skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have said this in the past (to climate scientists as well as others) and I'll say it again. Check the energy equations for the climate science predictions. It is easy enough to do, especially if you have a calculator or spreadsheet.

The interesting thing is that the required energy for the predictions is the bugbear and it cannot simply be gotten around. Even the analysis papers that look at the last 50 odd years show a major discrepancy between the energy required and the climate science predictions.

This leads me to believe that the climate science models in use are very problematic (that is screwed badly).

It is also interesting to note that every technology that is posited to be used to replace the current coal based or nuclear based has a high pollution index for the creation of the base elements for these technologies - this is something that is not discussed.

There is also some very interesting biological research that strongly indicates a higher ecological benefit for increased CO2 levels (up to 1000 to 1500 ppm from the current levels) including increased plant growth and lower water usage.

A recent study also indicates that in greenhouse environments, increased CO2 levels has a higher energy transference, that is the greenhouse environment get colder quicker.

So what do we get from all this, as individuals, we can do some investigation into the reasonableness of the climate science predictions and we can come to our own conclusions as to whether or not climate science is sound science. We don't actually have to take the word of either side, we can check the veracity of both sides.

My own investigations have lead me to believe that climate scientists have less an idea of what is causing climate change that do people who have observed the world for 60, 70 or 80 years.

When the models give credible predictions for short, medium and longer term periods then we can start to give credence to what climate scientists might say.

Does waiting for this increase credibility mean we do nothing now. No. We have various infrastructure problems now that need to be solved, some environmental, some energy related, some populations related, etc. Unfortunately, even though there are positive things we can do to mitigate specific problems in the infrastructure realm, the political situation will ensure that these are not done.

Even though the rightists have some good ideas, the leftists will object. Even though the leftists have some good ideas the rightists will object. Any ideas from the middle-of-the-roadists will get shot down by both sides.

So it is up to each of us as individuals to make changes that positively effect our surrounding situations.
Something something VR. Won't disclose what's about just yet.
An Overhauled MacPro Is Finally Coming Next Year, No Matter What Anybody Thinks
That's the nice thing they did in the 90s and before. They created standards like FTP, HTTP, Gopher and whatever and people could build upon these standards. Now we are back to everything being proprietary,
I listened to the entire podcast and felt that, while more successful overall, it suffered from the same problem as Serial: the belief that being an urban liberal is sufficient perspective to describe people marginalized from their cultures.

It was obvious as Reed tried to medicalize John B's behavior and pigeonhole it into a heteronormative context that he was reducing him in a similar fashion as the townspeople, who despite his resentments, he obviously felt more kinship with. It's probably an inescapable narrative bias, but as someone from a similar background as John B (albeit in the rural north, not the south), I couldn't help but feel this was about making everything digestible for the kind of audience Reed represents.
and ancient roman foot is shorter

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

Roman unit| English name | Equal to | Metric equivalent | Imperial equivalent

pes | (Roman) foot | 1 pes | 296 mm | 0.971 ft
You could be forgiven for making that mistake. The Combine soldiers in HL2 functioned in much the same way, even better in some cases. I've played through both games a number of times and the firefights play out differently each time.
One can configure an HP Z840 workstation with 2TB of RAM and 44 cores. The vast majority of developers can and do work with much less. The question is, what are the true power users using?
No, I think I swung too far in that direction if anything. I decided not to go to Stanford because it would be too expensive (one semester's tuition at Stanford is about one year of median income where I'm from, and that scared me to death). Only years later did I learn it would have been free because of how much (or little) income my parents had. It still upsets me to think about it.

I now have an almost unhealthy fear of debt, to the extent that I don't even want to own a home until I can pay cash for it. (Though, to be fair, living in Silicon Valley right now with housing prices swinging $500k for what was a $500k house in a few years that fear may be somewhat healthy).
Over the Air: Exploiting Broadcom’s Wi-Fi Stack
Most proposed "solutions" to this problem directly attack multiple people's livelihoods. They can, should and must defend against these things tooth and nail. Expecting otherwise is naive.

Real solutions look like building out a renewable infrastructure. A thing that is happening everyday already, spearheaded by humanely conscious individuals and companies (Google, Apple, etc). There is literally nothing for the government to do in this situation but get out of the way and facilitate such endeavours.

