skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work close to this space (I'm an algae cultivation technician), and this is the peace I have come to with it. Hope it helps.

> ...a magic carbon-reducing invention is... unlikely (if unpredictable).

The technology to remove CO2 from the atmosphere isn't magic; you feed algae and you let them grow. There's work being done on piping flue gas from power plants through algae to scrub the carbon as it leaves. Even without scrubbing the flue gas, the only real problem with releasing CO2 into the atmosphere is when you dig it up from the ground first, and the technology for turning organic waste into natural gas is very mature.

It is certainly too late to stop climate change, but it's not too late for us to survive climate change. We know how to make energy and chemicals from fresh biomass instead of ancient biomass transformed into petroleum (such as with pyrolysis), we can even sequester carbon while we do it (as biochar), but we don't necessarily know how to integrate all of the required technologies and some of them aren't ready for prime time (hydrothermal liquefaction and cellulosic ethanol come to mind). But research into things like algae cultivation and thermal processing of biomass has been going on since the 80s and the 40s, respectively, and they're actually fairly mature.

The two biggest problems are managing massive amounts of complexity and the lack of political will around actually funding & fielding these solutions. If there were sufficient political will, the first problem would simply be a matter of time and money.

Hope springs eternal because humans are not. We will begin in earnest to rework our global economy and to fix our environment when enough of the old guard have died that their viewpoint is no longer relevant. There's an adage which goes, "progress is made one funeral at a time." If they don't die quickly enough, our climate will collapse which should provide them with sufficient encouragement. It's not something to celebrate but it is something to reckon with.

In short, our bed is made and we're going to lie in it. But tomorrow is a new day.
guess it's time to move away from github.
My current "quarter life crisis" is around this number, it appears to getting from $150-200k in liquid salary is MUCH more difficult than $100-150. So if liquid income is your "north star metric" job wise, what do you do?
Ok, and what are your solutions to the problem?
The MariaDB story is a bit of a fuck you though - cries about how oracle will close mysql (which hasn’t happened) but then adopts a bullshit license for its own software.

But the damage is already done - people think MariaDB is some bastion of good intentions and open source software now, because they very rarely look deeper.
Can anyone explain why the letters and characters in the grid are ordered they way they are?

A-Z is non sequential, I’m guessing it’s something to do with making character selection logic simpler, but by looking at the letters I couldn’t come up with a definite pattern or rule.
Risk and luck can be two dies of the same coin. In your cigarette example, if you smoked 2 packs of cigarettes a day and you did not get lung cancer, that could be considered luck.
We deploy GitLab locally and it’s a great experience.
John McAfee to Run for President in 2020
It was alluding to the risk of Communism.
A viable workaround is to browse the repo on your local checkout. It is decentralized git after all.
> I believe that currently https://myrlang.org/ is a more canonical address

OK, we changed to that from https://eigenstate.org/myrddin/. Thanks!
Pretty tasteless to publish an article like this without any concrete sources or even confirmations from the Microsoft/Github teams themselves.

"GitHub has earned mindshare within the developer community, and Microsoft’s acquisition is certainly an attempt to garner and cultivate that mindshare. However, the long term strategic implication seems to be that Microsoft wants to use GitHub as a means to drive Azure adoption."

Might be reading too much into this, but the above line in-particular drove me up the wall.
9 hours ago: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub

6 hours ago: GitLab sees huge spike in project imports

I think that says all there is to be said.
> Data science is taking that cleaned up data and testing hypotheses.

Dimensionality reduction is a big part of data science, and it tends to be far more important than data cleanup and outlier detection as it dictates which modeling methods are viable in practice given your resources.
I don't think it's original to him, but Joey Hess (joeyh on Hacker News) posted an image of that concept:

https://joeyh.name/blog/entry/prove_you_are_not_an_Evil_corp...
I doubt they are going be able to sell them ever. New F6s are $2500! That's Veblen good prices, but anyone who just wants to get the most expensive thing is going to get a Leica.

- F6 used are about $800, generally in very good condition because anyone using the camera for work would have used an F5.

- F100 which is 90% the same as the F6 in both appearance and function is $200 used.

- F5, Nikon's last "professional" film SLR is $200 used

- F80, a piece of plastic molded to look like an F100 (but nearly identical functionally) can be had for <$50. I got mine in a ¥1 start auction. Final price: ¥1

from here things start to less predictable thanks to people who want a sweet manual camera and collectors. Manual cameras run anything from $100~$500+ depending on their condition. The best deals right now are Nikon FE and FM (not FE2,FM2) and Nikkormats.
This is pretty much par for course when it comes to GitLab marketing. Made up headlines that can't be supported with facts.
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* The Bible Project – https://www.youtube.com/user/jointhebibleproject

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* Dave Rubin – https://www.youtube.com/user/RubinReport

* Firing Line – https://www.youtube.com/user/firinglinevideos

* Larry King – https://www.youtube.com/user/LarryKingNow

* Timothy Keller – https://www.youtube.com/user/gospelinlife

* Jon Gordon – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD6t3q7u0gE&list=PLiuLy7KZRz...

