skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to work at GFDL and I know that they provide some code on GitHub, including at least one climate model (MOM6). Also, the Flexible Modeling System (FMS) is core to the work they do, but you'll have to put your Fortran hat on. You might also look at PCMDI's repo. They provide tooling that helps standardize climate data for the international community for use in the assessment reports. For something more on the distribution and analysis side (which may be more accessible and interesting to people who aren’t climate scientists), take a look at the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF). Hope this helps!

https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov

https://github.com/NOAA-GFDL

https://github.com/PCMDI

https://github.com/esgf
>>Before I became an engineer I practiced IP/copyright law.

I'm sure there's a story there since I would have thought the usual direction, even for a small aggregate number of eventual engineer-patent attorney pairings, would be reversed. Hopefully you can post an "About Us" on MovieChat.org at some point when you feel comfortable. Thanks!
The tensorflow developer summit is being streamed live right now on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqLyrl-agOw
That's a pretty good description of Ethereum's proof of stake but it won't be in production for a year or so; for now it's still on proof of work.
Robinhood?
"meth-binge"?

I feel like it's possible you have not known very many people on actual meth.
Don't forget sex (sexuality), money and privacy too.
It's great that you're building on this dataset but I'm not sure you're well-placed to pronounce on it being a disaster. Database expertise doesn't make you an expert on civil engineering.
I agree; one counter example is that AR might be the catalyst for improvement of an antique process. The Arizona Public Utilities commission (disclosure, my company helped them with this initiative) has replaced paper processes with AR on phones + QR codes. The real value is probably in converting an antique paper-based process with a database, but the AR proved to be the defining interface for their field workers.
Oh man, count yourself lucky if you never had "fun" with context. :) For everyone who hasn't had that ... joy, imagine perl4, but compiled and running in its own proprietary vm with a ton of employer-environment-specific extensions. It was 100% in-house to the Times. When I interviewed, part of the process was them throwing a screenful of it at you and asking "OK, what does this do?" as a test of your general ability to reason out things you had no possible way of getting pre-exposure to. The only redeeming value that it had really was that it was a) pretty fast b) pretty small in terms of memory requirements. I can't think of a single thing about it that PHP wouldn't be a better fit for though on every metric, and I'm certainly no fan of PHP. After I left that job one of the biggest drivers for me wanting to take compilers eventually was thinking back to what a shitshow working with ctx was and how badly I would've wanted a ctx2php transpiler. I worked on the team that among other things handled the login/auth system, which was sufficiently antediluvian that it had a lot of ctx code.
Ditto! I feel the same way. I learned both English and programming on Delphi 3. The first program I wrote showed and hid a picture on the screen. I wrote a few games, but didn't understand types and generics until years later.
I guess not for sure, so most the time will be in interpret mode
> For some reason, I end up choosing coffee when I'm stressed, and it worsens matters

I used to this a lot and it never worked for me personally. Coffee used to give me so much rush that i couldn't focus at all sometimes.
The most cited deep learning papers
There isn't much of a difference in the safety of the average 8-year old vehicle, and a brand new one.
As a point of comparison how many domestic students have no close friends on campus? In other words, what's the differential between foreign students and those who grew up here?
Strongswan is indeed complex to setup. I tried on my server, and ended up using this docker image[1].

Was pretty painless.

1. https://github.com/hwdsl2/docker-ipsec-vpn-server
I think GPS is secondary: you can easily get a mount for it.

Based on experience, the most likely explanation is texting or voice calls. When I got a new car with bluetooth calling, all of a sudden I was fumbling a lot less. A call is now about the same level of distraction as having a passenger or 2.

Texting however, I have no idea. Maybe something that moves texting to voice, but I haven't seen anything actually make that work. And, it's distracting enough that I just don't text while driving: sending ETA updates or w/e isn't worth risking my life over.
6 minutes earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13655282
Thanks for that link, that finally helped me understand the real benefit of the patch model, this quote in particular:

> The difference between what svn does and what darcs does here is, contrary to popular belief, not that darcs makes a better or luckier guess as to where the line from c1 should go, but that darcs uses information that svn does not use -- namely the information contained in b1 -- to learn that the location has moved and precisely to where it has moved.

Darcs/Pijul understand which lines a patch is interested in, and if those lines get moved around in another branch, the patch "follows" them to the right place, rather than just finding/applying the shortest possible diff.
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> international students are cliquey.

It might help if you understand why they're cliquey. Many of them are living away from home for the first time, so hanging out with familiar faces and having shared cultural references is comforting (though it sounds wrong). They may not be as proficient in English as they are in their native tongues, so they speak their own languages when they're with each other. And of course to an outsider, a group of people speaking a foreign language seems very forbidding and closed off. Believe me, they (mostly) don't want to be seen that way.

