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You're criticizing what you consider to be an oversimplification, and your criticism is itself based on an oversimplification.

It seems you're implying that the argument being presented is basically just, "The world is getting warmer, aaaa!!!" There's much more to it than that. In fact, even the article you're criticizing provides a more nuanced justification than that, which opens you up to criticism for constructing a strawman argument. The real argument is, "Researchers have built detailed models to try and understand how the climate behaves, and sussed out many, if not all, the factors that influence global climate, and based on those models we can make certain worrying inferences about the current state of things and how we expect them to develop in the future."

Those models do a very good job of hindcasting global climate over the period for which we have good, detailed data. This period admittedly and unfortunately does not cover much of the Little Ice Age. In climate science, as everywhere else, the GIGO principle applies. But since we do still get non-garbage out when we put non-garbage in, that leaves us in a state where they seem to be our most reliable source of information. If you want to challenge them, it's not enough to point out various historical events that are primarily hard to explain due to lack of data. You need to be able to propose a better model.

Concrete example: Nobody threw Newton out the window just because, despite all the myriad places where his model worked stunningly well, there were a few things it couldn't explain. They waited until Einstein came up with a model that explained everything Newton's model could handle and more. And then they used that in some spots, but still mostly just stuck with Newton because the math is easier and accurate enough for almost any practical use. That's the way science works for physics, and that's the way it works for climatology, too.
> In a world that is more disconnected than ever, what we really need to do is unite.

Totally agree, however not sure how they are doing this by introducing new phones.
Im not making an accusation that climate scientists wouldnt calculate this, because its not something thats in the content of the paper were discussing. My accusation is that you (or whoever i replied to) didnt have that data.

At the same time I wouldn't be surprised if there were climate scientists who chose to avoid these sorts of calculations.

Also, the p-value might tell you whether or not an event like this would literally be one of your samples, but its not whats going to tell you whether or not a reconstruction from these samples contains information about these events. Although I guess its not much of a distinction.
How much Gate's or Soros' time costs in pounds? I bet this way you could also calculate it in thousands. Or explicit support of the very US President? How much is that in money? If you count it thst way yiy can easily get gigantic numbers.
See the message I received as a Dyn customer... The sales people were scummy in their tactics.
Your claims of cherry-picking are nonsense. I have picked a few examples to support my argument of deteriorating journalistic quality. Aftonbladet and GP are mainstream newspapers. GP is not right wing by international standards. For international readers, it is worth pointing out that DN is definitely not a particularly right wing publication by any international standard. Sanandaji is a frequent commentator in Swedish media with a best selling book out.

To me it seems that you are letting your own self-confessed political views influence your ability to evaluate the quality of the journalism and fall back on ad hominem rather than presenting your counter arguments.
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1. As nom points out, the Methodology section just below the graphs states clearly "The colored temperature lines are the modeled estimates that each climate factor contributes to the overall temperature." So the black line and the various lines of the hypothesized contributing factors are on the same scale.

2. Yes, the graph shows the increase in aerosols having a cooling effect over time. The text states, "Some pollutants cool the atmosphere, like sulfate aerosols from coal-burning. These aerosols offset some of the warming. (Unfortunately, they also cause acid rain.)" Perhaps you thought the graph was a graph of aerosol levels, rather than a graph of modeled impact of aerosols on temperature?

3. WRT "Correlation is not causation": this phrase is quite abused. As you note, non-correlation can be evidence of non-causation, and correlation can be indicative of causation. Since we have straightforward causal theories for the relationship between atmospheric CO2 and increased temperature, and experimental evidence, and historical evidence, its a rather silly point to dispute in this simple representation of various factors that get offered as alternatives to atmospheric greenhouse gasses.
nice ! would be nice as well if you can pass exclusion rules for files, extensions and directories
Companies often don't know why they succeeded. They have some idea, but it's an incomplete and biased picture. There is a tendency to credit company culture, but presumably some companies have succeeded in spite of their culture, rather than because of it.
Someone can inherit a fortune as a child and still lose it. Doesn't mean he started from scratch.
> The worst you can say is confusing and painful

Everyone's approach towards these mechanisms is broken. Just don't treat it as a reliable notification mechanism, do your own scheduling using information from epoll/kqueue only as hints and everything will be fine.
But is Xiaomi available in the US and what is version is their is based on?

I haven't seen an authorized seller for Xiaomi and I was under the impression that they are still using marshmallow or earlier. Also all their phones are 4.5"+ which is much larger than the comparably compact SE.

