skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a load of crap.

International organizations call it “climate change” because the effects are much broader than increased temperature, but also include changes to air and ocean currents, precipitation levels, sea level rise, and a rise in average global temperatures isn’t uniform over the globe.

The term “climate change” has been in use by scientists since the 50s, and the term “global warming” was introduced in Broeker’s 1975 paper “Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?” http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/files/2009/10/broeckerglobalwar...

Both terms have been in wide use since that time. No one has abandoned the term “global warming”, which is still an apt description of the fundamental change.
99 Haskell is open source and I haven't tested all of the newer problems myself. I'm out right now on mobile, but if you think you've found an error please don't hesitate to patch it! I've tried to make modifying the problems as easy as possible:

https://github.com/bramgg/99haskell
> When Dr. Willerslev and his colleagues looked at the Colville DNA, they found that it was the closest match to Kennewick Man among all the samples from Native Americans in the study.

> The DNA of the Colville tribe contains Asian-like pieces of DNA not found in Kennewick Man. They may have gained that genetic material by having children with the Arctic peoples.

> “We were hesitant,” said Mr. Boyd, of the Colville Tribes. “Science hasn’t been good to us.” Eventually, the Colville agreed to join the study; the other four tribes did not.

It's a shame that a history of distrust has developed. It sounds like we could extensively map out migration patterns of our pre-historic fellow humans, if their DNA were available. What nefarious purposes can you further by using someone else's DNA?
Kaiser also gave a pretty good keynote at Meeting C++, "Plain Threads are the GOTO of todays computing:"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OCUEgSNIAY

Same talk maybe?
Are you asking "how do you do concurrent programming?" These problems aren't specific to promises.
You can tell truth by looking at the tactics.

The global warming proponents changed the name of the movement to "Climate Change" because, as the earth got cooler despite rising CO2 levels after the end of the recent solar maxima, it was undeniable that the plant wasn't warming. But you can't deny the climate is changing!

In fact, look at their use of the word "denier". Calling your opponents names-- and all the other demonization tactics you see in this thread-- tells you that they know their position is completely political and not scientific.

If the science was on their side, they wouldn't need to call people names (And censor those who disagree, which on this site means down voting into invisibility.)

Notice how this article barely made the front page, while the most spurious pro-global warming article makes it to the top 10. (not to mention anything about Basic Income or other pro-marxist propaganda.)
Most of those things you mention were not based on any solid science in the first place if you look into them so no conundrum here.
I've set the expectation for my kids that my answer will be "no" if they've already asked Mom (this also helps out an end to the "go ask your father" redirect. If they ask me after Mom had already said "no", but hide the fact theyasked her already, then even if I say "yes" but later find out they played us, the answer becomes an absolute "no" also carries an additional "no" that would have otherwise been "yes" for future questions.
I am genuinely puzzled as to what can create such a confusion. So to be very very clear:

If you were watching a 1000 pixels wide, 1 meter wide TV from one meter away, the level of details you perceive would be the same as if you were watching a 1000 pixels wide, 100 meter wide movie screen from 100 meters away.

The physical pixels on the movie screen would be larger, but you would perceive the same level of detail because they would touch the same number of rods on your retina.

If the two screens touch the same number of rods in your retina, how can you tell you're looking at a small screen upclose vs a large screen away? Several clues: parallax, vergence, and focus. VR can simulate two of those.

So if you were looking at the images produced by the VR set up for a large screen far away vs a small screen close by, they would occupy the same number of pixels on the VR display, the same! It would be just as detailed. But in one case, the two eyes would show you the images from two different angles, whereas in the other, the images would be much more similar. This is the only distance we're talking about, the perceptual distance created by the VR.

In all cases you're looking at the same number of pixels a few centimers away from your eyes, but perceptually it can be made to appear as if watching a large screen at a distance or a small screen upclose.

If you still don't understand, I can't help you beyond that point.
but what they haven't done is looked at whether the change will be net positive or net negative.

That's actually quite rational.

From a government policy perspective, what matters is the negatives, because it's the negatives that will require human action to cope.

The most notable example, of course, is rising sea levels as a result of melting polar ice and general thermal expansion, which threatens billions of people who live in coastal areas. Whether or not northern Canada turns into a breadbasket doesn't help a Malaysian or Miami resident when the land their homes are built on becomes the new seafloor.
Google "tree planting campaigns".

Also, http://iotaenterprises.com/the-vision/

> Like, is this robot intended to replace humans planting trees?

If it can do the job as well as a human? Probably. It doesn't need to be as fast.

> Is the intention to make it autonomous?

I would assume so based on it being robotic.

> If not, is there an efficiency increase as opposed to using a human?

Humans are expensive, even if you're not paying them (food, sleep, etc). Robotics aren't over the long term once you've amortized their construction.
Nope, you made the claim. You need to back it up.