I think pretty much every "group" is cliquey. My own Masters class (about 20-25 people, 50-50 American/foreign) splintered into 2-3 disjoint groups almost immediately after the introductory mixer. I understood and spoke English fine. But not knowing any American pop culture (music, TV shows, sci-fi, games etc. and my own introversion, meant I didn't know then how to deal with people I didn't that have much in common with) meant that I was filtered out of the most likely "group" (students roughly my age). They may all have been speaking English but all the alien (to me) cultural references made it seem forbidding (who's Stephen Colbert? what's Arrested Development? why is it a faux pas to admit liking Coldplay and U2 and Nickelback?). I ended up hanging out with other students from my own country.

> I'd expect you'd see roughly the same numbers if you looked at American students in Chinese universities, or elsewhere

You're right. Most people struggle to flourish socially in foreign cultures; I think this is universally true.

> But we have to make this anti-American

I didn't see the article as anti-American at all. It was more "Isn't it unfortunate how these students are missing out?"

I personally blame myself for my own social isolation during my Masters. I should've tried harder.
Thanks for making this. Some suggestions:

- How about linking back to the IMDB page for each movie?

- It would be great if you displayed various ratings from IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes and elsewhere kind of like JustWatch.com does (but with links to those ratings pages).

- Actually, it would be really cool if you linked to a JustWatch search too so the user can easily see if the movie is streaming anywhere that they subscribe to.

Another crazy thought - a merger with JustWatch would be awesome too (but I really wish JustWatch would also link back to IMDB, Rotten Tomatoes, etc).
An obvious counter-argument to this: NSA. If someone had said 10 years ago that an organization like NSA exists, and that it is conducting electronic surveillance at the level that it currently is, they would have been laughed at as a conspiracy theorist. One can only imagine what Ezra Klein would have said to such a person.

"What you're saying is too improbable. No one can carry out complicated plans. All parties and groups are fractious and bumbling."

Turns out organizations like the NSA do actually exist, and they are capable enough to carry out complicated plans in secrecy for many many years. Despite it being a non-partisan government agency staffed by government workers reporting to our elected leaders. One can only wonder what other kinds of scheming and backroom deals are being done by private organizations such as lobbyists, super-PACs and think-tanks.
I think some of it must be an unintended consequence of usage bans. People still do it, they just keep the phone out of sight, and this keeps their concentration off the road for longer. (And of course you can't type by feel on a virtual keyboard.)
Unfortunately there isn't a standard way to collect this data on a national level. Believe it or not its up to that local jurisdiction, or State (in the case of state patrol) to dictate what information they gather and how it is gathered. This makes comparisons and real statistical analysis quite difficult.

Source: I'm in the traffic safety industry.
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Reading that essay, I kept thinking if his next step would be inserting the coffee rectally. I'm surprised he never got to that point.
I'm not sure where you got the implication that one was being called out as worse than the other, but the comment is really just noting it's a way to filter out specific groups. That filter may be useless when hiring for a front-end developer, but on the other hand, if hiring a developer to work on your new database product, it may be very useful indeed. As you note, they commonly deal with different types of complexity.
Actually even though C++ has first class support on UWP, I have noticed that the language focus at Microsoft developer presentations is showing it more for lower layers of the OS and games, with C# and VB being targeted for apps development, with F# getting the data science part.
So if you're phone was part of a botnet wasting your battery and data cap would you care?
I wonder what voodoo it actually does. Would this be traceable in the compiler?
Wonder how much of this can be tied to the economy getting better and more people buying/driving (used and less safe) cars when they previously couldn't afford to.
Cost of Hiring Full-Time vs. Freelance Software Developers
Didn't the majority of the people deciding to fork stand to profit? I.e. they would restore their DAO funds? That's my understanding and makes me not want to touch Ethereum with a 10ft pole. Seems very much like mob rule vs a system of rules and contracts.
His whole argument is that if Apple had to pick one language today, it would be Objective C because internally they have largely stuck with Objective C up to now.

Well, Apple isn't going to pick one language today. They might deprecate Objective C in 5 or 10 years, but in the near term nothing should change. They're infamous for dropping "legacy" so I wouldn't rule out Objective C having a finite lifespan.

The author is right that the developer community has really embraced Swift. It is a much nicer language, with a lot less visual noise, for example.

As a quick aside, I've been working on a Cookbook for the Swift:

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift_cookbook.html

And I've been adding to a Github repo with lots of little examples:

https://github.com/melling/ios_topics/blob/master/README.org

Finally, the Stanford CS193 course has start for Swift and iOS 10:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/developing-ios-10-apps-sw...
You and the Unix Hater's Handbook authors.

