skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A better title would be: "Here is the shamelessly ironic profile piece Microsoft commissioned from us to publicise and attempt to legitimize this (yet another) Harvard man whoring himself to corporate interest yet portrayed below as railing against them" but I guess that would be too long.
How Twitch is crowd-sourcing an amazing Pokémon multiplayer game
Yes I have been spreading Tor for a couple of days now. I started in my office and friends. Last night one of the biggest Venezuelan twitter accounts retweeted me too, so many people are aware now.

I need to find a similar solution for mobile phones since most people here access twitter using the phones. Any suggestions?
Sounds good enough to me. Might have to keep an eye out for it, hopefully your users will all be good ;)

Maybe you could design a feature that gives them a little friendly reminder if they're about to cross someones robots.txt, lets them check that they're aren't about to do something seriously annoying. Sometimes a robots.txt is over zealous and should be crossed, most of the time not though.
That depends. If the software is fully understood by its creators, and if it has been thoroughly tested, there's no reason to doubt its reliability.

Consider that, in strongly types languages, things go wrong anyway. Once an officer aboard a U.S. Navy capital ship entered a zero into a program, the zero caused a divide-by-zero error, and the error propagated through the ship's network and disabled the entire system. The ship had to be towed back to port. So much for strong typing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Yorktown_(CG-48)#Smart_ship...

Quote: "On 21 September 1997, while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing an attempted division by zero in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager, resulting in a buffer overflow which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail."
What is it about JS that causes people to re-invent everything and call it progress?
This one correctly detected my city, something the others couldn't do.

Thanks.
sane has nothing to do with static typing. Python is a language which is dynamic and has a sane semantics. e.g. in JS {} + {} is NaN and many other examples.
It's unfortunately not possible right now, but we know people want it, so we're working on it. Probably have to tuck it into our advanced mode feature as it's not something we'll ever be able to solve with the point and click UI.
It was more a comment on teachers and their currently established ways.
The Game: More clever than given credit for
Just put your sublime config in your dotfiles config?
Have a look at Orbot.

https://guardianproject.info/apps/orbot/

It is Tor on Android devices.
There's a spectrum for sure. Past a certain point, when you're constantly bullying one person repeatedly and stalking them, it becomes harassment, even if it's in-game.

The real question is, are you generally trolling cause it's hilarious, or are you trying to bully individual people? It's tough to tell.
In other words I would like to use language that runs on Node, but it's not JS or CS
Assuming I can go global, here's an example where you are wrong: http://inequality.org/great-cyprus-bank-robbery/. I'm pretty sure Goldman Sachs got their asses bailed out as well by the taxpayers.

You shouldn't play a shell game with the money and say then say there are "zero losses", but people do. It's called cognitive dissonance and it sucks.
Thou shalt not make a graph without error bars.

In that respect, the error here belongs entirely to whoever made that graph in the first place. They plotted all those models together to try to convince the reader that all models point to doom. But in doing so without error bars, they implied a level of confidence for specific years that was entirely absent from the models.
Would like to see Dogecoin compatibility
Ah, yeah that's not a bad idea. Still keep the responsibility on the user, but do our best to keep them honest :)
Machine Learning and Probabilistic Graphical Models Course
"I realize that you strongly dislike me, but please don't allow that to cloud your vision when reading my posts."

Uhhhhh, I know nothing about you at all. I simply mocked the fact that you threw a tantrum over the voting system on this site, said you were leaving (yet you're still making posts at the frequency that you're literally making the algo block you because you're posting too often...), said "I wish the top post wasn't always some no content crap like 'all cops should die'" when a) It didn't say that and b) The actual top post was, quite literally, the exact opposite of your mid-tantrum prediction. If you've taken me mocking your hilariously bad point to mean a strong dislike, I really don't know what to tell you. Perhaps the rest of us don't hold the same irrational grudges you do? But the idea of this level of emotion for a stranger on the internet is simply too foreign for me to understand.

"You're argumentative for argumentation's sake (which is fine when you can listen to reason) and I'm really, actually, truly done with you now. Bye."

So should I take this to mean that you're going to be responding to my posts literally hundreds of times over the next hour? Because thats what happened when you said you were done with HN? Or was that because you were just being an attention whore making a shit point?

"Another poster has even explained my position to you (oddly enough, they have no trouble understanding the points I'm making here)."

I love the "I've been totally civil" next sentence "heres a not at all subtle dig from me! LOOK HOW CLEVER I AM" Bravo for pretending you're taking the high road? I guess you convinced yourself and that seems to be all that matters for you. But yeah, one guy agreed with you while everyone else downvoted you. I guess this is better than you normally do so I can see why you're proud.

