skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason Obama's flood legislation got repealed is because they conflated climate change with flooding, for which the evidence seems to not exist, if I understand the experts correctly.

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v500/n7462/full/nature1...

> A feature of the changes has been a tendency for many regions of low variability to experience increases, which might contribute to the perception of increased climate volatility. The normalization of temperature anomalies creates the impression of larger relative overall increases, but our use of absolute values, which we argue is a more appropriate approach, reveals little change.
> Many climate models predict that total variability will ultimately decrease under high greenhouse gas concentrations, possibly associated with reductions in sea-ice cover. Our findings contradict the view that a warming world will automatically be one of more overall climatic variation.

...

“General statements about extremes are almost nowhere to be found in the literature but seem to abound in the popular media,” climate scientist Gavin Schmidt of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (and co-founder of the award winning climate science blog RealClimate.), “It’s this popular perception that global warming means all extremes have to increase all the time, even though if anyone thinks about that for 10 seconds they realize that’s nonsense.”

...

U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] report on extreme weather in 2011.

> Global warming, in general, will mean higher temperatures. This causes more heat waves — more extreme weather. But it also causes fewer cold waves — less extreme weather. Many more people die from excessive cold than excessive heat, so fewer people will die from cold and heat in the future. By mid-century, researchers estimated in 2006, that means about 1.4 million fewer deaths per year. In the continental United States, heat waves in the past decade exceeded the norm by 10 percent, but the number of cold waves fell 75 percent.

From the Washington Post https://archive.is/O3lJZ :

> Damage from flooding in the United States has declined from 0.2 percent of gross domestic product in 1940 to less than 0.05 percent today. And U.S. hurricanes have not increased in frequency, intensity or normalized damage since at least 1900.
And the huge variety of presentation tools such as ggplot2, Rmarkdown, and Shiny still makes R a very attractive choice.

Tight integration with Rcpp also makes it very easy to speed up calculations when performance becomes an issue.
Outside industries where MISRA-C is part of the daily vocabulary, I never seen any appreciation for C static analysers.
Signal uses the same process. When you first install, it uploads all your contacts to 'see' which of your contacts are Signal users. It then defaults to Signal messages to that contact. Any new Signal user on your contact list alerts you to the fact they are now using Signal and helpfully defaults to Signal messaging. When you uninstall, you have to remove your number from their central DB using their web-app to prevent your friends from sending you Signal messages you won't be able to open.

An implied "find my friend" feature that I assume Sarahah uses.
Perhaps they're celebrating the failed attempt by anarchist revolutionaries to cause the emperors home star to go nova.
You must have a digital marketing strategy.  why
> If you use Netlify and want to use Fly to broaden your application scope, perhaps hosting Netlify as your marketing site on your root domain, then something like a Heroku application at /app/, then you've come to the right place.

Oh this is cool, you've got me intrigued there.

> Google Auth -- ... Do you want to gate off a static page so that only your Google Org may see it? We make it easy!

So does it integrate with G Suite?
Thanks, will have a look.
As an aside: is there a list of the energy consumption of common Internet activity anywhere?

How much is used by a single DuckDuckGo / Bing / Google search? Or Reddit post? Or email?
I use navigation every day on the iPhone. Google maps is superior in my view (in the USA) over Apple maps because:

1) You can turn off the voice navigation.
2) Google maps show you which lane to be in for an oncoming turn.
3) Google maps have a better "sense" of which lane you are in when you are in an initial turn. Apple maps seem to get lost and start to re-route.
But there is still a real reason to have defined names for species, even if the names seem whimsical (and the Latin isn't to be obscure -- it was the common language of science for centuries -- Newton and Linnaeus wrote in Latin, for example).
I find it almost incredible that while the motivated autodidact can learn almost any theoretical topic for almost no money via the internet we simultaneously have millions of students getting into heavy debt at university. (Also into heavy drinking, exam pressure, mental illness, radical indoctrination, etc.)
You are right, but who uses Cobol today?
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Signal truncates the hashed phone numbers, before sending them to the server. The server responds with the contacts that you have in common.
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I'm working on a platform (Peerweb) similar to the product being discussed, and I think I've put more thought into the security and autonomous self-policing aspects of P2P CDNs. I don't waste my time with MD5, and I deeply considered the PKI that I designed.

