - relatively speaking, off course.

We can't even handle the planet we're already on, how in hell do you think we can terraform an entire separate planet? We're still only scratching the surface of understanding ecosystems today, the big thing these days is starting to try and understand how our internal microbiomes affect us personally, we're nowhere near understanding microbiotic effects on ecosystems at large. And all CES attempts so far have been abject failures.
This will certainly go down as the _most_ irresponsible act in the history of independent India.

There are n+1 ways in which such a policy could have been implemented without causing such massive amounts of hardship to tens of millions of citizens; especially the masses at the lower rungs of the economy, but that is the flip side of democracy.

And, to add insult to injury, the prime minister of India, shortly after announcing this madness, flew away to Japan and has been enjoying bullet train rides with his Japanese counterpart. God bless him and God bless India.
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The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
It fits on a bumper sticker: May we live long and die out.

https://vimeo.com/7652051

"A short film by Nina Paley that explores the topic of human population growth and how it is affecting life on the planet. Using humor and some great clips featuring Les Knight of VHEMT.org, and Cris Korda of the Church of Euthanasia, Paley brings light to a topic that gets little attention in the traditional media."
Also, Agent Forwarding and ProxyCommand are definitely in the roadmap. The former was only recently added to Mosh, so hopefully useful on both!
I would love to be able to see the data on the population of unincorporated towns. Stories of boom and bust, or something else?
I am confused by this argument as it seems to be orthogonal to the point the GP was making, namely that coal does have a large impact on the global environment. Stating that China uses a lot of coal isn't exactly helping your case, considering that coal causes more air pollution deaths in China than any other source[1].

1. https://www.google.com/amp/mobile.nytimes.com/2016/08/18/wor...
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I'm reading the The Merchant and the Alchemist's Gate now. It's really great. It feels a bit like Borges, but conveniently deboned of the classical allusion a modern idiot like me can choke on.
I guess we need some research to back up how much it would cost. My understanding is that experts in the field widely believe we can afford to make a significant impact, and that the costs of climate change are far greater than the costs of preventing it.
When 80% of money in India is with top 5% and they also hoard most of the black money. Moreover this money is already abroad or in some legal investment with the help of govt. I failed to understand why to go behind poor 80% and trouble their daily life. I think it's pure populist political move directed towards state election next month. Since ruling govt supporter already have money stashed abroad and will bring back.

No meaning in depositing money in banks to lend at loss to big supporters of current govt like ambani, Adani etc. Rajan was forced to go out. He would have never supported such foolish political move to trouble common man in India.
"Damage" != "dead" (at the cellular level).

But it can be sufficient to keep the brain from functioning other than at an exceptionally basic level. E.g., no voluntary movement, speech, understanding, consciousness.
China also has huge investments in solar and some of the worst pollution anywhere. They've hit peak coal and are apparently starting in the other direction [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/environment...
Not necessarily if it becomes a runaway process. It doesn't matter how far you push the glass off the edge of the table, the milk spills all the same.
Look up the IPCC reports; they have the answers to your questions.
I like to carefully consider a consensus of any group which primarily depends on a single source, in this case government grants, for its paychecks.

Evidence-based consensus is good, and I am primarily interested in the evidence.

What evidence is there that rising sea levels will cause more harm than benefit?

What evidence is there that there can't be more crop production at more northern, theoretically then warmer, altitudes?

What evidence is there that there can't be increased animal diversity as previously colder areas become more habitable to different species?
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That's not at all true.

538's numbers were very bouncy between 10% and 50%, and they took some heat for that.

http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/#...
I'm married, but we have no children. We recently moved to a big city, and try to spend time exploring together (we also make monthly trips back home for extended weekends). My commute to work is about 20 minutes, and my job isn't especially demanding compared to other jobs in my country (~45 hours a week). I plan to pitch my side project to my company with the hope that I can work on it full time. I probably spend 8 hours per week on my project on average, and I'm able to make it work through meticulous time management (I have a clear vision for my project and a road map leading up to my pitch). I'm not sure how a person might do this with children, but I suspect it would require sacrificing relationships or sleep or both.

