skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with this is local politics. "Let wildfires burn" sounds great when it's not your multimillion dollar vacation home going up in smoke. Yes, in the long run it would be better for everyone involved. But we humans are anything but longsighted when it comes to dollars and cents.
Did you check the claim yourself? Or did you just feel the need to brown-nose for no reason? Not sure, but if you take the time to check (takes less time than typing your comment, or searching the Alexa DB), you'll see the front page for the site is just shy of 7MB, so I'd agree with the comment that it could do with being optimised better for mobile.
It was the first thought that came to me too. I was lucky enough as a PhD student (mathematics) that I never would have had any doubt that my advisor would have jumped in and fought on my (really 'our') behalf on something like this.

I feel for the author, it sounds like a terrible situation.
They said it's risen since the 90s, which is true. That chart in the middle is a bit misleading (not granular enough). Scroll to the bottom of my first link to see the MTA's own figures on annual ridership for the past few years, you'll see it's down .3% since 2011 (although has gone both up and down in the intervening years). And just for the sake of completeness, I'll counter your NYT article with one of my own ;) [1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/nyregion/new-york-city-su...
But then their enlightened betters can't control them.
I agree with you, but I would add to what you're saying by noting that this very thread and the opinions expressed in it, along with those expressed by the media, will influence Google's decision in a huge way. If a sufficient percentage of the general public considers this memo toxic and irredeemable, this guy could get fired (and I agree, that is absolutely Google's prerogative). On the other hand, if the pervasive opinion is that the views he expressed, wrong or right, were not expressed in an overly negative or aggressive way, Google is likely to keep their engineer.

This isn't unlike The Oatmeal vs. Funnyjunk, or the United Airlines thing. The Internet and the opinions expressed on it really do make decisions for people, companies, juries, and the like.
I know this anxiety and disappointment. Knowing the answers, having the information for potential investors or clients, and completely bombing. It is frustrating indeed. I usually let people (investors, clients, etc) know upfront that I have a stutter, definitely seems to help. I can't believe somebody would just hang up on you though.
There was a native NodeJS module called "toobusy" that I rewrote a few years back to remove the native dependencies:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/toobusy-js

It's worth checking out - and helps you achieve this goal without necessarily having to come up with a req/s magicnum; instead you measure actual event loop latency to detect a slowdown.
And that he has control over the voting stock. He's quite far from a non-entity at Uber and quite far from Steve Jobs as Jobs couldn't technically veto his own firing.
It was a brand new Web Extension version. I had no interest in making FF extensions in their old format (just didn't want to take the time to learn it). But when they adopted Web Extensions I was able to easily port a Chrome extension over to it.
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Damn millenials killing everything indiscriminately.

Our economy is built off of the boomer generation and their behaviors. They enjoyed stable, living-wage jobs, affordable housing, dirt cheap education, etc.

Now we have an emerging gig economy, ridiculous tuition costs (and the expectation of a degree to do more or less anything), cheap credit to prop up the housing market (did we learn nothing in 2008?).

IMHO, it hasn't hurt housing enough, and politically, that's going to stay as long as possible. A lot of boomers also have a large portion of their net worth tied up in their home, and letting that bubble burst will just swap economically disadvantaged millenials for economically disadvantaged boomers. Even setting aside the fact baby boomers also run our political institutions, for a variety of reasons, it's still better to have young people who can't buy anything because they still at least can work, versus a bunch of displaced retirees who also can't work any more. It's a really shitty situation. I try not to blame an entire generation too much because it's more complex than that, but I'm in my mid-30s and feel like I got really lucky. The generation right behind me really had the ladder pulled up before they could get to it.
Thank you for your response.

I am asking because I am interested in the communication and presentation of scientific results to diverse audiences.

I have observed that the notion of 'current best explanation for the observed results' can be misinterpreted. All science is the process of people trying to find an alternate explanation, other than the one proposed, that fits the evidence and can make predictions about evidence that has yet to be found. It is the totality of the observed facts that the explanation explains, and the ability to accurately predict other facts that will be found assuming the explanation is the one that really explains things.

What I've observed is, as you have described, that during the evolution of the scientific investigation, especially when hypotheses are shown to be incomplete and are updated, that communication is heard as a "different" answer rather than as a more refined answer. As my daughter observed about meteorologists predicting rain, "they don't really know, they are just guessing." And that is true with all science, there is no Arc of Knowledge where we can look up the answers to the questions in the back.

The author of the article clearly felt convinced, based on the evidence presented, that this hypothesis about the events that took place is the most accurate idea we have to date. And they showed how other possible explanations had been explored, how predictions (about Iridium) had been made and validated, how estimates of mass and size were made, how the physics of the impact compared to those on other planetary bodies that don't have erosion, Etc. And that confidence they felt came across as 'certainty'.

