skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Climate Science is a bunch of computer models

All of science is eventually a bunch of models.

> models [that] are not testable. When they're run and compared to what actually happened they're always off

You do realize these statements contradict one another, right?

Also, you're wrong. There have been plenty of successful predictions: https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/successful-p...

> Climate Scientists don't release their model's code

False.

Some publish code before/with their papers, some don't publish at all, and some publish code with a lag after publication (to clean up the code, tussle with legal about IP and/or political issues, etc. Fair IMO as long as the code is eventually published).

The major models, including the NASA one, are open source.

Google it.

> Name a single climate science model that predicted "the pause" starting in '98?

Predicting century-long trends and predicting 5 or 10-year variations within that trend are extremely different tasks.

It's certainly possible that we have models that are exceptionally accurate on the scale of 20 or 50 or 100 years but cannot make accurate predictions over the course of 5 or 10 years.

In fact, in a stochastic system, that's exactly what you would expect to be the case -- trends that are globally but not locally discernible.

More-over, opponents to the climate change thesis don't bother to provide their own models and predictions for falsification. And when they do, they're just as wrong on small time scales and much more wrong on long time scales.

> I'm saying that labeling dissenters as deniers (reminiscent of holocaust deniers) is beyond the pale.

This largely depends on what is being denied:

- CO2 effects climate (requires extraordinary new evidence -- we have both historical Earth data and inter-planetary data).
- Temperatures are changing (requires new evidence -- the '98 "hiatus" as largely played out and skeptics failed to make any predictions that made it through the decade).
- CO2 is causing temperatures to change on earth (again, requires new evidence).
- Concrete predictions about near and mid-term effects of climate change. IMO fair game, but I'm not sure what the point is from a climate policy perspective unless we're really that selfish.

There's also an important difference between skepticism and denial.

Being skeptical of Newtonian physics and providing a competing model against which we can compare is of course fair game.

Denying Newtonian physics in favor of "no particular opinion on how the world works, and let's not try to figure out" is of course worse than useless.

In other words, make your own predictions or get off the pot.
Not hard. The iSeries is an unmitigated clusterfsck. I still feel like electric is just pushing the pollution somewhere else, but I am glad to see the tech advance. I continue to have doubts that the model 3 will be the electric peoples car however.
The Experts Are Wrong; It’s Time to Stop Promoting Mediocrity
Yep. Here's the Supreme Court decision that upheld them:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakus_v._United_States
Interestingly, if you try an @yandex.com address you get back a true "isViral" property. Wonder what that means?
What a clickbait headline. It seems pretty obvious that it is about the user experience. For example, if someone dumps 20GB of encrypted photos on Drive, no other app would be able to use that. Maybe that's what you want. But Photos are the kind of thing that multiple different applications should be able to read/write.
Correction, they do their best work on their breakout record. Doesn't have to be their first. And the obvious explanation is regression to the mean, same reason you feel better after visiting a doctor.
I remember him talking about what he thinks about Hollywood in his spoken word tour. He never thought of himself as an actor, and never took his auditions very seriously. I still think he's a pretty decent actor.

EDIT: HA! Found this clip which is the bit from his spoken word tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTlL8k84LNQ
Snapchat claims they delete snaps immediately after snaps are opened, but unopened snaps stay on their servers for 30 days after they're sent:

> Snapchat servers are designed to automatically delete Snaps after they’ve been viewed by all recipients. Opened Snaps typically cannot be retrieved from Snapchat's servers by anyone, for any reason. Also, Snapchat servers are designed to automatically delete unopened Snaps after 30 days. However, unopened Snaps sent to a Group Chat are deleted by default after 24 hours. [1]

[1] https://support.snapchat.com/en-US/a/when-are-snaps-chats-de...
I will do this for you in one-hour minimums. Just send me the list of wants and the git URL+creds or tarball/zip. Contact me through any channel, satisfaction guaranteed.
> Name a single climate science model that predicted "the pause" starting in '98?

