skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone would argue against the idea that fossil fuels have helped technological progress

But many implicitly ignore the benefits of fossil fuels. I hear many variations of the comment I originally replied to, i.e., "even if there's no climate change, reducing fossil fuel use is pure win". I think many imagine we could keep roughly the same quality of life with the majority of our power coming from solar panels and wind farms. Smarter environmentalists realise this is not true, but the general public is very confused on the issue, especially as the more rational greens get lumped in with the activist crazies.

(One very important point in to explain Alex's context: many greens (not all, granted) are opposed on moral grounds to nuclear, and even to hydro, which floods valleys and messes with nature. The root of this is the desire to minimise human impact, but "minimising human impact" is ultimately at odds with "maximising human flourishing").

to think that there is zero room to improve our energy pattern and sources compared to what we have now

He doesn't think this. Obviously improved nuclear power, ultimately fusion power, is the real long-term solution. However, hopes that we can significantly improve solar or wind power are doomed to crash into reality -- there's fundamental limits to how much energy you can extract from the wind (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betz%27s_law) or from photons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockley%E2%80%93Queisser_limi...). Burning wood and dung works for poor countries that lack infrastructure, but it's more expensive that fossil fuels, and more polluting, even more polluting than coal.
They're apparently pretty bad. From what I've seen they're mostly a pre-frozen mush mixed in with lots of lettuce.

Lobster rolls are really pretty simple. But they need to be fresh lobster and very little else--which obviously isn't a good match for McDonalds style prep. The good news is that means they're very easy to make at home and many places that sell lobster will even boil them for you.
Au Bon Pain used to in New England as well.
The issue isn't that they're not getting paid for non-driving time, it's that the driving time pay isn't enough to cover the non-driving time. Which is to say the economics of the job overall isn't working..
Don't hate the player, hate the game. Amazon is to blame for this state of affairs.
The Poisoned Generation: A Decades-Long Lead-Poisoning Lawsuit in New Orleans
Indeed, that's in alignment with what I had seen. It seems obvious at least to me that the actual character of Gruber's statements and @julianmarq's portrayal of those statements do not agree.
Burner phone?
> The Mozilla that was using your browsing history to target new tab page ads to you? That's "least" coupled to the privacy-invading ecosystem?

Yeah it's the least coupled, because the major alternatives (e.g. Google) literally run the privacy-invading ad networks.

Mozilla walked back from the tab-page ads more than a year ago.

> without pushing them to provide a genuine private search?

How much leverage do you think Mozilla has with the search engines? Google canceled their deal with them because they are so dominant and Chrome has been so successful. Mozilla needs revenue to keep the lights on, and the search engines are the source of it.
Since the article mentions numfmt(1), I'm surprised that no one mentioned units(1) yet. I use it all the time to convert units.

$ units '4123412312312 bytes' 'tebibytes'
4123412312312 bytes = 3.7502217 tebibytes
4123412312312 bytes = (1 / 0.26665091) tebibytes
$ units "50 miles per gallon" "liters per 100 kilometers"
reciprocal conversion
1 / 50 miles per gallon = 4.7042917 liters per 100 kilometers
1 / 50 miles per gallon = (1 / 0.21257185) liters per 100 kilometers
Loved cubano's explanation of how Snapchat would be the end of him sharing networks with his young daughter: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11076284
I dunno, I think it will just introduce more variability and stretch out the cases. East Rural texas was actually pretty good at litigating patents because they knew a lot about it since they did so many.

Better would be to reform the patent law, maybe create short term 5 year patents or something.
... but where is the creator of Kotlin going to join?
Not to mention, I can imagine it's frustrating uploading many gigs of data to amazon.
I live in Maine.

So far this year in Maine, the price is about 2x what it normally goes for. Locals say it's because there's such strong overseas demand (China, etc). The average price of a lobster roll I'd say is around $18.

