skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is quite a lot of work in the life sciences that is completely unregulated.

The Salmon are dying of asphyxiation and heatstroke in the Willamette and Columbia Rivers. I can come up with many technical measures to mitigate that problem but some of them require a lot of money.

Lots of fish hatcheries closer to the Pacific so the salmon don't swim so far inland when they return to their birthplaces to make bacon with the attracive gender.
Why the caveat about disregarding historical status? Given that we're still living with its very ill effects, what legitimate reason can there be for ignoring its source?
It's not that simple. E.g. how would you score Teddy Roosevelt, who was both a progressive and a "conservative military hawk". Vs. William Howard Taft, who per Wikipedia had a "domestic agenda [that] emphasized trust-busting, civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, improving the performance of the postal service, and passage of the Sixteenth Amendment" (income tax) but had a less bellicose foreign policy?

I actually don't know much about that period of US history, but certainly Goldwater counts for both a "conservative" military hawk and a libertarian. And domestically Nixon was quite liberal.

Basically, there's been "liberal" and "conservative" strands in Republican party history for more than a century, continuing to this day. Things don't map out in simple ways, e.g. the first post-Snowden House vote on those issues didn't split along any recognizable patterns I could discern, party, region of the country, etc.
So, I think you are trying to make an argument that opposes these more stringent emissions requirements (correct me if I'm wrong), but I could just as easily read these the other way...

1. Chrysler's fleet is so inefficient that they have to make one-off cars to bring up their average, losing money on each one. This regulation is single-handedly forcing them to improve their fleet or suffer massive hemorrhaging from the electric car mandates. Seems like it's working...

2. Gas costs more in California, making people buy more efficient cars, drive less, and seek mass-transit options, reducing traffic and encouraging increased density. Maybe they'll buy a Fiat 500e?

3. Fossil fuels have helped us get where we are, and now energy is so ubiquitous that we have the luxury of looking for more efficient/less-emissive options...

Looks like things are shaping up pretty well to me!
Thanks for the $ info, but I'm in the Denver area. We get lots of sun too!
Dropbox's service has always been something that an engineer who wanted to, could implement with a server and an rsync alias. Their company is not built on the same technical challenges that companies like Apple and Google and Microsoft have. Their success comes from creating and (relentlessly) iterating on personal cloud storage solution for the average computer user.

Cloud storage has been (sort of) commoditized. By that I mean it's easily obtainable from a variety of different sources (Google, Microsoft etc). It's not immediately obvious which service is "better". However Dropbox does have strong brand awareness going for them. People in Tech frequently underestimate the value of an established brand.

My personal opinion is that Dropbox will continue to do well in revenue for small sized businesses and sole proprietors. However, it's medium/large business solutions do not have as strong of a reputation (things like access control are relatively new features, I had to check if it even existed). As long as they stay first-to-mind when people talk about personal cloud storage, they will do okay.

The difference between jumping from 1-10 billion to a 10-100 billion will be how well they execute on b2b solutions.
If I were a VC and my money were being used to repay kickstarter backers instead of me, I would be pretty pissed.

I wonder if there is more to the story. Maybe the company is pivoting.
It seems that recycling is a flat rate even if you get two cans. Jumping from the smallest to largest compost can is ~$5. Trash is the really expensive one: http://www.seattle.gov/util/MyServices/Garbage/HouseResident...

There's been a big push around composting lately, to the point where there will be fines for having too many compostables in the trash. People were up in arms over this, as it meant that the waste collection people would be rooting around in your trash to determine if it was complaint, though apparently they can't open opaque bags to check so it's pretty much a non-issue.
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That's not true at all. The translation is "Ye shall kindle no fire throughout your habitations upon the sabbath day." Literally, you cannot light fires (which many have extended to electricity use). Nothing about work involved at all.
IPFS means "InterPlanetary File System"

source: http://ipfs.io
Or better, if possible, google.ca. They can still use a French-language service without being forced to adhere to EU censorship laws.
How is this different from a regular CDN like Akamai, Cloudflare, etc.?
Skype was originally (before being bought by Microsoft) very decentralized (though the software was heavily obfuscated, so that "decentralized" did not mean "user has much control"). This saved the company the money to build an expensive infrastructure.

