skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You seem to be pattern matching on certain features and neglecting that details matter.

How can conscientious teachers or coaches exist in your worldview?

Surely educators are all evil because they dare to seek to improve people. Education has been used as a pretext to imprison people in oppressive regimes therefore education is evil. Absurd!
Is there a difference in being the leader of an agency and leading the transition at an agency? Because the latter is what he is labeled as which makes it seems like it's a fairly temporary role.
No, the frustrating part is that even after they see the devastation caused by climate change, they will blame something else for it.
Many folks here dont seem to understand this or agree.
Is the difference there statistically measurable but insubstantial?
Yeah right, like a couple of private citizens not eating beef anymore is going to put a dent in climate change. We need governments to solve this, because they are the only entities big enough to actually affect this sort of large scale problem.
Obama did some things, but the main driver was the market. In politics it makes sense to take credit/blame depending on side. Trump can remove whatever Obama did and the jobs are not coming back for market reasons.

It's the same thing with factory jobs. The US produces more than it ever has (at least the last time I checked), but many of those jobs were automated away.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/us-manufacturing-dead-outpu...
Microsoft wants autistic coders
Most? Is there any data to back this up?
Already exists
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Emergency_Opera...
http://byteacademy.co/all-courses/software-development/
I usually correct people when they tell me something like "but you believe in X, right?". Maybe it is just semantics, but for me it is significantly different:

- denying it: there is evidence, yet they do not accept it.

- do not believe in it: we cannot prove its existence factually and there are people who still think it exists and some who do not.
Doesn't really matter 83k unemployed people aren't going to care about the nuances of which factors contributed how much.

If the industry was already on it's way down the smart thing to do would have been to let it run it course instead of pushing regulations that wouldn't matter any ways and swung the state against you. Similarly if the factors killing coal really are not driven by government regulation than installing a pro-coal guy at the EPA shouldn't have any effect.
Cue a link to the essay, "Teach Yourself Programming In Ten Years".
Out of curiosity, did any students from that school go to any of the top global universities? Like Oxbridge/Ivy League/Etc? I wonder how those students do in comparison.

Also, as a kid who learned much better through class interaction with a teacher, your school would have been a nightmare for me, instead of doing so well in school I likely would have failed. Undiagnosed ADHD is terrible for self-driven learning.
Overcome Functional Programming’s Cognitive Dissonance Issues (for Ppl Like Me)
I agree it sounds childish, but I think it can be a necessary counterbalance to the marketing-speak which will inevitably frame things in the most favorable possible light.

I mean, just look at the name - Uber. What does it mean? Superior, the best, etc. Ubermensch - "This place is uber cool!". I think if you're using the name and trying to criticize it, the name itself is contradicting and undermining your point every time you bring it up.

Maybe something like "Goober" is too far and silly. Maybe just use something neutral like "Ride-Sharing App U".
The US is not the only country that matters anymore, I don't think China will pull out no matter what US does, they are smart enough to be making money from building renewable tech for the world and onselling it. It's really in Chinese interest to encourage the shift.

This is just another race the US is losing.
KLM almost certainly has hundreds of passengers a day whose gross margin is in the pennies.
> getting it 'washed'/converted into legal money through a mind boggling array of creative schemes.

care to share these creative schemes ?
Ask HN: What CAD software does your hardware startup use?
Hi,

I've been thinking about starting a hardware start up and was wondering what software other start ups use for CAD? Specifically, creating drawings for manufacture, laser cutting, and 3D printing.
Stress 'changes brains of boys and girls differently'
Runbox is more like a "normal, ordinary" e-mail service with high security & privacy precautions, but for example no integrated end-to-end, zero-knowledge encryption (option) for mails. You can of course use pgp/gpg like with any other service.

So in Protonmail, for mails inside the service, from protonmail user to protonmail user, they afaik use a pgp implementation and handle the key exchange.

To send secure messages from protonmail to another service, you can encrypt the message / conversation with a password and the recipient gets an email with an url, where he can, given he has the password, decrypt the message and reply securely.
For those that don't know what SOL means (I had to look it up)...
"S--t Outta Luck"
I'm sure there are plenty of people who voted for Trump for reasons other than this. It might make a difference if somehow they (and others) express this as strongly as possible. As a citizen of the world I'd be more than thankful.

Now a pragmatist's pitch: the US has the potential to lead in the transition away from fossil-based fuels. Look, if the Arab countries are getting involved, that should tell you something. Don't do with energy what Kodak did with the digital age...
I hate to, but I agree with you on all points, including the hopelessness of human nature suddenly pulling a 180 and changing our impact on climate change. The best thing I can offer is that you can't help people who act against their own best interests, and if this election proves anything, it's that compassion and concern is wasted on them.
What are my options BTW?

