skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First of all, all this is saying is that in another 15 years we're going to have maybe a third of Americans who simply won't state a religious preference. That still makes America a very religious nation, overall.

But if you look at who's demographics are shifting older, a negative trend is why there is so much of a resugence of extreme variants of fundamentalism in the US. Fascism, monarchism, and theocratic proponents are very loud right now and visibility stunts from organizations like WBC and 1488-christian-identity people exist because fundamentalist religious folks feel this pressure very hard right now.

These folks know their ideology is failing to grow substantially, so they're trying to increase visibility and capture more disaffected, frustrated, or sympathetic people in their particular brand of self-sustaining fundamentalist thought.

Many of them have failed to form a cohesive and accepted national identity (the way mormonism has), so outrageous stunts like public displays of swastikas or protesting solider's funerals (because "gays aren't stoned or hung so god killed this solider") are really the easiest way to try and reclaim some prominence in American discourse.

More moderate religions are faring better because they focus on providing a sense of community without all those embarrassing and controversial fundamentalist tenants. I am no longer religious, but I have lots of friends who are happy in moderate churches that claim growth. We're even seeing advertisements in San Francisco for a specific kind of communal church with vague kinds of unitarian values, focusing on community. They're VC funded! They have an App!
Once the trees are removed, erosion happens, followed by lost of topsoil. Topsoil is an ecosystem in its own, with microorganisms and small animals. Just replanting a tree will not regenerate that. Agriculture faces a similar problem.

Then, forests are much more than just trees. There are all sort of plants, insects, fungi, etc.
It does seem like most religions are a derivative of what came before. Less self-aware Christians will sometimes get into a fuss over how Islam "stole" all its ideas from Christianity (the direction is a matter of debate among theologians), but so much of their religion seems to come from those that preceded it.
Have they tried something like this (adapting to the weather of course) https://www.ted.com/talks/shubhendu_sharma_how_to_grow_a_for...
I'm on my second Zune, and when it finally dies, I'll probably buy another one, assuming I can get a cheap refurbished one online and the software still runs on the latest version of Windows. The build quality is good, the software is very clean and minimalist compared to iTunes, and it just works. In this case, the lack of constant software updates is a feature.
Isn't NaCl deprecated in favor of webassembly now?
The biggest individual CSV file is 48.5MB. Together uncompressed is ~750MB.
Oh, I'm a contractor and I'm paid decently, but the working conditions are terrible. I've been trying to find a job outside of defense/govt work for a long time, but either the pay isn't as good (the one or two times I managed to land an offer) or I'm not a "cultural fit." Not having a network outside of the govt bubble makes it hard.
Do you think that many young arab boys are inherently evil somehow? Think they would be beheading people just for the fun of it? The fact is they believe what they are doing is good and it’s their religion which deludes them into thinking that.
I love word arguments. The empty set is still a set.

Nudity is wearing the empty set of clothing.
Practice regularly, and you get good.

Practice != play

Regularly == every day
> If you share and your amount is > the employers, you have no job.

If I don't share and my amount is > than the employer's, I still have no job. The sharing just saves time.
In a dive.
Can anyone please tell me Is it a good time to buy ETH/BTC or am I too late?
You bring up a very good point, but I'm not sure I see an inconsistency here,

Tax records are records owned and controlled by the government. It's information that has already been collected, and is accessible by some institutions, but not others, creating an imbalance in information.

I want government to be transparent, and I generally support initiatives to make information public. But I'm not sure I like the idea of the government or some other big brother type knowing who is accessing what information. I say that as a general principle, with notable exceptions.
I don't think adding indirection is what the parent was thinking of. It's more like storing the Option<T> Some vs. None bit in its own separate bitvector along with a packed vector of Ts. This layout, due to padding, may be significantly less memory than alternating bool, T like a vector of Option<T>s gives, but it still retains properties like contiguous layout and minimal allocation/indirection.
With these changes, especially in younger people, will hopefully come more acceptance of the other and rationality. I'm not sure that's true, but I keep up hope. I truly believe it's our only chance.

