skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Complex problems are not always simple to explain. I sell data about complex social systems and I've found that when my customers are finally deciding whether to buy or not, only very rarely do they want to look at numbers. They want the story and solutions. They want the product. A marketing team that tries to get Americans to remember specific figures about climate change is not going to be effective. There are ways to do it - Gore's Inconvenient Truth did a good job of visualizing global warming in a way that made sense and could be plainly understood without a scientific background.

Also, scientists are not marketers. They might present at technical conferences, maybe TED, or other occasional larger venues, but for the most part they hunt for funding, do their research and publish in academic journals full of jargon and abstract formulas. They're not trained to reach the public. Some nonprofits seem to be picking up the marketing torch but that's only started in the last decade or two and the result has been massive pushback by climate change deniers. Strategies for concisely expressing the issue are still being worked out.

Personally, I would love to spend a few weeks reading major reports on climate change so I could better understand the precise scope of contemporary research and help provide some of these answers to you and others who are skeptical (or talk myself out of it if need be). My life isn't there yet, though. I know very few people who have that capacity and interest.

Here are some resources along the lines of what you were asking for:

https://skepticalscience.com/Debunking-Handbook-now-freely-a...

https://grist.org/series/skeptics/

https://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php

https://xkcd.com/1732/

http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/climate_law_inst...

https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/0804/0804.1126.pdf

And related:

http://justmeans.com/blogs/its-companies-not-countries-that-...

https://robertscribbler.com/2016/12/19/solar-now-produces-a-...

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/03/22/how-much-doe...

http://www.nber.org/papers/w19080
That is very different from how I remember history. At least in Norway (and Nordic countries in general I presume), Apple never had much presence. Whatever they thought of the CLI, was rather irrelevant. Amiga and PC which was both popular in the 80s both had a command line.

I'd rather say that it was Windows which made the CLI look bad. They made people think that CLI means old fashion technology. Amiga like OS X had a window system and CLI from the beginning and so users did not view CLIs as old fashion technology but rather as one of several alternatives.

My experience from the time was that it was mainly PC Windows users who talked down CLIs because they viewed DOS as a antiquated. In some ways it makes sense as the DOS CLI has been horrible for decades and MS never put any effort into making it nice.

I'd say OS X could be thanked for resurrecting the CLI. I still encounter Windows developers who almost don't know about the CLI and who never uses it. I don't think you find and OS X developers in the same position.
> It was probably fine; microwaves are fairly easily blocked by even a very thin metal screening.

That makes sense in retrospect, given we humans routinely stand with our noses pressed against thinly-screened microwave oven windows waiting for food to heat, apparently without health effects!
I hate to agree with you, but I do. Quite buggy.
> Do I tell the mozilla that "someone issued cert id 4d8effdd25 for my nextcloud installation

Basically. You'd send a report to the CA telling them there was a misissuance, and if their answer isn't to your satisfaction, you can report it to Mozilla and the other browsers on the public mailing list, claiming a misissuance by the CA. The browsers would then force the CA to follow up.
Tax Plan Would Scrap Electric-Car Credit, Dampening Market
I tested a few apps that required gapps like uber and transit and both would load a map but would crash and fail
I still don't understand how/why this is serverless. It is FaaS, but not serverless FaaS
An agent's secrets -any secrets- (including "embarrassing" medical information) represent a security vulnerability that can be used to blackmail them. If he doesn't understand that, he has no business being an FBI Agent.
As long as your problem can be defined entirely by data from the previous block and there is a nonce you can vary you can adopt proof of work to just about anything.

The problem is that for most problems you don't want to explore the space of potential problems randomly, you want to select ones that people care about. If you allow an actor to dictate what problem to work on then you can have that actor pick a problem they have already solved and will be able to roll back tx arbitrarily once they have control.
The Raspberry Pi having a non-closed bootchain, let alone a free driver is a feat of tens of thousands of people pressuring Broadcom, and a few people doing the hard work to free as much of the RPI as they could.

Having to run Raspbian just to boot the board was a dark time!
I think if you use JS your website has broken history by default and you need to go an extra mile (or use a nice framework) to remedy this. And there are things like infinite scrolling pages. And then you find yourself arguing with the developer why it should be fixed ("Yeah ? But nobody uses history anyway.")
All of the CopperheadOS source code is still published and can be modified / redistributed. It's not Free Software anymore since that wasn't supported by the community while at the same time it was exploited by (competing) companies without giving back. The choice was either having a working business model by requiring payment for commercial use or ending CopperheadOS.
Just so we're clear, I wasn't saying that negatively. Just pointing out that the parent commenter's assumption was backwards.
I'll take a skinny MagSafe plug over a Dell or HP plug any day. A power brick costs ~$80 to replace, a laptop costs much more.