I'd love to get a xiaomi phone (esp. based on the price and alleged build quality) but it's just not worth the tradeoffs.
In the same sense that YCombinator has a monopoly on news forums run by startup incubators.
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> 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

+1000 I got the 16GB version and I've had to micromanage some of my apps and definitely the photos and stuff to free up space. Luckily I don't take that many pictures so I'm ok with occasionally deleting data. Can't imagine using something like Snapchat though (which I used to use but now don't) it uses a TON of space.
I suspect the lockouts happened when people tried to re-log back in and did not know their passwords. According to https://support.google.com/accounts#topic=3382296
a banner on the Accounts help page says:

"During routine maintenance, a number of users were signed-out from their Google accounts. If you were affected, please sign back in using your usual username and password at https://accounts.google.com. If you can’t remember your password or can’t sign in for another reason, recover your account password here. For security reasons, our support agents are unable to assist with password issues."
No, we haven't. A bunch of people have used the app (including me) and said nice things about it. Then some other people have spouted vitriol about the fact that it's made with electron. Frankly all we've established is that a lot of people are bitter about electron and don't have the basic manners required to take part in a constructive technology community.
While that's true, there is another issue here. If global warming went away tomorrow -- as in, it were to be completely proven to not exist -- every single climate change scientist would be out of a job. They'd literally have to start over their entire professional career from scratch with almost zero chance of getting any kind of funding. This includes everyone who peer reviews the papers too.

Meanwhile if Agile is proven to be terrible, it would be a huge boon for those writing about programming methodology as they could easily invent a new one and sell that.

So there is far more economic reason for almost every scientist involved to argue that global warming is definitely happening, while there is almost no economic reason for a computer scientist to argue it. So I don't think sheer quantity of papers in journals is necessarily a proof that global warming papers are any better than Agile papers in good journals.

EDIT: Instantly downvoted on posting! I've struck a nerve. That, to me, proves that people have a lot more to hide than they let on. I've certainly never been downvoted when discussing an Agile paper.

I was also thinking about the papers on Agile vs global warming, and the Agile papers generally read as far more balanced and generally go into much deeper detail than any global warming paper. So I think I'd personally trust the Agile papers more because they do at least have significant discussion on the negatives of the approach and generally cite negative studies themselves.
I could be wrong about this. For instance, http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2148250.2148477 https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/868b/443aec1e87951c8a896b12... "Improved preimage attack on one-block MD4" is a 2012 publication improving the preimage attack on MD4 from 2^107 to 2^95. So 17 years after a practical collision attack on MD4, academics ARE still working on it as a cryptographic primitive, but despite that they have NOT found a practical preimage attack on it.
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How would you make a phone call?
So probably not.
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It would be so much nicer to define better defaults. Like what… 99.99% of the users are never, ever, wanting to see notes that are in the `.git` repository, nor in PNG or any other images. Even hidden dirs and files should not be searched by default I think. All this will cause nightmares to users before they start using it, like the first-poster of this thread had. Provide better defaults, make it vcs-aware (ignored files, etc…) and you will have a much more appreciated product!

It is for the same reason that `rg`/`ag`/`pt` are used nowadays instead of `grep`. 99.99% of the time, you don't want to search files that are ignored by your VCS, and you want to search recursively, and also probably in a case-insensitive way. For `grep` you have to fight with tons of options to filter out files, to enable recursivity and to ignore case. With `ag`? just `ag whatever`.

Defaults make the difference.
Why do you think that video shows that Tesla isn't reliant on neural networks? Neural nets outputting bounding boxes is pretty normal.

Despite NVIDIA's papers, end-to-end neural nets for self-driving cars are dumb, but for the initial perception based on sensor data, neural nets are the only game in town.
I disagree.

As you said, by 1880 the world was recovering from Little Ice Age. That is, between 1880 and mid-20th century the world showed a natural tendency to become progressively warmer.

This natural warming reduces the contrast with what followed, and makes the graph look more like a smooth transition. As others commented, if you look farther back, natural temperature variations smooth out, and the "hockey stick" shape becomes unmistakable.
Pretty much. If you want to compare two floats a and b within some precision eps, use:

abs(a - b) <= eps*0.5*(a + b)

or even

(abs(a - b) <= eps*abs(a)) && (abs(a - b) <= eps*abs(b))

which is implemented in Boost [0].

[0] http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_34_0/libs/test/doc/component...
> First, name calling doesn't make your argument any more credible.

It explains your position. Being meta isn't name-calling. Or if it is it's on the same level of Nietzsche saying philosophers derive philosophy from who they are.

2) You've listed three such subjects yourself: CS, engineering, physics. Not such a high hurdle when there are multiple elements in the set. Which you left out. Strawman. Or is it OK to be dishonest in your arguments, and then claim I have a lack of rigour?

