jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
China and India are nothing compared to the US, if you look at the relevant metrics - emissions per capita. The US is emitting the same as China or near enough not to matter, but doing so at less than a third of the population. The comparison with India is even more one-sided.

Not to mention, much of China's emissions are actually coming from its factories supplying the US and Europe with goods. If we just give up on buying some of the goods, emissions will go down.

Finally, to call any measures on combatting climate change that were enacted anywhere in the world "overzealous" is laughable. The only measure stat can actually put a dent in the ever increasing temperatures are those that will come with economic contraction - not just stopping the growth, but actually downsize our economies for a decade or two - but this is completely unthinkable to liberals.

The best measures that are being taken today would have helped if they had been taken in the 1960s when the problem was first understood. Instead, we sacrificed the future for economic growth in the present, and are now doing minor improvements (wind and solar, electric cars) that will barely even reduce the rhythm at which emissions are increasing.
Here you go: https://sites.gatech.edu/falconview/
>Fermenting alcohol that tastes good is not easy enough to justify a mass market product.

Not quite the same, but in Germany they sell Federweißer, which is an unfermented wine, but the yeast is already on the bottom.

It turns from sweet grape juice (day 0), to sweet wine (day 2-3), then slightly sweet more alocoholic wine (day 4-5), until it turns into wine fully.

Quite a lot of people enjoy it. It's not a proper competition to normal wine, but it tastes good in its own way.
Have you seen the ads for Suvie :https://www.suvie.com/

It looks really interesting.
Java is verbose for a reason. It is easier to modify and run code that is written decades ago. It still works.

Being concise is good for the first time. If someone needs to fix the "concise" code years later, the only option may be to throw it away and write it again.
I think there are bad parts of both genders- would this story be much different if it was a trans woman working in a female super upscale department store, and coming to the same conclusion, but that she'd rather stay a man?
To look at this from the perspective of animal owners: animals are not "pets" to them, they're family. To deny them bringing a dog in an airplane is like denying them bringing a baby in a airplane.

That argument cannot be randomly disregarded because it is a valid one. Dogs bark, babies cry. Dogs are unhygenic, and babies are little balls of filth.

Why should a dog fly in cargo because you don't like a dog inside the airplane? I don't like babies, does that mean we should put babies in a crate in the cargo section?
If you’re on Twitter you will see 99.9% of tech people spend all day posting left wing political takes. Just a bit of counterbalance is not going to hurt you lol
the bits are cpu instructions that you can analyze the data flow to revert the instructions into c++ code, either manually or assisted with a decompiler.

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

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

https://ghidra-sre.org/
The real irony is that the rationalist community’s strong reaction to this article as propelled it to a level of popularity that wouldn’t have been possible otherwise.

Without the months of speculation and build-up and the seeming desire for everyone to write their own nit-picks of what the article got wrong (while deliberately ignoring what it might have gotten right), this article likely wouldn’t have received much traction at all.
It's SOP that relocations in neatspace comes with a cost of living adjustment, it makes sense that remote employees would follow.
Tata now though have better safety standards cars than other manufactures some global ones in India.
I think it shows that employers are a cartelized oligopsony. That's why they can get away with paying different salaries based on anything but performance (in this case, location)
My job is to doing due diligence on tech companies during major investments and acquisitions, and one of the most successful (and interesting) I've seen was doing exactly what you describe. It wasn't Racket, but the code base was an engine with a very sophisticated DSL enabling all their in-house domain experts to work hyper-productively. Their work was split into an engine, which their low level super-senior hackers worked on, and the assets, which were the things customers bought and were made in a DSL by highly educated domain experts. It was really impressive, and they are doing very well. I've long been convinced that this is the logical highest level of "onion/hexagonal/ports and adapters" architecture, and seeing what they had done was really cool.
It's not a "problem", it's a gift.

Engineering the project is the hard part, but for a lucky some of us, it's the fun part. "Polishing" your project, on the other hand, blows. Who wants to spend the day building flow for user account cancellation or tweaking the registration page, when you could be optimizing code?

The win-win situation here is clear: Do the engineering that you love & pays the bills, hire cheap talent to do the cheap, boring parts. Because, at least speaking for myself, if I'm being honest a $12 hour designer would do these "menial" jobs BETTER than me.
None of the people who contacted us realised that the "Wikileaks press release" published on wikileaks.info was not
written by Wikileaks and not issued by Wikileaks - but by the person running the wikileaks.info site only - the very
site we are warning about. The site data, disks, connections and visitor traffic, are all under the control of the
Heihachi cybercrime gang. There are more than 40 criminal-run sites operating on the same IP address as wikileaks.info,
including carder-elite.biz, h4ck3rz.biz, elite-crew.net, and bank phishes paypal-securitycenter.com and
postbank-kontodirekt.com.

The drama never ends.

