skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oddly, sea level will probably go down this far north. Earth is spinning, drawing water to the equator. More mass, more gravity pulling water to the equator, along with less mass at the poles to offset.

But, yeah, I don't think I'd buy anything by the water either.

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So, I'm wrong, Northern California isn't far enough north. it's a real effect. You're all underestimating the mass of 100,000 cubic miles of ice.

[1] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/323/5915/753

[2] http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v409/n6823/abs/4091026a...
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Wooh, am I glad I'm not the only one experiencing account problems.

An event I'm going to requires a Skype account of a preliminary interview. So I go to sign up with my gmail, and I'm able to create an account. However, I already had a Skype account through MS's weird Outlook program (I signed up with my gmail for Outlook, and it automatically created a Skype account without telling me . . . for the gmail account).

This bricks both accounts by loading to an error page when I login, telling me to go to MS's website to fix my account. I go there and then after spelunking through the maze of a UI, finally get to a page that tells me I need to call Microsoft to diagnosis the problem.

Screw that noise. It's 2017, this is archaic.

Luckily, there's a third option for signing up and that's through a phone number. I do that, but now I don't know what to enter for the username field in my interview app. I look through Skype's help docs, and it doesn't say anything about phone numbers.

I assumed my phone number is my username and that's how people can add me. Anyway, that's what I put in the app and I'm hoping that the UN acts like a UN and not a phone number with calling charges.

What a mess. It's also partly the event's fault for using Skype when better alternatives exist.
I think the uniquely Rust bit is the memory efficiency. Instead of allocating memory for the raw data and the deserialized memory, you can simply reference the raw data directly through a typed variable, if I read this correctly. I'd assume a garbage collector does really help with this kind of efficiency. The cost here is compile time, but for performance critical code, it might well be a good trade off.
I would draw a distinction between that kind of olfactory/territorial self-recognition and the kind suggested by this test which actually implies some kind of mental representation of the self.
This article reads like someone who doesn't give 2 shits about Canada decided to crack open wikipedia.

> but many countries of similar stature — G7 nations, for example — dismiss the Great White North as nothing more than America’s top hat

Canada is one of the G7 nations. Or did you mean the other 6 don't care about Canada?

Can you please just not bother writing about my country anymore.
I seem to recall there being a google doc, or some such list of semi-famous people on a gnu social or mastodon instance...Can't find that list, but here are a few on the core mastodon instance:

* https://mastodon.social/@brendaneich

* https://mastodon.social/@bcrypt

* https://mastodon.social/@auerbach

* https://mastodon.social/@thegrugq

* https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000

* https://mastodon.social/@aral

Reference: https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e...

But, hey, freedom means that you can also just choose to stay on twitter or any similar network, right?
It's not just money. You need the backing of movers and shakers who know doors to knock, open, and barge through.
Are you referring to private mortgage insurance (PMI) or homeowner's/flood insurance?

There's a risk that an owner will walk away from the mortgage on a house that has bad long-term value prospects. Other than pooling the risk of those mortgages against stable mortgages I'm not sure how a bank hedges against that scenario.
Kickstarter style
There's probably already an indirect impact happening to property values. Holding a mortgage requires flood insurance. Inside a 100 year flood zone it can be difficult and expensive to get flood coverage. If no one will cover you, you aren't getting that mortgage.

As FEMA redraws 100 year flood zones, even a few inches of increased depth will cause many "dry" areas to be recategorized.
This reinforces the parent's point though, because now you have a fifth option with apparently different hardware on a different update schedule with different pricing. How much Linux incompatibility do you suffer from a regular XPS 13 versus a Developer Edition one?
Oh I see. A policy restriction and not technical.
Okay....so humanity stops building weapons, and then a small group of people decide to build some weapons in secret, and can easily enslave humanity.

That doesn't sound like a great system.
Swede here too, trevligt att råkas :)

Powerline networks are mainly utilized by people living in concrete multi-story houses that either do not wish to install a proper Ethernet backbone to all rooms or take a gamble with WiFi due to higher cost, thickness of walls or other reasons that might seriously affect connectivity as mentioned before.

I used to run my own IT support company with several employees (think Geek Squad) having both enterprise customers aswell as private sector and people running Powerline is actually a lot more common than you might think (my parents for instance are running it along with WiFi in their house - deskop, IPTV and camera surveillance is on Powerline while tablets and phones are on WiFi).

During all my years in IT I've encountered two situations which I can remember where WiFi was used on a desktop machine instead of Ethernet or Powerline - one was a car dealership where they had a salesman sitting in a "glass box" and they were sharing building with another company (so, no Powerline) and other situation was a enthusiast that built himself a new computer and his new Asus motherboard came with 802.11n built-in..

