skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a dedicated left-wing not-at-all-extremist, I'd never support an organization that wants to muffle the voice of others.
How many in Maharashtra actually speak Marathi? This is a problematic comparison.
Nuclear waste is cleaner than what coal emits in the atmosphere. Store it in an underground facility, figure out what to do with it later. It's not perfect, but it's better than what we have currently for high volume electricity generation.
As for reactor meltdowns, well, to give one example, France has beeen one of the world's biggest users of nuclear power, and we haven't had any meltdown ever. So, uh, don't build your reactors near dangerous zones, and don't go with the cheapest contractor for a critical piece of infrastructure? Meltdowns don't happen unless you do something really, really stupid.

Nuclear power is still the better cost/production method we have for now. It's safe (yes, the stats include deaths while building which puts wind/ocean at a disadvantage, but overall it is just as safe as renewable energy), it's efficient.

Just don't pull a Chernobyl and actually follow security measures.
Yeah, I still have my old 4S. I don't use it because it's unusably slow, and I wouldn't pay £50 (or the equivalent in real money) for one today.

Pity. My SE feels cheap and light by comparison, and its materials don't hold up nearly as well. I don't like that, but given the strictly limited lifespan that smartphones seem to have, I suppose it's really quite apropos.
Indeed - 13 years ago, I had a side-line buying junk PowerBooks on eBay for very little ($100-$200), cobbling them together into perfectly working machines, and then selling them on for $1000+. I only ever tied up ~$2000 at a time, and would sell working parts I had no use for on, and even broken parts, as someone will want it, even if not for much. Never did any deep repairs, just part swapping and replacement.

As an added bonus I always had a snazzy laptop, as I'd sometimes hang on to a high spec machine for a few months before selling it on.

From what I can see on eBay today, it's still an eminently viable cottage industry.
Once-Flush Startups Struggle to Stay Alive as Investors Get Pickier
Yes, those are all problems with asking why and usually show up in a bad environment. Even with all that said, it's the most important question. Your list is a great example as to why having a toxic work environment will kill innovation; because people are afraid to ask and understand, "why."

1. The "how" is often formed by the "why," as in "why are we writing this software?" What problem are we solving? If you can't answer this well, the "how" is irrelevant. Don't get me wrong, the "how" is important too, but the "how" is dependent on the why.

2. I agree some people are dicks about it. The best way to counter that is have a good answer to the "why," then ask the person if they have anything to add. If they are just doing it to be a prick, they usually don't have an answer, or come up with something stupid. If they have actually been thinking about it, they might contribute something you haven't thought of, and you'll just have to deal with their abrasiveness to get it.

3. You absolutely need to think about your "why." If you don't have a complete answer, then say so, but add that you are still "chewing on it." It is intimidating, that's why you should always have a good answer.
With all the human labor that'd take, you'd pay more for refurb than for new.
> In my opinion, it's hard to find somewhere better suited for storing nuclear waste than 'somewhere in Australia'.

This makes sense only if your starting position is that creating nuclear waste makes sense.

> Stable, first-world government, a fair few places where we can put it where even leaks wouldn't be a problem, skilled populace, etc etc.

How long does nuclear (fission) waste need to be managed?

How long do you believe that AU has had a stable, first-world government?
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TVTropesWillRuinY...
So the vagus nerve, when you sense that you are about to eat, stimulates your stomach to release enzymes that help break down what you intake. This leads to a feedback chain that releases and inhibits other enzymes down in your intestines to further break down this food.

As for the microbes that make up our gut Flora, the simple answer is: they have different enzymes that break things down. They may have an enzyme that adds a chemical group to a drug, activating it or inactivating it. It's far more complicated, and not something I'm very knowledgeable about.
And it seems like a good example of why more referendums wouldn't do much good in the current UK political system.

Who's going to be setting the questions? Presumably the government? Which means realistically the Conservative party or Labour (generously assuming they can recover to a position of electability at some point). Why would they then ever pose referendum questions where they wouldn't like one of the answers (especially in light of the last referendum)? How does anyone really get more of a democratic voice when you'd just be choosing from options selected by the 2 big parties so that their preferred option is all but guaranteed to win?

"Should we: A) waste £90 million on a complicated new voting system, or B) keep our traditional voting system and spend the money on the NHS?"
It's amazing how (comparatively) convoluted I2C is on platforms without the Wire library support you see on Atmel platforms.

That's not to say that such platforms are bad (MSP430 has it's advantages and disadvantages depending on what you want to do with it), but more of a testament to the Wire library.
Yup, you're right. Sorry, I assumed Hampshire because it's about 30 minutes up the road from me. Derp!
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I also like how he casually reminds the applicant of his ivy league history.
I have no love for hashicorp: it has an ill-conceived product line starting with the existence of vagrant and packer as separate products.