> you have to identify attributes of technology that serve as evidence for those preferences

No I don't.

I can say males & females have preferences for different activities, therefore it's plausible that they have a preference for one job over another.

I could point to Sweden and say a country with the least inequality has the largest differences in occupation.

There's no way to be more definitive without additional information. Thus, my position is, it's unclear what's creating the differences in a number of fields. It could be biological, or it could be systematic discrimination (which is falsified somewhat by Sweden). So, I lean towards biological differences.

I understand your position as:

There are no preference differences in most 'high-status' jobs, therefore there are no preference differences universally.

That doesn't jive with Sweden. And isn't self-evident.

You demand proof that a number of fields are different in a way which is unattractive to women. How about you supply proof that they're the same?!
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I don't think it is universally agreed that Uber is successful despite its culture.

It may be that, in at least some industries, ruthless aggression is a financially advantageous attitude. Investment banking comes to mind.

If we want to change culture, it has to be for reasons other than money. The Pyramids were a phenomenal project that we couldn't realistically replicate today (due to costs), but I'm okay sacrificing that for not using slave labor. Speaking of which, the American South was an economic powerhouse with a culture of slavery and brutality (in large part because of it, not despite it.)

I think that's what a lot of people are grappling with in Silicon Valley. We want to have a positive, inclusive culture and also build massive companies. People rarely talk about what happens if you can only choose one. The reality of taking venture funding is that you are expected to do the latter, with the former a nice to have.

(You can read my comment history to see that I'm strongly against these types of culture.)
Pashtun primarily (I think > 80%?), although we have a mix of Haraza, some Nuristani, Turkmen, etc in our bloodlines. The Hazara mix comes primarily from the maternal sides though.
I'm ditching my iPhone 7 for the 3310.
That's the beauty of truth -- it remains true regardless of what anyone does or thinks.
You'll see someone like this in every global warming discussion that happens with an educated audience. They'll put on all the plumage of reasonable dissent: "I don't think that the argument for AGW takes into account <pet theory>." In an audience of non-experts, they will go unanswered, and appear to have a point, until you spend an hour or two digging through the relevant IPCC reports and discover that not only has <pet theory> been investigated, it has been extensively investigated by dozens of labs across hundreds of studies using methodologies you never dreamed possible, along with 3 or 4 variants of the argument, all of which were quite thoroughly put to rest.

If you confront them with this evidence, citing all the reports and papers, they'll just switch from <pet theory> to <pet theory 2>, possibly after firing off a final riposte defending <pet theory> that makes it abundantly clear they couldn't even be bothered to read the links you dug up, forcing you to ask yourself if you really want to do all that homework again.

Fake-reasonable arguments are easy. Countering them is hard. If you don't discard them as a matter of policy (peer review or STFU), they will dominate the decision making process with 100% certainty.
> Why doesn't Kubernetes destroy these nodes when they've been out of commission for 3-4 hours?

Kubernetes isn't responsible for the lifecycle of its nodes. It can run in a DC where "destroying a node" might mean paging a tech to turn off a server. Something external - in your case, kops & your ASG - is responsible for the nodes that Kubernetes runs on. That's a deliberate design choice.

It should make a correct decision not to schedule work there, which it sounds like it did.

Given that, your other questions are hard to answer. kubelet is a process that runs on the nodes. So is docker. If you can't get into the machine to diagnose the fault, I'd encourage you to set up some monitoring/log shipping off the node so you can see what the state was when it failed.

There's nothing inherently "Kubernetes" about this diagnosis - it's more EC2, node/kernel/OS and Docker troubleshooting, in that order.
As I recall, the Obama IT effort was used to identify voters and get out the vote. This Mercer thing is pure psyops. It's intentionally trying to alter mass psychology for its own benefit.
> What is "other" consumer debt -- payday loans? IOU's?

Other types of consumer loans, like furniture or other lines of credit. Additionally, many new phones are leased.
"Message passing" might be considered a component of a "shared nothing" system. If so, a thread-based message passing implementation might still use shared process memory behind the scenes to efficiently pass messages between local threads. Worker threads might be written so that the responsibility for managing a resource external to the process is assigned to max 1 thread simultaneously, even if the message passing abstraction uses a bit of shared process memory behind the scenes.
I want to share this with my more non-techy persons, but, on Chrome, turning of uOrigin, their are no names of companies listed. I can hover over every block for the name, but.. is this an error, or intentional to just have a large heart-block with no labels?
Fraud laundering, the data is there in a network of shell accounts.
Popular vote doesn't mean much because nobody optimized for it. It's like saying one soccer team won over the other because they touched the ball more times. But that's not the goal of the game, so it proves no point.
Probably not. Bells and whistles unfortunately come with added complexity which takes a toll on the device's durability (at least w.r.t software; I think hardware is a related but different issue). Unless they made some massive changes to their version of Android, you are still going to see the same issues on these phones as well.
C# does some useful stuff that VB.NET doesn't, while the only thing VB really did better than C# is COM without interop libraries. So VB.NET ended up just being a bridge to C#, so it died out pretty quickly. I still encounter it a fair bit, but it's usually just the oldest modules in a codebase where everything new is in C#.
> More proof that floats are evil.