Also, mister just-created-a-throwaway account, thanks for the down votes from you and your cronies.

It says a lot more than anything you've provided on this thread.
I believe that the last sentence of the parent post should be read as sarcasm.
There's a big difference between over architecting something and not designing for growth at all.

Ultimately conway's law is what drives your architecture, because communication among people will always be reflected in the software.

If you have a cohesive team that works well together, build a unified component. If you have people working independently, those should be separate services. It doesn't require a lot of architectural astronautics to do this.

Whether one uses some kind of Docker platform or PaaS has more to do with whether you prefer doing your own undifferentiated heavy lifting with containers, schedulers, servers, networks, and storage... Or not.
The pronoun is in dative case, or even if objective case, the test works of "whom" because "I trust her/him" and not "I trust he/she".
I can't win for losing. :-) I was looking for something more substantive and HN-worthy than the Fox News coverage of this story: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/06/19/dna-says-8500-year...

I was living in the Tri-cities when Kennewick Man was found. We were living in a rental in Richland, but my husband's duty station was the Kennewick recruiting office behind the mall. I don't normally pay much attention to the news, but this was exciting stuff. Also, I have a smidgeon of Native American blood (Cherokee, in my case) so news about Kennewick Man hits close to home for me.

Thanks for updating.
right click -> view page source
.... and now you see their motive. "Human Action" means Government Action which means power.
No I'm not. My user data is a form of currency that I spend in the manner of my choosing. If I choose to spend it at google, it may cost more than, say, fastmail, but it's still my choice.
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You mean like the University of Washington? (tied for #6 for CS in the latest US News rankings)
I agree with this summary assessment of the article.

I like docker and I believe it's potential is huge, but I don't like this article. At all. It's based on a false dichotomy and it's intentionally divisive. Trying to get a rankle out of people who disagree with you by trying to pin them as irrational "haters" is not discourse, it's propaganda.

"At the same time, most of the software industry makes its decisions like a high school teenager: they obsessively check for what’s cool in their clique, maybe look around at what’s on Instagram and Facebook, and then follow blindly where they are led"

I think my reaction to this is... this is definitely true, but how do I know you're not yet another lemming like the rest of us?
Reminds me to waking up to the Snowden revelations and reading HN.
I hadn't connected the recent popularity of heroin with the decade-ago colonization of Afghanistan. But of course, that's the time it takes to setup mass cultivation, informal supply lines, domestic distribution networks, and finally, social popularity.

Gosh, this shit really does camouflage over human-imperceptible timescales.
There are also those that have limited bandwidth available, or very expensive bandwidth, where a video is a luxury.
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Docker does neat stuff, but if it's really the future then I am going to be disappointed. Using the Docker daemon as a high-level interface to clone(2) has been nice, but Dockerfiles are a weak format (why not use a general purpose programming language?), the pre-built binaries on DockerHub are just asking for exploitation, and unioning a bunch of disk images is a hack to deal with the imperative nature of how images are built. Projects like Nix and GNU Guix are what I want the future to be. With them I don't have to put trust into any single third party, I get nearly bit-for-bit reproducible builds, system-wide deduplication of packages, functional/declarative system configuration, atomic updates/rollback, quick setup of development environments (with or without a container), and more.
The ability to weaponize a failure-at-will is somewhat documented by neo-anarchist cookbooks.
Yeah, I took your post as vezzy-fnord did.

But honestly, you have a very AWS-centric perception and the traction you talk about is really "Silicon Valley" specific. As long as you understand you are looking at a very, very narrow slice of the world when you use terms like that, sure, I can agree to that.

For personal stuff, I use docker because its easy w/o all the tools I have at work. But that isn't the same thing as "unique and new".
How do you get access to numbers that are not corrupted by the Mann "Algorithm" which applies "corrections"? (these corrections force growth in temperature results starting in the industrial era... which, it so happens to turn out, account for the warming.)

If your data is really hard numbers (and from sources not subject to the heat island effect) I'd guess you'd find no warming. (Well other than solar cycles, etc.)

Edit: Yes, yes, please down vote this comment talking about actual science stuff. Keep up the brigade. I'm not spamming, I'm just making points that make you unhappy because they disagree with your political dogma. I'm not sorry. You are being anti-intellectual.

Your anti-intellectualism doesn't shame me. It should shame you.
> how do I know you're not yet another lemming like the rest of us?

I'm pretty sure I am!
whooosh...
Also, as soon as this PR is merged, there will be a Homebrew recipe available on OSX:
https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/40878
It would be interesting to see if someone else made something like this for Reddit and Slashdot.
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Isn't that only a risk if you need to sell the house at a time when the value is below what you paid?

