skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry but google really is not on our side. They collect just as much data as any other silicon valley giant.
React is pretty damn good. I don't really see the problem all these clones are trying to solve, including the latest Vue hype.
There is the Berkeley Earth Surface Temperature project, founded in 2010. They brought physicists from outside climate science to do a clean reanalysis of temperature data.

I think they really kept open the possibility that NASA, NOAA and the UK Met Office had all processed and interpreted the temperature data wrong. After their reanalysis, their result was the same as other work before them.

http://berkeleyearth.org/about/
So you seen that video? Great talk though.
Oh, big thanks from The Netherlands!
This. Developing countries are capital-poor and labor-rich.

It makes no sense for automation to get here before it gets into the developed world. It never worked this way (except when unions made it so) and there's no reason presented for anything to change.

Besides the article spends some time arguing why a level of automation would have a larger impact on developing countries because we rely more on industries and less on services. I think that is too big a focus on the past - we have reasons to think future automation will have a larger impact on services than in the past.

I think the article is interesting, but the conclusions are flawed.
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All corporate mobile work forces rely on VPNs, so it may be a solution to get a business account?
The money to fund the thermostats may depend on opinion.
Stratechery is not the best source for accurate information on the technical details but it's also not trying to be. Anyone who focuses on that is missing the point.
>"I would expect such a team would offer to Congress some very different conclusions regarding the human impacts on climate."

The sheer stupidity of saying we should fight biased research by funding a plainly biased team of "researchers" who, with hat in hand, state their conclusions before they've even begun is mind boggling. I can't say it surprises me though. There's lots of mind-bogglingly stupid shit happening in national politics all over the world.
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Good eyes :) It should be a c&p error.
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I wouldn't call french unions weak. They are quite famous for their strikes. Here's an Economist blog post about them: http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/03/ec...
> the huge benefits to society from affordable energy, carbon-based and otherwise

This has nothing to do with determining if climate change is man made or not. This is an attempt to support a political argument.
The reason for meetings: even though you can email everyone in five minutes with a completely clear two paragraphs of what needs done ... they won't do it unless you sit there for half an hour telling them over a table.

This is infuriating and it's also true.

(my job: sysadmin.)
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A nuclear power plant disaster is pretty much going to bankrupt somebody, no matter who insures it. Even if the insurance is nationally subsidized, something like Fukushima is going to be a crushing burden on the whole country.
When I consider a car wash, I consider the time/money having to repair all the scratches, and swirl marks, some 18 year old kid is going to put into the paint at the local Delta Sonic. A proper car wash is a science, and you're not getting it for $10. One hour out of your day for a break, and some exercise is a better option in more ways than one.
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To minimize the risk of failure. Same reason why you'd have a backup parachute when you jump out of a plane even though you strictly only need one.
We've seen what happens even when plants are mismanaged to the point of failure, and the total death toll has still been a tiny fraction of what coal causes every year.

I'm more worried about the coal plants that are still spewing ash and uranium into the atmosphere and killing people by the tens or hundreds of thousands every year.
Anyone can try to be a gadfly to the consensus side of science, science is open to anyone. But, if you choose to throw your hat into that ring then you open yourself to criticism of your methods and behavior. You don't get to shout 'free speech' and walk away.
You'd be surprised how quickly this can change. I'm actually more worried about workers in developed countries where the costs and ongoing benefits are higher. As the expertise spreads across the globe faster than ever, why build these agents of automation (robots, self driving cars etc) in an economy where the costs are so high?
Sounds like an opportunity for some enterprising Valley folk to disrupt nuclear!

I can't wait for Nucly, the only reactor control panel for iOS and Android.
I fail to see how Scott Adam's stance "intentionally sabotages" others efforts. Are you suggesting that freedom of speech is a form of sabotage?
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why would you listen to him on climate change? what are his credentials? doesn't the fact that you listen to him over people with more experience and knowledge in the field indicate that you are looking for people who support for a viewpoint, and not for people who are knowledgable?

also, scott adams guaranteed herman cain would be the presidential nominee in 2012. he is a bullshit artist who makes a million claims then picks out the ones that turned out to be right later. why even listen to him at all?
You're right, I think you're encountering a lot of black and white thinking on the other side - something like: "if any temporary progress can be made then love will always triumph"; whereas someone who's very seriously mentally ill is not predictable. Even if you take five years to establish trust, as I have in one case, it just takes one irrational conclusion on their part and that trust can be gone in an instant with no way back; that they can be fairly rational or appreciative some of the time doesn't tell you what comes next. When the brain isn't working right, love and respect can meet a wall.
While national independence is important, at a certain point, "sovereignty" is just a code word for some politicians or businessmen (like newspaper owners) to get more power.