Wouldn't that be a failure of the model?

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-38513740
Don't use AWS. There, fixed that for you.
I'm curious why you think centralized government control of it would be a good thing?

I don't find that the LCBO is particularly great, as it severely limits available choice. I'm a collector of bourbon, and the only way to expand my collection is to visit the US and purchase it there, since the LCBO only carries maybe 5 brands, and does not allow importation via mail.

If there was an independent liquor store, they could perhaps specialize in a way the LCBO can't.
How Strava Merges Code (Butler Merge Queue)
Yeah - I was following echelon since about 88 - the 97 insight was just final confirmation I needed.... I have been modding /r/conspiracy for years.

people think "oh conspiracy! so like 'bigfoot'?" -- uh, no government conspiracy/corruption/collusion...

I didnt need snowden to tell me a thing, but I am sure glad he told everyone else.
The idea of writing CSS in JS is horrible to me. But I'm coming from a completely different developer camp, and find the vjeux talk completely unconvincing, so that does not mean much :) And with your comment it is clearer now where this might be useful.

Maybe add a "How to use this" section describing possible workflows to the Readme?

Also I run into situations where my js produces inline css, and a lodash style lib for that could be useful. Thanks for the answer, congratz for launching!
Note: This was published in 2015, before / around the same time as other encoder-decoder-like segmentation architectures like SegNet or U-Net.
> The article describes Dalvik which is different from JVM, so it's not really a proof.

My comment describes the actual JVM, hence having linked to official Java/JVM documentation.
Funny, BJs warehouse club still has self checkout lanes.
sigh singularity hypothesis requires no "accelerating change" any eventually upward slope will do.
I also wonder if it could also be that if Amazon is subpoenaed for your files and they hand over an encrypted binary the government will then ask for it to be unencrypted.

When Amazon says they can't do it they will ask for the source code or a vulnerability for the software that encrypted it. That will get bounced to the developer. Does Amazon want to get into that business of selling out the people making software for them?
I wasn't at the hackathon for the prize, but to find enthusiastic developers to recruit for employment, those that aren't usually found through traditional searches.
Here's the PDF link, btw.

https://storage.googleapis.com/snap-inc/privacy/lawenforceme...
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Maybe this piece of evidence will be the one that finally convinces the governments of the world to take climate change seriously. And maybe I will wake up tomorrow with a third arm.
Nick, I think that the primary win is referential transparency. APL idioms raise the level on that base. The tradeoff, though, is the same as we have for functional but further along the road: if you develop a codebase that doesn't use common idioms it's harder to hire people to work in it.

I think array languages, or at least their operation set and idioms, will move into the mainstream in the same way that functional is, but it will take time. Sustainability for your business would be more an issue of hiring and retaining talent.

Reach out if you want to talk about this more: @mfeathers
Where I live I have the option of 100% community solar, or 100% wind (wind via credit transfer). For me, moving to an all electric vehicle would be a pure carbon reduction.
How does it look on mobile? On my device, it goes into an something like an iframe with its own horizontal scrolling. [0] Does it stretch the page on some devices?

Unfortunately, it seems like the edit window on that comment has expired. If it's obnoxious, I can ping dang and see if he can fix it.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/zt9S1M5.jpg
31 million TSLA shares are currently held short, which represents somewhere in the region of 20% of the non-insider shares. (Yahoo finance says 38% of the float, so I guess it depends how many shares you consider freely available on the market).

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/tsla/short-interest
Can second. Received samples last week. Pricing is OK but gets particularly attractive above 1000 copies.
Flaaging this because of the "you're today's lucky gift card winner" pop-up on my iPad.
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It's a little more complicated than that: https://skepticalscience.com/climate-change-global-warming.h...
Sure, the grid can provide the power for fast charging, but charging a battery heats the battery, and charging it too fast heats it too much. That's my concern. If Tesla can make the charging time short enough to be convenient enough, then I'm wrong.
What I find interesting is that they decided to stick with amazon despite there being a supposedly larger offer from a local group.