The main issue with Apple's power brick is that people wind the cord too tightly and don't leave slack. HP/Dell's main problem is that the female power adapter inside the laptop takes a lot of stress. In college, I had two roommates that broke their laptops due to the power connector.
They are pretty accepting of new patches, and the source is easily readable. Knock yourself out :)
A mandatory gift that is of no material benefit to the student that is generated as an administrative process is not the kind of gift that should be taxed.

This would be like taxing you because I asked you to hold onto a $20 bill for me while I reshuffled my wallet.
The combination of probalistic programming and deep learning is pretty interesting to me because that's what I have going on in two of my work projects.

What we do is have features built using deep learning models, then use that extract simple linear or categorical features which we condition our probalistic model on.

We've found it quite hard to use very high numbers of variables in the probalistic model.

Has anyone found a better way of doing this?
Complete support for macOS Sierra after the follow up is already released.
They're a brutal vendor to work with unless your huuuge :(
Reification is always there for the (rare?) cases you need it. With GUI, there's no such option, and it's hard to notice something that has always been missing.
GCP employee here.

The Java 8 runtime removed the sandbox restrictions. Most developers hated the restrictions. I highly doubt Microsoft would go down to the path of restrictions given the history in this space.
My thoughts exactly. If I ever write a hard sci-fi novel I want to adapt this setting somehow.
My sibling is a Grad Student too, their response: Bring on the whiskey and the tax.

Yeah, it is going to hurt grad programs, but no current student is going to have their already pitiful stipend get lessened (think 30k/year in Boston, after 'tuition' takes it's cut), the programs will take the hit for the current students. But the tax is a good thing, as it'll finally reveal the shit that is grad life.

If it goes through, grad programs are about to be a LOT more competitive. Whatever the increase is in tax, that is how many less students get taken in (averaged over all states, things get complicated).

Things at UCLA, MIT, and other big metros are already very tight for grad students, 4 to a 1 bedroom, and barely any $ for needed beer on Friday. It's unlikely the funding will improve at all to begin with, so future students will still be haggard, but there will be less of them.

In talking with them, if the schools don't pick up the costs, it's time to unionize, as they have no other options. Yeah, it'll nuke their careers, get them kicked out, but it's that or quit as it. What do they have to loose?
As far as I can tell, parent's use of "effective tax rate" is correct (the tuition waiver is not income in any meaningful sense -- especially for phd students who aren't even taking courses). So I'm not really sure what your point is?
For low-quality resizing algorithms I suspect a good SIMD algorithm will be faster than transferring the image to the GPU and getting the result back.
What are the health risks?
You probably don't. Arizona had their version of "papers, please" until it struck down and NYC has/had stop or frisk. Then there's the Constitution free zone around the borders which covers the majority of the country population. You may not be from the US, in which case I can understand the incredulity. In the US however you are at whims of local law enforcement for if your day is going to get fucked/life ended. The only protections against them are _after_ the fact and in recent times only if you are rich or your situation gets viral support from the nation
Apple killed the clones because the clone program wasn't profitable enough to compensate for the fact that MS had already won the OS wars.

It was either Apple or the clones, and so the clones got axed.
Is there a way into mining that is scalable? I mean some way where you don't have to shell out $8k up front and can build-as-you-save? There are lots of ways to save money on heating for people with $8k to spare
Oh very cool! I hadn't seen this. Good stuff! http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/718392/8489089...
I think Mozilla is already cutting projects because they know their next search deal won't be as lucrative as their previous ones. Software development costs money.

Edge came out in 2015 if it doesn't have inertia yet then you have to at least wonder if it's another Windows Phone.
We, the Employees of ClickHole.com, Have Voted Unanimously to Debase Ourselves
I've been critical of Apple's choices in the past, mainly the headphone jack removal, as an Android/Windows/linux guy. The iPhone X looks stunning, and I think the design decisions they've made (aside from not bringing back the headphone jack) are actually very future-looking and cool. My vision of the future is one in which we use the screen a lot less, and use our voices and AR more. Once the gestures are learned by the user base, using the phone should actually become a less frustrating and time-intensive experience. That said, I've not experienced notifications on the X, but again, as an Android user, I do sometimes just hit the power or main button to see what's on the screen. To do so, I typically do have to move the phone anyway, so as long as the X gives you some notification previews when you tap the phone or something, that's a compromise I could happily make.
One of the things I fought (using PIAs) was automated warrantless police access to certain records because the data would get shared with foreign border agencies as part of data agreements, causing the very headaches you imply.

I got shared role accounts banned across a sector, and per-user database lookup transaction logs added to a solution so that at least the breadcrumbs would exist. It cost a lot, including my own renewal on the contract, but a couple years later it caught some pretty bad actors.

