skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you ought to keep an open mind and realize that skepticism is healthy, not "brainwashing" as you call it.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/georgemonbiot/2010/f...

If you show evidence contrary to the "consensus", you get labeled as a practitioner of "voodoo science" by the IPCC, such as when Indian researchers reported that the IPCC study on Himalayan glaciers disappearing. Oops turns out the Indians were right after all.

Examining claims made by climate scientists is no different than examining claims made by physicists or chemists. I have seen examples of the "models" being manipulated or wildly inaccurate in climate science. There's a large monetary incentive to produce climate science research, and a large amount of the process (IPCC) is controlled by politicians and their appointees.

It's ripe for abuse and we need to stay vigilant, because every solution that's come out of these groups has been cap-and-trade and carbon taxes, both of which are total garbage solutions that just result in govt. taking more of our money. If we were really serious, we'd be funding the crap out of fusion power research. Fusion is the only way imo, the current renewable energy approach is too slow to advance, too inefficient, and too resource intensive. If we could get that working, we could power the planet on a bathtub of water and we wouldn't have to waste time and massive resources blanketing the planet in solar panels.
Unfortunately, there's an incredibly huge gap between "loss of coastal regions" and "Earth becomes a second Venus"

And you are basing this on what, exactly? Because the answer right now to that question is "we don't know how huge that gap is". And we do not have a second Earth to test your theories on. Are you really willing to take the risk of assured doom based on your belief that "the gap between now and assured doom is incredibly huge"?

Here's the thing with dynamic equilibrium: it is only locally stable. We do not know how exactly how resilient our ecosystem or our planet is to rapid changes. Some of us are not willing to find out, because we only have a single destructive test at our disposal.
Yeah, this is almost entirely a press release for the NRDC. I tried digging into it some more, and this seems to be the most informative news piece I could find, although it's from August:

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-computer-efficiency...

Still not super informative though.

Back in March of 2015, over 70% of laptops already met the proposed standards.

http://www.energy.ca.gov/releases/2015_releases/2015-03-12_d...

The way the desktop power issue is described, it sounds like you'll just be seeing more Bronze and Silver rated power supplies in desktops, and that's about it.
No, it's like doing relief efforts with Katrina
Except that's not what happened. GitHub-flavoured Markdown was pretty widespread before CommonMark arrived.

Also the problem with his "original specification" is that there isn't one. There's a description that demonstrates the basic syntax and a buggy implementation in Perl that isn't being maintained.
The major advantage PandwaRF has over an RTLSDR is that it also can transmit. The RTLSDR's only receive.
How virtual reality increase motivation and collaboration in the classroom
A hundred years ago maybe
An insurance claim and/or lawsuit, no different than a delivery driver or truck "failure" and resulting traffic accident.
In short:

Mindless mathematical laws encode all kinds of patterns.

Our brains also encode patterns in them. These patterns mirror the outside world.

Once your brain models "the state of the world" it can also model the configuration space of the world: the ways things could be.

An aim or intention is an ordering in that configuration space. "I could have many things for breakfast; what I'd prefer is X" is an ordering on your internal representation of breakfast-space.
Insurance doesn't work that way. Liability isn't an ephemeral concept, it's the chance of a claim X the amount of a claim, pooled in a group of buyers with differing risks. The relative cost of insurance compared to an autonomous vehicle should increase, but not the dollar amount.
Good point; we'd definitely need a standard. Thankfully, [CommonMark][1] has been in development a while now, and features a complete, unambiguous spec, reference implementation, and test suite.

A little more work on that to get it to version 1.0 and we'd be golden.

[1]: http://commonmark.org/
Microsoft Orleans: https://dotnet.github.io/orleans/
I'm trying not to be cynical, but to me this still feels like there is a huge gap between now and scaling this into urban areas.

As other commenters have pointed out, how is Amazon going to operate drone fleets in cities?

Of course we must take small steps to get to the Amazon utopia, but we must question how much hype there is on these kinds of 'demos'. After all, it's drone technology demonstrating pickup/dropoff over rural land.
What tech titans should say to Trump – and vice versa
I rather that neither C and eventually C++, are no where to be seen on that stack.

Being almost the same age than C, and older than C++, means I know there were better ways of doing systems programming than any of them.

Right now C++ is the lesser of both evil, until Rust, Swift, .NET Native, D, other safe language of the month, eventually takes over most of its use cases.
Retailers take note: life’s good if you sell direct - just dont ask Sony
I feel like this is a stunt. Drone delivery only works with customers that have private backyards - so won't work in a city, since the payload is unsecured after the drones drop it off. In a suburban/rural context, density is lower, meaning that with the limited range of drones, distribution centers won't be able to take advantage of density. Thus the range of products available at each distribution center will be much lower (it's much more efficient from an inventory/logistics standpoint to have one distribution center in midtown Manhattan with many products, rather than many distribution centers spread across the suburbs of NYC, say), forcing customers to choose from a given list of a few hundred products. Drone delivery is thus high convenience, ultra-high speed, low volume, high cost -- but more importantly, a low-choice process. What kind of things will you buy from a list that you need delivered within 30 minutes?
Clover Health, an insurance startup trying to use data to keep customers healthy
I want to bookmark your comment, because I think you are so on point with what is happening.

