skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Think the folks who made out on the deal lived below sea level when they could afford not to?
Right so we replace the production of the plants we can't consume directly with ones we can. It's not like we're forced to produce non-consumable plants. We do it because we need to feed the consumable animals.
I am not utilizing sarcasm.
There's no need for MagSafe if you have USB charging. It's redundant.

It also entrenches the old standard rather than making way for the new one. If you have a laptop with both USB-C and MagSafe, and you need a second charger, you might buy a MagSafe charger if it's cheaper or to use with an older Macbook. Whereas without MagSafe, you'll buy a USB-C charger — the new technology.

If you want to do a transition, you have to go all in. Having both the old and the new port merely delays the transition, causing more pain in the long-term. Get it over with.
Do you sponsor visa?
Animals are an extremely inefficient way of producing food:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/1997/08/us-could-feed-80...
> Increase the cost of vehicle registration or gas taxes to encourage workers to prefer jobs closer to their home.

Your suggestion would have the opposite effect -- if you increase the cost of commuting, people will commute further to find cheaper housing to make up for the cash you just took away from them. If a person can't afford to live near their job already, taking more money from them (by taxing their commute) just makes all housing less affordable to them.

(There should probably be a "Paradox" label for this. It's a commonly cited argument that sounds plausible, but isn't)
> and the ones that we do, we consume only a tiny minority of the plant (most of the time)

So do the animals. The soy and wheat we feed the animals is a tiny portion of the plant... so what? If we have 1000 calories of wheat, it's better to feed that to a human, than a cow; The cow will only produce 100 calories of meat for the same grains that we would have eaten.
It's possible we get to a time where hunting animals is seen as completely socially unacceptable.

As for animals in the wild it's expected you understand that they are referring to humans.
http://www.ketotic.org/ advocates my position better than I could.
It's also altogether reasonable to believe that they murdered a sitting US President only 5 decades ago.
The scale of that thing is off the charts, it is easy to mis-guess the size of things on those pictures because of a lack of references.

Here is one wit people for scale:

http://i.imgur.com/5TFQ6lW.jpg
You're correct, but you're not arguing against what he said. OP made a moral argument, you're making a legal one.
A generation or two without disaster? The US has seen many disasterous infrastructure failing in recent years. New orleans levies. That bridge in texas. The new york hurricane. The gas leak in LA. Train derailments (also in canada a couple years ago). I cannot see another disaster, even a failed dam, making all that much difference.
How long something has been around is often a good way to determine how much longer it will be around in the future.

I'd be willing to bet that humans will stop driving cars much sooner than they stop farming. Humans have been practicing animal agriculture for a long time...
Also, no diesel fumes on an electric street car make the journey much more pleasant for many.
The only thing that has really bothered me about .NET Core is I haven't been able to figure out how to get NuGet to run properly on Linux.
"If I'm understanding the increase is mostly due to the "debugging" info that is added, not necessarily due to more code.
"
vs
" One of the last slides says 4% of the additional size came from adding more debugging information, excluding anything to do with the new inlining"

So no, it doesn't say that it's "mostly due", it says ~25% is due to debugging information.
Are they as sentient? Do they suffer as much? I don't think there is reason to believe these things.
Is that a bad thing? There is a reason the government subsidizes pure electric cars and requires car manufacturers to make electric cars (albeit they only do it to meet the quota).

I understand it's going to punish those who really can't afford a decent car, but for ~$4000 in the bay area you can get a pretty decent used car that will get you 30+ mpg.
Just for your own knowledge, Correct the Record was dissolved after the election and the primary internet PR organization is now called "Share Blue"
The bedrock that the actual dam is built on is "hard amphibole"

https://kb.osu.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/1811/58502/SES-Se...

This material will erode, but not so quickly that the main body of the lake wouldn't be shut off.

The "30 foot" figure is the depth of the water above this bedrock. Had the emergency spillway failed, this is what would have been released without any controls.

The main spillway was built on alluvium. I've posted elsewhere in the comment thread that cavitation was the primary cause of the concrete erosion.
This was the specific comment I was scanning in the thread hoping to find! Well put.
Registrants are required to have a working contact address and reply to, at least, communications from their own registrar in a timely fashion. They don't have to reply to everyone from the general public, but if you got a bounce, that's a good sign the email address is legit dead.

You can file a complaint at

https://forms.icann.org/en/resources/compliance/complaints/w...

and ICANN will follow up with the registrar, who will follow up with the registrant or cancel the registration. I'm pretty sure this is exactly the intended use: a domain squatter can't register a name and disappear completely.
The biggest lesson from Elon Musk
That seems about right. You have to wonder what "national interest" really means though. Something to do with making US billionaires richer than their foreign competitors, I think.
> Animal agriculture seems to me like one of those things that in 50 to 100 years people will look back on with bewilderment.

