skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To bring this iceberg around a bit closer to tech culture...

California is already being hit by drought, and NASA's climate change models suggest the drought can be expected to get worse as the temperature shift due to AGW increases [http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/todays...]. Silicon Valley is, of course, located in California. Does / should this news make people bearish on further deep investment in the Valley if a possible consequence of resource loss is a destabilization of that region (I don't mean "Mad Max", but one would assume that water rationing will have some negative impact on the startup scene in CA)?
I've had this happen to me a lot lately, and my assumption is that it has to do with my VPN – are you using a VPN?
"Global sea level rise of 11 feet"

I would really like to see a more clear explanation as to how they extrapolated that estimation from the data.
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Seeing the rep makes sense, but the rep doesn't need to see you. Unless you've broken off the car controls in your hand and want to show them. Otherwise it seems rather a massive net negative.
We're using Swagger incorporated with Flask-Restful, which has been quite straightforward to setup and maintain. I like ReadMe, but I feel like it needs stronger integrations to be compelling - e.g. autogenerating code examples for various languages.
The new MacBook's single port comes with a security risk
OMG, colo. I've been the architect of a Top 500 website acquired by a Top 100 and even for that we just rented a few servers (you'd be surprised how few -- a dozen or so). I do not really know how big you need to be make colo a sensible choice but quite probably much, much bigger than most think of. We ran the numbers and they weren't pretty.

And for cloud: we purchased video conversion as a service, that one ran in the cloud. I can see how that makes sense.
Yes, it's been seen before. However it's worth seeing again -- fundamental truths are like that.

The straightforward lessons for personal fitness are important, but also the business insights:

Here's the problem: If you're in the fitness-equipment business, free weights are a loser. The 2010 model looks too much like the 1950 model, and they both last forever. Far better to create gleaming $4,000 contraptions that can be reinvented every two years, and then hire a PR firm to promote some made-up training theory claiming that machines are the answer...

Commercial health clubs need about 10 times as many members as their facilities can handle, so designing them for athletes, or even aspiring athletes, makes no sense....

But the personal-training business model doesn't include teaching (or even learning) the fundamentals anyway. Trainers make a living by keeping clients coming back; fundamentals liberate clients to train themselves. So the savvy trainer tells you that these days, it's all about "functional fitness," a complex integration of balance and stability and strength....

Shaul gave me a great gift that day, cluing me in to a little secret: True sport-specific training, for literally everybody except elite athletes, isn't sport-specific at all. It's about getting strong, durable, and relentless in simple, old-school ways that a man can train, test, and measure.

Previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7371478

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5224634

Oh, and single-page link: http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/everything-yo...
>Saying that we don't have to worry because smarter than human intelligences will have a better understanding of morality is also missing the point. All currently known mathematical formalisms for decision-making allow you to plug in arbitrary utility functions, including "immoral" ones. Thinking that future decision-making formalisms will support only "moral" utility functions is extreme wishful thinking.

I'm going to play Devil's Advocate on this.

While it is true that all known decision-making formulas allow for immoral utility functions, I think it's a flaw of current approaches, such as reinforcement learning, that they only allow nonspecific utility functions. I can't write down an AI program to maximize paperclips -- there's no way, in current formalisms, to specify what that means.

I think the FAI ideologues and the mainstream machine-learning community can both rally around the prospect of being able to specify a goal in terms other than reinforcement. Scientifically, that's an entirely sensible research question for the field of AI/ML to tackle, and it also constitutes a major step away from the scenarios in which a dangerous AGI winds up accidentally programmed with random, arbitrary goals that nobody actually wanted. After all, fundamental philosophical questions aside, a machine that flies out of control at random when turned on is simply a bad machine.
> When and why would anyone need to see the driver or the driver a CS rep? How does that help in any kind of scenario that is relevant to driving a rental vehicle?

Honestly, I think its one of those features that provides no actual value but looks good in commercials. That doesn't mean its not something a company would choose to provide, though,
I agree that Rails applications are more complex. But having 100+ gems in GitLab also allows us to reuse a lot of great libraries and deliver features faster. But cgit will always be more performant.
Thanks a lot!

I haven't received an answer yet from the Ephyra maintainer.
How does having a camera help deliver a better service? What real use cases are there for the rep needing to see from that viewpoint?
It's not reasonable to call this a "brain-numbingly stupid" question. The question is legit for someone who has either not studied or not read about the subject matter, but primarily is aware of it via news reporting and random discussions. It's somewhat fair, though still impolite, to call it ignorant. It's fairest to call a question (or questioner) confused. But ignorance and confusion are things that we can fix: by answering the posed question or providing a source to material that can answer the question.

