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>I am also incredibly tired of people banging the climate change drum every time there is a weather anomaly (or even a marginally notable event). In a dynamical system "anomalies" are normal.

linked paper (first sentence)

>We develop a theoretical approach to quantify the effect of long-term trends on the expected number of extremes in generic time series, using analytical solutions and Monte Carlo simulations

"weather anomaly/marginally notable event" signified by the "expected number of extremes"

In this paper, focused on the extreme heat wave in Moscow and linked to other anomolies in recent news
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/44/17905#ref-2

The google scholar link/search seems broken, but I remember reading this when it came out in 2011 and covered a wide range of global heat waves in disparate parts of countries, extreme drought, extreme flooding, wild fires, etc.
> I kind of wish I had a need for this sort of thing.

Just Do It. Over some coffee instead of loading HN.

Make a snowman. Three spheres. Progressively smaller. Make two eyes, then get the snowman to rotate. Then add a carrot nose. Maybe two arms as extra credit.

Doesn't take long, you've dabbled enough to at least think of it if you do ever need it. And best of all, you've replaced idle consumption with creation which always is a more fulfilling use of time.
See also The Balloonfest That Went Horribly Wrong

https://www.theatlantic.com/video/index/562556/cleveland-bal...
> America hasn't enforced antitrust law in ages

A lot of American antitrust enforcement is private. Witness, for instance, the recent Apple Inc. v. Pepper [1].

(We need more public enforcement. But claiming we have no antitrust enforcement is false.)

[1] https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/apple-v-pepper/
Is it? It is more popular then before, but not like China. From my time living in China, I can personally attest to the ubiquity of food delivery services at an easily affordable price. In contrast, it just doesn’t seem to be worth it back in the states, the service isn’t as good and it is way more expensive than in China, it is easier to just go out.
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Like the war on plastic straws, this is such a small part of the problem. Come visit Cambodia or Vietnam and see the coastline. I've driven almost the entire coast of both countries and there isn't a single beach that isn't literally covered in heaps of trash.
Research shows that advertising works even better on “smart and advertising savvy” consumers. So, probably both, just like me :)

Can’t source the research but I did skim an article at some point.
Few parents are equipped to raise sociopaths and nearly all people respond to self-preservation. I would hope a child would be able to empathize if communicated with in way they could easily understand. 'Love and Logic' is a parenting technique where the use of natural consequences are used heavily; when kids understand you are their teacher, failure becomes an opportunity to learn. If you are simply there as an enforcer, you are viewed as a warden. They focus on not getting caught rather than gaining wisdom.
It won't. Docker already has too much inertia to be stopped by a single CVE. The "it's just another bug of an actively supported piece of software, we'll just update tomorrow" behaviour will click.
What you say doesn't jive with TFA, which claims that the "information is [NOT] anonymized and rendered untraceable".

What's the catch with Apple's privacy document? Is it just that they're ignoring issues about what apps do? I mean, they make such a big deal about vetting apps.
Superb, just what I was looking for. The official documentation really is spartan.
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Here is a recent WSJ article on the topic with a few more details in it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-to-refund-advertisers-af...
Sounds like they need a guy named Harry and his band of oil rig misfits.

He's never missed a depth he aimed for.
I never seen the F in RTFM mean “fine” before. I’ve always seen it used as the more vulgar “read the f*ing manual”.
Are you saying that organized religion doesn't have the power to influence change? Politicians do not have a monopoly on impact, in fact, I would say that they have become quite inefficient at it.
Being from around those parts, and remembering the time when the accident happened (watching the evening news with my father when they admitted publicly to the disaster and my father shaking his head and saying "hell, if they admitted to this much, the reality must be 10x as worse"). Anyway, I'd have to say the lack of accents were not even noticeable because the acting, the scenery, even down to small details like the clothes, haircuts, paint color schemes were are just incredibly well done.

Yeah they took some liberty with condensing multiple characters into the Khomyuk character, but even she was believable.
> And you know what, the Japanese government deserved it. They started the war, killed millions of people in the process (including many millions of civilians in Asia), and then had the gall to try to bargain for decent surrender terms after all that horror they caused? Nope. Sometimes harsh punishment is necessary.

