skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This research is obviously bullocks, there were several periods in Earth's history that were a lot warmer than in the current age by a lot more than 6 degrees and oxygen production didn't stop.

For example, temperatures during the Paleocene–Eocene thermal mamimum were 8 degrees warmer than today and by all apperences there was enough oxygen to support the diverse fauna that existed then.

Similarly the Jurassic era had 5 times the CO2 of today's earth and much higher temperatures but also enough oxygen to support a variety of dinosaurs and other fauna 1.

1. http://www.livescience.com/44330-jurassic-dinosaur-carbon-di...
A public servant isn't the only or the best way to contribute to your own country, unless you show a special talent for it of course.

And in regards to my contributions to my own country? I find it rather presumptuous for you to demand mine without providing your own, however I will give them. They aren't much but, at 23, I am still building the foundations.

Most of my time is currently focused on our small company where we have been building a loss prevention solution for rural areas (we are now hiring, practical data scientists and developers in Hampshire, UK. Our stack is C, PostgreSQL, NodeJS, and some Java. If you have the right to work here and want to, send your CV + intro to contact@telemetricor.com . Note that our main website is currently slightly out of date as we have, over the last year and a half, performed a significant pivot into the incredibly useful TelemetriCop system).

I spend portions of my spare time volunteering at a local animal shelter, and managing a debate group, I used to do more but my actual work is now more intense (and I feel contributes more to our society by mitigating the effectiveness of those who seek to detract from it).
These are the same Asian vendors who proudly sell "6000 mAh" 18650 cell batteries, even though no battery chemistry on Earth could get you that energy density. They know it's much less than 2000 lumen, but they don't give a crap about the factual accuracy of the specs. And I think most people who are savvy enough to buy from these sites quickly catch up and learn to divide by 2 or 4 or 10.

Amazon, OTOH, has a bigger problem in this regard since everyone buys stuff there. Fortunately Amazon has a much better reviews/ratings system.
I think CGP Grey ignores the elephant in the room and doesn't account for the metro areas of such cities... And there's the fact the eastern seaboard is one giant city from NYC to DC basically with no breaks between townships.
i actually don't think the Go version is bad. I can very clearly see what is happening and I can also do something with the error
Protectionist policies lead to economic slowdown, destruction of wealth and hurts common consumer. Lessen USA already learned when it first stared at the problem during Japanese Cars invaded US market. An average American is way better off because of Toyota and Nissan than what protectionist nonsense would have done.

Not to mention none of it prevented USA from creating Tesla.

Americans need to be really lot more confident about their place in the world instead of following third world policies of protectionism.
Not really. The fundamental problem is still there where the attenuation is high at certain frequencies in C/Ku/Ka. The way they mitigate it is to use different modulations and code rates in each frame so you don't need to bring the quality of the entire link down due to one user. However, the tradeoff is that the system capacity goes down fairly sharply as a result of this.
Ah yes, "overcrowded". Like the posh restaurant that’s “fully booked”, or the country club that’s “not accepting any new members at the moment”.

If people were really worried about overcrowding, they’d be advocating for a one child per couple policy, not trying to reduce already rather moderate migration figures.
"This problem isn't that hard. You filter this stuff and rank it by its SOURCE, not by the content of individual articles."

I don't think reifying ad hominem into code is the solution to the problem.

Of course, if you don't mind a rare few false positives here and there on articles, I've got your filter right here:

def source_is_trustworthy(source):
return False

Remember as you sit here thinking through your exceptions what we're talking about; if your "trustworthy" source was confidently telling you about how Clinton was going to win, it's not one of the exceptions. I won't say I was confident Trump would win, but I was certainly less suprised than most; the fact that I generated this somewhat more predictive model by tossing out pretty much every "mainstream" news source is not a good sign for them. And to be honest, Trump news isn't the only thing that I find this useful for. Beyond the bare facts, most media outlets really aren't good for much anymore, and do you ever have to de-spin their news just to get those bare facts in the first place. (I can't, however, pack up into a recipe how to do this yourself. I think we're in a period of transition in the news industry, much greater than just "the internet makes the old dinosaurs stumble" makes it sound, and I'm at the moment not really all that confident in anything.)
I didn't vote for either, so I'm well aware of the other options. Most people are not though.
It has nothing to do with popular vote. It has to do with qualifications. EC is intended to keep out unqualified candidates -> As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers,” the Constitution is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.”

