skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think OP means more along the lines of the fact that legacy systems were very hard to change, so changes went through a much more rigorous review process.

The problem with that theory is that because current systems are so easy to change, the cost of failure is much lower, so the upfront cost to avoid failure no longer has as good an ROI.
Yes, other people have noticed that.
Perhaps these guys should talk to PHK who's also implementing an NTP dæmon:

· http://phk.freebsd.dk/time/

· https://github.com/bsdphk/Ntimed
Funny you should ask: https://atilanevesoncode.wordpress.com/2014/01/08/adding-jav...
Sorry for the off topic but most non-biologists fail to precisely understand what Cambrian explosion means.

It was a time when suddenly an huge variety of species appeared and what was new among them all was the trait of a body plan or body structure with diferent cells forming organs for specific functions. The explanation most accepted by biologists is the appearance of HOX genes. These are genes that switch on/off the expression of other genes and that is what causes cells in the same organism with the same genetic code to be very different in morphology.
And was posted on "Hacker News".
I knew it...I knew my 36 waist was too good to be true :P
No, I didn't dig deeper.
I think you'll find (and the comments on this story illustrate the point quite succinctly) that there are still many idiots who are willing to tow the "human driven climate change is a made up thing"

Sad but true
I think that joke is made in every state.
I'll let him know :)
Welcome to politics. Would you like a side of quantitative easing with your flexible labor markets?
I'm working for aquaponic company Verticulture Farms and I couldn't agree with you more. Multitrophic systems are definitely the way of the future. Plants/fish/crustaceans, all grown organically and locally.
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downvotes - truth hurts.
By "horribly inaccurate" do you mean 3 degrees Celsius off or 20 degrees Celsius off? These aftcasts are accurate enough for us to plot the overall course of global climate change.
I'm guessing you have some data that backs up this point?

There are some pretty accurate forecasting services

http://www.wunderground.com/most-accurate-weather

http://forecastadvisor.com/
I found Zapier by searching for integrations available to the enterprise email marketing platform we use. Unfortunately, they don't support it and I never got to use them in production, but from just toying around with it, it looks extremely useful.
They didn't record anything before 1880?

I don't think the clarification deserved down votes.
Beers have changed through the decades.

Faro beers and similar old style session beers would usually be in the 2 to 3 percent range. People drank them while that worked. It was not intended to get you drunk but energized.

Today's sessions are 4 percent and as high as 5 percent, which is significantly more and quite frankly silly to be called a session beer, since most pilsners and light beers are in the same range naturally.
Yes, weather forecasting is hard - that's why there's lots of research into 'aftcasts'. If we can learn to make better predictions while limiting the data we take in, we can make big improvements to the accuracy of modern forecasts.

You can make fun of meteorologists if you want, but they are not wrong 95% of the time. In fact, over the last 20 years the accuracy of predictions has gone WAY up on average. There are still many places where forecasting is difficult and it's going to be a long road to improve it to get people like you to trust the forecast. But we're improving and we're making the best forecasts we've ever made in the industry.
I agree that the value prop is too vague on the homepage. When I first looked at it the question that came to mind is, "How is this different than Evernote?". It seems like a paid version of note taking system. Perhaps you can focus more on the differentials. I noticed your comment said something about setting reminders, but I didn't see that on the homepage. Maybe I missed it.
> Ironically enough their complaints may actually undermine their own long-term interests. After all, creative artists of all kinds depend on fair use to make new works—from blockbuster pictures to music to fiction

Lol at the idea of Hollywood creating anything that could be described as creatively artistic.
I'd be curious to understand why some people seem to be offended by the idea that people cause global warming. I flag all these articles though, because they always end up about politics, given that scientists are mostly in consensus, and very few people here are climate scientists.
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Temperature measurement is a hard problem, hard enough you could write a PhD on it. Asking questions about methods etc. is entirely acceptable.

The issue is when people refuse to recognize that thousands of scientists have made this their career, and thousands of PhDs actually have been written on temperatures past and present, and think that talking heads on Fox News reciting memos paid for by fossil fuel companies contain even the semblance of a real critique.
"I find the double standard evident in these discussions to be ludicrous and frankly elitist. "Our unicorns are completely meritocratic, but yours don't deserve it!""

I'm pretty sure the HN gestalt has but one standard, and it's something like "The unicorns are not a good thing and probably mean there's some sort of bubble."