* Every Frame a Painting – https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting

* Tested – https://www.youtube.com/user/testedcom

* Genius: Verified – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqhjpQxfq4Q&list=PLlBigmhynF...

* triple j: Like A Version – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmOTsniwhVw&list=PLCC51BF0C9...

* Talks at Google – https://www.youtube.com/user/AtGoogleTalks
Atom is really just a testbed for electron, where the real technology lies. If you can make an editor that programmers love using electron you can make pretty much anything else (excluding games).
> With the resources of Microsoft it will not surprise me to see a much more open and capable GitHub.

Devil's advocate: why would Microsoft invest in improving, say, the issues functionality of GitHub when it could instead integrate and push users towards its existing products and tools for project management, like SharePoint?
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Same can be said of Android, but most simply people don't.
When you look at the Latin, do you see a repeated word?

We call them "eyeglasses" in English. The Latin word vitreos doesn't have "eye" in it, it's just "glass". It's also the clear stuff in the middle of your eye, but that's a much less common usage than glass.
> What do you think Microsoft would do to harm Github?

GVFS. I believe Github will only deploy to Microsoft's GVFS sometime after acquisition. This is one of the more obvious plans, I thought shrug
It has very little to do with sacrifice in and of itself. Socrates could have escaped punishment and left Greece very easily had he wanted. And he certainly felt he was in the right and the law was in the wrong which could create a relative justification for doing so. Yet he chose to accept his punishment.

There's immense discussion about the reasons for this, but there's no doubt that a major part of it is that he felt the 'social contract' that held society together was sacred. And so he did what he could to improve that society even when it may have run afoul of that society's laws, but also did not aim to avoid its judgement and justice when it came to that, however unjust he might have felt them. Snowden did the exact opposite in seeking to achieve his ends yet also avoid justice at even extreme costs to himself.

It's a mindset that we can even hardly imagine in times today, which is precisely what Socrates feared society would turn into.
Generable is a Stan based startup which employs some of the core Stan devs

http://www.generable.com
DOIs, I haz a few.

In addition to creating high-end AE-driven automation systems for current and previous employers, I’m also responsible for:

- appscript.sourceforge.net (Apple event support for Python, Ruby, ObjC; plus JavaScript OSA component); Apple even considered Python and Ruby appscript for Mac OS 10.5

- bitbucket.org/hhas/swiftae (Apple event support for Swift)

- bitbucket.org/hhas/nodeautomation (Apple event support for Node JS; wrote it in a week just to prove a point)

- www.apress.com/gb/book/9781430223610 (tech editor on 2nd edition; lead author on major update for 3rd)
The name is burnt. They still are a company with business interests. While their interests might align today with the open source community this doesn't have to be so tomorrow and there is no resistance internally to burn these bridges they are building today.
A new version of the OnePlus 6 phone in white
You don't need prayers to ensure you can continue to run your software. It's unrealistic Linux can ever change to a different license than GPL2. Note, however, that this hasn't stopped Linux from being used as giant spyware (Android) and being overtaken by a single entity (RedHat) slowly eroding it (Systemd, Docker).

If you're concerned, I'd recommend basing your software on POSIX and make it also run on the BSDs, rather than just Linux, and in particular avoiding Linuxisms such as Docker and Systemd which you'll find are poorly designed anyway.
This is a PR article disguised as an anti-GDPR article.

An no, the EU will never get it right and create a short & simple law as long as they have to contend with massive corporate lobbying against the said law and bad corporate actors which try to work around it.
https://github.com/lutostag/webextension-formsave

It saves what you write in textareas so it doesn't get lost when something goes awry.

When the old-style Firefox extensions were going to be deprecated, I went through my installed ones, picked one that wasn't built yet and started from scratch.

The most interesting/difficult part was getting CI setup for both Firefox and Chrome with the always changing landscape of support for extensions in selenium.
California is much more mixed than people think, it’s more like 55/45 liberal/conservative than the raging liberal monoculture other parts of the country portray it as.

Also, what passes for “liberal” these days is basically George W.
Bush’s politics. There’s not really a liberal political organization anymore.
No, it is not problematic, it's a good engineering. Imagine in the future DNS over HTTPS will be supported by OS and there will be an OS-wide setting for it. Then it will make sense to change default setting in FireFox to use OS-wide setting.
It's basically a form of terrorism.

