skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every law enforcement officer I've talked with at length has been an intelligent person.

I think we all want tools that help us do our jobs quickly and more reliably. Forensic science is, in aggregate, a tool for discovering what's true. Improvements in forensic science are, on balance, a net positive.

In the United States, nothing prevents prosecution. The state can bring whatever charges it wants. The bulwarks of our freedom are in the courts, the ballot box, and in the enumerated Bill of Rights.

It's the jury of our peers and a speedy trial that check the ability of prosecutors to do us individual harm. As a society, it's our power at the ballot box that determines who we admit into the job of prosecution.
>"Sharing economy"

What does this mean, really? What is being "shared" with me? Airbnb's pricing in competitive markets is nearly on par with a hotel room. No one is being generous or sharing here. They're asking for what the market can bear. Except I don't get a concierge, daily housekeeping, a gym, a pool, etc.

There's this hypocritical leftist double-speak here where we pretend there's some community building or altruistic aspect at work. There's not. Its just people turning their homes into hotels for massive profit.

Hell, now commercial entities are involved, so that means less affordable rental spaces for local residents because they're just Airbnb money makers now. Now rents/prices go up to reflect the lack of real estate for renters and buyers. You'd think community minded people would care about that. Nope, they just want easy money like everyone else, but somehow they get to pretend they're morally above us all while doing it. Portland hipsters are all about the Benjamins too.
Well, that's pretty ironic I guess!
He does also maintain one of the satellite records, which does show global warming over the period 1960-2000 (not so much the last 10 years because of the global warming hiatus).
Train an X programmer on Y, and you'll most likely get Y written as X for quiet some time, until they gain experience, if ever.

Most companies are run by short-sighted mediocrities who don't look more than 3 months into the future. I think longer term. In the long term, the transition is worth it. The benefits of moving from Java to Haskell or Clojure, say, are worth a few months of struggling and first-time code. If you have half-decent programmers and a culture that allows people to take time to learn how to do things right, that pays itself off within the year.

The disconnect I've always had with using Haskell for anything is; you never get a result until the entire computation is complete.

That's not really true. If you need strictness, you can force evaluation and you don't need to use monads. I'm writing a Haskell class and I cover `seq` before I tackle monads in all their glory (i.e. beyond "here's how you do some basic I/O").

Oh but monads they say. Well, monads seem an aweful lot like procedural code (to me, the uninitated, unpracticed) so what's the point again? That's not meant as a criticism of Haskell, but just one persons thought process on the issue.

That's a fair point. Yeah, do-notation is a way to write imperative-looking code in a functional way. The truth is that for small programs, imperative code is often much more readable. That's how recipes are written, for example. Five lines of imperative code never killed anyone. It's when a function gets to 4,000 lines (often with multiple authors) that imperative programming completely shits the bed.

Monads, in short, are... a way to abstract around the concept of computational context so we can define what "stateful effects" are. `IO` has access to anything the machine can do. `ST` is single-threaded but stateful. `STM` can update some state (`TVars`) but has to follow the transactional rules. `State s` is a pure monad that looks stateful because it uses explicit state. Then we get to the monad transformer stacks, which are... potentially very complicated. (Phil Freeman's work with row types and the `Eff` monad in PureScript may replace the MT stacks one day.)

The point, in short is: imperative code is not evil, we're not trying to do away with it. We want to segregate it into functions that are preferably easy to read so we can reason about what stateful effects do happen. In Haskell, the monad system allows us to enforce this at the type level. You can look at the type signature and get an upper bound (unless "cheat functions" like `unsafePerformIO` are used; and they generally shouldn't be) on the space of stateful effects that can occur.
frizbee.io // submitted title
frizbee.co // actual domain

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> Government administers regulations on behalf of the people.

Is that meant to be descriptive? Because I don't know where to start. "The people" isn't even an entity expect in a defunct branch of classical political philosophy.