And if that were to happen (Clinton victory w/ Trump popular vote win), trump would say the election was rigged and fuel fires to an uprising.
Agreed. Though personally I believe Silicon Valley shares a responsibility - tech companies should encourage more remote work and smaller hub offices in less dense urban areas. It would save them money and help distribute economic gains outside of just the major urban centers.

This was a root cause of Brexit in my opinion as well - all of the UK's best jobs are stuffed into London and London only.
Big dips for solar, carbon, green don't seem to be mentioned.
You might find this article useful:

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/09/hillary-clint...

I found this podcast useful regarding the legal nitty-gritty:

http://openargs.com/oa13-hillary-clintons-damned-emails/
TDD Doesn't Work
Come on. You've highlighted one staff member as having once mentioned having a personal political leaning (like most people do) and that she once worked at a blog with a tarnished reputation and spun that into implying Snopes is untrustworthy. I'm sure you could meet this extremely low bar of "proof" for practically any news organization.

If you really want to present a case of bias, find some real evidence. Specific articles with specific instances of false or misleading information. Otherwise, you're just sowing doubt by casting aspersions based on vague associations.
Overused in what way? Do you have an example of what you mean by that?

I'm having a hard time understanding where using generics would cause problems.

C++ templates, sure, but those are much more powerful than just having parametric polymorphism.
Sorry, I apologize as I definitely was using your comment as more of a general soapbox than directly responding. Upvoted.
> The problem with interface{} is that it makes it pretty much worthless to have a type system at all.

I don't understand this argument. You need `interface{}` about 1% of the time; somehow it's better to have no type checking than only 99% type checking? Even in the 1% of cases, I've literally never seen a production bug (or even a failed test case) caused by a type error. I'm sure they happen, but I doubt they happen so frequently that adding in a generic type system would be a net gain.
> they voted for him out of economic desperation

Right, the people chanting "fuck Islam" and "Sieg heil" [0] at Trump rallies surely cast their votes out of economic desperation.

[0] http://www.nytimes.com/video/us/politics/100000004533191/unf...
Show them the DNC Leaks - they'll inspire trust for the traditional media in anyone.
Will Trump’s Victory Be Silicon Valley’s Wake-Up Call?
Frankly I'm extraordinarily disappointed. I went to aliexpress.com and I don't see anything in their "Today's Deals" that looks anything like a deal. Add in the fact that I'd have to wait who knows how long for shipping and deal with them for an international return and I'd rather buy locally.
I think they're analogous. I bought a CD and could listen to it (but only it) an infinite number of times. So streaming is less time, but more variety.

And per above comment, I don't see people wanting to think about variable pricing (which a market would require) in a streaming context. $.05 to play your playlist this month, $.10 next month, $.02 the next, etc...
tmall is a website like amazon or ebay where sellers can setup a shop and sell to consumers.
> However, I'd say that especially with your takes on current history, we just aren't living in the same reality, and should keep our discussion narrowly focused.
> Or just put it in the ash heap Hillary and Bill are now in ^_^, really, at this point what difference does it make?

