skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can someone PLEASE tell me why there haven't been more efforts underway to have commnities around the world plant more trees and engage in planned reforestation?

This is as close as you can get to a globally available mechanism for pulling carbon dioxide out of the air (and methane can burn leaving carbon dioxide).

I mean this very seriously. Richard Branson is looking to fund ways to pull Carbon out if the atmosphere. China has developed a way to leave carbon in rock. Meanwhile we have had a way all along - TREES! Those and algae in the oceans.

The "answer" I often hear is that the carbon will eventually be released when the trees burn in forest fires. Well, first of all, what matters is the overall biomass of trees. And secondly even if it didn't, that buys us many decades.

PS: How come this is being so heavily downvoted?
Great analogy. Anything seems impossible before its done, and obvious 5-10 years after it's done.
Most CO2 is indeed natural.

We did increase the circulating amount by a very small margin. Large enough so that it accumulated over the years.

This of course led to a feedback loop.

Arctic ice has 1400Gt of carbon locked up as methane. [1] This is equivalent to 1400/10 = 140 years of human 2016 activity. [2] If ice starts to melt, we are doomed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions

[2]: https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions
hi and thanks for athenapdf

I was wondering, does it support custom page headers (or generally running elements)
Gotcha. C++ has the same problem when its exceptions are thrown through C or -fno-exceptions C++ frames.

If that's the only hold-up, IMO the way to go is to abort at the boundary, when an exception would propagate into frames without unwind tables. RAII is too valuable to do without!
If your set is known at compile time, make a Perfect Hash Table with gperf instead. It's commonly used in compilers and other software with a parsing or interpreting stage.
People are free to leave a community they feel unwelcome in.

If it's an open source software project, they are also free to fork the software and make their own project around it. While, obviously, two parallel projects divided by interpersonal issues isn't ideal and likely duplicates efforts, it's better than losing the work of either of the factions, so, given the existence of the social issues, it's quite possibly the best acheivable outcome.
In both the USSR and Venezuela cases we've seen a complete separation of meaningful feedback and controls in the regulation arm and the market itself. In both cases multiple markets emerged that where nominally independent (black, grey, sanctioned, and unsanctioned) which created ways for capital to flow that had previously been impossible. In both cases there appears to be tremendous looting of GDP into the market accounts of a smaller wealthy elite. To the extent that the wealth of a nation empowers its governance, the rise of oligarchs creates a nominally stable power structure that is disassociated with GDP development. To me, this appears to structurally favor wealth creation for the oligarchs over GDP creation for the economy.

What I observe is that the rapid shift of materially significant (from a GDP perspective) wealth from the general market to a much smaller number of market 'maskers' on a sovereign state basis, has an attenuating effect on systemic controls and other market damping systems.

So looking at how business cycles happen in a system where more and more interacting economies are less market driven and more exploitation driven is, again in my non-professional opinion, might shed some light on how the cycles will evolve.
>I feel motivated to buy a new apartment because of the low rates, so I'm guessing it's working as it should. But that's all just anecdotal.

Would that be your first apartment? It seems to me that the programs of low interest rates are motivating the wrong people - people who already have significant assets and can borrow against them to buy another/several properties.
Arctic ice has 1400Gt of carbon locked up as methane. [1] This is equivalent to 1400/10 = 140 years of human 2016 activity. [2]. Methane also has a stronger effect than CO2. If ice starts to melt, we are doomed.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_methane_emissions#Contr...

[2]: https://www.co2.earth/global-co2-emissions
> Price, it turns out, is far more like pressure than volume.

Or voltage, as we sorta worked out on G+ :-)
Find Wifi
Word. It's funny how the people we try to copy became who they are by doing the opposite, simply being themselves.
1 TB = $35. https://www.packetfabric.com/pricing/
Could it be as bad as the Permian extinction?
(Oh, and I mean for journeys by car, not even by bike)
Scale-able business economics hold that if $unit_profit > 0, growth is good. It sounds like $unit_profit is negative―at least in some markets. Which would be a concern for long-term growth a profitability: the old "we lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume" joke.

$unit_profit = $unit_price - $unit_cost

In Uber's case, the interesting question is market flexibility on price. Or, another way, can Uber increase prices while maintaining market share, and if so, by how much?