EDIT: Also, choosing a programming language that can let you get off the ground quickly is huge. This is less about the actual ergonomics of the language and more about the tooling. I'm using Go, so I don't have to fight with build, CI, packaging, or deployment scripts, and I also get documentation for free. Further, the standard library suits all of my needs--in particular, great testing, benchmarking, and profiling tooling that's standard across all Go projects. Doing all of this myself would have been prohibitive for my project.
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War, famine, massive migration.
I don't think my perspective on labor laws is regional - every country has some form of labor laws. Obviously Uber in the US should just abide by US labor laws, but they currently aren't - they use a loophole of non-employment, - loophole that is hopefully (and probably) being closed.

Cc processing? Cc being credit card? Are drivers opposed to using credit cards?

I'm pretty sure I can't pay cash for taxis here (drivers don't want to handle cash due to the inherent risks).
There is NOT actually a clean coal plant that is operational in the US. I would not talk about this as how our coal plants currently operate. Attempts at putting a clean coal plant online have faced complications. Perhaps this why Clean Coal is called a myth?

http://fortune.com/2016/10/10/donald-trump-clean-coal/
The people buying the large bills at discount now are making a killing. This law won't last when the backlash roaring in.
Yeah, seriously. yummyfajitas is one of the original great HNers- without the likes of him in the early days this board would have been nothing special (and speaking of this, where did RiderOfGiraffes ever go, anyway?).
- skeptical: there is evidence, but not enough to convince me we should make policy changes such as taxing and regulation; rather we should allow the free market to develop solutions in the form of new technology.
Just found out right now that the "famous" Googleguy user that was posting stuff on Websmasterworld around 2002-2004 has been confirmed as having been Matt Cutts (the article is a little older, from 2011, https://www.seroundtable.com/cutts-googleguy-intheplex-13291...). Those were interesting times, when Google was still playing the "good guy" card trying to get most of the websites' data. I'm pretty sure nothing of that facade has remained in place now.
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this is something that troubles me to, I work a 8 to 6 office job, do some freelance projects and try to draw/create some personal projects and i am constantly feeling like making no-progress.

the first thing i did was realize how much time i actually have every day after regular work. turns out it is a bout 4 productive hours. what i do nowadays is to focus every day on an unique task. (working on a freelance gig, learning to make videogames etc..) but only one thing per day, jumping from one thing to other is what i think makes it hard. so i put aside at least two days a week(8 hours total) to the personal projects and divide the rest among girlfriend/family/entertainment.

having deadlines, meassuring time in a realistic way i guess.
Your quote's incorrect, in my opinion. Under CT, users are able to mistrust the issuing CA -- we start by assuming they want to give us malware (in the CT case, MITM certs) and trust them only to the extent that they are distributing publicly announced and tracked artifacts to us. This happens at the end user's computer, when their browser refuses to accept a cert with no CT announcement attached. This all happens in running Chrome browsers today.

If other software (e.g. your Linux distro) similarly checked for publicly announced artifacts (e.g. an offered package upgrade) then you would be protected against targeted malware from your last mile vendor. The malware has to be either offered to everyone (ensuring detection) or no-one.

I think the CT mechanism is simply better than a system that "isn't intended for end users", because a CT mechanism projects both administrators and end users.
1) A substantial portion of the Chinese coal is burned to produce steel and other products that are exported to the United States.
2) Burning that coal here (where there are environmental regulations) would produce less damage that burning it in China (where there are effectively none).

I'm not sure why this is confusing.

I'm also not sure why people are modding down factual posts. That type of behavior is exactly what's given you President Trump.
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I think you should respect his choice, but we can argue about the reasons and argumentations for that choice.

I don't know if Mr. Stallman has siblings. But if not, it means that his bloodline will end with his death. Let that sit for a moment and think about it.

Think about the hundreds of people in your ancestry that lived through world wars and the dark ages and all kinds of other "bad times," compared to the hundred or so years we are currently living in so that you can make a choice to end your bloodline for good.

While he has some pretty compelling reasons, he also potentially denies humanity not only the best version of himself and his values but maybe one of the greatest minds of their time. If you don't have kids, you'll never know or see their real potential.