So for me the answer is not obvious, whether there is more money to be made on the concept of centralization or decentralization. So I think the problem is rather in terms of "amount of user control" instead of centralization or decentralization.
>On health insurance, to be precise the cost is $0.10/hour if a worker reaches a precise threshold in weekly hours, so far below 20%.

If you can get decent insurance for $.10/hr, do let me know, because I'm paying rather a lot more than that right now.

My company has health insurance for all three employees (counting me) - it looks like you are looking at more than $500 and less than $1000 a month, before dependents, for insurance I would consider "not great but good enough" a lot more than $0.10/hr.

But, that varies a lot based on age. Hire some kid in their early '20s, and it will be rather less than $500, and good luck getting a decent plan for someone around 50 for less than a grand a month.

Also, companies will only pay part of the health insurance cost. My company does pay the full cost of the insurance for the worker, for example, but we don't pay anything towards insurance for their dependents. and while the insurance that my company hands out isn't exactly great, there are way shittier health plans available.

Yeah, I'm not getting where you are seeing the $0.10/hr. Maybe you mean if the employer just organizes the health insurance, and makes the employees actually do all the paying for it? but in that case, there's really no point in the employer offering health insurance at all, Now that the ACA allows people with pre-existing conditions to buy health insurance, the value that an employer provides by paying for your health insurance (rather, say, than just giving you the money and letting you get your own insurance) is that if your employer pays, it comes out pre-tax, which is huge.
> In particular, if I'm a sysadmin of a shared machine and a user asks me to install something systemwide, I don't want arbitrary code running as root, but if the installed code is malicious, that's up to the unprivileged user who chooses to use it to keep their own data safe.

Ah, that makes a lot of sense, especially for applications (eg meld) and command line utilities (eg httpie) which are nice to install systemwide as root, but only ever run in an unprivileged user's context.
Time seems to have had a way of vindicating at least some tin foil hatters, yet people today are just as ready to dismiss as 'crazy conspiracy theory' any similar extrapolations or speculations.

If you strip off the really genuinely nutty stuff, quite a bit of what I remember reading nutters talk about on places like Usenet alt.conspiracy in the 1990s is now reality. Some of what's now reality would have made them blush. The conspiranoids would have called you crazy if you'd suggested that everyone would be carrying devices that constantly report their location at all times to central servers owned by closely state-connected corporations -- and that people would accept this willingly and even pay out of pocket for these devices themselves.
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I see same issue with Nepal, so much of potential and thriving startups, talented engineers but funding being a biggest pain point.
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It's hard to turn in to a hourly cost, because the coverage is binary; an employee works enough hours to be covered or not, and the cost of health insurance for the worker depends mostly on the worker's age, not on how much they work.

Of course, we're talking usually like $500 or so a month, varying dramatically on age and quality of the plan, so in no case is it gonna be anywhere near $0.10 per hour.

Workers comp can usually be broken down to a per-hour cost; and for, say, an underpaid computer nerd, $0.10 per hour is a minimally realistic workers comp cost, so maybe that's what parent was talking about.
I worry about describing BCC as "taking off" -- it was a tomato plant, not a rocket ship. Put in water; get juicy fruit, turn into canned sauce; sell for money; repeat.
Why the caveat about disregarding historical status?

Let me rephrase that: My dictionary defines racism as "discrimination against or antagonism towards other races". It does not say anything about historical social status in its definition of "racism".

Given that we're still living with its very ill effects, what legitimate can there be for ignoring its source?

Trying to correct the continuing effects of past racism can be a justification for discriminating on the basis of race. But the fact that it is a justifiable form of racism doesn't mean that it is not a form of racism.
Well, stockpiles are significantly down relative to the Cold War peak, due to strategic arms reduction treaties. Detonation of Cold War peak stockpiles would have been "really bad" for the human race. Likely not an existential threat for humanity as a species, though very possibly one for the current state of human civilization.
DC doesn't even come in the top 4 for biotech. The top 4 are probably Boston, SF, San Diego, and Seattle.
I can't tell if you're incredibly naive or if you just believe your parents are.
You're half right: reverse racism doesn't exist. But it's also not racism because racism (or sexism) requires both power and privilege.