And I do think this isn't an ideological claim. I believe this could be stated by socialists, libertarians, democrats..
I have had a smartphone for the last 6 years and it's been freaking awesome!
We actually existed entirely for students for the past 10 months, but we'll admittedly prioritize those seeking full-time positions.
pretty much has to inspire someone to build and reverse engineer the machine/recipe.

A recent example: Nitram fine art charcoal.

http://www.nitramcharcoal.com

Grandson of founder sells business, gear, and secret recipe to enthusiastic customer, who relaunches a beloved product line.

http://www.nitramcharcoal.com/blog/the-history-of-nitram-cha...

Obsolete technologies become forms of art. Vinyl records, polaroid pictures, book making, knitting, etc.
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> Lobbyists are well-positioned to inform legislators about how the market is different today...

Lobbyists don't inform, they spin and skew.
I have never had a smartphone. Keyboard phones ftw.
Looking good, guys.
Coaching remotely works for us!
> presumably unpaid

What would give you the idea that they are not paid?
Wait, are they seriously trying to say that "function(numberOfStates)" is dependency injection?
> Indeed, the various satellite measurements (which do not suffer from as many methodological concerns) agree that the last 10 years have been relatively stagnant in terms of global warming.

I can't engage with the rest of what you're saying, but FWIW a 10 year period is just not a reasonable time period to attempt to draw conclusions about changes in temperature. There are multiple ten year periods of falling temperatures which can be taken out of the obvious increases in temperature which have happened over the last 60 years. Looking at a ten year period, you're going to get much more noise than signal.
Speed Can Kill: The Importance of Process for Hardware
It's a lot more than that. For example, it's really annoying to define new types in Java.
Build First – China's Ghost Business Park
Slightly off-topic - can anyone explain the tool utilized for these graphics?
Is it because you believe these scriptures to be divinely influenced?

If the scripture was inspired / written / influenced etc. by divine entity, or if it was made up completely by humans, how would you tell the difference?

Science is written by man, and scripture was written by man. What is the basis for your faith in the latter's validity?
as employees are paid in county X and live in county Y, doesn't the second county receive tax side effects from the employees? Such as property taxes and secondary spending?

Perhaps Nevada gave too much away (or not?), but the tone of your argument seems to suggest that you think NV and Reno would be better off without the gigafactory. Apart from 'they were bribed' what reasons do you think your state/county lawmakers had for making this deal? What data and evidence did they consider, and how is your opinion different?
One of the biggest differences for us was the option for a self hosted solution with HipChat. Both companies are fairly open about accessing user communications without any sort of permission or audit trail. Being able to self host it ensures that Atlassian or Slack employees aren't dropping into our chats.
yeah, that correlation is totally the wrong way; the blue curve leads the red curve. Now, Look at the key:

Temperature change (blue) and carbon dioxide change (red)
Of course the companies most reliant on the money are still reporting net losses. If they weren't reliant on money it'd be because they were turning a profit. So perhaps a more succinct and accurate statement is that you have a problem with government investments in long, as-of-yet unprofitable (earnings) companies. You don't like the long-shots that take a long time to potentially mature. And I probably wouldn't either if they were near my town.
Ask Well: Can You Drink Too Much Water?
This repeats some buried comments but I think it's worthwhile: I'm not a climate scientist, but in my experience the absolute most reliable, most time-efficient way to learn about climate change is the IPCC reports. I wonder if there is anything written in any other field that compares:

http://www.ipcc.ch/

Specifically, if you are short on time, read the 'Summaries for Policymakers', written at the level and attention spans of non-technical politicians. They are quite readable and as I wrote in another post, if they can understand it, so can you. :) (The longer reports are fascinating, if you have an interest in science and want to get lost in something.)

As I understand it the reports are prepared by a global team of hundreds of scientists, and reviewed by thousands more.[1] (Seriously, has anything like that existed in any other field?) They are meant to cover the breath of climate science and the reports also are meticulous about the language of probabilities.

