skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First, a reality check: 2015 imports from China were $582 Billion [0]. The Chinese GDP in 2015 was about $10 Trillion [1]. That makes the US responsible for consuming nearly 6% of the Chinese economic output. I'm not an economist, but I think that means that stopping all exports to the US would put about 6% of China's workforce out of work. Given their reliance on employment as a deterrent to civil unrest, I'd say it's something they wouldn't even contemplate.

As to the hypothetical effect on the US, I'd say that 100 years hence, historians would comment on how remarkably the US had snapped into action and replaced all the imported products and sources with domestic and non-Chinese sources. That would be coupled with a rationalization of what products American consumers didn't need and only bought or upgraded because they were cheap. There would be a lot of 'oh, I didn't need that anyway'.

Another thing to keep in mind is that there are many other established and up-and-coming non-Chinese manufacturing hubs that could ramp up to absorb some of the displaced Chinese sources: Malaysia, Vietnam, India, and others.

It's be a much less jarring event to the US than it would be to China, but actually enduring the process would be extremely unsettling and a lot of Americans would have to endure hardship during the transition.

[0] http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html

[1] http://www.stats.gov.cn/english/PressRelease/201601/t2016011...
Interesting. Please consider a mailing list. I like to be kept up to date on this conference.
A sibilance filter would be fairly easy to make, I built a headphone amp board with a sibilance filter circuit in it many years back.
It amazes me that journalists publish things like this with a straight face, then don't understand why nobody trusts the media.

"Well, sure, unconstitutional power grabs are tolerable when someone I like is in power, but this new guy is bad!" Yes, that's how it always works. That's explicitly the reason our government was designed the way it was. Why do educated people forget this every time "their guy" gets into power?
China is indeed 'greening' its economy to move to what it calls a Ecological Civilisation. This is a big development, and it goes lumpy but its government bodies coordination is improving. An example of which is the development of a Green Financial Systems (see this PBoC's link: http://www.pbc.gov.cn/english/130721/3131759/index.html)
Changing curriculums is rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic, I'm afraid. Future generations will wonder how we could be so heartless as to coop children up in classrooms and require them to study random subjects.

The correct approach to maximising learning is as follows. Help children to do more of what they like and try to find things they'll like even better. This includes all video games, btw.
For me, the ultimate trifecta of high-concept sci-fi authors is Ted Chiang, Charles Stross, and Greg Egan. Every time I read one of their books I'm left dropping a constant stream of "whoa"s.
While the title of the blog post says "for .net core", it is much more than that. The blog post clarifies it is actually targeting the new .net standard so it works on all platforms including .net core (Windows, Mac, Linux), .net framework on Windows, Windows UWP and Xamarin (iOS, Android).
If I told it to my mother, that would be the worst disappointment in her life. In our culture, you must be married and have children (before 25 y.o). Otherwise, you are not normal and everybody around (parents, friends, acquaintances) will ask you stupid questions:

"when are planning to merry?"
"when are planning to have children?"
+ long educational lecture on why it's so important. That's a disaster.
Yep.

I once believed that salt mines were a perfect storage place for environmental/nuclear crap. That is, until I read

"Salt: A World History" by Mark Kurlansky

https://www.amazon.com/Salt-World-History-Mark-Kurlansky/dp/...

British towns in the 19th century collapsed when salt miners removed subterranean salt by pumping water in and brine out:

https://www.google.com/search?q=salt+mining+in+19th+century+...

Here's a nice picture(scroll down to see the leaning houses):

http://nbgecko.blogspot.com/2012/10/wadihs-weekend-part-2.ht...

Turns out that if you pour water into a salt deposit, dissolve the salt and pump out the brine, the terrain above may collapse (salt columns were supporting it). Any remaining brine not pumped to the surface may travel who-knows-where underground to dissolve other salt deposits.

England went through decades of lawsuits and legislation wherein landowners cried for recompense of their collapsed lands from salt producers. The salt producers claimed it wasn't their mining that caused the collapses and the landowners usually lost.

Fast forward to oil/gas fracking in Texas, Oklahoma and other states:

most gas/oil deposits are under salt domes. Fracking injects water (and other chemicals) into the subterranean structures, the salt dissolves and the oil/gas is freed to rise. As in England, the brine that is not removed is free to travel miles underground, removing structure that has lain dormant for eons and collapsing the land above. But fracking also uses chemicals, not merely brine, and so the chance of pollution (esp. of water wells) is increased. The frackers say it does no harm. But funny sounds are coming from below and fracking chemicals are showing up in places (e.g., water wells) where they are not wanted:

https://www.google.com/search?q=fracking+chemicals+migrate&b...
People -- many, many people --- have been concerned about this for a very long time. The concerns are more urgent now, but they are far from new.

