skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So -according to Landsea- IPCC (an international scientific organization) is moving in ways that are more political than scientific. Weird and disturbing. Weird because I'd expect such an organization to be gravitating towards big industrial nations' interests if we're to assume that they are susceptible to lobbying - not the other way around. Disturbing because if they are doing politics rather than science then we have a different kind of problem which is that the bodies of experts that we should be trusting on very complex subjects are not to be trusted and I don't know where that leaves us as a society.

I'll accept the point of not putting forward very well researched links but to my defence:
1. Climatology is far from my expertise. As is microbiology, or nuclear power or space exploration. And that's why I'm ok with paying people (from my taxes) to have an educated opinion on such matters.
2. as you probably know it's quite difficult to find who are the generally respectful scientists (remember dismissing a whole lot of them just a while ago (IPCC)).
3. I -sorry about that- thought that we're past scepticism on the subject as I have only seen that attitude only in conspiracy theorists (right or left leaning).
4. I pitted the problem as a problem that can (or at least should) be solved in the same way that humans have been improving their lives - with ingenuity and a mind for the society as a whole.

Anyway - thank you for your long and researched answer and I sincerely hope that Landsea is right because I don't believe that we're about to change anything in our ways any time soon.
LMCTFY is a "container" implementation by Google's traditional definition, which is very focused on isolation and less so on namespacing, filesystem, and packaging. We've added namespace support recently, but we do not have the things that make Docker really interesting to most people - the build process, the packaging, the runtime.

LMCTFY is just a piece of what Docker does. They can be made to work together, even.
The fact that people think this is reasonable really worries me.
Why Hollywood loves dystopian science fiction
One thing I wanted to mention earlier, didn't have time:

The pop song that comprises the first two pages of results for the "maybe there is a god" search is actually called "Mabye There's A Loving God." That's close to the search text, but it's not an exact match.

The MeFi page mentioned in the article contains the exact phrase "maybe there is a god" in the title. And it shows up on page eight of my search results. That is ridiculous.

You can argue that MeFi wasn't singled out on purpose, that algorithms change and there are bigger benefits elsewhere that I'm not seeing in this case and blah blah blah, and I don't know about any of that. No opinion.

But I think you're going to have a hard time arguing that these search results are in any way more accurate, more relevant, or better than the older results were.

And that is very much of a piece with recent, more general criticism of Google's search: That it's simply not as good, not as useful, as it used to be.
As a fellow "travel hacker" that was the first thought that crossed my mind.
Condos are a complete nightmare, I don't know why people go for them. It's like having none of the benefits of home ownership with all the downsides of renting. Then you have HOA's on top of that. Also I hope no one on the board is crazy!

No thank you.
Take a look who is getting up-voted and who gets down-voted. Now open your eyes and think.
I just tried to go through the coveredca.com application process and it was a nightmare. It took me 5 hours, spread over two days, 3 tech support calls (I never call tech support!), and 3 different web browsers to get through it.

1. Fill out the very first part of the application - just basic name and address - click "continue". Error page. WAT.

2. Notice they have an outline view of the application. Use that to get to get past the error page. Now it's asking for my "Certificate of Citizenship" number. WAT. No form I have ever filled out - tax returns, financial aid forms, employment forms, DMV forms - nothing has ever asked me for this. Spend a day searching for it.

3. Finally find the number, fill it in, click "continue". Error page. WAT.

4. Use the outline again to get to the income section. It lists me twice, as if there are two separate brikis98's in my household. It even asks me "how is brikis98 related to brikis98"? WAT.

5. Call to tech support #1. After 45 minutes of messing with the application, clearing cookies, logging out/in, we couldn't figure out how to remove the extra "me". There is no way to completely restart an application. Solution from tech support: sign up for a completely new account - new user name, password, etc - but don't enter your SSN too early or it'll detect the duplicate account. WAT.

