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There is some risk of institutionalized bias such as you are suggesting. The possibility should not be dismissed entirely.

But I don't think it's true that every scientist expressing a belief in anthropogenic global warming has a conflict of interest. Some number of them are tenured professors, for example. This is a good example of the value of the tenure system in academia.

As for the papers in Nature and Science, well, I haven't read them, but given the extreme politicization of the issue, it doesn't surprise me that the authors are tending to omit qualifications and caveats, since many people who want to dismiss the evidence would pick up on these -- as we're seeing in this very discussion.
I have tried almost every iteration of consumer VR from the last few years. Oculus DK1, DK2, and CV1, Vive, PSVR, and cardboard.

I want to say that Vive is by far the best experience, but I don't think that you're going to get ruined by trying the PSVR first, especially not if you have a bit of imagination/ability to dream about what the technology will become.

Even back in the DK1 days, it was very very clear that this was going to be an incredible technology, and I think the PSVR is better than that was.
The pro is that it is a single thing that we can do no matter who believes what.

The negative is that it allows us to bypass one problem of pollution (climate change) but does noting to address the problem itself, which has other side effects that also harm humans.
I love mine but what I'm still waiting for is slimline Qi charging without the extra battery (or pricetag)
That does not make sense of getting a failure from

assert x/y == x/y
I have both a "dumbphone" and a smartphone. But honestly, if you want a dumbphone get something like an old BlackBerry Curve. That way you still retain full keyboard capabilities instead having to use T9 for texting.
> There are bigger threats out there than the current climate change. Antibiotics losing effectiveness is one, yet is seems like almost all countries in the world still ignores that fact.

I'm not sure antibiotic resistance is a greater threat to humanity than global warming. Sure, people dying from simple infections and pretty much all surgery becoming very risky is bad, but humanity has survived for thousands of years without antibiotics. We've never experienced a 5+ degree increase in global temperatures. Relying on unproven climate engineering seems risky.
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...You said "evil" a lot, but what exactly is the evil part? That's a hell of a claim to make, and then only support with hyperbole and bluster.
Agreed: you have to read the papers, or literature reviews by experts, to convince yourself. I'm a physicist and when it comes to physics, the articles journalists write might as well be completely made up.

The AGW papers I've read, though, are very solid, and more sophisticated than I expected.
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Looking at the other comments here : how quickly people forget everything!
Thanks for the feedback vitovito! That was my reasoning for me to enroll into grad school, so I can go beyond understanding the tools and build cool apps, but to push the state of the field. I feel I am at point in my knowledge where I can contribute the field of AR/VR, I just need guidance on what problem to focus on.

The biggest thing that I would want to know is what software/algorithms/knowledge would advance the work of an AR/VR company. From these job postings:

1. Apple: 3D Perception/Computer Vision Algorithm Engineer
2. Snap Inc : https://boards.greenhouse.io/snapchat/jobs/586658#.WLNBhBIrK...
3. Magic Leap: https://www.magicleap.com/#/job-post/521175

That most AR/VR companies are looking for people who are doing real-time computer vision algorithms, such as 3D object recognition, SLAM, and gesture recognition. I feel that this would be something I can focus on, but I do not want to work on a problem that is already solved. Any advice on what are important problems that would be of value to solve would be great!

Would implementing these algorithms and open them to the OpenCV community be of value also? I am only in a 2 year masters program, so I am limited on time to what I can contribute as a full-time grad student.

Any other advice on this you feel is important would be greatly appreciated!
Eve Valkyrie is also a full game worth talking about. Well, kind-of full. You don't get that "here's 30 minutes of an experience, now back to the start you go"; the multiplayer aspect of the game is amazing, but single player could have used a bit more attention.

Overall though, the immersion, the unique control scheme for space dogfighting, upgrading and improving your ships, it's doing a VERY good job holding me over until the PS4 port of Elite Dangerous comes out.
Visual Studio also has this. View -> Task List.
Then why did you cite it as evidence of something?
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•Can you walk away from a problem when the solution is “good enough,” are you able to switch between tasks or problems with relative ease? Are you OK with simple solutions to problems that could have more complicated solutions, but only with rapidly diminishing returns?

Translation: Can you be a good assembly line worker, devoid of pride or curiosity and just do the damned job? If so, great, we can use you! If not, please return to academia.

Lovely stuff.
First off, are you talking base salary or full package? There is no such thing as $200k base salary for 10 years exp in java. You'd have to specialize. $170k/y base salary for an eng manager is right where you want to be.