I think including this in the CoC is great because it means, for example, that women using GitHub to build a website for women won't be subject to sanctions if a man complains of reverse sexism because a pull request they made wasn't merged.

For more information on why reverse racism doesn't exist try this:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/07/15/884649/-Why-there-s...
A good and well written article with pictures. I hope I could read more articles like this one.
Why does paying attention to the source offer any benefit in creating a friendly, welcoming, and open environment, which is the alleged goal of this CoC? If someone is being harassed or discriminated against based on their race, they are being harassed or discriminated against based on their race. The fact that their great-grandfather was not discriminated against doesn't change their situation now.
Maybe using Google and their "trending" tool and searching for: remote software jobs

Might yield some data.

The volume (vs. quality) of remote jobs over time might be another source.

There are plenty crap Work From Home jobs. It is the high-paying software-engineer jobs that matter (from an HN perspective).
I will try that starting now.
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It's only wrong if you strip it of all context. In the real world, which is defined by deep and ancient legacies, things are very different.

In in America circa 2015, where the status quo is inherently wrong and racist, it's wrong to consider race when doing so propagates the status quo. At the same time, it is right to consider race when seeking to frustrate or dismantle the status quo. Both judgements rest on the same principle, which is that the status quo is inherently wrong and racist.

So you see? There's no double standard. Of course, if you can't already see the injustice built into the status quo, then efforts to counter it are going to appear baseless and suspect. But given all the evidence to the contrary, that would take a pretty extraordinary act of willful blindness.
They intercept just about everything, for sure.

And they apparently do a decent job at triage.

But the false positive paradox is still problematic.[0]

Epidemiology is a bitch ;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_positive_paradox
> Deliberate misgendering. This includes deadnaming or persistently using a pronoun that does not correctly reflect a person’s gender identity.

Ummm, wouldn't 'misgendering' be using a pronoun which disagrees with someone's actual gender, as opposed to self-perceived gender?

Is it 'mistitling' to refer to someone who thinks that he's Napoleon Bonaparte as 'him' rather than 'his Imperial and Royal Majesty'?

> Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

> ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’

So, the SCUM Manifesto would be welcome? Seems unwise to me.
GitHub is trying really hard to get SJWs on their side (this CoC, the "retard" case, etc). They have a terrible reputation in regards to sexism and lack of diversity (see the Horvath scandal).

What's funny is that, this kind of PR never works. SJWs are very pissed off by the Open Code of Conduct move, they've been working for years on designing CoC (instead of, you know, writing actual code) and they see that as "culture appropriation" or whatever buzzy word. So in the end, they're just gonna alienate the ones that are fed up with this PC trend, while not convincing anyone to come back.
"But it's also not racism because racism (or sexism) requires both power and privilege."

a) Not according to the dictionary or Wikipedia or common usage, it doesn't.
b) Even if you don't use the word "racism" to describe it, it's still creating a hostile and unwelcoming environment, which one would have thought was opposed to the goal of this Code of Conduct.
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Shameless plug: I had the exact same question at my last gig, and wrote up a quick open-source tool to build wheels and dump them to an S3 bucket. [0]

Usage is as simple as

mkwheelhouse mybucket.mycorp.co scipy numpy

which will automatically build and upload those wheels for your current architecture and dump them into mybucket.mycorp.co. It builds a pip-compatible index, too, so you can just tell pip to search your wheelhouse first before falling back to PyPI:

pip install --find-links mybucket.mycorp.co scipy numpy

If you need to build for several OSes, you can run mkwheelhouse against the same bucket from each OS.

The downside of this approach is you can't host private packages, because you need to enable public website hosting. (Although, VPC endpoints might have changed this!) But the simplicity of this approach plus the massive speedup of not needing to constantly recompile scipy was totally worth it.

[0]: https://github.com/whoopinc/mkwheelhouse
This will most likely be helpful as well:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertrand_paradox_%28probabilit...
Reddit Gold is definitely a wonderful solution.