Best solution? Don't call someone's question ignorant or stupid. Instead, be a decent human being and help alleviate the confusion by answering the question.
The article says the car would need to be stationary to activate the feature.
>It seems like magic to me that you can see the climate twenty years from now, but not e.g. whether it is going to rain next week.

If that seems magical to you, then most of the world should seem like magic rather than science. We can predict all sorts of things over long time scales that we can't predict over short time scales, and we do it all the time. We can't predict turbulence or the exact way that steam will rise from a hot cup of tea, but we can predict the amount of steam and the average speed of its rising.

And if you think that you have any sorts of technical chops, familiarize yourself with things like the Lorentz attractor, for which we can not predict exact trajectories, but we can predict where the two attractors are.
Nice article and good job implementing it. I would have preferred a small explanation of the filter graph option (-lavfi), but I guess that's outside the scope of the post.
It's your opinion and I have no problem with it.
The author has choosen wrong profession. As work makes up a good part of your life, you better enjoy it.
Actually programming "business stuff" is quite different from tinkering with e.g. the newest machine learning algorithm, so talking of "programming" is a over simplification and indicates the author never got a grasp of what other people actually enjoy when "programming".
Go to an SSL site and see who has signed the certificate.

Then go to the same site on your smartphone (on 3G, not wifi) and see who has signed it. Are they different?

Note, unless it is a company issued phone it should show the real certificate, but this method is only about 99% safe (in case you were tricked into install an incorrect certificate on your phone at some point).
Perhaps all hard limits on building height could be removed, but with the addition of a new rule that requires every new residential building to have 1 level of parking garage for every 3 stories it has (or some other similar ratio). Then, if you wanted to build a 15 story apartment building you would be allowed to, but you'd have to provide enough parking garage to satisfy all of those people.

The problem then is parking in commercial districts. Street parking is good for businesses on that street, but a better solution could be more city-run parking garages in good locations, and city streets in commercial areas that are optimized for pedestrians.

The best example of this I have ever seen is down-town Silver Spring in Maryland. That was several years ago, I hear they tore a bunch of it up, but it at least used to be great.
Clearly the sane solution is then for everyone to own a car. Because that's what people use cars for in the city, moving heavy stuff.

This just sounds like concern-trolling.
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> only factor

I wonder if someone has done a study how many strawmen it takes to put doubt into sciencey things.

Clearly, we should keep pumping stuff into our bodies and the atmosphere and until science proves with 100% testable consensus that it could have bad consequences.
> If you extrapolate from the amount of progress we have made toward AGI in the last 50 years (ie, none)

That's an odd way of defining progress.

> There are intellectual problems that humans aren't capable of solving; it wouldn't make any sense to talk about "superhuman intelligence" if that wasn't the case.

A superhuman intelligence doesn't necessarily have to come up with solutions humans would never think of, it just needs to come up with a solution in less time, or with less available data, or with fewer attempts.
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The Antarctic ice sheet is not only gigantic, larger than the continental United States, but it is kilometers thick.

Take the fraction of the volume that's anticipated to melt and spread that over the ocean, and you get that 11 foot number.

The Wikipedia page, for what it's worth, estimates that the sea level would rise 70 meters if the whole thing melted. Plus, if Antarctica melted, then all ice would've melted, including Greenland, so we'd be even more screwed.

You're right that there's not enough data here, though. I'm sure the calculation is far from simple since the ice-sheet varies dramatically in terms of topology both on the surface and underwater.
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I was more interested in the religious implications of the ring, wondering how much Islam had penetrated Slavic/Scandinavian cultures, and if individuals incorporated the Islamic God into their (personal) pantheons.

Would make for some interesting historical fiction, but this find is at most a footnote in history.
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True, but it is only SNI. That won't work on Windows XP and Android 2.x. I suspect that the extra cost to get traditional SSL would be worth it for Glassdoor.
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As others have mentioned, the quickest way to be as productive on a MacBook as previously on a Windows Box is to install and run Windows. Problem solved: get on with developing software. Just researching 'tips and tricks' is already a drag on productivity.

Switching operating systems will typically create a non-trivial learning curve for at least a few weeks anywhere that a person has to perform system administration. Eleswhere, EMACS is EMACS (so to speak).
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All UGC sites need a browser plugin that presents the UGC ownership clauses in a nearby yellow box, whenever someone is submitting new content.
OnStar has cameras in your car?
Agreed. You are only ever as secure as your weakest link. If someone else has your device that is not protected by a pin and you are not able to remotely wipe or lock, then you probably have bigger problems.

