skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Based on what? I'm asking seriously.

I have used first-principle, space/time discrete models solving the mass and energy equations related to nuclear reactors and reactor fuel during transients (got my MSME in this area). The climate models are of the same type.

I am not discounting the researcher's expertise but I am skeptical of some of the assumptions and methodology (of what I have read) used to create models that can actually be solved on today's computers. This is a huge constraint and the model designers have to make compromises to fit the problem into today's computational resources. They are trying to model the whole earth. To create solvable models the researchers have to use large space elements (of order 1KM^3) and averaged energy inputs (primarily the sun) to keep the time steps up. Such models are notoriously sensitive to such inputs and assumptions. So I am skeptical that we have not only a complete understanding of the climate but the computer power to do the job and make reliable predictions with any confidence.

In the nuclear business we struggled to get meaningful results from modeling just 15cm of a fuel bundle during a transient. I think the climate is at least an order of magnitude more complex than 15cm of a fuel bundle and we don't fully understand the climate and how it works. In contrast, we had all the design measurements, test data, materials properties of the fuel, cladding, coolant, heat rates, etc as input to reactor fuel models and it was still very difficult.

Regarding test data, the conservation of mass and energy equations only get you so far as there are many physical processes and phenomenon that we don't really understand and that can't be solved analytically (cf. Navier-Stokes equation on the Clay Math Inst. list) and yet the model results are very sensitive to your assumptions and inputs regarding highly non-linear effects like turbulence, viscosity, phase transitions, etc. and their impact on energy flows.

To be clear, I am skeptical but not a skeptic regarding computer models, they have their use. But extrapolating results out decades is almost certainly fraught with error. In the end, eventually man will have to control the climate if we want to survive so I am a supporter (of non-govt funded) climate research. My bigger concern is that the level of scaremongering on this issue is such that a staffer stormed out of a DNC meeting claiming he would be dead in 40 years due to global warming because the Dems lost the election. My fear is that such fears will lead to an environmental dictatorship to force people to sacrifice, not for the fatherland this time, but for mother earth.

> Consider Dunning-Kruger.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12918362
Good points, thanks! I'm not concerned solely with signaling (also important to work with investors with relevant expertise and connections, of course), but I would be more reluctant to do a f/f round if it were going to be taken as a strong negative signal in future rounds.

Appreciate your and brudgers mentioning the personal relationship aspect of taking f/f investments. That's definitely a consideration also.
It would be good if Elizabeth Warren would look into the Clinton Foundation. Make sure things are up to snuff, so to speak.
The point wasn't for these fake accounts to generate revenue. The bank executives knew that Wall Street used the number of new accounts opened as an indicator in their valuation of the stock. They explicitly reported new accounts in their quarterly results. Knowing this the executives pursued policies to boost account numbers reasoning that it would boost the stock price by boosting expectations even though it wouldn't boost revenue.
Ah, ya, must've been after I read it as well. Good addition!
Modern Christmas: how tech upgrades the culture
When I came out of college, some real life examples of people who do not seem to care at all which shocked me:

- CTO of a company I worked for (brother in law of the company director) typed with 2 fingers. No Joke

- Senior Software developer to nullify a list, he just creates a "new list" instead of setting it to "null"
End result from practical point of view is the same. But the lack of computer science insight baffled me.

- Team lead implements lines of code as a tool to measure productivity.
Being a new kid out of school, I felt too young to call bullshit but intuitively, I felt the metric was flawed.
Huge thank you!
I looked at the paste file. It had my gmail address (which is mostly what I use for public stuff) but the password came from only one place: travel.travelocity.com; however that user database is long gone as Travelocity is now just a brand of Expedia so that old account no longer exists. Of course I don't reuse passwords so it's not an issue. I wonder how it got there.
Yeah, KC and much of the middle of the country, there is very little fat in pricing and slow growth. Our first home built in KC was for $145K. Same general concept and performance, but a much more simple/affordable material and finish package. Slim margins for a fledgling company!

We'll work at the higher end for a bit, which can accelerate our growth and allow us to make some leaps with our product and tech.

We'll then be able to come down market and offer home that are much more accessible and honestly have much more positive impact on families and the environment.
Samsung Expands Cash Returns, Reviewing Corporate Structure
Mind telling what RPS stands for? I'm Googling, but can't find anything relevant.
> As an infrequent SO participator, this is somewhat comforting to hear.

I'd assume that people who visit infrequently are better on average than those who visit often because it means you don't have to look things up. Why would you assume the opposite?
A Three Letter Word That Means Untrue
1. I do charge for products — just not the more interesting open-source ones that tend to do well on HN & Reddit. (Also, my income from client web design & writing is probably loosely affected by the success of my blogposts and open-source side projects.)