I am not you have any idea of how long it takes for General populace to realize that they are being screwed.

Ordinary people don't yet know because they trust Google - A trust which was build by constant "Don't be evil" rhetoric for over a decade. This trust also helped them acquire a monopolistic position so when they break that promise they need to be investigated.

Search is now a public utility and Google should be treated as utility provider.
You are right- which is why maybe a dual approach would be optimal- if you don't show intrinsic interest, you are self-condemned to the passive classic approach.
If you allow yourself to get involved (there must be of course those offerings, in some fun alternative).. i guess, it should be allowed for those involved in project schooling to train and recruit those stuck in passive schooling. This project system has a vulnerability though, it breeds specialists. So a teacher should encourage projects tackling different subjects and demand that everyone contribute to a project with calculus for example.
Hardware is definitely SNES throwback ready.

Based on data from [1], the 30 included NES ROMs amount to < 5.3 MiB total. Increase that by roughly an order of magnitude to account for complexity, and it shouldn't take much to tuck 30 SNES ROMs + emulator + OS into that NAND.

[1] http://tuxnes.sourceforge.net/nesmapper.txt
> Trump hates women,

The statements on that hot mike tape were about how when you're a billionaire like him, women "let you" do certain things which they would not allow any random broke guy to do.

This was covered by Scott Adams... I'll get on my laptop and find the links.

edit: https://youtu.be/c-sBO6OppAc?t=1340

edit2:

2. Rumor: In the leaked Access Hollywood
tapes, Trump allegedly admits to kissing
and touching women against their will.
But on the same recording Trump clearly
says, “When you’re a celebrity, they let
you do anything.” The word “let” implies
permission, verbal or otherwise.
Therefore it is not true that Trump
confessed on the tape to sexual abuse.
(It is a separate question whether Trump
did inappropriate things. Here I’m only
talking about the rumor that he admitted
inappropriate actions on the leaked tape.)

- http://blog.dilbert.com/post/151791115686/assume-half-of-wha...
This is a presidential appointment and the senate needs to approve it. Let your senator know how you feel about it. Also, let president Elect Trump know about your feelings and he might even back down on the selection. If anything is important this is. What the US does in this area influences what the rest of the world does. Also we, as a nation, are a chief producer of green house gasses.

We are suppose to be the smart ones, the doers, the dreamers. Prove it! DO SOMETHING to change the world.
Because: we understand that there is a relation, but we're having a hard time actually quantifying it (the models predict a wide range of possible future temperatures, and they themselves are super complex and change often so we cannot fully even trust those ranges). Without a solid prediction model, it's very hard to justify financial decisions - let alone global, trillion dollar ones.
These maps show global anti-vax attitudes
Thank you, I'll call my senator!
The problem is that even if Trump creates no actual anti-Muslim policies, his supporters have been given the green light to do whatever hate crimes they want.
Yes, we need to expand nuclear, develop new nuclear technologies and agree upon a target global temperature. Sooner rather than later.
> People are just trying to understand what happened and for some this involves exercises in thinking out loud.

i think that every eight year the pendulum swings between Democrats and Republicans; people get tired of one side and choose the other one. In about two years we will know more...
Fixing the issues of our countries is not only related but also should be a priority for all of us because they slow down progress in all other areas.
Working while traveling with kids
It's not an either/or. Private citizens can also take action. And at least for me personally, relatively small personal actions (like flying less and switching to LED bulbs) make me more supportive of government action precisely because the things I can do directly turn out to be insufficient to the problem.
They had a bunch of special purpose chips that make emulation hard---both computationally intensive, and finnicky around details. For example, a real NES will glitch differently when many sprites are on the same row. Some games depend on this to be playable!
It's apparent that execution left many things unconsidered. Having a high-denomination bill (Rs. 2000), which is practically useless for most purchases, and insufficient quantity of the low-denomination bills (Rs 100), is as bad as it gets; the transition is going to fairly painful for the whole population.

That being said, I would avoid lamenting the troubles of middle-class and poor when the rich are going to be unscathed. It's true that some leaks would impossible to plug, and people would find clever ways to get some of their money through, a great deal of ill-gotten riches is going to affected by this. It'd be almost impossible to launder monstrous amount of cash that sits inside coffers of those who invariably assumed that they were immune; the mandated limits simply make it impractical.

When you're buying a house in India, there is no way you can go about it in honest means. The seller would usually ask half the amount being handed in cash to avoid taxes. Almost everywhere, a large slew of businesses always avoid paying any kind of tax. The pattern is so ingrained that it's almost become a habit. And this is only tip of the iceberg — political donations, bribes, illegal trades, hawala all stem from the same thing.

Maybe I am speaking from an ivory tower, but if this instills a good habit in minds of people — of being part of a transparent economy — probably the benefits would far outweigh the cons.
The point is more that the resources that would make this are different from the resources that would better the API.