But even if what you say were true, it invalidates nothing.
Bootcamps are for people who need employment quickly. Since you are employed, you can take evening and weekend programming classes to see if you like it before taking the plunge.
Yeah. We should just leave everything intact. Great idea.
Do you see the "Create Issue" button at the bottom of the page?

If so, please raise this here (with a screenshot perhaps)
What future role do you see yourself playing in the industry? Well paid geek, founder, investor, researcher ?
It's amazing how many articles I've seen in the last week by people suddenly finding limited-government religion.

When people campaign against the expansion of government powers, it's not because we're afraid that the Good Guys are going to abuse them, it's because we know that eventually the Bad Guys will.
> If the US withdraws from the Paris accord, other countries like China will follow, as they will not want to be the ones that try to reduce emissions at the price of being less competitive (in the short run) when one of the largest economies in the world won't do it as well.

I predict the opposite. China knows that climate change is real, and will seek to take a leadership position in fighting it as means of building long-term international prestige.

The U.S. built its reputation today by defending freedom during WWII and then by handing nations back to their citizens after it won.

Fascism, authoritarianism, communism--those were the greatest threats to human society in the 20th century, and the U.S. led the fight that beat them. But the generation who experienced all that personally will soon be dead.

What is the greatest threat to society now? In the long term, it has to be climate change. It's like fuel for every other social unrest you can think of.

50 years from now, international reputation might hinge on who did the most to limit the effects of climate change. If China sticks to it, and the U.S. fails, the U.S. could find itself pretty damn unpopular.
The word might be hypocracy... Hypocracy of power mongering.
What do you think 'researching that problem' actually involves? Do you think scientists are just paid to sit there and type out bullshit reports?

No, they have to produce real, scientific studies which are peer reviewed by other scientists all over the world. If there's a bullshit study, that's usually quickly discredited and the scientist's reputation damaged. (See: Andrew Wakefield)

You're also living in a delusional world where scientists are not in high demand and can't find a much higher paying job at a private corporation, if they wanted to.

Doing science for a government contract is a step down for most scientists.

These are highly trained, skilled, educated, and intelligent people you're talking about.
Because he has a new perspective on what unbridled data collection can render, not only with the hindsight of the Snowden debacle, but also because I am around 100% sure he didn't posit Mr. Trump as the future Head of State.

Maybe we should remember the words written in the founding document that precluded our noble country's separation from the English State:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men/women (language added by me) are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men/Women (same semantic addition), deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness

If one's right to privacy is being infringed upon, we are bound by this document to remind the powers that be that they are beyond their right to govern.

I think the initial thought is incredibly prescient, as Trump seems far more laissez-faire when it comes to moral governance than President Obama is and has been. Let's not put the cart before the horse, but let's also make sure the toys are all child proof before we hand them down, n'est-ce pas?
When it was possibly used against the people they did not like then it was acceptable. Now when it may become after them has it suddenly become a problem. How pathetic.

I also can not say that many have not warned against this scenario. Something, something about not standing up.
NSA surveillance, while terrible, is also kind of a red herring.

The bigger risk to people is the enormous pile of data at large Internet companies and ISPs which any government would find useful in implementing a policy of mass deportation or "extreme vetting".

NSA has legal and institutional barriers on domestic surveillance. These are damaged, but still exist. What private industry collects is completely unregulated and far broader in scope.
If freedom respecting public services are destined to replace proprietary platforms that demonstrated markets where you can use a communications platform to replace business, than facebook and twitter would be losing to gnusocial and diaspora.

In practice, consumers are ignorant about the consequences of the businesses they do business with. This exists way beyond tech to how companies consumers will spend money on for goods or services will take that money to then lobby government to harm those citizens, yet the vast majority of people are apathetic to taking responsibility for that behavior.

Hopefully we see state intervention to stop Uber for simply breaking regulations, like we saw in Austin, where in the aftermath of knowing about Uber more open communication tools were used instead because the citizenry realized they didn't need an app to have a network of drivers and customers who could rate and pay one another.
> This would only work in a place where the discourse is generally polite and thoughtful, HN being an example of such.