Personally, I am running all my desktop machines on a 10Gbit CAT6a network I have at home (I do have a WiFi as well but it is on another VLAN with no access to network infrastructure - mainly used by kids) where I have possibility to stream multiple 4K streams from my FreeNAS server while downloading huge files of the Internet without even breaking a sweat - try to do that over a WiFi connection and you'll hit into a brick wall pretty fast.
How it runs in the ideal case is different from experience in how it "actually" runs and fails. That's the biggest gap IMHO.
Of course not. But if you use society to make money then you should pay for that usage. If you want to opt-out of society, you have that option.
In the curriculum for Udacity's self-driving car nanodegree program, your suggestion was made explicitly. ~"(re: why are we focusing on vision?) Humans drive with just our eyes (even one eye would work), perhaps in the future cars will need only camera data instead." (Perhaps many cameras.)
And insofar as Omelas is trying to make a point about life in general, history in general, potential societies or lives in general, it is simply reactionary. Who is even Ursula Le Guin to tell us that everything must have a seed of evil in its core?
Okay, so we feed and educate some other nations people, so that nation can now afford to put 45% of it's GDP into weapons and military. I don't think that will accomplish what we want it to accomplish.
It makes me feel proud that Canada has been North America’s up-and-coming startup center since I graduated from Waterloo over 20 years ago. That's a solid, consistent track record of almost being there.
AppNexus Tech Talk: Introduction to the Actor Model
Certainly a lot of people are delusional. However, not all waterfront property is so vulnerable as Florida.

Oceanfront, sure. Seafront, somewhat. Lakefront, not so much.
Enjoyed the read overall but one line stuck out: "- I take one bite out of my cold Big Mac and eat one cold fries and throw it all out."

You have to be a special kind of asshole to throw away meat and food instead of just saying the food is cold.
I see a comment here that was dead within minutes of posting. While I and others might disagree with its message I feel it would be more useful to confront uncomfortable ideas. To allow that and other discussion to occur I am including the content of that comment here

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User: BuuQu9hu

I am not happy to hear this idea.
If you convince people that science is true or real not by logic, but by rhetorical tricks, then you are no longer peddling truth; you are blindly proclaiming that science is the only correct epistemology.
Insurance companies are already changing how they access risk for weather-based catastrophes. Banks will be in lock-step with them.
Anybody had any experience with code translator programs that say they can take a program in one language and translate it into another. This would greatly reduce the time and cost of rewriting my app from .Net to web-based, but sounds too good to be true.

Such as ( I have no relation/interest): "Emscripten is an LLVM-based project that compiles C and C++ into highly-optimizable JavaScript in asm.js format. This lets you run C and C++ on the web at near-native speed, without plugins. http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/index.html

Emscripten can be used to compile almost any portable C++/C code to JavaScript. http://kripken.github.io/emscripten-site/docs/porting/guidel... "

Any thoughts would be helpful. As I said, these sound too good to be true, but worth asking the experts about!
But how would one mass-educate all the non-technical users on this? It'd be a dirty little inside secret.
That's what this project is working on: https://github.com/carlosdcastillo/vim-mode -- using neovim as the editing backend to Atom. It still doesn't completely solve the problem of vim and editor key commands clashing.

Another interesting approach is VimR (http://vimr.org/), which is Neovim combined with native IDE addons such as Markdown preview, file tree, etc. The nice thing about VimR is since the whole thing is one cohesive package, the developers can ensure it has a consistent experience. Sadly it's OSX only though.
Have you actually used baby wipes after exercise? They do not work to clean up sweat.
Original StarCraft released for free
Slavery, murder, theft, are inequalities that humans do to each other which the state exists to prevent. This argument is a poor one. You can't simply pick and choose the negatives without balancing it against the positives.
The government has actively encouraged building on buying in these areas for decades. If we can bail out Goldman Sachs and AIG I think maybe we can find it in our hearts to help homeowners mitigate their losses.
The article says-

"The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration predicts sea levels will rise as much as three feet in Miami by 2060."

3 feet is 91 cm so there seem to be different estimates than the one you have, unless the sea will rise two feet from 2050-2060.
Quantum computing could make PGP encryption obsolete–someday
Pyup: Get automatic pull requests when your dependencies get updated
Ask HN: Do SF startups need a Sandwich Video alternative?
I'm a filmmaker with an interest in tech startups and I'm thinking of launching a small video production company in SF focusing on live-action explainer videos, similar to Sandwich Video. I'm wondering if the market in SF is already flooded with similar companies, or if you've found it difficult to find a video production company that can make a live-action explainer video on a budget?
Nuclear salt-water rocket – Wikipedia
Regarding this "feature", none of 1, 2 or 3 are solved at all by what I'm talking about. I'm saying that I would actively join another instance and my old identity is duplicated there, with duplicated posts being merged, not that my posts propagate automatically to every node in the federation. All the advantages of gating off your instance are preserved, plus you avoid duplicated post spam in the federated view.