I wonder if that offer was to try and raise the stakes or they just decided amazon was a better fit for them in terms of mission/value/whatever.
2008 should have ushered in a new labor movement. It was at this time that workers needed protection from their employer more than ever. The lackluster job market meant employers could demand longer hours and lower wages. Additionally, despite non-existent wage growth, the Federal Reserve fought tooth-and-nail to create inflation while insuring interest on savings was pushed to nothing.

Of course we're burned out. We're fighting a losing battle.

If Obama had any balls, he would have pushed for policies that protected the worker during this period we needed government the most.
This sucks. I hate it. VERY few "services" are worth the exposure of my real email address. I made this mistake with yahoo, bigfoot.com and amazon.

It would not hurt my feelings if the developer of this "service" became allergic to pizza. And if the service were to close... The allergy is reversed, gradually.
It's hard to have a "moon moment" in times where there is a large population that think we never landed on the moon, and half the country believes in alternative facts.
I might be alone here, but I always felt Gattaca was misunderstood. The dystopia was that society allowed non-enhanced humans to be born. Allowing an underclass to exist, voluntarily, was the mistake. Genetic-engineering healthier, better people sounds great. Let's just make sure everyone has access.
That's a wee bit troubling. There might be an argument for some kind of user experience, but, uh, that's not how it's actually phrased.

Obviously client side encryption is an important part of using any kind of cloud storage, so disallowing it pretty much removes any potential use of Amazon drive for me. I have some photos I don't mind being stored unencrypted, but I have plenty I'd rather not allow any and every app to have access to.
640x480 isn't a crazy convention at all when you understand what is required to interface with the display hardware and you remember the goals of TempleOS. He wanted to recapture transparency of the C64 system in a 64-bit system. It's pretty clear Terry didn't want to spend all his time writing vendor-specific device drivers and painful workaround cruft.

This also applies to things like the RedSea filesystem and the way memory is used.
Development diaries: Hacked my calendar. Day 48: No interruptions
Ugh I HATED Straight Edge! Henry Rollins also doesn't like the term Straight Edge. While I don't drink (Never had the desire and have a disdain of all drugs (Except non-pain prescriptions and caffeine. I know hypocrite) I am not straight edge.

Straight Edge really have a ton of different groups but the Militant Straight Edge ruined the word for me. I would see people light up a cigarette and then people would beat them up. They would smash cans of beers out of people's hands etc. Personally I loved eating a Big Mac and drinking a caffeine soda to see them think about what to do with me, which was nothing. (I was a pretty "Big Dude" physically and number of friends in the local Punk Scene and didn't let people get carried away)

Also NYHC was always violent and stupid. I was a CT Punk kid and we hated the NYHC crap that they would bring. Usually once people started throwing punches we would all walk off the floor and wait till they were done. If they tried to hurt anyone by running into them they usually got thrown to the ground, but not hurt them. They usually got the idea.

Rollins was always about enjoying life and working hard to make a difference.
That makes sense given that Amazon Drive itself is for non-commercial use: "You may use the Services only to store, retrieve, manage, organize, and access Your Files for personal, non-commercial purposes using the features and functionality we make available." from Amazon Drive and Prime Photos Terms of Use https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...
I reached the same conclusion at the end of Part I, where the author compares Trump with the Mule. Either his understanding of Asimov's story was shockingly poor or he's shamelessly grasping at straws:

The Mule is a truly exceptional mutant, someone like Marvel's X-men, a very remote possibility of nature that becomes probable only thanks to the huge numbers of the Empire's lifetime and population. This is about as close as science-minded Asimov will go to invoke a miracle in a plot.