Contrary to what the article says "it's not making anybody rich" I can tell you the lobstermen who typically sell lobster for $2/lb off the dock are very happy with $4/lb. A friend on a very good day will catch 2,000 pounds, so the extra margin this year is welcomed.
What sort of company do you work at where every employee obeys every directive?
> But what's the advantage of Facebook over email and/or texting?

An email conversation thread (in say, Gmail) is a poor man's version of a Facebook post. You can add more people to the thread, but they have to look at this poorly formatted "quoted" history of the email to get context of what's going on. Contrast this with a FB Post where you can just tag someone and they see the post in exactly the same format as you see it. No weird formatting.

You can create "subthreads" inside FB posts by replying to a comment in a post. This doesn't exist in an email conversation.

FB Posts have a URL - you can link to them. This mode of communication does not exist in email.

FB Groups are a much more powerful version of email lists. They can contain events, people can mark themselves as "interested" or "going to" events - share these events with friends.

Do you use FB?
Corporate environments often rewrite employees to use IE 11 because of outdated internal web apps. Where I work the Windows laptops, even Windows 10, only allow IE 11, not even Edge.
"A few exceptions aside, most males just aren't that interesting to look at."

May I guess that you are heterosexual male who does not have good looking friends?

Gay porn is targeted at dudes, stuff targeted at women involve differently looking men.
I don't think it's about the groups having higher status or not, say whites vs blacks, but in the article they say they believe the cause is:

"These deaths of despair have been accompanied by reduced labor force participation, reduced marriage rates, increases in reports of poor health and poor mental health. So we are beginning to thread a story in that it's possible that [the trend is] consistent with the labor market collapsing for people with less than a college degree. In turn, those people are being less able to form stable marriages, and in turn that has effects on the kind of economic and social supports that people need in order to thrive."

Like you said, the rates are converging when they have a high school degree or less. These are the kinds of people that get hit the hardest when the labor market is collapsing.

It's not that "whites had it before and now they don't", it's "I used to believe I was entitled to a job if I wanted to work hard, and that would pay enough to live, but now that doesn't seem to be true." People just don't know what to do now and are feeling hopeless.
To me it seems just the right choice for embedded systems: fast, small, easy to understand and translates to C.
Just know the username and you can log onto https://stackoverflow.com/admin.php
Both bash and zsh have the option histverify that will expand the !! like so:

> echo "Test"

> sudo !!<enter>

> sudo echo "Test"

You can then modify the command if you want to.
Well, perhaps you could think in this way whenever you browse your Facebook feed, Youtube, etc.: Why am I watching other people enjoying their lives when I could live my own? I get to live only once. Every big XYZ person that I watch has gone through this stage and so can I.

It's all about how you fight your mind. That's why they say compete against yourself. If a toddler never took the effort to walk during infant-hood, the toddler would never be able to walk. It is only when you get uncomfortable, does learning happen. You do it for the sake of learning, not for producing immediate results. Try to learn to enjoy the stage whenever you have acquired something new, let it be anything small. Trust me, you will reap the benefits of your hard work when you take it this way, rather than forcing yourself to do something. Results may take months or years and hence you need to be patient. More over, there is never a chance for regret if it's something that you genuinely want to do.

You might have watched Cristiano Ronaldo playing an old man's prank. Even though he played like a professional on the streets, nobody ever cared until he finally revealed himself. The lesson being, nobody ever cares whatever you are unless you you make a name for yourself. So go upload that youtube video of yours'. You are just building your foundation. There is nothing to loose. Regret is poison. Never consume it.
From what I gather from reading AMD's recent AMA is that the key is getting hardware and software guys [working together](https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-Decemb...). For AMD the issue is that they can't afford to have hardware guys dedicated to helping optimize the software since they need to build the next and next next generation of hardware. On the other hand, Google surely has the pockets to get man hours and knowledge to (a) figure out what kind of software is needed (b) design from hardware level to meet their software needs.