There will probably still be some musicians that make boodles of money under any system, and it probably won't be all that different in number from the rather small number of programmers who manage that. Programming isn't a reliable route to millions, let alone a reliable route to billions!
Yes, it's Gattaca.
Every time you say the word "no" in your article, it’s not a fact, it’s your opinion. Trying to change people’s minds is about educating them, not telling them to stop using words or phrases or to tell them that all their ideas are wrong.
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Did you even understand the frustration of OP's post? It's not the terms, it's the fact that the terms are stated with no context. If OP is frustrated about the assumption that everyone knows what terms like Zero Rating and Net Neutrality mean and wants some information about the issues, how could they reasonably suggest better terms?
URL is wrong. Take off the trailing "s".
It's not interesting because if you are talking global temperatures (which is what the article is about) we haven't had a coldest month ever recorded in... decades.
You have a stray "s" on the end of your URL. Here's the actual link:

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/08/19/tech/gallery/india-mars-or...
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/22/technology/22ECOM.html?pag...

It's mostly the tone of articles - a sense that this internet thing isn't quite there yet and there are consumer expectations that internet simply can't account for (which in the case of the article cited, we know is false because of things like pinterest etc).

The stuff I'm thinking about now is when articles talk about Snapchat, memes, gifs etc, the angle is coming from a very dismissive place.

Mostly talking about mainstream media though.
I wonder if they also studied this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silbo_Gomero
It's not interesting to HNers because it has nothing to do with what the article says. The article is talking about the average temperature across the entire surface of the Earth, for the entire month of July. You are talking about when one very small bit of geography has a local minimum or maximum temp.
It may be just the opposite; i.e, the Earth is actuallly in a cooling cycle so the current warming is even worse than indicated.

There was an article in Scientific American back 2005 where the author claims that human activity since the dawn of agriculture may have held off a return to an ice age:

https://physics.ucf.edu/~britt/Climate/Reading5-Did%20humans...

This very much does not mean that the current warming is in any way a good thing.
That's interesting, because I actually found the article pretty impressive considering the timing. It's easy to look back 13 years later and laugh at the title, but some of the finer points were pretty insightful. Many parts of the article are very foretelling, even if they weren't the personal opinion of the author.

For example, pointing out that using text ads over graphical ones improved the speed and was an important aspect for users is noteworthy, as well as Brin and Page's insistence that focusing on the technology would bring users and, in turn, ad revenue is as well. This article was written just a couple of years after a major crash of tech stocks that had absolutely no way to make a buck, so some skepticism was in order, I believe. In fact the vast majority of .com's were not profitable so it's not as if a company that at the time was trailing Yahoo! and Overture and barely profitable was inevitably going to become the Google we know today.
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> So.....saying we can make as accurate of forecasts for 200 years ago...that's not really saying much.

It is saying quite a lot actually because the past has already happened. In the first case you are talking about the future, and yes, in some places weather is more unpredictable. You can of course move to the desert and enjoy clockwork predictable weather if it bothers you that much.

The OP was talking about "afcasting" though. In that case measurement have already been taken, but there are other records: ice cores, sea sediment, and many others. So it makes for a very interesting topic.
The benefit will be universal, but then you have to pay for it with increased taxes. So the increased marginal rate will disincentivize people from working.
There is another potential concern besides the inferred data (which, as you say, should be reasonable), though I don't know how much it would affect any of the larger conclusions (if they are affected at all).

[also, this reference is somewhat old now; I haven't checked if this problem has been addressed in more recent models]

There is evidence[1] that the climate model software doesn't handle floating point properly (which is, unfortunately, a very common problem).

"... there exist differences in the results for different ... parallel
libraries, and optimization levels, primarily a result of the treatment
of rounding errors ... the ensemble spread due to the differences in
software system is comparable to the ensemble spread due to the
differences in initial conditions ..."

Rounding errors on different hardware, operation ordering, and optimization level screams that the software isn't properly handling[2] IEEE 754 floating point. This could be a serious problem in an iterated model that is chaotically sensitive to initial conditions (hence the use of ensemble forecasting).

/* regardless, we need a lot thorium reactors ASAP */

[1] http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/MWR-D-12-00352.1

[2] (pdf) https://ece.uwaterloo.ca/~dwharder/NumericalAnalysis/02Numer...
Yeah, I'm not sure what lucianmarin is talking about.
I didn't write the Erlang version, don't know Erlang nor have any idea how it's built. The curious can always check the code out.