The challenge is that the bad stuff happens to the square pegs first, and tech creates a lot of square pegs. If nobody resists, they apply it generally. Nobody is obligated to be a poster child, and that sucks you have to put up with it.
StarCraft 2 is going free-to-play
Love the idea ! I would love to work with you if I didn't have a nice project in the same time.

Small error in the FAQ though: "kW/h" ;-)
At least it's not Android, either. I don't use Windows, but for me the Android OTA upgrade to Oreo on my Nexus 6P has been disastrous for use with the QC35s. I have to reboot the awful thing several times a day to get consistent BT audio, and it will happily chew through the battery several times a day too, unless I leave it on charge for periods. Been with Android since the G1, but I'm seriously thinking about switching to iOS because I'm just so frustrated on a daily basis with this awful release, which seems barely tested. I do wonder at which point I switched from the optimist's "oh yay, an update!" to the pessimist's "oh shit, here comes a boatload of careless regressions".
Tezos organizers sued in California over crypto currency project
Your first question:

“If it were actually cheap then why do you need a community funded project?”

Seems a bit daft to me. They need $5000 to buy materials for their university research. If the project is successful the energy they store will be cheap. But doing the research and acquiring the energy are totally different things, so even if the latter is free the former is not.
You really care about a 34mAh difference in battery on two completely differently specced devices? Give me a break
Is your bone broth as mineral-rich as you think it is?
I am sorry, but I think you didn't follow properly the discussion.
The first quote I answered was exactly: "Fit and finish on many "high end" cars is actually pretty abysmal. Especially basically anything Italian."
So, as everyone can see, the discussion was specifically around high end Italian cars, unless I'm missing some tricky and specific nuance of the English language in this context. In that case please enlighten me instead of writing sarcastic comments, it will be appreciated much more.
Ferrari, if I'm not mistaken, is the archetype of high end Italian cars.
And then when someone starts bubbling about the abysmal quality of 1998 Lamborghini I duly make it clear that they were not Italian for a long time at that point and they have been just acquired by a German automaker.
I honestly can't see any contradiction in this very linear reasoning.
Please let me know what I'm missing.
If only the right would stop trying to roll back or take away women's rights the left might start seeing some serious challenges in California but until that happens we're going to be stuck with the likes of Feinstein.
Sadly, this is the current state of Dropbox support
It's a very subjective thing, really. I actually like my Windows phone, it's the only Windows I have.

Someone above concluded they are a product company and I was thinking 'appliance.' That's not a negative, they make devices fit for function and they, Apple, are remarkably good at it.

I can't think of an Apple product, and I type this on an iPad, that is truly the best in every aspect. However, they surely aren't the worst and the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, I think.
Drones.

Design: increased efficiency and distance. Automation and auto pilot.

Applications: find new verticals to apply this technology. Many industries can be disrupted.
Maybe you're right and this story can't be discussed civilly here, but if that's the case it would be our own failure and not because the article itself was comprised of ideological or political talking points, which it isn't.

Other commenters: can we try to avoid a pile-on in cases like these? There are some personal barbs here that aren't part of good community behavior.
This line of thinking goes back even further. Back to 1968 when GRAIL was developed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQhVQ1UG6aM

Pretty amazing stuff, even today.
Bullshit. The comment started with "I'm curious..." I am curious as well, because as I try to be empathetic, it is difficult because I cannot create a scenario in my mind where a cop asks about my gender. So instead of just blowing it off as "$DISPARAGING_WORD_FOR_TRANS's had it coming" or whatever an unsympathetic phrasing would be, I'd rather be sympathetic by asking, "help me out here, how do the difficulties that you face (that I apparently don't) play out?"

But you call that "victim blaming". It's one of the reasons we don't get nice things.
I'm very sorry for offending you by not recognizing that "diversity in musical taste" provides for greater diversity than racial, social, and economic status. Silly me, I've been thinking about diversity all wrong. You're right, HN is very diverse- we have middle class white guys who like Metallica, and others who like show tunes. We have middle class white guys from suburban Iowa, and others from suburban Massachusetts. This is a very diverse website, I was very confused before.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15572593
THE ART OF TROLLING AND ITS CONNECTION TO INNOVATION
PS Plus and Xbox Gold November Free Games
Interesting! I haven't been able to attend Defcon in the past few years so I haven't seen that talk (or heard of his research), but it's something I've thought about for a while now - using CTLs as a means to jump into the early process of setting up webapps and whatnot.

Thanks for the video!
I feel very little sympathy for college programs that dont support themselves.