The government yes. The people did not elect them. They had no choice in the matter, and were also trained into full propaganda mode many years before the war. So targeting civilians with fire-bombing is certainly questionable. Even McNamara said that what they did in Japan would be considered "crimes of war" in case they did not end up victorious.
...Godzillas hibernation chamber,
Correct. The point of End to End encryption is that nobody else knows the contents of messages under any circumstances other than those in the conversation (usually 2 people).
Not to encourage anyone, but effective income tax rates in California are far above those in Ontario.

Relative to cost of living, I'd pick Ontario any day of my life.
That study had only 100 children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. We need larger studies.
Install mosaic to really get into the mood.

https://snapcraft.io/mosaic
Your hypothesis made sense to me, so I did a bit of research to try and back up the claim.

No idea about the biases or accuracy of the information supplied in these links, so take it with a grain of salt, but they seem to support the idea that Solar (installation) is indeed more dangerous than Nuclear per TWh.

Too many factors to call it more "dangerous", and also disingenuous because the absolute worst case scenario for solar power doesn't have the possibility of negatively impacting millions of peoples lives.

But hey, this is a bit of a fun fact that might stop people demonising nuclear energy so much.

Sources:

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2016/06/update-of-death-per-te...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...
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This Dockerfile linter would warn you about multiple of these problems and more:
https://github.com/hadolint/hadolint
I want to suggest a side-wide search feature. The site is now pretty small, but when it become bigger, this feature will be very useful.
Could you share a few specifics on what actions made your experience with this client terrible? “Terrible” and “asshole” are very subjective terms and mean different things to different people.
Huawai suspects Fedex package interception
"Easier" is a weird word choice here. It's absolutely easier to not move from the couch, naked in your robe, and have restaurant-quality food arrive at your door than it is to sit down at a restaurant and fake some temporary civility across town. No contest if you have young kids.

It's not even much more expensive since the sit-down tip is replaced with a delivery premium. And I only tip the driver some bucks.
Apple is saying apple’s products don’t collect data where possible, it’s not a statement on how 3rd party apps mistreat users
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Thank you this is very useful. Paper trails work.
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Well yeah, each individual type of thing is going to be a small part of the overall problem. But if it's the most effective way to get people to care then I don't have a problem with singling out plastic straws, or balloons or whatever.

Straws are a good one to single out too because a vast number of them come from just a few major fast food chains, so if you get them to care you get rid of them relatively easily.

This strikes me as another form of whataboutism, like "oh you're only dealing with such a small part of the problem, what about all this other stuff you're not doing, obviously you you shouldn't even bother". If noone ever bothers with the individual parts then the whole problem is never going to stop.
“Huawei Ark OS” Trademark Filed With European Union Intellectual Property Office
Being "properly secured" isn't as simple as it seems because it's not a matter of simply securing against today's threats, but for those in the future, for as long as those communications need to remain secret.

It's possible, perhaps even likely that all communications would be recorded for decryption later when if / new techniques become available.
On August 4, 2014, Topolsky (co-founder and editor-in-chief of The Verge) stepped down from The Verge and Vox Media to join Bloomberg "as the editor of a series of new online ventures it is introducing as part of a revamped journalism strategy". He left Bloomberg in July 2015 after clashes with Michael Bloomberg over the direction of its digital media strategy and started the digital news company The Outline.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Topolsky
Apple leaking iTunes listening data to marketers and appdevelopers.Lawsuit filed
Show HN: Easy intro book to Clojure and immutability
There is a small army of portfolio managers that under perform index funds year after year. Like almost all of them. And investment banks both selling securities and betting against them at the same time.

The non zero sum part is called the real economy. Which itself is under performing the market.

Or the current crop of tech companies which exist solely to launder negative interest central bank credit.
This is still a pretty good solution. The amount of plastic used is cut dramatically, obviously, and as long as the containers are made correctly they can still be recycled in a normal paper process.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20011558
A list of compilers that can generate C code
1926 is an intriguing year to start if your goal is to mislead.
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This book is my attempt to make Clojure more accessible for newcomers.
The book teaches at a digestible pace the syntax and the main concepts of the language, in particular data immutability which is at the core of the language.

