skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Princeton had an "ice pond"[1][2] in the early 80's. The project was run by Dr. Ted Taylor[3] (who worked on the Manhattan project and later the Orion spacecraft-- huge nuclear bomb-powered spaceships!). Snow machines made slushy ice that was stored in pond covered with insulation. Water was pumped through the pond in the summer to provide cooling. It worked well and at the end of the summer there was still ice in the pond.

I read about this as a kid reading Freeman Dyson's "Imagined Worlds"[4]. Dyson's commentary is definitely worth reading. (Anything written by Freeman Dyson is worth reading.)

A cheese factory used ice ponds[5] for about 10 years, eventually abandoning them because the ice didn't last through the summer and it was difficult to maintain[6].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_pond

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1981/08/02/t...

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Taylor_(physicist)

[4]: https://books.google.com/books?id=MOC8UJPuvO8C&pg=PA42

[5]: http://www.nytimes.com/1984/06/03/nyregion/dairy-hoards-500-...

[6]: https://www.farmshow.com/a_article.php?aid=15129
If your arguments weren't hyperbolic exaggerations in the first place, then you would not have to state the obvious that you're being hyperbolic, and make disclaimers like "Oh, is that not exaaaaaaaaaaaactly what the message is? Of course not, but there is some truth there." How about trying again, and starting with a non-hyperbolic, literally true argument that exaaaaaaaaaaaactly quotes the message with citations to evidence, which you don't have to disclaim in the next paragraph?

And we're still waiting for you to define what you meant by "speak" and list more names, when you claimed that "There are highly trained scientists who don't fully support the party line, and they are not allowed to speak," offered Judith Curry as your only evidence, and then disclaimed "I must pre-emptively add that no, indeed, she wasn't in fact literally prevented from speaking". If not "literally prevented from speaking", then what exactly do you mean?

Next time you find yourself writing a disclaimer for what you just wrote in the previous paragraph, please reconsider simply rewriting the paragraph so it's not hyperbolic, is literally true, and exaaaaaaaaaaaactly quotes and cites the source.

Your claim she was prevented from speaking in any sense of the word is objectively false, and you've refused to provide any more evidence or examples when requested. She said herself that: "Nobody and certainly not myself is claiming that I am persecuted or there is a plot that is out to get me." Except for you, apparently.

By any definition of the word "speak", Judith Curry often speaks a hell of a lot of hyperbolic hot air, words which you yourself heard and parroted without fact checking, whether she's staring straight into the camera and blinking up a storm at literally 85 BPM while bloviating on FOX News: https://youtu.be/g5LpwL4NKbw https://youtu.be/HiTbd4Mc3kk , or spreading climate change denial lies on live national television, in front of Congress, in research papers, in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, on climate change denial web sites, and on her widely read blog.
Yeah, the name is confusing. It's like a pizza place named "Waffle Irons Direct".
Regarding the iPad, do kids/parents see that as a gaming device? You can't get real games on one of those.
On one hand, if you're managing a few servers with shell scripts, you'll invariably end up with a framework of sorts. On the other hand, after a few years playing with bash and posix shell -- I'm fairly certain I'd prefer bash, to posix shell -- it seems rather unlikely you can easily use the same set of scripts for BSD, open solaris and various linux distributions -- if your target is linux, pretty much all distributions ship with bash in base install (just remember to use proper "bang" of #!/usr/bin/env bash or equivalent).

And shell script is a fickle language -- I'd at least consider using "trap" and/or "set -e", "set -u" -- maybe "set -p" rather than "echo 'what I am about to do'; what I am about to do". See eg: http://redsymbol.net/articles/unofficial-bash-strict-mode/

I agree that ansible is far from perfect - but I'm not convinced posixcube is a great alternative right now.

From a brief look at the code, it does look nicely structured and commented, though!

I've played a bit with the idea of doing something similar (mostly because I'm not convinced all the complexity present in ansible is necessary for my use case -- which appear to be similar to your use-case -- a few small simple server configs).

I've seen people here on HN recommending some makefiles for deployment (along with simple shell scripts) -- and I've played a bit with using m4 for templates rather than here-documents -- and it looks like that might work fine. Does mean your base-installs/bootstraps/images will need m4 (or "compile" the templates on the workstation you run your automation from).

But right now, I feel GNU guix is the right approach: have a small, minimal, vm/container host (right now I'm playing with Ubuntu and LXD/LXC - Xen and KVM also works nicely), and have all images be managed by something like guix.