I like seeing these sorts of solutions put to use. It will be even more user friendly with the use of Apple Watch, as an example, if you are accessing your account on something other than your phone.

Now, email is a pretty important thing, so it may not be the best place to experiment with new login methods. I like the way searchpath.io uses email authentication, rather than passwords, and I am implementing something similar for a side project.
and if you have more than one? or more than one dc?
somebody needs to connect it, or you will need a VPN.
it's not that easy without Clouds if you need connected servers.
We switched to AWS since connecting servers in a dc isn't as cheap as people think of.
Bit.ly does give analytics but it isn't as insightful as Google's.

It's sort of the same reason why, people love Kiss Metrics as opposed to using the internal analytics on a CMS like Wordpress.

Whereas Google's downfall is when you use their service, all URLs are public and can be traced to the source.

Hope this clarifies my preference.
> We where unlikely to merge it because the code quality was low

Oh, so it's not because "there already is a nice implementation in EE." Ok.

It's also in disagreement with what you sad on the EE announcement:

"If the community develops code for a feature that is already in EE we will certainly consider merging it or open sourcing the EE feature. This depends on several factors including the seriousness of the merge request, the number of GitLab users requesting this feature and if the feature is useful for small and medium size organizations."¹

For at least this particular feature the community is clearly interested (just by looking at the +1 on the github issue), but you continue to handle the CE version as "demo" software for EE. Which is ok. Just say so clearly.

¹https://about.gitlab.com/2013/07/22/announcing-gitlab-enterp...
Really neat experience!
Time is often managed at a lower pay scale than money and is less likely to be micromanaged. It is generally easier for a developer or manager to squeeze in a few extra hours working on a specific need than it is to get the equivalent money dedicated to the exact same issue. This is probably because most companies look at their employee's salaries as sunk costs and fail to factor in the opportunity cost of an employee's time. Not saying that is the correct way to do things, just what I have discovered through experience.
I'm curious about this. What are the risks? I use my work device for everything. I can't afford to buy a laptop just for personal usage.
If only iOS (and Android?) allowed you to play inline videos the way you can on the desktop, and the way they play animated GIF's inline. Besides allowing us to adopt video throughout and save on bandwidth and have better video quality, this will be a huge productivity boost to developers: we can finally stop having the GIF vis JIF pronunciation debate.
That is an interesting pattern that essentially does what I need and is much easier to macro expand. Nice job on the pattern!
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Not if the others do the same. For example, which smartphone will you buy that protects your privacy? Which app will you download?

With expertise and effort, you might find some that meet your needs, but often competition and the marketplace provide no choice for consumers on important issues.
>With some foresight we might have thought to develop solar power more urgently, for example, but no one thought we needed to.

With some foresight, people were trying to develop solar, nuclear, and fusion all the way back in the '60s and '70s, but political interests ensured that research funding was reallocated towards shorter-term political projects.
Yeah. I pay for GitHub micro plan and indeed for my personal libraries I use bitbucket. It got a decent cli so I create the remote repo from my terminal.

I would love to use GitHub more, but it becomes pricey for 20+ repos.
The Blizzard of 78 caught people almost totally by surprise. It also had some of the same snow accumulation from multiple storms issue that this year had.

For years, just about everyone at least knew a friend of a friend who got stuck on Route 128 and had to be evacuated or got stuck at their office for multiple days. As a result, people in the Boston area were really paranoid about heading home if there was a storm coming. Some I know said to me once that they had never seen any northern city where people were so anxious to get going when it started snowing.

(I was in Cambridge in 78 but at school with no car so it was pretty much just a memorable and fun experience.)
Thanks! That's a great idea and I'm looking to publish some stats after the first month.
Do hotels have a way of attributing revenue to TripAdvisor?
It was one of my first projects and the first time I did anything with cryptography. I expected it to have some security holes but discontinued it for lack of time, I was just offering the domain here (;
I recently found myself in need of a semaphore in go. They're quite easy to make out of channels:

Implementation:

https://github.com/scraperwiki/s4log/blob/master/semaphore.g...

Use:

https://github.com/scraperwiki/s4log/blob/2714f9553880121ad6...

Useful for:

1. Writing a web handler which may use some CPU time and you don't want too many of them in flight at once (to prevent them from all slowing down to mud). (Best combined with something to abort if we had to wait to long before we could even do computation)

2. Execute a parallel upload to S3, but avoid doing too many at once (again, because you don't want very many of them contending on the network connection such that none proceed).
Not sure, actually. Never had it be enough of a resource hog to even think about it.
Actually in Debian as well.
> wtf? why would anyone downvote this? it's a legit and perfectly fair question

Because all science operates on the principle that theories are subject to reinterpretation upon new evidence, all science except climate change, whose dogma is not to be questioned.
In my experience, this approach really shines when you are building an "isomorphic" app. When the same code is expected to run in the browser and on the server, having a build tool that knows about both your entire dependency graph and your different build targets is a huge boon.