This is part of a "Get Programming" series by Manning, which means that the reader is guided from concrete to abstract until the ideas are fully integrated.

This book takes a pragmatic down to earth approach:

- Lots of code snippets in each Lesson

- Several exercises at the end of each Lesson

- A Capstone Project at the end of each Unit

The book is in MEAP (Manning Early Access Program) stage which means that for now only the digital version is available and 5 out of 16 Units are published. (When a new Unit is published, the reader gets notified.)

Hopefully you'd find interest in this book whether you are a Clojure beginner and want to learn the basics of Clojure in a structured way or a Clojure experienced developer and want to help your friends or teammates in their Clojure journey.

I am very interested in hearing comments (in particular improvement suggestions) both about the approach and the realisation.
A couple ideas/suggestions/questions to the Work at a Startup team:

- One of the reasons people join startups is when they want to start one someday. While California has great protections for people to retain IP as long as it's not directly in conflict with their employer's line of work, the rest of the world is not so lucky. How about requiring all your portfolio companies to be explicitly side project friendly by adopting something like Github's IP agreement. Keep it simple : allow employees to work on their side projects on their own time using their own resources and as long as it's not directly competing, it's all good. This seems to be the implicit understanding already, but make it formal and set a good example for the industry to follow. More Context : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13921433 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13142327

- Any chance of expanding this to international remote workers? There are obvious legal challenges to hiring someone from a different jurisdiction, but maybe you can start out with simpler solutions like a having a standard legal template by hiring international remote workers as contractors which greatly simplifies the paperwork?
Exactly. It costs nothing to lose weight--just eat less. You'd think people would be all over this "natural" and "drug free" treatment. And the number of risks that increase with obese mothers is large. Yet nobody will suggest this because of hurt feelings.
My favorite new instagram is https://www.instagram.com/preachersnsneakers/

Clearly a quest to reach "new audiences" but it gives me a good chuckle.
That's how it's usually used.
We run our core compute in-house (well, in datacenters); our application isn't particularly well suited for running in cloud hosting environments at all. In our environment, we don't use Docker at all.

Well with one exception. There is a cross-compilation build environment for an Intel XScale based-industrial computer which is deployed to several hundred remote locations. The previous developer was fond of working alone unchecked and insisted on creating a (pet snowflake) Docker host and a set of containers into which he installed the SDK for said industrial PC. God only knows where he pulled the original Docker base image from. He spent a year doing this unchecked (amongst a few other things) so that he could pad out his CV with the word "Docker". And after that was done, he left the business.

You start the Docker container and it fairly neatly builds the entire environment and creates a filesystem image which can be written to a CF card and installed in the physical industrial PC's, and handed to the field maintenance team.

My point is - the whole build process for this could run on a bare VM which would be under our regular configuration management. The Docker container and host really provide no benefit in this situation (except perhaps quick start up time for a fresh build environment) and are really just a hassle, because we'd rather not mess with Docker. The integration into our Jenkins instance was a complete nightmare - we spent hours poring over the Docker documentation which we found sub-par, or too new (the Docker version he had installed was ancient by this point) and running afoul of various Docker bugs.

We don't have enough other use cases for Docker to make it worthwhile for the rest of the team to learn in depth at this point. It's still on my TODO list to de-dockerize this build process and nuke that Docker host VM forever.
I have got a stalker who keeps downvoting each every comment I write.
I'm going to disagree with go with 'sometimes yes and sometimes no'.

Take a construct and transform it into a plant. Check the expression of the transgene from hundreds of different transformation events, and there'll be huge variation, from highly expressed to silenced, even though all inserted transgenes have the same promoter and terminator. Location matters.

However, if the function of gene A is redundant, or it goes to a location when expression is not affected, or it's just not a very important gene, then it probably doesn't have any great phenotypic effect.
It's an issue with the Charismatic Movement, which is particularly strong among Evangelicalism but hardly limited to it. It promotes a cult of personality, or rather numerous cults of personality.