Yeah, sure, that's cool. Thanks for keeping things civil despite the topic, nice, interesting exchange (not being sarcastic, I'll add, since it's sometimes hard to tell on the Internet).
First, I did not question anyone's motivations, simply expressed curiosity, because the scientific questions that interest yummyfajitas are so unusual. It was through him that I first learned of contemporary scientific racism, and I am truly and honestly curious about this. E.g., how far do they go? Do they also think we should investigate whether people of Irish descent are more intelligent than people of German descent? If so, what are their hypotheses? Are they also interested in studying qualities like sense of humor? Love of satirical novels? To my ears, someone saying that we must know the truth about whether or not blacks are dumber than whites sounds no less bizarre than someone who says we must know by how much the angle of a cat's raised tail changes after dreaming of mice, and to anyone who asks why this question is of so much interest, they say, "why are you trying to hide the truth?" I think most scientist find a person's (let alone a group's) fascination with such questions of far greater scientific interest and importance than the actual answer to the questions.

Second, I don't know how much you're involved with the scientific community, but every researcher is required to explain their motivation for studying just about anything (at least in the first half of their careers, and even when they're not required, it is something that they're expected to be able to answer when interviewed, for example). That's just how science works. Third, I don't recall making any kind of attack in this thread.
[#es6 #class #proto]
Hi guys. I'm working on a node module and i would like to keep using es6 classes syntax for style consistency but i found this pattern that I can't reproduce:

```
const proto = module.exports = function(options) {
man.opts = options || {};
function cane(sentence) {
man.say(sentence);
}

man.__proto__ = proto;
man.age = 29;
man.say = function(sentence) {
console.log(sentence);
};
return man;

};
```

The strange thing of this function is that I can call it as a standard constructor and get a man with his methods and props but I can also call man as a function and get the same result as calling his method "say".
Basically man('text') produces the same effect of man.say('text');
How can I recreate this pattern using es6 classes syntax?
I believe it. The breaking point is at 40 because the breakdown is in part a sub-conscious negotiation strategy. Like, some folks will get angered by being pressured into washing the dishes, and things magically break and they no longer get pressured into washing the dishes. Similarly, getting pressured into sacrificing your work-life balance can cause the sorts of emotions that are way better for winning those social conflicts than writing good code.
>Will the world come up with a plan to actually curb carbon emissions as much as we need to? Remove carbon?

Not in time. Unless the plan involves some form of genocide. But even genocide probably won't be fast enough without weapons of mass destruction.

> A wide scale rises in temperature and other problems?

That's not really a prediction anymore. The only question here is about the degree to which it rises and what the progression of the rise will look like (better or worse than log(n)?)

> A huge impact on standard of living (setting us back X years)

I think I'm going to start using the "entitlement of living" instead of standard of living here. Much of the western lifestyle seems purposefully wasteful, with planned obsolescence, unreasonable luxury and commitment to wasteful planning (suburbia, etc.) The reduction is inevitable, but the question here again, is of scale and time.

>A near extinction of humans? Full?

A near extinction of western civilization lifestyle. Possible split into 2 subspecies based on education, wealth and deliberate exclusion. I don't believe humans will become extinct on the Holocene scale (tens of thousands of years), but the difference between the current civilization and somewhere, say in 2500 might be staggering. Then again, humans are notoriously bad at planning at long time scales, so the year 3000 might be just as good as now or even better (but with the caveat of, say, vastly reduced population, perhaps of only 200-300 million worldwide)

>Or somewhere else on the scale, or somewhere distinct from my portrayal?

It seems you've made several very different portrayals that cover pretty much the entire scale of possibilities (catastrophic to optimistic).

The good news is this: under status quo we can probably expect to live reasonably well in our lifetimes.
The bad news is: if we want our future generations to live better than us, we have to consciously live much more frugally now and enact changes that might seem horrible and regressive to the current western mentality.

I think humanity is slowly coming to an understanding that the planet really was a zero-sum game all along and that the period of unprecedented wealth and fossil fuel exploitation will come to an end eventually.
The Filter Bubble Ted talk is what motivated me to dump social media.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B8ofWFx525s

Gone are my Facebook, G+, Reddit accounts. I have a Twitter which I curate manually with numerous feeds from all over. I generally look at content like links first then read the Twitter discussion if any.