Really? It's not like we've been doing that for 5,000 years or something. But in 50 years they'll be like "What were you doing for the last 5,000 years?"

Animal agriculture is not going to be one of those things. In fact I can guarantee you that even if we figure out a meat replacement people will still eat animals in 100 years. Something that's been done for 5,000 years doesn't get stopped that quickly.

As evidence look at how many people want to "go back to the farm", and raise their own animals. On the surface, why? It's harder and more expensive. Yet, people want that anyway.
I'm going to have to disagree with the "wasting your life in a slow-moving vehicle" comment. I'd rather spend an hour and a half on a bus to work where I can take calls and work from my laptop/read a book/nap or whatever, than spend 45 minutes sitting in and/or dodging traffic where I am getting NOTHING done.

Granted, if the bus is packed it can be difficult or impossible to get anything useful done also.
I believe that corn stalks and husks are not particularly good feed for livestock, they're very low protein (3-4%) and thus usually have to be supplemented. Ideally, it would be mulched back into the ground to prevent erosion and soil depletion, AFAIK.
Thanks a lot for all the feedback, everyone! We're overwhelmed by all the positive comments. If you have any feature requests, please submit them as issues here: https://github.com/scrimba/community

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This is the coolest web tech I have seen in a while.

I am actually not super convinced on the usecase of being able to edit the code at any time, but simply being able to copy it is already so much added value over traditional video course material.

I will definitely be checking out the possibilities with this.
I'm not sure you saw the scale of that spillway. It is _massive_. Something like 300ft wide and 3000 feet long. An entire football field wide. It's quite obviously not 4 inches thick, but admittedly at the scale of it, 15" doesn't seem like a lot.

There's a bunch of great pictures on imgur with "humans for scale" https://imgur.com/gallery/mpUge
Part II describes what you are asking for.

I wish abbreviations like inverse probability weighting and marginal structural models were expanded in the second book. It's annoying to have to look up "IP weighting" only to discover "oh, it's IPW, god damn you [authors] to hell".

MSMs are interesting. Now I remember why Robins' name stuck in my head. The book shows all the math explicitly, which is nice, and it delves into causal inference for time-to-event data, which is also nice.

Now I'm curious whether they look at piecewise constant survival models for time-varying coefficients. It's mentioned, but I didn't read enough to see if it's treated in detail. If it is, everyone who does A/B testing should read the book, because this is one of those "little details" from biostatistics that becomes super important at big retailers (like, say, Amazon, where the principal economist at the time pointed it out to me).
This would work better if we didn't have to grow more plant material to feed the meat than just feeding ourselves directly.
What's wrong with the CIA spying on non-citizens abroad?
Presumably they can feed it human translations of the same text and let it find the correspondences. With their book scanning activities they must already have a good data set to work with.
In media accounts, I keep seeing quotes that cyber security experts were alarmed by the revelations. I'm no expert but to me all of the revelations have been open secrets for years. Are cyber security experts really alarmed by the revelations? I'm not saying the info itself isn't alarming but "alarmed" implies shocked by information you didn't already know about. It occured to me that some of these experts could have their own motives (promotion?) for getting quoted in the media.

What am I missing in my understanding of this in saying that I wasn't alarmed (in the sense of surprised) by anything I've read so far? Most of the source code they released has been circulating for several years? This is basically publicity for already existing open secrets? That is, this was an act of political theatre?
The ethics of vegetarianism are sound, but the health benefits far less so. https://www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/cardiobrief/63427
Some comments on the Wikileaks CIA/#vault7 leak
Why Cyberattacking North Korea's Nuke Program May Be America's Best Option
Can plants suffer?

How much energy/resources/time does it take to raise plant food sources vs an analogous amount of animal food sources?

Do plants require antibiotics to raise at scale?

What are the environmental tolls taken by raising plants vs animals?
> go after normal business hours

Think about it from the other perspective, you want to do an interview after normal business hours. This means that a recruiter, several engineers and a culture interviewer have to also be present after work hours. Now scale this up to a few dozen candidates; I wouldn't want to work in a place that does this on the regular.
The company I work for pays for Safari Online. They also have mobile apps that allow you to read content or even download videos for offline viewing. This evening on my train ride home I watched a video on how to use webpack.

The best time for me to get extended learning is after my kids go to sleep. I have a 10 and 8 year old, they're usually asleep by 9. It was harder with very young kids. Now at this age its somewhat easier.
This, too, is TOTALLY WRONG.
This is just shareholder value. Scaling meat has so many problems, but if you can sell fake meat at meat prices suddenly there is so much more profit margin to be returned to shareholders.

I do not believe for 1 second that Tyson cares about health, environments, farmers or the well being of animals.