In closing, no, I don't strongly dislike you, or even care about you at all. I simply think that throwing a tantrum about a community, saying it is so terrible you have to leave because your opinions aren't popular, and then making up a bunch of idiotic, disingenuous straw men to make yourself feel better is stupid and is nothing but a detriment to this community. As I said originally, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Unfortunately this is not the first time this has happened here. We've had worse protests with many more dead and nothing happens. Maduro is just reading the script Chavez left him for whenever anything goes wrong.

There's this automatic solidarity among these latin American countries where they will cover each other's back as long as they help each other out. The govt keeps giving away our oil, so everyone stays quiet. The more desperate ones like Kirchner in Argentina immediately make loud statements.
I thought that was only for using the web on phones, but I just saw that it also works with Twitter and any app that supports proxies. Thanks!

This is one of those times when I wish there was a simple, secure messaging app for everyone. I don't know if apps like whisper or threema are 100% safe so I'm wary about recommending them.
Thank you. It is very frustrating to have a conversation with someone expecting a new technology to be fully baked upon delivery. Everything takes time, although in Bitcoin's case, it seems like a rocket ride compared to other technology adoption curves.
FedEx customs duty fee a convenience that makes them a lot of my money
Yea I was careful to qualify my preference as a "personal" one. As a former educator, I believe it can be helpful in some cases, especially for people in an "exploratory" stage where they haven't learned the best way to reason about things yet. However, once individuals start performing at a level where they have particular individual methodologies, pair programming manifests itself as an impedance mismatch.
launchd existed — albeit was decided against in large part down to licensing concerns (it was, at the time, only available under the Apple Public Source License 2.0 (APSL)), though a couple of months later it was re-licensed under the Apache License 2.0 to alleviate such concerns. OpenSolaris's SMF was considered too. AIUI both were purely decided against on licensing grounds, although they met the technical requirements.

Had launchd already been available under the Apache License 2.0 at the time, who knows, it might now be well-established on Linux. (AIUI, GPL compatibility is not an issue here — the problem is more the APSL isn't compatible with, e.g., the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) and hence would never be adopted by the Linux community at large.)
Clojurescript sane and pretty mature now. http://himera.herokuapp.com/synonym.html
Your confirmation email was sent to my spam folder.

Here's some things you can do to make your email look less like spam:

1.) Use Sublimall in the from field (never leave the from field blank).

2.) Include a physical address for your company somewhere in the message body.

3.) Use better english and include an explanation of what this email is, what triggered it, instructions to ignore the email if the recipient didn't request it.
Ford F150s Get A Military Upgrade
http://htpoint.com/featured-news/ford-f150s-get-military-upgrade/
Ok, maybe I'm wrong and there's already a way to cheat death you cunt...
Comments suggest this has been broken for more than a year
Will this work for syncing configuration between two computers running different OSes (Ubuntu and Windows)?
Why I Dropped Out Of YC
Yes of course!
This is already working.
Where are these hunter-gatherers who do not fall under the jurisdiction of a nation-state organization?
Cosmic inflation changed the expansion rate of the "explosion", but this doesn't mean there wasn't an explosion.

Cosmic inflation changed the density ratio between spacetime and mass/energy, but the entirety of the universe's mass/energy came into existence at the moment of the Big Bang. So yes, some explosion that.

Remember about this particular explosion that it wasn't an explosion of mass/energy into the empty space of a pre-existing universe, but an explosion of mass/energy and spacetime into nothing -- the Big Bang was space, time and mass/energy.

In other words, there was no "before" before the Big Bang, and there was no "outside" outside the Big Bang. The Big Bang was everything.

More detail here: http://arachnoid.com/gravity
I think the idea is wonderful. From an aesthetic perspective, it would help if you weren't in such a dark room :) Your pitch, which is on YouTube should have a link under it somewhere so I don't have to wonder if you said "Collegeinsideview" or "Collegeinsightview"

Keep it up, man. Seems like people are viewing and commenting on your site already.
Yes but with the caveat that what you can do is limited.

The bitcoind rpc interface exposes blockchain information about your local wallet and addresses you own only.

So it is great for that. However, let's say you wanted to do something like have the user input their bitcoin address into an input and you returned the balance or a history of transactions from that address. You couldn't actually do that unless you also got and imported the user's private key (effectively giving you control of it).

blockchain.info and similar services use custom code to do that stuff.
I don't think this is the same market. It's basically custom paint-by-numbers.
The point of the article was that this applies to a nearly post scarcity society. For example, suppose we lived in an Asimov style world where autonomous robots could produce enough food, clothing and housing to sustain everyone on Earth even if Every Single Person decided to never work again. In such a society, the basic income can be determined by what the robots can produce. I think it's interesting to think about what could be possible in a future society, as opposed to just the fact that this probably won't work today.
We are using TrueVault for Immunity Project. We have some bias since TrueVault is in our YC batch, but Jason and Trey worked 24/7 to help us with our HIPAA compliance needs. They used their API to build a custom portal for us to securely communicate patient data over a weekend. We highly recommend them.
I too could have said the exact same thing. My gf is listed on my my business continuity plan because whether she likes it or not she knows everything about my business (she is also awesome, luckily). I applied, interested to see what it's like and how I could help and be helped.
In principle, ok, but you wouldn't be able to see anything if that graph also included error bars for 100 climate models.
I don't know enough about meteorology to comment on the article, but this quote bugged me:

"And if humans are the cause of only, say, 50% of the warming (e.g. our published paper), then there is even less reason to force expensive and prosperity-destroying energy policies down our throats."