I treat posting as a personal catharsis anymore, and use throwaway accounts. IMO my online opinions are going to get lost in the crush so why bother curating an identity. One that just creates a signal trail for advertising and snoopers?

I talk to the people in my life more instead. These have been conscious decisions on my part and honestly I think I'm mentally happier and less frustrated "at the world" for it.

MMS is good enough for sharing pics with grandma and grandpa. Though I've asked them to keep most off social media. It's too creepy having the world ogle my kids.

They don't like it but abide. IMO despite being my mom she's old and has less life left than my kids. Nothing to worry about by posting her life on Facebook

My kids on the other hand have their whole lives ahead of them. I would rather it not be broadcast without their consent. If they get older and decide to go all Jayden Smith or Paris Hilton on social media so be it.

But these services are not what humanity needs to progress. They are today's fascination. And I am not into it. So fuck em
The majority (well, technically a minority whos votes counted more) just voted for protectionism. If Trump wants to be more than a 1 term president he needs to at least make it look like he's following through. This is issue #1 for a huge chunk of his support base.
No Google Cloud Storage? It even has an S3 API you could use...
What is this? A fluff piece sponsored by Apple or something?
Don't worry I'm well versed in the better alternatives was just interested in the correlation. And sometimes at a job you have to use tooling you wouldn't necessarily choose yourself.

I like your welder analogy it priceless! Pair piloting works well I heard.
Upgrading our democracy [video]
Stack Overflow is a more appropriate place for this.
> It seems to me they are shooting themselves in the foot with this AMA.

Honestly they are doing this quite effectively for a while now. I'm in support of their cause and I think they got a lot of unwarranted hate against them and they likely don't cooperate with Russia and the leaks are legit (this was also proven due to DKIM signatures), but:

Whoever is in charge is their Twitter account is an idiot. They pandered clearly to the Trump/Alt-Right crowd in a lot of tweets that were clearly partisan. They retweeted Alt-Right accounts and rode happily on the hate train. Some tweets were either stupid or deliberate unclear like that Tweet citing Clinton talked to Jews - likely someone just shortened the name of that Jewish Charity Organisation to which the talk in question was given but the impact and harm was done.

They should know how this works and they could have kept a lot more distanced and calm in their communications. That they didn't manage to do that is a valid reason for some of the hate and criticism they got.

The media just looked at their Twitter and saw partisan cheering and often unclear statements.

I support their cause, but they really harmed - or better: destroyed their public reputation in this election.
If I had been Obama, I would have lowered Medicare eligibility by one year, every year, for 25 years. It's like a three sentence bill. Then I would have hit the golf course.
A cabal of miners can censor transactions. If those transactions are ballots, then all it takes is a cabal of 3-4 people (who run the mining pools) to decide the result of the election.
I just deleted it because honestly, it's not like I'm going to get a real answer anyway. You continue to group people into baskets. Now it's "Americans" and "Fox News", race and class. I was just trying to understand where that comes from. Someday I truly hope to get some better insight as to where the general extremism is coming from. The reality is it's not going to happen in this thread so I was better off just deleting it as opposed to cluttering the discussion for no real benefit.
UN report say that by 2050 we have to actually start draining the atmosphere of CO2 to, maybe, reach the 2 degree Celsius goal.

http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/11/un-report-climate-g...
A Divided and Pessimistic Electorate
Capgras Syndrome in the Digital Age
I like it. I'm a Python dev, so there's this gravity pulling me towards Sublime or wanting to like Sublime more. And, while Sublime is faster, I think I just like the way Atom looks more (a bit cleaner IMO), and I've gotten use to the default keybindings.
It really doesn't matter
Parent comment's question is still there. Why does the site have an HK tld. Unless I'm missing something.
Day 1 in Trump’s America
I think the inverse is actually the truth. "Classic" physiological paradigms have failed only in the sense that that early findings were represented far too simplistically by those who benefitted from simplistic models (pharma companies). No respectable neuroscientist has ever claimed anything even approaching a coherent understanding/model of mental illness.

