skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, only the secretary (or official minute-taker) should be allowed to change the text of the minutes, and once "approved" the minutes should be read-only.

Corrections can be submitted to the secretary by email in advance as a convenience.
Isn't that the kind of thing that everyone wants to do to cane toads ?
Yet they are slated to raise the prices again next year. It's already $2.75 for a regular swipe. FeelsBadMan.
Wikiblock: open-source plywood object designs for enhancing outdoor spaces
> Perhaps they could all group together money to help pay for common services like roads etc.

Could, but won't. Everyone would rather get 4x4's than pay a small fee for maintaining the roads.
Motion in Lawsuit against BuzzFeedNews has amazing title
> Nuclear waste is stable

I am fighting an almost overpowering impulse to laugh and cry at the same time.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-new-mexico-nuclear-dump-...
On a Postgresql query before version 9.6 is limited to a single CPU core.

Depending on the amount of data it has to query it absolutely can take forever.
> * the EU cannot strive for the closest relationship possible because that would encourage other countries to leave. There must be a price, an ongoing cost*

Which is a symptom among many of how grossly dysfunctional and fragile the EU is. It's also compounded by the TARGET-2 mess and Germany's obligations to the South through rescue packages. Commenters above talking about the EU being a "voluntary alliance" conveniently obfuscate this.
Please don't post such inflammatory nonsense here; we're trying to have thoughtful and civil discussions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Rich countries will be affected as well.
> but one important thing to note that I did not see mentioned once in any of the reporting about this is that the rule has only been in effect for 84 days. So I wouldn't expect any changes to be too noticeable.

Isn't that just because the agency responsible changed from the FTC to the FCC?
...Humans?
read "On Programming Languages; Why My Dad Went From Programming to Driving a Bus"

https://ntguardian.wordpress.com/2017/03/13/on-programming-l...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860887
> The goal of the proposed team would be to collect evidence and examine alternative hypotheses.

But they exist. They are all the scientists already working in the field. Which is why the next statement is suspect:

> No one is proposing creating a team for its own sake.

I am assuming this Red Team business is about funding. They want to pay people "outside science" to challenge scientists who are already doing their jobs and are quite good at it.

That is why this makes no scientific sense. But it makes PERFECT political sense. It's politics.
"On the question of trusting experts, my frame of reference is the field of influence and persuasion. From my point of view – and given the examples of mass delusion that I have personally witnessed (including Trump’s election), I see experts as far less credible than most people assume." http://blog.dilbert.com/post/154082416051/the-non-expert-pro...
eBay? They're only $9 on Amazon..
In all seriousness, there have been attempts at startups looking to disrupt the nuclear industry. It's hit several problems, in the form of bad science and harsh regulation.

Apparently hacking plutonium is not easily accomplished.
Same in Paris, we just vacationed there for five days, with a two year old. Very difficult to navigate in a stroller (good proxy for a wheelchair - I can lift it down the stairs, but my wife cannot alone). However, there it's quite a difficult problem to solve (I recognize) because a lot of the transfers between different stations are a bunch of underground hallways with staircases in all directions, so it's not simply enough to add elevators from the stations to platform level.
Anecdotally: last year I was riding in a train that hit someone who fell onto the tracks because the platform was so crowded. 30 minutes later, one station away, a woman lost both her legs when a train ran them over.

When I lived in Tokyo, they put platform guard walls in at many stations. They were about chest high and had sets of doors that would open before the train doors opened, and if we had them in NYC, both of those folks would have made it home without an incident.
Recycle Robot – using raspberry pi and tensorflow
They investigated installing them here (Toronto) but the cost per station is pretty high, on the order of >$1M per platform. When you multiply that across a system as large as NYC that's easily half a billion dollars.

I'm not sure how many ads you have to sell to recoup the cost, but it's probably a lot.
What are the biggest problems in the world?
take a read at Scott Adams (Dilbert) blog, where he argues that the mainstream climate science community isn't just factually wrong, but they're actively deluding themselves.

I don't think that's an accurate description of what he's saying -- he's made a point several times (e.g. [0][1]) of challenging the models, not the underlying science, comparing them to economic models, which he feels, having majored in economics (and having studied and built his own [1]) are not reliable. One may disagree with him about models and modeling, but I think it's helpful to understand what he's actually saying.

I'm putting an excerpt here from a recent blog post [0] he did which I think demonstrates my summary above to be a truer understanding of where he's coming from:

I’m not a scientist, but it seems to me that the chemistry and physics parts of climate science are probably pretty locked down. I give that stuff full credibility.

The measurements of temperature, ice, and sea levels over time are probably fairly good, but I observe disagreements among scientists on how best to measure. I’ll give the measurements an 85% credibility.