Also, my platform can offload all assets including the page itself and enables sites to get free failover during content server downtime. Due to my DNS-seeded PKI, your users stay secure and content continues to be correctly authenticated in your P2P CDN cache even when your site would normally be down.
> They still demand that everyone understand Latin and use really ridiculous names for most species

Well, the thing is you do need vaguely universal names for species, and when taxonomy and phylogenetics really started Latin was the universal language used for science. Maybe if Linnaeus had been born a century later, species would have French names instead. But Latin is nice because it's not related to any single nation anymore.

But having a single universal reference name for all species, even if some of them are not intrinsically meaningful (but many are, mind you), is far better than every language having its own name for different things and no universal way to mention anything. Just try to talk about penguins or moths to French-speaking people, or explain the difference between goëlands and mouettes to English-speaking people, and you will quickly see the limits of vernacular names.
Any idea on what will it cost?
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monopolies and a free market is a oxymoron because at that point the monopoly has become a authority that intervene in the forces of supply and demand. Such authority can exist without government, and given enough capital and positioning it can be very stable. In history we can find examples of companies that through pure size and weight can solely influence the forces of supply and demand, with no need to get help from governments.

The state can naturally also create monopolies. patents are explicit in this, granting an entity a "limited" timed monopoly.

> there is always a forced redistribution mechanism

And now we enter the definition of terms. Forced redistribution is mechanism, not a goal in itself. Historically there have been governments that have tried it, through to be honest there hasn't been a country that have not had events of forced redistribution, and if the book Debt - The First 5,000 Years is correct in the historical data, the elimination of debt through violence was a recurring event that happened in all cultures. Forced redistribution happens all the time in history when the ability to repay get too impossible low compared to the amount of money being owned.
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Your grandchildren are unlikely to be using AA batteries or USB cables.
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Perhaps they can focus on customization, and sell more expensive shirts?
Perhaps it's because my family has always been beekeepers, but I don't get the joke? It's just standard procedure to ensure the queen can adapt properly.
Yeah lots of rural areas in the US have very dark skies. I saw lots of shooting stars one night driving acros Utah, it was pretty incredible.
I'd imagine the host website needs to ask for the permission to share specific data with a third party named XYZ Startup, that will use that data for language/country segmentation or whatever is they do, and if the user denies that right then random ads are shown instead.
Competition between governments results in you as product beeing sold for cheap, without rights and recursions against the company and your health beeing cast aside as obsticle.

Even the american post-problem lawsuit culture will fail to hold internationals accountable, once the managed to get that part of law as negotiatable into arbitration courts.

How somebody can willingly sew on the branch he sits upon- and declare that reasonable- can you expalin this to me?
Looks like it:

In [1]: %%timeit x = np.ones(100000000); y = np.ones(100000000)
...: np.add(x, y, out=x)
...: np.add(x, y, out=x)
...:
1 loops, best of 3: 287 ms per loop

In [2]: %%timeit x = np.ones(100000000); y = np.ones(100000000)
...: x += y
...: x += y
...:
1 loops, best of 3: 287 ms per loop

In [3]: %%timeit x = np.ones(100000000); y = np.ones(100000000)
...: np.add(x, y, out=x)
...: np.add(x, y, out=x)
...:
1 loops, best of 3: 286 ms per loop

In [4]: %%timeit x = np.ones(100000000); y = np.ones(100000000)
...: x += y
...: x += y
...:
1 loops, best of 3: 280 ms per loop
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I'm in Adelaide, Australia and I've never had this problem; I get maps within a second on both iOS and macOS, ADSL and LTE (Telstra in both cases).

(As an aside, from what I've heard, public transport support being terrible in Vic is mostly on PTV's head, not Apple or Google.)
Do you mean Change Ringing ?
IANAL, just currently wading through GDPR material.

As I see it the most relevant processing conditions for companies offering a service and storing / processing data without gaining explicit consent are likely to be
6(1)(b) - Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject or to take steps to enter into a contract
6(1)(c) - Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation

My understanding is that these are far from a blank cheque to store / manipulate arbitrary personal information. Specifically, the storage and use of data in question must be provably fundamental to either provision of the relevant service in (b), or meeting legal obligations in (c).