I wrote a Java program that composes a shell script that gets passed into the user data of a cloud instance. That script sets up a Dev or production system and builds a machine image if that is what you want. Then it sends a message to a queue when it is all said and done.
Tree Oriented Programming [pdf]
If the talent demands all related transactions be disclosed through such a platform, then it might have some effect? The studios are going to resist it tooth & nail though.
Can't all these data structures be described just as well using ASN.1, which has the advantage of being thoroughly documented, tried and tested, and just as declarative?
I'm reasonably sure you can reverse it to get that, though I don't know what techniques would be used. "Easily" is another matter, though a good enough programming language would let you "prove" that you have a correct reverse mapping, for some definition of prove.
Why aren't the official React docs at the top of the list? React is easy to learn and the official tutorial and docs are great.
Erlang's bitstrings are one of the things I love about the language. I've never seen an equivalent in other languages (not saying they don't exist, just that I haven't seen any).
Mobile homes in the UK are usually permanent, something like: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-656753... although I now notice estate agents call them park homes.
Funny enough, I don't remember precise websites that really changed my life - usually they would trigger a flurry of activity and would be forgotten themselves.

I don't remember where I read in 1997 that being gay is 'okay' and normal - but that was a major revelation for a geeky teen in a notoriously homophobic and close-minded country (no more suicide attempts for me, yay). Co-incidentally that led me to work hard on improving my English, as all information was in it.

And my improved English led me to start my own website - the only website that changed my life and I still remember all the details of it (even though it is no longer online). It was dedicated to my hobby project - the project that led a foreign company to hire me and relocate me to a Western country. Which triggered a chain of events that brought me to the UK, to a much happier and fuller life than I ever hoped to have.

And finally, I don't remember where I read an article describing the author's struggle with an eating disorder, but I realised that I'm going through exactly the same thing and that I need help. It improved my life dramatically, pretty much kept me alive - but I don't remember what or where it was...
Actually, I wonder if there's something out there that has all the declarative state-to-DOM manipulation goodness, but does this at build time.

React is a runtime that works on the client, and its compile-time stuff is just syntax sugar (JSX) and some minor optimizations. As I understand, this runtime is the complexity that some complain about. At least I perceive this as a downside.

If there's something that can, given a component definition, generate those sets of add/update/remove functions and appropriate calls on state updates (preferably, as human-readable as possible) - I think that would be interesting to see and compare.

(I hope no one normally dynamically mutates their components at runtime?)
I grew up in Denmark the frontrunner on windmills. Vesta is the largest windmill manufactorer in the world. It's literally cultural heritage.

If there is anything which have been debated in Denmark it's the pros and cons of windmills, what the technology is, where the money are, what markets are interesting.

My point wasn't that you can't optimize just that it's not a field where that's a competitive advantage.

So it's the opposite in my case. I know the industry from the inside and know what matters in it and it's not technological advances.

But hey each to their own. I certainly wasn't implying he shouldn't get into the field just that there is a lot less going on than what it looks like on the surface.
Prisons of Pleasure or Pain: Huxley’s “Brave New World” vs. Orwell’s “1984”
Optimization backed by comparative statics. These reads are so satisfying. Thank you for submitting.
As an American I have to say I don't know any Americans that hate Indians. So please don't think that because you have met some portion on Reddit that feel that way!
That sounded logical, so I searched a bit, and there's several good resources. The two that stood out to me:

This article goes through making a very basic interface, and is easy to follow...ended with 31 lines of js. It isn't production ready, but was a good intro: https://css-tricks.com/building-a-jekyll-site-part-3-of-3/

Then, a more complete implementation. Hasn't been updated for a few years, but has markdown support, up/down voting, flagging, etc: https://commented.github.io/
Looking around the internet it seems a common problem with that model, we just pick it up by the right side.
What's to stop you connecting up an old SIMM card? The memory won't be fast, but doable.

I saw Flash as the larger limitation, as expanding that is problematic.
Experts that think ever meeting needs a PowerPoint? No thanks.

A Google doc outline and some demo is enough for most dev presos.
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Abstractions: a cautionary tale
As I said there is a few things around the wings. But besides that it's not that advanced an industry.
The Tambora phenomenon is well documented. But that does nothing to solve other problems like e.g. ocean acidification, and potentially causes many problems of its own. It's a really complex system and we need to spend way more time and money understanding it than we currently are.
Praystation was great, the flash community at the time was almost like an interactive underground demo scene where people showed off their flash skills.

Makes me think of flash cartoon sites as well from the time: Joe Cartoon [1], Spumco (JohnK, Goddamn George Liquor Program)[2], etc. Made many people see that you could get animation and web comics/entertainment to anyone with this tech, many shows to this day still use Flash/Animate[3] or now most use Toon Boom[4].