2. I don’t run ads (at the moment) for both practical and philosophical reasons. (Practical: most of my sites don’t get enough steady traffic to generate much revenue. Philosophical: ads are annoying and I block them, targeted ads invade privacy, and ads are designed to get people to buy things that they (probably) don’t need.

3. I’ve considered affiliate links in that past, but haven’t used them yet: like ads, the benefits don’t yet seem to outweigh the costs. Aside from Amazon, which seems to be the most popular, what affiliate networks would you recommend?
We've spent $2300, reached 140,000 people (according to FB). 11,000 of those visited our website. We also have 7300 likes on our Facebook page which we post to every few days.

$2,300 on marketing is peanuts, so we believe is worth it to be able to directly contact 7,300 people who expressed interest in our business. These people are also liking and sharing our posts.
I have never implemented this but I think they just add a 1 pixel div element at the top of the window and detect a mouseover event.
Simply: a goto never returns while a function call returns to where it was called from.

So specifically in the example above, if you called failure-handling functions instead of using goto's then when the function returned you would continue execution on the next line after the function call. In the example above, that's clearly not what you want.

Now you could add some else's after the function calls to prevent execution from continuing. i.e. to get to the appropriate step in the free_* sequence at the bottom, but that starts to look messy. So I have to admit (not being a goto-lover), the above example reads very nicely.

It conforms to the "gotos might be okay if they only jump forward" rule of thumb I've heard.
Oh man, she must be so bummed about that. The struggle is real.
Wall Street Journal is my favorite. It is obviously pro-business and more conservative, but it doesn't try to hide that fact. I enjoy something that's a little out of my worldview as long as its not trying to be deceptive.
Prison may be a bit harsh.

And in a vacuum, you're right. It would be somewhat unfair to drop the hammer, out of nowhere, on some unsuspecting CEO who just did "business as usual".

But that's no excuse; it just means we need to create a culture where this kind of thing becomes increasingly unacceptable, so that in the future executives will know what's expecting of them, and what the consequences can be.

The "unintended" consequences of unrealistic goal-setting should be patently obvious to anyone who's made it that far in business, and if it isn't, we should make it clear that it's something these people need to start thinking about.

In the case of Wells Fargo, this went on for a LONG time, was well-known, frequently reported on, and had a number of whistleblowers.

The CEO can't know what every last person in the organization is doing, but they should be incented to make it their business to a culture in place that doesn't permit this, nor the blacklisting of whistleblowers.
Your question was most likely rhetorical, but here goes: hga has had a lot of non-political comments on the site as well, and been on the site over twice as long as you have. That's a lot of time to gather karma.

They've been recently called out by the HN mods: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12994342
Given the enormous scale of the fraud, someone should definitely be going to prison. "But my criminal organization is very large and not everything we did was illegal" is not an excuse.
I'm still amused/saddened by how little theoretical work you need to do at Stanford to get a statistics BS (they call it Mathematical & Computational Science). I get it: you don't need a rigorous foundation of math to be useful as a workaday "data scientist". That said, university is probably the last time you get to indulge/immerse yourself in deep, rigorous, mathematical thinking. Not requiring students to take theoretical courses is such a pity.

In hindsight, I am glad that I studied math at Stanford (also I ended up doing something completely different: marketing). It pushed me to think deeply and patiently about a problem at length and taught me how to mix intuition with analytic rigor.

I believe it was Paul Graham who said that math was one of the better subjects to pursue in school because it's one of the most difficult. I kind of agree with pg on this one: I was nowhere near the top of my math classes, but whenever I took theoretical CS or stats classes, I found them shockingly easy and did well with much less effort.
I'm still amused/saddened by how little theoretical work you need to do at Stanford to get a statistics (they call it Mathematical & Computational Science). I get it: you don't need a rigorous foundation of math to be useful as a workaday "data scientist". That said, university is probably the _last_ time you get to indulge/immerse yourself in deep, rigorous, mathematical thinking. Not requiring students to take theoretical courses is such a pity.

In hindsight, I am glad that I studied math at Stanford (also I ended up doing something completely different: marketing). It pushed me to think deeply and patiently about a problem at length and taught me how to mix intuition with analytic rigor.

I believe it was Paul Graham who said that math was one of the better subjects to pursue in school because it's one of the most difficult. I kind of agree with pg on this one: I was nowhere near the top of my math classes, but whenever I took theoretical CS or stats classes, I found them shockingly easier.
> I don't think I'm explaining myself well. Can't the kernel be modified so that manufacturer-specific code can stay in-house?

The kernel is under the GPLv2 so redistributing kernel binaries also requires making source available (that is all part of the "freedom").

The kernel internals constantly change. For example the USB stack was rewritten 4 times. Each time all the drivers etc were converted over. By contrast Microsoft has also rewritten their stack 4 times, but has to retain backwards compatibility for each generation of driver API/ABI, simultaneously!