So yes, a company providing you a service will gain the right to store certain customer details demonstrably necessary to provide that service - say hosting your email. It won't however allow arbitrary use of such data to e.g. provide targeted advertising, since such use is not fundamentally required for performance of the service. This would require a specific opt-in (and from what I recall, a failure to opt-in cannot interfere with the provision of said service - not so clear on this however).
You mean legalized racket. When companies compete on basis who pays for the protection racket or extortion racket. This seems criminal.It is legal only because government personnel providers levers on informal individual basis.
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In Human culture, accepted ideas are tightly associated with social status. Unfortunately, in my experience, social status isn't highly correlated with awesome ideas. That's why low-status people (like myself) who thrive on seeing novel ideas be realized must quickly learn the art of 'managing upwards' (i.e. Making one's boss think it was their idea).
4 reasons why Apple refurbished products are trusted
I think we need more fine-grained contact permission options.

Here's what an app on iOS can read and modify (!) when you allow it to access your contacts: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/contacts/contacts_...
I am trying to imagaine what the customs agent thinks "live beer" is, since apparently it is something you can import as long as you pay the tax.
So you can't send a cat
https://xkcd.com/325/
Not strictly but given the problems of moving it under the screen and the problems of putting it on the back, where else can it go?
and you are still here?
Does it really? I suggested that exact scheme months ago, but moxie rejected it as "not meaningfully privacy-preserving" (probably not his exact words), IIRC.

Edit: Here: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/issues/4726
You sound very confident with using strong words like "absolutely irrelevant" and "completely fallacious" and "actual mindless busywork" and definitive quantities like "less than 0.01%", when it turns out that your numbers are off by almost an order of magnitude base 10 or three orders of magnitude base 2. So they're only burning eight times more coal than you claim (and rising).

You're saying that because worldwide production of gold is so small and insignificant and practically useless compared to Bitcoin, and since only 5% is used for anything but bullion or jewelry, it doesn't matter and it's absolutely irrelevant to the discussion at hand that the smartphone and computer that you're using contains and depends on gold?

If not for gold, then how would you be communicating your strong confident words and impressive sounding but inaccurate numbers with us? Do you use bitcoin in your smartphone instead of gold?

Where did you get your "less than 0.01%" number and your gold-free smartphone? Is it made of clay?
What features did we miss in Salesforce Spring ’17 release?
The Blackrock Desert in Northern Nevada is a wonderful place to see the night sky (except maybe this week)
As an Iowa resident, I think it's worth mentioning that all this is happening at a period in time when state government has been experiencing multiple years of unexpected revenue shortfalls.

The governor may have to call the legislature back into special legislative session again next month because revenue is again coming in less than expected.

The three state universities will be increasing tuition 7% per year for each of the next five years because of budget cutbacks caused by these revenue shortfalls.

Part of the decline in revenue is due to the decline in the ag economy, but some have also attributed it to the increasing amount of tax breaks like these that Iowa has been giving out.

Furthermore, this is not just farmland. Waukee is a west Des Moines suburb, the fastest growing part of the state and supposedly one of the fastest growing parts of the US. If Apple hadn't purchased that land, it likely would have been purchased and developed by someone else soon.
Wow, I've been pondering gutting a Toshiba Libretto and putting a Raspberry Pi inside so I can have a modern(ish) hardware in that form factor. I am so the target market for this!
Or use a competitor who complies? Maybe Google+ would finally take off in the end? Don't underestimate how important privacy is to many Europeans. People are seriously worried about how their data is used.
A variation on Clarke's 3rd law is:

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from nature.

So the origin could be such an advanced intelligence that it looks natural.
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Here’s what moxie said:

„[..] Signal has always done contact intersection with an ephemeral query of truncated hashes of phone numbers.„

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11979748
Is use of 100 parallel disks at all standard? There has to be some overhead in processing, can you really just stripe across more disks and directly multiply the throughput? How much is that costing to run?
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I dont know if I can "recommend" this as we are just starting out with it, but have a look at reflect.io
Beer with live yeast still suspended in it, rather than filtered out.
Ask HN: Pricing models – subscription or extend license
I use the word license in the most open way possible.