That reduces the need for additional management and automation to the install of hosts - possibly pxe-installs of guix if you need/want to run some hosts on bare metal -- and should simply management by having system level rollback etc.
Indeed, artisan tinker is quite close to what Rails and Django give. The REPL is a bit awkward when compared to ipython, though, but that is probably fixable. If they'd just do it :)
I have an iPhone 6S and my battery life when 3D gaming is about smack in the middle of the Switch's range. Admittedly the Switch is presumably going to run better graphics, but still -- its battery life is about the same as cellphone battery life.
They did present this, and they also mentioned that the online services will be free at launch and turn into a paid service later.
Not having to wake up or do anything when i dont want to.

Disclaimer: self employed
IGN brought this up too in their aftermath video - this presentation showed a lot of people we've just never met before. And the games (like the mario one) had something NEW to them which was exciting, and it's exciting that nintendo's letting the new generation try it out.
It is entirely possible to have a factual debate about facts and logical conclusions. It is, of course, impossible to make factual debate about opinions, moral principles and preferences, and politics is a mix of both kinds, heavily skewed to non-factual side, unfortunately.
Still, I think there's demand for factual discussion even in politics. That's why "fact checking" became a thing and why "fake news" became a popular pejorative. Unfortunately - and probably inevitably, given the stakes - "fact checking" was taken over by opportunists and turned into partisan mudsligning, and "fake news" has been turned into a club for bashing political opponents. But the demand is still there. It's just that MSM media structures may be by now so corrupt that they are institutionally unable to satisfy it.
> And after all this, Twitter still does not have a viable business model.

...more pertinently, App.net didn't have one either - and they had an open API, charged real money and did all the things HNers' idealized version of Twitter would.
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Isn't it just repeats the command 5 times instead of retrying?

IMO Bash with it's multitude of annoying quoting and field splitting rules, many irrelevant features focusing on interactive use, and error handling as an afterthought is just wrong choice for writing robust systems. It's too easy to make mistakes. And it still works only in the simplest cases, until somebody evil deliberately pass you newline delimited string or something with patterns which expands in unexpected place, etc. Properly handling those cases will make your script ugly mess. Actually I find the mental burden when writing shell scripts is very akin to programming in C.
Don't read too much into titles.

AGI(-16) is a cognitive science / philosophy conference (and not particularly high impact). Similarly, NIPS is not really about neural information processing.
their repo is full of slightly adapted other packages. If they are 100% React compat, why would they need rax-redux? :-S
"The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent." The quote itself may be apocryphal, but the meaning is certainly true.
10% of the time? You are either a genius of persuasion or choose your battles very carefully :)
Seattle council candidate will let constituents vote on issues via app
Or maybe because the article handled a old topic is it were something new and the account that posted it also heavily spammed around reddit.

IMO you lost your whole credibility by the reddit spam.
The problem is how do you distinguish plugins installed through the browser versus not: at the end of the day, this falls into the typical DRM problem of how do you enforce restrictions (in this case, what can install plugins).

The direction browsers are all taking is requiring them to be signed by the browser vendor, effectively making them gatekeepers (and you can't have a preference to disable it, because if you did you could just install a plugin by disabling the preference (i.e., edit the config file) and then install the plugin normally). That really sucks too, sadly.
An exhibition to commemorate 75 years since the first human trials of penicillin
Did anyone else think this looked like prep for taking over the low-end VR space, given all the emphasis on motion tracking? It seems like all they'd have to do is release a headset like Sony is doing with the PS4 and you'd have a good portable VR setup. Probably with a better library than Samsung gear too.
Because that's exactly what should happen.
That's the general narrative. "Are there any numbers to support this?" Are they really the same engineers working on equally hard problems in a different environment when making this comparison?
Huh, those battery life numbers are nowhere near what those machines actually get in real world O.o
Okay, but don't these stock grants substitute for salary? It's not like Twitter could just stop granting stock with no ill effects.
I've worked on a project that combined C++ and C# in approximately equal amounts (say 2MLOC each). The C++ project compiled and linked for 20 minutes , C# compiled and linked in under 2 minutes. Go figure.

I agree: C and C++ compilation model is not a good design. It's a patch for not having a decent module system. Heck, even Borland Pascal compiled faster in 90-ies than C++ does now on an orders of magnitude faster machine.
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reading that, it seems pretty good. Are there performance costs to its diffing against the "real" DOM?

3kb for "React" is pretttttty tempting
And how. Starting with existence of those as such, and to how to define ones, and who can be rightly considered belonging to either one of them. All the time.
Some distros where more or less tied to a desktop environment on those days "a la Ubuntu" and some other offered the choice during installation or after. I have been using netinstall for my Debian machines for more than 8 years and I can do what you are talking about.

Debian has had flavoured CDs for long time ago.

Is not the first time a read somebody complain about lack of choice but unknowingly is only trying or using Ubuntu (not Kubuntu nor Xubuntu).

May be in latest years Ubuntu has messed up a bit the percepction of Linux Desktop, but Linux Desktop is as healthy and fragmented as always.
RISC-V chosen as Best Technology of 2016
$300 for a tablet, chromecast device + bluetooth controllers that all integrate nicely is a pretty good deal.