Just because someone doesn't know the basics of floating point numbers it doesn't mean that the floating point format is somehow evil.

Testing floats for equality is one of those no-nos which is taught right in the first class of introduction to FP numbers.

Another very basic issue covered right in the intro clsses are problems caused by using decimal values to define numbers encoded in binary format, which is often explained through the famous "0.1 doesn't exist in binary" trivia bit.
Yes, I'd love this too -- the killer app of smartphones is navigation. I'd be better off leaving the house without HN and Facebook in my pocket, but knowing how to get where I'm going without a paper map pre-written directions is really hard to give up.
"...only enjoy generalizing, optimizing, refactoring, designing, and take zero pleasure in delivering an actual usable product"

Too many projects suffer immensely because of people who don't give a shit about delivering.
In that mode, anything is an excuse: we need to reactor, we need to build a better framework, we need to revisit the requirements, etc.

Then real progress gets slowed down because of some ill fitting development philosophy that some of those folks pulled out of their asses.

What you need are wise programmers that care about delivering product, wise enough to balance long term maintenability and code health with actual delivery schedule.

The keyword is "wise".
I think I saw you on this thread, but I'd defer to Clayton Coleman of Red Hat/OpenShift in this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13680244

tl;dr: do you want to be a DBA? do you want to be a cluster admin? If you want to be both you can run databases on Kubernetes. If you don't want to be a DBA, use a managed service.
I admit, sometimes when I read these articles, I have trouble understanding why these people are having so much difficulty getting it to work.

It's also hard for me to imagine a scenario where accept() takes longer than servicing a request and becomes a bottleneck. That is, why would you need multiple threads accepting on the same socket?
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I think they're just including the albedo effect of deforestation in that graph, not the GHG effect of burning and decaying trees. (Cropland is usually lighter coloured than forest, so reflects more light and heat, giving a cooling effect.)

Oxygen is not a worry in any realistic scenario. Crops still photosynthesize, and in any case most of our oxygen comes from marine phytoplankton. CO2 is measured in parts per million (currently around 400ppm), oxygen is around 20%, so CO2 would reach toxic levels (1%) long before any oxygen shortage became a problem.
I think the metrics are more like 1 in 10 go from idea to initial funding, and 1 in 10 of those go from initial funding to Series A.

So 1 / 10 culls twice over a couple years.
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Certain streets in SF are unspoken "highways" with timed green lights to get across the city quickly: Fell/Oak, Sutter/Bush, Geary, Lincoln Ave, 19th Ave, Guerrero, Howard/Folsom (though this seems to have changed with the crazy wide bike lanes).

While it's completely in one's rights to ride a bike on those streets, it's pretty stupid unless you're hauling ass because the speed differential between the car and bike is too great.

Urban planners can talk all they want about how these streets are bad design and cities shouldn't have them, but it's best for both parties if bikers didn't use those streets. I don't know how someone rides on those streets without thinking it's a bad idea because most of the time, it's someone on a slow mountain bike going 10 mph.
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I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic here.

Git supports binary blobs. That's a choice that was made way back, and it is not the fault of the user for using that feature. If Linus didn't want people to use git for binary blobs he probably shouldn't have added support for it.

Once he did add support for binary blobs he had an obligation to take the security of that component and its users seriously. And as I said before, although the risk is not sky-is-falling bad, it is present. I think even Linus agrees with that now or he wouldn't be working on a path forward at all.
Virtually every db works like that under the hood.
They expose it differently, though.
Kafka has nothing but log, for example.
Is this actually the case?

> Waking up "Thread B" was completely unnecessary and wastes precious resources. Epoll in level-triggered mode scales out poorly.

In the analysed situation thread B was already in a wait state and there aren't enough incoming connections to immediately accept the next one. Of course the resources (CPU time) were wasted, but does that impact the performance in any way? (Assuming one "main" application on that host)
They're always positive people. I always enjoy talking to them even though they do not represent the real culture of a company. As soon as you start the iterviewing process then the tone drops and people are cold and competitive with absolutely zero communication skills. Sometimes I ask myself - am I really working in the right department? Developers really suck. And I'm one of them :)