And yet, their own confidence and their sharing of how they came to have that confidence is off putting. Which is, I am fairly certain, exactly the opposite of what the author had hoped for. They had hoped to share their understanding so that the reader could be confident in their own belief that this is, to the best of our knowledge, exactly what happened so long ago.
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Replying to the deadpost:

>They've literally _never_ accidentally reported in a direction that was opposite their editorial spin.

You won't find any news outlet who will err two ways.
It is way too simplistic to decree certain sites fake or not, and I would have hoped than an article from MIT would acknowledge this instead of reinforcing this "fake news" meme.

If you've heard about yellow journalism as well as Project Mockingbird, then you can appreciate the fact that news is a tool to entertain and manufacture consent and occasionally inform. All of it lies on a spectrum between fake and not fake. Even The Onion which is intentionally satirical, typically has a nugget of truth in each of his stories, which is why it's good satire.

If you're not already convinced how ridiculous this term is, consider for a moment: How do you prove if a certain publication is "fake news" or not? If a "not fake news" mainstream news source publishes a single story which is later corrected or retracted, is the entire publication forever labeled "fake news" or is a certain amount of fake stories required for a publication as a whole to be considered fake?
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The problem with stuttering is that the condition is so broad and the cases are so diverse that any generalization of that kind is bound to be incorrect. So of course there'll be cases of stutters who managed to achieve complete fluency in adulthood, as well as people who only began to stutter as adults.
While this is true, the "flag planting" nature of pre-prints also kind of bugs me. But I know this has been discussed on HN before.
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Which is an odd example, since maze solving by recursion typically requires something like the Zipper data structure. And... no, that is not necessarily easier to deal with than just using a standard stack and jotting down your work as you go.
This is all rather pointless when Scilly drove Apple into the ground and Jobs subsequently sent it into the stratosphere. I'm no Jobs fan at all, but that much is obvious.

Look at how badly Jobs treated his subordinates and family for an actual criticism of him.
In a geometric setting - if you have two vectors, you can position them so that both have one end at the origin. This spans a plane (test it out yourself in 2D or 3D space with two pencils, put the eraser at the origin for each; it's a parallelogram). The area of the plane will depend on the length of the pencils. You can assign an orientation to the plane by imagining a rotor embedded in the plane that spins either clockwise or counterclockwise.
The Curry-Howard correspondence says that a program is the same as a proof. A proof of what, though? Not that the program does what it's supposed to. No matter how far you go with formal methods, what the program is supposed to do is always informally specified. (There may be a formal specification. That specification wasn't handed down from on high at Mount Sinai, though. It's a formalization of the informal, badly-stated, half-unconscious informal specification that is the impetus for creating the program. Does the formal spec match the informal one? Can you prove it? No, you can't - certainly not formally.

It's like you read the article, and set about disproving it, without ever really understanding it.
Does this mean that an entry in /etc/hosts assigning ip to localhost will be ignored?
The weirdest was a co-worker who had some simple webserver, which was listening on only IPv4 or IPv6 (but not both). When he went to "localhost" on Firefox it used IPv4 and he was able to see it. On Chrome "localhost" was IPv6 (or the other way around), and he got "Could not connect" error. It confused him no end how this simple web server worked on FF but not Chrome. :)
No, that's not how the majority of ICOs work. You get no royalties. The tokens can be anything.
>anthropogenic SO2 emissions, and how much of a cooling effect these have on our climate

Anthropogenic SO2 emission as a fringe strategy for global cooling:

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/511016/a-cheap-and-easy-p...
It's 2017. If you're not virtue signalling whenever and wherever possible, you're simply not with it.
A couple of interesting tidbits about the Elements that I've run into:

It had a profound influence on Abraham Lincoln. He said (he was largely an autodidact) that the Elements taught him what it meant to actually know that something was true, or words to that effect.

It's an example of how profoundly the West is indebted to Arabian (sometimes called "Islamic") scholarship. For centuries, the version that Europeans actually studied was a Latin translation of an Arabic translation that Arab scholars made from the original. They rescued much of our Greek heritage this way.
I own and prefer the smaller footprint of the Yoga 370 ... BUT ... I really dislike the glossy display.

The X1 is fantastic because it's a matte finish.

I really wish more laptops used a matte finish.

It's so much easier on the eyes (due to lack of reflection).
I tried to switch to React from AngularJS, I was almost puking every day, esp from React Redux, holy shit, you have to write so much rubbish to get simple stuff done.

Angular is so much superior, thank god they pulled their shit together.