Complaining about resources going towards this rather than that are silly, with that in mind.
Even then, this seems like a poor choice of demonstration of visual recognition capabilities since you only need to read the initial state and then adjust it when you make a move. They've used stepper motors which normally don't need feedback too, do movements can probably be done open loop.

Perhaps they do only use visual feedback for determining the state, which would be a better demo, but I doubt anyone would be able know from that article!
Maybe it's my white straight male privilege talking, but this scares me 100x more than his racism and sexual predation, and I wish it had gotten more coverage in the debates and election.

If this happens, history will remember Trump as the Neville Chamberlain of the climate catastrophe. He won't just be screwing America's plans, this is one of those areas where "leader of the free world" isnt hyperbole - America's decisions will have massive domino-effects on related economies.
How faked are these photos? They're labelled "photogrammetric" as if to hedge how real they are, but I don't know if that means they're photoshopped. I ask because most large-scale underwater photographs are faked since visibility is usually low underwater and there just isn't enough light. Google images of "Titanic underwater" and you get either close-ups, hyper-realistic drawings, or mosaics. It's easy to think that this guys work are real photos: http://www.kenmarschall.com/wreck.html#Num5
> A lot more than that because quality of life is many times better than India.

'Quality of life' isn't directly proportional to the money spent.

Yes, money is required for happiness. But money isn't happiness.

And you know, now in India, the more money one have makes him/her more worry.
Because of politics. You can win votes in coal country if you promise them jobs. You can win votes in Alaska, Texas if you let them drill.
I use Eagle CAD. It isn't really meant for that purpose but I already knew how to use it for PCB design so it was a lot easier and faster to just use that than to learn a second CAD package geared toward laser cutting.

If you don't have any prior CAD experience and have to learn something regardless Draft Sight is supposed to be a really good and free package.
hmm. I think I need to abuse one of the real clients like feedly by giving it a url to my washed rss feed as this does offline content but doesn't deal with sites that serve partial content through rss.
There are sound output bugs that make using any emulator terrible. The Pi 3 can barely handle SNES games.
Along with contacting Senators, there is also a Whitehouse petition.[0]

0: https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/do-not-allow-myron...
because ESL readers like myself...

you understand what is meant by the mistake in speech, and it goes unmentioned, so something...

*In the medium term...

:)

By the way, your English is far better than my Spanish... ;)
Well let's hope so!
In my lifetime, the integrated circuit and its development ecosystem, Moore's Law, and for a long while, Dennard Scaling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling), I think.

Some others cite things like the web or the personal computer, but that would never have become a big thing without ever denser and for a long while faster ICs, then again, they don't have to be too much younger than me for the invention of the IC to fall out of their range.

9/11 was and remains big, but I don't think it's of a fraction the magnitude, unless, again, these other things happened before you were born. E.g. in that category, the assassination of JFK and how that shaped the coming Vietnam War was a much bigger thing for the US, not sure about the world outside of East Asia, though, except through the profound effects it had through changing the US.

In a few years I might list Watergate in that category, for how it changed the power balance between the Executive and the Congress, and among other things changed the budgeting system to one where all internal restraints are pretty much gone. When the Feds can no longer can borrow huge sums of money at around 0% interest rates, well, things will get very interesting in the "interesting times" sense. How that will effect those outside the US, though, I'm not sure, but nothing good, I would think. I.e. the 2nd bank collapse phase of the Great Depression on steroids sort of magnitude.
Are you asking how much it would cost a middle class family to live in the US for a month?

It varies wildly between parts of the US, and the rural vs urban areas. In Boston Massachusetts, for example, the median family of 5 makes about $6,000 after taxes ($84,195/year before taxes). In poorer areas/states, like Mississippi, families of 5 live on average, with $3,700/month after taxes.

So, ₹250,000 - 400,000 a month.

I'm beginning to think I should move to India!
> I would take your commentary more seriously, from an account more than 3 days old

created:	3205 days ago
karma:	39501
This had me scratching my head.

PG and Sam Altman aligned and organized against Trump who has as a supporter Peter Thiel. Now, because of the election outcome, the writer is asking that PG take the step of distancing Y-Combinator from Peter Thiel.

Peter Thiel is an investor in YC. Surely, he has rights and cannot be penalized wrt the company for his political views. What am I missing here?
I read "Stories of Your Life and Others" this year and it was for me the best fiction in a few years. Cognitive sci-fi, sometimes with religious themes (e.g. what if Kabbalah were a basis for the industrial revolution).

Also, quite a few stories by Ted Chiang are available online, see links in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Chiang.