Instead, we talk about carbon taxes >.>
I'm curious about it without even the mobile story. But just compiling command-line apps for easy distribution, similar to GoLang.
Yeah, I remember that ZX Spectrum emulators seemed to be early (before C64 and Apple ][ emulators). Being an American, I never used a Spectrum back in the day, but I used the early Spectrum emulators to play 8-bit games as many of them were the same games as I remember playing on the Apple ][.
TBL created the web, certainly - but hypertext prior to the web goes far back as an idea (at least as far back as Alan Kay - also an ACM Turing Award winner, IIRC)...
I think most people find them easy to understand compared to the alternative of writing the code as a state machine or writing it without using a state machine.
Perhaps we're talking past each other here. You'll notice from my example that I and my friends all went to college. I'm not advocating against going to college. What I'm saying is there are a lot of options out there and the financial side should weigh in your decisions. I was getting a writing degree and decided that shooting for a big expensive school was probably a stupid idea. So I picked a far cheaper option, which allowed me to pay as I went, and graduate with ~$10k in loans after I finished.
Speaking of the keyboard world, there's also the extreme of the crowdfunding concept: sites like Massdrop that emphasize crowdfunding individual batches of a product (almost always one-off) rather than aiming for eventual mass-production and general availability. It apparently seems to be working for some people, but as someone who doesn't follow every last Massdrop deal, it just seems more annoying than useful as a business practice.
> Do you force them to adapt less economically viable sources of energy consumption?

How about: Voting for policies of boosting the development of renewable energies in the US, putting to work all the unemployed of the coal mines, so it's American companies (instead of, say, Chinese) that make them more economically viable than non-renewable sources. So when these countries transition to developed economies, they become consumers of American manufacturing.
We need our platforms to be real democracies
Works for me, long click, it resizes to left half horizontally, then when I release it fills vertically. On the right side is a collection of my other windows, I tap one and it fills the right side.
You be interested in some software I found yesterday called Godot: https://godotengine.org/

It's got a fairly nice GUI and allows you to script events in a scripting language that's like a mix between Python and C++. You can also just use C++. Everything works as part of a "scene-tree". The physics and rendering engines are swappable. I believe it uses SDL2 by default. I'm pretty new at game-dev stuff. Most of my work is in back end web development. I just thought you may find it interesting or helpful.
Because you mentioned murder specifically

Murder rate per 100k:
Boston - 6
Chicago - 20
Atlanta - 20
Washington, DC - 24
Detroit - 44

Boston is a very safe US city.

http://www.areavibes.com/compare-results/?place1=Boston%2C%2...
Reddit's AF this year was excellent, probably my favourite AF experiment of all time.

I usually really dislike AF on the internet - some (most) sites become completely unusable for a day and, last thing the internet needs, it gets even harder to tell real news from the fake bits. (Did you know Takei is running for 2018 congress? That was true! Actually it wasn't. But it was! Well, no, it wasn't.)

But I'm really fond of how Reddit always handled it: A day for creativity and experimentation. The Place is a really, really beautiful experiment and the result of it surpassed expectations.
> It got annoying going to certain subreddits that I subscribe to for content started getting flooded with "Man the decks, we need to defend this!".

To be fair, it is arguable that it deserved attention, as the final picture is now a part of internet history.
The hotspots in the Dakotas are slightly correlated to Native American populations from what I can see.
That was one of my biggest annoyances with OSX. Thank you for posting this.
Wasn't the longbow the end of that age?
It's useful for everyone who breathes, hears, or walks.
I'm native from cd Juarez and I have a friend who is a journalist photographer and I'm sorry to tell you guys that even indeed free and critical journalism is on constant jeopardy because of the drug cartels and the corrupt government this journal didn't closed because it was to dangerous to do so. My friend told me that it closed because it was not profitable anymore.

The facebook rant about it: https://www.facebook.com/sugeyry/posts/10154385439001931?pnr...

Keep in mind that this is a journalist talking about a decision made the by owner of the paper a while ago, the original decision haves nothing to do with the death of Miroslava Breach or with some pressure of drug gangs. This paper was under the payroll of the late government now followed for corruption and money laundry (Cesar Duarte former governor is hidden at El Paso at this moment). And the "it is too dangerous to continue" is more a political cry out than any other thing.

