skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Film, also.

The Impossible Project is truly impressive. Polaroid film is a mindblowingly complex product to develop, since it's basically a photo lab sandwiched into a thin sheet. Even if their results aren't perfect, it's amazing they're making it work at all.

There's also a small group of people who are rebooting the Ferriana film line.
I found another review of the book that mentions geoengineering.

"There will still be ocean acidification, smog, ozone depletion and so on and once we set on geoengineering our planet, we’ll likely get hooked and never turn back. In many ways, geoengineering is even more uncertain in its consequences than climate change itself. Definitely far from being a solution, and even the foremost experts on geoengineering agree that it shouldn’t be done – only in extreme conditions, like when there isn’t any other choice." http://www.zmescience.com/other/reviews/book-review-climate-...
They have a direct relationship with Equifax and TransUnion, two of the major credit bureaus in the US. That is where the identity data comes from.

The first phase is to verify your identity by matching it against an authoritative data set, likely a credit file at either Equifax or TransUnion in this case. Once that data is matched, a set of questions from that data is generated. Your identity was likely matched against someone with similar identity information, hence the odd questions.

Do you a similar name to other people in your household? The good news is that the question set verifies you against the information it fetched. If you are not, you should fail the question set.

We at BlockScore provide an identity verification and question set service. Properly tuning the service to match the right person takes a lot of secret sauce because there is a lot of imperfect data. Thankfully we have this working well.
This isn't even a good troll.
PyCon PL 2015 – Call for Proposals is open
Dear Python Hackers,

We are pleased to announce that Call for Proposal for PyCon PL 2015 is open.

We encourage everyone who is working with Python to submit his/her proposal. We are looking for a large variety of subjects on different levels of expertise from beginners to professionals.

The deadline for proposal submission is 15th of July.

More about CFP: http://pl.pycon.org/2015/post-cfp_en.html

PyCon PL is a Polish Python conference - one of biggest Python's event in the Europe. It aims to integrate developers, designers and managers interested in using Python. Such meeting makes a great opportunity to meet new people and exchange experiences and ideas. The conference program should suit as well Python professionals as people just beginning their Python adventure. Everyone should find something of their own interest!
Maybe, but I suspect the change will happen so fast that we won't be able to adjust in time. We've got a few new auto plants that were either just built or are soon to be built near where I live. First off, they are almost completely automated these days. Secondly, it only takes a couple of years to get one built. Most of that is politics and negotiations. When the new plant is built, the old one is mothballed. Point is, it happens VERY quickly.

Now, in the grand scheme of things, auto manufacturing is a relatively small industry in terms of labor force. What happens when this transition happens to the logistics industry, which is one of the top employers globally? Can we adapt quickly enough if land (including farming), sea, and possibly air are all automated within a decade? I'm not sure.
Did you even read the article? look at the university of York dataset, which clearly shows the 1960-2000 warming followed by the 2000-2010 hiatus. Note the York dataset is strictly observationally independent of the UAH dataset.
> These "Behavior" functions may depend on the data, but that doesn't make this a dependency.

Would you mind clarifying this distinction as you see it?

As far as I can see, x depends on y if and only if y is a dependency of x. This would make the States that Behaviors depend on a 'dependency,' based on your statement above that 'functions ... depend on the data [States].'

These State dependencies (if we can agree on the term) are injected dynamically based on the names of the parameters in the Behavior functions. I'm not one to bike-shed on terminology, but I do think it's fair to say that we have dependencies that we're dynamically injecting. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

Perhaps the distinction you're flagging on vs Angular is that Angular injects a reference to the dependency, whereas Famous injects the value of the dependency?
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding then.
I believe he is referring to the 'postulates of quantum mechanics', you can find several formats from a quick google search.

Dirac, 1929:
"The fundamental laws necessary for the mathematical treatment of a large part of physics, and the whole of chemistry are thus completely known, and the difficulty lies only in the fact that application of these laws leads to equations that are too complex to be solved."
Except, well, this entire "sharing economy" BS has involved large multinational companies (Airbnb, Uber, etc.). So it's exactly the same.
Mashape Analytics comes pre-packaged in Docker containers, with its own internal setup of storage solution and tools.

we'll also be exposing a cold-storage mechanism, so you can move historical data out of the system when no-longer needed and retain it for your own future auditing.
"Trusted debian mirror".

Remind me the accountability on that one?
vs a company you can sue for billions?
Show HN: Queuer.js – Run easily queue of tasks in JavaScript
Likely TransUnion or Equifax since CreditKarma has direct relationships.
You should perhaps learn something about cultures other than your own...

https://www.google.com/search?q=japanese+fax+machine+culture

tl;dr: Fax machines are still fundamental to Japanese business communications.
OP here, no idea why it was changed to that either. It's not a conversation with Elon Musk. The title needs to be changed back.
Yes it does.