6. Sign up for a new account. Start filling out the application from scratch. Error page. WAT.

7. Use the outline trick again. Go to income section. No duplicate "me" this time - yay! However, now it asks for "monthly income". I just left my job, so my monthly income is zero... but I obviously had a monthly income the first 5 months of this year. Call to tech support #2. They tell me to take all the money I've made this year, divide it by 12, and put that as a monthly income. WAT.

8. Finish filling out the application. Get to a page that has a button to "See Eligible Plans". Click the button. Error page. WAT. There is no outline view to get past this one.

9. Call to tech support #3. After half an hour more, the suggestion is to try another browser. I switch to Firefox. It tells me coveredca.com does not have a valid SSL cert. WAT.

10. Switch to Safari. No complaints about the cert. Log in, click the "See Eligible Plans" button. The page loads - yay! However, the UI is broken, with strange scrollbar-in-a-scrollbar setup that makes it very tough to browse the plans. Download PDFs of each one for easier reading.

After all that, I found that the plans were all way overpriced for the comically bad benefits they offered.
Which country was this in? I find it incredible...is it everywhere like this?
> appropriating and refusing to acknowledge earlier works from women—specifically, appropriating Shanley’s identically-titled, incredibly-similar “What Can Men Do?,”

You mean two different human beings thought about blogging about a popular tech issue? With an obvious title? Atwood must feel ashamed. What an appropriator.
Heh. While drafting the above I decided to omit WWII production numbers, such as 18,482 B-24 Liberator heavy bombers (the all time record for a single type), or perhaps more comparable, as long as we're talking heavy bombers:

3,970 B-25s Superfortresses, which we kept using for a long time, along with a B-50 upgrade, 370 units.

384 B-36 Peacemakers.

744 B-52 Stratofortresses (but we actually used them in hot wars).

100 B-1B Lancers, although they were built as stopgaps, and the remaining active fleet of 67 have had their nuclear weapon capability removed.

21 B-2 Spirits, for like the F-22 we stopped production way too early.

Anyway, the problem here is that, someday, we're going to fight a serious hot war again, and these paltry numbers, which will decline due to wear and tear and operational losses won't suffice absent it going nuclear. ALL F-15s built have a nasty problem with a structural defect, what was built was not what was specified (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-15#Structural_defects) ... the F-35 looks like our generation's TFX....

Anyone want to bet the F/A-18F Super Hornet will play the same historical role the F-4 Phantom II?
I think this article hits the nail on the head with the statement "built by statisticians, for statisticians". As a statistics student, I have found the majority of proponents of Python or Julia, as R replacements, are developers who complain either about R's speed or problems such as type checking when deploying R applications. On the other hand, most statisticians I have spoke with seem to prefer R to anything else - CRAN has a lot to do with that I think.
It works really well if you have a programmable thermostat (Nest or otherwise). Particularly if you are at work during the high afternoon temperatures. If you're at home frequently during those periods, or in an area where it does not cool off until 9 pm, it probably does not make sense. A high insulation rating helps, too.
indeed. i wish the social justice crowd had come up with a better phrase than "check your privilege", because if people like the op only realised it, this is precisely what it is referring to.
I've never heard of an invasion of privacy suit against a homeowner, and I couldn't imagine it succeeding. What reasonable expectation of privacy do you have when being in someone else's home without consent?

And when you read more on many of those assault charges, you realize there's more to the story. Some I've seen:

Man's alarm and CCTV system alerts him to intruder. He doesn't call 911, but plans ambush, injures burglar, and only then summons help.

Man alerted to burglar as burglar is leaving premises, shoots burglar in back as burglar has left home but not property, attempts to claim he felt his life in danger, even though the burglar had not discovered him, and was in fact leaving the premises.
Posted this on the blog as well, but some here might find it useful.

Instead of duplicating code to implement common/middleware functionality, I like to just pass around functions. I usually just have one makeStandardHandler type function that covers most cases. For the special cases, I can easily combine middleware in any order for the desired result.