[1] http://joecartoon.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCE0d5xCHJ4

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Flash_animated_televis...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toon_Boom_Animation
As someone who has followed tech for almost 40 years, I've watched a lot of things come and go. I've seen "the next big thing" go nowhere countless times while some obscure things surprised me. Well intentioned good ideas didn't make it because of external factors or they lacked enough momentum to push through developmental barriers. Having seen all of that, my assessment of RISC V is simple: If they complete the privileged spec as planned this year (and hopefully the vector extensions too) it's going to explode onto the stage like newly formed star. The ramp will appear slow to people with high hopes and unrealistic expectations, but in the context of my life it will be a sudden shift the likes of which are rarely seen.

That is IFF they get the specs finalized, and I hope they support Googles VM threads while they're at it.
I don't think anyone is trivializing anything, but those things you mention are mostly solved problems. There isn't that much innovation going on in the field as you might believe.
Any particular reason why there isn't any HTTPS?
Well, if no-one contributes, the Guardian will probably close down in about three years' time.

I can assert this because I used to work there.
I am not American, but when Trump was elected and made attacks on the media it was the 'last straw' and I took out a NYT digital sub, thinking it might help in some small way. The AUD6.40 per month is terrific value, and I often come across articles or reporting I wouldn't have otherwise. Even if I don't agree with what is written, I feel I've come away with an expanded understanding of the topic and a slightly broader world view.
tl;dr measure the right things, not just those that make you look good.
Not sure why this got downvoted - it's a perfectly valid personal opinion and, albeit expressed rather strongly, doesn't seem to violate any HN guidelines. Have an upvote.
Unfortunately, it is not what advertisers pay for.
I read the article - it mentions that few people configure their browsers properly. I brought up my personal experience as unpleasant, because of the accept headers. Also it is not obvious how to configure the browser properly. I am German living in Germany, but prefer to do my computing in English. Apparently that confuses any web sites.

All I want is to have an English site when I type in google.com. If I want to search in German, I can go to google.de.

What could be simpler than that? All the other stuff is confusing and annoying. It's also not really "restful"-ish, is it? I think it would preferable to give the same site as a result of opening an URL, not change it depending on mysterious parameters.

How is a non-geek even to find out about the accept-headers? Say I know nothing about Computers, go to Google.com and suddenly I am forwarded to Google.de. How do I solve the problem?
Mostly because you do not want to die into CO2 poisoning when inside. :)

Every building has some designed air change rate with the outside that will keep its habitants alive and comfortable. This can happen through so called natural ventilation or through controlled ventilation.

As far I know, the common standard for the commercial buildings is 800 ppm (parts per million (1)) CO2 in the air. It is assumed that this level of CO2 would on average provide environment where people do not loose their productivity due to the air quality.

This is what I mean by diluting - part of the CO2 rich air inside is replaced with the less CO2 rich air from the outside.

Because habitants are producing CO2 with some rate, you have to replace the air with the rate that can keep up with this CO2 production rate.

If the air outside has higher levels of CO2 then more of the replacement air is needed and the replacement rate must be higher to keep the projected inside CO2 levels.

Replacing air faster will require more energy.

Disclaimer: I am not a ventilation engineer, I just got interested of this topic during the home renovation.

(1) Air contains about 21% of oxygen that is 210000 ppm of it. It follows that when the air feels "stuffy", it is not due to lack of oxygen but due to too much CO2 in it.
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Did it? Got a link?
That's a heck of a lot of training data :O
Vigilante botnet infects IoT devices before blackhats can hijack them
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They don't seem to be very interested in listening to feedback:

> We're sure it's the best there is, but since we're always improving, we'll pretend to listen to your feedback and make it better.

Openly saying that they'll only "pretend" to listen to feedback doesn't fill me with confidence.
> relatively small government

Are we talking about the same government??
I did a project around full text search and the amount of libraries in Java was just staggering whereas with .NET you often only had some half baked port that was way out of date. I don't think too many researchers do their stuff in .NET. It's Java or something like Python.
Yep, but the whole point about anonimity on the net revolves directly or indirectly around freedom (of speech).

An anonimity service is provided to allow people to express their ideas (wrong as they might be) without fear of retaliation .

By - more or less - preventing "right wing extremists" to express their "weird" ideas they contradict the base premise.

This is not entirely different from some (still queer in my opinion) "free" software licenses, prohibiting the use of the software to (example) members of the US government or military, it is simply not "free" anymore when such clauses are given.

