skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a geological timescale we are in a cooling trend, but what non-biased source grants credence to the idea that CO2 and Methane aren't warming things right now in greater amounts?

It seems entirely reasonable that anthropogenic climate change is a bigger deal than ice ages and we could prevent one.
> epicylical theories (...) happened to be completely incorrect.

They weren't completely incorrect. There are two aspects you want to look at when evaluating those models. The first is their predictive power, which was the best for the times, and better than the stuff Galileo proposed[0]. Which made Galileo's model incorrect in this regard. The second aspect is explaining the model in terms of more basic laws - this they did not do at all, and nor did Galileo's model. The required theories that allowed to derive heliocentric model from first(er) principles were only formulated later by Newton, which only then invalidated the geocentric models.

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[0] - from mathematical point of view, all models that give the same results are equally correct; the only thing one cares about is which one is simpler / more useful for you.
interesting. I wonder how automated traffic cameras/redlight ticket systems would impact that? I suspect most people "squeeze" into the intersection to avoid the next cycle, because they dont see a traffic cop around. if all intersections are photo enforced, you'd think that problem would go away (or at least, citations would go up enough to fund some better traffic control/flow solutions)
What WHATWG HTML is valid changes, say, every weak. If you want something official that does not change what valid HTML is every now and then better go to the W3C. ;-)
Technically it has, but only for unencrypted communications and without cooperation from internet companies. Which they really want to change with all the new laws and everything.
Two days ago I received an email from a recruiter at http://sourced.tech/ mentioning they had analyzed my open source contributions and they had a position that matched me. It looks like source{d} brags about scraping personal data from sites for recruitment purposes.

The problem is the email they used is not publicly facing in my Github account, but it _is_ the login email that I use for Github. I never got the "Have I Been Pwned" email, but this is very concerning to me, I keep this email very private.

Coincidence?
My point is automatics have better fuel consumption than manuals. Especially the newer 8 speeds.
> You rarely see Unix apps re-creating files: there you instead you specify the behaviour in case the file exists with the flags of the open(2) call.

I think your lack of knowledge about this problem is betraying you. This is outright wrong. First, look up CreateFile() in Windows; it has flags to specify things like this as well. Second, the reason programs delete files in the first place has nothing to do with the lack of such flags. It has to do with the fact that they want to write new contents but don't want to lose data in the event of an abnormal termination. If you truncate the file that you're opening instead, then you lose that data if something goes wrong. So they create a new file and replace it with the old one when it's written.

Finally, as far as I know, 'nix tools have a tendency to outright replace files MORE than Windows tools do. That's why the underlying Windows kernel API function (NtCreateFile/ZwCreateFile) has a FILE_SUPERSEDE parameter... whose entire intention is to mimic POSIX behavior:

> The CreateDisposition value FILE_SUPERSEDE requires that the caller have DELETE access to a existing file object. If so, a successful call to ZwCreateFile with FILE_SUPERSEDE on an existing file effectively deletes that file, and then recreates it. [...] Note that this type of disposition is consistent with the POSIX style of overwriting files.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff...
No kidding, definitely an "oh shit" email.
The entire article provides reasons why the companies are incentivized to inflate the prices, because those prices are used in contracts which affect them. Asbridge is either not aware of this aspect of the incentives in his industry, which would imply incompetence (whether this is a minor incompetence or a gross incompetence, I don't have the knowledge to say), or he's not speaking carefully. He might actually think that the companies don't have a GOOD reason to provide false figures, but not that they don't have ANY reason. If he's not speaking carefully, then he may be specifically minimizing concerns about the figures to the benefit of the industry he's regulating.

Since he's a political actor, and we know that regulatory capture exists, this could call into question whether it's appropriate for him to continue being a regulator. That's the argument.
> Will the citizens allow it to be passed if they knew about it via some news source?

The answer is yes, unfortunately. The government in question has a history of terrifying it's citizens into passing legislation. "Shock Doctrine".

Similarly in the United States, people very willingly accept legislation that erodes civil rights because they are frightened and because the purpose and scope of the legislation are obscured.
One of my favorite design mantra's is "Design dissolving into behavior." - Naoto Fukasawa.
Re:

> Fixing known bugs is also a kind of continuous maintaining of a standard (this is what the W3C and other standard bodies do).

And:

> Fixing bugs and publishing errata is common for standards. The wording implies that this is something the W3C does not do.