Your complaint seems like a good parroting of the brexiters "worries", but they are mostly uninformed complaints

"hetrogenous body politic with hundreds of millions of other people with which they share little other than said bureaucracy"

What an ignorant statement. People in the EU share a lot of common values (like the Arts, and Continental Europe has had exchange of people and ideas for a long time). Language is irrelevant unless you (not you) are an ignorant bastard that can't be bothered to learn the basics of the national language of the country you live in (like a certain ex MEP)

> People in the U.K. were very rightfully afraid

I'm sure people on the countryside that gets their information off of tabloids have carefully evaluated all sides of the question. Hopefully they know as well they won't get their budget increase of the NHS (in fact there will be staff shortages), that cost of living will increase and their dole will most likely decrease.
I think they are using it in the social hacking sense.

Social hacking describes the act of attempting to manipulate outcomes of social behaviour through orchestrated actions. The general function of social hacking is to gain access to restricted information or to a physical space without proper permission.
The title is missing a leading "These". This small word is important, without it I assumed the Washinton post were talking about scientists in general —when it fact it does not.
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"Played a major role in European history" is a very silly criterion. By those standards Russia, Austria, Spain, or even Turkey should be much higher on the list than Britain.
You know, replacing $20 stuff that wears out in a month for $60 stuff that last may be a great use of a credit card.
Very convenient if one gets to choose who is innocent and who is a collateral :). Two japanese cities full of guilty I am sure.
We already have a well-established method for challenging climate research. It's called the "Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis" report [1]. It comprises 1,500 pages, surveying the results from thousands of journal articles, and is written by 259 experts from fields including meteorology, physics, oceanography, statistics, engineering, ecology, social sciences and economics. The IPCC regularly updates and republishes this report to include more recent findings and data.

Anyone who has bothered to download and even skim this report knows how exhaustive, thorough, and--most of all--conservative it is in its predictions and findings. It dedicates a significant amount of space to pointing out where its predictions have failed and where the data does not support the theory of global warming.

Anyone who wants to "challenge" climate research by completely circumventing the existing dialogue that has been taking place in peer-reviewed journals for decades now to take their case directly to the policy-makers is a charlatan.

[1] https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/wg1/
The attacks I'm referring to are the misuse of the term "murder", calling a couple hundred million folks "sociopaths," and the implication (which has some truth, no doubt) that those eating the meat are responsible for the mistreatment of animals and are causing their pain.

I'm sure you can think of dozens of examples where people who are a cog in a machine are not exactly on-board with the whole thing, yet feel powerless to stop it.

Diet is not something that everyone feels they can change on a whim. If it were, I suppose we wouldn't have an obesity crisis, and perhaps more people would join you as vegans, too.

The cultural pressure to eat meat is also a big factor, just as you have mentioned in your response here. Not just to be normal, but maybe to avoid hurting mom's feelings when she makes your childhood-favorite lasagna or something.

People use the same argument for eating meat (it tastes good) as they do for getting morbidly obese. Nobody wants to be morbidly obese or impose those kinds of health problems on themselves, so perhaps you need to understand that the issue is deeper than just "I do or don't want to hurt animals." It certainly is with obesity.
Hopefully there will be some sort of negotiation whereby workers in the UK can work in the EU, just like people who hold Swiss citizenship can.

Then, if the experiment turns out horrible, which it probably will, you will at least have the opportunity to move abroad for a better life.

I will extend to my condolences, but give it five years and I may very well be in your boat, and even if I'm not let's face it you can't use my condolences to anything.
Thank you, that was a nice read. I'll have to see if I can find competing research, but this theory fits really nicely with my experience.
I get you'd like to avoid spammers, bots and etc, but its not at all fair to claim you're not playing politics.

> but that story wasn't touched by moderators.

Is uncharitable as it gets. I cannot verify it. Based on 3163 days of intuition I can see "ahh yes sometimes stories get unfairly flagged automatically" but I can I also see that 1) Its political 2) It discusses a YC company in a not so appealing light.

