skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "hetrogenous body politic with hundreds of millions of other people with which they share little other than said bureaucracy"

Sounds a lot like the USA.
In the case of invasive species, isn't their natural habitat "everywhere"? If so, good news, you got your wish :)
At less than the rate of inflation.
It has been years since I read anything by Adams, or indeed since I've looked at a Dilbert cartoon. "The Truth" isn't really that important to me. I'm not in a position such that it actually matters what I think of global warming, but I'm happy that most people who are in such a position seem mostly to agree with me. That is, we haven't yet made many human lives much worse in an attempt to curb emissions of CO₂. That would be monstrous and inhumane. Of course I have no problem with benign and even beneficial actions like encouraging solar energy production.
In regards to the question of ISPs selling browsing history, how much of that data outside of law enforcement has ever led to profitable sales from consumers? Like honestly, I've never ever been swayed by a web advert. If anything, they've made me disgusted with the advertiser and made me delay any purchases. Plus, most of the web ads as they are now are just boring repeats of the same product I've searched on Amazon or Google. No related products, no accessories (I bought a telescope recently so I find it odd that no one is trying to hawk eye pieces or filters for the coming solar eclipse). Just the same dumb product I've ALREADY BOUGHT! Like I can't imagine the profit margins on data mining are all that significant if my intuition holds true.
As a communication mechanism I can say that some of the rules will likely apply.

Oh look, more whataboutism.
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> 1) you do understand that "unelected" doesn't mean "no vote was held". For example in the us system the supreme Court justices and the president's cabinet are referred to as "unelected" although they are held to confirmation votes in the us legislative assembly.

Then the British PM is also unelected, as is the British cabinet. Heck, it's even worse, as they're directly appointed without the House of Commons even getting to vote.

> 2) it doesn't strike you that this convoluted process with several confusing and in some cases similarly named governing organizations is itself the problem?

I am not particularly enamored with the names myself, but the process is not particularly convoluted in practice. I was spelling out the details in an effort to avoid technical quibbles.

The moment the EPP won the EP elections in 2014, it was pretty clear that Jean-Claude Juncker would be Commission President, even though it technically involved a couple more steps, which mirror the steps that other countries have, too (for example, in Germany, the Chancellor is also technically nominated before the election by the President and thereafter formally appointed, but as in the EU, these are purely formal steps in practice).

And let's not get started with the election process for the US president.

The election of the Commission is not more complicated than the election of the American Cabinet. One could do away with it, of course, as Britain does, but that would reduce democratic legitimacy, so I don't see the point.
Can the title be changed to something like
> SearchInternetHistory fundraising to buy, show politicians' Internet usage

Right now it's a pretty generic title.
That entire thinking is flat out wrong - even if we were 100% solar the idea we won't have any land left to live on is insane [1]. Solar will get more efficient and more dense, to what peak we don't know but even at current efficiency we could more than power the world in unused and unlivable land.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/map-shows-solar-panels-to-pow...
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I remember around then being a policy analyst for the Mental Health department of a government and being told (from above) that lots of money would be made available for services in the community once institutions were closed - but knowing perfectly well that it was a bald-faced lie at the time, given which political party was in charge, and their record. As one example, the Social Services manual at the time made it a firing offence to reveal to a client the existence of an available service or entitlement that the client didn't already know about. In print. Or to publish any part of the (quite official) manual.
I don't see too many elevators and hopefully it gets fixed with the push the governor is making towards modernizing stations across NYC.

It's important to remember that a lot of the stations, in Lower Manhattan especially, are way too small (4-5 foot wide platforms with 2 stairwells). I don't see elevators happening at those stations. A lot of these smaller platforms are connected other small platforms via stairs (think Canal Street - JZQNR6).

Good luck if your stop is on a bridge in Brooklyn or Queens.
Not yet. Sadly.
Oh yeah - this would be a great addition to an already great serivce.
I am not sure if you got to try adding an action item. You can just type "@ams6110 Need to do something" and meetnotes records it as an action item which would then be tracked and followed up, the key being follow-up and status tracking.

The idea there is that while taking notes I don't want to look at the screen and click a button to add an action item, set its assignee and due date etc. I would rather participate more in the meeting and just keep typing (touch typist should get me), with the tool being smart enough to parse it as an action item. Its not as smart as it should be, but thats where we want to be.

Another small but neat feature is interactive widgets. I am not sure if you saw the how you can run an instant rating with all the participating. Its just one widget right now, but we are planning to add many more like poll, survey, mini-workflows, scrum templates etc.

Let me know if that did / didn't make sense. Happy to hear feedback!