> "We just got to the point last year where the consumer is demanding [the elimination of antibiotics in the food chain] and wants transparency."

The only reason your animals need antibiotics is because they're living in overcrowded cells eating the wrong food (they're ruminants, corn/soy is not their food), covered in fecal matter etc. etc. A small number of animals per acre , lots of sunlight (ultraviolet light) and proper waste disposal (bugs, rains, etc).
Bingo. People like to hold forth on the small scale - but what about communication between components?

I watched "The Art of Destroying Software" [1] the other day and I've been thinking about the concepts a lot. Thought provoking talk - apart from the surveys he keeps conducting.

Making a nice method isn't that great. But a nice "component" or "module" or "service" - that's the key. Try and break your program up into little programs. But not too little... maybe that's the way?

[1] https://vimeo.com/108441214
Air quality is poor because the UK government gave tax breaks to diesel vehicles in an attempt to cut carbon emissions. But they didn't realize at the time how harmful diesel particulate emissions are.
One thing that has always kept me from donating to the EFF is the apparent lack of on-the-ground lobbying operations; I contribute to Public Knowledge instead, because they (seem to be) much more involved in the policy process.

Am I reading the situation correctly? If so, do you guys have plans to shift strategy given the direction of Congress today?
You're talking pre-agriculture.
Answered my own question -- Part III of this book is what I am waiting for. I was going to send the authors a note, which seems silly, but my name is in an awful lot of standard textbooks just because I sent in corrections or notes, and for some reason I find that satisfying. Like I made some sort of a difference to some students somewhere.
Certain lands cannot support human edible plants, but can be used for grazing. Suddenly non-productive land can be producing meat.
Yes, and the high demand for animal based proteins has been a large cause of deforestation. Also, beef and other livestock produce a large portion of green house gas emissions.
Traffic in Tokyo is much worse because freeways are few and far between in Japan (and with very, very expensive tolls). I have to take the local roads if I go anywhere, so a 10km drive ~6 miles takes about 30-40 minutes. When I lived in Berkeley, I could get to downtown SF in under 20 minutes with no traffic, and even with traffic it would take about 40 minutes.
Wannabes and absentees: Do it yourself and Pay someone else
And a guitarist too.....jeez....what a legend ! Hope to read your blogs some day, can you provide a link?
They are not neutral. I don't think it's even controversial to say they're working against the United States. They clearly are. It's an observation not a political statement to point this out.

If they were neutral you'd see big releases of Russian secrets, etc.
Your argument is weak, and clearly you recognise that, as the to appeals to authority, and mistaken [1 8a] questioning of something as trivial as the use of quotation marks are a poor attempt to distract from the question.

[1] http://www.grammarbook.com/punctuation/quotes.asp
> So do the animals.

Not really. Cows, goats, sheep raised somewhat naturally eat grass and leaves and twigs, things we cannot digest. They can also eat the parts of the tomato that we don't eat, such as the stalks and leaves.

If you're talking about feeling animals with grains, the way we grow grains is even more problematic, with huge amounts of petroleum and water inputs.
Fair, I could restate that not as 'no less tasty' but 'tasty in their own right'. Though there are also plenty of societies that are primarily vegetarian, as in South India, and I don't see them running for the nearest meat market due to the insane flavor advantages of a good cut of meat.
I doubt corn wants to be farmed and eaten either. Should we stop the use of antibiotics to preserve the lives of billions of bacteria? You see its not a matter of caring about life when you boil it down. The majority of vegans are pro choice for example. This is a matter of where you draw the line. You may move that line a little bit further down the food chain than I but all mammals must kill to survive.
I found this discussion on Quora:

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-airframes-engines-developed-ma...

And this Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_scandal

It sounds like a combination of antitrust concerns and just the fact that airframes and engines don't have much in common.
>That's a whole other story.

it's not- it doesn't matter- they're all the costs of getting a product to market and sustaining it.
THE FUTURE OF EMPLOYMENT(2013) [pdf]
We don't need to use that land though. If we're not feeding livestock then we don't need near as many crops to support ourselves so let the unusable land return to the wild.

Also if you want to use scrub land to feed your livestock you're going to need a lot of it like in Australia.

>For millennia, humans raised livestock on pasturing lands, seemingly without harming the environment too badly.

For millennia most people wouldn't be getting access to 200lbs of meat a year. There was also a lot fewer of us to feed that much meat to.
Sounds amazing.

It annoys me every day that I can't put on a Youtube video and then continue listening to it while I do something else with my iPhone afaict.