// Execution timing middleware
func makeTimingHandler(fn func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request)) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
requestStartTime := time.Now()
fn(w, r)
totalRequestTime := time.Now().Sub(requestStartTime)
log.Printf("URL: %s TIME: %s", r.URL.Path, totalRequestTime.String())
}
}

// Serve up one file
func makeSingleFileHandler(file string) http.HandlerFunc {
return func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
http.ServeFile(w, r, file)
}
}

func main() {
...
http.HandleFunc("/robots.txt", makeTimingHandler(makeSingleFileHandler("./s/robots.txt")))
http.HandleFunc("/", makeTimingHandler(indexHandler))
...
}
> It's amazing how crappy Google results are nowadays. It's all Buzzfeed, Crackle, Y!A, WikiHow, eHow, and other garbage results akin to those garbage sites.

I think this is just a sign of the fact that the web has come of age and everyone is on it -- the things that people are actually most likely to be looking for no longer correspond very well to the things people who were actively and heavily using the web in, say, 1998, were looking for.
30 year mortgage is simply too long for me. I don't have that kind of stability. Mortgage term limit should be 10 years or maybe 15 with 20% down, that would solve a lot of problems. Before you say that I can choose to pay it off in 10 years - I can't. Too many dinks in my area are maxing out on their 30 year mortgages and inflating the cost of housing all around - I wouldn't be able to afford payments on 10 year term loan.
Catchy Song, fat guy dancing
This guy can dance... the video editing needs work, but the song is catchy! I can't get it out of my head... also, this fatty can dance! Great message too... about breaking out of your stereotypes... and embracing who you are! Great pop song! Kesha and GaGa better watch out for this guy!
Ah, the classic "I can't make a substantive argument so I'll just dismiss you" gambit. It's a bit overplayed though.

I really have to take exception at your suggestion that I haven't read enough things written by women, because I have: from The Tale of Genji to Feminist Interpretations of Saint Augustine
Apparently not...Google--the fair and balanced search engine--decided that ads and Google's own properties are better.

Have you noticed Google's earnings reports that mention a 20+% increase in ad clicks every quarter? Where do you think that's coming from? From shifting traffic away from other sites to Google, so instead of going to Metafilter Google decides that a G+ post of youtube video is better,
Here's the issue...our product is an html5 cross-platform web conferencing platform. Users simply click on a link to join a session. Our product isn't an extension - it's simply html and javascript.

So basically you're saying that we either need to change the architecture of our app for Chrome so that it is an extension, or else put the screen-sharing part into an extension. (I'm guessing our entire app would need to be an extension, due to 'sandboxing', although I'm not certain). To be honest I'm not sure why we should change to an extension just for chrome (and just to get screen sharing). It's a bit like telling us we need to rewrite our app in NaCl just for chrome :)

Ideally I would like a cross-platform screen sharing feature in getUserMedia, similar to how it worked in Chrome (but without the user having to set any flags).

I don't really buy the arguments in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-rtcweb-security-06#sec.... Worst case is a dumb user gives permission to screen share to a dodgy site which then reads their bank balance and/or emails (but can't get access to any passwords). If that's a concern then why not just have a small preview window showing exactly what is being shared?
This isn't twitter, and threaded comments are supported.
At this page you can download all historical Betfair price data in CSV format.

https://promo.betfair.com/betfairsp/prices/index.php
I was expected to work or be available on vacation the entire time I worked at a startup. Once the company was bought by a larger company, I received 5 weeks of vacation, that I still was required to be available and work.

Only after I left the unit I was in, was it respected that I was not to be contacted.

Edit: I'd also add I had to work all day on Christmas one year, and I know others in very similar situations.

Friends with a security engineer at a company everyone would know. He can't even get a normal work day right now, or a single day off in a week.

It certainly happens.
So you don't care about injustice you witness and you don't want others to either?

Women already have less power because they are in a minority. It seems as though you want them to take responsibility for all cultural change.