In personal experience, in my market, I believe there's headroom. I never step out of an Uber thinking, "Wow, that was too expensive." (Surges notwithstanding.) Nothing will make me go back to taxis. So the alternative is Lyft or nothing at all. And I think there's room to grow.
And it's also not said that all these factors have a linear impact on the Figure of Merit. I guess that this might be a nice application for a machine learning classifier, to rate a route's ride quality depending on all of these inputs (and more.)
Bug Bounties and Beyond: An Interview with HackerOne’s Mårten Mickos
Glad you like it. Once Interface reaches a more stable state (i.e. more glyphs and kerning have been added), the intention is to submit it for inclusion on Google fonts. In the meantime, you can use https://rsms.me/interface/interface.css which always points to the latest release of the font, and is hosted on a CDN (by Cloudflare, backed by GitHub.)
About 5 months because I spent a lot of time playing around.
I'm doing everything myself: dev, UI/UX, marketing, paperwork.

http://www.clubshq.com
Blockchains don’t scale yet, but there’s hope
As another followup, how does the valuation compare to a company like mytaxi.com? App and service seem functionally equivalent, except that pricing is done by in-taxi meter. Lots of Berlin cabs run both MyTaxi and UberTaxi.

Another point of comparison is Juno in Manhattan which took a smaller cut from drivers in order to poach the best ones from Uber and Lyft. I've always felt that competition for drivers will drive the profit margin down to what's needed to support a small team of developers pretty quickly.
but we can't be sitting on "a bomb", or it would already have long since gone off.

That's a strange argument given that previous variations in climate indeed were very severe...
> I think it is fair to label people inclined to sympathy with Nazi ideas as Nazi sympathizers.

OK, fair enough, but that's not what you originally said, nor is it what people are doing when they throw that term at me. They're (sometimes intentionally) conflating advocacy of free speech for repugnant ideas with advocacy of those ideas themselves. But I appreciate your openness to try to see my position.
Happy to hear this! Would love to see a screenshot of what it looks like (I'm @rsms on Twitter)
~260ms.

The route was Chennai-Amsterdam-Jordan-Iran

https://pastebin.com/nCT0VA2e
Public Wi-Fi database
You can also emit the type during compilation, rather than at runtime:

pragma(msg, "var has type: ", typeof(var));
as far as I know wkhtmltopdf still exceeds in some aspects, better page control, margins, headers, footers and tables of contents. chrome still doesn't support them and also no browser supports CSS Paged Media which allows for setting up running elements like page numbering etc
This article just seems odd. They're still quoting numbers from how they compared 2 years ago to Kepler GPUs. Unless they have a new TPU out, these are worse than the V100 GPU out today, so it's strange that in a field moving so fast they're constantly quoting old data. It doesn't matter anymore that you had the fastest chip in 2015. If you haven't iterated since then, you are probably losing.
That seems like an unnecessarily rude assumption.
Here's one approach that seems to have achieved some success:

A 2 year multidomain intervention of diet, exercise, cognitive training, and vascular risk monitoring versus control to prevent cognitive decline in at-risk elderly people (FINGER): a randomised controlled trial

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-67...
You're right; theft is a legal term, and it's not technically theft, it's a copyright violation as you say. They rest is your opinion. If I intended on buying the book and instead downloaded it for free I am absolutely depriving the copyright holder of income. I'm far from a hard-liner on this but, in this instance, I believe it's wrong to download these books and read them. If you want the book go ahead and pay for it.

As far as the project goes, the author should not be bundling the books with everything else (common sense and debatable moral issues.) I have no issue with him using the texts, it's the distribution that's a problem.
Compare Futura's "tail-less t": http://www.identifont.com/show?M2
to Source Sans with a hooked tail: http://www.identifont.com/find?font=Source+Sans&q=Go
And none of it means anything if we all die because the planet cant sustain us any longer.
U.S. is lacking 300,000 cybersecurity experts needed to defend the country
But if you have to relocate, aside from rent(which can be absurd in CA), how else are you supposed to do it?
IIRC they were not included in the IPCC reports, but for a different reason: even though pretty much everyone agrees that they exist, they were too difficult to quantify.
You make it sound like D-Bus is a first attempt and even a hastily put together attempt to solve its target problem. It's not.[1] D-Bus is heavily influenced by (and intended to replace) DCOP, the communication system used by KDE 1 and KDE 2. DCOP was widely lauded as an extremely well-designed system.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Bus#History_and_adoption
Great article here: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130604-why-we-turn-devices...

Also good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phones_on_aircraft
Ray Dalio gives the best explanation to why the business cycle exists [1]. I wish I could provide a TLDR that does the video justice, but there's just too much great insight in this video to condense it any further (it's only 30 minutes anyways). In my opinion, this should be required viewing for all financially literate adults.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0
Internet Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy List
What is the process for converting what is written in Quoll into something printable, like a PDF?
You can start by reading about Genera and Interlisp-D

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera_(operating_system)

https://www.ics.uci.edu/~andre/ics228s2006/teitelmanmasinter...

http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP

Just check the hardware capabilities of systems having Lisp 1.5 support, several years before C was created.

Lisp is not only manipulating lists, it grew up to natively support all relevant data structures, including primitives to handle systems programming tasks.

