skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm of the unpopular opinion that climate change has the potential to be a net positive for humanity over the long term:

+ Protecting coastal (and some inland) populations against higher water levels will be huge infrastructure projects that will allow us to re-imagine cities, many of which are even now burdened by very ancient designs and infrastructure. This will be a great use of resources that will put people to work on grand and civically engaging projects. Work to be proud of.

+ New coastal land will be created and deserts will slowly re-green, encouraging populations to migrate to and develop areas previously thought worthless. With that we'll have an opportunity to build thoughtful, efficient cities and the infrastructure to connect them from the ground up. Imagine the wealth and opportunities, economic and political, that would be created developing Greenland, Antarctica, or the Sahara.

+ Total potential agricultural output of the world will increase drastically, possibly making food cheaper for all.

+ Human civilization will be forced to recognize that we exist at the mercy of a bountiful Earth, which might make some of those other celestial bodies a bit more appealing.

Of course some obvious consequences will be painful, but I think change isn't automatically bad, and that the best of humanity always comes through during periods of non-violent adversity. A slow but certain and predictable warming of the Earth's climate is just that.
I tend to think that the effectiveness of advertisement and memery really depend on the context. When it comes to something where a choice has direct effects and costs - when buying a plane ticket or an appliance, for example - there is a strong incentive to discern true information and disregard advertising fluff. This is because one's own choice is the determining factor, and a poor choice has clear consequences. But in politics? A single vote is astronomically unlikely to influence anything - so voting is evaluated socially, expressively. Its benefits and costs are what it does for one's self-image, or group membership, or whatever. So there's not much incentive, for nearly everybody, to sort the real from the imaginary when considering politics. That's the kind of environment in which meme magic flourishes, because believing does make it real - real enough for its purposes. This also means that it's nigh-impossible to design or predict success in this sort of information distribution. When your content is made real or unreal by raw imagination and social dynamics, most of it is, I think, a case of people succeeding accidentally and claiming later that that's what they meant to do all along. So it can be powerful - but is almost impossible to control in an organized way.
It's hard to predict with some being less viable alone than others. Over time some sort of reorganisation of states and state borders (perhaps involving war) would ensue.

Best case, you'd have something like the EU. Worst case, something more akin to medieval Europe.

That said I like that Trump having been elected President seems to have gotten people thinking about alternative ways of organising the world.

It seems like we've more or less been coasting along before because things were running kind of smoothly for us.
We don't. Not everyone can be a nobel prize winner. It's okay to be second best sometimes :)
very few devs I know take the time to read these:
- https://docs.angularjs.org/api
- https://facebook.github.io/react/docs/hello-world.html

Docs may be 20, 30, 40 pages long, and out of those only 10 of those may be applicable, but you really can't know until you read them all. Read the manual.
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You'll notice I said that such articles would be reviewed by a human editor, which would prevent this type of abuse.
Agreed, but in democracies a special status is conferred upon the majority. The majority of voters did not vote for this idiot. It's a really important point.
I don't know what city he's living in if that's city thinking. Owning a car, and paying for an Uber equivalent as your regular commute seems like the most expensive and annoying option you could pick, short of using a horse and letting it live in your living room.
>...and gut whole sections of the economy.

And those jobs will now go to Americans who needs a job.
So does anyone know what language he's talking about?
A majority of voters did not vote for Clinton, either.
It's a movie, so I don't take it as an actual claim.

Take it as a creative license to make a point :)
Go to Preferences -> Advanced Settings -> Change Cache Location

It's the VACUUM'ing of the SQLite database in that folder that's the problem. Moving that destination to your other drive should hopefully move the IO with it (I don't have a second drive to test with)
They are trying desperately.
Any wall has costs out of proportion to any reasonably expected benefits and can be reasonably opposed on grounds of fiscal conservatism alone.
> I didn't hear anti-LGBTQ rhetoric from him

Here's a good summary of his position on the topic: http://www.politifact.com/new-york/statements/2016/aug/14/se...

In addition, Pence has a history of anti-LGBT behavior as well.
We also have an open API ;)

http://open-platform.theguardian.com/
We have a kid in New York; we have our own car seat that fits fine in any car, be it an Uber, a taxi cab, or a friend's car.

I also don't really see why you necessarily have to limit yourself to one kid; there are plenty of taxis that aren't small sedans, and most Uberlike apps allow you to sit in the front, so you could pop two kids and a spouse in the back, and ride up front.
Personally I blame it on the left's constant, ruthless beratement and demonization of Christian|white|rural|blue-collar|conservative people. I'm not surprised they pushed back after a decade of bullying in the name of tolerance.
Can you create adhoc types from nothing with RTTI ? because in Go you can, at runtime. Is it what a statically typed language which community claims generics are unnecessary should prioritize as a feature ? runtime magics ? really ?
It's funny: I'd mostly forgotten that particular scene, but the movie is strongly associated with questions of work/life balance in my mind.