It sounds as though you don't think there is a problem.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence — those default values reflect the current market, and it’s a reflection of the market being fairly efficient. For example, if investment return rates were consistently higher, you could expect mortgage rates to rise as well. Taxes introduce some inefficiency, but I think the broader point still holds.
Launching Two-Step Verification
Yeah, this. I recently moved to the Los Angeles area. Even many houses have HOAs. One of the HOAs we looked at had the rule that your garage door was not allowed to be open unless your car was entering or exiting the garage.

Ultimately we found a place without one. But all newer construction (1990 or later) we looked at had an HOA.
Agreed, it's fun to speculate! I love this stuff.

So my understanding of FHE is that it can take an arbitrary circuit (any arbitrary program) and convert it into a circuit which operates on encrypted data.

That means it must be possible to write the equivalent of

if (op == OP_ADD) { /* interpret addition bytecode */ }
else if (op == OB_MUL) { /* interpret multiplication bytecode */ }
...

etc, where "op" is encrypted data. By extension, you can write an entire interpreter for encrypted bytecodes.

Now, when the program executes, it's obviously possible to monitor it and watch what's being done. However, until it executes, the bytecode remains secret. That means it should be possible to ship programs which are impossible to analyze until they're actually executed.

It's a common malware technique to write a program which contains an encrypted subprogram, which is only decryptable on a certain target machine. (For example, you could use a specific computer's MAC address as an ecryption key, which means no reverse engineer can analyze it except on that specific machine.)

FHE, on the other hand, provides the opportunity to ship a turing-complete interpreter to everyone, which executes encrypted bytecodes which can't be analyzed until execution time. That means a FHE program could be a timebomb set to wipe your harddrive at some specific date and you wouldn't know it, since the best you could determine beforehand is "this interpreter sometimes tries to execute shell commands" without actually seeing which commands it's capable of executing in practice until it's too late.
It strikes me as odd that this is considered a legitimate offer by some (most?) people. The whole existence of FaceBook is dependent on collecting data from people - why would they offer to check privacy unless it was an attempt to collect more data?
4. The MotoX lock screen sometimes unlocked with a swipe of a dot, and sometimes up from the bottom depending on wether there was an unaddressed notification. Incredibly annoying. You can unlock an iPhone 100% of the time blindly while pulling it out of your pocket. Not so Android.

5. No, it doesn't really. Because on iOS the convention is top-left. If it's not there, then you don't have that functionality in that app/area (obvious right?). On Android? Who knows what it does before you try it within a given app? Is it going to go "back"? Is it going to goto another app? The home screen? No idea.

7. iOS notifications are just better. I unpacked my MotoX. After following the first couple tasks in the Notifications list I wondered what that weird misaligned stack icon did. So I hit it. No more task list! Whatever Motorolla wanted me to see there and follow up on was just gone for good with no way to retrieve it. The universally praised "Active Notifications" on the MotoX? Never could figure out what's so "Active" about them. They don't seem to do anything iOS doesn't do except limit you to taking action on only the latest one (that's bad), and changing up how you unlock the phone (that's 0 for 2 bad).

I'll toss another one out there: The 90's called and they want their SMS App back. ;-)

I go back and forth between iOS and Android. Had a Nexus One. It was stolen. Got a 4S. Traded in an iPhone 5 for the MotoX. Traded in the MotoX for a 5C. This time I've kept my 5C and ordered a Sony Z Ultra GPE.

There's some neat things about Android for sure. But it's hard to believe there's people out there who are frequent users of both and think a superior UX is one of those things.

edit: Side note: I'm not sure I've ever seen such a down-vote brigade in effect on HN before. No replies, just down votes? If that doesn't scream fan-boy brigade I don't know what does...
Given the scores of my posts have been ping-ponging around all day, I'm not sure the evidence lies where you think it does.
Yes, that's pretty much been my assumption. Perhaps you might also be watching longer videos on YouTube from home or using more Google services from home - but I think it does have more to do with residential adoption.
The article is about surface external bacteria - which are very, very different to the bacterial colonies which live inside your digestive system (and also only there - if any of those get inside your circulatory system that's where most "flesh eating bacteria" horror stories start from).