The greatest threat to the moderate people of this country is our insistent on believing that everyone is good, and that everything will be ok.

We want to believe that so much we don't see the veil that has been pulled over our eyes.

All his cabinet picks, all the things he has done with his businesses are a clear factual indicator of the kind president he will be, yet everyone in these high-minded forums, educated journalists, still want to give him the benefit of the doubt.

It saddens me greatly that so many educated people continue to believe they can work with him, when it's clear that he has no intention of working with anyone, for anyone, but himself.

I think this is because most of us have lived in relatively peace and prosperity our entire life.

I hope I am wrong and that my stupidity will be laughed at in the coming months.
My point is that the NSL is supposed to be secret, not just for its contents, but the existence of the letter. So, dragging a CEO off publicly would almost certainly expose the existence of the NSL.
Please, name for me one thing that he has successfully distracted the 24 news cycle away from
for the sake of Crockford's dog's balls, stop using Bower.
If you can't make it go away, there's nothing wrong with doing what you can to help reduce the impact.

Edit: the dispute here probably comes down to consequentialism versus deontology, as is so often the case. If you think that reducing the harm caused by Trump is what matters, then working with him after opposing him makes sense. If you think that working with him is immoral and that the outcome doesn't justify it, then this would look like hypocrisy.
Strangely enough, Stoicism. I try to recognize what I can control and what I can't, and I try not to let things I can't control scare me into inaction.
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> First of all, I object to the use of "can" here. There was a time where this was true, but, as I said, that time has passed. There is no problem running millions of kernel threads today.

I object to the use of "can", just because we can doesn't mean we should.

Last I checked, creating a thread (on a Windows) took 16 ms. Creating 1 million threads would take more than 4 hours. That's the hell of a startup time! =D

(And don't bother saying Linux is faster. It's not relevant unless it's by 4 orders of magnitude ;) ).
Healthy skepticism and being consciously ignorant are not the same thing.
I was responding to:

> interesting, I mean the fact that this _or something similar_ didn't get traction

I think you'll agree this is something very similar and that has traction.
Being hands off about protecting the public is not a good sign for any industry. It allows bad actors to flourish.
Personnel is policy.
A Rust Belt Native and Technologist Re-Thinking American Manufacturing
I don't know about you being the only one, but personally, I certainly prefer the buzz if it means fewer vehicles on the roads every day.
> how the classical world arises from quantum laws seem particularly boneheaded

What classical world do you refer to? Newtonian physics? That's well understood, the general area of study is called thermal physics.

Are you talking about how the brain works? The biologists understand the meso-scale structures and the microscale structures, and the wiring. What they lack is a certified, detailed diagram, which is admittedly hard, but it's hard like understanding the wiring diagram of an ARM chip is hard.
I think the original poster is pointing out the irony that a site that exists to help people opt out of data mining allows itself, through it's privacy policy, to data mine.

EDIT: Also, there exist free SSL certificate providers.
Reminds me of testing network availability with Quote of the Day [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QOTD
Are you trying to make a point? If so, could you be more clear?
Hmm, why isn't the cell output included?

Additionally, Jupyter Notebooks on GitHub do not render; instead, you should visit the site of the original post: http://www.cytora.com/insights/2016/11/30/natural-language-p...
While the technology to move a package from point A to point B safely and autonomously is pretty cool, I think the more interesting story is what will happen to enable this feat. One thing Amazon has done right over the years has been figuring out how to blow away existing practices and technologies in the shipping and fulfillment space to replace or upgrade them with processes or tech allowing for ridiculous savings in cost and time.

The "13 min -- click to delivery." is really neat but there are so many services necessary to bring it to reality that are really fascinating as well:

1) The website itself probably speaking to dozens of micro services to take the order and complete the order.

2) The fulfillment of the order in an automated warehouse. For the most part, a huge robotic fleet is employed to find, process, package, and ready a package for delivery.

3) The movement of the package to the drone delivery platform or fleet.

3a) The attachment or delivery of the payload to the drone itself.

4) The delivery, tracking, and confirmation of delivery, for the package itself.

5) The return, maintenance, and readiness completion of the drone for the next flight.

All of these processes are going to involve dozens of technologies, robots, humans, global services, local services, legal regulations, and more. The video shows a small garage and a single unit on tracks with a human finishing the packaging. All of this will have to replaced, scaled, and automated in a variety of capacities before this becomes cost effective.