The way wikileaks mirrors work is that volunteers provide server space and access credentials, while wikileaks staff upload the content. The problem arises if that content is not digitally signed, or at least authenticated with a set of hashes (the webmasters may inject malware, or otherwise modify the content).

Still, until we see an official note on wikileaks.ch (or personal message from Assange) that wikileaks.info is a fraudulent impersonation, we should consider the content on the .info site in an official fashion.
You might find Microsoft Research's Singularity project of interest:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_(operating_system)

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/singularity/

See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system) .
A few years past 30, and ditto. I write much fewer lines of code per hour, and am much more productive. (The two are not unrelated).
I don't really know any of them but I use grooveshark, their radio seems to work pretty well if you want a pandora like experience.

Thesixtyone was great until they decided to mess everything up.
A warning before you simply look at just how much every single country pays for PhDs: Living in Europe, especially Scandinavia, cost usually a lot more than living in the States. You should take this into account when you decide where to take your PhD.

As a little tips if you're interested in taking a PhD in Norway: They discuss whether to halve the amount of PhD-positions and double the pay or not. If this happens, it will be very reasonable to take a PhD here. If this does not happen, I would not recommend taking a PhD "for the money", because prices here are skyhigh.
Microsoft didn't have to count entirely on luck - the were also aided by some really incompetent competitors...

I remember shopping for a new desktop PC right after OS/2 2.0 was launched. IBM charged more for a PC with their own OS (even though it included Windows) than for one with Windows alone, the sheer boneheadedness of that baffled me so completely the person on the other side of the phone taking my order thought I hung up. In the end, I forked out the extra US$ 50 or so and got the OS/2 box. The OS was really nice, very advanced for the time.

At that time, running a Unix GUI on a PC was a ludicrous proposition.
My question was about one site, which will be central place for programmers. And as I said - it is just my dream. I want ask hackers what they can say about it.
Do you really like to visit a lot of sites every day? Or it is just because you have not any alternative?
It's basic economics. A lot of people can mine coal or cook a burger. Not a lot of people can write or design software. The demand outweighs the supply and hence, leverage exists for those smart enough to take advantage of it.

More importantly, engineers earn a fraction of the value they create for employers.

It's the lawyers we should all be scoffing at...
I agree, the "emacs problem" is more or less solved by the advent of ELPA, along with external package repositories that mean you don't have get your code into emacs to get it widely disseminated. Emacs Lisp is still Emacs Lisp, but it has closures now, so who cares?
Not at all.

It may not be optimal for certain reasons to use USD, and they'd lose some advantages, but there are others to be gained that might make it worth it.

To the extent there are no real capital controls on USD anywhere - and - the US Fed is separate from the government, then nobody is going to be a 'colony' of the US by using USD.
Capital gains is still a percentage of earnings and currently caps out at 26%. Hold your stock for a year, and it drops to 13%. Increasing cap gains could be as simple as taxing it the same as regular income.
Tesla isn't blaming the user or pretending it knew all along, it's trying to avoid a mandatory recall. The letter here [0] is a response to a letter from the National Highway Transport Safety Administration, which has the power to force a mandatory recall of all affected Tesla vehicles. Tesla argues that a mandatory recall is unnecessary because the eMMC wearout is not a safety concern and is not the type of defect that should trigger a mandatory recall. Part of that argument is that eMMC is an expected wear item, that even without the over-the-air firmware updates already deployed the eMMC is expected to last 5-6 years, and that a failing eMMC does not cause dangerous conditions. Tesla has also promised to voluntarily recall and replace any affected hardware for free. Tesla argues that what it is doing makes a mandatory recall unnecessary.

[0] https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2020/INRL-EA20003-82493P.pd...
Suppose you've got two political systems each vying for legitimacy. They each have their own currency, and their own set of policy outcomes.

Is it so laughable that whichever one achieves the best results for its users will be the one to establish both market and political dominance? Is letting such a competition play out via the value of their respective currencies any better than traditional means of resolving this kind of conflict (i.e. war)?

I'm not saying I have ultimate faith in the market to do the right thing--it frequently doesn't. But it sounds like you're saying that it can't.

Granted, BTC's political system involves allocating power based on who can waste the most energy--so it's a pretty laughable alternative to existing governments--but in principle I don't see why markets can't mediate the rise and fall political systems in a way that roughly mirrors the way that political systems mediate the rise and fall of companies.

There's that saying:
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible make violent revolution inevitable.

It seems to me that collectively changing whose currency we use based on their capacity for sound governance is the kind of peaceful revolution that we ought to strive for.
No, the Linux kernel only requires an init executable to run. It otherwise makes no assumptions about the programs available in userland. Pretty much any sane/usable Linux distribution will package a shell, though.
> Yes, and that person is Uncle Sam, Marianne, the Goddess of Democracy, it is me and you, because it is be formed from societal consensus and the republican process.