PS: Before this, I myself was a heavy user for Google Docs for taking notes.
At least in the UK, companies are generally required to use government approved scales for goods that are sold by weight - and Trading Standards do random audits of this to make sure they're in compliance. This has been the case for a long time because rigged scales are a very old swindle.
This just in: the entire world isn't wheelchair-accessible. Is this just supposed to be a pointless injection of moral outrage? How many millions - or billions - of dollars should we spend on "fixing" the NY Subway for wheelchairs? At what point do we pass the threshold of reasonable cost-benefit and descend into hemorrhaging money and resources to accommodate every differently-abled person in the world?

That last question isn't rhetorical: if you're going to downvote please explain how we evaluate the efficacy of these efforts, and explain what the upper bound on "accommodations" should be.
One has to build the _first_ generation of robots.
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Please don't switch DB's on a whim just because someone told you to. Unless it's your project lead or company CTO, you should really understand why you're making a move.

Also MongoDB and Redis have very few overlapping use cases, they're not really comparable.
Ask HN: No degree, how do I break into DBA / DB developer work?
Conservatives love this kind of nonsense-- they did it during the cold war, and came up with wildly bad conclusions about Russian intentions and capabilities:

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

Then the exact same guys did the same thing in the lead up to the Iraq War:

http://www.sfgate.com/politics/article/NEWS-ANALYSIS-Bush-te...

The purpose of this kind of thing isn't scientific inquiry, it's a blatant attempt to muddy the waters in order to advance a political agenda.
Thanks for the reply. I was thinking more general on how to display differences, not so much for code, although it definitely does help. More of a Tufte treatise on difference.

Working on a tool to calculate search relevancy and it would be nice to visual display to users the difference between two queries.
There are some decent companies on the tech area. Poland is one of the "cheap" EU countries with decent workers, that's a good reason to have a big office there.
>if we are committed to safe and conscientious use of it.

Ding ding ding. This is always the caveat tucked away in nuclear discussions. "It will be fine, as long as everything is going fine." Things don't always go fine. When they don't go fine at a coal plant, things are bad, but they are recoverable; they can be cleaned up, and that land can be repurposed, even if its prior purpose is no longer feasible due to structural changes or pollution. There is no permanent, decades-long exclusion zone.

>I'd risk a %0.00001 chance of dying by cancer sooner living next to a nuclear plant vs. a 1.0% chance of dying in a road collision with a fuel tanker or a 0.05% chance of dying sooner with emphysema by living close to a coal-fired plant. (I made those numbers up by the way; but my order of magnitude is spot-on)

Not going to nitpick your made-up numbers, but the difference is that this is a bigger thing "than I want to take this risk". This is taking the risk that the area become a nuclear wasteland (from radiation, not explosion) for the next 100 years, an area that no person can enter without risking their immediate health just by being present. If you get too close to the hotspots without the right gear and monitoring, you will die quickly.

Are other things dirty? Do other things have tradeoffs and downsides? Is there even some risk that nearby property will be damaged or destroyed? Sure. I'm not trying to say that other industrial accidents are no big deal. But nuclear is the only thing that can, almost instantly, take a big chunk of land and permanently and irrevocably irradiate it for 100 years (and, that's just the most severe risk with nuclear power generation; there are others that haven't been discussed).

You can say that greenhouse gasses have the same potential non-local impact, which is fine, but quite the inverse of nuclear power, greenhouse gas emissions take decades to effect this impact and are measurable and controllable. We know it's coming and can do things to stop it.

As far as I know, the most catastrophic failure at a conventional plant would impact local air quality temporarily. The most catastrophic failure at a nuclear plant can impact everything about the surrounding area (for loose values of "surrounding"; Chernobyl created a 1000 sq mile no-go zone) for generations. Those failures can and do happen overnight.
Because Apple has a lot of experience with Night Shift on iOS, and it beggars belief that they'd ship Night Shift on macOS without at least looking at how it compares to f.lux. It's simply not reasonable to claim that behaving differently than f.lux is due to incompetence.
The issue pointed out by the herf is that what is unobtrusive is not a good default, because it doesn't actually work. You have to eliminate lot of blue light to get any benefit.

Night Shift's defaults aren't getting you 98% of the way there; they're getting you maybe 15% of the way there.
Iris scanning :0
How do you clear the memory? You'd think a fourth memory key is needed. Maybe you turn it off and on. Or maybe you go MRC then M-. I think if I was designing this I'd sacrifice the notoriously unnecessary and confusing % key.
> you get a sub-par editing experience [in Clojure]

Paredit and vim-sexp have no problem doing structural editing. I don't use it myself, but Parinfer was created with Clojure in mind and people seem incredibly happy with it.

> diminished readability [in Clojure]

If you watched the talk that you lifted "complected" from, you'd know that this is subjective. Is German unreadable because I don't know German?

