skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There’s a graph going around the internet from Steve Goddard a.k.a. Tony Heller, claiming to show that temperature in the U.S. has been declining, using only high temperatures, using only summertime temperatures, using only data since 1918, based on a simple average without taking into account new stations coming online or old stations retiring or area-weighting or any of that “expert” stuff

I like that this piece makes clear how conscious choices of which data to present (and which not to present) can make an argument more convincing without actually lying. I don't like that it makes accusations about a particular person doing so without the courtesy of linking to the person being accused. If your argument is strong, it's usually better to let the reader judge for themselves whether your accusation is accurate. Failing to do so can undermine an otherwise strong argument.

I'm not familiar with Goddard/Heller. Searching for Tony Heller, I find https://realclimatescience.com. It includes a lot of graphs very similar to the ones Tamino dissects. The ones I saw were going day by day, looking at average temperatures for that day over the last 100 years. It's good to know that the start date might have been cherry picked to make the graph look better, and that this is based on raw unadjusted data, but it doesn't seem inherently unfair to use a particular day rather than the average for the entire year.

Is there a better "smoking gun" where he makes the more grandiose claims that Tamino accuses him of doing? Maybe, but without a direct link I wasn't able to find it. And in the absence of better evidence, as long as the graph is clearly labelled "Summer Average Maximum Temperature", I have to say that it seems unlikely that he's actually guilty of "claiming to show that temperature in the U.S. has been declining", and more likely that he is making the more direct claim that summer highs have not been increasing. Which given recent newspaper headlines, I do find to be an interesting counterpoint.

Searching for Steven Goddard, I find this: https://stevengoddard.wordpress.com/who-is-steven-goddard/. I like that he clearly links his pen name to his real identity, and makes clear his scientific and environmental background, and admits that he is not actually a climate scientist. Does "Tamino" have a similar page? Who is he, and what is his background? It felt odd for one pseudonymous author to be calling attention to the fact that someone else was using a pseudonym. At this point, based on a tiny amount of research, I feel a little more comfortable with Heller/Goddard than with Tamino.
Apoptosis propagates through the cytoplasm as trigger waves
Not really. To be honest, I would not visit Bielefeld either. However, working at University you meet a lot of people from abroad.
I need to do a presentation in a week from today and I was hoping to somehow just do it with a web browser without having to make sure LibreOffice or MS Office or whatever is installed on host's computers (and not having to drag my laptop with me).

I was prepared to build a small website with jQuery if nothing else was available, when I found this gem.
I've been hearing that we have a great economy lately from a lot of people. Could you please explain why US has a great economy currently?
Want convince 99% of America that Climate Change needs immediate action? Address the following points (without vitriol, deception or animosity):

I'm not saying all these are ironclad facts, but this is what you're up against:

Alarmists have been wrong many times in the past. Cooling. Warming. 10 foot sea rise by 1980. No, 1990. No, 2000. No 2030, for sure this time.
Alarmists have been caught manipulating data, for the express purpose of convincing people through deception, and the community was less than eager to own up to it.
Alarmists cannot quantify how much of an impact man is having; attempts at measuring it lead to climate models, and climate models have only a slightly better track record than a bunch of stopped clocks at keeping time.
Everyone knows that the earth has warmed and cooled since it existed.
So everyone agrees that the world temperature changes constantly. But the alarmists can't quantify our impact with any accuracy, can't predict where it will go next with any certainty, but want everyone to drop everything to try to solve it.
You see a problem that must be solved at all costs, they see a cult peddling politics and money in place of science, using clean water and air as a hook to reach the masses who all want those things too, but without wanting to join the cult.
When you look at the major Addons, usage is consistently going down.

Mozilla pulled the plug for the user raw data after this blog post:

https://andreasgal.com/2017/07/19/firefox-marketshare-revisi...
Are you actually at risk for being killed? A bit hyperbolic wouldn’t you say?
All this may be true, but appeal to authority is still a logical fallacy. You can't just shame people into believing something they don't understand because "smarter" people believe it. It's a shameful failure of communication more than anything else. And I don't understand why people like you don't understand that.
Ask HN: Best resources on parenting?
My wife and I are expecting early next year. Wanted to get this communities thoughts on books, articles, etc for successful parenting.
In Finland at least game devs fall under some general IT collective bargaining agreement, so they have union presentation but it's more general software/IT. Works decently. From my experience the games industry is a bit too... wild(?) to really think about things like unions by itself.
Thats like, your opinion man
How Two Years of Instagram Stories Has Altered the Way We Love, Act and Play
We are sorry that there are legal restrictions that are imposed for these countries. There isn't much we can do about this, but we have an open issue discussing this [1]. You can also see the U.S. Department of the Treasury link [2] for more details regarding these sanctions.
We planned this move because we wanted to improve our stability, and you can read all the technical details that affected our decision in our blog post [3].