Spend a little time reading them and it will save you the time of reading 99% of what's written elsewhere, and you'll be much better informed.

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EDIT:

[1] Review process: http://www.ipcc.ch/activities/activities.shtml (scroll down to "The AR5 Writing and Review Process") -- for example, one report had over 50,000 comments on two drafts from >600 experts.

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EDIT 2: Website interface help.

Can you believe this needs to be written, and for HN readers? I had JavaScript off which makes the site usable (if not pretty). With JavaScript on, apparantly the UX concept is 'Easter eggs':

There are 4 images arranged horizontally at the top; these are report covers (with text too small to read even if you knew they were clickable). If you click a report cover then the section beneath it changes to display a description of and links to that report.

All that work making the reports accessible to the world, hamstrung by web design.
I don't deny man made climate change, but this argument seems to be weak. Just because two factors go up at the same time doesn't mean one caused the other. See http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations. It is necessary but not sufficient to show that greenhouse gases went up in concert with global temperatures.

Not that one expects them to lay our a sweeping, thorough case for man made climate change in such an article, which would be an unfair expectation. It seems more like a showcase for the bit of javascript razzle dazzle than anything else, as other commenters pointed out, surely no one involved with this article expected it to change anyone's mind one way or the other.
Why do three buses always come along at once?
Standard political argumentation. The taxpayer vs government money thing is a perfect example of dog whistle politics. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog-whistle_politics
Lexus video teases a 'real' magnetic hoverboard
The three modes of persuasion and rhetoric identified by Aristotle are ethos, pathos, and logos.

Ethos is an appeal to authority or credibility.
Pathos is an appeal to emotions.
Logos is an appeal to reason.

I think we overvalue logos.
Much is leased for grazing, mining.
I agree to the conclusion but not for the same reasons.
Credit Suisse is in Raleigh as well.
Pretty cool.

Questions:
- what are the upload size limitations?
- is a password protect option in the roadmap?
Implicit in this remark is the idea that all humans share roughly the same interests and concerns. As difficult conditions exacerbate conflicts the weight of interests is measured first in capital and then in violent prowess. http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bc2016e2-d320-11e4-9b0a-00144feab7...
The anthropogenic component (this includes both industrial processes like Haber-Bosch and changes brought about by high-intensity farming) to most legs of the nitrogen cycle equals or exceeds that of the natural component. To argue that humanity is incapable of screwing with climate in any significant way when we are clearly overriding natural ecological cycles is pure inanity.
This is a conversation with Andy Weir about Elon Musk, among other topics.
If you see my reply to the sibling I figured it out. However, thanks for confirming.
> handing over a whole market segment to a single monopolist.

So long as the regulations aren't specific to Uber, what's to stop Lyft, Sidecar and others from competing in the same space? It seems like in this case, the monopoly is taxies, and the disruptor is still ridesharing services.
> Sure, DHCP/NAT is used by each container, to get out.

So...Each physical host has its software networking pass through a NAT before hitting the physical adapter? And it's already using DHCP to assign addresses to its containers?

> But how does it route to another container on some other host elsewhere in your cloud? That's what the Fan addresses.

You use DNS to create a lookup table matching container to IP? Since this isn't being done, it must not work. What does Fan do instead?

Is there some other complicating factor to which I'm ignorant? Are we talking about having multiple Kubernetes clusters inside containers inside VMs inside a physical host?

Also, HOW does Fan address this problem? What does it use instead of one kind of database lookup or another, like a distributed database system such as DNS? Or does Fan use fancy subnet math?
Ask HN: Inexpensive Laptop for kids?
I'm looking to purchase an inexpensive laptop, setup linux on it, and teach my kids to code. Any recommends on how to do this for less than $100?
How to Save Money Without Thinking: Part 1
That's one way for NASA to lose funding.
Sure. Michelle Bachmann believes lots of crazy things:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAaDVOd2sRQ

> And yet were being told that we have to reduce this natural substance and reduce the American standard of living to create an arbitrary reduction in something that is naturally occurring in the earth. Well were told the crux of this problem is human activity. Its humans that are creating more carbon dioxide!