I'm looking at designing and building an app (I won't go into too much detail here) and looking at pricing models - whether to have a monthly subscription or a "license" which you'd extend if you wanted to carry on using it (imagine buying a new sketchbook/journal/diary once you've filled it).

There has been a massive shift towards subscription based services e.g Wunderlist, StandardNotes, etc, and articles stating that they are now the only way to survive in the current market but I've always preferred to "own" the software even temporarily look at Affinity Designer and Sketch.

Is there a one size fits all when it comes to licensing or would it simply be based on the type of product and service?
Imagine receiving a box of live scorpions by accident.
My point was I don't see how containers have improved anything. Of course tech should be advanced. There's many things that have advanced tech. But I fail to see how containers are one of those things. But you're right, I guess I am just old and grumpy.
It depends on Region. But Generally speaking Google is still the best, and Apple is (only) good enough for certain places.*

I was searching for news on iPhone NFC-F / Suica, ( Simply the best NFC tech there is and has been for the last 20 years and still have not picked up stream due to various stupid reasons ) I stumpled upon

https://atadistance.net/

* I dont know the site owner nor affiliate with it.

It basically explain in details how crap the Apple Map in Tokyo are. And it is the same in many other places in SEA Region. My guess is that most part of EU aren't any better.

Edit: I am not sure if anyone on HN can shine any light on the process. Why do Apple buy data from third party sources and not at the same time create their own? And if Google buy data sources as well?
Why Brexit has led to falling real wages
In that case it's the EU's way of telling you that your startup idea isn't that great. Basing a startup idea on illegal techniques is not a good idea. Snapchat could've succeeded without that data so there's no reason why startups cannot adapt.
It's called the market, not priorities. Get over it.
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A different take on responsive design (adapting to new laptop form factors)
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http://akka-js.org

Akka port for javascript
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A preliminary finding can be important, if there's a follow up. If not...
How about signal from a terrestrial microwave oven being looped back through a wormhole.

(Probably ruled out easily by parallax.)
You can find that information in review papers. Once information has solidified enough one of the main researchers will write an account of the current state of the field.
That's a problem you sometimes see here too, on the various "Show HN"s. There's always some comments along the lines of "nice, but how will you monetize this". Seeing this is a website geared towards startup culture it's something to be expected, to a certain degree. But it makes you wander about the shifting meaning of the word "hacker".
Loudness-wars compression is a product of the digital recording era, and quite a few years into it, too. A lot of music that people still want to listen to today predates all that.

Many SACD reissues do go back to the source tape. This is a frequent cause of complaint with SACD reissues of classic jazz recordings from the 1960s: sometimes you get better sound in terms of dynamic range than any previous CD issue of that recording, but in the meantime the source tape may have deteriorated in parts.

Even with recordings from the “loudness wars”, there is sometimes room for dynamic range improvement when remastering. A good example is Rush’s album Vapor Trails. This was an infamously botched recording upon its original release, on a scale with Death Magnetic. Because loudness-wars treatment plagued the original tracks before mixing, the damage could never entirely be repaired. However, the additional process of compression applied to the source during transfer to CD could be reversed, so the album was eventually reissued as Vapor Trails Remixed, and while still flawed, that reissue has a lot more room to breathe than the original CD release.
Whereabouts in the UK?
Physics has many unanswered questions, and we can't rule out the possibility to generate energy equivalent to the death of a small star. My point is not just a formal nitpick. Everything, all the stars, all the matter, all the energy is there. Many orders of magnitude more than what we are talking about of stuff was created at least once, and we don't know how. Why would one rule out that it can be repeated? Maybe it can be repeated in smaller scale.
It seems like if your civilisation spent millennia trying to contact anyone without response you might progress to harnessing a star as a communications beacon?
> Tell me, do you see many companies with profit margins rapidly approaching zero?

Many of the companies that were in a field which Amazon entered
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Channel 14 is only used in Japan

...and even there, only in legacy 802.11b mode:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_WLAN_channels#ref_C
Kinda odd that 2 of the books in the 15$ bundle are available for free (the "think..." books also published by green tea press)