The discovery of gut/vagus interaction and its direct effects on mental function is simply an extension of the monoamine research. The enthusiasm for gut biome research lies in the fact that it's a relatively new field and may contribute a lot to our understanding of nature vs nurture (heritability vs environment) due to how gut bacteria cause direct and measurable changes to neurological function via the vagus nerve, which (at least in mouse models) directly affects behavior. This research isn't somehow replacing other ideas, but rather acting to supplement and help paint a more complete picture of a very incomplete understanding.

I'm not sure what you're referencing by 'avoiding confrontation...'.
Huh, they took it down recently.

Here's a mirror: https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/WINVote-fin...

and another just in case:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/2167420-winvote-fina...
Yeah, JavaScript speculation/marketing/propaganda/infotainment is much more hilarious.
A humble question --

Had Hillary won, would this post even be on HN?
Gitlab Pages: Create and Host a Static Site for Free
Do you mind linking to where Obama said that? The closest I can find is this: https://www.yahoo.com/news/obama-decries-wild-west-media-lan...

>"We are going to have to rebuild within this wild-wild-west-of-information flow some sort of curating function that people agree to," Obama said at an innovation conference in Pittsburgh.

Why do you think that the curation is going to be done by the government or by government appointed gatekeepers?
For all we know, it could have been Hillary supporters trying to smear Trump. Or any other group that hates Trump, for whatever reason.
The original "bias squad" was not a first amendment issue. Facebook isn't the government (despite their incredible reach).
Nature found a great way to both scrub and sequester CO2, with O2 as a waste product. Unfortunately we haven't exactly been investing in that technology.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation
Heap (YC W13) is hiring engineers to build a new approach to analytics
That's scary. 100% certain? Nothing is 100% certain.

So they can't even say "it's likely to rain tomorrow"? This doesn't seem thought through.
Trump is old, he knows he'll be dead before the shit hits the fan. Guess he doesn't love his kids that much though.
> And good luck finding Haskell and Erlang developers.

Unless you need a massive number of developers, or you're located out in the middle of nowhere, it really shouldn't be too difficult.
And I think those involuntarily committed ("tbs") people, many of whom have effectively a life sentence, are not in the statistics in the article.
`try!(foo)` is roughly equivalent to this (invalid) code:

foo().unwrap_or_else({ |e| return Err(e) })

Or in Go terms:

a := try!(foo)

is equivalent to:

a, err := foo()
if err != nil {
return nil, err
}

Basically it will take the result of foo, and if foo returns an error it will return the error itself.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/beta/std/result/ has lots of examples of alternative ways you can deal with the error case, or the Ok() case of a result.
Were you joking or serious? Cause seriously- this is a good joke, if it's a joke! Otherwise, yeah, it's not a coincidence. ;)
If we want the electors to vote with their conscience, and not blindly accept who won what states (2 candidates coming out of conventions is absolutely NOT what the forefathers intended) then perhaps Ted Cruz or Bernie Sanders still have a very good chance? Otherwise it sounds like the petition is calling for keeping and trusting the system as it has always been, except at the very last moment.
I suspect your average Congressman has never read a single one of those studies but have gotten letters from donors telling them that they want free trade deals.

It's pretty hard to convince someone in Pennsylvania that free trade deals are good for them when the only factory in town just shut down because China flooded the marked with unbelievably cheap steel.
Next Big Language
Yup. There's definitely some Goodhart's Law going on here as well. Micro-optimized KPI targeting is an inexact measure of feeling like ones time on Facebook is valuable.
I remember Fox News doing something similar for one of the elections that Obama ended up winning, although I don't think it was Florida-specific.

I take this behavior as an example of motivated reasoning in action.