The problem with any tax deduction is that it devotes more capital to it than it would otherwise, and taking it out will always leave some out. Its basic microeconomics.
Nternet Association Sells Out the Internet: Caves in Will Support Revised SESTA
You raise some excellent points - many of which need to be addressed. But this doesn't do that. It's the "We must do something, this is something, therefor we must do this thing" fallacy.

The function of these waivers is entirely to offset the fact that graduate students working on their research projects need to be enrolled for a number of reasons, but it doesn't actually make sense for them to pay the same tuition as students who are taking up classroom space, instructor time, supplies, etc. So their tuition is waved.

It's entirely a book-keeping exercise. One that the student largely never sees - except now we're proposing to tax them for it.

The problems are not related to each other save for the fact that they both involve the word "tuition".

As for mechanisms?

The first thing I'd address is state level funding of universities. Many public universities have seen their state support vanish, especially after 2008, and during the recovery, that money didn't come back. At the same time, grant success rates have (at best) remained both low and flat over the past decade or so, making it hard to make up that money on the research end of things.

When you take away state support and federal support, literally the only revenue dial left available is tuition increases.

I'd also be all for a merging of practical and liberal arts education such that you can learn practical, profession-oriented skills but also read Chaucer. We have those universities - they're land grant institutions - but I'd like to see an emphasis in that increased.

We also need to address the pipeline from graduate school to jobs outside academia - in my own lab I treat students intending to pursue careers outside academia the same as I do those who want to continue on, and I'm pretty unapologetic about job prospects. I think it's my moral obligation to do so, but it will put me at a competitive disadvantage to larger labs. Addressing that starts at the Chair/Dean level.

You know what solves none of these? Taking a few thousand dollars from doctoral students for an administrative process.
Why Einstein Just Got Ranked as History’s Greatest Hero
Thanks for the heads up! It also isn't displaying the favicon properly it seems :-/.

https://media1.giphy.com/media/R54jhpzpARmVy/giphy.gif
TL;DR - Curse you Webpack! ::shakes fist::
Same feelings here. I adored space and space travel as a kid, and I did many school projects on them (and became a pilot later in life), but the one aspect about space travel that always left a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach was when I read about the animals they sent on one way missions.

I could rationalise with the brave astronauts and cosmonauts who undertook some of these missions, because as a rational thinking human, you can weigh the risks and make a decision to go, knowing full well that you may never come back. But a dog or chimpanzee really has no way to say "Umm, actually now you mention it, NO, I'd rather not be sealed in a capsule and blasted into space - never to walk on a grassy field again. I'd much rather you chose another dog while I happily gnaw on this bone right here..."

I was somewhat assuaged back then by the statements made that Laika was fed a poisoned tablet after a certain time, and passed away painlessly. But a few years ago when I read those declassified documents detailing how she actually died under horrendous circumstances, my heart broke all over again...
Science can align common interests among the world's leading superpowers
It sounds cruel, petty, and ultimately pointless to me.
Good point! But depending on your interests/POW you could consider NSA as "hostile to the U.S." given they're spying on their own citizens.
Site to collect and share lists of resources around the internet like the ones on this page: https://github.com/ZuzooVn/machine-learning-for-software-eng...
I've ONLY heard that "Apple is a hardware company". that's their defining difference from Microsoft, and now Google
Well, the technology showcased here is designed specifically to enable clearer communication and explanation, i.e. better speaking.
While not as powerful, I enjoy CockroachDB's UI too. And it's wire-protocol compatible with Postgres!
We ban accounts that violate the guidelines like this, so please stop and read them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Hmm, that's an interesting thing I haven't given much thought to.

I think that it would be somewhat difficult to pull off a correlation attack/leakage as the CTLs tend to dump in batches vs every poll returning new results, but I think once you remove a lot of the noise (cloudflare SNI certs, testing domains, etc) it'd potentially show some interesting patterns.

https://github.com/CaliDog/certstream-python/blob/master/exa...

This demo would be a decent starting point to that analysis if you'd be interested in toying with it!
The point I found missing was why ferarri was brought up if you could point to 1998 as the time is was no longer high end for a legitimate reason, the foreign ownership. Someone could have conceived a child after that point in time and the child would be able to vote by now, why use it as an example?

It seemed like either you knew what the other poster meant by Italian high end cars, the Ferrari brand, and chose to defend it despite knowing that it was bad for other reasons. Or you thought he was discussing Italian owned Italian brands when it turns out some famous Italian brands are not Italian owned.

Either way that looks like you two were using different definitions for the same words to my third party view
How to measure the clickbait coefficient of the headline:

A: imagine the situation the headline literally describes (	Bitcoin mining heats homes for free in Siberia)

B: read what the article describes (A cottage that’s heated for free with bitcoin mining)

clickbait_coefficient = the distance between A and B