Regarding GC and systems programming, there are plenty of GC enabled systems programming languages, the main point is that they offer features to control the GC and also do stack and GC free allocation if required.

Some examples would be Mesa/Cedar, Modula-2+, Modula-3, Oberon, Oberon-2, Oberon-07, Active Oberon, Component Pascal, Sing#, System C#, D
I'm quite fond of John Rafter Lee, personally:

http://www.audible.com/search?ref_=a_pd_Classi_c2_1_narr&sea...

I've been hooked on his voice ever since I heard him as Trevor Goodchild in the 90's MTV Aeon Flux cartoon.
Couldn't agree more. Here in the UK we have a lower percentage of forested land than many other European countries and I much prefer forest to the barren green fields which we have in many places. Sadly I think lots of my countrymen think of green fields being the default state of rural UK and don't realise it's the legacy of deforestation by stone age man.. I can only imagine what the UK must have been like prior to that. It must have been truly idyllic.
Better explanation here (linked from Technology Review): http://www.thoriumenergyworld.com/news/finally-worlds-first-...

More details on the experiment sequence: https://public.ornl.gov/conferences/MSR2016/docs/Presentatio...

This is not actually a reactor test because the thorium-bearing salt does not attain criticality. It's a sequence of materials tests using thorium-containing salt mixtures in small crucibles inside the conventionally fueled High Flux Reactor (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/research-facility/high-flux-reac...).

The experiments rely on neutrons from the High Flux Reactor to induce nuclear reactions in the thorium-bearing salt mixtures. However, the experiments will be useful in validating materials behavior for possible future molten salt reactors because it combines realistic thermal, chemical, and radiation stresses.
omg the metric one is so important. it should even be default 8-o
Hopefully the Rendertron will gain support for WebGL in the near future. It seems like more and more graphical apps on the web are using WebGL over the Canvas API for performance reasons.
We use data from OpenStreetMap, meaning you can edit and update information wherever you are, and changes will appear on the map in a matter of days.
How Many Americans Would Pass an Immigration Test?
You've said correctly, the Brand is...
How colleges are strangling liberalism
I was hacked
system font for the win...
Look where it says "$0.105". $0.105 per what? Us cloud experts know the answer, but it's not obvious on the page.
That's not in 'the language' yet :)
The trouble with this, and several other recent companies, isn't whether there's a business there. Cab via app? Way better. I love it.

It's still an open question whether there's a 100 Billion Dollar Business. That's what they sold to investors, and since they cashed the check, that's what they must deliver.

Or some hedge fund will buy the pieces for pennies on the dollar and sell them for scrap.
Yes, absolutely. The "all or nothing" armoring philosophy has been the dominant trend in naval armor since WWI.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_or_nothing_(armor)

(I don't know about the Arleigh Burke class in particular, but I'd be shocked if this wasn't the case)
That page says:
Myth: Carbon dioxide comes only from anthropogenic sources, especially from the burning of fossil fuels.

Jesus is a myth. The above statement is not something any thinking person has ever considered. You'd have to be a moron to think CO2 only comes from human source. Of course CO2 predates mankind, as well as mandkind's activities. Positioning something that no one is claiming as if it's something someone is claiming and then knocking it down, is known as a strawman, it is not a myth. But this is what you'd expect from a DOE run by an oilman and climate change denier.

The concern is not the source or reason for historic CO2 levels, it's the source and reason for increases above historic CO2 levels.

Treating people as if they're too stupid to see through such transparent attempts at distraction should be a violation of the code of conduct, before name calling those who try to get away with shit like this.
It's a Monty Python reference. /sigh
> While I'm fond of "deep work the idea", the book was a real disappointment. It's mostly selling the idea instead of explaining how to do something with it.

Sadly, most self-help book are like this. :-(
"b" didn't exist 200 years ago, so why does "a" feel the need to get there? Progress for the sake of progress!
I stopped using Reddit because I became aware of the strong astroturfing. It is impossible to be a member of any popular open subreddit without being exposed to branding and political ideas. This extends to something like the_D where any whiff opposing ideas are insta banned. It feels like to me these subreddits curate their users to get a specific commentary going. Are they really all collected in their political agenda? I doubt it. They're simply the more vile users who agree to keep perpetuating the hate.

Multiply this to every other subreddit with heavy handed moderation, and it's no doubt that reddit is no longer a fun place to be. There is a constant struggle to control the media that is being presented to the majority unaware redditors.
Looks really interesting
As kind of an old dog, I can't help but think of Active X controls from back in the day. That's what this reminds me of. Kinda.