As for RN, I imagine NativeScript is similar, haven't tried it yet also Ionic is quite a hit. I guess that's some kind of mystical stuff, I hated React from the first day and I loved Angular from the fist day till now. I know React is very popular but one thought about it makes me shudder
>The decision on whether one's work is "correct" and worthy of a phD is so subjective, and prevailing theoretical trends are so arbitrary and subject to change, that it's easy to reject a dissertation based on cliquish whims.

The other half of the double-whammy is there are a lot of humanities degrees with no marketplace value beyond "has a degree" unless you have a PhD, so anybody in the position to impede your doctorate has more power than he would in a STEM field.
It's the idea that I'll be spending two hours at the mall when I'm out of go juice, is part of what makes me think the use cases for all electric vehicles are limited. I can fill up a hybrid in ten minutes and get 500 miles of range and I can fill up just about anywhere.
Well, for me, it's not that my loneliness is self-inflicted but a byproduct of having gender dysphoria and not much courage to actually transition or even socialize with other folks who are trans. Ultimately, my life is a pretty shallow one. I haven't gone to a movie with any friend or an acquaintance since I was 17 (I'm currently 37). So it's really hard to be a friend to anyone or even have someone who would want to be mine. When you don't socialize or have a means to socialize beyond a computer it becomes one of those habits that's impossible to learn when you're an adult. I don't know if I'll ever get out of this, personally, since the social skills I've built up are of the impersonal kind (good at work, professional as needed, reliable, but not relatable or warm).
I always have local.my company.com DNS that resolves to 127.0.0.1. I can get a valid cert that way too.
No one is "flipping" student loans though. I don't see student loan debt being a trigger of anything market-disrupting.
I'm also waiting to grow out of mine :) For me it's worst when talking about something I'm passionate about to a party that may have an opposing view.

The thing that has worked best for me is acceptance. It gets worse when I try to hide it. When I start a conversation I even fake stutter a bit, so periods of real disfluency don't seem as bad in comparison. When I do have a particularly bad moment of disfluency, I just tell the other person that I have a speech impediment, in a humorous way if possible. Being open about it makes things better for both parties. Then you can focus on the content of what you're saying, with less anxiety about the delivery.

For those really bad days, you can use AirPods with a DAF app, though I've yet to try it myself since it goes against the acceptance approach.
arxiv link to the underlying research: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.07592
Problem solving is our area of strength.
Same here. Clients and my mom are annoyed and send messages like "are you reachable now?"...

I just can't make them spell out what they want; it has to be the phone...
> society is no longer a slave to classicism

True, that - unfortunately. We are no longer required to learn Latin and Greek or to get familiar with classical writings. Having thus moved away from the "good stuff", we (many of us, anyway) are still slaves of ancient prejudices. What we have lost with classicism and the critical thinking it taught us, we "gained" in falling for obscurantism, pseudo-science, political agenda, and advertisement.
That analysis is from 4 years ago and is wrong in many, many ways at this point. As for "the general consensus", I'd like to see evidence that's true among real enterprise users. (FD: I work for Couchbase.)
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Reminds me of this post: https://dev.to/aunyks/lets-build-the-tiniest-blockchain
You mean the ones that allow them to show multiple ads, changed digitally, without paying someone to manually change them out?

If those are net-costing anything at all, I'd guess it's a rounding error on any subway upgrades.
If you have multiple workers each managing their own throttling, there is a particular failure mode you may run into: everything is operating normally, then requests increase to the point that one of your servers starts throttling requests. Your load balancer redistributes traffic to the remaining machines, which see even greater load, and each in turn start throttling requests. At some point you have no working servers, and all requests are failing. You start adding servers, but as soon as a server enters the load balancer pool it is bombarded with all requests and shuts off. At this point you have more than enough servers to handle requests, but all of them are disabled.

Most solutions to the thundering herd problem involve rate limiting at the load balancer, or a finer-grained heuristic to ensure that each server does as much work as it can, even under load.
I found this HN thread to be quite useful to this conversation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14949392
> When I read it I heard the process of elimination that scientists went through ruling out all of the ways it could not have happened, leaving only this explanation which fit the facts.

I share the affront, based largely on this very idea.

You're using Sherlock Holmes' catchphrase: "Eliminate the impossible, and whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth". It's fun fiction, but it's terrible science; you're never going to be able to distinguish between the improbable and the impossible to the degree required, and more importantly, you'll never even be able to enumerate, much less eliminate, every theoretical possibility.

This is the fallacy of accepting the alternative: You conjecture that cold temperatures are caused by the god of the winter wind blowing on the earth. You do a careful statistical analysis demonstrating that it is unlikely that day-to-day temperatures are determined by chance variation (for example, December days are overwhelmingly and predictably colder than July days). So you "logically" accept that you've supported the god-of-the-winter-winds theory. You haven't; rejecting one hypothesis is not evidence in support of any particular other hypothesis.
It would make more sense for someone to setup localhost.mydomain.com than to trust a third party.
And I'd have wagered that Blockbuster Video knew what it was doing in the late 1990s.
Has anyone tried setting up angularfire2 or firebase in a project yet?
>"Fortunately, because the MTA has exposed the live schedule data, Google Maps lets you check this (sadly, it isn't 100% reliable: oftentimes a train will claim to have arrived somewhere, or even be departing from a station, while it's still getting there)."