> I would advise not doing this, as we will start to block all your accounts. Attempting to chorus-spam the federated timeline will show up very quickly.

This was entirely my point. If you want to maintain a presence on multiple instances, the only way to post content relevant to multiple instances is to duplicate it, and it is not your choice whether or not multiple accounts of yours show up in the federated view of other instances. Echoing your posts is the hack that I'm sure people will try, some instances will ban it, others will put up with it, I imagine enforcement will be imperfect.

> It can be frustrating when you as a human have to maintain outsized attention on two or more locales.

Yes, to the extent to which clients and other hack-y behaviors do not solve this problem, what it means is that all the "spoke" timelines will die out and you'll concentrate on a few huge mega-instances, and you might as well have not bothered to move off twitter in the first place. If it's very easy for someone to exist both in their "home" node and in another node, the major disadvantages that come with being on smaller instances will fall away.
The Mississippi River Basin Model
Taking for granted for a moment that predictions are not conservative: This has been oft-repeated, but in many areas things go very bad long, long before the water is actually lapping at the front steps. It's very geology and geography dependent on exactly how and when localized effects start to kick in, but major categories include:

- Worsening effects from storms.

- More serious, frequent, and lasting flooding.

- Destruction of subsurface fresh water (big, big problem in most of Florida, it's not on bedrock).

- Increasing difficulty in all subsurface infrastructure systems.

- Vegetation death due to above.

Just for starters. These are all probabilistic scenarios but the curves absolutely do matter, they are what feeds into insurance, predicted maintenancerequirements, QoL assessments and so forth, which in turn has a major effect on property values.

You should also remember the fact that property markets in particular have a predictive component as many people think longer term then they do elsewhere. Just because a problem is years down the line doesn't mean it won't start getting taken into account now, and that's particularly true with financing which matters since many property deals are heavily debt financed or leveraged. We're not even touching on politics here.

So there's quite a significant number of potential areas for negative feedback loops to kick into effect and end the party real fast, with the rational actions of every individual actor precipitates a readjustment that's much more rapid then you might expect otherwise.
But most of these houses will be destroyed by hurricanes, not slow creeping gradual flooding.
> On point 1, are people dying left and right from eating recalled food?

Dying? Not typically. Getting seriously ill? Yeah.. The CDC shows ~375,000 food-borne illnesses since 1998 resulting in 337 deaths -- both of which are bare minimums since many illnesses won't be traced back to a specific outbreak.

https://wwwn.cdc.gov/foodborneoutbreaks/

There are likely other solutions besides proprietary juice packages but it's a fairly serious issue. A friend of mine works in the Central Valley as QA lead for a few different companies -- getting low-margin businesses to spend money on ensuring food safety is an uphill task.
>produces multiple doses

Could you tell me what number "multiple" is and what a "dose" looks like?

Are we talking about raw plant material that is opium, or refined heroin/morphine/codeine? The conflation of the word drugs and plant material seems like the most absurd gorilla in the room.

Off to do some coffee...
"You won't get this value if you just hand-squeeze our product bags." Of course, if you manually pour boiling water through a Keurig k-cup, you will not get the "value" of the k-cup. But it's a disingenuous response, because the alternative to using the machine with the packs isn't using the packs without the machine, it's using neither.
Hope you are avoiding glacier lakes :-)
>> If people have chronic pain

Chronic pain refers to long term pain. Your hernia surgery is short term pain.

No-one credible is suggesting preventing using opioids for short term (such as post operative) pain (although it does seem that Drs in the US prescribe too much for this type of pain).
Sure, but McD is more distributed. Sears and KMarts are generally at malls or strip malls, so any change which negatively affects those things will affect Sears/KMart.
> Oddly, sea level will probably go down this far north. Earth is spinning, drawing water to the equator. More mass, more gravity pulling water to the equator, along with less mass at the poles to offset.

Can you provide a reference or show some workings which demonstrate that statement to be true? I've not heard this before, and it's not obvious that it should be true.
I wish this were true and not hyperbole. It's the part of the mid-atlantic that I miss most in the midwest.
MP3 licensing officially ends April 23
Neuroscientists offer a reality check on Facebook's “typing by brain” project
This was a good article, but I think it was good because of the portrait it paints of the man he met. I'm not calling all the claims about having learned something "about Japan" unwarranted, but let me offer by way of counterbalance this invaluable essay I read some time ago and to which I've returned whenever someone brings up Japan like this. [0]

[0] http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2014/08/let-me-explain-ja...
Negative Acceleration Milestone Might Translate to Negative Mass and FTL Travel
Proving their machine is literally superfluous is a "hack" now. OK.
Couldn't agree more. A (somewhat large) company I worked with started working on this tech about three years ago, and still haven't gotten around to even coming close to launching it.
Totally fair.

