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Well, in my mind you've exemplified perfectly what's wrong with libertarians: they believe models over reality. What else would let them so ardently believe in an economic system that's never been actually demonstrated to work.

You argue that, by mathematical definition, a steepening Pareto curve will increase motivation for everyone on it, and that: "Now that your claims about incentives and your conflation of poverty and inequality are debunked[...]"

Have you considered the possibility that in the actual world the curve doesn't strictly conform to the mathematical one? That it flattens early, or that the whole thing is translated downward? Or that it's not a Pareto curve but one that is similar? Or that (as has a lot of evidence behind it) that socially-based incentives are sensitive to relative inequality, not absolute? I pointed to an abstraction for illustration, and you made claims based on that abstraction and called it proof of the real world.

This is economics: there's no such thing as "debunking", there's no such thing as "proof". There's evidence, and there's models that maybe explain some aspects of it better than others, from a very narrow view. Models can't demonstrate anything, all they can do is suggest experiments to be carried out in the actual world, at which point what happens there trumps any claims that they may have made.

The only thing we really have is comparative studies, across nations and through time. Everything else is just fooling ourselves with our own metaphors.

So when you discard the only thing that we've got as "a few cross-country correlations between inequality and other bad things", what exactly are going going to replace that with, your theories? It must be nice to live in such a simple world.
A High School web design class (at Santa Susana HS in Simi Valley, CA) has created a portal to Safari Books Online's free online O'Reilly books to K-12 students in USA called Safari for Schools (S4S). The students found the O’Reilly books great (so many professional expertise at their fingertips)! But they found the S4S web page boring as it was just an alphabetical listing of book titles. So they made a portal to the site, with graphics, thumbnails of book covers, sorting, deep linking. It's also the big fundraiser of the year for the class.

But the fun part of their portal "Steampunk Franklin" is their visual theme … “Benjamin Franklin as Steampunk” which is cool for a lot of their fellow teens! They have several quotes from Franklin which are cool for teens as well. They partnered with their fellow CTE Digital Graphics Design class to do the graphics for them, just like your professional tech companies do. They also made a documentary about how they built the portal (see the Safari Books Online blog post).

The class wants to pay it forward, in appreciation for getting so many professional books for free. So, they open sourced the portal software. They’re hoping you and other web design/programming experts can show them some best practices by submitting pull requests.

But, they can’t keep going on this project without funds. So, they’ve made some very cool “Steampunk Franklin” t-shirts for a donation, that have cool Ben Franklin quotes on them.
http://www.gofundme.com/steampunk

And now they want to build a website with to help solve the Calif. water shortage crisis … with Thorium LFTR reactors in submarines off the coast generating electricity, hydrogen, pure water, hot water, and oxygen to revive the coastal hypoxia dead zones, power generation submarines that they can also export to other countries. They call it “Electric Kraken”. http://electrickraken.com/ How crazy is that?
Use flask but also keep django with you. Sometimes django may come handy working with big-scaling enterprise webapp.
I think they point is most people will drink more than one beer an hour. Lets double it and say 2 an hour to see a trend.

2 beers * 1.4 units = 2.8
2 beers * 1.8 units = 3.6

Subtract 1 from each and you get 1.8 and 2.6 which is roughly 44% more residual alcohol in your system.

Lets try 3 beers:

31.4 = 4.2
31.8 = 5.4

residuals: 3.2, 4.4 Which are 37.5% away. Still much more than 25%.

So I guess if you are drinking 4 beer per hour his argument breaks down. But I'd also think that a multi hour 4+ beers per hour bender isn't going to last long on 5% beer.
I don't get why he thinks a sharing economy couldn't do all the things he points out to be bad without being mislabeled.

He can argue "disruption" by rule breaking is a somehow objectively bad thing. He can believe that selling something shouldn't qualify as "sharing".

All of this seems very constructed to me.

To me it looks like he just doesn't like those services, rationalized it and spins it in a way where he assumes others were misleaded to gain attention.
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Good job guys, you better find a way to reach these earth-like planets faster.
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I think what's most telling about this article is how little people outside of tech understood about the internet. I guess the dot com crash helped with the FUD, but the takeaway for me is that usually news orgs are behind when trying to understand where tech is going, and their insight can be stunted because of this.
I heard this yesterday on NPR, and wondered if singing is processed similarly. It's another phenomenon that is half-music, half-language.
sorry , forgot to add source: http://www.alternet.org/story/146686/why_planting_farms_in_s...
> prefer back-end over front-end as experiences/technologies are more transferable