And if you caught any of their talks on [Tensorflow at Google IO](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DknTFbcGVM), it seems like their goal is to provide ultra-high level APIs like POST/GET, and high level python ones like Tensorflow pre-built and trained models. At that point Google can control the engineering, and as long as you run on their cloud platform you just have to worry about the high-level. I'm definitely not a fan of vendor lock-in, but it seems like a interesting product, and I'm curious to see what Google does in this space.
The other reason (maybe the dominant reason) to prefer a TPU is to avoid paying for all the GPU functionality that is irrelevant to these workloads (FP32, FP64, graphics-specific functionality, costs of writing graphics drivers that gets bundled into hardware unit prices...)

If I look at a GTX 1080 Ti and optimistically assume that I can keep it completely busy 24/7, operating at the 250 watt TDP, it would take 4.5 years for the retail electricity cost to match the initial purchase cost of $699. (I pay a bit under 7 cents/kWh). Now I do live in one of the cheapest-electricity regions of the US, but I would also assume that big data center operators are building facilities where electricity is cheap. And big customers get lower rates than households. I wouldn't be surprised if a GPU cluster's hardware is considered obsolete before its electricity costs match its initial hardware costs.
I have relatively little that would benefit from push; basically a tiny hand-crafted CSS file that I currently inline because HTTP/1.1 and even HTTP/2 overhead for having it separate may be too high.
Related, does anyone have any suggestions for a good way to buy Bitcoin that isn't through Coinbase? No matter what I try, I can't seem to verify my identity with them, and besides I've heard several horror stories about their customer service.
Depends. Delaware is also known for having a better jury pool for defendants. It's not a bad place to be a plaintiff, either, but it's no East Texas.
Sure, you'll find the documentation here :
https://aic-project.github.io/documentation/sub/local-aic/

May I ask where you got the broken link from ?
Really neat tech. It would take a lot of trust to use it though. I don't see too many home or office applications, but it could be pretty useful in medical or industrial settings.
Microsoft's smartphone killer? Possible future HoloLens takes sunglasses form
And how would you characterize Google's decision to ship it in this state, knowing that the behavior was broken in iOS Safari?
Yup - in addition, many take the winter off. It's hard work during the peak times of year, but I'd compare it to the schedule of a school teacher (~3 month break).
A lot of the Northeast coastline acts like this from New York to Maine. You have to remember too that this area has a long and firm understanding of what overfishing does (Nantucket, whaling industry) and chose to try and find the most stable route. Most of that area's income is export of fishing and tourism from people from elsewhere coming to visit the beach. I grew up in this area and you are definitely brought up being very mindful of it.
I had this problem recently. The solution was to install Python 2.7 as a software collection: https://www.softwarecollections.org/en/scls/rhscl/python27/

This installs it to /opt/rh, and you can run commands that need them with "scl enable python27 mything" or by sourcing /opt/rh/python27/enable in a script to set up PATH, etc.
of course more data is always better, but there are plenty of flexible models that can learn form small data, so just try the lending club data and if your model isn't learning anything choose a more flexible one...
> Kelly argues that this ownership of the lobstering commons, in a cooperative-like structure, leads to greater sustainability.

>> Large corporate boats can operate only in designated areas. Instead of permitting limitless liberty to absentee owners for the seeking of wealth -- by hired hands indifferent to local custom -- Maine set spinning a new governing pattern…. That the right to make a living comes before the right to make a killing. That fairness for the many is more important than maximizing for the few. That sustaining the prosperity of larger living systems, both human and wild, is the root condition for the flourishing of all.

At least insofar as Kelly's argument pertains to the management of fisheries and other commons, it is—economically speaking—more wrong than right.

A tragedy of the commons can be avoided in several ways, and none of them has much to do with putting "fairness for the many" ahead of "maximizing for the few". Indeed, a tragedy of the commons arises only when "the many" have unrestricted access to a scarce resource, and proceed to exploit it in an unsustainable way, due to the strategic nature of the situation.