No, there's the exact same amount of reason. This isn't a morality play, who's "fault" it is doesn't matter. If there were a meteor heading towards us on a collision course, would we reason against sending Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to stop it because it wasn't caused by us?
Would she be interested in licensing her artwork to be reproduced in our marketplace?
95% of the climate models could also be wrong. Prior information could be wrong. Almost no atmosphere models resolve cloud cover properly.

Making sweeping statements like this is not encouraged in the scientific community. Now, that's not say we can't learn something from this graph. But to learn more, detail is needed in how the graph was generated. There's more to this than meets the eye.

I'm willing to be wrong, but I'd like to see all the facts first.
This is very interesting.. I'd like to hear more from experts in the field. I was never fully convinced that global warming was that bad. But then again I have always taken it for granted that we caused it, and that it has great effects on humans and animals.
i recall doing a couple of days of work experience at a similar age, perhaps a bit younger, where i was parked in front of an old linux machine and left to learn/play with some interpreted language i'd never seen before.

given i was only there for two days, this wasnt going to turn into some ongoing work, i think giving me some hands-on and engaging thing to do - despite it being totally independent to the project they were working on - was probably a good idea. from memory i found it pretty interesting.
You can't really see anything with 100 climate models without error bars. While your statement may be correct, the point is entirely moot.
Television is heavily censored. While protesters are being attacked by paramilitary groups and government forces, TV stations show soap operas and cartoons. Also, the government often makes nationwide broadcasts that forces all channels to show the same pro-government content (a "cadena", which literally means "chain".) This effectively leaves the population misinformed at the most critical moments, the country only has social networks to find out about abuses from the regime.

Some newspapers are still critical of the government, but I'm surprised to see many of them switch sides possibly because they've either been bought or blackmailed. You can feel self-censorship in some of them. Just like they silenced TV, they're trying to end freedom of speech in the press.
That does not address the above comment. Just because they aren't getting money for the installs does not mean that ubuntu isn't being used as a replacement for RHEL.
The "article" relies entirely on this faulty graph, and then draws spurious conclusions... The graph by itself may be forgivable, but surrounded by this pattern of faulty thinking it is just one more piece of nonsense.
My reaction to the examples was "it seems like they don't actually want me to be able to see what the results look like." The pictures are very badly-taken: weird angles, bizarrely limited depth-of-field so most of it is out of focus, too close to see much of the picture, etc.
Thank you for sharing. I've been thinking about building something similar for personal use just to make doing the groceries more efficient.

I'm also starting to learn machine learning so this should even make this mofe interesting.
The way the article does it (using pry rails) will make 'rails console' use pry, so it does affect my coworkers.

https://github.com/rweng/pry-rails/blob/master/Readme.md
This is where the guy loses me: "then there is even less reason to force expensive and prosperity-destroying energy policies down our throats" and "increase energy prices and freeze and starve more poor people to death for the greater good"

As if he gives a crap about poor people. People freeze not because of energy policies but because we have poor social welfare and exploitive foreign policy that itself is motivated by self serving right wingers who are exactly the people denying global warming. Pretending to care about the poor to make this point is frankly disgusting.
> No, there's the exact same amount of reason. This isn't a morality play, who's "fault" it is doensn't matter.

Of course it matters -- in terms of the amount of impact human activity has on the climate. The less impact it has, the less beneficial you can expect energy policies to be to the environment. Since these policies have a non-trivial cost in terms of human suffering (less energy for heating, growing food, etc.), it is crucial to estimate their effectiveness.
India Unveils Astronaut Capsule
DOGE please!
More on the author of this post:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/skeptic_Roy_Spencer.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Spencer_(scientist)#Views

Another interpretation of this post:

http://www.reddit.com/r/skeptic/comments/1xuccb/95_of_climat...

(also see ovis's link in a reply below)

Regarding very similar claims:

https://www.skepticalscience.com/curry-mcintyre-resist-ipcc-...

http://www.skepticalscience.com/ipcc-model-gw-projections-do...
Thank you. What we are seeing here is nothing more than a rationalization and opportunistic bolstering of his preexisting belief system.