> The hotword module has the same privileges as any website (except that it automatically has access to the microphone).

My original post was perhaps misleading, I'm only talking about the sandbox here, I'm aware that there is opt-in stuff and that there is open source code guarding the activation of that specific module, i'd argue that this isn't part of the sandbox though.
does 2.5.6 from http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-cha... address this adequately?

(I was curious from your comment, but only spent a minute looking)
My only problem is that the planet is over 4 billion years old and as this shows, we've been collecting climate data for a little over 100 years. The natural skeptic in me isn't ok with establishing a trend based on 1/40,000,000 of the available data, the sample size is simply too small. Am I completely off-base with this?
IIRC, the reason given was security reasons. It's black box security coupled with y'know, not being able to run anything modern, like a virus. And besides, does it really need anything else?
Does Jobstart offer guidance and refer candidates who don't have permit to work in the US?
Hear, hear! Is Java the right tool for everything? No, but for large code bases, it is miles easier to dive into a codebase, and the tooling is so much better than anything else I've seen that's not Visual Studio (as much as I'm not a MS fan, VS is really nice).

Is Java perfect? No, but it gets a whole lot of things not-wrong. More reasons: https://drew.thecsillags.com/Why-Java/
Great; now what about the various constituencies who cannot afford lobbyists? Well, they just get screwed, because who cares.
Hacker News is serious business
> Wow the FBI really do act like they still call their headquarters the J. Edgar Hoover building.

Don't all of us?

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/hq
Brakenshire didn't question the popularity of the topic, rather whether it had been convincingly postulated by anyone worth mentioning.
yet today we also have articles noting that "natural cooling" of the sun will not be sufficient to offset other sources of warming, the same sun this article here dismisses as having any real influence.

this is the problem with the current climate science industry and don't mistake for a moment, this is an industry with great profits at stake for both government researchers and private industries.

They never have a consistent message. We had dire declarations since the turn of the century and many lined up behind those. This particular article is a gross simplification that attempts to dismiss common arguments against by associating them with frivolous arguments. It seeks to minimize without informing. Its pretty but not accurate. There are hundreds if not thousands of scientists who all apparently have different views on what contributes, how much it does, and so on.

So yeah the climate is changing, but it has been doing so forever and there have been historically proven changes greater that what we are seeing now and with man here as well.

Simply put, we don't know all the variables and those who declare we do are more ignorant than those who deny any effect.
We're using Redis Geo to track customers who are "online" so that we can easily retrieve a list of users who are online and in the area. The user's permanent location is stored in a SQL database for permanent storage.
It would not have happened if that logic was covered by tests :O
Transphobic joke detection
Oh, man, they're discontinued, but I guess of course they are. I remember shopping around for an AlphaSmart 10 years ago and never bought one.

Now all my ideas for Raspberry Pi projects are things like "build an AlphaSmart."
I bring up some simple questions and I am immediately silenced.

I guess I didn't realize HN was anti-science and anti-intellectual.
> What is the orbital wobble measuring? What is the volcano line measuring?

Read the bottom of the page; it explains that the colored lines measure the modeled expected impact from orbital wobble/whatever on climate. That is, all of the lines measure global temperature.
GHG seems to match Temperature quite well. But GHG is cut-off at the year 2000. I wonder if the closeness of the fit continues?

Also, what's up with the error bars around GHG's? Is there really that much uncertainty surrounding CO2 concentration in the atmosphere? I thought readings were accurate to ~1ppm where the trend is currently +3ppm/year so why are the observations (in the modern sensor era) uuncertain by about ~45ppm?
It totally makes sense that a highly concurrent system would need to start getting really nitty-gritty with time values...
As a language, Java is just that, a very capable language. The JVM is full of great engineering, and when properly tuned, is a very powerful compile target.

Where things start to suck is what seems to surround Java. Years and years of XML configs, Maven and Ant processes. Devs whom haven't been allowed to read about new advances.... I was at a Java user group about a year ago when Venkat Subramaniam came to speak about functional programming. This was right around the time when DHH made his assertion about unit testing. Venkat made a joke like, "and as we learned this week, we no longer need to test our code". No one got the joke. A room full of at least 200 developers and no one got it... because they probably spend most of their time in a cubicle thinking that these new-fangled technologies will die someday, and we can all go back to writing crap like we did in 1999. (Other fun assertions from that user group had to do with JSON being horrible and XML being a far better format for web communication)

It highlighted the problem for me. While Twitter engineers are doing really cool things with Java, many are mired in these huge monolithic apps that take hours to build and even longer to deploy. And much of this stuff is stored in SVN... with no unit tests. It's the culture. They look at front-end developers with disdain... with their GitHub accounts and Vim/Tmux setups. Java doesn't suck. The culture that has grown around it does.
If syscalls are slow, it seems weird to put your GUI code in the kernel, requiring a syscall to access it.
Yep elevated hardware is best practice solution for this issue. Also it has a known Feline attraction quality causing possible downtime due to sleeping cats.
Absolutely. (Unless you count the cost of the iPad or other devices that's required to run the Chromecast.) The Zotac box is actually ~16 times more expensive than a Chromecast, but unfortunately I just can't do whatever I want with a Chromecast and I'm totally willing to pay to get what I want.