Sometimes when I wonder whether I'm getting too carried away with intellectual work, an image comes to mind of Max Cohen standing in front of the bathroom mirror with a drill in hand.
You can't have your (cake) and eat it too.
I wonder how people come up with these pointless, overcomplicated tutorials...
Do you realize that you're basically saying: "shut up with your facts, we've got a way of [easy hipster] living to protect"?
This is sort of starting to remind me of the Reticulum in Neal Stephenson's book Anathem. He talks about how they are constantly checking the reputation of data and only valuing high reputation sources. It's certainly hand wavy but interesting. Life imitating art imitating life.
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I'm a climate change skeptic. I think there are a lot more factors at play than these models are using.

A lot of people seem to believe these models are right more out of fear than a rational validation of the models themselves. On top of that, creators of these models seem to be tripping over each other to come up with more outlandish results.

Part of my skepticism is the timescales that we're working with. Other issues are perhaps a poor understanding of how the earth and everything on it might react to changing conditions.

If I'm wrong, I'm also ok with the weather getting hotter. From a livable land mass perspective, the human race will be much better off with a warmer earth than another ice age.

And finally, how is it that it's currently more socially/scientifically acceptable to believe that matter can travel faster than light than it is to be a climate change skeptic? Science is never settled, unless it's a computer model predicting the future? I hope I'm not the only person who finds that ludicrous.

So here is my prediction: every generation of humans will have their boogeyman, religious apocalypse, nukes, GW, etc... but in the end an asteroid will cause a mass extinction event, just like it has before.
I think the real problem is that most of us spend the first 40 hours of a week on dull stuff and politics and don't learn anything. I think we should fix that first before doing more work in the evening.
Cardiovascular problems aren't necessarily expensive. Sometimes people just drop dead. There's the cost of an ambulance ride and some hubbub in the ER, but that wouldn't make a dent in the amount they paid in.

The real problem with insurance is there are people with long-term, expensive medical conditions who will never, in their entire lives, make enough money to pay for their treatment. That just doesn't work under an insurance model.
The difference is that if I thought the Go style is easier to read/debug I couldn't prevent you from writing it in the complex one-liner way.

The go way is a little more verbose/uglier but we are both going to do it in the same way as will the 30 other developers working on the project.
This is basically impossible given the current and near future state of the art.

The Allen AI group has been working on solving year 4 multiple choice science tests for about 3 years. They now score a bit over 60% correct, and that is a much easier task.
The same way you use a regular car or taxi - our car seat, at least, can be safely installed in a car with a seatbelt without the need for a base.
...and I can't help but read it in his voice.
This is absolutely the right answer, but maybe Facebook can do some things to help. It's possible to gamify the process of learning to spot biases by presenting people with situations and getting them to think critically to solve the biases or fallacies. Especially on Facebook, people love filling out questionnaires that tell them something about themselves.

I'm not saying that one smart game is going to fix the entire problem, but adding the development of logic skills into the types of activities that people enjoy doing on Facebook is definitely possible.
But consider that the Rust does not have null, so every case where you need to step over the code and see if it does the right thing when value is null does not need debugging!
The folder isn't as large as the IO usage makes it out to be. The entire PersistentCache directory is only ~104MB on my drive, even with >300GB written in the last few days
It's astonishing that, in just 6 weeks 155 people contributed. (1.12 was September 29th)

Rust sure seems to draw a lot of enthusiasm.
Oh sure, the painkillers themselves are cheaper, but the painkillers plus hospital care plus other medicines &c. will not be cheaper than poison (or just a heavy one-time dose of painkillers).
Trump said he's "NOT going to try to overturn it. The Supreme Court have already ruled, so let's leave it be."
> You don't need to do this anymore. She lost. We're all suitably punished already.

There's a lot to talk still about her e-mails and Podesta's; specially the latter's where we've found truly vomit-inducing stuff that demands an investigation. Law doesn't end with the elections, and that goes for both candidates, with President-elect facing the Trump U case later this month as well (for which I believe there was no wrongdoing, but it is up to the law to determine that).

> like for example explaining how Trump isn't going to enact racial cleansing

Okay I'm going to entertain your headcanon for a second here and ask you what led you to believe the guy is going to enact racial fucking cleansing.