Yes: times are still hard at Juarez, journalism is still a high risk job. But this is not a statement.
$100k in Iowa will go a lot farther than $200k in San Francisco, and if you can get $200k in SF you can almost certainly get a similar job making $100k (or more) in rural Iowa.

Now, if you don't want to do that because "gross, it's Iowa" and NYC or SF is objectively a more enjoyable environment for a 20-something single software developer, that's fine. But that's a choice and at that point you're simply deciding to live in a more expensive location because it's more fun.

Source: I live in rural Pennsylvania, and used to work for a company in rural Iowa (remotely).
Even though I just had fillers in my example, I did misinterpret the numbers in real life, so thanks for correcting that.
Is this just because the newer cards are so new, or will there never be drivers released anymore? That's a bummer. And makes me feel slightly more confident on going back to Windows from Hackintosh. It likely wouldn't affect me for a few more years, since this 970-based, Intel gen 5, desktop that I built up a couple years ago, still has plenty of longevity left in it.
A messenger bot that aggregates data from 3,600 ski resorts, letting you setup daily alerts to you favorite resorts and letting you pull up snow condition reports and forecasts pretty fast whenever you need them - http://snowy.ai/
Yes it's more about expectstikns and standards of communication rather than "getting the work done" that gets in the way.
I love those kind of "get together and improvise" experiments. The last time I had felt such a sense of wonder and community was the first few days of Pokemon Go when everyone was in the street trying to figure it out.

There's an untapped concept behind all of those. Content that is ephemeral but brings a lot of people together...
Can you elaborate on what you mean by "Check the energy equations for the climate science predictions"?
Just chipping in with my interesting reading about the implications of Godel's incompleteness theorems.

This piece about what the theorem means for developing "deep AI" and the human mind, was a fascinating eye opener for me, about the far stretching implications of the theorem.

"The Lucas-Penrose Argument about Gödel's Theorem" - http://www.iep.utm.edu/lp-argue/
Aurora was extremely disappointing due to that bleakness.

Do read the Mars trilogy, which has strife, but also hope.
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Conversely, why demand that people pay obeisance to your ideas? If you can just get them on board to do what's right, what's the difference?
I can't envision a situation where I'd want to run compute tasks using an Apple-only framework.
A strong contender would have to be the Marathon des Sables, around 250 kilometers (156 miles) worth of racing through the Sahara desert in southern Morocco.

Contestants get access to rationed water and a tent. All food has to be carried by the runners. Along the way, they get to deal with dehydration, blistering heat, sand storms, and the very real risk of getting lost. One stage is typically about two marathons in length, and has a time limit.

It's one of very few events that require insurance for corpse repatriation.

Up to 2008, two deaths occurred, one of whom died of a heart attack in his sleep after completing the long stage in 45th place (out of about 750). To gain entry, you have to have a medical certificate anda resting ECG report from at most 30 days before the start of the race, so that's quite extraordinary.
It continues to inspire creativity even after it closed:
https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/63amnd/rplace_heatm...
You need to explain yourself better. You seem to be opposed to Nazism, but in favor of their symbol. Why?
It boils down to not wanting to spend their money, and arguing whatever it takes for that not to happen. In Spanish you'd say "les duele el bolsillo".
What is interesting is that, for many people, it doesn't really become a capitalistic society until they turn 18. That compulsory formal education you mention, and the social norms surrounding it, often shields the youth from the real world, taking the lessons the real world can provide them away until much later in life, as you experienced.

It seems like at this point at lot of the education we feel is necessary exists simply, and perhaps ironically, to make up for the lack of that exposure one has to reality because of the heavy focus on formal education through one's formative years. I would even suggest that we've created a situation where the more formal education one receives, even more formal education is required to make up for what what education was lost in the process.
It's been luck for me, honestly. The way I found my current position was by looking for who was sponsoring meetups in cities around the world in a field I was interested in. From there I found a blog post by one of the founders explaining their "remote first" mentality, and I knew I had struck gold.
What's wrong with Handsontable? It looks pretty good to me.
Maybe it was even useful as bait, eliminating lots of accounts of those users from their userbase.
And China's example proves nothing here. Am I supposed to be surprised that an authoritarian government somehow finagled the political capital to invest in industries guaranteed to be highly disruptive to its most major economic competitor? Cuz I'm not.
I'm glad I could help.

If you write a blog post about the CRM and your experience in writing it, that would be a fun read.