To be honest, I believe what's killing the Protestants is the new faith in wealth. When someone drives a Bentley or Porsche, lives in a huge mansion and still portrays himself as a "man of God" it's just too much to swallow. Eventually even the dumbest of folks realize that the money they give to him/her is just making that individual wealthier and they're never going to get anything. It's truly the penultimate Ponzi Scheme. Except the folks at the bottom never get back a penny! And, the Feds aren't able to go after the perps at all due to "freedom of religion."
wishing i had actually kept my mining program running when I experimentally installed it and ran it for about 30 minutes ~5-6 years ago now.
Yup, the right reason is, that `none` is free in Rebol/Red. Ren is basically nothing else than Rebol/Red syntax under different name. I was of the designers of Ren, it’s been few years, but it’s cool to see it on HN.
It's cute that the spec believes money is denoted by "$".
It's a laptop. To not hurt yourself it's best to use it with an external keyboard and mouse anyways, so there's your I18N :)
Is unreadable (text too small) in Chrome browser on my Android phone. Perhaps MIT needs a course in Responsive Web design.
No because while religion is used to try to justify that, the real cause is just shitty people
The splash screen would start when win.exe (or was it win.com? I forget now) started. So you'd catch a glimpse of DOS before the splash. This was back in the 9x era though. Back in the days of 3.x I think it was still pretty common to boot to DOS and then start Windows manually.
Kudo to devdoc.io I've been using this app since I first learnt of it sometime ago, and have seen most of the features impleted. <3
From what I've observed, this is where the unending cat-and-mouse game begins for Sony.
Politics with concrete numerically-quantifiable values is much better politics.

But you can't replace the politics with the math, as the exercise of deciding the alpha value in the Pareto distribution demonstrates. The numbers don't tell us what people will value; that's where the politics comes in. It's the art of figuring out human values and coming to terms to try to satisfy as many as possible.
The ideal solution is to parse all numbers as a decimal or rational.

(one of my favorite things about Perl 6 is that non-integer literals are rationals by default; floating-point is only used if the literal is specified in scientific notation)
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True, but not even the superior antialiasing properties of CRT can make 640x480 look better than a 1080p LCD panel.
Which we have a perfectly good vaccine for but it was shelved purely out of FUD!

http://legacy.wbur.org/2012/06/27/lyme-vaccine
No one knows the future. Do your research and see if you think it'll go up or not.

There's still a good chance you'll be wrong. Don't gamble what you cannot lose.
Good story, and a great example of test pilot presence of mind as the crew discovers that the elevators don't work...
That's on the client code. You can't stop callers from doing something stupid (or cosmic rays from flipping bits). At that point crashing fast is preferable.
*founder of a B2C software company.

If you're B2B the strategy may be somewhat different.
This was asked recently, answers include {yes, no, maybe, I don't know}
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15491775
I don't know what the case is in NE US, but in my town in British Columbia, the deer population is out of control in the metropolitan area, and every time a cull is mentioned, animal rights activists put a stop to it through loud and effective lobbying. It's quite irritating.
> ...manifestly, self-evidently false according to basic empirical criteria.

Which is fine, as far as it goes. I think there's an argument to be made against Scientism, however, where people are rejecting notions that aren't "manifestly, self-evidently false", but instead aren't even falsifiable. How does that make sense? How can someone take that position, and still consider themselves rational?

Some of the greatest names in the history of science were also mystics. (I'm not talking about Newton being an alchemist and drinking mercury; I'm talking about the likes of Bohm, Einstein, Schrödinger, &c.) We've, instead, decided to repudiate that kind of thinking, and I think that costs us, dearly. The number of scientists of faith, who do perfectly legitimate science but have to hide their beliefs, is staggering, and, frankly, offensive. We have failed if that's how we want to play.

Yes, defending the credulous from the predatory, a stated motivation of so many anti-religionists, is a valuable thing. It should be lauded. So very, very many of the anti-religionists I've met are profoundly smug about their beliefs, though. That's not valuable. That serves no-one. That is actively harmful.

Anything that creates a narrative where you're somehow "better than" the people around you, is mental garbage. It's an ego trap. It should be shouted down far more loudly than whether or not people believe in an invisible man in the sky who watches them masturbate, if that belief is not subsequently used to disenfranchise and dehumanize others — not least because that very "better than"-ness is the root of how we disenfranchise and dehumanize one another.

Hard atheists are often among the most vocally, militantly, confrontationally proselytizing people I've ever seen. The irony is really ugly.

EDIT: phrasing
That's just one, and very unfortunate, aspect of some religions. Other seem to be very happy with gay kids.

When you ask someone like the Dalai Lama difficult questions such as ones about euthanasia or abortion - where traditional religious views and modern progressive outlook differ - you probably won't get an answer you'll like, but at the very least you'll receive a reasonable explanation behind it. And fortunately we're free and don't need to follow any religion. However, if you make the decision to follow it, you need to respect its rules, that's all.
On this note, I highly recommend Edward Kmett's talk -- Stop treading water: Learning to learn

Talk slides: http://yowconference.com.au/slides/yow2014/Kmett-StopTreadin...

This is the only link I can find to the video, which unfortunately seems inaccessible now: https://twitter.com/kmett/status/574920781790113793?lang=en

EDIT: I found this -- https://vid.me/vJvm/stop-treading-water-learning-to-learn-by...

It would be great if someone could link to the video.
If you like fzf you might be interested in fzy:

https://github.com/jhawthorn/fzy
If you get and aggregate everyone's advice you'll get to the conclusion that the correct price for Bitcoin is exactly where it's at now.
Except that religion was very hard to oppose since the foundation of religion are the dogmas of faith.
Too late to do what? Speculate? Transact?