However, I was replying to a comment about a "donate" button on the browser, and trying to keep within the problem that it is trying to solve, which is (at least as far as I can tell) paying for the vast number of far smaller sites that make up the internet.
Noticed something fun; if you inspect the path elements in that pie chart in a rotation you get a fun effect. Cheers
This is yet another indication that people at the highest levels of government simply don't understand or care how free markets work. You don't raise demand for anything by mandating increasing levels of production of a product that people won't buy. You do it by incentivizing or subsidizing the development of a product (and in the case of cars, a nationwide infrastructure) that has advantages over those already in the market.

The major hurdles with electric cars are cost and range. Cost will come down on its own as battery technology improves. But imagine if these politicians were intelligent and instead used their power to mandate that the industry agree on a standard for interchangeable batteries, that all electric cars sold must conform to the standard, and that all sellers of the gasoline that they hate so much must install equipment to do automated swaps of charged for uncharged batteries. If recharging the car (battery swaps) were faster, cheaper, and more convenient than pumping gas, that would remove an enormous roadblock in the minds of many consumers. Consumer demand for electric cars would skyrocket, gas stations would have a massive new profit center, and as a side effect, politicians would get the environmental benefits they desire far faster than they would under their current plan.
1984 is here. This must end otherwise we are not free.
discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9998033
I drove a $500 dollar car another 100,000 miles and only had to do oil changes for the engine. I'm guessing shocks, struts, etc that I did have to fix would be the same on an electric. This was on a 90s car, I'm assuming the current generation of ICE cars will only last longer if properly taken care of.
Water can and does become radioactive through neutron capture breeding tritium.

However, neutron flux falls off quickly with range, and for an airburst explosion it would not have been high enough at the surface to cause significant neutron "activation" of local materials. Almost all of the fallout from the blast came from the material in the bomb itself.
Yeah, totally. I had not previously read about flattr, but it appears to be exactly what I proposed! That's excellent, and I think that I'll read more about it, and likely sign up. I certainly hope that it doesn't also live up to the bleak outlook that I had.
Use the srcset attribute to provide @2x sizes.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/Im...

Example: <img src="img.jpg" srcset="img@2x.jpg 2x" alt="">
That's where things get interesting.
I use RequestPolicy which is a plugin that allows you to control which third-party scripts are allowed to be loaded per domain. It is very lightly curated; they have a small set of default rules that allow sites to load "third party" sites that they control (e.g. their own CDN).

I have found that most sites work (including the one hosting the article being discussed) well enough to read, or even completely true to the author's intent (depends on if CSS is self-hosted or on a CDN that I haven't whitelisted). I even find that often it is actually more pleasant to have a basic experience when CSS doesn't load.

Sites that require me to allow a lot of third-party scripts and content to work force me to weigh the expected usefulness of the content vs the scumminess of the site. The creepier and more plentiful the third parties are, the more likely I am to press the X...

I very rarely have to allow Google and JQuery in my day to day browsing.
It's a little more than just rsync. There's file history, desktop and mobile apps with nice (enough) GUI's, selective sync/offline-ing, and more. But past that I agree with you. Google Drive is looking better and better as I exclusively use google drive for all documents. Crap like not being able to view basic text files online in drive is annoying but I rarely use dropbox's web interface so it might not be an issue...
Deadnaming (that is: referring to someone by an old name, often used to describe referring to a trans person by a pre-transition name) is used as harassment and you can imagine how unpleasant it might be, especially if the people in a community you're in don't know that you're trans. I am a very heavy GitHub user and I am very glad that the CoC includes language for this.
There are times when Xcode chugs on a top of the line 2015 15" 2.5Ghz rMBP with 16GB of RAM and a 2GB/s PCI-E SSD. Not frequently mind you, but it does happen. It's incredibly heavy and I can't see it being usable on an iPad unless Apple manages to magically pull out an A-series CPU that's in the same class as a Haswell i7.
Given that it was founded five years ago, I'd imagine it's almost dead now.
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This is where I start liking the Volt. Pure electric? No way. Not in Michigan winters.