Are there some guidelines and standardization of the kinds of events components emit, and what data is passed with the event? So that I don't have to look up all the variants of event names and data.
This is valid commentary and subject to much discussion throughout the recent history of typography. There's always a blance condition between personality, legibility, character ambiguity, pace, and so on. Every typeface needs to go in some direction on these dimensions, which is why we have different font families for different uses! For instance, mono-spaced fonts with "slab" serifs are popular with computer code since column alignment (mono-spaced) and ambiguity (slab serifs and other visual traits like slashed zero) are used. However, for most people it's easier to read a variable-width font with regular serifs for longer text, like what you'd find in a book. Similarly, for user-interface labels, dialogs, buttons, etc it's often better to use a font without serifs and with a little more tracking/letter-spacing than what you'd use for large bodies of text (e.g. in a book.) Interface is designed for the latter use-case; user interfaces on computer screens.
My project is https://finintelligence.com

It provides access to public/private companies financials, documents search and some custom reports. I have tons of ideas in my mind: configurable stream of companies events, alerts, intelligent search for companies data, etc.

I launched it just about a month ago, so it is still in a semi-stealth prototype mode, but I am happy to receive any feedback, feature requests and first real users )
How could you possibly believe you would get away with something like this.
> Please resist commenting about being downvoted. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Glad to see they are resuming research even though there remain problems with it as a commercial technology.
Infrastructure as Code with humidifier-reservoir
Ok, let me just open up my developer console using F12 and check the Offline box on the network panel. So glad I took the extra 20 seconds to do that before reading part of the article and navigating away from this "distraction".
This is cool, but why would I want to draw diagrams like this? There's a plethora of tools out there that make drawing diagrams pretty simple, why do I want to do it with text? I'd drive myself crazy - every time you change one character in the diagram, you have to shift all the other characters on the line.

I don't mean to be condescending, but.. whyyy? It just seems so fragile to be doing complex diagrams in plain text like that.
But aren't passwords just copied? Why does the font matter?
You are right, I mixed it up.

Like that idea for WebGL 2.0, will have a look into it.
How about PDF to Latex? Matlab allows Latex strings.

https://www.mathworks.com/help/matlab/creating_plots/text-wi...
I found people who shared content from my competitors and sent them cold emails using BuzzSumo http://buzzsumo.com
3 Months. It highly depends on the project though.

For me, it was an e-book [0] that I wanted to write to teach others about React. The idea was to learn React while building an application that is more complex than a Todo Application.

So I took the first 3 months to write the initial draft - only 90 pages. I released it on Leanpub as an unfinished book, because it was painfully hard to keep going. Yet the community seemed to like it. It confirmed me being on the right track and my motivation went up again.

Since then I iterated 4 times to improve and enrich the learning experience and "released" it multiple times. I keep it updated to the recent library versions, best practices and new techniques with the help of the open source community. Now it has over 170 pages and over 11.000 downloads.

What helped in my case: Release early and improve/iterate based on the feedback.

- [0] https://www.robinwieruch.de/the-road-to-learn-react/
Well you still get exposure to companies in those segments, such as Monsanto and Equity Residential. If you just want "normal" positions in those companies (i.e. weighted by market cap), then Vanguard funds like VTSMX (a component of their retirement funds) are perfect.
This font is really pretty, and the text very readable. Great job.
> Can someone PLEASE tell me why there haven't been more efforts underway to have commnities around the world plant more trees and engage in planned reforestation?

The prevailing political and economic system.
Follow the white rabbit...
It's surprisingly on par with a FanDuel/Draftkings fantasy experience. The score distributions and lineup permutations are great
The Gambler's fallacy doesn't take independence from different trials into account.

However, since it's the same driver for each of the "trials" then the Gambler's fallacy doesn't really apply.
But the loop your pointing out is only over the hash bucket, not the entire set. Ideally it will only have a single element.
Sure, if you don't include the word "net". Natural processes account for the majority of CO2 introduced into the atmosphere. They also account for the majority of the CO2 removed from the atmosphere, because there's an equilibrium flow.

The important part is that anthropogenic sources are a significant contribution to the net imbalance of those flows, because it's all in one direction.

It's like arguing that your spending, because is a small fraction of the amount of money you move between your checkings and savings accounts, won't make you run out of money...
Looks to be all about TPU1? Which is inference-only.
Afaik TPU2 allows for training as well, Im much more interested in that.
Last line: "There was a TPU2 talk earlier that I missed that I need to look through the slides of and write up later"
Lot of comments putting this service down - but I love it. I used them for a beta launch. Got ~180 people who applied for it. Got a ton of honest feedback that helped me plan for my next beta round.

The actual website is a bit slow and not so intuitive, but has a bunch of features. Support is great.

Having people put in their device UDIDs makes the process faster to register in the Apple dev portal.

There are other services I'm planning to try out, like http://erlibird.com and http://playtestcloud.com. PlayTestCloud will record audio (maybe video?) of people trying out your app/game. I imagine it depends on the capabilities of the device OS though.