I'm curious to know more about what you mean by this...
It's pretty easy to understand why it's being downvoted. It doesn't contribute to the conversation--it's a pedantic tangent that isn't any more interesting than noting that (1) the surface of the Earth used to be molten and (2) all matter in the known Universe was a lot hotter during the big bang. Is that relevant?
So is that a long time or a little?
There are significant temperature records that go back much farther than 1880 even. Many navies and armies kept records from all over the world, so we actually have lots more data than people think. There are also bodies of science that deal with 'aftcasting', which is making a weather forecast for a date in the past. These techniques have been refined to the point where we can make 1-day aftcasts for ~1850 that are comparable to modern 2-3 day weather forecasts in terms of accuracy, even with the limited data available (things like barometric pressure readings from ships).

I'm not sure about the technology used at the time, but the basic answer to your question that that they had a lot more thermometers than you expect, distributed globally too. And as we're discussing global averages, the noise about +-2F in your house isn't really the same problem.

Edit: Here's a neat 100-year reanalysis paper if you're interested. Abstract link here, full pdf available on the page: http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/BAMS-87-2-175. "Feasibility of a 100-Year Reanalysis Using Only Surface Pressure Data"
That's exactly the point I'm trying to get across: there should be a well-defined business process, reflected in the UI in their app/website, for getting refunds. That there isn't speaks volumes.
I think you need more emphasis on the prizes, at least proper links to what they are or a description to help sell them. Maybe it should include portion of all the application fees which seem quite substantial considering the costs of the prize and mechanical turk fees.

I'm also not convinced by the explanation that mechanical turk would provide effective feedback to a startup. Even if the scoring system did tell them where to focus, there should be another round of the top 50 or so with actual experts providing much more detailed feedback.
Is it possible to separate the warming that's caused by man-made pollution/CO2 from the earth's natural cycles?

Obviously, we're getting warmer because of pollution, but is that on-top of a natural warming cycle? Being partially counteracted by a natural cooling cycle? Could we all be saved by an ice-age?
Statistically speaking the ones who didn't pass the exam disn't pass so you'd need to rerun the whole article and compare the average scoring of those who pass with the average score of those who are in the profession now.

If you average the score with those that don't pass, you get incomparable results because you are counting both lawyers and dropouts.
For those playing along at home: this is a paper with 124 footnotes.
Data: Hottest month ever!
Group A: Weather != Climate.

Data: Coldest month ever!
Group B: Weather != Climate.

Round and round we go.
I find it continually amazing how many people find NASA sending rockets into space all the time to be an expected and everyday part of modern life, but then don't trust them with a thermometer.
If so, it's not nearly to the extent of modern temperature increases, and modern CO2 increases are certainly not part of a preindustrial trend.
My Virtualbox images from modern.ie have been sitting around collecting dust ever since I started using Browserstack. You can even use it to test HTML5 audio.

Haven't tried it yet, but I hear you can also use Browserstack for Selenium tests (https://www.browserstack.com/automate/php).
I suspect that, man-made or not, we are past the point of being able to "fix" it and probably just need to adapt.
This is an incredibly misleading title on two studies that has been repeatedly misreported as confirming the absence of gluten sensitivity. In fact, if you get away from the junk science journalism, these studies suggest scientifically sound reasons for non-celiac enteropathy in the absence of an immune-moderated response towards gluten.

That's not even getting into how terribly flawed the selection process was in these studies, and how the selection criteria was designed to exclude those who had been diagnosed with celiac or gluten-sensitive enteropathy in the first place. Or how the first study was so small as to be statistically insignificant. Or how the control also produced gastrointestinal symptoms similar to the experiments.

Also: dude, why don't you worry more about your own diet and less about those of perfect strangers? Who gives a shit why people eat gluten-free? It's their fucking body; quit trying to police their diets because you read some junk science on a blog.
That doesn't mean the cost goes away. You'll still have to increase marginal rates by at least 20% across the board, or if you have lower marginal rates for the poor, then even higher for the rich. ($12K is about 20% of the per-capita income in the US).

A 20% increase in marginal rates is definitely going to affect the incentive to work. Middle class wage earners will be paying 50% to 60% of their income.

If you want to save on the cost by scrapping existing benefits, the $12,000 a year would probably not fully replace the social security pension, disability benefits, or EITC/food stamp/TANF benefits people get, or at best be approximately the same. So you haven't changed things much for people at the bottom, in exchange for a massive tax hike.
Not only is that not completely missing from the paper, it's addressed empirically. The author is particularly concerned with the affect of prior drug arrests on felony charging, with previous drug convictions as a predicate for three-strikes laws, and with the relationship between violent offenders and drug charges --- they turn out to be mostly disjoint cohorts.