There is a small terminology issue here: a "server" is a program that offers services to remote "client" programs. The clients make requests and the server responds to them. A client program will make a request like "allocate me a chunk of the screen and put these here bits in it", or "let me know about any of these events that happen". The server manages the screen and notifies the clients about things they're interested in.

IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE, DAMMIT!
Does anyone know if (and where) it's possible to download a data set of all car accidents (or just fatals) for the last few years? I'd like to see things like date and time, weather conditions, lat/lon, make and model of cars involved, etc.
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Can this be a lesson to all to never keep an only copy of your photos on a photo site, even if you are paying for it.
You can't compare that to Spanner. RDS is a product that helps you manage/scale something like MySQL for you. It would compare to CloudSQL in the Google portfolio.

However, they have their own database engine called Aurora, which is what you actually get when you select MySQL or Postgres for RDS and provides much better throughput and replication behaviour. You can also only have up to 15 Aurora replicas whereas Spanner goes far far beyond that.
Well - when I was a kid, writing in MS BASIC on my computer, it was a list of PEEKS-n-POKES. My computers at the time were a TRS-80 Color Computer 2 and a Tandy Color Computer 3. I forget most of them, now, but I do recall the most important:

TRS-80 Color Computer 1 & 2:

POKE 65495,0 - high-speed poke (1.79 MHz - double-speed)
POKE 65494,0 - low-speed poke (0.895 MHz - normal-speed)

Tandy Color Computer 3:

POKE 65497,0 - high-speed poke (2.00 MHz - double-speed)
POKE 65496,0 - low-speed poke (1.00 MHz - normal-speed)

It should also be noted that the POKEs for the CoCo 1 & 2 would also enable a "double-speed" on the CoCo 3 - but IIRC, it only sped up a portion of the system, not everything. There was also an issue on all systems where if running in double-speed, cassette tape and floppy access would have problems (less so on the CoCo 3, as OS-9 Level 2 always ran at double speed). Also, despite what Wikipedia says, the CoCo 3 ran at a true 1 or 2 MHz clock (vs the older CoCo 1 & 2).

Ultimately - these were important because in a system where the CPU did virtually everything (including sound - arguably one of the many reasons it wasn't as successful in the marketplace - though much of that could also be contributed to Tandy/Radio Shack's lack of marketing prowess for the machine - which also competed against their more expensive business models, like the Model 3 and 4).

More PEEKs and POKEs can be found in a few books published back in the day, that can be found on Archive.org and other sites, scanned to PDF for preservation, if you care to look for them.

Virtually all personal computers of the time had these special commands (which were really commands to read (PEEK) and write (POKE) values into memory - useful for a BASIC program to load up and run a machine language program encoded as a series of hex bytes), plus a few others (the Apple series also had the CALL command - CALL -151, was important; it enters the ROM monitor!)

PEEKs, POKEs, EXECs, CALLs, VARPTRs, etc - all important when BASIC just wasn't enough for some purposes; it was the way to give your BASIC code more power. It was also hell at times; anybody of that era can attest to spending hours (days in some cases!) painstakingly typing in row after row after mind-numbing row of DATA statements in a BASIC machine code loader, only to RUN it and have it error out (or get all the way thru, and crash the system - and woe unto you if you had been too foolhardy to save it first!). But you did it to get more powerful features in BASIC (I recall everything from extended graphics routines, to more disk commands, better sound output, etc).

Some links for those who care:

Color Computer PEEKS-n-POKES:

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Books/500...

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Books/300...

http://www.colorcomputerarchive.com/coco/Documents/Books/

Apple PEEKS-n-POKES:

http://apple2.org.za/gswv/USA2WUG/FOUNDING.MEMBERS/HOME.PAGE...

http://www.apple2.org.za/gswv/a2zine/GS.WorldView/Resources/...

Damn I miss those days...
My guess is the last reason.

It's the same reason stastical models aren't used heavily in sports recruiting/trading.
It's an even sillier charge because the bulk of Apple's software relies on the Objective C runtime, including everything written in Swift. It's a multi-lingual platform where the new thing is (mostly) a language and one specifically designed to interoperate with the existing frameworks and runtime. The problem the article spends so much thought on feels like not much of a problem.
Autism detectable in brain long before symptoms appear
Well first of all Folsom has little to no seismic activity nor does Sacramento. If an earthquake hit Folsom hard enough to impact the dam Im pretty sure the bay area would be eviscerated. But if the dam was to falter, the water would actually just go into Lake Natoma and sit behind Nimbus dam rather than turning Sacramento into a lake. Even if both dams failed fully or partially, Sacramento levies would experience an increase in flow and volume. You could presumably have a breach in the levies in one or more places but one thing to know is that much of the levies that surround downtown Sacramento are rated at 500 year partly due to the capitol being in Sacramento.
Generic RDS is just hosted MySQL. A better comparison might be Aurora:

https://aws.amazon.com/rds/aurora/
Great paper, but I must say that I disagree with the characterization of ASLR as "a first line of defense" in the paper, and then repeated in most of the coverage of it.