> or set environmental protection rulemaking back 20 years

I disagree with many of his stances on the environment actually. But he's not going to tear down any nuclear plants and substitute them with coal either. Until China entertains the idea of going green you won't be solving any problems anytime soon by killing your economy for small gains. If anything's gonna get us anywhere regarding this problem, it's solar's constantly increasing ROI.
This is a tough position for FB. No matter what they do, half of the the world will think the actions they take are wrong. Most humans are intelligent enough to know that stories like Hillary Clinton running a child sex ring (or whatever) are false. People choose to share these because they want to believe it or think it's funny. As they say in their mission statement "Facebook’s mission is to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected." it is a commendable mission but it's also a messy one. I think inevitably they will have to do something. Maybe some kind of "truth barometer" on stories that attain a certain volume of engagement. At least then they can say "look! we're trying" without taking away the people's right to troll. In this particular election though I doubt anything would have helped. The winner has been openly trolling for years, his direct actions set the standard for truthfulness much lower than ever before.
I'm going to get some minor details wrong, but bear with me:

* Virginia is 1 of 4 states who's state constitution takes away the right of felons to vote. I'm going to be a bad person and just assume this was part of Jim Crow era laws to make sure less African Americans could vote, but I have not researched the subject.

* Before 2013, if you committed a non violent felony in Virginia and had fulfilled all parts of your sentence, including serving time and probation and fines and restitution, two years later you could apply for a certificate giving you the right to register to vote.

* In 2013, Virginia governor McDonnell issued an executive order that got rid of the two year waiting period. I've read this affected about 100,000 potential voters.

* In 2016, Virginia governor Terry McAuliffe issued an executive order that made the restoration of the ability to register to vote automatic, no certificate needed. His order covered violent and non violent felons. It didn't change the fact that the governor could just individually restore the ability to register to vote to someone who had completed their sentence. It just made it easy and automatic.

* Due to some screwup somewhere his order somehow restored the voting rights for several child molestors still in prison, and a few serial killers who had serial killed in Virginia but were serving a sentence in a different state. I guess. I'm not sure how that worked. I can't imagine a child molestor in prison trying to register to vote.

* The Virginia state supreme court overturned the governor's order.

* In Aug 2016, McAuliffe vowed to individually restore the rights of each individual ex-felon by hand, but by using an automatic signing machine. He claimed he had signed 13,000 so far, and said he could conceivably cover 200,000 more people.

There are some voter advocacy groups who think you should have the right to register to vote after you've completed your sentence, regardless of fines imposed on you by the state.

I took some of the above info from the Washington Post ( NOT THE WASHINGTON TIMES )

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/mcaul...
That is something that should have been explained by the media.

I even have a headline for it: Stop Global warming or your kids won't have grandsons.

Now we've got one year less to stop this mess.
No, he is saying, you need to pace yourself. Don't burn out in your twenties. Most of you won't make your life better by working 80 hrs/week but you make life worse for a lot of people.
How far along is the effort for efficient code reuse (such as filling the gaps of lack of inheritance)?

I.e. this:

* https://github.com/rust-lang/rfcs/issues/349

* https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/31844

Is it something coming soon, or it's pretty far still?
$2800 on a laptop with only 16GB RAM that you're going to run linux on anyway?

If you're going to run Ubuntu, why not get a Lenovo for much less and with notably better legitimately "Pro" specs?
Yeah, now if only they could make it not crash and leave me with a 0 byte file after I've done 3 hours of work on it, I'd really appreciate it.
needs a sense of humor but the right kind of humor. "shit" too edgy.
I share your unpopular opinion. These things don't happen overnight and nothing is static.
You've just placed yourself in the worst possible company.
Unfortunately, entropy is a harsh mistress. Enzymes are catalysts and cannot do anything to change the equilibrium of a system. RuBisCo is the enzyme in autotrophs that fixes carbon dioxide into organic compounds, and that is a process that decreases entropy (two molecules form one). Increased temperature disfavors reactions that decrease entropy, and diminished dissolved CO2 further inhibits rate of carbon fixation.
I agree with your point that we terribly undervalue non-financial contributions, but I think you're wrong to put intelligence and kindness at opposite ends of a scale. I've never seen anything to suggest that they're not orthogonal.
That's true, but people have been swimming, boating, and sailing for thousands of years before those equations were invented. We can develop an intuitive sense for that, because we have direct and visible interaction with those fluids.
After the 2000 election the yongest bush's company created the new voting systems in Florida and ohio. Check who sits on diebold's board.
> Since when is powerful reflection a drawback or a sign of a broken language?

When it is not balanced by an expressive type system, it becomes a cop-out where anything goes,including creating adhoc types at runtime ( reflect.StructOf() , reflect.SliceOf() , ... ), because it's the only way to get a little bit of expressiveness of out that language.
At one point Linus's machine of choice was a Macbook Air.
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>To black people? Losing the right to vote.