Good luck!
Project: A webapp for teaching people FPGAs from the ground up: https://www.blinklight.io

Problem: Right now I'm looking for a hardware partner to manufacture the accompanying "dev board"
They can be difficult to understand, particularly for inexperienced users.

That's more an indicator that the person should learn about regular expressions than anything.
This seems pretty cool. Looks like it gives you split DESKTOPS, which isn't quite the same. But I'll try it out. Thanks!
Ah, the ample parallels you could draw with this and freedom.
I forgot about the gas station issue, also happens with hotels and rental cars. It's not technically a withdrawal, the money stays there, but it is a hold on your money preventing you from spending it which will cause the overdraft fees when you spend money you think you have (and technically you do) but can't spend because it's been held for a week by a gas station. At times I've tried to go all debit card for spending (as a way to kind of "reset" myself when I've let my spending get out of hand). But gas stations will always go on my CC because of this issue. Local ones here put a $99 hold on my cards, typically, and they usually stay on there for 3-5 days.
I agree notch's perspective is far better. This article says he only had 5 million... that's not a lot. Notch on the other hand made like 500M or almost a billion or something. There's still a lot you can't do with 5 million, but there's pretty much nothing you can't do with 1 billion. I remember reading those tweets and they were quite interesting.

edit: "better" is the wrong word, it's just cutting deeper to the core issue by a larger magnitude.
As someone living in working in a medium size city and non-tech-enclave I can tell you that there's very little non-remote SW/web dev work here. There are people who need someone to manage Wordpress or Drupal sites for SMBs, realtors, dentists, and similar. There are also a smattering of java/.Net nightmare jobs in companies that are non-tech-centric or defense related. There are exceptions, but you might come across one every six months, end even the exceptions tend to have downsides. So I think the "could work anywhere" thing isn't true. Rather, I think it you probably need the connections from a tech-enclave to swing high-paying remote work or find situations that give you the freedom to relocate.
A set of tools to engage citizens and make politicians aware of the biggest issues in local neighborhoods.

https://goo.gl/c61b9S
AI Obsoletes Open Standards
This is a technicality / edge case of 'pure randomness', rather than a rebuttal.

Furthermore, I can predict the distribution of results for a coin quite accurately over long time timeframes. Indeed being the 'understanding' of a successful gambler means being able to make predictions about what will happen with a random process over time.

Roulette for example is analogous to the coin toss; most casinos seem extremely able to predict what will happen over time quite well.

Or are you hinting at a counterargument that most of the world is a truly random process analogous to a coin throw?

In which case, your experience with reality must be terrifying. Will the sun come up today? Who knows? Will gravity work in a minute? And so on.
Someone left some advice for the customer of the company on the linked thread and that rep deleted it and locked it. Does anyone have it?
They can use it for whatever the hell they like.

It's distribution that comes with responsibilities as well as rights.
I don't get this whole hang-up about restaurants. To me, "the number/type of restaurants in the area" is something I don't even consider when deciding if I want to live somewhere. Admittedly I'm not a restaurant guy. I pretty much never go to them. To me, they're just an expensive way to eat food. And they are a pain in that you need to do so much just to "enjoy" the experience. Get dressed up, drive or walk to the place, wait in line, get seated and wait again, place your order and wait again, finally you get to eat, trying not to think about how much of your life you just wasted, then when you're finally done enduring all that, drop $100 that you could have used to buy groceries for a week.

Same goes for nightclubs, museums, movie theaters, "culture". This is really why people want to live somewhere???
> But Apple not having an open package management ecosystem

It's not from Apple but Mac OS has Macports and Brew for this just like Windows has Chocolatey

Unity makes the Linux desktop usable now, but I still wouldn't call it slick. Even if it leaned more on KDE instead of Gnome it still doesn't feel right compared to either Mac OS or Windows.

Going on a tangent, I still wish Apple would release a screenless iMac. Not as much people want or need a screenless Macbook Pro (Mac Mini) - the 16 GB RAM limit is annoying and thunderbolt is lacking as opposed to just SATA, and not as much people can justify or afford a modern Mac Pro. If Apple wanted to see the market demand for that, they should try tracking sales of used old-gen Mac Pros on ebay.
Second the suggestion to move original link, from CNBC, to Medium.

The former has added a number of CNBC content ad links which the author didn't seem to have in the Medium source.