> Clojure syntax is a "complected" derivative of Lisp :-)

Complected in some ways sure, but far less so than many lisps, and certainly less so than Common Lisp. It seems your familiarity is complected with your reasoning.
I have a problem with this part:

> "my pattern recognizer says humans use complexity of this sort to hide the truth, not to reveal it"

This kind of presumes that there is some sort of malevolent intent on the part of the scientists. It's not an uncommon stance, but I really wonder what they think the scientists are getting out of it. It's like when the homeschooled devout Christian girl was taking my physics course (smart girl) and said that she thought the scientific view of cosmic origin was a "desperate attempt" to deny God and the Christian view. What is the purpose of denying the truth?
I knew someone was going to mention that.

Yes.

However, I mostly talked about relative movement of polls. While not entirely impossible, it seems implausible that people should suddenly all get more coy. Especially after "their side" just had huge victories. If anything, I'd expect them to be less coy than before, because they just got validated.

And the one absolute I mentioned about the French runoff is 2/3rd vs. 1/3rd. Trump and Brexit polls were never that far apart.
I think we'll have to agree to disagree. I think that opening statement is a rhetorical device.
In Paris, the accessible stations are indicated on the maps. While that doesn't fix the accessibility issue, it can help a little bit with finding alternate stations.
...maybe kick Melania and Barron out of NYC?
I think it's best not to do it as a sphere as you suggest, as that would make it not feasible to use on low resource devices. Also, wouldn't work as well with the tiling approach.
The way I see it, it seems there are 2 issues which get confused a lot:

A) Is there evidence of climate change (Yes/No)

B) Is human activity impacting the climate change (Yes/No)

I think most people across the political spectrum agree with A) Being true (please correct me if wrong). Of course, some will disagree, just as there are people who believe the earth is flat. oh, well...

The big contention these days is mostly regarding B). I guess some groups don't want to deal with the economic ramifications they assume will impact them if human activity is at the core of the climate change.

On the other hand, if it's not 'our fault' we can carry on and not worry about finding solutions? I don't completely understand where the 'red team' would stand on this, anyone care to clarify?
Bang on.

Me and my partner were planning on me getting a vasectomy in a year, when her implant runs out.

We've had to bring that forward a year because one side effect is also a symptom of cancer or polyps.

After removal, she experienced a huge lift in energy levels and greater stability of mood.

I have 2 children so a vasectomy isn't so bad an idea. Even still, it is an invasive and permanent treatment and I'd prefer something less so. Nobody likes the thought of a scalpel down there. Even a physician who wants to get it done.
> What are the top dogs you’ve met? What are the best streets in your town? Who are the worst people you love? What are the ten best instructional videos in your discipline? What are the worst colors? What are the five best musical instruments?

top best worst best worst best: what's with all this obsession with ranking??

I don't love many people but it would be impossible for me to rank them from "best" to "worst".

I don't even know what it would mean to rank musical instruments. According to what criteria? If the best instrument is the piano, or the clarinet, can you have an orchestra of 100 pianos? Or 100 clarinets?

And colors...? Ok maybe it's a joke and I don't get it.

The problem with ranking from "worst" to "best" is it's uni-dimensional; as you add more axes it makes less and less sense.

It takes a very narrow mind to even ask such a question.
>"There are people like Richard Lindzen, who even extends his gadflyism to smoking and lung cancer (and as somebody who sees the DNA damage in whole genome sequencing of lung cancers from smokers, boy is he ever stupidly wrong there.)"

Is this true or fake news? The closest I could find is this:
http://www.climateconversation.org.nz/2011/05/lindzen-dismis...

Also, seeing "DNA damage in whole genome sequencing of lung cancers from smokers" is irrelevant to the smoking-cancer link since you are sampling from the cancers... That only supports a link between cancer and "DNA damage".
This works for some, no question, and has worked in my area in fact. But it's expensive, and that farm has now closed to save the government some money, more's the pity.

Of course, this can quickly devolve into a workhouse or poorhouse; there's a black history there already. But I understand that that's not what's being proposed.
And yet the farebox recovery ratio is only 51%.
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boot times are faster in containers because they don't boot. They're piggy-backing on the host's kernel.
Hit the On key a couple of times. There is no real off unless you hold your finger on the solar panels. It says On / C for a button to awaken it.
You would build them in a developed country because cheap labour has no real impact on your cost of goods when dealing with this level of automation. A developed country gets you better infrastructure, access to the educated workforce needed to maintain and adapt your automation, and you are closer to your market.
What makes it so expensive?
MTA runs on a deficit so yeah like any business they need to raise prices. Sadly :(
Yeah, I would only be a little surprised if it turns out to be feasible to reconstruct 3D shapes to freakish accuracy via wifi signals. Perhaps not anytime soon, though.
This seems to indicate that German electricity exports are actually up:

https://www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en/press-media/news/2016/germa...
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As someone who recently moved to NYC from the SF Bay Area, it's a pleasure to swipe for a ride, even at $3.