[1] - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/migration/issues/649

[2] - https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...

[3] - https://about.gitlab.com/2018/06/25/moving-to-gcp
So, the proof that the Soviet lessons of socialism apply to Western Europe is that all socialist countries eventually suffer from it. The proof of that is that all of them have. If they haven’t, they will.

That’s just circular reasoning! All socialist countries fail because all of them will fail if they haven’t already. What?

What’s the deal with your Mississippi statement? A quick search shows Mississippi with a median income of about $20,000, and France (for example) at over $30,000.
In case anyone was looking for it, the parts list was in the comments. The optics are a $25 module made specifically for the Raspberry Pi.

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Headset: "Yuneec SkyView FPV HDMI Headset For Use With HDMI Compatible Devices" ... Currently $69.99. Price was $39.99 when I bought it. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01K37O1BS/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_2W3ABb2582724

Camera/LEDs: "Raspberry Pi Zero Camera Fisheye Wide Angle 5MP 1080p Night Vision Camera Module for Raspberry Pi Zero W" https://www.amazon.com/dp/B074DY544H/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_X43ABb4075B84 $24.99

Micro-HDMI male to Mini-HDMI male cable (I couldn't find this exact cable in a short length so I used a mini to mini 6 inch cable with a micro to mini adapter)

raspberry pi zero

Micro sd card

on/off switch (I cut the raspi USB cable and ran it through the switch

power pack (the one I used contained two 18650 lithium Ion batteries and a circuit board. I disassembled the unit and mounted the circuit board with the charging port facing through the HDMI port of the headset)
> How can you read a post about denier's deliberate bad faith manipulation and then complain that they're the ones being treated unfairly. Almost makes me think you are not arguing in good faith.

I don't see anywhere that I complained that they are the ones being treated unfairly (which implies that I think they are being treated unfairly but the "climate accepters" (not sure of a good term here) are not. Nor do I think that.

I think both sides have people that treat each other that way. It's counterproductive regardless of which side is doing it.

I don't find it relevant so was going to omit this, but since you questioned my personal "good faith," I will say that I generally accept the climate science. I wouldn't consider myself a purist, but I find the evidence compelling. So I'm "on the team." Is that what you needed to know to evaluate my position?
As others have commented, love the ambitiousness of this! However, Unicode searches do not seem to work at all -- not just "中文" but also even "français" gives an error. Unicode support is something you definitely want to build in from the very beginning in order to avoid headaches (for you and users) in the future. Even if there is no content in the index, the presence of non-ASCII characters in the search term should not lead to a server error. Suggest you make Unicode the default encoding for everything even if you are not planning on supporting non-English search results for the moment, just to avoid unexpected errors when people search for things like "café" for example.
The difference between Vacumn and 1atm is 14psi, bike tires pumped to between 50-120psi (on my road bike for example), 14 psi isn't that large a pressure for a reasonably strong/stiff material.
You can sort of simulate this by searching discussion sites like Hacker News or Reddit. There's no pruning, but users do vote on what's most interesting or relevant to them. I find searching HN is useful when I'm looking for tools designed in the way HN readers tend to like: command-line, open source, and using a standard format.
What just happened? I search for a park I visited just yesterday. "186" hits(?) and two of those were two top page HN sites I just visited!? I'm spooked.
Political brainwashing, that's why. This is exactly how it works. You take an issue (social, cultural, scientific, religious - does not matter), use it as a division line between "us" and "them", pick a side, them bombard "us" with messages that dehumanize "them" to the point where there is no possibility of rational conversation between the two sides.

Bam. Now you have political control over a group of people, and that control can be exercised outside of the context of the original problem.

It is very unfortunate that ecology was chosen as one of the issues to politicize, because it already was one of the most complex fields of research there is, not to mention that issues in that field have potential to affect most of the people on the planet.

My advice? De-escalate the rhetoric wherever you can. That's the only way forward in the long run, for everybody.
Again. Seriousness and stupidity are two different dimensions. Non-serious mistake can still be very stupid.
I imagine the blog post already assumes some familiarity with the people concerned, as this particular circus with arguing about global warming has been going on for a long time by now.
But everything is area-weighted, so if we move a southern station northward, that means the southern stations previous neighbours will need to carry more weight. The station moved northward will steal some of the weight from its new northerly neighbours.

So, it should only impact the accuracy of the results, not necessarily shift things colder.
That's the problem with anti-government ideology. We are not going to fix this via personal responsibility and individual action. The only solution is through collective action and that probably means the government because "the market" doesn't care about negative externalities like pollution.
Not a problem, something as fundamental as SSL should be part of the OS's provided library set that you can depend on being there so you don't have to include it in your self contained application.