I don't know why you think that start-up time has an effect on the benchmarks. It doesn't matter how long the brokers take to start, once they did the measurements were done. `go run` doesn't change a thing.
For a team your size, anchor your scrum process in software configuration management using either GitHub or GitLab. Use the issue tracker to manage "user stories". Use milestones as "sprints". Use issues assigned to milestones as "sprint backlog" and issues unassigned to specific milestones as "product backlog". Take advantage of the ability to drag and drop sort issues to keep your backlog prioritized.
There is a trade-off between performance and area. Pipelined designs are bigger (not least because of all that pipeline registers).
Well "recorded" already narrows it down to the history of thermometers (largely 17th century and later), then the very first bullet point in the article mentions that the dataset is 1880–2015, which really clears that matter up, I'd say.

So, "useful" in the sense of "let me summarize the article in two words so you can reach your own conclusions instead of clicking that link and reading NOAA's".

Semi apologies for the snark, but yes, the first comment really was an almost informationless attempt to derail. Success!
The dictionary definition clearly has no requirement that it be a mutually defined membership, just a common group of people.

You are saying "because the dictionary does not say one entity can control who is a member, it's not allowed".

But the dictionary definition neither requires nor disallows a single entity from defining membership, and definitions don't fall into the "that which is not referenced is not permitted" category of things.
In fact, it's the opposite. If you meet at least the minimum requirements of some definition, you are that thing. You may also be other things that are more specific.

So they are completely within the dictionary definition of a community.
They are a group of people with a common characteristic (they are airbnb hosts) scattered through a larger society.

Whether this is defined by airbnb or not doesn't matter.

Claiming anything else is simply ridiculous to me.

Do you also believe the daughters of the american revolution are not a community, because the daughters of the american revolution defines who is part of their membership?

Is hacker news not a community because contributing requires accounts HN reserves the right to remove accounts at any time (thus controlling participation)?

I'm not sure why you are not just willing to admit you are being silly.
Thanks and thanks for sharing the benchmarks!
Thanks for taking this on and writing about it. I learned several things already.

One thing I've read in the past is that the React render method should always produce the same output given the same props and state. However, this line:

<button onClick={this.handleClick.bind(this)}>click me!</button>

breaks that, since it creates a new click handler each time. I've seen people creating the binding once in the constructor and using that in the render method.
The American GOP and their fossil fuel powered deep pocket backers have done a wonderful job making this an emotionally, and even religiously charged issue (as all good wedge issues should be).

More reading: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/201...
“This is the first 3D printing tech that really has the potential to break out of the prototyping realm that 3D printing has been relegated to until now”

Nope. 3D printing has been there for quite a while already: it is being used quite massively in the aerospace industry, and not for prototyping...
>monopoly-regulation and net-neutrality are two unconnected issues.

Not really. Competition can be relied upon to maintain net neutrality. It's what consumers will opt for when given a choice.

Only in monopolies and oligopolies can really get away with violating it (which is why the legislation is necessary in America).
I was more referring to the likes of es, rc and Inferno sh. The rest are all just variants of Bourne or C shell in some way, and even then Bourne and C don't have much in the way of compelling differences.
What about those of us regularly consuming 22oz "bombers" of wonderful 10% beers like Ballast Point Victory at Sea?

I feel like the lower alcohol content session beers are working against you. More time drinking, more raw volume, and more time spent going to the bathroom.

I suppose a session beer would make a nice choice for drinking in the workplace. You could have 1 or 2 and still function at your job. Beyond that, I don't get the allure.
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That's what they said last month! Get your story straight, scientists!
Firstly, this wasn't about one day, it was about one month. That already removes a lot of variability out of the data, particularly when you're talking about "global" temperature.

Secondly, "hottest months on record" are happening far more frequently than coldest months ever. Like orders of magnitude more frequently. So yeah, it's not that we're not interested, it's that you re factually wrong.
In fairness, he did say that the whole thing was his opinion, so I'm guessing he's just hoping we'll notice the sounds-like-facts nature of his opinions and go along with it.
Free, no. Less money than Oracle DBAs? (Yes.
soo....don't move over yet?
I run Arch Linux, all the versions were whatever was newest at the time.
If you're on the Net Neutrality side then "toll free" obscures the downside even more thoroughly than "zero rated". So it's clearer... if you're facebook :)
While I see your point, the forecasts for past weather are based on data very different from forecasts for tomorrow's weather. The former is for past occurred events and the latter is for future probabilities.
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German here, working in an emerging start-up where every day is full of surprises, as to be expected (positive as well as negative). I do 40 hours, and it keeps me sane, creative, thorough and relaxed.
Get two thermometers and turn up the dial on your fridge.
The enamoration we have with "paleo" lifestyles is slightly absurd. The naturalist, primitivisy concept that things were superior in the past is a fallacy.

Humans didn't live for very long 10,000 years ago, so the effects of chronic diseases (the most important ones today) were not very pronounced. Most infants died before the age of five, so it seems quite ridiculous to take parenting tips from them. You are much more likely to kill your infant if you sleep with him or her in bed, as this article seems to suggest.