In the end global warming might be better than we're expecting but it is the political and social inferences, like in the quote you included, that belie his true intent.
So this is a scraper that just scrapes links?
Definitely a good community, have a look at all of the type libraries alone:

https://github.com/borisyankov/DefinitelyTyped
If we're only the cause of 50% of the warming that implies curbing our behavior only has half the impact that it would if we caused 100% of the warming. Granted, geoengineering projects that impact total warming are different.
I think part of the reason you might see some bugs in the Bitcoin code is because it is C++ code managing low level things like memory and threading.

You don't get static typing with nodejs, but you can probably simplify the implementation somewhat by not dealing with low level details and therefore actually get some safety. But aside form that justification there is also the fact that a lot of people won't touch C++ and a code base like this allows a lot more developers to read and understand the protocol.

I guess the ideal implementation would be a modern statically typed language like Rust, Go, or Haskell.
It doesn't matter in a moral sense. If someone proves that CO2 emissions don't cause global warming, then yeah, it makes it less effective to focus on CO2 emissions. But we still want to stop warming from happening, so we'd increase our efforts on whatever they pinpoint as the alternative cause.

The linked article I was rebutting wasn't making that utilitarian case, they were making a moral case about not being obligated to avert warming at all, which I think is thoroughly bullshit, because I live here.
Background reading: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Spencer_(scientist)
I have the 7za binary specified but I get a 7zip not found error (OS X, p7zip from brew)
Let's just link to the debunking and move on.

https://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-stopped-in-1...

https://www.skepticalscience.com/The-Oceans-Warmed-up-Sharpl...

https://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-models.htm

https://www.skepticalscience.com/skeptic_Roy_Spencer.htm
I think you're missing the point. Climate change policy is an optimization problem: how much money do we spend (either active on counter-measures or passively by capping energy usage) to reduce temperature change by some amount. If we can only affect it half as much as we thought we could, would we still spend the same amount? Maybe, but it's not exactly a no-brainer.
Numerically illiterate horsepuckey.

For example:
If 100% of climate models predicted a rise of 10-14C (mean 12C), and we observed a rise of 11C, this doesn't mean that the models are 'wrong', and it CERTAINLY doesn't mean that "the observations must be wrong."

It does mean that there's some potentially interesting correlation in the models' errors, I guess.

[Or, as cjensen said: 'Thou shalt not make a graph without error bars']
node-bitcoin is just an interface to bitcoind, so you also need to run bitcoind. bitcoinjs, cryptocoinjs, (and now bitcore) are stand-alone javascript implementations which replace bitcoind.
http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-the-case-of-the-mi...
If the impact of global warming is significantly smaller than predicted and the human-induced contribution to that reduced warming is also much smaller than claimed, then expensive "green" policies indeed need to be reevaluated. Your fault reasoning has nothing to do with it.

Think of it from a programming perspective. You've suddenly discovered that your program runtime wasn't near as slow as you thought. Plus you've shown that most of the runtime is driven by systems external to your code. It makes sense to reconsider how much effort to invest in for code optimization.
To anybody reading this article, While Dr. Spencer does have real credentials, he is a know denier. I'm not saying that makes him necessarily wrong, but he is extremely biased in his views, and often publish research to back up those biased views. So I think he's comments should be taken with a grain of salt.
It's more likely improper DNS settings. Possibly sending from a server not listed in the MX record and not explicitly allowed by an SPF TXT.
Excellent links.
Can you run:

which 7za

In your terminal and give me return ?
I'm a natural skeptic, so when everyone believes something I think that is the most important time to question it. I found Economist Bjorn Lomborg's take on climate change to be very impactful... http://www.ted.com/talks/bjorn_lomborg_sets_global_prioritie...

The basic idea is: that given our limited resources how can we do the most good? The answer is that focusing that effort on climate change is frivolous even by the most optimistic predictions. Now that doesn't mean we should ignore it entirely. I'm generally of the mindset that problems aren't solved by "steady progress" rather by radical innovation that changes the game. To that point... it can be seen as a waste of time to enforce rules today that really won't make a difference tomorrow. Instead today's effort should be spent to enable the rapid innovation that when applied will actually make a significant difference tomorrow.
that's a bit strange to me, there is a lot of economic activity for to be gathered from re-newing things and insulating houses in rich countries. It's just rich kids churning around disposable income in products made by poor people (basic trickle down), it's not really relevant if it's for new gas-guzzler cars parts and AC units or insulation panels and busses they spend it on.
"It is a little known fact that the extra carbon dioxide (and methane, an especially potent greenhouse gas) emitted by joggers accounts for close to 10% of the current Global Warming problem." [1]

Ban gym class! Ban exercise!

[1] http://www.ideasinactiontv.com/tcs_daily/2005/06/time-for-ac...
No. You can extract any content you want from the page (incl. text, images, links) just not meta elements or invisible ones (e.g. <title> or anything else that usually shows up in <head> for that matter)