Yes and the issue is that the MTA doesn't make the service disruption data available.

See:
https://medium.com/transit-app/how-were-bringing-real-time-c...

Why wouldn't you make this data available? Why stop short? Most likely because it would expose just how many unplanned maintenance disruptions there actually are.
As a hobbyist indie dev, I think it's a great idea. My main concern for the platform is the same as indies in general: discoverability. How do you plan to grow the platform and make people aware of it? People won't subscribe without games, and devs won't spend time modifying for a platform with no audience. Seems like a chicken and egg problem. What's your goal in subscribers for one, two, five years?
I imagine it would be similar to the sorts of inspections you'd find at a hospital.
Never been impressed with the usability of FLW's designs.
Is recursion difficult? I remember when we did our first recursion in the first year of CS and our professor told us it sould be hard. Then she went on a rant about divide and conquer which made little sense and eventually got to the bit about calling yourself until a criteria.

I think most of us thought it was the easiest part of that year.
Hello me from last week. Had exactly this bug, sometimes nginx couldn't connect to the backend (but very rarely, and not reproducible on demand), which I eventually tracked to the fact that localhost sometimes resolved to ::1 instead of 127, which is what the backend was listening on. Still don't understand why it was only like 1 in 1000 requests, and not every or every other request. Just one more slice of ipv6 mystery.
This is true in a theoretical free market where there is price discovery. In the "markets" that actually exist, though, we don't have true price discovery. We have a market with centrally controlled interest rates, central bank purchasing (in a variety of ways) and other institution-based interference that create inefficiencies that are not organic, and are therefore not self-correcting.
The expectations around co-authorship vary from field to field.
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Which are the ones that generate most load...
But there isn't any risk to the school or the lender. Anyone can get student loans up to the federal cap, and they're practically not dischargeable, either.

The incentive has to come from somewhere else, but most solutions involve making it a lot harder for poor people to go to college. It's a tough problem.
Remember, you don't hate Mondays, you hate capitalism.
Jack pine is another, and a nearly-extinct bird really depends on these trees. The Kirtland's Warbler relies on large stands of young jack pine trees, and jack pine cones only open in intense heat of forest fires. Really sad, the birds can't survive in super cold climates and only like reproducing in jack pine forests, so the ending ice age and the formation of the Great Lakes trapped the birds in the northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan. They can't move into the Upper Peninsula or Canada where jack pine is more common because it's too cold, and can't move further south because there aren't any jack pine forests further south.

As the number of wildfires has declined, so has the number of large stands of young jack pines. This has had a devastating impact on the Kirtland's Warbler, who already had their natural habitat decimated.
Homejoy. Adora and Aaron Cheung.
Why not? The sync pulses are because the scan is discontinuous, you could just have one plus color burst every spiral
This is a professional technique.

The hangar I just came from has hard rules - if any tool is missing the planes are grounded until the tool is found.
No matter what. So you better don't lose those tools.
I came here to say something similar.

While one is spending their time on the first points imagining infrastructure (for usage that might one day materialise), the company goes out of business because they failed to solve a problem anyone cared about.
Look hard at the review sites like the Better Business Bureau before you buy a Lenovo: https://www.bbb.org/raleigh-durham/business-reviews/computer...

I bought a 3rd gen X1 Carbon. Three weeks out of warranty, the display stopped working. The repair took five weeks and they put in the wrong parts, downgrading the CPU and RAM. it took three more weeks for them to even ship a new replacement. On every single interaction I was told something false about the repair process, timeline, shipping, etc - seriously, I kept a log. Every department pointed fingers at every other department, no one (even the "Executive Support" I was escalated to) even claimed to have comprehensive knowledge, let alone actually took responsibility for the process.

Read the reviews. My experience wasn't unusual. Would having no laptop for nine weeks inconvenience you?
Toyota looks and Mazda reliability. That's what I'm expecting. Gotta love team efforts.
yah, based on part 3, where it's mentioned that Mao had an exhibition in Los Angeles, it seems like either Zervignon or Flores would fit the profile - both had exhibitions in LA and are in fields that are close enough to Harbin's work. Probably one's Mao and the other is Hortense. Most dissertations are available online (and usually mention the committee members in the front matter), although this one might be withheld for obvious reasons.

EDIT: this is pure speculation, and not of much utility. I just happen to be eating lunch and clicking around.