> What part of human activity creates carbon dioxide? If carbon dioxide is a negligible gas and its only three percent of Earths atmosphere, what part is human activity?
I think this is pretty amazing - in my own country we have a town - Dimitrovgrad - built completely from scratch and only after that populated.
I didn't read the whole paper (where that graph came from), so my apologies if i am misstating anything. It appears that the paper is focused mostly on the forests in Eastern Canada. At first glance, I'd find the slope on that graph (last 500 years) very hard to believe if it were for all of planet earth.
I think you misunderstand copyright. You can't copyright a style, only a specific implementation thereof. Unless you're accusing Mattermost of copying code directly from Slack (which you wouldn't be able to tell from a picture), there is no copyright violation.
Is absolute positioning all you need for smooth animation like gsap?
> Where do you think Google gets $60 billion in revenue, if not from selling information?

From selling ad space and not the information?
There's a reason for that: http://todomvc.com/
These Six Shocking Facts About Meetings Will Change Your Life
The Martian had some very odd ethics. I recall at one point of the book there was a 30% chance of failure for a mission that would save one astronauts life. Failure would result in the death of six additional astronauts. Of course the fellow who pointed out it was obviously not worth the risk was a portrayed as a coward, as I guess coherently valuing lives is a cowardly act.
$4.9B to jump-start several industries sounds pretty cheap to me. Helping develop commercially risky but highly important areas of technology seems like one of the roles government is best suited for, and Musk's companies don't seem to be taking those subsidies and funneling them to investors/management - they're being invested in people and tech.
This can't be an "all or nothing" proposition in either case. There are technical decisions that are absolutely worth fighting for, that would be pretty devastating for the product or the company, and you're right, in those cases, you might feel like you have to fight against the preconceived mood -- but even then, keeping account for feelings, because these are the people who are going to need to build your "vision". Compassion without compromise is a real thing.

In other cases, you need to keep in mind personal biases, and also keep in mind the pyrrhic victories are a very real thing and a very real danger, even potentially catastrophic in certain environments. Hiring an engineer, when you figure in staff costs in interviewing and possible recruiter fees, can cost 5 figures easily. Lost opportunity costs in training and losing corporate knowledge can push those figures even higher. Always have a good understanding of what you're doing, what the consequences might be, and whether your issues are worth those consequences.
More Americans Are Renting, and Paying More, as Homeownership Falls
How to Build a Great Team of Developers for Your Tech Startup
This is a good point. Astroturfing is an old technique by now, and judging by Uber's other behavior, I wouldn't be surprised at all if they used it.
Not only that, all greenhouse models require a 'water feedback loop'.

Of course there are plenty of anthropogenic water emissions to go about. When you irrigate, you are effectively throwing water into the air - by increasing the surface area of water evaporation through plant transpiration networks.

I have never seen anyone talk about this alternative hypothesis.

A disclaimer - I am all for reducing CO2 emissions strictly on principle (this is not dependent on the effects of CO2) and have put my money behind my beliefs - I have driven hybrid vehicles to support technology towards that end since 2003. But in my judgement as a scientist in general (and to some degree as a chemist who has done advanced spectroscopy including IR spectroscopy) I am losing confidence in climatology.
I wouldn't call a paper whose lead author is a well-established denier with no scientific training (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Monckton,_3rd_Visc...), and which is co-authored by a known practitioner of large-scale scientific fraud for pay (http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Willie_Soon) particularly reputable.
ConAgra's secret? X.XB in Government Subsidies.

Exxon's secret? x.xB in government subsidies.

Apple's Secret? X.XB in Government Subsidies.