Good, then you’ll have no objection to me helping myself to your surplus. For “the good of society.”

> Coercion schmoercion.

Its interesting how people are often quite concerned with someone else’s perceived lack of things, but references to someone being a victim of violence are dismissed.

> Certainly, in the same way a fish takes responsibility for the water it lives and breathes in.

The fish didn’t try to justify his aquatic lifestyle by reference to moral philosophers.

> Your entire stance is that marriage is unjust because it can be abused. While I'm arguing that abusive marriages do not necessarily form the majority, nor does it invalidate the concept.

My entire stance is that a moral wrong doesn’t become acceptable on the basis of someone asserting it as an integral component of some other thing. Theft/robbery doesn’t become ok because you believe it to be necessary or good for society, and rape doesn’ become ok because the victim is married to the perpetrator.

> I'm no audiophile.

Just deal with the arguments as presented rather than trying to link them back to some ideology as a convenient means of dismissal.
When I was first learning about network programming, I used to pour over your guide (hosted locally on a Chico State account at the time, if I remember correctly), absorbing every detail I could fit into my young mind. That was... more years ago than I want to think about, but I'm glad to see the guide continuing to get updates!

And I'm also glad for the opportunity to directly thank you for the work you've put into this over the years :)
That's kind of like saying an expensive designer shirt has the same insulation utility value as a cheaper generic one without the high class logo. Yes, this is obviously true.

In the actual consumer marketplace, luxury is more about exclusive high priced varieties that look different than it is about superior functionality.

People seem to be eternally shocked by this like we're living in some real life version of groundhog day. Almost as if believing consumers actually aren't infinitely rational utility maximizing automatons is some kind of impossible leap of faith.

Sorry, everything is absurd and there's nothing you can do about it.
Another way of looking at it: that incentivizes better investments.
I imagine the things you list are, to the CCP, a feature and not a bug. The harder it is for Chinese to leave the censorship bubble the better. I imagine the end-game for China is a completely cut off internet. Once they have enough domestic services it'll be safe to do. They're just not there yet.

My organization was forced to deploy a server in China with specialized content for the Chinese. That server and its content is under the CCP's censorship and control, and being an autocratic non-democratic government means that chances of reform are virtually nill. We're allowed, by the good graces of the CCP, to have a presence in China that they control. This is their end game. Controlled foreign sites hosted locally and international internet either completely cut off or just allowed for certain companies and elites.

Autocracy and freedom of information just don't work. The Chinese people, who are very nationalist, have chosen the former and are quite proud of it, often citing the "decadent west" as something they don't want to become and using the word "democracy" as an insult. Let's stop acting surprised about censorship in China. Some people prefer to be ruled by an iron fist.
Yep, as <slapshot> says, the HN headline is in error and should be changed.

At the very least the word "automatic" should be deleted. It incorrectly implies lack of discretion on the part of the magistrate judge.

Now, perhaps many magistrate judges may be too willing to issue warrants, but that's a different discussion. And there have been plenty of examples where they've raised important issues dealing with electronic surveillance; I highlighted Magistrate Judge Orenstein's opinion re: warrantless cell tracking in this 2005 article: http://news.cnet.com/Police-blotter-Cell-phone-tracking-reje...
Well everything. Barnevernet cannot comment due to privacy laws.

So you get the stories about the "unfortunate parents" that do not understand why their child(ren) were taken away. The reality is that you never hear about the abuse or neglect in these cases... and that is the truly horrifying part.
Very dramatic! One plucky white pawn made it all to end before getting slaughtered.

The two queens got very friendly before the white king killed the black queen in a fit of jealousy.

Meanwhile one black knight just stood off in the corner watching. Waiting.
Please see my update to this post:
http://www.rationaljava.com/2015/01/java8-lambdas-sorting-pe...
This is also not ADD. ADD is, among a few other things, a deficiency to guide ones concentration. Hyperfocus and repeated Hyperfocus for things you like is actually a sign of ADD. ADD people can very well do things they enjoy repeatedly and often.
Fair enough. What you could do is to split the 55,000 visas into 50,000 for US entities hiring foreigners. Then you could have a separate 5000 H1-Bs for foreign companies operating in the US. None of the latter would ACTUALLY be able to hire a single person realistically, because Wipro/Infosys etc would just grab those 5000 completely. But at least the other 50,000 would go towards startups and the Googles/Facebooks/etc of the world hiring foreign talents.
You can always negotiate more, if you can convince them you are worth the investment. They might be willing to shell out more compensation if they really want you.

And not all corporate jobs are boring. Find one that fits what you like to do.
I dunno about that. The bulk of an app should be business logic, or you are just plumbing / churning our boiler plate. Behind that theres some infrastructure, or connections to external systems, websites, file IO, hardware, databases. All that is not going to look much different, if you are doing it right. The only difference between a web app and a desktop app, is the presentation layer which should be as thin as possible, and whatever is hosting it, i.e. a framework, an executable.