Trump, meanwhile, is disgustingly unremarkable, an incompetent small-time crook with a sad set of psychological defects. Had he not won the lottery in terms of his inheritance, you could find him vegetating in a trailer park in Arkansas. And had the GOP's bizarre infighting machinations left it with a single emerging credible candidate, Trump's ship would have sunk long before the primaries.

What you quoted from the author makes it clear that his grasp of reality is as tenuous as Trump's.
This is a great example of terrible writing. The analyst is predicting that the average selling price for Model 3, including options, is going to be much higher than the base price.

That's great news for Tesla, but the writer makes it look like it's a disagreement (it isn't) and doesn't explain the context (great news for Tesla.)
From MongoDB to AWS Redshift: A Practical Guide
i can't tell you how many failed trig tests happen as a direct result of a non-intuitive unit circle defined in terms of Pi [1].

Pi is fundamentally wrong. A circle is defined by a point and a radius. Diameter is just something that has always been easier to measure, so now we're stuck with it :( The fact that Tau makes some formulas less "elegant" is irrelevant.

[1] http://www.shelovesmath.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Unit-...
"Amazon Connect supports voice interactions for incoming and outgoing PSTN telephony...It supports DTMF input, text-to-speech output using Amazon Polly, which can optionally be combined with Amazon Lex...for natural language interactions."

Sounds like you can build a fairly sophisticated robodialer with it. That's not terribly easy to find out in the market. Hope they have some controls to curb abuse.
OS Hardening Principles
For reference, BMW 3 and 4 series sales in the US has been in the range of 100,000-150,000 units/year

http://carsalesbase.com/us-car-sales-data/bmw/bmw-3-series-4...
Do businesses have these same concerns about hiring disabled people?

Classifying those with certain genetic mutations as disabled, could be another solution to this problem. Although it should, in theory render them immune from. discrimination, it's a highly imperfect solution that could lead to a very ugly society.

Id rather just keep that information completely private. Companies have been able to operate just fine without the data provided by genetic tests since time immemorial. Employers are not allowed to ask about whether or not you are. married, have kids, your religion, your ethnicity etc. It might not be fair, but it is a trade-off/tax that I would happily pay to ensure that people, through no fault of their own, experience a new class of systemic, institutional discrimination.
Thanks for the kind words, totally understand that this isn't for everybody.

Definitely will work on improving the README, just needed to finally get this out of the door ;)

Cheers!
Personally I'm not having much hope of either standing on Mars or living past the age of 100, but I do believe those - and others - are problems that need attention and serious resource investments. It pains me to see just how much productivity on this planet is wasted on utterly pointless things, when big problems affecting us all remain almost unaddressed.
Your "free" tier isn't really free, then. As payment, you're asking for the sacrifice of your users' privacy.

Some users may value your service so much or their privacy so little that they may pay up, but for the rest of us it's back to the disposable email arms race.

PS: Kudos for being open and considerate enough to defend an unpopular position on here, though it's ironic that you did so using a disposable HN account.
In my book, tunnels, road construction, mining, oil & gas are quintessential examples of diehard reactionary industries making snail pace progress, with entrenched corruption and basically insurmountable barriers to entry.
Uber building EV charging network
31% of College Students Spend Their Loans on Spring Break
The saying goes: "I'm being over-worked and under-paid."

When greed for profit over product viability or employee considerations is the /only/ goal of a company, this trend will /always/ be the end result.

Profit is what drives markets, but it is employees that drive companies. Or, it is employees that ruin said companies.

Businesses beware.
While companies should definitely be doing something about this, at the end of the day it is our responsibility to look after ourselves. Too many people tolerate this type of treatment out of fear. I understand that this is easier said than done, but I do not think the situation will change much unless people start standing up for themselves.