I'll take your word on it here that nobody touched it, but I honestly see stories disappearing every day whenever they so much as negatively glance at YC/Investments or Politics that benefit YC and YC Investments. (Many former YC companies will more than likely benefit from being able to purchase our browsing history, for example.)
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Also, their market share is being eroded from the bottom, as nowadays Asterisk-based call-centers are ubiquitous. You just need an Asterisk ISO (or appliance) and some additional software for statistics and agent interactions - like https://www.queuemetrics-live.com/ - and you can run a 50-agent inbound/outbound system in minutes. So much of what used to be a captive market for big PBX makers is now gone.
And the numbers we see are very significant.
I use the same ones. They are very comfortable and tough, but a bit heavy, so I don't wear them for extended periods of time. I prefer to work without music most of the time, anyway.
How accurate are the HTC vive trackers?
The project homepage says "Data scientists and developers can speak the same language now!". So it is surely easier to producitionize a ML project without rewriting the algorithms after the data scientists work out the model with R or Matlab.
Westinghouse is likely too large a company to experiment--probably a smaller company will be first. Perhaps Terrestrial Energy in Canada will get their molten salt reactor to work. In Russia, the Akademik Lomonosov, a nuclear barge, will replace the power plant in Bilibino Nuclear Power plant in a couple years. This qualifies as a small reactor.
I think that quote signals a misunderstanding of what a Red Team is. It doesn't exist to disprove / break / destroy something for the sake of destroying it. It's not an enemy. It is there to challenge and find weaknesses in the armor before the enemy and fix those weaknesses before they can be used against them.

And further more it is for the phycological benefit of the main team knowing that everything they do is going to be attacked. That they can't just rest on their laurels.

With that said. If the goal is miss-guided but the "Red team" actually does good science (and not propaganda) it might have the same effect anyway.
Contraception isn't a zero sum game. Giving men more contraceptive power doesn't take anything away from women.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/papers/moral-fn.pdf
You're running TCP over Anycast?

Bold move.
IIRC, Japan also has more cooperative unions where Unions and businesses seek the long term viability of a company as well as worker welfare, even when that results in people idling at the windows.
Might be an ignorant question, but could individual websites do more to prevent an ISP from seeing your activity on the site?

I know HTTPS should be able to help (?), but ISPs can still see the domain you're visiting and get metadata on the encrypted traffic, which can be revealing.

Are there architectural or tech stack decisions a company could make that would basically lock an ISP from knowing anything except the root domains you visited?
Someone here was asking about juggling in VR the other day, and then by coincidence I came across this. :-)
Those VPN providers need to get their internet connection somewhere and if you terminate your VPN inside USA (which you'll have to - to get decent speeds and pings), you'll just move the point of data collection.
He suggests strongly that they are delusional (as are basically everyone who disagrees with him). That's a big claim to make under the banner of 'free speech' while not having to defend it.
Westinghouse only closed Stone & Webster acquisition in late 2015, so it seems like the fraud started while Stone & Webster was still owned by CB&I.

The whole saga is bizarre because CB&I sued Westinghouse claiming it was paid too little for S&W [1] a few months after the sale was finalized, and then a few months later sued Westinghouse again [2] seeking to wipe out their liabilities in the S&W's businesses.

[1] http://www.powermag.com/cbi-sues-westinghouse-over-2b-closin...
[2] https://www.bna.com/chicago-bridge-iron-n73014448199/
And the advertising potential on BOTH sides of the wall!
This software has its own visualization package. See it at

http://haifengl.github.io/smile/visualization.html
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I agree. While I'm overwhelmingly convinced that climate change is real and due to anthropogenic emissions, there is clearly a place for people who aren't convinced of the evidence to poke and prod at the research. However, it should be done by fundamentally unbiased people, not by people who have already at the onset stated that they expect to come to different conclusions.

And what the hell does "the huge benefits of society from affordable energy" have to do with the science? What to do is a policy question, not a science one, and the "huge benefits" of pollution should not enter into the evaluation of what the likely effects of climate change are.
Don't discount too ill to work. Especially if a diagnosis has been missed which is very common. Although these homeless people are more likely to be rescued in one way or another, in time.
> What do you think would have more of an impact on the security of your home: repealing the laws against breaking & entering, or removing the lock from your door?

Honestly, the latter. I don't believe laws prevent thieves from breaking in, nor do they keep honest people honest. I don't really buy the deterrent theory of law in general, anyway: law exists to punish in a civil and orderly fashion, not to deter.
See also: https://www.mapd.com/
Just came across this and it reminded me of your post - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13989468
What is it that makes disabled people somehow more "more equal" than regular society? If you are in a wheelchair, don't use the subway. Tough luck, life's a bitch and shit's not fair. What, next we're going to make it illegal for shallow women to not date men that are shorter than them? Or demand that all cars be retrofitted for wheelchairs and any new cars be made with wheelchairs in mind?

So what do we do now? I guess we now shut down the system since it's "unfair" and our feelings are hurt and issue a $2 Billion bond and jack up taxes and prices to rebuild the whole system so that a couple dozen disabled people can get around ... sometimes?

The ADA is just about the biggest racket and shakedown of society one could ever imagine. There is a difference between accommodation when reasonable or even making different choices that don't incur additional costs, but making people and companies do things and take on costs to benefit a tiny little minority is outright oppression.

