skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a more rigorous, scientific and yet still thoroughly digestible talk I strongly recommend watching Dr. Richard Alley's talk "The Biggest Control Knob: Carbon Dioxide in Earth's Climate History" [0]

As a Bayesian I particularly enjoy Alley's running theme that: while there certainly could be alternative explanations for what is happening, we simply cannot find anything that explains the data better than CO2.

I see many skeptics pointing out tiny holes in the main AGW hypotheses, but the real Bayesian test is "how much better does one hypothesis explain the observed data than then other?". When you put all the pieces of the atmospheric CO2 argument together it seem to explain what we're observing dramatically better than a thousand "...but what about?" that don't fit together into a coherent counter hypothesis.

As an example: Suppose I come home and see my front window broken, my door open and my laptop missing. I assume I have been robbed based on this evidence. You could say "but couldn't the window have been broken by some kid throwing rocks?", "maybe you left the door unlocked and the wind blew it open", "are you absolutely sure you didn't leave your laptop at work?"

While individually each of these counter hypotheses may explain a single event just as well, together they don't work:

P(window broke, door open, laptop missing | robbed) x P(robbed) >> P(window broke, door open, laptop missing | neighbor threw rock, left door unlocked and left laptop at work) x P(neighbor threw rock & left door unlocked & left laptop at work).

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RffPSrRpq_g

edit: forgot to add my priors in that last section
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The end of the last ice age had much faster warming, see:

http://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/abrupt-clim...
I don't think you know what baseline means.

Baseline is just the starting point of the x-axis. It doesn't matter.

Personally I'd set the baseline to 0 degrees. Because thats how temperature works.

But you can pick whatever you want. It does not matter what you x-axis starts at. It doesn't change the data.

Or you could just have no baseline. Just remove the X-axis line from the graph.
Oh, I'm not imagining you making an attack on Perl. It happens commonly enough, though. I was commenting that your property had a lot of punctuation and bemoaned that Perl with the same amount often gets criticized for that very thing. Meanwhile many of the same people are fine with Python's invisible punctuation, Lisp's parentheses, or Haskell's syntax which likewise includes a lot of punctuation.

I also was pointing out that Haskell has Tree shipping with it, and Perl's CPAN, which is usually a stellar place to look, has what appear to be some false starts. I'd sort of expect one of the many List:: modules like List::Utils, List::MoreUtils, etc. to have the functionality, but as far as I saw when looking, no. It's easy enough to do in the base language, though. I assumed Haskell from your language and the syntax of your notation.

Your Bash and sed solution appears simple on the surface, but it is using a trick of the data format and bringing together two languages. It's even using a syntax that will confuse some people on first look in that you're putting square brackets within square brackets starting with the right bracket then the left. Many people are going to look at that and at first think it's two empty character classes then do a double take. It's clever, but any simplicity in it is rather baked into some, let's say interesting assumptions. I like it as a snarky response to the problem, but it's not something I'd hire a programmer for proposing as a serious solution.
Robert Mercer, Cambridge Analytica, Trump, and Brexit
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At first, you might think it's just something like this (http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations), but as far as I can tell, the arguments come largely from first principles physics, validated through both experiments and historical observations including both human and natural records. I don't think this is a dishonest "look these line up!" argument.

I agree that it's frustrating when lay person proponents make arguments that don't hold up, and initially thought this article was doing that, but it's really just a snapshot into what's mentioned in the Methods section, which points to ModelE2 which is a physical simulation. It's being honest, just super brief.
I like Salman Rushdie's "East-West," "9 June 2015“ about people who never die from Alan Lightmans Einstein's Dreams, if you like ghost stories I recommend JS Le Fanu's "An Account of Some Strange Disturbances in Aungier Street."
As far as I know, there hasn't really been a quantum leap in AI in decades. Most of the fundamentals of the things you see in AI and machine learning are old, like 70s and 80s. The big change is that we have way more and cheaper processing power, so you can see AI happening in fields and areas that were just impossible in the past.

A true Turing Test passing machine, is still something that we seem to be more than a quantum leap behind of.
Thanks for clearing that up. I thought the distributed nature of blockchain implied something unordered but clearly I was wrong :-)
Replaced my 5S by an SE a couple of weeks ago. I fully agree, it's a great phone.

Be sure that you get the 64GB version though! My wife had the 16GB version and had to upgrade to the 64GB version, because the live photos, etc. took up quite a lot of space.
Thomas Frank's book _What's the Matter with Kansas_[0] explores this pretty well. Some of what he proposes is a bit over-simplified (ie that all conservatives prefer to vote for morals over pragmatism[1]), but his main thesis -- that the conservative platform has created a moral argument convincing poorer Americans to vote against the very social programs that they rely on -- is a good starting point for considering this.