In fact most of the real apps I have been working on lately aren't one or the other, they are a mix. Basically a core of domain logic, with thin patches of external interface exposing it. A web page here, a web service there, a desktop app over there, a server here.

And the line between is getting fuzzier. I hear some places are standardizing on technologies like Flex that can be either web apps or desktop apps depending on configuration.

If I understand you correctly you are implying that web apps don't need to have as clean a design as desktop apps. I am not sure if that is what you mean, but if it is, then you are going have the same trouble with maintenance as a product matures if you ignore e.g. SOLID principles, separation of concerns etc, whether it is a desktop or web app. And you don't need any "heavy java frameworks" either. If anything web frameworks like rails encourage a cleaner design (ie via MVC) than typical desktop tools like what C# developers might use to make an app.
Add four pixels to each line. ;)
I thought rocket science was supposed to be bleeding edge?

It is not. The main problem in space are the high energy particles. They penetrate everything (and I mean everything, also metal, processors, they cause bit flips and can do a lot of harm). So a first priority objective is reliable (=tested) hardware. There is little tested hardware for obvious reasons.

I work in ESAs Herschel project. Herschel runs on 16 MHz processors (Mega - not Giga!) - like your good old Atari St. You don't wan't to risk a 1 Billion Euro Spacecraft, because of one failing chip.

The detectors of the instruments, of course, are another story. These are indeed bleeding edge. Their readout electronics on the other hand, good old stuff again.
So the whole thing is a funny mixture of old but fool proof hardware combined with new developments.
There is analogy with open office. Only non-management unthinking drones sit in the open, all mgmt and all "thought workers" have offices with doors because we pay them to concentrate, you can't concentrate in a noisy environment, and if you don't have a door you can close you aren't suppose to be thinking, you're supposed to be laboring (even if the labor is paper shuffling or talking on a phone). Also a significant sign of social status, the idea that a member of management wouldn't have an office with a door is unthinkable. To be honest I think the only thing that has changed with the open office fad, is the unthinking drones are very aspirational and refuse to think of themselves the way management thinks of them.
My thoughts exactly. Seems like facebook bought Whatsup to bring it to the ground.
I think you are misunderstanding something. No, this isn't from Slack but it is about Slack. Your comments in this thread make it look like you think this has nothing to do with Slack.
But IRC has failed, colossally, because it is old-school technology for old-school people. The vast majority of users don't want to think about servers, clients, etc. They want to at most get the app, and start talking to their mates.

I mean there may be some way to do this with IRC where you don't have to piss around with ident and nicks and nets and netsplits and all this other ridiculous stuff, but the proof is in the pudding.

IRC is great, for geeks.
I've been reading kragen mailing lists where they bootstrap a lot of 'utilities' on metal with asm (using alt keycodes as 'editor', funky). It's very inspiring and relaxing to see how few things you need to start using a computer. It flatten the whole abstraction stack into a thin core.
I've seen loads of Google ads - on TV, in the press, and especially outdoor advertising. It's typically conceptual stuff, about security, privacy, etc.

In addition, I get a lot of direct mail with vouchers for using AdWords.
Because companies are set up to cater for a mainstream user base. They have succeeded in making it exceptionally easy to use their apps with little if at all precursory knowledge or effort.
2 of 139816 is 0,000014305%
What is the workaround you are using? I too am facing the same problem in IE and am evaluating multiple options.
In the 1980s, the difference is that, in the US, the media had much more freedom to stay what they want and criticize the government. (Except for the 7 words, but you can pretty much communicate any idea without those 7 words.) The radio stations could play pretty much any music they wanted, as long as they edited out the 7 words or weren't too sexually explicit. There was no censorship, but stations had clear market pressure to provide programming that people liked.

Individually, an American could send letters into newspapers.

US pirate radio was a hobby, or an act of rebellion against privatization of airwaves. It didn't have the same political connotations that Soviet pirate radio had.
Pirate radio was a global phenomenon, sure, but it takes on special significance in countries without free speech.
I have to wonder how long it will take to work out with AT&T. Skype and tethering took a year for AT&T to get around to.
This really isn't that big of a shift from Skype et al. until it's available on 3G. And you know what? I haven't used a webcam in years. Not an extraordinarily useful piece of technology, and it's still not the best experience even on wired networks (because the wired networks have been frozen in time here in the States.)

And as for it being at normal data rates on 3G, I'll believe it when I see it. (It can't be free.)
It's actually based on already existing open standards, see http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/06/apple-...
Now that is great rebranding.

All it needs now is 'try Racket in your browser' and a video of some dude making a blog in 15 minutes using Racket. Then it will be the new hotness.