There are countless W3C specs that don't have errata kept up-to-date, and, hell, the 5.1 errata is just <https://github.com/w3c/html/issues> (if they fix a bug in 5.2 drafts, will they keep the issue open so it continues to appear on that (paginated) list of issues or not? because both options seem terrible!). Similarly, the W3C almost never issues revised recommendations to incorporate errata, which means even for specs where there have been no errata for years you have to cross-reference two documents.

Another example is CSS 2.1, which doesn't have errata published any more: they're just fixed in the editor's draft of 2.2, and left to linger in the 2.1 Recommendation and errata.

For plenty of W3C specs the only "errata" is an editor's draft of the next revision.
In this comment thread there are many people who did not read the entire article to its conclusion, and then also failed to read the many comments about the very last and very important bit at the end of the article.

There ought to be like a "didn't read the article" link next to the comment people can click to quickly bury those comments. It would avoid people having to reply again and again to say the same thing that commentator could have just learned had they read the article. Especially, you know, this bit:

> Remember: There’s a reason we gave the %localappdata%\lxss\ folder ‘hidden’ & ‘system’ attributes

There are multiple comments in this thread right now with that line in them.
Another LIBOR-style scandal. This asking for an unverifiable number from people with an interest in that number being high is an ideal vehicle for collusion. If yesterday's average turned out to be higher than the number you reported yesterday, just up your number to the average. If you feel the market can bear a price rise, just up your number well above the average for a time and see if everyone follows, then lower your number the closer the average gets to your ideal number. The only risk you take is that to push the average up enough that others adjust, you take the risk of reporting a price high enough to attract attention - but if companies trade off on leading the charge, it just looks like a high variance. Each supplier has a different set of contract relationships, so any short-term variance could be rationalized.

In the end, it works out like a perfect continuous democratic system for price-fixing.
Something like a forced check if it's a linux file, open in read-only, save in dynamically created relevant windows directory so it's easy to find when you're on linux.

You're right, it should be easy.
Short of literally removing admin access to the box, how would they go about fixing this?
I can second "Deep Work by Cal Newport" the man gives some great insights and actionable advice on how to consistently get into the zone as a programmer and produce great work.

I've gifted it twice already.
But the engine can be surrounded by a lot of SOFT components which cause deceleration. What happens is that the outer layer will give way and the other cars will not be harmed in this deceleration. ESPECIALLY since I imagine most of the collisions will actually be glancing or scraping ones. This is strictly better than a real hard outer shell as now.

I guess the reason they haven't done it is that humans are required to be inside the car for now.
Carbon sequestering is not as hard as it would seem. We have several technologies, but we can also just plant trees.
That's a fair point. Go was not designed to be used to write libraries-- so much so that the language didn't even have support for dynamically loaded libraries for a very long time. (I'm not sure if they ever implemented their DLL proposal that was out there for a long time... I'm too lazy to check now.) The idea was you would write AWS-style microservices rather than using libraries.

In general, "turducken" designs are awkward and difficult to debug. Ask someone what a joy debugging or writing JNI or CPython code is some time. People often prefer "pure" libraries even when the performance is a little worse. C is the king of libraries awkwardly jammed into existing programming languages, but it's a dubious crown to have. Rust is trying to break into this space, but I'm not sure whether it's really a space worth being in.
Very true re: RNG seed.
With government subsidies, you might say that the cost of chicken has been artificially kept low.
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And also the original MacOS font, Chicago!
Ah, yes. The US, where you don't have so much surveillance... but cops can just take your money because they feel like it. British police also follow the Peelian principles, so they do fewer things like send SWAT teams to batter down people's doors and point guns at innocents.

I'm not really seeing how US government application of authority is better than the UK's on the basis of a vocal citizenry.
So the assertion is that Russian intelligence services cannot thwart encryption, including the encryption that it standardized for civilian use?

If this were true, I would feel very comfortable speaking about politics in Russia, as in the United States all consumer-grade encryption is being broken by our intelligence services.
Thank you for your comment.

It is regrettable that funding systematically favors for-profit research. I tried looking for the sources of funding Valter D. Longo used for his papers because I doubt he didnt use any government grants, especially after you iterated the challenges calorie restriction research faces. Unfortunately my superficial search didnt find it and I cant spend more time at the moment.
This is also what comes to mind when comparing the giant touchscreen in a Tesla Model S to the haptic buttons and knobs in most other premium brands.
Especially when driving, touchscreens just seem an inferior way to interact with the systems.
Exactly. Most file systems have an atomic move, that you can leverage into an "atomic write".
Yeah your the third person today to say that to us. We checked it was working outside with direct download link at https://secfirst.org/fdroid/repo/umbrella.apk. As far as we can tell there is an issue with F-Droid build but our devs are looking at it at the moment to see can we solve from our side.
Counterexample: XML 1.0, which is currently in Fifth Edition:

> https://www.w3.org/TR/xml/

(click under "Previous versions" to go to older editions).
think he was responding to:

>> Meat in general is expensive these days

not the other part
Classic IT short jokes collection
Sure. For example, WHATWG has recently removed scoped styles from HTML (don't know if this change made it into W3C's HTML 5.1), and probably for a good reason. Now you could say scoped styles were never in a published "standard", and rightly so; but that's kindof the problem, because WHATWG never publishes or commits to anything. Say you have contractual obligations to deliver HTML; had you used scoped styles, you're now in for some extra work to replace it with something else.
>> Natural variability is quite boring

After protecting the earth from the giant meteors (at least at the end not a single one hit the earth) we need some new disaster porn.
Actually it's fairly common when making changes within a file, especially a text file, to read from one file, write the changed data stream to a new file, then do an atomic rename of the target file to the name of the source file.
JDK download links are only available via HTTP
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It's using the default database (the filesystem) for it's configuration in that instance.
Representative Democracy yeah. The people voted in Trump who now gets to appoint those positions.
I'm wondering if they used an alternative or none at all. My smartphone would be much less useful without a cloud service.
as if they're smart enough? they're the ones who put this guy in charge in the first place and filled the house and senate with deniers as well.
You are right, English is almost useless in Russia.

It IS useful if you work in IT and have to read docs, but basic English is enough for that.
Yes trees are a perfect solution. They've optimized this process through millions of years of evolution. However, we're still removing more trees than adding them per year. Quite impressively so, even. It takes time for forests to grow. A lot of its carbon sink properties are because of soil succession, which takes decades to mature.
I had a system76 laptop with ubuntu pre-installed and still had nothing but problems. I've tried a myriad of laptops (always with hardware that's supposed to play well with linux e.g. intel graphics/wifi etc...) with linux (as well as every distro under the sun), and while some definitely worked better than others, every single one had obnoxious game breaking issues/bugs (suspend/resume being occasionally unreliable being the most common, even on 'linux compatible' machines).

My system76 laptop also had an obnoxious firmware bug (that seemed to only effect linux) with the media keys that they basically told me they couldn't do anything about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52TaFzCDDkA

Linux desktop environments and software also have serious QA issues in general IMO. When running linux on the desktop I found myself spending more time reporting bugs than actually using my computer. I really enjoyed tinkering with linux, but when it comes to day to day use (particular on laptops) I found that the quality and reliability just wasn't there.

I ended up running windows on my system76 machine and eventually moving to a macbook air.

Maybe I'll try again in a few years :(
I have to agree with you there. I've always used the 80/20 rule for prioritizing immediate fixes: If I have to take a support call from more than 20% of the people I hae deployed my software to (and in some cases, this may amount to one customer), then whatever the circumstance is, it's treated as a high priority bug.

That said, Windows Subsystem for Linux is beta and they went out of their way to make that clear -- going so so far as to put (beta) in the Add Features dialog. And this was the right move, IMO. Such a small percentage of their user base use this feature -- it's targeted at us and we're used to dealing with beta problems. They hit a large enough number of users to test the feature thoroughly, while managing expectations that it's not ready for prime time, yet.

> "Silly users, stop trying to do things we didn't plan for you to do!"

Yep, that's pretty much it. But in the context of a beta product, it's more "Here's something we are getting large numbers of reports about while we're refining the software for production release. In the meantime, don't do this."

Now, if they release this production with that limitation and nothing to prevent you from destroying your data if you modify that folder, that'd be a major oversight, but I have a feeling that'll be resolved. My hope would be that you'd be able to mess with these files using whatever tool you wish, but even adding a dialog to Explorer, and an error in PowerShell/Cmd that catches you trying to do something that'll break the subsystem would be an improvement.
Tell us your best!
My experience with cygwin never "Just works". WSL needs to hit a much higher bar if they are going to seduce the people who use macOS because it's a better linux.
It was a bit tongue in cheek, but pretty much most of the "mainstream" media discredited itself in this election, there is really no single source of information you can trust. Journalists have become cheerleaders, instead of of investigators/reporters. This is probably caused by heavy concentration of media ownership in the hands of 6-7 major corporate conglomerations.
Or more responsible. We don't know anything yet.
Correct, which is different than the "metaphor to the real world" comment that I was responding to.