People would find it quite ridiculous if I suggested we model our political system after caveman politics, or perhaps we didn't teach children to read and write (weren't we happier before written language?), but somehow every "paleo" suggestion related to healthcare is assumed to be superior.
Here is a proof of your concept. The Climate Corporation (https://www.climate.com) is a SF based company founded in 2006 by two ex-Googlers. Its purpose is to help agriculture adapt to climate change. It was acquired by Monsanto in 2013 for $1.1B.

[ETA: I had a feeling you knew this, and indeed while I was writing, you captured this info below as well. Hope your project is going well.]
I like them sometimes because they don't rely on alcohol to cover up off-flavors created in the brewing process by some less-than-perfect breweries. It's surprisingly common, especially from particularly popular microbreweries who start cutting corners to fill their demand out of their limited production capacity.
I mean turning on the "weather channel" and having it say it's sunny out, only to look outside to see pouring rain across the entire city. That's pretty inaccurate in my book.
Yeah maybe part of it is hindsight on my end. I agree that the FUD is because of the crash.
> So let me get this straight ... selling climate control stuff to the government

No, you got it wrong. Please read my comment again and recognize that I think most profits would come from a variety of different private sectors, specifically agribusiness and insurance.

> nobody has thought of

On the contrary, there are many startups in this space. I even mentioned some by name. I am making a call for more to enter the space and join the efforts to reduce the effects of climate change, help large enterprises and governments adapt, and make lots of money while doing so.
Right, that's what I was saying. The point is obviously not to collect one company for each letter. When they have 5 companies that start with G, are you really going to look at them and say "LOL I TOLD YOU SO"? The name just means variety, not a specific naming plan.
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It doesn't necessarily have to be a "block out the sun" type of project.

There are other opportunities, like energy. Surely someone can take a bite out of a 100+ trillion dollar industry in a profitable and green way.
It's true that robot honeybees will require super-advanced hardware, because the job of a honeybee is stupendously difficult. Long range, weather, precision landings, surviving collisions, etc. That's a long way off.

Robot butlers won't need very advanced hardware, because we've designed homes to be comfortable and benign. Comfortable temperatures, power available, utensils and appliances designed for ease of use. Same with logistics.

So yes, we're a long way from humanoid hardware that could compete in a rodeo, or win a soccer match, or survive in the wild. But butlering is physically not too demanding.
You can just download the CAD free version (Quartus II or ISE) and compile it for a target FPGA board.
> The reason for growing in the city is to reduce transportation cost and time.of it gets in the store the same day the plants were harvested then it increases freshness/nutritional value and it increases the shelf life.

So let's see some analysis on the cost of growing in the city vs. cost of transportation plus spoilage. Data, numbers, the good stuff!

> This also eliminates the need for pesticides since you're closing off the plants from insects.

You don't need to grow indoors to grow pesticide-free. Nor do you need to grow indoors to protect plants from pests.

> Organically grown plants are GMO free and therefore need a lot more pesticides to keep it looking good. So if you want to pay the cheaper price for a mouth of chemical then that's on you.

Holy conflation, Batman! First of all, "organic" is a family of growing methods; one could grow GM stock using organic methods if one wished, though in most places it will be difficult to get certification. Second, by definition "organic" methods prohibit or greatly restrict the use of pesticides. So you're contradicting yourself here; someone growing non-GM food organically is by definition not using them.

> I agree that the electricity usage is an issue but this is something that is being solved. Year by year we see lights getting more efficient and solar panels getting more efficient as well.

As I explained, this doesn't matter. A 100%-efficient PV module connected to a 100%-efficient LED bulb with a 100%-efficient transmission and distribution system is at best going to provide the same growing area as the area of those PV modules. The physics of the situation simply do not allow anything more than that, and in this universe, where we obey the laws of thermodynamics, they don't even allow that. Surface farming will always be more efficient than covering the surface with PV modules and farming somewhere else. If you cannot accept this, then your entire argument reduces to "indoor farming is a perpetual motion machine" and you should expect it to be taken as such.

> When it comes to running out of farmable land and fresh water becoming more scarce and a growing population though,

If you don't have fresh water, you cannot farm anywhere, period. A tap in an urban building is not inhabited by magical water fairies; that water comes from the same places that traditional farms get theirs. If you believe you have a more water-efficient way to farm, why not combine that with the most energy-efficient farming method as well and employ it on the surface? Don't waste such an important advance by trying to sell it in a bundle with magic and perpetual motion.