Sadly, I'd say the fact that every other commenter seems to go out of their way to point out that they're not a Trump supporter, and the fact that I feel the need to do so myself, is evidence enough that HN is not polite and thoughtful enough when it comes to this issue.

And honestly I wouldn't expect that from HN, even though I do feel this is still a place where there is relatively more politeness and thoughtfulness.
Why is it that I can't download all the relevant climate data, and all the mathematical models of climate, and run the scenario myself?

It's all government funded, so why isn't it open and available?
Show HN: An AI Twitter bot that can craft sentences
Super cool to see NVIDIA releasing hardware specifically meant to be a platform for building self-driving systems[1]:

"NVIDIA DRIVE™ PX 2 is the open AI car computing platform that enables automakers and their tier 1 suppliers to accelerate production of automated and autonomous vehicles. It scales from a palm-sized, energy efficient module for AutoCruise capabilities, to a powerful AI supercomputer capable of autonomous driving."

I hadn't heard of this before and with their purported pivot to an AI company, I can't wait to see what other platforms they develop in a similar capacity.

[1] - http://www.nvidia.com/object/drive-px.html
Ask HN: Can we move on from 'news' about the Orange Führer on HN PLEASE
I get it. America is Ecstatic/In a waking nightmare at the prospect of President Trump.

The fact is, HN is meant to be about tech. It's been.. 5 days? I'm sick of hearing about this idiot. I can't realistically filter him out of regular news I read, but at least give me one place where his idiotic antics don't take over every fucking conversation PLEASE.
Someone did this using Twitter data and NLP. Can't find it right now but I think the name had to do with weather.
There is a big gap between what we can afford and what we are willing to commit. We could probably have a modest impact with a couple of hundred billion a year in investment (equivalent to the home mortgage interest deduction). We could afford it. But I think it's unthinkable we'll get even a few tens of billions a year for climate change. At that point, there are much higher value ways to spend our limited environmental dollars.
It's not just journalists. I've had multiple, extended conversation with Ivy League educated, highly compensated, otherwise rational people about how burning it all down now for sure is preferable to potentially burning part of it down later.

There is a sickness in this country, and it is called partisanship. Its destructive power is more frightening than anything Trump could hope to do.
Aren't Americans moving less now-a-days: How to Get Americans Moving Again http://nyti.ms/257a62z? What does having friends and community have with staying put or moving? This sounds cold and calculating, but aren't friends and community fungible? Of course not the individuals themselves, but when we move we find new communities and new friends.
Yes, you're crazy. Keep your high paying job. Learn computer science on the side.

The really interesting stuff usually requires deeper knowledge and skills. For problems worth solving, 15 years experience as a CRUD developer is no better than 15 years experience as a project manager. Making this career change won't necessarily help you gain the skills you want.
As far as privacy goes, I agree.

However, I think the context in a country like South Africa is different. Apart from Uber in big cities, we don't have any reliable taxis (minibus, shuttle or car). Our taxis are notoriously unroadworthy and cause many accidents and they take part in violent taxi wars.

Our car taxis at places like the airport are known to exploit unaware customers. Minibus taxis are a standard way of getting to work for many poor people, but I don't see any plans Uber has to compete with them yet.

In South Africa, Uber drivers (seemingly) earn quite a bit more money than they would be able to otherwise and they are generally very entrepreneurial people, in stark contrast to the taxi gangs.

Finally, I should point out that in many places in SA there simply were not any traditional taxi services (in the US sense), we generally only have minibus taxis. So Uber is performing a very convenient and otherwise unavailable service. Cape Town is perhaps a partial exception, and some other central city areas. But they are nowhere near Uber's efficiency.
Good job being right before other people. Have a cookie:
I believe there is consensus in the FSF that a proprietary website is still unethical because you are downloading and executing their page on your local machine, and many websites use techniques to obfuscate the implementation of the page you are on, or hide its functionality behind server side proprietary services.
> What evidence is there that there can't be more crop production at more northern, theoretically then warmer, altitudes?

A common misunderstanding of global warming is the belief that all points on Earth will see their temperature rise by the same amount.

The average temperature will rise, but many regions of Earth will actually see their temperature go down. Unfortunately, those regions are already not particularly warm, like Antarctica.

Northern regions of Earth have their temperature heavily tied to the amount of sunlight they receive. While they will indeed get warmer compared to now, they will still be cold, and there is nothing that can be done about the six months of night time. Going to Siberia is not the answer, no matter how much you like Mr Putin.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6/Projecte...