Really interesting time to be alive to watch these processes evolve as they will be almost invisible and taken for granted in the next 20 years or so.
My old credit union required your password to be exactly six (6) characters with one upper case and one special character. They then added in "2FA" over phone or SMS. One day I clicked the "forgot password" link and was able to reset my password using only SMS bypassing the password part entirely. Not even a verification email.
No choice? In rural environments, where you have to drive an hour to a small city and 3+ hours to a large city, and there are no local businesses, no one is going to be operating self driving cars for hire. Electric cars aren't currently practical in such places either, though over time that will likely change as battery and charging tech improves—but I don't see shared ownership or commodity car usage replacing ownership rurally at any point, and there will always be people living rurally. If new cars stop becoming available at a reasonable price to buy, then people will continue repairing, rebuilding and using old cars.
Notes on troubleshooting home wifi 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz Wi-Fi network signals
C++ is a car with safety belts. It is up to the person to buckle it, or not.

C is a car made in the days when having a safety belt wasn't even a concept, so there is no option to buckle it.
Exactly. I feel like some of this rhetoric is a little overblown.

That said, there are, I feel, realistic causes for concern. Although GWB didn't "dismantle institutions" he did get us into an unnecessary war with Iraq. Similarly, I'm getting a little afraid with Trump's appointments about what's going to happen in Iran. (That said, had Hillary won, I'd be feeling the same right now, probably, but towards Russia.)
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Facebook says it’s in talks to buy its own video shows
That struck me, too. I've found the Rust community generally very helpful, but this is really superb feedback and discussion.
Given Uber's track record, more likely to mis-use the footage for shits, giggles, and helping stalkers.
Spacy is a great library and tutorials like this give a clear and simple path for testing it out. They even included a function for reading a file, rather than assuming the audience are all python programers.

(Not that reading a file is hard, but it's an extra few minutes as you google how to read a file in X language.)
English has an idiom "to vent one's spleen", for a public and obvious display of anger.
I can see drones being used in cities to dump packages into the top of packet vending machines that already exist, that open up with a PIN code. It'd be much easier too because the route can be hardcoded towards the machine.
What new information are you talking about?

Are we really seeing an open minded person learning from new information? Or is this simply the standard playbook of populist politcs?

Say anything that wins you the election, regardless of how vile, untrue or unworkable it may be. If you win, come up with some plan that doesn't make the idiocy of your campaign proposals glaringly obvious right away.
I opened the link. I saw what it was doing, but I still wondered if he had been involved, I didn't see any indication either way.

Perhaps would have been willing to lend his name to something that was just a more formal definition of what he's already created (without the additional stuff that other implementations choose to addd).

Again, trying to define someone else's work when they're available without their support/cooperation seems very hostile to me.

I doubt I would have felt this way if we didn't have the attempted coup of "standard markdown" a few years ago.
CTO's Guide to Angular
These things should fly over roads five to six feet above ground. That fixes most of the safety concerns
containerd 0.2.4 which is used in Docker 1.12 covers only container execution. This announcement about containerd 1.0 roadmap extends the scope of containerd to make it a full container runtime designed to be embedded in higher level systems.

* scope table: https://github.com/docker/containerd#scope

* roadmap: https://github.com/docker/containerd/blob/master/ROADMAP.md

* new API: https://github.com/docker/containerd/tree/master/api
How many UPS trucks are on the road on any given day? How does that number compare to your five news stories over the last five years?
yeah, this is key. It looks like JUST enough to be useful without the rest of the Docker engine.
I can see why HN would trend towards the "don't wants".

Are you willing to share any communities or other resources you do use for recruiting? No pressure at all here, just curious.
I've seen this remark quite often when the word (fr)"coq" comes up. It's a non-english word that's homophonous to (en)"cock", but... so what?

In french, the word (fr)"bite" translates to "cock". It's pronounced like (en)"bit". And while a lot of people prefer "octet", "bit" has very much become part of the french vocabulary. So, what do we do?

We don't care. We giggle at it when we're in high school and then it stops being funny. In Swedish, (en)"sex" and (en)"six" are the same word (se)"sex", pronounced the same way. They don't care.

I also feel like some people here might be forgetting that (en)"cock" has other meanings in English, including the male bird which is what (fr)"coq" means

Edit: Prefixed everything because this post was far too confusing.
>so won't work in a city, since the payload is unsecured after the drones drop it off

My building's roof is at least as secure as its lobby.
I'm sure Hillary Clinton would take part in advising him if he asked. I'm not sure where they hypocrisy is.

Advising is not agreeing.
I'm thinking of SoftLayer (now branded as Bluemix).
Instead of opting out of these, a better idea would be to fill them up with fake info if that were possible. Like some other comments mentioned, you're confirming the data for them when you fill out these forms.