If I didn't want that, I would pause it first.
The future is in algae based proteins. They contain all essential amino acids, naturally anti inflammatory and have no known allergens.
The taste profile problem will be solved eventually and algae based chemical compounds as taste and color additives will be omnipresent in our foods in 5-10 years.
@sethbannon you should also consider investing in algae based meat alternatives. (I.e. Solazyme / TerraVia)
Less sodium, yes. More protein? Of course not. Lean meat contains around 20-25% of protein. Do you know of any plant that could compare?
Lispy tasks with Duff's Device
Whether something is true or not is a separate question from whether they are neutral or not. Whoever twisted a discussion of bias into a binary question of truth vs. lies, muddled the question to the point where clear thinking about it would be impossible. Bias and truth are separate issues. You can be a lying bastard who lies to harm a specific person or entity and you can be a strict adherent to truth with the exact same motives.
> we replace the production of the plants

You make that sound like swapping out a machine on a production line. For some places, you simply can't grow plants that we can consume directly.

A lot of land doesn't receive enough water/sun, has poor soil, or is on such a steep slop that cultivating it is not worth the effort. The most efficient use of that land would be grazing land.

As for being "forced to produce non-consumable plants", we are. We can't eat the entire bell pepper plant. We're producing stems, leaves, and roots as byproducts, things that animals actually can eat.
I do this, though with Teamcity. More predictable, less AWS heavy, but cool solution especially if you already have the tools to make it easy.
A few points:

* Yes, lots of evidence says that Podesta did give his password to a hacker the spear phishing email you mention. The email dump cuts off soon after this event, the phishing bit.ly link was visited then according to the stats page, and we can see the phishing email here: https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/34899

* This appears to be a quote of someone speaking, I think it's pretty reasonable not to pronounce the @. All common variations on password are equally vulnerable to password guessing programs. There's a rule to use l33t speak in JTR and many other common programs.

* You can make a GMail account with the password p@ssword, something else they don't mention, choosing instead to go with a literal interpretation.

* It doesn't seem to mention that he also lost his phone in a DC cab, which is another possible source of leaks.

* They never appear consider whether or not the person who gave the emails to Wikileaks told them Podesta's password, they just say there's no evidence for them to verify, other than Gmail rejecting a password of 'password' (but not p@ssword), after which they rate that claim as false.
Does anyone have any comments about technical aspects of the documents released? Seeing how this is Hacker News and all...
It depends on what you mean by LA. LA itself actually has fairly decent public transit (by US standards, not NYC, but by nearly every other city) -- the RapidBus busses are actually fairly rapid (they can control stoplights so they always hit green) and the Metro is quite nice where it goes.
The community of people who have spent their time becoming knowledgeable in that field. Or do you suppose that any quack peddling snake oil is as knowledgeable as someone who went to medical school and practices medicine?
My advice, fwiw.

Do whatever you decide you want to do to "keep up" with github, open source, etc. But keep it absolutely as separate as possible from your family time.

When you have a day with the kid, make sure that you disconnect and get yourself as fully as you can into the right mindset. "My job today is to enjoy my time with my son/daughter, to be there for them, to be present with them." Leave your phone at home when you go to the park. Disconnect.

If you find yourself thinking that your parenting time is an annoying distraction from the coding problem you're trying to solve, you're in dangerous territory and need to re-calibrate.

This is a hard lesson that I constantly try to re-learn. When I'm successful, everything is much, much better.
>"I do not believe for 1 second that Tyson cares about health, environments, farmers or the well being of animals."

I haven't followed Tyson - is there something they've done in recent history that has particularly contributed to the skepticism? Or is this more general "all corporations-are-evil" skepticism?
There's an important difference in conviction and intent between this headline and what he said.
Is RWA appropriate for tasks other than classification?
Oh, it's good to see you. I'd like to say that I'm "following" (mostly limited to looking at the kittenlang.org every couple of months, but still) your project and I'm quite interested in it.

After learning about concatenative languages a couple of years ago I started learning Forth and later Factor. I wanted to give Joy a try, but IIRC I couldn't make it run and, after that, I stumbled upon Cat. But Cat was written for .NET and unmaintained (I just checked and it looks like even cat-language.com is dead now...). Still, I thought the idea was very interesting, at that point I was kind of tired of Forth strictly untyped nature. And then finally I found Kitten, which I thought was very promising, however very incomplete at the time. This is how I ended with Kitten being on my list[1] of languages to keep an eye on.

I hope it goes well and you'll release as planned, I can't wait to start playing with it! :)

[1] Here: https://klibert.pl/articles/programming_langs.html#org3087a1...
"Why should salt suffer?"

(http://www.online-literature.com/chesterton/napoleon-of-nott...)
The making of a Wiki-Lie: Chilling story of how a few activists censor Wikipedia
Among other items of interest was this snippet:

"...the WikiLeaks release said that the C.I.A. and allied intelligence services had managed to bypass encryption on popular phone and messaging services such as Signal, WhatsApp and Telegram."