There's no reason to have all this complicated crap so that you don't have 2 copies of 200k libsomebullshit.so.
You still released a new work of art into the world. It's not a small thing. 99.999% of people give up.
I wonder how much carbon foam insulation costs.

http://carbonfoam.com/
I think my comment has been badly misinterpreted given the down voting. I’ve reread my post and I’m not sure why it has been so misinterpreted. Clearly I failed to convey my intent. Obviously the blog post is about how one can construct a misleading graph by cherry picking data.

The blog shows how one can cleverly display data to reinforce a prior belief. In this case the prior belief is that temperature is not rising. Recently I’ve encountered a number of people making the claim that temps have been declining. I’ve wondered why this claim is being made and now I know the source. As shown in the blog post the source is a purposefully misleading graph. As stated by the author this misleading graph has recently been making the rounds on the internet.
Man, it is sooo hard for me to put mental energy anywhere besides what I'm working on full time.

My advice is to first ask if you're in shape. Maybe you could work out instead.

I recommend having a fixed weekly (or monthly) time budget on this. It's perfectly reasonable for you to have a hobby like making money.
Just mixing some guess too... It looks like it was autokilled https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17744642

@trumped: If you send an email to the mods hn@ycombinator.com , they can unkill it.
Okay, the context of the reply to which I was initially replying to was about how the implementation of generics in Objective-C was "very bare." I'm beginning with this point, because though I agree with your second point about OOP perhaps not being necessarily "the best paradigm for coding problems developers face today," I don't quite see where that point fits in. We're talking about Objective-C, which means we're talking about OOP. If you want to explore some other kind of programming paradigm and insist that generics are needed there, I have no quarrel with you. My point was that I didn't see why generics were needed in OOP.

But that brings us to your first point: namely, what is the "right" way to approach OOP.

When I bring up Alan Kay, I'm bringing up a guy who was there at the start, and who set his stamp on OOP. Granted, "OOP" has been done in different ways. You'll note, however, my use of scare quotes. Allow me to explain.

When OOP had the misfortune to become a managerial buzz, somewhere back in the 1990's, and thus became a "must-have," what happened was a lot of procedural programmers simply took their procedural programming, wrapped in in C++, compiled it with a C++ compiler, nodded to the boss and assured him that they were doing OOP—and went along on their happy way.

Likewise, when college professors—set in their ways, as is their want—were told that they had to start teaching OOP, they largely did the same thing.

The result is that we have lots and lots of people out in the world "doing OOP"—who actually aren't. They're writing procedural programs, with the trappings of classes and sub-classing and what not. But all over in their programs, they are digging into the internals of their classes—and, sometimes, you see them digging in many layers deep.

And they're "doing OOP."

As I understand him, Kay is saying that you send a message to an object, on the understanding that the object will handle the message, the sender not having to worry about the ultimate who or how. If there's another kind of OOP other than that—or other than the travesty I described above—what is it?

But, that's another question, entirely. My original question was: why are generics such a big deal in OOP? I don't believe that's been answered.
https://www.ocregister.com/2013/02/25/falcons-hawk-keep-gull...
We have built semanti.ca, an AI-powered web data extraction API
Is PKI still an optional feature of TLS? Can one still use self-signed x.509 certificates and have key-signing parties?
I live on Pocket and absolutely love the service.
FWIW this is in KDE (via kdeconnect) too; I have it turned off. The only use case I personally have is copying passwords. In what way do you use it?
Bielefeld Uni is quite an interesting place by itself. Indoor pools, stairs that lead nowhere...
Honestly, I do not see it that way.

To me it seems as if sizable chunk of people believe in nonsense, and the nonsensical beliefs and actions based on such beliefs are detrimental not only to the people holding such beliefs, but every single living entity on this planet, future generations included.

How is that acceptable? With what right do the people holding these beliefs keep acting the way they do?

It is the reaponsibility of the rest of us to stop this madness as soon as possible. It is the responsibility we as species hold to our ancestors and future generations.

If it is all in vain for you. Fine. But please do consider other living organisms as as important as you, for you are one of us. We are in this together.
Some people value different things. It's also not that hard to find a job which allows you to buy a house etc, when you can show how much hard work you can put in to a product. At least in the games industry these people are revered.
I'd start improving my personal moral high ground by stopping supporting the largest and most powerful group of climate deniers on the planet, funded by the companies and interests that have an interest in keeping their voters ignorant of the real issues. It's no coincidence that 69% of conservatives think climate change is not real, whereas only 5% of democrats do.

But hey, that's just me.
Also a feature of Windows 10 afaik. Possibly only an insider preview update.
Because climate change denial is completely equivalent to Holocaust denial:

You have a theory (yes theory!) that completely and convincingly explains all the available evidence: millions of Jews and others were murdered in German concentration camps. Opponents to this theory has absolutely nothing. They can sow doubt, but can't offer up a theory that explains even a fraction of the available evidence.