While in theory it is possible to have a stable API, in practise real life is more complicated. There are concurrency issues, power management, suspend/resume, memory allocation, constantly changing hardware etc. A stable API would result in way less optimal drivers (eg they may consume more memory or power, cause cores to run at higher speeds).

The kernel developers decided they weren't going to have that layer of indirection. Instead drivers will do the one true correct thing (updated as kernel versions change). That makes them simpler, and perform better in the dimensions mentioned in the previous paragraph.

That all said, Linux is fanatical about the userspace API to the kernel being stable. You can implement drivers (eg USB) and filesystems (eg FUSE) amongst other things in userspace. However they won't be as "good" as kernel drivers.

Here is a good post from a kernel developer: http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/stable_api_nonsense.html

To get an idea of what changes in the kernel, check out the LWN page. If you have interest in Linux, I'd recommend subscribing too. https://lwn.net/Kernel/
This con is mind boggling, especially because apparently she swindled _everyone_. It's not like a small group knew what was going on. It seems like no one knew anything but her.
> A capitalist economy is an "empathy vacuum".

That's the problem. [Edit: I think you were trying to say just this.]

Bear in mind, too, that Silicon Valley is one of the few market institutions that's had any degree of public support recently. People are skeptical towards the medical industry, detest politicians, loathe insurance companies, distrust pharmaceutical firms, despise lawyers, fear law enforcement, are disgusted by petroleum, and hate finance with incandescent passion -- all justifiably (although, in fairness, to varying degrees). Until recently, though, Silicon Valley had escaped this opprobrium -- our youth and talent for narrative-weaving shielded us. Those days are ending.
A note to any future startup founders reading some of the broadly skeptical and pessimistic comments on this HN discussion thread:

The people commenting here are not your customers.

For every 1 person posting a snarky comment, there are 100+ simply browsing the gift guide. A few are saying "Hey, that's neat!", and a few are making purchases today or in the near future, either for themselves or as gifts. It's their behavior that you should worry about.

If you think you can make something people want, then please focus on that. Don't let your non-customers discourage you.

(Disclosure: co-founder of https://www.pantelligent.com/ -- one of the products on the gift list.)
> whoever put this together

I posted it but the heavy lifting was all /u/aormiston on /r/pystats:

> I just finished scraping all the required and optional readings (textbooks mainly) from nearly every Stanford undergraduate and graduate level stats course. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1d_MNmIGY7yzrpnStnZqz... I only did the suggested courses for the Data Science track in the MS Stats program. Feel free to do the others and leave links in the comments if you like. This isn't exhaustive (some courses were harder to find than others), so this'll likely be a living document. Feel free to send me anything I've missed or better texts for any subject that I should add to the document. Also, for free technical textbooks, I've found freecomputerbooks.com to be very helpful (despite the fact that it sounds like clickbait). I'd recommend you check that out before shelling out for any of the textbooks listed.
Awesome! I'll definitely check these out.

(Disclaimer: I'm a sysadmin and hobbyist programmer, so my workflow might be a bit different from most.)

The strangeness I saw was mostly in from difficult to follow documentation and the use of gorilla, not necessarily Anglican itseld. As awesome as gorilla is, it's just another new thing to learn. Since I'm already trying to learn Anglican, learning Gorilla and fighting my muscle memory just adds noise to the learning process. It would be nice to have something similar straight within a REPL (similar to how incanter does it with `view`). It's not a problem exclusive to Anglican, though.

That said, the barrier for entry with a lot of Clojure - even the language itself (no, not just its parens) is like that, where frustration is by a thousand cuts.

(After I posted that comment I dug a bit deeper into Anglican and found that I really enjoy it :).)
New here, so not sure about what's okay for filesharing so I just put it on mf: https://www.mediafire.com/?igf84x5vnxaprog
The pain is only in the risk to their pocketbook. Not any other actual risk...
Yes, there are potential negatives if it is abused. Like with literally anything ever created. You have to weigh that against the much larger number of encounters with actual bad people that can be safely avoided. In fact, if that didn't happen, people wouldn't use the app in the first place.
I agree with you, phone companies have developed a planned obsolesce model that is very frustrating. I actually just went through the same process in the opposite direction - I switched from having iPhones to Android. I've heard tales of iPhones staying capable and functional for many years but my experience was that after a year or two there'd be an update that drastically reduced the performance (or rendered it basically unusable which happened 3 times). I suppose the grass is greener on the other side but I'm pleased so far with my switch. Good luck.
> But the idea that he should go to prison for something like this is ludicrous.

Fine. Then the company should get the "death penalty" and be liquidated.