If your talking about base salary + bonus + annual sotcks/RSU's then you're way below market.
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They could've said it nicer, but i don't think there's a constructive way to say "either rewrite it without electron or start whittling down the electron code-base to remove all the stuff your app doesn't use".
It's just a concept.
A lot of this can also generally apply to a Computer Science Ph.D graduates who would like to understand what working in the industry entails.
They have a dual SIM version of 3310...
Am I the only person who was hoping for an actual re-vamp of the 3310? ie. a b/w screen (always on, easy to read in direct sunlight). Perhaps updated for 3/4G networks and modern chargers, and maybe without some of the bugs.

Right now I'm rocking an ageing 8310; the buttons are worn out and, one of the more interesting problems with running a 'classic' phone is that the contacts erode a modern SIM card every 6 months or so.

Today we got a curvy 'featurephone' with a camera, which is valid, but feels like that's something already out there.
I wanted to browse the types of job listings available before signing up and releasing any private details, but the demo job search does not appear to allow search by region or city. I'm in the Bay Area and got suggestions from all over the US. You ought to allow granular search if you hope to drive membership.
I'd agree with you, except that the truth is so much more grim and obvious... nobody really gives enough of a shit to go to war. "Red lines" and all of that didn't make people care, the depth of the depravity doesn't even make them want to accept refugees, never mind intervene on their foreign soil.

You can relax, Syria is going to remain the hellish proxy war it's always been.
Yes, seems okay to me too. It's how you'd expect it to work. But now that we're in the position we're in, there is a financial incentive for climate science researchers to never research anything to disprove the basis for those committees to keep giving them money. And any non-climate science researcher would never be taken seriously. And any climate science researcher who found evidence against climate change would be heavily incentivized not to publish. And it's why it's not convincing for climate scientists to tell you that climate science exists.

Although really what I was trying to get at originally is simply that multiple climate change scientists endorsing each other on the existence of climate change does not make their work any more convincing than just a single author in a good journal discussing Agile. It went on a major windy path, but hopefully you at least understand my point even if you disagree.
Why do you say this?

(FWIW, I find many of lordnacho's HN contributions to be decent and in many cases insightful).
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I'm not sure I understand your comment.

Are you saying they're guiding/tricking me into wanting/using the GPS?
That's exactly the point!

You, and the media, perceive all these stores being sold out as implying that the product is super-popular and special. Someone who didn't plan to buy the product will see this scarcity and think that it's incredibly popular, and maybe want to jump on the bandwagon.

However, there's not necessarily a scarcity at the source - they could have a large number of units in Sony warehouses. Then, a week after they sold out on initial launch, and people are hearing stories from their friend iamdave and from the Times that the PSVR is incredibly popular and hard to find, they can ship those warehouse units to the stores and suddenly even more people can purchase a PSVR.
PPE isn't perfect, but as far as a preparation for government goes, it's better than any other degree I've seen. I'd like to see it include slightly more mathematics -- economics has become significantly more quantitative over the decades, and PPE hasn't kept up -- but it's still vastly ahead of a degree in law, which seem to be the most common preparation for political careers in North America.

Before PPE would be bureaucrats and ministers studied Greek and Latin.

Some of them, I'm sure; but I think the highest density of Greats has always been in the House of Lords.
If you enjoyed that article, you might like the book 'Poor Charlie's Almanack, The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger':
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A lot of things in the industry are built via hacks where good enough is good enough. The goal is not to satiate curiosity but to generate business value. This does not equate to lack of pride, just a different goal.
Try

sudo rm -rf /lib/modules/*/kernel/drivers/hid/usbhid/

and we'll all be better off.
This really needs to be given more attention, because the natural alternative to global warming is probably significant global cooling.

Looking at the long-term trend we've been in a geological ice age for the past 2M years, due to the poles being permanently frozen. During this ice age we've had a few interglacial periods lasting about 10K years, but the current one is still dragging on.

Either we are due for a return to glacialization or we've broken the trend; human caused warming is a likely factor.
Correct, Kubernetes is not responsible for the nodes. I would build a health check into your Autoscale Group (I don't know exactly how to do this on AWS, but am happy to show you an example on GCP - aronchick (at) google).

If you can't get to the machine, there are a million reasons why this would be the case - but ssh is a totally separate process, it's way outside of Kubernetes. VERY commonly, you've run out of memory and processes are fighting among themselves (especially since EVERYTHING seems to be failing), but this is total speculation. OS issues are common too - I've spun up clusters switching from one distro to another, same config, and everything worked great.

Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes.
> Again, this is what it means for an argument to be a special pleading: we're required to accept an obstacle course of criterion that ignores the simplest, most plausible comparisons.

On the contrary, if you look at lists of the representation gap between professions, computer programmers fit right into their surroundings. It requires special pleading to explain why programming is systematically discriminating against women, and not civil engineers, sound technicians, chemical engineers, industrial engineers, mechanical engineers, aerospace engineers, professionally active mathematicians, chemical engineers etc...
Yep, the tricky part is just rewriting your HTML so that it includes the right file. However, it looks look my comment was incorrect and most frameworks have considered that issue. Neutrino and create-react-app use html-webpack-plugin.

https://github.com/facebookincubator/create-react-app/blob/m...
I've been encouraging my daughter, a statistics major, to pursue data science by including Python/R in her studies and then possibly heading back for an MBA. But not sure if an MBA would be a benefit. Thoughts from actual data scientists?
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Glad to hear my comment inspired you :-) Good luck with this!

PS: Another idea: Instead of selecting manually what extensions should be used or not, you may want to try being more general, like enabling by default all text-like files, and disabling all data-like files. Maybe with `file --mime` then looking at charset value:

test.jpg: image/jpeg; charset=binary
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It could be the case. And if so, hey, if it's working to sell more, kudos to their PR department.

But as someone else posted, selling a million in a short time frame certainly seems like success. Whether there's artificial pent-up demand or not, they've sold quite a few considering the price of it all.
Someone who votes decides that way for himself how he wants his or her tax money to be spent: what the guy he votes for will likely do with them? If you pay no taxes, you are not a responsible voter. If these people form a majority at some point, democracy is dead. UBI recipients don't fund the government, it is the other way around. They shouldn't vote (or some way must be found to make their votes irrelevant, like in Russia where they already have same problem because of oil money), or they will run any nation into the ground.

Maybe it should be even formal: to vote you must voluntary renounce your UBI entitlement for the next electoral cycle.
> the same can't be said for most Android devices especially from Sony.

I guess that might be true for most Sony devices - but my z3+ recently got updated to Android 7 - and the "high end" Sony phones have pretty decent open source support:

https://developer.sonymobile.com/open-devices/list-of-device...

Now, I would indeed like to see even better updates (like 7.1 ota) - but so far my experience with Sony is better than other android manufacturers.

On the other hand k-9 just slowed to a crawl - not sure if it's a coincidence with having a "big" inbox and downloading the last 1000 messages - but I fear not.
I've implemented ligand binding affinity prediction using deep learning and also wrote a blog post about it. The post doesn't cover only the technical stuff, but also a little bit the history of the idea. It uses SMILES token to feed the neural network with the molecule structures. I'm using alternative representations for data augmentation, which wasn't used by similar projects before. The training is done with Keras Gaia, which was developed for this project. It simplifies the training process for different models and datasets. The SPARQL wrapper for BindingDB could be of interest for anyone who would like to fetch BindingDB data using ChEMBL queries. I also implemented a SMILES parser in JavaScript, because there wasn't any implementation available.
It's a double bind, on a social level, enabled by the connectedness of technology.
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I guess it depends on how precious space is. A naked hash is very information-dense. In certain applications, inserting a prefix of several bytes to each hash makes a difference. OTOH, if the hashes end up being inserted into a table in MySQL, then space is probably not that precious.
This is more or less what i meant. Why someone who is useless and knows it's irreversible, would vote for anything but more free stuff?
It's sad, but the truth is that Amnesty International has had ample practice over many decades when it comes to the grim business of collecting and correlating detailed accounts of the depths of human misery. It's good to see that modern techniques and tools make it possible to put that to more use than just testimony of what a wretched species we are.

>To aid them with their campaign for independent monitoring of the prison, Amnesty collaborated with Forensic Architecture, a research agency at Goldsmiths, University of London that uses "architectural evidence" to work on behalf of international prosecutors, human rights organizations, and political justice groups. Together, they've created an interactive model of Saydnaya prison—a place completely closed off to outsiders—using only aerial satellite images and the testimonies of former detainees.

Imagine being able to do that with Birkenau or Dachau while it was still in use. If people still can't bring themselves to care enough to at least recognize what's happening, then it won't be for lack of trying or furnishing them with opportunities.
> At the very least, if someone wants to make a componentised phone like this, they should make (at least a subset of) the interface electrically compatible to USB C, so you could have a cheap/simple mechnical adapter to use most modules with any USB C capable hardware to widen appeal.