In case of the former, nobody knows. In case of the latter... You probably shouldn't do it, unless you want to speculate.
And as is often the case with science, here's another more recent study (2015, vs 2010 cited in the NY Times piece) which largely confirms the prior results noting Aspen regrowth.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/14-0712.1/abstrac...

The NY Times opinion piece is clickbaity for its absolutist declaration that the prior studies are untrue, based on one new study.
Might as well mention that the book's full title is "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010", and that Murray is best known for his controversial comments about race in his book The Bell Curve.

Suffice it to say, Murray's version of the "core of American civilization" is something I'd be very happy to see disintegrate. I doubt I'm the only one.
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I guess if people want this to happen they should goad George Hotz by telling him he can't possibly beat the protection.
Zsh was undocumented in Ubuntu 14 because a bug in the package prevented the manuals from being installed and due to the way Canonical handles packages it was never fixed for the entirety of Ubuntu 14.

I am one of those few remaining Zsh users that doesn't have an 200MB baggage train on my shell though. I have a modest (2kb) .zshrc/.zshenv and for the most part just use the builtins.
I don't understand the downvotes. Can someone explain?

Is a valid question, looking for an answer from a person with more knowledge.
"not letting the code compile if there is any chance it might crash"; well, normally we assume correct operation for the hardware here in order to make that achievable, otherwise things could simply crash at any time. You're always vulnerable to single-event-upsets from cosmic rays or even alpha decay inside the chip packaging. Being pedantic about this in a discussion of compiler correctness is useless derailing.

"Rowhammer" over in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15515044 is perhaps the most likely problem of hardware non-correctness to worry about.
I think hackernews should rename to vcnews
Which — from my point of view as a Canadian consumer — is neutered by protectionism, as the one EU product I'd really want (decent affordable cheese) is excluded by the powerful Ontario/Québec dairy lobby.
Smartphone. Not necessarily one brand over another, but the smartphone has been the best thing I've ever owned.
The state of the art in jit compilation has advanced quite a bit since then, and another difference between the days of old and new is that this is being targeted at runtime code generation, which naturally trades off throughput of generated code for speed-of-generation. Especially for web pages, speed-of-generation, and the stability of the resulting code under polymorphism (so that jitcode with type assumptions doesn't become invalid), is paramount.

These issues, as well as developer velocity in translating VM features into optimized VM features, figure more prominently in our problem set than I would expect it historically did.

We sat down with nbp and went through his proposal in some detail yesterday. I'm reasonably sold on the theoretical soundness of the idea (actually I was excited about it from the first time he proposed it - hand optimizing every new JS feature is soul-sucking, and Graal already demonstrated the feasibility of variant of the concept).

As with any far-reaching idea, though, there are risks associated with it. And we definitely can't rewrite Spidermonkey from scratch.

Personally, I think prototyping the tech on top of a small toy language (objects, properties, proto chains, primitive types, functions), proving out the toy implementation, and then examining how we can incrementalize our transition to HolyJIT is the way to go.

I think a prerequisite is a good codegen backend that we can target. Cretonne is a good candidate, but we need features that aren't on its roadmap - primarily support for on-stack-invalidation.

There's a bit of a road ahead of us on this concept. I think we have a good rough idea of a viable path from here to there, but we are yet in early stages with this.
Ask HN: Will the ICML 2017 videos be available?
Your empirical data is limited by our perception.

Do you really think we know all of the forces at work, that we can perceive them or detect them with the tools we have?

Its rather arrogant to think that we know even "most" of how the universe works, let alone all of it... and if you can admit that we know very little overall, then the empirical data we do have has a lot less weight...
I'm not entirely sure, but there appears to be some insight in this article: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2012/11/the-dee...

Fewer hunters, less land where hunting is permitted (small farms).
I'll acknowledge the hard work and kindness of (some) religious people if you'll acknowledge that we are talking about beliefs that are very obviously not true.

This isn't mean to be sarcastic, it's a statement about the special treatment that religion gets. Some of us simply do not agree that the best approach to this is to hold hands and discuss it like adults -- for all of the hard work and kindness you mention, there is also quite a lot of bad stuff too. It's far from obvious that the good outweighs the bad.
"And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."

George Washington's Farewell Address
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington%27s_Farewell...
How does fzf actually work? What string matching techniques are behind it?
if you have an account with any only pool you should probably check just to see,i still had a little in one pool after all that time.
So let's say they do a refresh on the Mini. How long do we get to wait until the next refresh? As an example, I present the Mac Pro. It got the trashcan refresh and then...how many years later and it's still basically the same specs and (surprisingly) the same price. And instead of a new Mac Pro, we get an "artist's rendering" of a hopped up iMac that will come out later this year. No word yet (that I've heard) of an update to the actual Mac Pro.