The author agrees with you that further study is merited.
It seems like making more land for horizontal farming (converting unusable land, reclaiming from the sea, etc.) should be way more cost-efficient. Heck, even growing stuff on boats would be more efficient than using skyscrapers, because of the free sunlight and water.
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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.

Growing indoors also allows for a greater control over the growing environment. You can grow any particular grow all year round with much less crop loss. This also eliminates the need for pesticides since you're closing off the plants from insects. Therfore, the "agricultural runoff"is definitely not the same as from an open farm. The only "runoff" is a handful of times a year (maybe 4ish) where the reservoirs are emptied and cleaned.

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. A lot of people aren't.

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.

When it comes to running out of farmable land and fresh water becoming more scarce and a growing population though, the cost of electricity is a worthwhile trade off in my opinion. You can't wait until the last minute to make the transition away away from traditional agriculture and into more future proof methodologies.
Pardon me for being blunt, but this is really fucking cool.
In the lifetime of the planet Earth, this is only a little sliver we're looking at.

It is important to note that we've been recording since the industrial revolution so this could be the result of human influence.
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I dunno. Seems about right these days for the "cool" factor.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

That video looked pretty magical to me.
That's exactly what climatology is all about; identifying all contributing factors from all data globally.
Ah.

Well, that headline is kind of misleading. I though this was for an election: turns out it's just an opinion poll published in a newspaper.
Unless you think a violent drug dealer is less likely than a nonviolent offender to ever have been charged with a drug offense, the data doesn't bear this out. According to the author's data, it seems that most violent offenders have never been sentenced for a drug charge.
Read another way: 75% of Swedes reject anti-immigration agenda. Nearly all of those for it have now jumped to the party.
Not redundant at all. 'Recorded' could mean since 1930 or 1600.
It was a useful comment for me
What did you think it meant?
Climate change is the biggest problem of our time. I wish there were more startups focused on solving it - there are so many opportunities to make money here while improving the world at a global scale. Mitigating the effects of climate change for businesses could easily be worth $1T+. More VCs should pay attention to these opportunities, and more startup founders should enter this space.
An honest personal assessment: the bird has flown on your days as a pure coder. Even if you don't particularly want a management position, focus on that aspect of your career. It's going to be hard to convince a prospective company that you're worth the money as a developer if all you have to offer is 12 years of ASP.

I ran the software dept for a small consulting company and yes you'd probably never get a call back from me if you were applying purely as a developer. While we have hired late 30-somethings developers, it's usually because they offer some fairly unique tech skillset (i.e., a few years of production-quality FPGA experience, not a couple months dorking around with "whatever hot new technology" on github--that's something I look for in a fresh-grad). So I think for a purely tech role, beyond getting another job at a similar company doing similar tech, you're a long shot at best.

But beyond that, the one thing that would case me to look at your resume is if you were wanting a leadership position and had the corresponding soft skills and experience. It sounds like you do, so highlight that, and work on it. The advantage there is that management skills: talking to stakeholders, setting expectations and timeframes, finalizing deliverables...are all applicable no matter what the underlying technology. So there's no reason you'd have to limit yourself to ASP management roles.

My previous company had lots of young developers doing engineering with lots of new technologies, but they'd have never delivered a thing had they not been guided by some experienced devs who actually spent most of their time in Excel (or trello or Jira or whatever we happened to be using to manage the particular project).
Networking helps here. I've never gotten a job where my resume had to be filtered through HR first. You need to know someone who is or knows a hiring manager. Get out there and make friends!
Has anyone else noticed that the conservative rhetoric has quietly switched from "global warming doesn't exist so we don't have to do anything" to "global warming isn't caused by people so there is nothing we can do"?
You are ignoring the fact a farm space isn't 100% plants. You need spaces for workers to move and so forth.

Lets say you have 3 stories, of which the "center" of the bottom 2 is used for workers. You still get additional space compared to a single story for the same land cost. If the cost of construction is less than the cost of land, it works perfectly [as is the case in singapore].

About a third of a farm is just space for the workers to move around and harvest things We are talking literally single light bulb is all the supplemental light you need which isn't what your blog post you linked to is willing to admit.

http://www.skygreens.com/

You can see how they layer things in the image, the limits really aren't there in the way you imply in high-land-cost areas.
Group A and Group B are mostly the same. Global "warming" leads to increases in extremes at both ends.
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Clearly, you and I are not going to see eye to eye. "The market" is a societal construct to begin with. Money is a societal construct. "Less costly" is a concept based on top of those things. In my mind, humans starving to death is a pretty high cost, no matter how much cash a solution would require.
It's interesting to me that if you say "today was hotter than any day on record" The answer given always seems to be global warming. However if you say "today was colder than any day on record" (also happens very frequently) the answer given is "That's weather, not climate."