I don't think there is more inherent convenience in the iPad -> Chromecast setup. My $20 wireless keyboard is actually more convenient in my opinion because it's a dedicated input control that's ready to go as soon as I pick it up. With a smart device, I have to setup a whole other device with apps that are compatible with Chromecast and when we're picking stuff to watch we don't have to huddle around a tablet or phone - we just look at what's on the TV.
No man, keep it simple. The password in hash makes this perfect, it's so great idea.
There is nothing ironic here, humans add more CO2 sources and kill the most CO2 sinks (forests) these activities would put any system off balance. People like to talk about how CO2 production is bad but they forget to mention that killing rainforest is equally bad.
That...is a great idea. Thanks!
http://bugmuncher.com/
Anyone know of anything like this for the States?
Actually now you have the choice of web video utilizing codecs that came from all the companies producing the software you mentioned above, and the evolution from them to the capability we have today, be it codecs or browser support. the new openness of it created the choice you prefer now.
> this effect is the reason why cities are warmer than their surrounding rural areas.

Anthropologically produced heat is certainly a contributor, but as the article itself says, I believe the majority of the difference is more accurately attributed to the large amount of concrete in cities which takes much longer to dissipate heat.
This is awesome. I've been using Redis -- naively, with hashes -- as a lat/lon cache for some path analysis on my website. Didn't even know this was out there, and can't wait to switch over!
If you read the responses on that bug tracker it does seem it was automatically activated for some.
Granted, these might have been a misinterpretation of that chrome://voicesearch page.

My phrasing of "anytime" was perhaps misleading, I'm aware that the module is guarded by open source code that activates it under specific conditions.

However I was talking about the sandbox, and when the module is running it does have access to the microphone without asking. The code guarding the activation of the module isn't relevant in this context.
I've already given the example of auto tune, loops and synthetic sounds. People care surprisingly little about authenticity and the top charts are telling about the intellectual preferences of the masses. Perhaps an RNN could even be trained with recordings of human emotional responses like heart rate and goosebumps. It's not just about changing the pitch here and there, but learning deep features about what makes music interesting to listen to.

Music doesn't need to be as coherent as a text (in fact some space for interpretation is often preferred), which also increases my confidence about this prediction.
OK. I'm curious.

What prestige science journal article says "virtually certain" that man is primary cause of global warming?
What phrasing in the results section makes you feel that it is "near proof" ?

I'm not asking for "it is likely or probable". I'll buy that. I want solid proof ... or , uh "almost proof".

[edit: nobody up to it ? ]
With taxes of course.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emissions_trading
How to Bypass Gmail's “Promotions” Tab
No.

The entire point of elected officials is that their decisions aren't based on who has money. If we depend on lobbyists then only companies big enough to afford them get a seat at the table. That's a plutocracy.

> Lobbying is a way of structuring administration of regulation that shifts responsibility from unelected bureaucrats to people.

Wait, are you asserting that corporations are people? Uber is not a person and the article suggests that they used their considerable power to take the decisions regarding their regulations out of the hands of the government officials of Portland and thus farther away from the people of Portland.
i can only ask that this extension requires longitude and latitude in the correct order: x,y.
Lexus Teases a Real, Liquid Nitrogen-Cooled Hoverboard
Its actually irrelevant whether this has happened before. Its happening now, impacting us, and maybe we can do something about it. The Pollyanna approach "Its natural" doesn't help us when cities are going underwater.
my question too. a small change in the measure for solar could be more impactful than a large change in greenhouse gases.
There is basically no equilibrium condition here. If you mean that there is a more 'inelastic' equilibrium constant, then keep in mind that the concentration level governed by such a constant is dependent on rate in versus rate out, and there are certainly ongoing inputs of ag water. We've completely drained several seas and underground aquifers as a result of human activity in the last 50 years.
That's because the site is attempting to load the font over http and the site is hosted on https so I'm guessing your browser is blocking that.

It uses the Google Lato font for that text
This is not a cultural practice?
Ireland is interesting. It's long been the sick man in terms of population growth since 1845 up until the late 1980s and now is the odd man out in Europe as being one of the few countries that can grow its population.