For example, you get hashed filenames (for far-future cache expiration in the browser) for free (no manifests or runtime reconciliation of names to assets necessary).
You are making the assumption that without these programs people would actually do something themselves to solve other's problems.

In my opinion most people would just try to rationalize it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just-world_hypothesis

Government funded programs might be inefficient and open to abuses, but are better than the real alternative that would be doing nothing at all.
Neat! Unix pipes are amazing. Thanks.
> For example, find me someone who can tell me what kind of hardware we need for an AGI. Can't do it, because no one has any idea.

Wouldn't the human brain qualify?
>I would agree with this article that every independent solution today does not have the slightest chance to be iteratively improved to some kind of real intelligence. Even the "generic" game playing AI is very limited outside the scope of a pixel buffer and some digital output signals.

Why do people who are laypersons to machine learning continue to insist, despite what those in the field say, that we are learning nothing about the principles of general-domain learning from current developments? I think DeepMind is making genuine discoveries: they're certainly able to build things nobody was able to build before.
The majority of developed countries most definitely do not have decriminalized marijuana.
> GIF: 1 MB

> Video: 73k

Yes, but with some loss of quality
http://imgur.com/1qkJYEA

(not as much as I thought, though)
Right from the abstract:

"We estimate that at least 3.5 m of eustatic sea level potential drains through Totten Glacier, so coastal processes in this area could have global consequences."

With calculations done here: http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/vaop/ncurrent/extref/ngeo...
Seems like another good point for antitrust/monopoly investigation.
We have a local sports talk personality who likes to call them "weather terrorists" and makes fun of all the dire forecasts.

Like the Monday we were supposed to get a foot of snow overnight that would cripple the city, make your commute hell and warned to stay inside and not venture outside unless you absolutely had to. Not only did we only get an inch, the temp came up to a balmy 35, the sun came out and by 1pm, the new snow had already totally melted.
Maybe if it has to choose between avoiding a kid and a rock...
How fitting that arxiv blocks access by tor with a 403.
It's awesome, so much better than what I was using: http://bit.ly/1xsAH8b

Although I think Chat is broken, because last night Twitch changed the IPs of their chat servers.
The key isn't to have hard rules to live by.

Know your employer.

I, for example, have no interest in working for a company where casual personal communication would get a person fired.
Congrats about GitLab it's amazing, you guys rock.

Do you have any plans for decreasing the resource footprint. I think the OP has a strong point in stating that it is a bit of a RAM drainer.
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"You can’t improve what you can’t measure, and what better to measure than an activity that consumes your waking life. Work."

Does anyone else think the phrase "you can't improve what you can't measure" is nonsense? I think that most improvements are qualitative and inherently unmeasurable.

I'm not downplaying the importance of measuring, but we have to be careful when trying to reduce qualitative changes down to metrics. Too many times I've seen businesses or teams try to measure qualitative changes, and then spend so much time optimizing for their metrics that they qualitatively regress. Measurements are not magic bullets that remove the need for good intuition.
is it possible to have pixel-perfect animations (avoid compression artifacts completely) while using h.264 or VP8 and still get good filesize?

also, what about alpha transparency? video formats do not have this. GIF is shitty for video clips, but it's not without uses. it just needs to be replaced by APNG [1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
Url changed from http://highscalability.com/blog/2015/3/12/paper-staring-into..., which points to this.
Not to mention, Silverlight is near death and should be phased out. According to MS, it's going until 2021 (or until browsers stop supporting it) https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle?c2=12905
Yeah, that (worker nodes, async processing, etc) seems like one of those ideal use-case for clouds that I could definitely support as a viable option for companies that aren't ready for all-in cloud deployment.
An interesting concept but an uninspiring execution.

Who are all those people in the catalog? There is no filtering by profession, interest, etc. Every picture has only a name label. Very helpful if you have no idea (or you're not sure) who the person is.

A test search 'joel spolsky' (a celebrity that must be there) gave me this:

No matches for 'joel spolsky'

okay.
Would anyone be interested in a site that lets you see who signed the web server's cert from different points on the Internet? Sort of like IsItUp.com but for MITM.
Their $140 EV certs do not have revocation fees.

http://www.startssl.com/?app=37

Revocations carry a handling fee, except for Extended Validation SSL Certificates
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