When it comes to the complex climate models, I’ve never seen a complex, iterative model – of the type that includes human assumptions and human measurements – reliably predict the future multiple years out. I don’t think it has ever been done, and perhaps it never will be. I give the complex climate models a 10% credibility rating. And I am only that generous because perhaps this is the exception to the pattern I observe that says complexity always hides the future, as opposed to predicting it.

BTW, I think the next paragraph, where he describes the psychological aspects of how people evaluate things when
they don't have deep expertise or knowledge is interesting and possibly useful for understanding how to get through to people (Adams' blogs a lot about persuasion/psychology and how so often that is more important than facts in shaping people's views of things):

This is a good time to remind you that I have neither the qualifications nor the time to evaluate the climate science models on my own. So I’m stuck with using pattern recognition – which is not science, and it is not reason. And my pattern recognizer says humans use complexity of this sort to hide the truth, not to reveal it. If scientists want to change my mind, they need to show me historical examples in which things “like this” did a good job of predicting the future. You have to work on my pattern memory to change my mind, not my knowledge of climate science.

Again, you may disagree with him about models and modelling, but he's identified why some intelligent people, who are not science-deniers, may have issues with some aspects of climate-science.

[0] http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158778029326/how-to-change-my-b...

[1] http://blog.dilbert.com/post/158549646496/how-leonardo-dicap...
@wwalser You got us! I am surprised as well that we got to HN front page and the amazing discussion that ensued. While that blog took couple weeks to put together, I believe its testimony more to how everyone hates meetings and how they are run, rather than our ingenuity in writing the blog.

We believe meetings are world wide epidemic. There are lot many tools trying to make them just a tad bit better. The real ingenuity on our part would be if meetnotes.co ends up solving the pain in a major way! I believe we are on the cusp of change and it can just about be done with some AI, a bit of NLP and some great UX thrown in!

Would love to get feedback and hear opinion.
That's because we suck at re-distribution.
> I fail to see how a machine that "designs its own algorithms" according to an algorithm designed and implemented by a human is fundamentally different than an algorithm coded directly by a human

Human creativity can be empowered by optimization algorithms. It's a huge improvement over design by hand.
Antibiotics are pretty recent, too. As is housing with sufficient space and internal structure to not have to see and hear your parents working on your next little brother.
Oh no, the secret is out - Eastern Europe has sun, booze, food, mountains, snow and greenery and absolutely huge houses. The English invasion is imminent :D
And before that, women were poisoned with radium, which was used to mark watch dials with luminous paint. What's remarkable was that executives and scientists were aware of the toxic nature of the radioactive paint, yet the women were instructed to use their lips to form points on their brushes to make the painting more precise. Lawsuits happened in the 1930's.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium_Girls
Sure but if you have a VPN from a provider with enough customers I and use TLS to connect to websites, associating the browsing activity to a particular customer is difficult even for their ISP. Some of it could be traced back by traffic analysis, but it's at least more obscured than if you are using TLS from your own connection without a VPN.
There's not much point in telling the truth to people so personally invested in not listening.
His whole point is that he's not happy with the peer review process because it keeps reaffirming the existing consensus.

I mean look, I could argue that gravity isn't really A Thing and that on some planets stuff floats in the air and it's really difficult to ever touch the ground. Prove me wrong! Ha - you can't! Congress should give me money to fund my research - think of the potential payoffs!
Sounds like a winner-take-all situation. This isn't going to end well…
Somebody has to build those robots. It can't all be robots all the way down.
> UB in reality does not mean that the compiler randomly do whatever he wants, it do whatever he wants but consistently.

There is nothing consistently consistent about UB. The exact same compiler version can one day transform one particular UB to something, the other day to something else because you changed an unrelated line of code 10 lines under or above, and the day after tomorrow if you change your compiler version or even just any compile option, you get yet another result even when your source code did not changed at all.

EDIT: and I certainly do find extremely unfortunate that compiler authors are choosing to do that to us poor programmers, and that they mostly dropped the other saner interpretation expressively allowed by the standard and practiced by "everybody" 10 years ago; that UB can also be for non portable but well-defined constructs. But, well, compiler authors did that, so let's live with it now.
Funnily enough, I just came across this site, this morning http://agentsheets.com/ , an academic effort to make games in the browser.

EDIT: don't leave a comma right after the URL, add a space :-)
> Climate change is true not because of a lack of challengers.

In fact, the opposite is true. The theory that the rising atmospheric carbon level is causing a rise in average global temperatures has had many competing theories going back decades. None have been nearly as consistent with the observations as this theory.

Likewise the theory that the rise in atmospheric carbon is due to human activity has had many challengers, but none have explained the observations as well.