EDIT: Freely accessible stories converted to mobi (the Kindle format): https://www.dropbox.com/s/wbhdyer9qfpexcm/Stories%20accessib...
File Synchronization with Vector Time Pairs (2005) [pdf]
If hypothetically half of the US stopped eating beef today, that would make a huge positive impact on the US climate footprint. It wouldn't matter if the change were instigated by the government or by the people.
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The thing that puzzles me about this argument is any planet we find is likely to have a worse atmosphere than even a polluted Earth. If we're able to terraform Mars or whatever then we can likely also reverse the effects of global warming on Earth.
How did they make sure you learnt things like history or French?

How were you tested?

For example in our country (UK) we have a curriculum that we teach to, so this week we had to teach our kids about hard drives, CDs, Blu-ray and USB sticks. Then we test them on the details and when you would use each.
but was repudiated by the Right

So he was elected by Leftists?

I think it's more he was repudiated by the GOPe(stablishment) and most of the Established Authorities (i.e. press) that claims to be of the "Right". We on the Alt Right beg to differ as to their being very much at all on the right.
Of course, it's good to have governments do this, but either way private citizens will have to change their actions.
Shamanism in Ancient Korea
Shankar Vedantam when on vacation to Alaska recently and realized how people think about climate change and decided to a podcast about why its hard to make people aware of it. [1]

Basically, its in the future, its complicated, its costly if I recall correctly and our brains will turn off those kinds of things so its a trifecta of the worst characteristics if you want people to pay attention.

[1] http://www.npr.org/2016/11/08/501073160/climate-change-the-f...
I wonder what the effect on attendance would be, if major sporting events had a "no cell phones" rule. My guess offhand: it would be devastating to ticket sales.
My problem with this is, if there is a coalition of white supremacists powerful enough to propel a President to a decisive victory, where were they 4 years ago? 8 years ago? Why did they vote for Obama? It doesn't make sense. They suddenly care enough to go out and vote in large numbers, but they didn't care 4 years ago to vote against an African-American president? That doesn't add up. The only conclusion is that Trump's win is due to something other than racism.

I'm not saying there aren't racists who support Trump. There undoubtedly are. But that's not why he won.
I used to like Kejriwal but not anymore. He has a problem. He will just disagree to everything said and done by Modi govt. I understand they both are from different parties but why he have to disagree on every single thing?

You can see public reaction to Kejriwal's statements at following link. Whatever he is saying does not make any sense. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Demonetisation-a-ma...
I just watched Before the Flood, and then right after I see this trending here.. god help us..
Yeah I think China will see it as an opportunity to show leadership and it will play into their attempt to shift the balance of power away from the USA.
The main use of non-locality I've seen is in relation to (fused) anyons carrying quantum numbers held non-locally over their constituent parts. I expect we see other non-local effects in things like very low temperature condensates and probably stuff like superconductors and superfluids (since the math of the vortex structure is similar to anyons).

Of course, entanglement can be interpreted as non-locality, where what happens to one particle inside of a bounded area depends on the fate of its entangled partner, outside of the box.

The real reason to use non-locality in place of indeterminism is that it provides a clear research avenue to combine the QM effects (based on information locality) with GR (which is about the causal relations between things). QM would really just be telling us that the actual causal net doesn't look like it does from macro scale. It transitions both frameworks to be about causal nets, instead of a weird mishmash that's hard to combine.

Of course, that's if we can do QM as pure non-locality, rather than indeterminism. I just think it's strange that it seemingly hasn't been investigated.

Ed: I guess it has been investigated some by say, Bohm, but I feel like science (the institution) gives undue weight to the interpretation they were taught in school, even when it's both arbitrary and constraining. It's like everyone screaming that of course there's exactly one parallel line, that's what you're taught in school and have been since the Greeks, right? Well, maybe non-Euclidean geometry models some things better.

Similarly, I think scientists baked some arbitrary design and philosophy choices in early, then never bothered to explore other approaches, because they were able to compute decent results.
"Climate contrarian?". That article was far too diplomatic about a man who stands against scientific consensus and for a global catastrophe.
Nice good looking turkey getting invited for Thanks Giving and Christmas this year! Enjoy!
> The coal alignment is a bigger deal than climate change. We are SOL on climate change anyway (barring a scientific miracle)--there is no point worrying about whether one administration will or will not engage in token gestures.

I really want to push back on this. This is in fact an anti-climate-change talking point used to say, "Look it just doesn't matter what we do." While it's true that the destabilizations currently taking place are absolutely a part of our lifetime, in the 200 year timeline the scientific consensus is that if we cut our emissions substantially within this century we will in fact avoid locking our descendents into a full climate flip that is NOT avoidable.

The canonical paper people quote about this is: http://www.ecoequity.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/meinshau...

We need to play an aggressive game before 2050, and we can save the ice caps. That is not a token gesture. That's the line that we can draw to not destroy every coastal city in the world.