Your House's Secret? 188.7B in Government Subsidies. (the home interest deduction is, itself, one of the largest subsidies there is, and probably the biggest gateway into home depot)

Point being: Government Subsidies are huge. Saying it's anybody's secret is just sensational.

What's remarkable, actually, is how little we know and how hard it is to count up all the subsidies -- especially when you count tax expenditures.

http://www.pewtrusts.org/en/archived-projects/subsidyscope is a good place to learn about this stuff. But dated.
Someone should tell him that then. :P I'm not American so I can't really say what is and isn't but that's what I had gathered from his article.
The rise in CO2 is man made, as determined by the isotopes of carbon present in the atmosphere. Fossil fuels contain no C14, and the decrease in the ratio of C14 to C12 in the atmosphere since 1800 corresponds to the rise in fossil fuel consumption. Alternate hypotheses for the modified ratio of C14 to C12 would have to account for this.
That's great. And we don't owe Google anything and should be able to call out their bullshit practices.

Fortunately open alternatives such as Firefox still exist.
There are three things that bother me about climate science.

1. Certainly in years past, anyone who even dared question that global warming wasn't real or wasn't man made was lambasted. That's not science. That's religion. Even just asking questions gets you labelled a denier. These, to me, have been and are reasonable questions to ask:

- On what basis are we saying the earth is warming? Datasets for the last 1-2 centuries are still pretty narrow compared to how old the earth is and how hot and cold it has been at various points;

- Is that warming, if proven, man-made? It's reasonable to investigate other possible factors that may well add to the effect caused by man;

- Can we even do anything about it if it is? How expensive will it be?

- What, if any, are the good effects of climate change? It can't be all bad but it just bothers me when I see things talking about how it will hurt, say, North America. But will it makes other parts of the world, currently largely uninhabitable, more hospitable?

I'm actually genuinely curious about these and other questions and it bothers me that even asking them is a problem.

2. The lack of transparency. This goes beyond climate science actually but any published thesis or study on the subject should make data sets publicly available and--this one is really important--make any code for any computer models open source. Transparency and reproducibility are at the heart of scientific method are they not?

There have been incidents (eg climategate) where no scientific misconduct was found but the text of certain emails really leaves a bad taste in my mouth because it reads very much like "here's the conclusion, now let's prove it".

3. The history of climate predictions has been pretty terrible and each time we're told "no trust us, this time it's totally different".

It's not that I don't believe in man-made climate change. I actually think whether or not it's true it's probably largely irrelevant. There are simply too many of us and we're running out of too many things in the coming centuries that this will be corrected one way or another in such a way that climate change--true or not--will be the least of our problems.

One of the interesting and depressing explanations for the Fermi Paradox is that the sphere of influence of life is ultimately capped by the speed of light, which is geometric, and life expands exponentially. Life always catches up eventually.

You see this in nature where algae blooms for example will explode in rivers killing all other life until they themselves can't survive and they all die. In more balanced ecosystems there are other factors to keep any one species in check. It really seems like nothing is keeping up in check now so are we just another algae bloom?
Vampire squid. reference to Matt Taibbi's article in rollingstone about Goldman sacks bankers.
How's their Canine Disaster Recovery policy now? It used to be awful back in the day.
Hannah Jones: “For Nike, sustainability is a powerful opportunity to innovate”
I'd just look for something used that has good Linux support already.
I am so sick of this being posted. We know. Energy, Defense and Transportation are heavily subsidized in US.

> Elon Musk's Empire

Energy, Defense, Transportation.
Good question. I know of one way, which is to look at sedement and other physical evidence that is laid down gradually over time. For example, tree rings (of trees hundreds or thousands of years old, or maybe even petrified trees) and ice cores (for example, from Antartica; the chemical composition of the ice and the air trapped in it depends on the prevailing environment). As I understand it, your question has received much attention over the years and these techniques are mature and well-developed.

To understand these issues and much more, I highly recommend spend a little time on the IPCC reports:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772353