What will come of rising temperatures is a matter of less agreement, and less certainty. Rising water levels in the back yards of most humans is a common worry among scientists, but the current situation is rather unique, so nobody really knows what will happen, much less what the timeline will be. However, temperature deviations of the magnitude we are currently in have drastically altered global climate in earth's history.

source: basically summarizing from memory this recent dive into the subject of what the established science on climate change says from the excellent 'Science Vs' podcast from Gimlet: https://gimletmedia.com/climatechange . Corrections welcome.
> "it's not a republican/democratic split."

The vote count sure looked like it to me.

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/115-2017/h202#admin_p...

Yea 215 (Republican 215, Democrat 0)
Nay 205 (Republican 15, Democrat 190)
At a certain level of complexity most apps cease to feel native. The interfaces of iTunes and Xcode don't feel very native...

But with that said, the fact that Blender launches instantaneously on my machine and that I can time Atom's launch with a wall clock is kind of silly.
Depends on what you do. Lot of CC apps are very much keyboard oriented - not pretty, but very effective.
There's no magic wand, dyfunctional brains are unpredictable. If you're just a friend, what might work one day (or moment), might be a disastrous approach the next. You made your best guess, and had no power greater than to do that. (Government remedies are perhaps another matter.)
Is Rolex buying Breitling?
There aren't dozens of people being pushed on the rails. Maybe in a two decade span probably but those barriers will never happen in NYC.
Needs to be IoT as well. For added security.
It's not about the technical details.It's about getting the business conclusion right. And often, it seems you can't do that without understanding the technical details.

For example in a previous article("the smiling curve") he compares the self-driving car business to manufacturing pc's or phones, in getting the conclusion that the integrator probably won't make good money, an the money will be concentrated among ride-sharing companies, and component companies.

But if you look into the tech/regulatory details, self-driving cars are much more similar to medical devices than to phones, with regulatory requirements, that will very likely, put the very challenging verification burden(maybe the largest challenge in the biz) 100% on integrators ,and not upon component makers - same as is with medical devices. And this could(coupled with IP/safety/perception/etc), with reasonable likelihood, lead to integrators making lots of money.
> Dixon goes on to describe the creation of Boolean logic (which has only two variables: TRUE and FALSE, represented as 1 and 0 respectively)

Not really. There are two possible VALUES for each variable in Boolean logic, and there's an infinity of variables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean_algebra
Is there a mirror? I checked Archive.is and it's not archived there. Looks to be super popular. I just get 500 errors.
Art is a good one, people will always pursue art regardless of whether or not 'better art' already exists.

I would add Exploration. Getting into space has never been cheaper or safer, and there is vast opportunity in space for everything imaginable, resources, scientific knowledge, new discoveries, new challenges, etc. We dont seem to be satisfied as a race with robots doing our exploration for us up til now, i dont see why that would change in the future. Humans want other humans to be on the surface of these planets making discoveries, not some robot slowly rolling around a desert taking dirt samples for a decade.
That same article starts with

"Before I start, let me say as clearly as possible that I agree with the scientific consensus on climate change. If science says something is true – according to most scientists, and consistent with the scientific method – I accept their verdict."
Don't worry, people will have credit.
While OP's comment was unsubstantive, I do disagree with the 'divisive topic' label here: this topic is about as divisive as Lysenkoism[0], calling it 'divisive' gives the sense that there is a substantive conversation to be had with some 'new unbiased panels'.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysenkoism
Well as I say, they keep their heads down. However as you asked here's a couple off the top of my head:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2016/09/04/britain-can-l...
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/dec/26/mervyn-king...
6 people died from being struck by trains in a year (I think that was 2015 they pushed in their advertisements). There were about 1.76 billion rides in the same period.

As much as it's a feel-good measure, there is no conceivable way to justify the incredible expense of platform doors for such a small number of instances.

And the dirty secret is most of those are suicides. If they can't kill themselves on a train, they'll just go to the nearest bridge.
> It takes fairly heroic assumptions to make this into a specific number, but 2-3 percent lower income in perpetuity seems plausible.

https://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/the-macroeconom...
In a fantasy world complete with international conspirators with god-like powers..... sure. If you don't like my use of the word "fantasy" then by all means provide some evidence.
Ceramic MLCC's aren't without their problems, especially in the smaller packages. Just take a look at a voltage vs. capacitance curve in an 0402 package ceramic cap. When used at the rated voltage, they don't have anywhere near the capacitance they state. Also the temperature vs. capacitance curves are less than appealing.

That said, I think a lot of engineers out there have been burned (sometimes literally) by using tantalum caps in the past and are likely not to design them in in the first place these days. I know we moved away from them completely in my last job because enough exploded to scare people off.

EDIT: See dragontamer's comment below for more. Explained better than I did.
Ted Chiang's the Story of Your Life helps us interpret Arrival major twist(2016)
The rules in place were put in by the Obama administration FCC. The same people who setup net neutrality rules that are waiting to be gutted.