I personally think you owe it to the people who went through pain and hunger, slavery, world wars, and all of the kind of other terrifying things that we can read up in our history that you keep the bloodline going.

So while I respect the choice he made, I wouldn't necessarily call it clever for a man with his intellect.

It is only one thing for sure and that is egocentrically and selfish. On the other hand, if he truly thinks he has nothing of value to pass down the line, be it genetic material or his values, then it is a good thing he decides to have no kids.
<Not having children is an important contribution to humanity.

The only thing that matters is having children that have healthy children that have healthy children. It's our purpose to keep the species going.

Two emerge. Those that keep the species going and those that support those that keep the species going.

Thank you for your contribution to humanity as you stated.
It would be nice to have a ride sharing ecosystem that didn't take 30%. I'd use it.
In a rational world I'd agree but my old boss used to say (he was sales) "People buy People", I think the best case is a shared set of values represented by someone who can articulate them well and with integrity.

Which pretty much sounds like Bernie Sanders/Jeremy Corbyn, alas it doesn't seem to be enough these days.
You misspelled "shit".
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But "Ride-Sharing App U" isn't a pun on the concept that drivers are paid peanuts.

Goober is slang for peanut. He was making a joke.
I'm on vacation in India right now, and the impact on tourism has been ridiculous. We've had to spend our time being driven to dozens of ATMs in search of one that's open, and even when we find one we can only withdraw ~$100 worth of notes (even using 2 different debit cards). That might be enough for a typical Indian's cash needs, but it's clearly not enough for us to be able to pay for meals, activities, lodging, and transportation for the day.

It's frustrating because it also forces me to be more tight-fisted with my money than I would like to be. The amounts aren't consequential to me, so I would ordinarily tip very generously. In this situation, I've had to be somewhat stingy with tips in order to have enough money to eat and pay my bills.

It's a stressful experience for tourists, and it's almost certainly costing workers in the tourism industry a significant amount of money.
Thanks for posting this.

It's incredibly frustrating to be attacked for not wanting to have children and continually have to hear negative put downs by people that do.

While I don't see myself in Stallman's personal position, I see the logical big picture and agree.
It's even worse than that.

Talking from personal experience in the private sector:

You go trough the whole process and present your results for a customer. They make the required changes, see few percent improvement in the bottom line and are happy. Year later you pick up the same code for another project and discover small error in data collection script that completely invalidates everything.

Garbage in, garbage out errors can have internal consistency that survive cross validation and provide similar results with many different algorithms and models. Random changes in the real word can produce actual gains.

Standard machine learning datasets rarely suffer from this problem because results and semantics of the problem are known beforehand. If you have a original black-box problem, it's possible to do random search and improve by accident.
Daring doesn't necessarily mean "more revealing" It could just be something super oddball, that may be (but probably not) a trend in a year. Like leather pants in neon shades, sequins in inappropriate contexts (like sequin shirt + blazer in the office), or bright blue lipstick. You have "daring" stilettos and "daring eyeshadows" and, well, yes, daring necklines. It depends on the context.

I can't know what OP actually meant, and, yeah Nasty Gal has some revealing clothes, but I interpreted to mean something like "a gigantic necklace" or "a romper with a bold pattern" or something.
China can simultaneously leverage coal for its own infrastructure while building technologies that could obsolete coal economically.
is there some spreadsheet or tool you use to manage time? i only using wunderlist to keep a to-do list and look back at how many items i check per week on it.
The post I'm replying to was a rebuttal to a comment about taxis in general, not the UK.

It's possible that UK regulators have solved all the problems that no other taxi regulator has managed: limited supply, high prices, and a complaint process that involves more work than taking out your phone. But I don't find it that likely.
I thought Guber was a pretty clever joke. For those not aware, goober is a slang term for a peanut. So a service that pays it's driver peanuts could jokingly be called Guber.
Borders don't conveniently move. Uninhabitable deserts aren't a good thing.
I had similar beliefs when I was in my 20s and now I have two children in my late 30s. We all have to row our own canoe. That being said. This is an interesting topic that has to have some academic research and/or modeling behind it. Anyone have some sources? What happens if our best minds do not reproduce? What is the expected outcome of Japan's population decline?
They are not photos, that's made clear from the article, they are renderings.