Remember the number 1 regret Bronnie Ware observed while caring for people in the last 12 weeks of their lives: I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
Or to confuse Tesla with a tech company.
Sorry, I misread it.
The fat cats.
The current state of the JS world is getting closer every day to the J2EE craziness about 10 years ago. As an outsider it was nearly impossible to understand for what all those frameworks with funky names were required at all. For an insider every of those new frameworks looked like the solution to a fundamental CS problem. However, those fundamental CS problems where nothing else then some shortcomings introduced by the latest framework before.
What is your point? I don't understand why you focused on short-haul. US carriers do long-haul to, and they are terrible at it, but they are so lazy and incompetent that they just choose to whine about unfairness instead of competing. Typical. The funny thing is, these Middle East routes were wide open for the taking for a long time, and they still don't offer them.
> the animosity the Trump administration has directed at the news media has injected new vigor into a beleaguered industry.

I'm no fan of Trump, but leave it to the NYT to frame its industry as a victim. As though decades of increasingly partisan coverage had nothing to do with the industry's problems.
Identity via continuity sounds like the Ship of Theseus problem[0], and it doesn't seem like any kind of a roadblock for anything.

As for being a different being, I personally wouldn't mind. I'm not the same being I was yesterday, or last year, anyway. For instance, over the past few years, I have many parts of my teeth removed and replaced with artificial components. I do not feel worse because of that.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_of_Theseus
Actually all the times I've read him use the word "niggers" (and it is an offensive word, I won't dispute that) he actually means something different than you would expect.
Statistician Proves Gaussian Correlation Inequality
Competition is anathema to corporations.
That is silly. You don't have to consider the situation of every single person on this planet to opine on an issue.
Sure, but it's also expected that it should provide output that could be compiled to produce the input, and in this case it's impossible to satisfy both those constraints. The best thing would probably be to leave a comment in the generated source code explaining the problem, and provide an option to rename overlapping functions.
Don't know, but you get "isViral" for zoho.com, amazon.com, google.com, tencent.com, pinterest.com, and others as well.
Even if that's true, please don't make a trash thread on top of it. The idea here is to have substantive points and make them thoughtfully.

If you think an article is bad enough not to be on HN, you can flag it. (There's a karma threshold of 30 before flag links appear.)
While it doesn't have an inherent advantage, it has the mindshare and momentum of a community that has these tools now.

R could be just as capable as Python, but I think Python has largely won the race to be the most popular language for data analysis which in turn encourage more developers to commit to it, cementing Python's advantage.

R still has solid lead in statistics and a good mindshare amongst academics.
The quote is taken for a speech, not a formal argument.

The president was trying to exhort his people to join in a difficult endeavour for it's own sake.
It’s crazy how many ailments are now being heavily data mined.
It is particular confusing that articles in Scientific Reports have URLs of the form http://www.nature.com/articles/srep<id>

This means that on the HN (or Reddit) front-page they are listed simply as "(nature.com)", so it isn't immediately obvious which journal they're in.

I'm not sure whether this is what you meant by confusion propogating, so thought I would explicitly state this.
> The Economic Policy Institute shows that productivity increased by 21.6%, yet wages grew by only 1.8% during this time period.

> Companies need to do something about this burnout crisis now because otherwise, they will pay the high price of turnover.

Hm, what on earth could they possibly do? It's a mystery shrouded in an enigma!
Top five regrets of the dying
I could be misremembering but I thought the character who was non-enhanced was born that way on purpose due to the choice of the mother. Gets a lot more ethically dicey when you start talking about forcing people to genetically engineer their children or face them being forced into a underclass.
So when you say "replaced by the threat of war", what you really mean is having one power assert uncontested control. I consider that to be a very one sided perspective... Yes, the US can exercise power all across the globe, but have you seen how other countries respond to that power? It might prevent military battles, but terrorism is still war, though fought with different tactics.

And as far as having a single power goes... That's not a guaranteed promise, either. Look at ancient Rome: They achieved (more or less) unquestionable power and authority over the Mediterranean, and that simply led to decades of civil war.

People living together in peace is a myth.