When you reach the point that you're trying to mitigate the effects of memory corruption, it should mean that your first N lines of defense have already failed.
I would say secretive implies "not good." Everybody hears about the inventors of perpetual motion machines or cold fusion that refuse to divest their secrets until they get an investment or patent.
.. for passengers.

Today's car may have collision avoiding systems, which could protect pedestrians.
From the first link:

"The engine’s C/C++ code is compiled with LLVM, and any Dart code is AOT-compiled into native code. The app runs using the native instruction set (no interpreter is involved)."

Thanks!
Documentaries such as _Enemy of the State_ have been describing the NSA for much longer than 10 years.
Automated enforcement of speed limit violations would be fine, as long as our speed limits were adjusted for strict enforcement versus human enforcement.

Almost everyone will drive 35-40 in a 30, but you could make a case that anyone breaking 45-50mph for more than a few seconds should automatically get a ticket. Even better, the automated enforcement could account for actual danger, using road conditions, traffic density, and pedestrians: you can do 15+ if the road is empty, but you had better slow way down for a stroller in the crosswalk, etc.
TensorFlow Dev Summit 2017 – Livestream [video]
I see no contradiction.

You seem to believe that either winning elections or making money are satisfactory demonstrations of intelligence (as meant by IQ, or g). I do not.

I would be happy to reconsider if he released a simple IQ test, or even his old SAT scores (assuming he took the SAT).
"Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth." -- Mike Tyson
There's a story I've heard that ends with the real reason being that the author thought it would be funny to have people asking him why there were three consecutive nops years after the fact.
Thanks for the link. Props to Kucinich for not being a political opportunist like so many others and for pointing out the frightening context of the Flynn leak.
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I'd say it's pretty well known if you have anything to do with Go but there's a simple tutorial for most web servers. If you are able to build a site like that, editing some web server configs by following a tutorial shouldn't be a problem.

In any case, I like the project but I think that in 2017 it's irresponsible to do logins and user registration over http - even if it's just a weekend project.
The proper approach with uncertainty is an expected value calculation. That way the uncertainty regarding rain within the watershed, the temperature, etc. can all be factored in.

What is missing in this nice analysis is the economic impact. If 200k were evacuated, and roughly estimating they have $100k in real estate each for housing, and say $50k each for business real estate in the flood risk area, that comes to $30B. Assuming some will not be a complete loss, say $15B in real estate loss if the emergency spillway fails (neglecting job and economic activity impacts, etc).

Now if you have a 5% chance of failure in this next storm, the expected value of the loss is $750M.

This value now can be used to decide how much effort should be put into emergency repairs, something less than $750M.

Say these numbers are in the ballpark. Is the emergency repair effort taking place sensible? I suspect not. To avoid a loss in the billions, you'd expect a bigger effort. I'd expect every shotcrete contractor in the western US on hand, rebar being placed by helicopter, steel beams, 50 pieces of heavy equipment, temporary tanks of diesel fuel, and a real sense of emergency. Not seeing it.
I am not talking about multiple browsers. I use the same browser all day and my fingerprint still changes constantly, for many obvious reasons. The browser updates itself, I add extensions, etc.
So browser fingerprinting seems like a really bad way to identify people uniquely.
Using multiple different browsers just adds to that even more.
Moving 12-Month Total Vehicle Miles Traveled

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M12MTVUSM227NFWA
This. I text while driving very rarely, but when it was legal I would with my arm straight ahead so I could see the road and my phone. My phone's now been relegated to below the dash.
It's reasonable to want governments not to spy on each other.

Is it? I think governments spying on each other is sort of a good thing, myself. Insofar as governments have conflicting interests then it makes sense that they would attempt to understand each others' strategies and seek to outmaneuver them.

I know some people argue that the world would be a better place if everyone minded their own business, but that's kinda like kids saying we could solve crime if everyone would stop being bad. It's a form of wishing the world away, reflecting an unwillingness or inability to engage with it. Uncertainty and informational asymmetry are realities of life, hoping to eliminate this entirely seems irrational to me.
I've seen this written slightly differently:

"Never attribute to malice that which can be sufficiently explained by stupidity."