Buying houses for shorter terms is just more risky, period. The housing market can crap out in catastrophic ways. Just like the stock market. The risk aversi

It would be an unrealized loss if you were living in a house with a mortgage bigger than the value of the house, so long as you pay though, you've still got a house to live your life in.
Maybe it was the monk aspect but it felt very much like Eco's In the Name of the Rose -- another book that everyone seems to love but that just didn't reach me for some reason.
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Sigh. Yeah, sure. You want to do an analysis of newspaper headlines over the past 30 years? You think they will agree with you? Cause I know they won't.

Also, calling people denier is proof positive of my point. The down vote brigades are just icing on the cake.

You guys don't care about science, you reject the scientific method completely, and you rely on propaganda, demonization and silencing your critics.

If the science was on your side, why the need for such dishonesty?
It's interesting to me that they used a Yiddish word, in an industry that starts at India, travels thru China and Korea, and finally ends at Americans whose probability of being Jewish is low. It just seems like an odd choice from the available wordspace.
Welcome to Orthodox Judaism.

See also: "selling" Chametz during Passover.
http://www.techzigg.com/2015/06/google-microsoft-apple-and-m...
I'm not sold on her libertarian perspective
>>people can only pay for the packages they'll use
i just can't think of government as a timewarner package. Well, everyone I know is doing well, so I guess I won't fund programs for the poor. And everyone I know has a degree so no need for me to contribute towards education. It's a viewpoint that seemingly does not take into account the less priviledged at all.

I do wonder if, in an entirely libertarian world, would things work out for the better? I somehow doubt it but you can see that the ideal is that employers will need educated laborers so they'll end up footing for the education bills, etc etc. I think I'll stick to my idealism of a policy based on rational perspectives and compassion in order to ensure the greatest good for the greatest numbers and promote a strong nation and world from the base up.

That being said, the concept is super neat and I do like that.
It really depends on what you mean by "slower". Emscripten already supports the "Emterpreter"[1], which uses a straight bytecode (not AST, like webassembly) version of your asm.js code that can be downloaded and parsed quickly while the much more verbose asm.js code is still downloading and being parsed. So while it does more work, it's responsive sooner.

If fast start up time is the top priority for your app, the polyfill could easily be the best choice (and there are probably more tricks to be done with incremental parsing by feeding the JS engine wasm -> asm.js code in chunks while running an interpreter in the meantime, prioritizing hot functions in the wasm stream).

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/research/2015/02/23/the-emterpreter...
What if Zuckerberg gave up because someone already made Myspace? Or what if Bill Gates decided not to build Windows because Apple already built the Mac?
> Just a thought, would love to hear what everyone thinks, including if what I am suggesting is total nonsense.

Definitely not complete nonsense. It's how at least one Android compatibility subsystem was prototyped, by rebasing Maemo on Android. That was accomplished fairly quickly.

I use Ubuntu for Android app and system software development and I use Drive apps for office productivity and book authoring. If I had an "Ubuntroid" on some decent tablet hardware that supported a 2.5K external monitor, I'd have a nice, quiet, very portable "self hosted" development environment. Even better if it supported 17" USB HD monitors.
Poor choice of words? Sure.

Insulting? Not really.
I profoundly disagree. You may very well be right about the majority of that money servicing large corporations, but bear in mind that we're talking about a pot of money the size of Jupiter here. Payment processing alone is worth somewhere in the region of 1trillion USD annually. And that's just for moving money i.e. shuffling rows around databases. Bitcoin, while definitely imperfect, offers the hope of innovating this whole industry into oblivion and replacing it with something entirely autonomous.

The insurance industry is worth another ~5trillion USD annually. The name of the game here, of course, is predictive analysis and I'd bet that my Netflix recommendations are more accurate than any assessment any insurance company has ever made of me.

I think you'd have diversification up the wazoo in extremely short order.

Edit: accuracy
Prior discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9726341
How can you remove the host OS in Docker? I thought it was an interface for LXC and the virtual network stack in Linux. I didn't know it was possible to run it in a bare hypervisor like Bhyve.
I think the previous documentary put out just prior to that is actually deeper and better, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Nappy_Roots:_A_Journey_Thro...
Earlier you said, "In a nation this large with so many different wealth levels, a non-progressive tax is just asinine." Have you changed your mind?
The RSS data is just since 1979 and is based on radiation given off by different levels of the atmosphere. There have been some adjustments to the data based on changes in the satellites' heights, but this is mostly non-controversial.

Download the data and run my script. It will be fun and "sciencey".

http://images.remss.com/msu/msu_time_series.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_temperature_measurem...

[EDIT] I don't have to the mod points to downvote anyone :)
>> Newbie here. The "?" operator is the same used in Swift?. any difference?

This is the same as "accessor variant of the existential operator ?." in Coffescript.