Gaming on mobile phones with controllers is a pretty janky affair right now. Poor quality controllers and iffy compatibility are the norm. Getting your display remoted to the TV is also well in the "doesn't always work" territory.
The reason for Neo Geo being more popular than SNES in competitions is probably that the Neo Geo catalog was almost all competitive simultaneous 2-player games (as they doubled as arcade games), while in the SNES most iconic games are single-player. For SNES games with the simultaneous multiplayer mode (e.g. Super Mario Kart) championships are also healthy.

In my opinion SNES and Neo Geo were, each in its style, the best consoles of all time, and in general they have aged really well, as can also be seen by the persisting popularity of their games in 2017. I think this is probably because they were the pinnacle of 2D gaming. Of course 3D bought amazing possibilities to gaming, but for example the precious artfulness and attention to detail in Last Blade II (IMO a much better game than the overrated KoFs, by the way) is something I am still yet to see in a modern fighting game. On the other hand, when I play an early 3D game like many PSX releases, I just see things that can be done much better now, which makes the game look more dated.
Are you kidding? Because that's not remotely equality at all. In fact, this comment itself seems rather sexist, since you're advocating that women are only equal to men if they're treated like men.
The easiest is just changing your DNS servers to 8.8.8.8.

I wish iOS allowed you to change DNS for celluar networks.
> That's a lot of things, but it ain't unix.

UNIX has had binary logs since forever. utmp etc. are traditional UNIX and utmpx is standardised by POSIX.
Agreed - it would be a great bit of content-marketing for a recruitment agency. Lever, TripleByte, Muse... one of you sort it out please!
Co2 sinks include:

1.- equilibriation with oceans (10 year timescale increases system capacity by order of magnitude - but harmful to marine life)

2. - hydrocarbon/peat formation (not really a major process in an icehouse climate and quite slow anyway)

3. - marine carbonate formation (100 year timescale, potentially very large sink, can be negatively affected by process 1)

4.- silicate weathering (1000 year timescale infinite capacity).

So rate of release is very important. If CO2 release too fast ocean acidification from 1 prevents 3 and 3 and 4 don't have time to act.
Ah yes, Erlichs, still after all these years trying to be right via the stopped-clock technique: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon–Ehrlich_wager
> > core services like evdev, the "systemd" init process, journald, and D-Bus

> Oh, so just most of the things that people hate about it. No biggie then. /sarcasm

I don't know of any complete Linux system these days which doesn't ship D-Bus or udev. I think you're just complaining because you feel like it.

Where are these "unreliable processes" (suspiciously vague), "butchered output" (same), "hacky fixes" (for what? your lack of capacity for logic or reason?), and "obscure errors" (but none in particular I guess) coming from?.

I know about the log corruption issue reports, though as I heard it that was an issue external to journald itself (the filesystem failed); and it was ultimately possible to segment the log file, it just wasn't segmented by '\n' like a text file. That is to say, you would get the same corruption with a text file. And of course, most systems compress logs after a while, which means that filesystem-level corruption would destroy the rest of the stream.

Your concerns become legitimate the moment you can point to a specific misbehaviour or confusion which cost you time or effort; short of that I'm just hearing the smack of a beggar's mouth.
Networkd does not handle WLAN authentication. This is the job of wpa_supplicant, which is the defacto standard on linux in every setup until maybe iwd from Intel takes over.
Yeah, just because they don't say anything about the world does not mean they can not be used. The theology of Luther and Calvin changed the world. Even today you can start your own cult or church and get power over lots of people and get rich.

But Newton did none of those things. His theology did not influence anybody and was therefore a waste of time, except for the personal gratification he gained from it.
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I think this is a fair question, and deserves an answer instead of being downvoted.

1. There's no gasoline in the ground, but various forms of oil. Sounds like a nitpick, but is actually crucial, because getting usable fuel from tar sands and fracking are dirty and expensive operations -- especially once the externalities of environmental damage is accounted for. With current trends in wind and solar, it is quite likely that at some point, extracting fuel from tar sands and fracking will simply no longer be competitive. (You may argue that things like planes are unlikely to ever go electric; but it's likely we'll at some point have scalable fuel generation from electricity.)

2. CO2 doesn't necessarily stay in the atmosphere. First of all, there are natural processes that take CO2 out of the atmosphere and store the carbon in the ground/the oceans. That's how oil and coal formed in the first place. Of course, those natural processes are slower than we'd like. That's why carbon sequestration is a seriously discussed thing, i.e. filter CO2 out of the atmosphere industrially, and/or speed up the natural processes (like growing forests). Creating an economic incentive for this is a big part of the idea of carbon emissions trading.