What? What policy is this?
As someone points out Copernicus was not killed. And it illustrates the problem of FB putting its finger on the scales. Ever.
A lot of Germans didn't do too badly out of Kristallnacht either. If you think that putting people in camps and spitting up families is a good way of lowering unemployment then, well, we will soon see how that works out. I hope that you will be held accountable for your views when the US returns to sanity.
You're assuming a lot here. The entire planetary biome was vastly different during the periods you mention. Your assertion hinges on the assumption that either phytoplankton were the primary source of atmospheric oxygen during these periods, or that modern phytoplankton can in fact withstand these changes in temperature and continue to make oxygen. Neither assumption seems to be well founded.
Here's a link to watch a sample game.
https://halite.io/game.php?replay=ar1478810998-2218848485.hl...
To a certain extent. House elections being every 2 years is a migraine that never ends. House members of both parties fundraise like crazy, and they're constantly dialing for dollars. This means they're constantly a target by the opposing party. Certainly if House members did not have to spend so much time watching their backs, dialing for dollars, and campaigning, it might help.

Curiously the Senate has something of a more collegiate body, even by those who despise one another, they tend to be more polite and respectful behind the scenes. I think this is because they know they have six years to drag things out, fundraise, and build relationships.
I think I may adjust my point to suggest that financial gain is orthogonal to kindness. Thank you for your insightful comment.
I think it's a great idea. Every asset not being put to use, is similar to hoarding cash under the mattress - a waste of capital.
[Citation needed]?
It has a huge timer in the front page stating that the deals starts in about 11 hours from now.
It's a parable, not a claim. Since it's unknown whether he was married, just suppose he does. Then you can tell a story where the moral depends on him being married.
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But even if 80 weeks ends up with only a 50 hour per worker per week extra benefit, because everyone is paid salary and it doesn't cost the corporation an extra penny to make people work 80 hour weeks, there's not any incentive for them not to push for it, unless people quit, but when you're working 80 hour weeks it can be hard to find the energy to hunt for a new job (and people start feeling like they have to do it, because whatever bullshit reasons have been provided), so people don't punish the employer by quitting anywhere near as much as they should.
Specialization would only be one piece of the puzzle, and as you can see, it's not in stable yet.

All of the bits are still too far out to give a good estimate of.
What about http://libmill.org ? There are also numerous other programming environments with similar constructs.
So much misinformation about Trump. One of the reason why it's hard for people to understand the election result.
Yup. But at a more core level, the real problem is that what we want to know isn't what we should know. The two ideally would be equivalent. The solution for this problem is personal wisdom, and hopefully the shock that people are feeling regarding this election's results will produce a bit of wisdom for us all. :)
well articulated and concise explanation. Thank you.
Your comment is missing the link to the snopes article that's wrong.
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Exactly, sorry - should have explained this. While aliexpress etc. are similar to Amazon marketplace, the tmall.hk site is geared towards trusted, foreign brands and big shops. You can setup a very distinctively looking shop, maintain your brand and standing out completely from the surrounding hosting site.

You are not allowed to open a tmall.hk shop unless you are a globally recognized brand or a shop that makes at least xx million € of revenue a year, its more or less invite only. Its a premium platform.

The reason Alibaba did this is that chinese people don't trust their own brands and shops, so for certain goods where safety is important and luxury goods they flock to foreign brands.
Having our votes counted equally with everyone else's isn't an unfair advantage. Not that regional inequities are the only reasons the EC is opposed. The fact that it is a strong positive incentive for states to disenfranchise the locally unpopular (because every citizen disenfranchised in a state increases the relative power of other citizens in that state, nut not those in other states, in national elections) is another.

The historical fact that it was one of many measures in the original Constitution (several of the other of which have since been abandoned or expired) designed to thwart democracy in order to protect slavery is another.
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Having uninstalled Facebook from my phone and being too lazy to login on it from my primary computer (2fa) I only look at the feed maybe once every other day. Amazing how much better it is. Relevant and interesting stuff from real friend I care about, no junk. I can recommend that to everyone.
For a while a Macbook was the best Windows laptop. Not sure if that's still true.
Apple, maybe, actually fights for your privacy, while Lenovo definitely exploits it for money.

Is there a secure enclave chip in Lenovo? Do you really trust their firmware?
All previous models were compatible out of the box.
Plurality, then.
Isn't that only necessary because rust doesn't have exceptions ?
>Workforce automation created millions of unemployed people in places far away from economic hubs, with no hope of employment in their hometowns or re-skilling for the new roles, leaving them desperate.

So did the Industrial Revolution.

We may mock the Luddites for breaking the Jacquard looms. But do you know what the punishment for frame-breaking was? Execution.

The Industrial Revolution made way for the tertiary-sector economy. When the tertiary-sector economy becomes redundant, what is next?

There are no politicians talking about this.