Ireland has had a recession since 2008 but ended last year with a return to slow growth and during this time had high unemployment and high emigration. It's expected to be the fastest growing European economy by far over the next 12 months. Still Irelands prosperity, high minimum wage and generous welfare benefits are attracting immigration from Eastern Europe and North Africa in particular. This compounded with Irelands high fertility rate accentuates her population growth above her neighbours.

These trends are expected to continue even as Europe exits recession and returns to growth.

The images surprised me though - it suggests all of Ireland is growing somewhat evenly when the truth is that while most if is growing Dublin and her surrounding area and Cork are growing much faster than the rest and the picture doesn't indicate that though I'm sure the data will.
This is a neat idea! Btw OP looks like you're serving the Google Lato font over HTTP while your site is coming over HTTPS; I think this is causing some of the issues folks are having not being able to see the text very well.
Shouldn't this be "re-launches"? Office Mobile for Android phones has been around for a year or two.
Except unlike those, we actually know the effect that the likes of methane and carbon dioxide have on the atmosphere, and thus demonstrates more than just a spurious correlation.
> But again the question is, how do we want this to play out. We can let people be born and then starve to death, or we can not let them be born in the first place.

Exactly. It can also be argued that not reproducing is probably the most 'green' thing one can do.
Well, good to hear at least this :)
how important is the content of our linkedin while applying, should I be filling mine out to increase my chances of being selected?
Yes!

"The colored temperature lines are the modeled estimates that each climate factor contributes to the overall temperature."

This is so bad that it makes me angry. They are showing these lines to convince you what influences climate change. And those lines represent how much they think different factors influence climate change. Sigh.
> Last time I checked, it's way cooler in a forest than standing in a parking lot.

Perhaps you forgot to account for the shade and humidity? (As an aside, I believe forests generate heat, just like any biological system. The best it can be seen during spring, the snow patches around plants will melt sooner.)
This post about Wikipedia's policy regarding secondary sources seems to articulate this idea pretty well. http://weskaggs.net/?p=5053
We have a focus on the US.
Bloomberg didn't coin "sharing economy." This is bay area/valley liberalism and "share" services dominate in more left-leaning urban areas. There seems to be a big appeal of the "Oh, I'm not renting my home out for the money, I'm doing it to help poor travelers, meet new people, fight the 'evil' hotel industry, etc" ethos, which is pretty much bullshit.
Congrats on the beta launch Zach! Cheers from a fellow UIUCer :)
I'd fill it out, yes -- we weren't expecting this high of traffic so profiles that are blank are likely to get skimmed over (unfortunately).
Thanks, Binary!

Will fix. Little nervous pushing changes right now, hah.
http://memegen.link/buzz/heckrnews/hererckrnews-everywhere.j...
I feel similarly and hearing someone else say it out loud eloquently and comprehensively made me feel a bit better. Thanks.
They offer a service that young people use a lot, and they offer it in a way that makes the service they were using previously look like an embarrassment.

I had to take a cab home from the airport a few weeks ago because my phone was dead. Not only did it cost almost twice as much as an uber would have, but the cab smelled terrible, the driver didn't know where we were going, and when we got to my house, I had to wait for five minutes while he literally made a carbon imprint of my credit card.

Uber has a bunch of, yes, unpaid (in fact negatively paid!) cheerleaders because it's offering a service that people really like.
So if someone doesn't know how to root their computer it won't improve their lives? That's absolutely absurd.

People can fucking use Google now. Yes, that improves their lives.
I almost didn't click it because I thought the same thing.

I'm so bored of all this ridiculous cohort-as-horoscope business.
Plane hits Drone
You cannot equate friendship between individual humans and "friendship" between nation-states. They are very different concepts.
CCTV plan ‘to monitor the whole of Edinburgh’
It works the same way on MEGA.nz which is like Google Drive or Dropbox with client side crypto.
For future reference, he did eye check it first, I mistyped.
One of the issues with PKI is ensuring that the public key you're using to communicate with the person is actually the right public key, and that someone hasn't replaced it with their own.

I'm curious if you used something like the blockchain (but not bitcoin necessarily) to have a public ledger of published public keys (identities) would that problem be essentially solved? (IE if the keys and any signing for a web of trust be on a distributed public ledger, then you could be reasonably sure that you're dealing with the person really behind that public key?)
Are we still in junior high? I gotta laugh. Why do people put up with this bull?

Because software engineers are terrible at managing their own social status, both individually and collectively.

Social status determines how your work is evaluated, whether you are punished or rewarded for taking initiative and working on what you think is important, and how often you are held accountable for short-term results and visibility into your work. Manage your social status poorly, and you'll get daily status pings (the other meaning of "status"). Manage it well, and you can work on whatever you want with a low level of interruption.

However, our industry is full of young, delusional people who haven't been burned (i.e. had difficult life experiences) yet and still believe in the corporate "meritocracy".
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I was expecting to read about a different glib...