I think that this was in the Coffeescript initially but in Dart this feature (operator) will come after four years of his life (2011-2015) as a great achievement of all time.
Honestly, we're all just talking past each other. I knew it would be hopeless to get the idea across in this environment of jump all over the stupid thing of the day, but I wanted to try anyway.

As far as the legal concept goes, it should be clear that I'm just interpreting what IMAX's general counsel seems to believe. Whether you agree with her or not, I wouldn't say she's uninformed on the topic.
> For this ID to be legitimately viable

I imagine that at some point in the future, some local governments, particularly in rural areas, will decide it's cheaper and easier to use blockchain-based government services. If the people creating this system can keep iterating towards the point where it's suitable for such, we could see a slow migration over a period of decades, with certain countries deciding to do a all-at-once rollout.
Ah, I was thrown off by the word spin. I assumed it had a negative connotation towards the writing in the Bloomberg article.
Insulting because they did their market research and have tailored the message to address the needs/wants of the target audience ... outrageous indeed.
Next thing you know companies on the internet will start showing ads in webpages targeting what they think I could want/need.
Being insulted here is really pointless.
Let's not get carried away, Autocodes with compilers for the Mark 1 well precede her FLOW-MATIC for the UNIVAC I, which precedes COBOL.

A lot of this depended on computer access, this is back in the days before core memory, when a several thousand vacuum tubes were used for the CPU, and before core memory was generally available. The Mark 1 initially had 5120 bits of main memory using CRTs, the UNIVAC I used mercury delay lines, 1,000 words of 12 characters.
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Programming is not all of CS, and the fact that everyone and their mom are doing OO does not take away from anything of what Dijkstra said. On a more "people" level, I think that arguing for more rigor and formal approaches to programming is truly more important that creating the next generation of code monkeys. I agree that Kay's work has had much more practical influence, but I don't think it has been necessarily any better because of that. But as I said in the original comment, I'm probably in the minority on this.
I guess you would call this "Destreisanding".
My favorite are the people on Bitcoin forums advertising "reputable Ponzi schemes." "Reputable" meaning that there's an actual Ponzi scheme and not just one guy pretending there is but then running off with everyone's money.
Stephenson had an Authors @Google talk in 2008 [1], which was mostly about his book Anathem. In it he actually addressed what he calls the "Stephenson can't write endings" meme, as he calls it, at 10:54 going on for about three minutes [2]. I think his endings are just fine, myself, and also think that this whole idea that he can't write endings is just a self-perpetuating meme.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnq-2BJwatE&t=10m54s
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Casual user here of 4 years. Still find Hacker News one of the better online communities in terms of quality of discussion and breadth of topics.

However, I'm often frustrated by thoughtless comments before people have bothered to read the articles they are discussing, as well as an overall lack of charity in in the subsequent discussion.

There's a myth that people were once second guessed posting here, given the high calibre of discussion and not wanting to look idiotic. If there's any truth to that, where are those people now?
Dinguses.
Hyperbolic Maze sounds like a euphemism for Politics ;-)
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Second mover advantage is a thing. Just ask anyone who's a competitive cyclist: Being able to draft behind someone and then break out at the finish is a huge benefit.

The first mover has to work really, really hard to get ahead and stay there.
UW is #6 in the nation in CS (US News & World), #48 in national universities (US News & World) and #26 in global rankings (Times Higher Education Rankings)...
If it's as you describe, then I don't see Microsoft being the only firm benefitting. Amazon, Adobe, Expedia, Facebook, Google, Nordstrom, Redfin, Starbucks, and others will jump at that chance as well, I'm sure.

Maybe they'll help to make Seattle more affordable again. I don't want this place to become another SF.
My favorite Father Brown is The Blue Cross, which is a short story. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/204/204-h/204-h.htm#link2H_4_...
I find the downvoting slightly amusing, given the fact that I am one of those employers. I was stating a fact.
Looks like the trolling started right from day 1.

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=Arrington
How does this compare with SuperCollider / Overtone or CSound?
If it didn't record all that, that's more of a feature than a bug. However in this case I see no reason why governments (and indeed everyone) wouldn't be able to associate criminal records, marketing data and everything else with your blockchain number (or whatever is the unique thing here). Probably even easier than now.
Self Healing Certificate-Less Hybrid Encryption (SHCL-HE)
I was more generally speaking. In this case, I think some sort of regulation would be necessary to improve the situation.
Payment processing alone is worth somewhere in the region of 6trillion USD annually

This seems unlikely. Is this a top-line number? Why aren't existing VISA/MC processors the largest companies in the economy? The number you just gave is orders of magnitude higher than Apple's profits.

A couple minutes Google searching suggests that being a card issuer puts you in a relatively low-margin business with absolutely enormous network effects.