Abductors don't need to be everywhere. They just have to be a plausible threat to affect the thought process of a parent that's deciding whether or not they are going to leave their child completely unsupervised and unattended.

Maybe if the media didn't have a fetish for covering the incidents that do happen. Maybe if there wasn't a vocal subculture that crucifies parents for leaving their children to their own devices. Maybe if the thought of having the center of your world being beaten, violated and murdered at the hands of a stranger wasn't so mind-numbingly horrific. Maybe then this trend would start going the other way.

Or not? Sure parents used to let their kids roam free. They also let them ride in the back of pickup trucks and beat their asses when they did something wrong. There's probably a healthy middle ground.
> instead you want transparency about what information is used to give you a specific feature

Not OP, but - sure, why not? It would be really nice to have that. Especially if it wasn't the meaningless kind of transparency, "we use your location data as well as past interests to provide this feature", but something concrete - "we use regular GPS/cellular/wifi location updates to determine places where you've stayed for longer and correlate that with your recent searches in Google, as well as visits to venue sites that use Google Analytics".

(Personally, I'd be fine with such concrete announcements popping up the first time you use the app after a new feature was added, and if a feature is something one might want to not use, I'd be happy with it being opt-out. Just don't surprise people with application suddenly doing new things by itself, without much prior warning.)
This blog post's topics are remarkably similar to Stanford's Introduction to Statistical Learning's topic order.

<snip>

Topics include
* Overview of statistical learning
* Linear regression
* Classification
* Resampling methods
* Linear model selection and regularization
* Moving beyond linearity
* Tree-based methods
* Support vector machines
* Unsupervised learning

</snip>

source: https://online.stanford.edu/courses/stats216v-introduction-s...

There is a free (R-lang based) course, which covers this material by Trevor Hastie: https://online.stanford.edu/courses/sohs-ystatslearning-stat... - it's mentioned in the blog post.
The call is not to forget - I didn’t see that from the comment.

However knee jerk responses are today out of line with MSFTs behavior and actual ability.

Simply they are anti-objective and inefficient in discussing current reality.
Rather than try to remove all contaminants, is it possible to mark them with an indicator of their origin?
Bad autopilot implementations.
> and not just because of an awakening to diagnosis

You can control for rising diagnosis all day, but find me anorexic people 100 years ago. They basically didn’t exist.
I personally have not and will never use MySQL again because Oracle owns them. That is a company where software goes to die. Plus their atrocious security record.
I'd guess that the 'Foxification' of news definitely plays a role, or even just the deluge of clickbaity news stories that pour into our minds via social media (and especially the easy that smartphones offer in its consumption).

Another thing that I think plays a big role, and is probably related to the smartphone/social media age, is the decreasing amount of interaction with 'others', which increases the fear you describe.

I grew up in various multi-ethnic environments, sometimes even as a white minority. It's fascinating (and saddening) to notice to what degree people around me immediately distrust non-whites (other than the ones that for various reasons are non-threatening subgroups).

Most of these people try their best not to be racist, and probably think they have little to no prejudice, but it's apparent in all sorts of ways, however small.
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> Other parents.

I wonder if this is related to changing expectations about how and by who they expect their kids to be disciplined. This used to be a matter for the greater community and kids could be told off, other parents had free reign to give you a clip around the ears when needed but now only the parents themselves expect to be able to discipline (even completely non-violently) their children.

So maybe because they know they can't discipline the kids when they do something wrong is becomes necessary to have them watched by someone that can? As to why the community can longer discipline children I'd point the finger at the spanking debate. Rightly or wrongly what was allowed to do to a child became more complicated so the wider community now avoid it all together.
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Gitlab-ci and Google app engine works for me as far as deployment goes. I won't discuss language/stack because the fastest there is "whatever you're used to."
I'd say this kind of pranking is exactly the kind of thing that fits in a place called Hacker News!
While you have some good points, I'm not sure monolith and modularity are mutually exclusive. Some places I'm sure think some places think far ahead, and determine that the cost of microservices isn't worth the later benefit while they're trying to bootstrap a project.
Shouldn't that be "absque oculis" instead in that interpretation?
It's an accurate statement. Without Google the Android you're referring to would be buried alongside your beloved Maemo and Symbian right next to Tizen, Ubuntu Touch, Windows Mobile, Blackberry, Firefox Mobile, Amazon Fire and every other non-iOS mobile OS. No one else could have made Android into what it is today because no one else could have leveraged all of Google's technologies. On a personal note, as a Nokia fan and someone who started modding with Nokia, I find your appeal to pity extremely pathetic.
Indeed the most extraordinary story of the last ten years is how Google, Oracle, Redhat, Microsoft and Facebook have funded open-source software to tune of billions. This is likely the greatest act of charity the planet has ever known. And while a lot of holier-than-thou types (particularly here on HN) imagine these tech giants as not to be trusted or even the enemies of OSS, the numbers don't lie. Look closely at who actually funds and writes the vast majority of OSS and the same five companies pop up over and over and over...
You are projecting a modern definition of “happiness” onto Aristotle. Think of it instead as “thriving” or “reaching your potential in all aspects of your life.”
I once got a legal threat from facebook when I was setting up an app because I registered a domain to serve my app assets with a name like myappfacebookorigin.com and it said that the word facebook is famous and I need to cease and desist. I wish they had paid me back for the domain or forced the registrars to warn me I would get legal threats for using their trademarked name.
Of course it gets large number of complains, when it creates more problems than it solves, and it is papered over "but mainstream users do not need that".