Personal note: I grew up rural California; Frank's thesis describes the adamant, self-defeating narratives that I regularly heard from my neighbors.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Whats-Matter-Kansas-Conservatives-Ame...
[1] http://www.economist.com/node/8057895
It means how competitive the bids are for the auction.
The post explicitly says "Network File System":

> The example in this blog uses NFS for the Persistent Volumes, but any shared file system would also work (ex: ceph, gluster).
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This repository is an opinionated repository and comes with a lot more things than the create-react-pwa. i.e. Webpack, Mocha, Flow, Nightwatch, component structure.

I agree, if you wanted to start from scratch with your own structure create-react-pwa is probably a better repository for you. However, if you like the opinions formed in this repo then it will allow you to get started straight away with static type checking, e2e testing, unit testing, tree shaking, and code splitting all built in.

You raise a good point regarding Preact, it is something that I have considered but decided to stick with React until it became problematic.
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I'm not arguing. I think I would have been better off taking some college courses instead of actually going to college
I don't find this type of argument very useful because usually instead of making specific, falsifiable criticisms of the literature, this argument starts with "wow, scientists can be wrong or prone to human biases sometimes" which turns into a general "I have a touchy-feely sense that maybe some stuff is wrong with climate science", which quickly turns into "I guess most of the literature out there is completely wrong and thus we can do away with those conclusions regardless of the volume of evidence" to "I guess everyone and every viewpoint has an equal chance of being right".

Of course scientists make mistakes. Of course there is dogma and politics. Of course this has an effect, and of course we should take this seriously - and scientists can and do take it seriously. For example, look up the "reproducibility crisis" - some of the harshest criticism of existing science is yet again made by practicing scientists. But this is different than armchair handwringing.
I tried to right my mistake of saying it was cynical by apologizing above. It's not cynical.

As far as free from having to earn an income, of course, you realize we're talking about a floor? Someone could correct me on this but my understanding is "basic income" means enough to survive?

Some people would accept living very simply so they could work on their personal projects, build their business, etc., while others would make seeking additional income their highest priority. That's what I like about this concept is that there does not appear to be coercion or social engineering involved.
Anyone else notice how everyone they reached out to refused to comment?
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No it wasn't. All values share the same Y axis and are calculated by simulating climate models. As I understand it, the graphs show how temperature would have evolved if there was only one of the influencing factors present.

They also tell you right in the the graph title that some aerosols have the adverse effect and can cool the atmosphere.
That's what's called a "p-value", and as you guessed it is indeed calculated. It's a basic tool of science, to the point that even better probabilistic tools have been advocated for years, and it's one of the first things you check when you're reviewing a paper.
Aerosols are not decreasing, but rather increasing. They reduce insolation, both directly and by increasing cloudiness. So they counteract greenhouse forcing.

The main anthropogenic aerosols are sulfur oxides and particulates from fuel combustion. And potentially, crap from nuclear explosions ("nuclear winter"). Main natural sources are deserts, sea salt and volcanoes.

So anyway, if China manages to reduce its aerosol emissions faster than its CO2 emissions, mean global temperature will likely increase even faster.
The claims about 'citizen score' in China are likely mostly bogus.
https://www.techinasia.com/china-citizen-scores-credit-syste...
Popularity of Sony’s PlayStation VR Surprises Even the Company
Traffic jams, pollution, loads of wastes, material consumption, needs to administrate all that, size of the cities, ability for justice to be served, hospital facilities, availability of pre-schools, number of children in class rooms...

People think overpopulation is a problem when you reach a certain cap, but I don't think there is a cap. I think it's progressive.

Plus with our current population size, we are bound to certain kind of systems and can't try alternatives. We have to normalize, we have to batch, we have to have pyramids, a chain of command to manage things.

This is great to produce and consume a great quantity of goods, but not so much for education, progress as a society, as a specie and even for something simpler such as producing goods of great quality.

But even if you disagree with any of that, and my whole population size theory, great birth control would solve one current major problem: unwanted pregnancy by men.

I'd say about half of my male friends became parents unwillingly for a lot of different reasons and scenarios. It does not make them great fathers because they didn't want to be one at this time of their life in the first place.

I think a global solution for a safe, non invasive and permanent procedure to keep one sterile at will would improve immensely the quality of life, eduction, and growth of children. Because the ones being here would be the ones wanted.

Which means basically shaping a better future.
What even is the scale for these comparisons? I don't know how one can measure orbital changes, land use, or solar or volcanic activity in degrees Fahrenheit.
There I googled it for you, so spend at least 10 minutes reading it now. Please.