Edit: Apparently this is not interesting to HNers. Bring on the downvotes.
Do you have a specific example?
Can you be more specific about which of the author's conclusions point to drug prohibition being the primary cause of incarceration, just indirectly? That's not the conclusion I got at all.

The conclusion I inferred was that prosecutors are running amok across the whole gamut of possible crimes.
Now that Chrome is using Blink, what's the best WebKit option on Windows?
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Does anyone have any tips on determining if a given CPU core will fit onto a given FPGA? Most of the boards in the hobbyist price range seem kinda ... underwhelming.
That's a good thing, right?
To be honest, and this is my opinion only, but 2-3 day forcasts, at least in my area, are horribly inaccurate. In my state, it's a common joke that being a meteorologist is the only job you can have where you can be wrong 95% of the time, and still keep your job.

Seriously, our forecasts are nearly always wrong. So.....saying we can make as accurate of forecasts for 200 years ago...that's not really saying much.

This is after moving to two cities in the same state, more than 100 miles apart, the forecasts still never get better.
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8936486
Lol ran slower than http1 on my iPhone :/
The good ones will learn whatever tools are necessary for the job. The good companies know this.

The HR barrier is admittedly present in a lot of places… the best advice there, probably, is to try to network a little to get in through the side door.
> Ruby programmers would stop trying to avoid writing JavaScript by writing their own JS-based implementation of Ruby

I would appreciate it if people knowing very little about programming languages stopped commenting on new languages. Nearly every comment here is either baseless or irrelevant or simply wrong. It's frustrating.

In your specific case: CoffeeScript and this are most certainly not a "JS-based implementations of Ruby." This is: http://opalrb.org/

And how the language "looks" - its syntax - does matter, but not in the way most people think it matters. It's just that the syntactically simpler constructs tend to be used more often, so the choice of syntax affects the code people write. The rest, including "readability" or simply "beauty", is meaningless in the long run.

EDIT: I'm in no way involved in this project!
Not only does it not ignore that question, it addresses it empirically. You should read past the 14th footnote, where you say you stopped; this is addressed towards the end of section 2, about halfway through.
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Yes, governments will pay a lot. The US Department of Defense considers climate change to be an urgent national security issue. [1]

But also, agribusiness like Monsanto will pay - they just bought Climate Corp for $1B+ a couple years ago to improve weather and climate predictions for crop outputs. The primary customers are probably insurance companies I think. There's a lot of money to be saved by predicting and avoiding catastrophes through better planning. A catastrophe might be as simple as a 1deg C temperature difference over a farm during a month - or a hurricane, or a drought, etc.

[1]: http://www.acq.osd.mil/ie/download/CCARprint_wForeword_c.pdf
> The problem with that is you don't really get to make an assumption "for simplicity" if the assumption makes your result stronger.

One beer per hour is overly conservative. You'll probably find 2-3 more common in reality, maybe even 4.
It's interesting to see the lowest throughput provided by the C implementation for the 1k case. Any idea why?
Tracking down Quora answer – multiple conditions for successful entrepreneur
I'd like to find a Quora answer from a while back (3 plus months). The answer explained that it was rare for people to become a highly successful founder (Unicorn level) because of the low probability of many skills and situations occurring concurrently. Here's a short list from memory...

-product/market fit
-interpersonal skills
-enough technical skill
-ability to pitch VCs
-etc

Does anyone remember seeing this answer?
The other added benefit is that the plants get to the site faster which increases the shelf life and reduces the amount thrown out due to wilting and such on the shelves.

Growing hydroponically also reduces crop loss from about 50% down to about 10-15%.
Not really, problem is that most people define "work" as sitting behind computer.
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Re implicit calling: what would you write if you wanted to access `foo.bar` as a function instead of calling it?
> but when you see solid red/blue graphics superimposed over a scene, the blocky bleed of color across the scene is like knives in my eyes.

I still wonder why that happens to red, mostly because it looks like someone's bleeding everywhere. I don't seem to notice it for green or blue. At first I thought it was the downsampling, but it has to be something else (a combination, maybe?), since JPEG seems to handle downsampled red comparatively better when highly compressed. Right now, I just think it's a flaw in H.264, it's encoders and/or decoders.