And speaking of rocks, the hike up the Yosemite Half Dome, just an hour by car from downtown Vancouver is really nice.

https://www.google.ca/search?tbm=isch&q=stawamus+chief
Our standard of living depends on a great deal of the suffering of others.

Most of nature is essentially a constant living horror movie for all participants, which we just barely sit outside of (as long as food remains plentiful and the TV is on). So was the human experience for most people, most of the time we've been on this planet. Still is for many people.

The truest understanding of conscious, mortal existence in this universe, and of the course of our species in it, may well be something akin to cosmic horror.

Sanity and the ability to "function" in society mostly depend on temporarily forgetting these things.
The global warming related pages on wikipedia are one of the most contentious pages on wikipedia.
http://www.livescience.com/51926-are-wikipedia-science-pages...
So in this case, wikipedia is not a good source unless one happened to edit it last, and investigates the source data.
Because defining the Web as a legacy pile of mostly sequential C++ code dating back to the '90s is not a forward-thinking idea.

Is your position that Blink's architecture is well suited for getting performance out of modern hardware? Or that C++ is a good foundation on which to build some of the most security-critical software on the planet?
If this interests you and you want to dive deeper into how you learn, I am enjoying this coursera course and highly recommend it:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
I saw a poster in my business school building (in the midwest) about "Silicon Plains." Honestly, it'd be so cool if there really were more tech hubs, but the degree of wishful thinking can be almost painful.

I'm not suggesting by this that Vancouver isn't an up-and-coming startup center. Just commenting on the extreme desire I see all around to be like SV.
Neuralink and the Brain's Magical Future
scholarly journals such as "IEEE Transactions on Information Theory"
That's like 20,000 per year, if you divide it out, and in a country of 400 million people it's not a significant problem. I'd find it pretty surprising if that was mostly related to juicing, as opposed to other causes.
What do you suggest that people in Florida should drink ?

The underground springs will become contaminated with salt water fairly easily.
How many data centers needed world-wide – James Hamilton
Cisco Losing Market Share in Ethernet Switches
It's seamless. I've been using it for the past 6 months for almost all of my coding. The windows build is brand new and still has some problems, but assuming you're using *nix/mac, you won't have any issues.

Honestly the GitHub repo explains about everything. I check in on r/neovim, as the main contributor posts there often and helps people with problems/questions (I mostly just like reading about the new stuff their doing on the subreddit).
> You sign a contract when you buy a ticket. You willingly agree to the terms.

Perhaps you do, but the rest of us simply sigh and pretend we agree because in fact there is no alternative besides walking to our destination.

The principles of contracts assume that both parties are of similar power and that both have alternatives; in the case of air travel neither of these are true.
Isn't the atmosphere much thinner as well? Depending on the mode of flight, that might offset some of the economy.
> I've seen very prominent NN-course, suggesting Python 2.7 for all assignments and code samples, and quite useful library (also NN-related), supporting 2.7 only.

Oh, that's plain silly. Isn't the whole point of Python 2.7 to facilitate the transition to Python 3?
The reason wifi is more common in the US has to do with cost.

Most people when buying a new house can stomach (not sure why, because it can't be a large portion of the overall cost of a new house) multi-line pulls from each room to a central wiring closet. Plus, you have to have that central closet (or panel at a minimum) somewhere out of the way, and most people just don't get that kind of tech (the idea of a central area for a home server, plus networking stuff, etc).

So - the lines aren't installed (at one time, houses were offered with the option, and if you are willing to pay today, you can still get it - but most people don't). After the fact retrofits aren't done because such an install is very difficult to do (especially in modern houses with horizontal firebreaks between the verticals, little to no attic with vaulted ceilings, etc) - which also means its expensive.

So instead, people go with wifi. It's cheap, no need for a dedicated wiring/network termination panel and/or closet, and can be taken down and taken with you if/when you move.

Personally, I prefer a wired system; when I moved into my house I installed a few drops myself where I knew there'd be some dedicated hardware (TV area, my office, library, and my shop); the other rooms I never installed anything because it didn't matter. For those, the wifi I have fills in those blanks adequately. I ran all the lines back to a custom wiring closet I built in my shop, and terminate everything there (plus a few of my servers live there too).
I feel that a lot of people receive a lot of joy from selecting good food from a variety of options. I think with the immense popularity of websites/apps like Yelp, people are even more picky eaters than ever before. I think this makes a personalized food service incredibly difficult to appease a wide net of people and tastes while considering things like costs and logistics.

Of course the existence and popularity of something like Soylent goes against my assumptions. I imagine there are just people who value their time over enjoyment from food, as well as people who feel the opposite.
Is it really significantly different than helping out after a hurricane? And unlike a hurricane, the entire country is responsible for creating this problem.
Why would Mozilla think that it would be a good idea to set the default to false... at least in the English language.