But it is common sense, we know that excerise prolong your life, doing it regularly in modest proportions is best. Using a bicycle for transport to work means you are exercising twice daily, maybe 10-20 minutes for lunch as well. It is obvious that this kind of exercise will do you good.

For me it's one to two hours of exercise per day, it's hard to beat those health benefits.

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2105/AJPH.2015.3...
https://www.uu.nl/en/news/dutch-bikers-live-six-months-longe...
I finally took one apart a few days ago, off the top of a box of coconut water. It was difficult for me to understand its mechanism -- the cutter ring has a number of channels that correspond with small guide pins. It made sense that the cutter gets pushed down and then rotated somehow to move the foil it cuts out of the way. But what I didn't figure out (third video in the playlist) was that it happens at opening time.
Even though I have licenses for PyCharm, PHPStorm and CLion I find myself using Visual Studio Code more and more. One single IDE is just way more productive for me than 3.

Their products are very good but I'd be a little worried if I were Jetbrains.
"Your messages will not be protected with end-to-end encryption." This sounds clear, but is it correct?
Chinese people enter countries poor and usually do better soon. Other groups stay poor. I'm sorry to say it but the staying poor part might also be caused by those people themselves, not some external factor they cannot control.

> The rape stats are also way different from how they are portrayed in the media. In Sweden, if you are in an abusive relationship, every instance of abuse is counted individually, and as Assange learned, the law is very strict. As other countries tend to do far worse at reporting and prosecuting abuse, and as other countries tend to count all occurrences of abuse together as one crime, the numbers are not directly comparable to other countries.

Yet in Sweden they measure immigrants and Swedes in the same way and it's five times as much on average while some migrant groups singled out are doing better than native Swedes.
There are many other indicators of global temperature which have been used to make assertions going back anywhere from 500-100000 years depending on what methodology you use: http://grist.org/climate-energy/one-hundred-years-is-not-eno...
Google Spaces Shuts Down, just like many said
Written in Rust :) Inspiring, I am learning Rust now to try implementing HDFS-like storage.
Thanks a lot for the detailed answer and resources - will check them out over time. I had bought the Camel book and had read most of it, years ago. I know Curtis a bit, nice guy.

>It has what they call gradual typing in that it is dynamic like python, but you can add types to functions that help to catch lots of errors.

Is this something like in Haskell, where I've read (not sure of the details) that you can define types related to the parts of the application or business domain / business logic, which then enables more error-checking by the compiler when you use those types in your code? It may be things like instead of using just an int, if it is meant to represent say height of humans, you might add constraints like height > 0 and height <= 10 feet (because you think or know that no human can be taller than that). Then the compiler will warn you or give an error if you try to assign a value to a height variable, which is outside that range.

Pascal has a version of this feature oo, but maybe Haskell has more support for this stuff - not sure.
I don't disagree with your analysis, but can we stop calling uber a successful business? It has been probed countless times that they are bleeding money and still is not clear if they will ever be successful.
Because of stupid antiscientific panic some people foment.
Too bad they didn't jump on the Android bandwagon years ago when they were still in good shape.
In case anyone else was curious about this scandal, I found the following contemporary article writing about it: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/13/business/media/bloomberg-a...

According to https://qz.com/83445/what-bloomberg-employees-can-see-when-t... , all Bloomberg employees could see when a user last logged in (like "w" in Unix), transcripts of all chats between the user and customer service (these chats are triggered by pressing F1/HELP twice, as other comments have indicated), and how many times the user used specific functions over the last 30 days.
The claim was that peer review in climate science is comparable to any other science. Ignoring the semantics of "engineering" vs "science", if your experience with peer review in another field is not positive, then it's fair to say the claim doesn't inspire much confidence.
> a completion based model, and wakes up threads with the data (or error)

Which means that in this model you have to allocate and provide a buffer for that data long before the kernel is going to fill it. It's going to just sit there waiting, wasting memory. While in unix model you don't have to allocate a buffer until you know there is some data to copy from the kernel, which is easier for the user and much more efficient.

Completion model makes sense if your entire networking stack lives in userspace and you can allocate memory on the lowest layer, but pass it as a reference all the way up. Or if you at least can do syscall batching, to make operating on very small buffers efficient.
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I find it interesting that a self professed lawyer would create an account on a technology news website during an election year and regularly post against government regulation. How do you have so much time to argue against climate change and other "liberal" topics?
>All of which is only possible because they have had a monopoly.

You got it backwards: them having a monopoly is only possible because it hasn't been possible for anyone else to produce more efficient desktop/laptop CPUs. On the mobile, where there are competent competitors, it's a different story.