That heading is in summary, and it doesn't contradict the part I quoted.
Do you remember the hue and cry when deleting things from efivarfs could brick your machine, and it was somehow systemd's fault for making these files available and not locking out end users for their own protection? https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/2402
Your reasoning is invalid. It would be just enough if systemd supported
syslog, with a mechanism for buffering logs initially until the syslog starts,
which systemd already needs and has anyway. It was not a choice between new,
custom service and making things complicated by supporting every possible log
service.

It's not modularization. It's scope creep in pure form.
No thanks, I'll apply my own standards to what I write thank you very much.
Ancient global warming suggest dinosaurs died of a double disaster
Scratch that.

I was looking for the wrong about:config value. While you can't have private browsing mode be the default, it is in fact possible to enable tracking protection outside private browsing mode, so you can get these same benefits (privacy.trackingprotection.enabled in about:config).

Wish this would be exposed in the UI settings.
Not just diabetes, it appears to enhance the efficacy (such as it is) of cytotoxic chemotherapy as well.

Not sure how someone would actually file an infringement lawsuit for not eating, though. This therapy has a little tiny bit of prior art (e.g. several hundred million years).

Patent applications and prosecutions are difficult, much more difficult than I think most realize. Try it yourself (be sure to have at least a spare $13000 lying around) and come back in a year or so with your scars, if you're one of the folks randomly sniping about the process. It's far, far, far from perfect; but it evolves (see for example Myriad, Prometheus, and Alice for important recent cases) and the worst mistakes do get corrected.

JMHO
>Turnout was lower for both the D's and the R's

Could this not be because Clinton was wildly unpopular? Even more unpopular than she was during the primaries?

>Sanders wrote an essay that stated women fantasize about being raped by three men simultaneously.

This was in 1972, and he apologized for it. But I think the context is important. He was writing about shifting gender roles and unity between genders:

http://www.snopes.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/sanders-ess...

He starts the essay off with 2 ultra-stereotypical examples of an extremely dominant man and an extremely submissive woman, then goes on to mock the ideas of dominant men and submissive women. Crude, yes, but he elaborates the point via allegory if you read the whole essay. It's a pretty bad essay by any measure, but it's not sexually charged or sexist at all, in my opinion.

>Sanders is not only a supporter of, but personally profits from, a scheme to transport toxic waste from Vermont and dump it in Latino communities in Texas.

I'd urge you to read some of the counterpoints here: https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Bernie-Sanders-ushered...

I'd also suggest that there is absolutely 0 evidence that this was racially motivated in any way. I significantly doubt that Sanders, a lifelong proponent of civil rights for all minorities, picked the town because it was 2/3rds Latino or that that had any factor.

I agree the media perhaps should have covered these issues more, but compared to Trump's and Clinton's scandals, I think they're basically nothing.

All that said, I agree Clinton beat Sanders fairly. I think the DNC did unethically collude to help Clinton and marginalize Sanders, and I think the superdelegate system should be removed, but she would have won either way.

I think it's very unclear if he would've fared better against Trump than Clinton did. I don't really think any of us could make such claims one way or the other. That said, if he's still around to run in 2020, I think he'd have a serious shot.
Yes I think any new system would have to see the old one grandfathered (give the current incumbents time to find something useful to do instead of jetting off to conferences all year).

Browsers/OS would be reasonably easy in most circumstances, but there are embedded devices, load-balancing configurations, other esoteric uses for DNS (text records, mail etc) that'd have to be considered as well.
It comes down to the DOD having a serious talk with Trump. They have been taking it just as seriously as the EPA.
Are you sure none of the commits on any of your repos accidentally have the author email as the private one you login with?
> whose video was supposed to be published but I can't find?

Keep in mind that while videos of the destruction are entertaining - and and possibly useful for education and peer review - they prove nothing. You shouldn't trust Zcash significantly less because they haven't been released yet - if that'd make you trust Zcash more, you're probably not thinking carefully about how fundamentally based on trust the whole process was. I'm one of those six individuals, and the simple fact is it would have been trivial for me collude with the other five to backdoor the process undetectably; if we did that you would never know. End of story. (and sorry, but the video footage of the ceremony that some stations apparently kept doesn't change that either)

Also remember that everyone ran the exact same software - a bootage DVD image - and that software was produced by one guy the day prior to the ceremony. I hear Andrew Miller successfully reproduced the build of that DVD image, but there's a lot more independent auditing work that needs to be done on that software. Until that work is done by multiple independent people, the entire multi-party aspect of the ceremony is just a bunch of crypto hocus pocus that means nothing.
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