Kelly would have you think otherwise, but "large corporate boats" are not the root cause of overfishing; the root cause is the desire on the part of each fisherman in an unregulated commoms to haul in the biggest catch he can before someone beats him to it. So aside from imposing regulation, another way to prevent a tragedy of the commons is to get rid of the commons: grant exclusive use of the former commons to a single party, who then has an incentive for good stewardship.

And quite contrary to Kelly's characterization of it, Maine's solution to managing its lobster rights can be seen as an instance of favoring the few over the many: lobstering was restricted to a relative few legally priveledged parties, few enough to make coordinating sustainable lobstering practices feasible. As is often the case when the law arbitrarily privileges some parties over others, there is an overlooked harm here, suffered by would-be lobstermen that the rules say cannot be.

So it seems to me that Kelly's words express her worldview and her somewhat misplaced good intentions—it is the curse of the economically uninformed that their good intentions will often lead them to a destination they didn't seek—but nothing more.
HackathonBNB: Train and Prep for Upcoming Hackathons
I started recently, we're on git+gitlab(hosted), slack, Trello. We use Trello for all the tracking: support and bugs and features. I like the gitlab CI but we're not taking full advantage yet
In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
I remember reading about how abundant lobsters were on a historical plaque in Cape Breton. From travel Canada - "There was a time when these crustaceans were so plentiful and underappreciated that only the poorest children took lobster sandwiches in their lunches while the rich kids ate bologna."
http://www.torontosun.com/2016/07/27/learning-about-lobster-...
The subhead is more informative:

> Known as an energy carrier, molecule can also solubilize proteins
Another step along the euphamism treadmill...
"Although there is no money in Amazon’s community banana stands" - excellent hidden Arrested Development reference.

There's _always_ money in the banana stand. Bezos knows this.
Apple debuts 'Switch'
Try Kraken and deposit fiat through an international bank transfer (I think it's called SEPA). It'll take a few days before you can start buying crypto, but you'll avoid the fees coinbase is charging for the instant credit card transaction.
Efficiency of scale does not increase the carrying capacity of the local areas. Further prices are mostly dictated by availability not operations costs. So, maximizing the average catch size long term is vastly more important than minimizing operating costs.
that is a bold hypotenuse. Also, I guess for AWS is more a marketing tool to get more developers. The same for heroku(matz), dropbox(Guido)
Feds approve grant for Caltrain electrification project
Likely there is a lot of bias in those stats that aren't skewed by the courts themselves but rather the cases brought to bare.
Italy didn't look very collapsy when I was there last year.
Seems obvious that someone high up on the corporate ladder, with no practical knowledge in how the nitty-gritty work gets done, made the decision. Probably to "minimize IP theft".
Open source single page web app with Go, MongoDB and Vue.js
Ah. Now I get it. First, ignore the Backchannel article and read the article it references, by Google's head of AR/VR.[1] See the image "Play Store on Daydream".

That's trying to reproduce an effect known in retail, where the customer enters the store, goes into sensory overload because there's so much stuff, and stops thinking. At that point, they're vulnerable to making bad purchase decisions. Retailers exploit this. Pay attention to what you can see from one second inside the store entrance.

Trying to replicate this online leads to a cluttered display. With VR, the whole sphere of view is available, and you can put more impulse buy stuff into immediate view. Profit!

Finally, the killer app for VR.

[1] https://medium.com/@claybavor/virtual-and-augmented-realitie...
If anyone from the web team at Next Platform are reading this: please, please consider fixing the weirdness of browsing your site on iPad (and maybe this affects other tablets too).

In portrait mode, the text scrolls off the side of the screen so I have to continually pan back and forth to read an article. In landscape mode, a very thin column of text is used. It's as if the landscape res media query is being applied to portrait view and vice versa.