Think of it this way, the ROV goes down and uses a high resolution sonar instrument to see the 3D structure in front of it down to a centimeter/millimeter level of detail, at the same time it takes pictures. Then they take all that data and process it with a computer in order to generate basically a 3D textured model. Then they take renderings from that model and produce the images you've seen. The individual images from the ROVs would be much less interesting due to the very small field of view and the limitations of the lights.

See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photogrammetry
The Swiss recently passed this pro-surveillance referendum:

https://protonmail.com/blog/swiss-surveillance-law-referendu...

In the blog post, proton says they aren't impacted by the new law. Do any third party analyses agree?
Perhaps part of the way to address Google's enormous market power is that they should provide remediation when it causes a problem, including transparency when Google's search results place a site significantly lower than it does in competitors' results.
Credit card processing through the dispatch company at 10-15% (depending on when drivers want to be paid).

They already pay for dispatch separately.

In think it is perfectly fine for your country to block Uber. In the US, I want to see laws evolve to suit my political/economic beliefs. The "loopholes" are complicated beyond just the letter of the law.
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It's also a self-fulfilling prophesy.
As Uber was quick to remind its drivers, the ruling merely covered the two drivers who went to the employment tribunal.
My energy utility allows me some choice in the generation source. You may have the option of voting with your dollar. You'll likely have a much larger impact if you convince your employer to switch to greener sources of energy.
It is very much possible to track your calculations and quite literally debug your models. But like in computer science, it is hard to find the data scientist who can actually do that and not just copy-paste tutorial code from some blog post and then wonder what isn't working...
You can certainly pass values down to the next generation without having kids.
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If this is happening, I hope we get someone who recognizes how wrong it is and becomes a whistleblower.
Has this ever worked? How many people call the kindle a swindle?
> but if this instills a good habit in minds of people — of being part of a transparent economy...

Noble thought but unfortunately, not likely to happen. At least, not at a scale large enough to make any difference.

IMO, the only way that an effective change could come about is cleansing of the political/bureaucratic/governmental systems - and corrupt ways there of - and the current actions will only go to boost those (ways) even further.
Exactly - I call BS. Google won't artificially boost search rankings for their own products - in some cases the search folks have told other groups that need to do SEO if their rankings are too low.

(Disclaimer: I work for an Alphabet company)
GNUber

Rather:

GINU -- Ginu Is Not Uber
> The parent can however make the decision to not hide behind a throwaway account

I think you have a reasonable point, but given their prior experience with publicly criticizing Google, they also have a reasonable desire to remain anonymous.
"What would be good, though, would be for someone to call us back when the thinking leads to something, anything, that we can see or feel or sense or even understand—because all this astonishingly brilliant thought and science and learning and history, all these amazing stories, as far as I can tell, have no consequences at all. Our commonsense subjective understanding of time is as telling, as tyrannical, as it ever was. A century-plus of fervent speculation and analysis of time and time travel have led to exactly no outcomes. We are as stuck in the present, as irrevocably exiled from both past and future, as ever."

Einstein's time dilation has practical consequences: aside from being able to observe the slowdown in atomic clocks taken up in airplanes and the many consequences in astronomy, we also have GPS, which would not work without taking relativity into account. If GPS doesn't count as a 'consequence' or 'outcome' due to a non-traditional understanding of time, nothing does!
This isn't the first time you've posted this. Here is the response I decided not to post last time.

You will probably never write a magic thousand lines of code for this. You'll probably have a far greater impact if you do a few simple things we should all be doing anyway:

* Turn off lights you aren't using.

* Turn your air conditioning up or down by a few degrees.

* Turn your water heater down a few degrees.

For computer-specific stuff:

* Don't leave computers running when not in use.

* Dim your displays.

* Use your laptop's battery rather than leaving it plugged in all the time.

I know it's not exactly interesting stuff, and it certainly doesn't build your CV, but neither of those things is actually important when it comes to climate change.