Lexis Nexis is a major one and only lets you opt out under unique circumstances that will not apply for most people.

Anyone have good sources on where these companies pull their data from?
Coding-free iterating on email content
How do they determine how 'old' water is? Is ocean water, particularly near the deepest points just as 'old'?

Also, is this a homeopaths wet dream? Nevermind, I can do without an answer.
I really wouldn't worry too much about the trivial issues.
The world's largest elections in india are all electronic.. including voting boxes shipped on elephant, camel, horses and canoe.

is there a comparison of this voting system versus the others that exist?
This is pretty awesome. Just because an app connects to a single website/service doesn't mean there isn't a benefit to being open! It's good to be able to trust (and verify) the software running on our devices.
Just read Bert Kappen on delayed reward. There is optimal behavior between being driven by (stochastic) environmental input and executing control. Optimal in Bellman's sense.

Apart from that. Why optimal behaviour arises should not be a question. :-)

Why there are goals in itself is probably also governed by entropic forces about the flow of information. Read on empowerment by Polani et al. Or study the robots from Ralf Der.
Fair enough, TIL. I'd imagine it's much less valid if the missing closing `</li>` is on the first line, though.
You expect it will one day just pop in to existence from nothing, and there are no milestones along the way to celebrate? I rate your comment 1/5 stars.
Can anyone contrast this new (rebooted?) containerd to rkt?
Martin Luther. Not Martin Luther King, Jr.

Were to so eager to flame me that you couldn't be bothered to read my post properly?
Not a typo, he wants to pass a function to the promise. By adding the brackets you are invoking the greet function and passing the return value. Of course it works, you are calling it in the context of the original object. You made his point for him.
Rough Beats for VR in 2016: A Year of Survival for Developers
You couldn't even quickly stream a good set of photos from your camera in many parts of the western world. It's an interesting solution when it fits, and WLAN memory cards and cameras with WLAN are available for that, but once you go more clandestine or remote it is likely not an option.

If you have access to a slow connection once per day or every few days, or a fast connection to return to you have to carry material with you for at least some time, in which you'd want it to be encrypted, and could easily use a secondary device to actually transmit it (phone, laptop). And material that is to large probably still needs walking out. If you are in a "going to visit Snowden" (or staying with any other target in hiding) scenario, you are probably travelling without a connection for their safety, otherwise you are not going to get access.

In remote locations you are limited to sat phones which are expensive, slow and probably monitored, if you even are allowed to possess one. And their security is debatable for all I know.

What I dislike about the suggestion for standard encryption features is that it becomes sort of obvious that there might be encrypted data and how to destroy it. Ways of hiding it are even more important, and obviously can't be "standard". Tricky to solve.

//EDIT: removed uncivil language
You should proofread your comments before you hit "reply" to avoid easy downvotes and flags.

> stated goal

and

> deciphered the evil scheme

very directly conflict as concepts. The above poster did not have to "decipher" anything because the goal is "stated."
You're describing the difference between macroeconomics and microeconomics. Pretty much every successful entrepreneur I know has a very solid grasp of microeconomics, oftentimes much more solid than most economists or financiers. They don't always have a detailed understanding of macroeconomics, and many of them don't need one to run their businesses.

When you can steal market share from existing incumbents, oftentimes with a 10x better product value proposition, then currency, interest rates, and consumer credit are rounding error. They don't matter - you have a potential market that is many times greater than the current size of your company, so you just convince your competitors' customers to switch to you and you get growth even if the economy as a whole is contracting. But on a macro-level, this is zero-sum, because your gain is your competitor's loss. On a macro-level, the only things that lead to everyone's gain are improvements in productivity and better use of unemployed resources.

Now, when it comes to the original thread subject, this is very relevant: it's worrisome that Trump seems to be treating the U.S. economy as a whole the way you would treat a business, and is applying microeconomics tools in a situation subject to macroeconomics. But it's not true that Elon, Zuck, etc. don't understand economics; rather, they understand economics, but the part of it that is relevant to their daily lives is different from the part that pundits and economists care about.
Right. I noticed it's a true "This is how it's done", it's more of a "this is how people tend to treat things". It's descriptive not prescriptive.

After the standard markdown/common markdown kerfuffle I may simply be on high alert, and worried that this is step 1 towards problems.
So at what point is it a child if you use extra uteral fertilization or freeze a fertilized egg? Does the frozen biomass have rights?
Interesting question - how quiet could a drone get? Presume they are not optimised for sound...?
The tl;dr; is that the spleen is mostly responsible for "macro" filtering of the blood. It removes relatively large foreign bodies, as well as red blood cells that are starting to wear out (they last 3-4 months, on average before getting filtered out).

Because of its role, there are many blood vessels in the spleen, making it very prone to bleeding if it is damaged. It (along with the liver) is one of the more common sites of serious internal bleeding after physical trauma.