Good point.

I see the Ara project as trying to pioneer PCIe for phone modules. If a lot of phones had Ara-compatible modules, that would be great. It's just that there's only Ara right now.
I think there needs to be a grand compromise, but we're a bitter two party system that makes every issue a grand ideological debate.

Give me nuclear energy and I'll gladly pay that carbon tax.
Nokia released such phone back in 2010: http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_2710_navigation_edition-3051.p...
My personal passion is linguistics, and I find this whole LSTM or probablistic grammar stuff ridiculous. It would be nice to see some research on connecting knowledge models rather than just trying to mimick speech like a parrot.
This is all speculation, but from what I've observed on HN there could be a number of reasons you were downvoted.

- HN isn't primarily for political or ideological debate. Creating a new account and starting with a contentious comment probably looked like someone creating an account purely for ideological battle, which is an abuse of HN.

- The HN community strongly values civil discourse, which usually requires keeping strong, passionate, strident language at a lower level, particularly on contentious issues. Phrases like "literally evil news", "literally promoting views that proliferate evil", and "moral perversion" don't meet the expectation of civil discourse, regardless of how strongly you believe them to be true. (Yes, this is "it's not what you say, it's how you say it".)

- You've made a direct, harsh attack on someone without providing any support.

- After receiving downvotes, you complained about it. This is explicitly against HN guidelines.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

As I stated from the outset, this is speculation. For what people would consider obvious disregard for community standards, they may downvote and not think it's necessary to comment why.

As you express concern about your karma, as you're new to commenting on HN, I suggest refraining from commenting on contentious topics for a while until you become more accustomed to the HN community. There are plenty of other interesting submissions that you may find to contribute to and not find yourself as open to downvotes. I'm sorry you've found your first brush with the HN community to be negative. I hope you find what I've written useful and that you have a more positive experience in the future!
The problem I see in this community is that much of the time, many aren't providing criticism. If it were only criticism, I'd even agree. The truth is that the so called "criticism" is really armchair quarterbacking most of the time.
Yeah, like the IoT. I'm sorry, but we've reached the point where that level of blithe pursuit of a "different goal" is becoming destructive on a broad scale.
A lot of successful academics I know (including mathematicians) operate on similar principles. Not everybody embraces the Gowers/Perelman/Zhang model, nor should they.
You, and the media, perceive all these stores being sold out as implying that the product is super-popular and special.

I can only speak for myself here, so take it however you want to, but going to four stores and all of them being sold out-honest to God my only thought was-oh okay, they're out, on to the next store.

Legitimately the "hype" factor for me was playing a space dogfighting game at a friend's house, falling in love with the experience (as I'm a longtime fan of the EVE Online series, and Valkyrie was made by the same production team) and deciding "Hey, I want one of these for myself".

So I somewhat get your point, but I'm not entirely sure I'm convinced enough of how true it is to agree with it. And even if that's what Sony did...it appears to be working for them. The appeal to PSVR is that it doesn't require the investment of some PC-oriented gaming rigs necessary to render games twice for a functioning VR experience; the PS4 is already a successful and popular platform; Sony rolled the dice and got lucky 7's with PSVR.
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There is a known strategy in business to underestimate and test demand in new markets. That way you're not stuck with excess inventory, excess manufacturing capacity, and angry shareholders.

Any related marketing buzz is a bonus, of course. ;)
Meaning that in the nearly 40 years that I have been on earth, most of which within a 100 mile radius of where I live now, the average temperature at this time of year is around 20F.

I never recall a day that was that warm in February, in Albany, NY.
It's why I don't much bother hanging out in groups where people agree with me. It's much more fun when they don't, because if you cannot deal with alternative views then you don't have a convincing foundation for your own.
Can someone with mobile spec reading skills speak to the 3310 as a travel phone?

I'm an immigrant living in the US, interested in a dumber phone to use when travelling across US border. I mainly travel to Sweden, but would be keen on a phone that works well across Europe, South America and, if possible, south east Asia.

The somewhat modern GUI, coupled with good battery time and dual sim seems appealing - or?
Though it really depends on how much in the future you're thinking...
As soon as somebody invests a few $100k there are going to be such files. Now it's known how much it takes. That much.

Luckily, there is also a known solution to detect that kind of files.
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