You have another theory that convincingly explains all the available evidence: CO2 emissions from human activity increases the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere which causes more sunlight to be reflected back to the surface of the earth which causes warming. Opponents to this theory has absolutely nothing. They can not offer up any alternative theory that explains the observed warming. All they can do is sow doubt.
I haven't been following Java community in a while, can someone clarify this for me please: so the benefit of "thin" JVM comes from GraalVM or Vert.x? I looked at https://vertx.io/ and it says nothing to me, I have no idea what a "reactive" application is. Is it an async event loop library? And then there's Polyglot, so now there are 3 new things in the picture.

What do I need to have a simple "hello world" CLI Java app which starts within 25ms and doesn't eat more than 10MB of RAM? Is GrallVM enough?
To be honest, I've pretty much given up on Gnome. They're removing features I depend on left and right, don't respond to issues, and from everything I've heard, their technology stack seems to be a disaster.

I'm happy just using KDE Plasma, XFCE and i3wm and not having to care about whatever Gnome is doing (except when changes to GTK affects the rest of the ecosystem, like their client side decorations which make Gnome apps look out of place).
I’d call it trivial. My 60 year old uncle who shouts at his computer uses BitTorrent. Anyone who wants these files will be able to figure it out.
Very great answer in those links, particularly the NCSE one. I'm not certain I agree with their conclusion, but the explanation makes sense and really answers a lot of my questions. Thank you!
There's a large portion of them, including Trump, that have no interest in the science at all, to them it's just another of many baseless conspiracy theories they believe.
I'm surprised that taxi capable employees are left by themselves to do this kind of work. This could've been preventable had there been a second person in the cockpit as well.
Nobody on the mainstream sides of the climate debate are claiming the climate isn’t changing. We are claiming that human causes have an effect less significant than the alarmist side claims.

Basically, if we all stop running our air conditioner, it isn’t going to have any significant effect on long term global temperatures. Basically we object to the idea that lowering standards of living is a meaningful cure for rising temperatures. Humans absolutely cause pollution, nobody “denies” that and most of us care deeply about actual pollution. But once CO2 started being considered some kind of pollutant, the environmental movement essentially jumped the shark in my view. CO2 is just as much a pollutant as oxygen but it is being treated by politicians as if it were benzene.
> Interesting thing about them is that they are still based on all-analog vacuum tube technology.

Yep, as I understand it, at least the 2nd Gen tubes have a surface that turns incoming photons into electrons, then those electrons bounce around inside tiny "micro channels" with a high voltage applied to them, which causes more electrons to bounce down the tube. And then they hit a phosphor screen and turn back into photons.

It's really quite clever.
Note: this is only my guess, but it seems quite plausible that inhabited areas have been well-sampled for a long time, but some combination of

1) automated stations and satellite communication making it much easier/cheaper to sample remote locations

2) use of whole-globe numerical weather models which require complete initial conditions, even for regions where nobody much cares about the output

3) increased interest in climate research

would lead to a greatly increased number of Alaskan stations operated by NOAA (and of course corresponding moves by other national agencies)
It is still happening with home prices in many, many countries. Too many older people with too much of their net worth tied up in their homes. Essentially governments in many countries discovered, perhaps on accident, that pumping up the prices of homes was an easy way to fund the retirements of much of the older generation without explicitly raising taxes.

The bubble essentially cannot pop because too many people would end up underwater or lose most of their savings - this is a huge political issue. But on the other hand, the bubble cannot continue indefinitely, because if home prices outstrip inflation and wage growth for too long, eventually nobody will be able to purchase a house at all - this is the economic issue. This is not only happening in the US but also many other Western countries and in countries like China (exacerbated by their lack of investment vehicles).
Clojure for Java Programmers
Parker Solar Probe: Nasa Launches Mission to 'touch the Sun'
Lambda school. 6 month, full time, covers both basics and advanced stuff.
Too much "we" and "our" in these things. The author may speak only for himself (or herself).

The people who "choose" to spend time alone, do so because they have that choice available to them--it's a kind of "social privilege" or prerogative, available to those whose time and attention is in most demand.

It's reminiscent of an attitude that doesn't understand why "all those poor people just don't get normal jobs."
This title is pretty clickbait-y, as I would most likely not have invented it. You really have to know the internals and this doesnt even apply _only_ on Bluetooth but DH implementations in general...
Also, the cool side of the craft will stay cool by radiating its heat away into space.
Show HN: Literary Clock, a browser add-on
with regard to displays, gbs-8200 will help here.
>> Sometimes I’ll go to New Jersey and hop onto the poker website at an internet cafe. Online poker is illegal in New York, but not in Jersey. <<

Aka, VPN.