Especially for something like the banking sector where the federal government could replace a bank almost instantaneously, the "death penalty" should get dropped on companies that engage in malfeasance.
Well it is good enough, was just checking. Thanks.
"Microsoft & Linux & Patents & Tweets"

https://meshedinsights.com/2016/11/22/microsoft-linux-patent...
A Phone Call That Links Lee Oswald to Military Intelligence?
I believe it's Revenue Per Sale.
I'd love a case where the buttons connect to the actual iPhone. I dont really need to see the buttons to press them, but the ability to not have tactility and not crowd out the screen like most external controllers would be great.
"Silicon Valley seems to have lost a bit of its verve since the Presidential election. The streets of San Francisco—spiritually part of the Valley—feel less crowded. Coffee-shop conversations are hushed. Everything feels a little muted, an eerie quiet broken by chants of protesters. It even seems as if there are more parking spots. Technology leaders, their employees, and those who make up the entire technology ecosystem seem to have been shaken up and shocked by the election of Donald Trump."

As loathsome as Trump is, I do look forward to having our collective nose rubbed in our collective shit.
CS:App book, from 15-213 at CMU goes well with K&R to teach unsigned/TMIN/Float/pointers at the asm level, gdb, Valgrind to check for mem leaks, compilation gotchas and more. http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/
Look at it from their point of view. If you identify as something other than what you were born as, what is to stop you from changing that from time to time? You may, at a later junction, feel more comfortable with your birth gender.

Thus the option "decline to self-identify" gives you everything you need to say.
Angular 1: Keep those controllers lite
My google search shows that there is an abundance of research into problems with the police culture. That is firmly established.

Your second claim is false. See my reference to the diversity of the ferguson police department. You are simply shown to be wrong on this count.

Also, nobody has said anything about convergence on a single hateful culture, and nowhere is there anything that requires a biased culture of policing to have occurred spontaneously. That is simply a straw man.
This sci-fi show reveals the biggest problem about space travel
I suspect the G&Z agenda is to set up a sustainable model of investment in Africa by western countries. They don't want BIA to lose money because that would scare off investment partners who are more loss-averse. They believe in the long term, the most important thing is for people in democratic countries to engage with Africa and bring it about to their way of life. The collateral damage is that children may not be getting a great education; it may or may not be better than what they would have got otherwise, but it's breaking the old model of cyclic dependency on foreign aid.
People don't care cuz they don't think that it'll ever be forced on them "I don't do anything wrong why should I care?".
Plus they don't think much about the gravity of the situation, John Oliver did a nice take on this in the Snowden interview episode.
Datomic has a centralized transactor serializing what transactions, whereas Blockchain is decentralized. So they are at opposite ends of the spectrum, each trying to solve a completely different problem. Of course "centralized" is much less dramatic.
A Neural Net Responds to the Election
Sein is probably referring to something running quite a bit hotter and likely exciting hydrogen atoms or other expendable fuel sources. I think these might have been looked at for purely interplanetary/solar travel in the past, but written off for the dangers of lifting cargo to orbit (think about the failure cases!) and also the general cost compared to alternatives.

If we had mining in lower gravity well areas (such as the asteroid belt) yielding that kind of fuel it might make a lot more sense.
Unfortunately, and to a large extent why people listen to "open source advocates", the community of security professionals has a surprisingly bad record when it come to things like risk analysis, legal matters, understanding how law enforcement or intelligence agencies work and other ”soft skills”. I trust security professionals when it comes to crypto. Anything else I'm not convinced they aren’t as incompetent as everyone else in software and maybe even more so.
Disrupting the kill chain
This is the most interesting way I been... tricked.
Show HN: Most curious travel tech, made by AI
tl;dr an interview with five mensa members about how they perceive genius and their hi IQ peers. They mostly associate genius with accomplishment or creativity that expands a frontier.
Agreed. Tight-knit communities are by far the best way to market your product/service. Low volume, but high quality if you can pull it off. The catch is that you have to toe the line between being "that annoying marketing person" and someone who's genuinely trying to help out the community. If you aren't trying to help them out, then you'll find yourself being voted out of the tribe very quickly.
Disappearing Clicks
Prison. RICO act for running a large criminal enterprise that defrauded millions. Any other industry fraud at this scale would see the dismantling of the enterprise!
Of course, you might be waiting in the long line if you're not green-lane eligible....
If the maximum penalty is losing one's job, the incentives are aligned towards maximum risk as losses are capped at zero. If prison is off the table, the fines need to be large enough so that the perpetrator loses all of his assets, savings, houses, cars, etc. and has to start again with a used Corolla and a studio apartment, since his Rolodex alone is worth millions.
I'm currently doing my undergrad in math at a Canadian University, I'm interested in pursuing graduate school at Stanford in the future and would love to talk to you more about your experience and what they would expect, let me know if there's anyway I could contact you.