Mainstream users do not need most software ever made.
Not me. Microsoft has fair products for sale whereas Google just takes a run with your data. I will avoid either if possible, but trying to imagine both scenarios, I think I'd consider my options just as much with either news. (I'll probably move to Gitlab, self hosted if possible but I hear it's terribly slow.)
Twitter (and their API) is horribly broken and inconsistent.

There is twint [0], which bypasses the API and just scrapes their website to circumvent API limitations.

The wrong number of favorites could be cached and it will go a way after a day or two, or it might be favorites on Tweets you can't see (because you're blocked, or the account is private, or the Tweet/account has been deleted).

As __bee said in another comment, you can request your Tweet archive and get the Tweet IDs from the CSV (I've seen a handful of Tweets of mine that were not in the CSV, but those are very rare). At least for deleting Tweets, there is no rate limit. Twitter also won't show your own Retweets when the original Tweet is no longer visible to you (although they might be included in the CSV) and made it impossible to interact with those. It used to be possible to delete Retweets if you somehow got its ID, but I think this has been disabled as well.

If you want to play around with the API but don't want to register your phone number and an application at Twitter, you can use tools such as the "t" cli [1] or the "twython" library [2] with any of these publicly known API keys [3].

0: https://github.com/haccer/twint

1: https://github.com/sferik/t/

2: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython

3: https://gist.github.com/sokcuri/42fba0b455a7b7b8ab772ba34426...
yeah, I'm curious if those other big companies will now move their repos off of GitHub because of this. I guess these two will be the ones to watch: https://github.com/google https://github.com/apple
This. They own where the code is lands, and will try to build the best, most streamlined CI system straight to profitable Azure deployments. Probably cheapest too, if they update agreements to get a slice of the deployment pie if people do want to deploy to AWS or GCE.

'Extinguish' might be right, but Amazon is the target here and holding off Google in second place. Other cloud providers will have to race to the bottom if they are not already there.
I've used rJags for R programming language which is quite old and based on Jags for windows but is quite straight forward though Edward, Stan and pymc3 seem to be state of art.

My project is quite simple but You can check it via homepage[0] or directly[1]

[0]http://www.vladovukovic.com
[1]https://bit.ly/2Krtkfi
I found this excerpt from section 1 a very telling indicator of how times have changed since 1978:

"This memo is aimed at users unfamiliar not only with the Emacs
editor, but also with the ITS operating system. ... Emacs runs on
the ITS machines, AI, ML, MC, and DM. For people coming from an
Arpanet TIP, the host numbers are: 134 (AI), 198 (ML), 236 (MC), and
70 (DM). If you don't have a regular username there, ... (use) the
WHOIS program: :WHOIS XYZ. If WHOIS didn't find any regular user
XYZ, you can use that name. :LOGIN XYZ. You are now talking to
DDT, the top-level, monitor program ..."

A TIP was an Arpanet Terminal Interfact Processor. Each TIP had a telephone number known to Arpanet users, who could dial in to any TIP then connect to any Arpanet host. I recall there was no authentication at the TIP, each host was supposed to handle its own authentication.
Dockless bikes can be found as well via an app. I use mobike in Berlin. They have a map in their app that you can use in the unlikely case there aren't multiple bikes in visual range.

Berlin has a ridiculous amount of competing bike share companies. Multiple companies put many thousands of them on the street. Docking is not an option at that scale.

The article seems to imply some inherent advantage of the docked variety that I just don't see. Also despite success and excellent safety numbers the article is calling for regulations. Why?

From my point of view, dockless is clearly winning in Berlin. Getting people moving is a good thing. Ensuring every steet corner has plenty of bikes means grabbing one is a no brainer.