The point I'm driving at is, fine, Apple updates some product lines. But are these product lines I want to rely on? Next time I need to prop, say, a build server do I want to rely on Apple's good graces to keep their hardware up to date? Or should I find other solutions so that the next time I need hardware to do $A_JOB I know I can find reasonably recent hardware for recent prices? Because a quad core Mini was a fine box for the money back in 2012, but come 2021, I'm not paying 2021 prices for 2017 hardware.

It just seems like over the five or so years, instead of surprising us, Apple finely gives in and updates something, then subsequently seems to say, "there, we updated it, now shut up and leave us alone for the next five years".
I love bitcoin, this rise comes just 3 days after it had its biggest one day drop in a month. At this point it must be a CTA's dream instrument, all it does is seem to trade on momentum:)

So if China shutting down exchanges, the CFTC coming out and claiming tokens used in ICO's fall under its jurisdiction, confusing regulations everywhere, and huge recent gains can't stop it, I'm not sure what will.

As a side note, if there are any Bloomberg engineers around, come on VCCY<GO> is really awful.

Put some time into it, its not like virtual currencies are going away any time soon.
I remember those times - does anyone know how many bitcoins one could make per computing time, every year since the beginning to see what opportunity is missed.
No. Well, unless you don't care if they're going to be correct.
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I have seen a lot of lack of recruitment as well, or completely misunderstanding why people came in the first place. There's also a lot of organizations that had an 'expected trajectory' when it came to regular recruitment and they never recalibrated to accommodate the lack of growth. I just think that in this current moment in time it is very difficult to show that investing time in a group is going to have a payoff at all. I know I have fought this when looking at whether or not to go to even a small regional event because the opportunity cost seems to always be too high. Another personal factor is the realization I probably will have to move out of the region for my next job in 3 years and I am only meeting these people once a month. That's 36 times I ran into someone and I am probably not in a meaningful way.
His hyping of the greatest iphone EVAR was obsurd. Then after the announcement his quiet backing down a-la "they weren't able to get the supply chain figured out" or "they're still working on it"

k.
jump on to the bandwagon asap. Just invest a minor share of your savings that you can afford to lose and check the exchange rate in 1 year. It might give 50x profit or you can lose it all, but you can afford it)
Most of my friends and family to use Gmail; one uses Hotmail, and I have no trouble getting mail from any of them. I have no idea what Outlook does.

A lot of my work email indeed is HTML - people do love their red text and jokey memes. I'm talking about my personal mailbox that I use almost exclusively for talking to friends and family.

"Works on my machine."
I've asked it before but: how is this a desirable characteristic for a currency?

This level of deflation is as bad as too much inflation, though the problems it creates are different. Why would anyone actually use Bitcoin if simply sitting on it will yield a greater return than investing it in anything? So far it seems more deflationary than gold. If this keeps happening won't this actually crowd out the currency application and lead to Bitcoin becoming nothing more than a speculative bubble?

It's hard to determine but I'd love to see some data on Bitcoin use vs. its price in USD/EUR.
Well this study hasn't definitively isolated pesticides as a cause, but it did successfully eliminate a large number of alternative explanations, making agricultural pesticides a likely contributor. Whether consumer pesticides contribute is also an open question, but it makes a lot of sense. They're designed to kill these insects, so widespread application is a reasonable hypothesis for the decline in insect populations. It's functionally habitat loss, which is well established as a cause of population decline in other animal populations. The theory especially makes sense when you consider the particular areas covered by this study.

The authors looked at flying insect populations in various protected areas in Germany, where pesticides are not applied directly and thus are not impacting populations locally. But since those populations are so mobile, the surrounding areas' pesticide levels certainly could be. Many of Germany's protected areas are surrounded by developed land, doubly so for those covered in this study. Most of the data collection occurred in Nordrhein-Westfalen, which is landlocked and surrounded by one of the most heavily industrialized and intensively farmed regions in the world. The rest took place in Brandenburg, which is similar. They're also not wide open plains like much of the American agricultural heartland, where insects can blow through more rapidly.

So, maybe we would see less decline in America, where there are much wider swathes of undeveloped land. That wouldn't disprove the pesticide hypothesis, it could merely indicate that the blocks of pesticide-free land in Germany are too small to form a sustainable habitat for flying insects. That would mean we need to create larger blocks of pesticide free land.

Maybe that doesn't mean we need to stop using pesticides, but does mean we need to reconsider the scope of their use. Deprioritizing non-essential uses such as lawn maintenance, for example.
There's a very beautiful documentary from 2011 about open range sheep grazing in Montana, called SWEETGRASS. It's un-narrated, mostly just lets things speak for themselves.

http://www.pbs.org/pov/sweetgrass/