There's a naturalistic fallacy heavily at play here, because humans have never before lived in such close proximity in such high density dwellings as they do today. The idea that this doesn't merit some forward thinking on how we manage personal hygiene standards is ridiculous.
Box Sync update 'misplaces' hundreds of files, creates multiple versions
I have over 20 GB of files on box. I use it to access the files from my Mac, Win 7 PC and iPad. Two days ago, I got a notification on my Mac indicating a new update for Box Sync was available. I executed it. After the update, it gave a notification that files were being migrated to a new folder and I should 'not use Box Sync' during the migration. I left my MacBook alone but noticed that Box was doing a Sync. After a while I returned. There was a new 'Box Sync' folder. I started working. Upon trying to open a file, I found it missing from the sub-folder in the Box Sync folder. I had worked for hours on this doc the night before. After several painful minutes of panic, I found that there was another new folder 'Box Sync backup (not synced). This had 216 files in multiple folders in it. Luckily, including the file I had been working on.

My entire set Box folders is a mess. I did the update on my Mac, here I have 200+ files off to another folder tree. Many of these files are duplicates of the files in the Box Sync folder, but different versions. On my Windows PC, I still have the older folder structure, with older versions of files. This is not only true for files I edited the night before, but files I have not touched for days.

I files ticket immediately with Box. It is over 30 hours and I have no response from them. When I open any file now I have to manually run a search on my Mac to verify that there is not another copy of it in the 'other' Box folder tree. I have no confidence when I edit a file on my PC that I was working on the latest version and it will sync back to my Mac.

Anyone else suffer this fate? Is there any guidance on how to resolve it? Do I have no option but to manually examine and move files from the backup to the Box Sync folder?
There is apparently problems with the opposite that may be occurring now in our society.

The bacterial ecosystem of our guts is very poorly understood. However, we are starting to discover that some forms of obesity, irritable bowl and related disorders such as Crohn's Disease may be linked to an imbalance of gut bacteria. Possible culprits include overuse of antibiotics particularly in milk and meat; extreme cleanliness; and Cesarean sections as your gut bacteria is inherited from your mother during birth. We also know that there are some bacteria which have very positive effects, the so-called probiotics.

We need these things to survive properly and in a lot of cases it is more about having the right balance than getting rid of them.

I speak as a spouse of someone with Crohn's Disease who has been largely treated through diet and bacterial management. I don't have quite the grounding in the science as she does, but we have seen the effects.

In short, excessive cleanliness in our modern society may actually be making people ill. We need to find the right balance.
Read the "Founders at Work" chapter on Max Levchin and Paypal. In PayPal's early stages, there were multiple companies all trying to do online money transfers securely. They were all fighting fraud to the tune of millions of dollars daily. Eventually, PayPal was the first to figure out some ingenious ways to combat fraud. With the first reliable online money transfer network, they were able to dominate the market, especially on Ebay then the largest ecommerce site.
tl;dr - Winner-take-all market.
The only ones that don't end up with the lowest common denominator of ads: scams, insurance, loans, and diploma mills, which is as much of a UX loss as a revenue loss.
> If you're at home frequently during those periods, or in an area where it does not cool off until 9 pm, it probably does not make sense.

Although this is something you have control of as well. For the right amount of money, I can arrange to be out with my friends when it is hottest, then come home later. :)
At the recent dotScale conference in Paris, Robert Kennedy explained how he managed to fix the site.

See: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dotScale%20Robert%20Kennedy
It's not a visceral reaction. Those tend to be far less polite.

It's a reaction to the idea that men having their own struggles must, invariably, be parsed as a zero-sum game against women, and the toxic idea that for men to benefit, somehow women must lose.