It's not as if if they sacrificed their margins they'd magically be able to produce faster processors. Just cheaper ones.

And why would they have "consumer cpu options that ditch the integrated graphics"? What that would accomplish, when there's a ton of cpu being wasted otherwise?
> The incentive isn't to cool the planet, but alter the world economic model.

This reads so clearly as a projection from climate deniers, heavily invested in protecting their stake in the current world economic model.
People spend time on their smartphone rather than really connecting with the people around them or the situations they're in.
thanks for the info/link!
"Create their own version" means they pay for it, just not by giving money or time to the people who are doing the main project. If Apple, Google etc are paying for their own NTP and SSL versions, that's clearly because it's important to them in some way.

If nobody affected by python2 is going to pay for a python2-fork, python2 must not actually be very important. And yes, PSF might have all the brain trust now, but it's not like a big company whose continuity-of-business really depended on python2 wouldn't attempt to acquire this expertise in some fashion. "Acquire" meaning something as simple as picking a few engineers on staff and saying "learn everything you can about this so we can maintain our own version."
> Either way, we currently see no way around that problem.

Hrm… assuming you mean in general rather than just on GitHub/etc., why wouldn't a pre-receive hook work? Not that `git dit push` is especially friendly to newbies (for that there's no way around a web interface, which is of course a possibility), but it would provide a standard 'protocol' for submission. It's not great if the maintainer needs to approve not only every issue but every comment from the public.
So my masseuse came on the weekend and she had Nokia 3310 (for 15 years I think she said). She's saying the battery still lasts 10 days on a single charge and doesn't want to change it.

My question is - would this new shiny thingy last as long as well or everything is going to get drained by bells, whistles, emojis, big emojis, animated emojis etc?
Looking forward for the series.
Would having a git push hook that checks for remaining/added todos with this be a good idea?
Was this not simply part of the Cloudbleed remedy?
As your link illustrates, Multi-AZ is the only real HA option for RDS PostgreSQL, and it doesn't share storage between nodes. So even though RDS uses EBS, you can't really say it is the underlying storage layer that provides RDS's high availability.
You can use them to get a job.
Along those lines, I'm really excited about Neovim's work to make the editor embeddable. Rather than reimplenting a fraction of Vim/Neovim, you can embed all of it.
You say that 1880 was one of the coldest years in history. The data series used in the article indicate that the entire decade 1903-1913 was significantly colder.

If you then look at the contribution to climate from volcanic activity (CO2 and sulphates, in both directions), the fourth graph in the article ("Is It Volcanoes?"), the data show that 1880 did not have a significant negative temperature contribution from volcanic activity, and although 1884-5 did, so too did 1964-66, 1983, and 1992.

There is no consensus on the cause of the Little Ice Age; although volcanism is one possible cause, there are other possible causes both external (solar activity, orbital cycles) and anthrogenic (reafforestation following pandemic-induced population collapse in Europe and the Americas). If that last cause is indeed a contributing factor, it supports the anthrogenic climate change theory. Even if it is excluded, the removal or reversal of external factors is totally insufficient to explain observed warming in the last century.
Here's a few things that could ease student loan debt: make the interest rate less, use SS paid into while in college towards college, simplify all the federal student loans, etc.
Seriously... I'm going to die before I get to use any SS...
I did and I was one of the mentee as an engineering lead. All I needed is to attend on meeting and listen or support the PM, but it was invaluable to see how to reason, convince stakeholders, gather requirements and objective feedback, and how not to give a fig to the emotions.
I'm aware of what a "p-value" is but what were talking about is reconstruction from historical samples and its perfectly calculable what kind of events wouldnt show up in that reconstruction (and p-values have almost nothing to do with it). Your attitude is obnoxious.
It's interesting that we still try to scare people with the effect of global warming by saying: Average World temperature has risen by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit.

This may scientifically be a huge concern. But for the average person? When I open my window the temperature drops by more than 5 degrees and i don't even feel it.

However, the first day i went to cairo egypt, i immediately understood the problem of pollution. I smelled it right out of the plane. And for the years that followed I had to deal with the health consequences on a daily basis.

Climate change is boring, you still have to argue to convince people. But breathing in that thick grey smog shows you the consequences immediately.
Nope. Nothing at all.
"We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the most valuable qualities you can acquire. You must force yourself to consider arguments on the other side"

This is probably the lost art of the century.
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I've dealt with both nice and competent 3rd party recruiters and with terrible internal recruiters (Amazon...)

It's usually easy to tell when a 3rd party recruiter is wasting your time (sometimes they don't even read the first line of your LinkedIn profile summary). On the other hand, there isn't much you can do when an otherwise good company has a chaotic recruiting process.