Both Catholicism (even with the pope) and traditional Protestantism have mechanisms to resist this. Catholicism resists it because clericalism pushes back against cults of the person of the pope specifically (notice the incessant factional backstabbing), but also because the parish priest is more a functionary of rites than anything else--sermons in Catholic churches are generally brief. Protestant denominations like Presbyterianism, Methodism, and Lutheranism maintain (at least nominally) the Catholic tradition of apostolic succession and a system of Presbyters and Bishops, which diffuses theological power structurally. Notably Anabaptists and Pentecostalism discard these structures almost entirely, so no coincidence that they're more susceptible to cults of personalities.

I grew up Catholic in a small southern town. There was one Catholic church among dozens (if not a hundred plus) protestant churches; it was mostly attended by military families. I remember the parish priest (who was my confirmation sponsor as I had no family or close Catholic family friends to sponsor me) complaining that the community, including parishioners, gossiped that he wasn't godly enough. He drove around in a Cadillac and drank (moderately). What the community didn't know was that he was pretty much the only pastor who personally volunteered at local charities unaffiliated with our church, in addition to the work he did for the church's own programs. But he never made it a point to inform people of this because he did it on his personal time--just like he bought his Cadillac using his clerical stipend and drank on his own time. He refused to advertise this on principle. He railed against the cults of personality of local churchgoers (including his own parishioners) and of local churches. Their priorities were all screwed up. Since then American Catholicism specifically and Roman Catholicism globally has increasingly shifted in this troubling direction, in tandem with Christianity more generally.

Anyhow, to reiterate, it's not just a problem with Baptists or Pentecostalism, nor do all Baptist and Pentecostal churches suffer from the problem. But there's an interplay between doctrine and institutional structure. People will readily admit it when discussing how the Roman Catholic hierarchy protected child rapists; but they refuse to see the downsides to excessively decentralized institutions that put too much unchecked power and influence in the hands of local leaders.

The U.S. has exported the problem globally because it's exported the Charismatic Movement.
We call out smokers for their bad behavior that can harm an unborn child. But we're not allowed to say anything about over eaters.
To be fair, when you actually look at Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (which is a great book), it's still math that a physicist recognizes, not so much an ALGOL-esque program. The Scheme system was extended to handle the math rather than the math brought to the language.

What they did was make all the math explicit, mostly by inserting all the necessary pieces of differential geometry that were glossed over in all other treatments.
How can something like this even conceptually make sense? I'm sorry, but can someone explain to me how a neural network could approximate physically-deduced laws of nature (as had-coded into the classical simulator as I imagine) "without any distinguishable error"?

This is the biggest bs I have ever heard, since an molecular physics simulator that is beat by a neural network can only just be unoptimized as hell.
> That's essentially every news source that isn't purely propaganda with billionaires footing the bill for its dissemination.

I guess if you're feeling optimistic an argument could be made that the public broadcasting services of various nations provide a counterexample, although their political independence/status as maybe-not-propoganda is frequently contentious. The emergence of various low-budget OSINT-type outfits like Bellingcat is another indication that the future of investigative reporting doesn't necessarily have to exist within the current framework of media as ad-driven profit engine. Mass connectivity cuts both ways: obtaining and synthesizing relevant info is a lot easier when you can go pull videos of war crimes off of Twitter instead of shipping out an expensive war correspondent. Of course, I don't mean to suggest that this sort of thing will ever be a complete replacement for old-fashioned professional journalism.

> ads have been the main reason information has been available to average people for literally decades now, dating back to print and broadcast media in the 20th century.

One significant difference between then and now is that the cost of distribution of information is approaching zero. In the 20th century, much of what your newspaper's ads were funding was the physical newspaper itself. Broadcasting equipment was prohibitively expensive and you had to go through the FCC (and hope you were one of the ~epsilon sanctioned outlets) to not get shut down. Today, any CDN will happily sell you the bandwidth for millions of page views for a song. This definitely doesn't mean that good journalism is free to produce, but there's a lot of overhead that was being supported by the ad model that doesn't necessarily apply these days.

I agree that some form of revenue replacement is in order, but I hope that these and similar considerations mean that the gap that needs filling is smaller than a naive "well, ads made this much in FY 2018, better spin up micropayments for 100% of that" analysis would suggest.
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