So when do we start lowering rents and prices because it's not accommodating of low income people in the city that also have a choice to simply leave the city. If you can't ride the subway, maybe don't ride the subway, or leave the city. The ADA is like a pernicious cancer that keeps eating away and shutting down society one tiny little bit at a time.
Looks nicely done, what little I can see without divulging my entire Google calendar to the service.

But I'm honestly having trouble seeing what this does that isn't just as easily handled by Google Docs, Word, or any other editor.
Moving to Switzerland.
Thanks for this. I like the way they openly share their data, analysis, and code.
Well, I don't want anyone to turn a profit on it, so not particularly. The downfall of letting people choose is that the rich end up opting out, which undermines the system. Maybe I'm arguing the opposite, that there should be a single global system. Or maybe I don't quite know what the right policy is, just that the current system is nonsensical.
Considering that, to get it into Firefox kinda usefully, I had to do lots of hacking around in the browser UI with JS and more, and it’s tightly coupled to my own server (API keys hardcoded), maybe after I’ve cleaned it up.

If Firefox provides a sane API for this in the future, I might do a public (and FLOSS) rewrite.
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for political battle. That isn't allowed here.
I suspect a number of people do have problems with engineers, doctors and skilled people coming to the UK. The only question is how numerous those people really are.
Going to digress a bit but I'm working on a project in Vue and while at first it seemed like a literal breath of fresh air I came to the awful conclusion that no matter what SPA framework/library you're using, if it's javascript, you gonna be using webpack + a medium size build pipeline for es2015, jade, scss, bundling, file watching, hot-reload etc. The arguments for small libraries aren't as strong anymore because the advantages of the larger ones have enough cost/benefit that you're going to be pulling them in EVENTUALLY so might as well do it from the beginning.
All science starts with a hypothesis. If the evidence he presents supports his, then what's the problem? Peer review will illuminate if he is dishonest in his analysis. The bigger risk is the converse problem, where nobody around is challenging the consensus. History is rife with examples where the consensus is wrong.
Are telephone providers in the US allowed to sell the data about who you called when, how often and how long? If not, why not? Should be possible to monetize that.
This is big. This is the future of contraception, because it works, it's incredibly cheap, it has (almost?) no side effects. All current solutions are a joke.

Hormone-based contraception feels like something from the middle ages. It has serious side effects, it has "harmless" side effects that aren't even related to the pill anymore after years of intake, but still an annoyance (migraine, headaches, yeast infections, high blood pressure, ...)

Non-hormonal contraception has its own negative aspects:

- Copper IUDs can cause a lot of pain, inserting them isn't that easy, they are ethically troublesome (eggs can be fertilized after ovulation, but the copper IUD prevents nidation)

- Natural family planning methods are way safer than many people believe (the sympto-thermal method), but don't allow unprotected sex during fertile days

- Condoms are way safer than many people believe as well (as long as you use the correct size) and won't go away because of STDs, but are a bit annoying in relationships

And there really aren't any other alternatives right now. The state of contraception in 2017 is incredibly sad and RISUG is the first attempt, which truly can disrupt (and I don't use this word lightly) the entire industry.

It will require some social shift. Men must be willing to take responsibility for contraception, but it's already happening: Recently, the pill for men was stopped because of side effects, but the men were disappointed. They WANT to have alternatives to condoms.
That's the UK politicians position, not mine. They could have easily stopped last week. "brexit means brexit" and "no deal we leave anyway". Blustering tough talk but who it is supposed to impress I'm not sure about. The self-destructive element is on the UK side and the sooner they realize it the better.
And then there's the fact that Britons settled in Europe didn't have a vote.

Whatever you can say about voting rights for overseas citizens in general elections, this vote was explicitly removing rights that they are currently exercising as part of EU membership — arguably they are the most affected by the outcome, yet were disenfranchised.
Poisoning the well is a well-known rhetorical fallacy. It is really worth the effort to study, learn and be on the lookout for fallacies in public discourse, although doing so will lead to some depressing insights.

False equivalences are also fallacious, and I urge you to desist from employing them.
SOPA was introduced by a republican. 8/12 of the initial sponsors were republican.

Not sure how you can hang this on the democrats.
PIPA was introduced by Leahy. Still had some republican sponsors.

They didn't vote on either.

I'm really not sure why you had to be condescending about this. You could have made the same point by bringing up SOPA/PIPA. No need to start talking about other posters being young and immature.
Oh come now. 70,000-90,000 years? If the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) has accurately estimated the planet's economically accessible uranium resources, reactors could run more than 200 years at current rates of consumption.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glo...