Edit - oh hmm looks like manually zooming out a bit in portrait will fit the whole article. Was sure that didn't used to be the case in earlier days. Maybe it got fixed!
A few years ago you could get lobsters from Market Basket for $3.99 a pound. And they would steam them for you at no charge. My wife and I would go to the beach in the morning and pick up a couple decent size lobsters on the way home for around $10.

That was a fun summer.
A company that trust their employees.
There are so many ways to get around this anyway so it doesn't make sense to try to enforce it in the first place (considering the issues that follows).
I've met a number of people working in various piece work [1] industries and I make it a point to ask them about their view of payments and how their work effort correlates with payment.

What I've found is that with near certainty, these individuals suffer from a kind of economic myopia. They view every aspect of their work as something though should be charged for and they complain about every little bit they aren't paid for separately. They are almost never open to the idea that it doesn't matter how much they get paid for each action; what matters is their total income. They view anything they don't charge for as money that rightfully belongs to them.

Note that this is not about education level either. Easily, the single most vocal group about piece work payments are the medical doctors I've talked to. I've met multiple doctors who think they should be able to bill for each question asked during a visit that concerns a different medical topic, and some go so far as to demand the patient leave and book a subsequent 15 minute appointment before they will discuss it.

Edit: I'm not saying anything about how much truckers, or any other profession, should be paid. Instead, piece work professions would be better served (and would avoid potentially disastrous financial outcomes) by evaluating their business in terms of overall profitability. For example, drivers might negotiate a higher price per mile, but if one of the aspects the parent mentioned changes significantly (load/unload time, traffic conditions in a geograph), they should turn down the work or start transitioning to a new occupation.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piece_work
Except only seeing 4-5 messages from an active conversation at once on the basic site is basically unusable.
I just did a google for "stigma against not being on facebook" and found a handful of articles that look decent.

Edit: Did mean to phrase that like "just google it" I just don't have time right now to vet the articles and didn't want to post links before reading them.
Bit Shift Variations in C-Minor – Chiptune Music in 214 Bytes of C (2016)
This code was written by Robert S K Miles and is featured in the computerphile video "Code Golf & the Bitshift Variations":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqZgoNRERY8
The Listing requirements: https://developer.github.com/apps/adding-integrations/listin... mention:
- OAuth Apps should have a minimum of 1000 users.
- GitHub Apps should have a minimum of 250 installations.

Does this mean you aren't listed on the Marketplace until you have 1000 users + 250 installations?
> What the real shame here to me is that nude photos/videos are something to be ashamed of or embarrassed about in the first place.

If it were simply nude photos or videos, then I could wholly agree with you. But it's not like this in all cases.

In many cases, these photos and videos are much more explicit; and while one shouldn't be ashamed of such videos, I can see the embarrassment aspect of them - there are some things that should remain in the bedroom between the participants unless they all agree to its public release.

Furthermore, these instances aren't just to friends and family, but usually employers as well. It could mean a loss of income or worse for a person. If it goes to people or leaders of their religious community, it could cause some devastating repercussions, depending on that community.
Cloak and Dagger: a new class of potential attacks affecting Android devices
They seem to be starting to come down. They were $7/lb. at my local Hannaford's in Massachusetts today. (Down from about $12 fairly recently.) I assume that these are new shells coming in but I didn't buy any.
Ok - p100's? The thing is that a K80 costs.... £4k what is it that people are paying for?
Wow, your list of favorite comments is every bit as wonderful as your list of comments. No wonder yours was the first name here on HN I learned to look for to learn from (with dang's being the second)
Probably some deep instrumentation of Java in the cloud
That's more like Karl Rove in his heyday as a data analyst.[1]

[1] https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/f6/f8/6d/f6f86d6de...
I did. It’s still not synonymous with “popular.”
I'm a security conscious buyer. I haven't bought Anker so far because they do not have GS, TÜV, CCC or UL certificates.
See here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14352131
FWIW (and we're hiring) ... several AWS services are already written in Scala.