In the end, it's viable to have a neutral economy in terms of CO2. We really need that anyway in the long term because oil is finite. If we get there faster, we'll get there without having gotten all oil out of the ground.
Every meal you eat is postponing the inevitable. But I imagine you still think it's worth doing.
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Systemd is definitely an init system.
personally I'm tired of fucking phones
Based on available facts at the time it seemed like a reasonable conclusion but they should have also realized the facts they did have were limited.

Chemical fertilizers, industrialization, mass production, these all got us out of a jam. The full effect of early bio-engineering efforts had yet to play out, and the work of Normal Borlaug (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Borlaug) wasn't in full swing.

Today we're bumping up against different hard limits, like fresh water, which could cause enormous problems if not dealt with before it reaches a critical state.
This is often said, but can really a St Bernard and a Yorkshire Terrier do that?
That's only relative. In absolute numbers the mac is a large business.
Oh, yeah. iOS is pretty much the only platform with half-decent children's edutainment games that aren't 20+ years old.
I'm glad the superchargers will no longer be free for new Tesla owners. I wish they would charge existing Tesla owners for the power as well.

I went to charge my Model X at the Whole Foods in Menlo Park on Friday night, because mine was broken. I waited for over 40 minutes for other people using the chargers to leave.

I'd much rather pay a market rate for the power from Tesla and have the units open when I need them, than take the chance of waiting for hours because people are clogging the spots to get free power.
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My iPhone now has a bunch of 2D Sonics, Roller Coaster Tycoon Classic, The Binding Of Isaac, a full port of Lego Star Wars, Surgeon Simulator, Minecraft, Hearthstone and a few others. Seems like iOS supports real games to me.
The games you can get on an iPad are very real games to kids.
It would be best to have a random state per target, but I don't know if they do.
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There are many beautiful and immersive games for mobile, for example Disney's Castle of Illusion and Star Wars Commander.
that's not a very charitable view. He simply does not get bogged down in debates about what constitutes the true "unix approach", and prefers to focus on building the best system that can be built using the facilities Linux has to offer.
EU backs report calling for robot civil law, but also kill switches
> rehashing the same game titles over and over again (the Switch is getting a Zelda title and a Mario title? What a shocker!)

You say that like this is a bad thing. Nintendo isn't just making the same games over and over again. Every new Mario game, and every new Zelda game, brings something new to the genre. For example, Super Mario Galaxy was a very innovative and award-winning game that had a very unique and well-thought-out core mechanic. And this new Super Mario Odyssey game they announced looks like it has a ton of stuff that hasn't been done in a Mario game before.

And ultimately, the first-party games Nintendo puts out, your Marios and Zeldas and whatnot, are always very polished, excellently-designed, and downright fun games. Typically the best games on the whole platform. So it's no surprise that they keep coming back to the same franchises, since they've demonstrated that they can execute extremely well with this IP and that fans absolutely love it. It's not unreasonable to say that Mario and Zelda by themselves sell a large portion of Nintendo's consoles.
Which is yet another example that the rise of free beer tools made the enterprise developers the only valued ones as customers.
My youngest stepson (10) just got one for Christmas (secondhand iPad mini 2). He's mostly gaming on it, and he loves it. Bear in mind he has access to an xbox one, too. He doesn't see the iPad as inferior; he certainly did the hudl that he sold in order to part fund the iPad purchase.
Who says that high profit implies high tech? Your Wikipedia link only says high tech often offers the potential for high profit.

Is the Large Hadron Collider not high tech if it doesn't turn a profit?
> If people see r?sum? they'll know what they're dealing with, it's not going to be some dark mystery.

Why would anyone take that chance?

> if you want to snub someone for using accents, I can't imagine the other trivial transgressions that set you off.

Sometimes people are just having an off day. You might like them fine the rest of the time, but today they just got done dealing with three's customer service.

Again: why would anyone take that chance?

> Some people, believe it or not, have attention to detail and if they think the correct way to spell it is "résumé" then that's what they'll do. It's something that might be appreciated by some and ignored by others

Attention to detail means making a hardcopy on quality paper with a proper letter of introduction and references, and posting it in. If you're doing this, then I'll concede you might be right to use résumé.

However otherwise, there are absolutely more people who will be set off by seeing those accents. People who put them in, want to put them in because they think it's right, and if they actually had an attention to detail they'd think about how the other person is going to interact with their r?sum?.

> Webster's is also an American dictionary and would have you believe "colour" is spelled "color", so it's not relevant here except when discussing the specific and quirky American dialect.

A British company doesn't want a résumé, they want a CV.

American companies are asking for a "resume" which is a short summary, and it's in a different format. Most American hiring managers will not deal well with a British-style CV, and since we're talking about resumes, we're talking about an American hiring process -- the kind of process that landed Americans on the moon.

Also:

* https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/noel

* https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/coordinate