"I'm trying to be fair" is exactly the problem with whataboutism.
This is one of the reasons where PHP makes stuff so complicated.

Django out of the box its 1 flag to keep connections alive. I assume most other languages as well.

You CAN do it the right with with PHP if you use a bunch of other products, but you are making life so much harder than it needs to be ;(
> Microsoft doesn't cut the price of Windows because they are making so much from Office.

Microsoft did cut the price of Windows to get people to adopt it early on because they would be making so much money from Office.

Microsoft Word vs. WordPerfect, Excel vs. Quattro Pro and Lotus 1-2-3. These battles were won because of Windows and that cemented their position as industry leader.

Now that Microsoft is in a dominant position they don't cut the price of Windows as much, but to remain on top they do give the OEMs a very sweet per-unit deal they really can't refuse.
> I don't think that's an accurate description at all of what he's saying -- he's made a point several times (e.g. [0][1] )of challenging the models, not the underlying science

Science is the process of developing predictive models. Challenging models is challenging the science by which those models are developed.

Trying to distinguish between these two is fundamentally misunderstanding what science is.
Hello, I'm the author of the extension. It's ok if you don't trust it. I couldn't find any way to ask for a smaller set of permissions. To my knowledge there is no way to specify this in the manifest. (I can't ask for permission to insert a stylesheet without also having permission to inject JavaScript, even though I don't have any JavaScript.)
They mean Comcast funded corporate control group? Calling it "civil rights" is an insult. This paid propaganda is just sickening.
Some people care about privacy. Most probably may even care about it to some degree, but not to the degree where they sacrifice their convenience for it.

Again, the media has done its best to scandalize the very real privacy concerns with companies like Google and Facebook. Did it hurt their success with the unwashed masses?

If privacy was really such a big deal, why would Uber write that blog post in the first place? Sure, enough people complained online to get it pulled, but that's not representative.

To wake people up, we'd need a real "story" here, like somebody getting fired over googling something relatively innocent.

Finally, if advertisers really try to disguise targeting, they're doing a terrible job at it. Just try turning adblock off for a moment to see for yourself. Yes, even the common folk thinks targeting is creepy, but at the end of the day they don't care that much.
Many readers here have an entirely different standard. To many $5M yearly recurring revenue or a $25M exist is a major failure and cause for embarrassment because you know they did not build a high 8 figure revenue business or have a 9 figure exit.
The two new Westinghouse Vogtle pants are too expensive, at $14 billion for 2.5GW of power. If you purchased $14 billion of Tesla powerpacks, you could get 35GWh of storage--enough storage to supply 2.5GW of power for 14 hours....
Follow up is also one of the most soul-crushing tasks. The skill to follow up without coming across as bossy, without micro-managing, consistently over months and years is super hard. If you grew and managed a team organically from scratch, the task becomes relatively easier. Perhaps the ability to be successful at following up directly depends on how much your team trusts you as their manager.
Agreed. Sorry for being snarky, I'm just frustrated by the stupidity of the whole thing.
I don't agree with nvahalik in the slightest, but I can't see any signs of intellectual dishonesty, or trolling, either.

Unless you can make a case that your values are objectively more correct than his, you two are just holding two different sets of values.
Of course society has to deal with lot's of different sets of values of lots of people, but we have democracy to accommodate for that. Simply calling people trolls for having different opinions helps nobody.
It's the same situation in London, only about 25% of Underground stations are accessible[1]. This seems to be the cost of old infrastructure - when most of the network was built, accessibility simply wasn't a consideration. Neither was having a decent mobile signal, or air conditioning. Fortunately, we've learned from this and newer systems like the ones in Shanghai and Taiwan seem to be far more accessible.

[1] https://tfl.gov.uk/transport-accessibility/wheelchair-access...
AirIMBY lets you rent out your back yard as a nuclear waste disposal site.
So we also have to pay for new HVAC systems on almost five hundred commercial buildings (that's what they are, even if underground) with no space for them? Cool.
If it was up to me they should fix the glitches first, it is super annoying.
I was surprised when my Razer mouse tried to install software on my computer after plugging it in, I won't buy Razer peripherals again.
Its nice, but for a programmer I loved the http://datamath.org/Sci/Modern/TI-34.htm which was also solar powered and has lasted quite a long time since its still with me from my high school days.
My first thought was: are they edible? The venom is in the skin and shoulders. & apparently the answer is yes, if you kill them in the freezer and skin them.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2634736/How-like-CAN...

Harvesting for human or animal consumption or fertilizer is about the only thing we can do about the Asian carp invasion of the Mississippi River. There are now some commercial carp fisheries in Kentucky for this. You can't angle for them because they're filter feeders, but they can be snagged, netted, or bowfished.
http://www.citylab.com/work/2014/11/kentucky-hopes-youll-eat...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWYm_inOAgg&t=2s