That's a static fee to go anywhere. In the Bay Area, your BART ticket fee is dependent on where you want to go--at it's most extreme, can be up to $20/ride.

$2.75-$3 to get anywhere in NYC is an absolute bargain.
>> The EU goes well beyond traditional trade pacts in services.

another good example is research and research funding.

https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/eu-uk-fundi...

https://royalsociety.org/~/media/policy/projects/eu-uk-fundi...
There's a fourth dimension to it - remembering why the hole needs to be guarded for 10000 years. And if you imagine trying to have a conversation with a human from 10000 years ago, you'll realize how non-trivial that is - no language, culture or knowledge capture system would survive for this long intact. There is a fascinating body of research about how to solve this problem (with no definite answer). E.g. see https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/02/how-t...
I just got one of them via my Skype.

Goddamnit Microsoft.
Trådfri == Wireless in case people are too lazy to google translate it
I always wondered why repackaging content is considered a bad thing. I feel like hundreds of thousands of hours are wasted by local journalists writing about national events, with nothing to add to the conversation.

Yes, Trump is important. But why does every local newspaper write their own article about everything he does? For every news item, there's thousands of articles on Google News, yet only 1-2 are worth reading.

To me, this seems like a huge reason journalism is having trouble. They're spending tons of time and resources just rewriting the same news stories, rather than embracing their strengths (local news; let WaPo/NYT/AP/BBC/etc handle bigger news stories).
> If they can't kill themselves on a train, they'll just go to the nearest bridge.

This is a quibble in this context, but it's an important issue in others (such as access to guns):

Suicide is an impulsive act. The less "convenient" it is to kill oneself, the fewer suicides there are. A extra few minutes to reconsider can often be lifesaving.

This is well-researched (and still fun) podcast where I learned about this: https://gimletmedia.com/episode/guns/
There already are red-teams looking for evidence against the main consensus on the climate. Let me explain why you've never heard from them.

Let's start by what climate scientists actually do. Very few of them actually gather any of their own data. Some get a grant here or there to go on a trip to Greenland or Antarctica, or to design and launch their own satellite, but they are few in number. And generally while they get first dibs on their raw data, it all gets public at a set pace.

What climate scientists mostly do is 1. download raw data from the diverse array of sources available, 2. run models with them, using C/C++, Fortran and MPI, 3. distill what they find with Matlab and R, and finally 4. produce papers.

That's it. If you've experience with analyzing data in Matlab/R/Numpy, with using queue-based computer resources or AWS, you too can be a climate scientist. Just apply your knowledge to this narrow field. Done. The only difference between you and climate scientists is they're paid to do it full time, with an allowance for buying Beowulf clusters or running up a tab on other people's.

Observe that the right wing think-tank archipelago around Northern Virgina and DC has thousands, literally thousands, of people with statistics Phds, and money for as much playtime on AWS as they want. Climatology is a highly accessible field to anyone who's every pulled an all nighter with Matlab. And the right wing sponsors of the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, Cato, et cetera, would love, love, to find serious evidence against the greenhouse effect.

So why haven't they ever stepped forward with anything?

Because there isn't anything out there.

Why has the anti-AGW community ever produced anything that is at or above the dignity of a middle schooler?

Because middle school taunts is all they have.
>>> If there is another place companies go, the brains will undoubtedly follow.

Companies want the brain to go there, the brains want the company there to go there. Circular dependency.

That's why there are only few tech hubs and they won't change.
It's not that hard, just a little awkward because you can't really see how it screws in while you're doing it because the light assembly is sealed except for the bulb hole.
I do https://rocknerd.co.uk . I post every day or two. (Used to be every day, I have a book I'm trying to finish.) It gets about 100 hits/day total. Most posts, approximately nobody cares about. Every month or two I write a popular hit that gets a lot of attention, then it goes back to the mean. I slowly build up an audience of regulars.

But basically it's for my own amusement and that of my friends.

I would say: if you're doing it for the hits, you're doing it wrong. There is no money in blogging. There may be reputation.
> The core concept in EU law is subsidiarity. Look it up if you're unfamiliar - by treaty, the EU may only make laws where actions by individual countries are insufficient.

I agree that collective action problems are real and centralized government is one way to address such problems. But selling the E.U. on the idea that it'll only invoke supra-national powers "where actions by individual countries are insufficient" is a bill of goods. The U.S. federal government was supposed to be a narrow one that acted only in specific areas where a national response was necessary (military, trade, foreign policy). But that got obliterated over time because it's much easier to dictate from the national level instead of getting buy-in from dozens of state legislatures.
> egregious business value (hundred million+)

the cost of shutting down San Onofre is $4B+
Just trying to find out where the tipping point might be between technical and non-profit technical....And if there is a middle ground between the two.