Here, as always happens when there is a discretionary choice involved, is determining what qualifies a "right wing extremist", and whether the ban applies to the person/member (and to his/her political ideas) or to the content, let's say that you are a "right wing extremist" that wants to put online a set of cooking recipes, should you be prevented from having a domain there?
Or is it when in the recipe for some stew you make a not-funny reference to "kosher" meat being not suitable?

And who determines if that is only "not-funny" (maybe it is actually funny) or if it is a non-acceptable pro-Nazi hint?
Which is still the wrong way to go about it, unless the browser lets users easily set this per site, like how some browsers did for text encoding.
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On the top of my head:

https://www.well.com/

http://spacecollective.org/

http://www.kurzweilai.net/

http://lesswrong.com/

and of course

https://news.ycombinator.com/

I am sure I forgot a few.
It is interesting to me how small things really matter. Put a patch on your arm about the size of an eye patch and "so what". Eyes are special. I think it causes most people to do something they don't do that often, which is contemplate losing their own eye. I sympathize with the author, it is hard to know why someone may be interested in talking with you, etc. And, giving myself a little philosophical licence, it does not matter in the long run, we all have our dysfunctional bits, she just has to wear hers on the outside. Her issue in particular is one I imagine most people process and get on with relatively quickly.
> its a visual representation of a language

No it's not. It's a visual representation of a country, state or region, at best.
"A CO2 level of 7kppm is not compatible with human flourishing."

Yes, that's higher than we would like. It's also 17 times higher than the level the original article is freaking out about.

"Consensus is that the elevated CO2 levels of the Ordovician-Silurian and Jurassic-Cretaceous periods came on over tens or hundreds of thousands of years,"

Link to this "consensus"? Thanks.

"it is certainly noteworthy and a little horrifying that it's reached a scale that comparison is meaningful."

Anything can be "compared". Did you look at the chart in the Wikipedia article? The current extinction rate isn't even a blip.

"The Earth will obviously be fine; I don't think any reasonable person will argue this point."

Really? So I've just been imagining all the people who are worried about turning the Earth into Venus? I mean, I agree that these people are unreasonable, but there certainly are a lot of them.
That's the thing. With .NET and windows you are second class citizen for a lot of open source stuff. A lot of the latest and best stuff is done on Linux and often on Java.
There is a simple solution, retrofit a plastic amber film.
The algorithms are the basis of the internet
That's sad
The one that's most interesting to me is lowRISC. Mostly because it has something tangible to offer as a differentiator other than the "open ISA". Specifically, the "minion cores"[1] Their initial use case for them sounds a lot like the PRUs on a BeagleBone board.

Basically, it enables you to do hard real-time tasks like signal generation (controlling led matrices, audio) or fast data/signal acquisition, but without running some specialty os. The minion cores can read+write memory from the main cpu that's running normal Linux.

That feature also gives them a little breathing room on initial pricing. Their SoC board would be viewed as competition for a $70 board, instead of competition for a cheaper Raspberry PI or similar. So, initial pricing wouldn't necessarily hurt the popularity.

They seem to plan to have something out either this year, or sometime next year: "We are expecting to crowdfund an initial instantiation of the lowRISC platform during the course of 2017."

[1]http://www.lowrisc.org/downloads/lowRISC-memo-2014-001.pdf
Well treat it like stock options.

Assume value is 0 and eval the deal. If the deal is otherwise good go for it. If you need an expected value to make the deal good, don't do it.
"Reducing energy consumption" does not mean nobody can use tools from post 1800

Until you actually demonstrate functional and economic alternatives, that is exactly what it means.
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I'm a native Latvian speaker, always set every UI to English, for many reasons.

One is that I started using computers before any mainstream software was available in Latvian, so I am used to English being the language of all computers.

Another major reason is the translations themselves, which take two dramatically different approaches. There are official Latvian translations for computer terms, as suggested by the language academy. These translated terms are very much "designed" - they're decided on at committee meetings and, while linguistically sound, I find many of them very unnatural, and their meaning impossible to guess without learning the term explicitly. I won't bother with examples here as there's probably no Latvian speaker reading this anyway. So using those official terms is one approach, and it's followed by, for instance, Microsoft. The other approach (used by most open-source localizations) uses more natural vocabulary with more English borrowings, and only some of the academically-defined terms. Even if I wanted to use Latvian UIs, I would constantly be looking at two fairly different sets of vocabulary.

Of course the translations themselves are also poor and often incomplete, unsurprising for such a small language. Some programs automatically show up in Latvian after installation (thanks to, once again, bad use of regional settings), and I will usually see a Latvian/English mix right away because much of the text isn't translated. I've had the misfortune of briefly using the Latvian UI for Windows XP, and it was full of typos and inconsistencies.

But above all, by now it's just a matter of habit. I am as comfortable in English as in my native language, and would have no incentive to use a non-English UI even given a perfect translation.