As for rising sea levels: for obvious reasons, settlements near the sea are common. Rebuilding all those cities will be a tremendous cost. Human migration will also be politically straining, which may cause a part of the US to secede. Immigration tends to irritate people for some reason. A famous US president was recently elected thanks to that resentment.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5c/6m_Sea_L...

As for wildlife, rapid changes in temperature are correlated with mass extinction according to the fossil record. In fact, we are already currently undergoing a mass extinction, which is expected to go on: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocene_extinction#Global_war....
AFAIK, hearthstone works on iphones.
I certainly expect them to try this in the US, but I don't expect them to succeed.

As it is, following Sutton's Law, I expect they're going to go after retirement accounts first "because that's where the money is", 10 times as much based on a minute with Google now, and it's a lot easier to get at.
What references / data points support this theory ? I'm curious to learn more about this point of view.
Since that article in July they've cancelled 60 coal plants, including many that had already started construction. The capacity they've cancelled is equal to the total coal capacity of the UK and Spain combined.

They've still got a long way to go, but the signs that they are turning the ship are clear.

http://energydesk.greenpeace.org/2016/10/21/china-coal-crack...
You don't sign a contributor agreement with the FSF. You sign away your copyright, but they also agree to only distribute the work under the same terms as the ones you gave it to them (i.e. the GPL in most cases). It is far more equitable than contributor agreements which basically try to remove the right for you to sue the organisation that gives you the contributor agreement. Instead, in exchange for your copyright, you get a promise that your work will remain free.

Also, the process has recently been transformed to be completely over email:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/fsf-now-offering-paperle...
In-app purchase?
Now you remember? Good to see liberals finally acknowledging the frankenstein monsters they have created.
I have a ton of respect for people who choose not to have children, for whatever reason. Good on them. I think the societal drive to marry and have children is bullshit, especially for women. You can be a fully-realized person without children.

Having said that, it's not a bad choice to have children. This essay covers a lot of ground very quickly, but the part about effort distribution resonated with me and I disagree with it. Yes, career plus family are challenging, but I'm glad I have both.

There's never 100% done with with anything, including parenting and work. I don't know a single person who has fully accomplished everything they want to do, no matter how singly focused they are. I don't know what 100% parenting would look like. Kids aren't sculpture which stop progressing when not being worked. They're people. Yes, as a parent you spend time with them, and thinking of them, but you're not failing when you're thinking of something else.
He should also pardon Ed Snowden before it's too late. Be sure to add that to the list of things that will never happen.
I have this fantasy that Trump will be attuned to and care for the popular sentiment in good ways as well as bad. That he will steamroll some important changes that Hillary, Obama, Bush, and Bill wouldn't or couldn't.

Unfortunately I can't help but fear for the bad things he might push for, whether prompted by those close to him or populist sentiment.
It's not at all hopeless. We've pulled 180's in the 60's, the 90's and the 2010's already.
It's all about how do you address the issue and how this very same issue would be handled if the other party took the presidency.

I'm all in when it comes to privacy and I always agreed with encryption and everything people are suggesting to do now.

It is just a pain to listen to how this is being advertised now.

And before anyone starts complaining:
1. I'm not from the US and I don't live in the US
2. I'm against Trump and against Hillary
I bet if Tronc the business had been successful, we would have praised Tronc the brand name as a bold and successful move.
Probably better if kids learned math by directly controlling drones or programming games.
> Uber has changed the regulations that cover charging passengers for making cars wait.
This decision itself may not be objectionable. Taxis typically charge for making them wait. But that regulation is set by a city agency which is at least somewhat responsible to the people. Uber is a business headquartered somewhere else, which accepts no responsibility to the people of any city.

We should not allow a company to privatize the making of the regulations that create our social order.

This is such bullshit. A company can have their headquarters in a single place only!
This is totally splitting hairs and I don't think we're adding to the discussion anymore. if you'll drop me an email (see my profile, since you don't list one) I'll spit back my analysis but it's really really pedantic and actually probably not worth our time. thanks for the exchange here.
Because "their guy" said exactly what he would do, and it is ugly.
Donald Trump has won (January 2016)
I don't think so, if we are to believe arewecompressedyet.com, Daala is on par with x265 quality-wise. But they are now sharing their technologies to make Alliance for Open Media's AV1, the next gen patent free codec. They've been talks about using Daala as a still image codec but I don't know if it's gonna happen or not.
California Does the Right Thing – In the Face of Trump
Quite possibly, but consult professional help if necessary.
I think this needs to be answered by YC