skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Daily records at a point are completely irrelevant to this discussion. The fact that points set multiple daily records per year has no bearing whatsoever on the significance, or lack thereof, of a monthly, global record.

You're right of course, that a single record high is not compelling. Even when it's a global, monthly record high. My point in my original reply is that pointing this out is irrelevant and annoying.

Was your point merely that this data point, by itself, is not compelling? If so, my original comment, which you complained about missing the point, was exactly about that. Was it something else? If so, I'm having a seriously tough time figuring out what your point is supposed to be.
Many of those small businesses that survive are simply the founder buying themself a job of some sort.

It's no surprise that someone who starts a landscaping or property management company, where the prime thing being sold is hours of labor, would have a higher 5/10 year survival rate than a company selling bits, ads, or other types of digital engagement.
I would really like to see a graph of the mean temperature of the hottest month in each year, so we can see how this trend compares to noise.
The intensity isn't really hours worked. It's intense focus and ruthless decisions about what's worth the time.
I'd maybe care if Wikipedia was a reliable source of unbiased information. It isn't. All kinds of extremist and special interest groups edit it to their own desires.
In 1880 via ship measurements. They'd take out a bucket of sea water and measure the temperature. They still use buoys as part of the sea surface temperature measurement.
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Twitter was the first in a long list of current (i.e. post-2000) startups where I thought to myself, Really? That's a $X0 billion business? I wonder if this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Prior HN discussions: https://h4labs.wordpress.com/2015/07/19/dangerous-drones-dai...
There are ways of being dishonest other than lying. For example, the smoke point of butter is 150°C, well below the 260°C lethal temperature the DuPont scientists found, so it'd be extremely difficult to reach that temperature by accident. On the other hand, Teflon fumes can (and fairly often do) kill birds at levels that aren't noticeable to human cooks at all.
It seems like your anecdote is quite beside the point here... as the comparison to forecasts was only illustrative of the fact that these models are not perfect representations of reality...

In reality, the models are derived using different methods by different scientists.
Twitter is still growing in terms of revenue, but they're losing money. They've already scaled up. They've had ads ("promoted tweets") since 2010. It's not clear where they go from here. Increasing the ad density to boost revenue begins the Myspace death spiral.
Your theory that it was just malware is easily disproven by reading the bug reports and blog posts from the years people spent trying to make this work.

Firefox found far from universal success even after years of testing and blacklisting known-noncompliant servers:

http://bitsup.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-brief-note-on-pipelines...

(the actual blacklist at the time
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/1d122eaa9070/netw...)

Opera's implementation apparently relied on some non-trivial heuristics but they apparently weren't well documented and were discontinued with the transition to Blink.

Similarly, it's easy to find cases where people discovered real problems in the wild with the iOS implementation:

http://tech.vg.no/2011/12/14/safari-on-ios-5-randomly-switch...

(This also affected Mozilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=716840)

https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking/issues/528

It's easy to understand why people decided that it wasn't worth investing so much time in this when HTTP/2 would deliver significant additional benefits and by using TLS as a starting point could provably avoid the worst tampering proxies entirely.
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"The book features relatively new advances in the computing/scientific community, such as artificial life, emergence (and by extension, complexity), genetic algorithms, and agent-based computing."
As an owner of DJI Phantom multicopter it makes me sad to hear that we're all tarred with the same brush.

Out of interest, what makes you "multicopter pilots" and other people just "owners"?
The fear is that it would introduce noise into the signal of those who are using the tool, rather than the creator of the tool.
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There are hundreds, probably thousands, of little exchanges nobody has ever heard of. Why set one up to "combat HFT"? Because if you can convince companies to trade on it based on nebulous "anti-HFT" features, you can collect fees without having to compete with the major exchanges, who both bid prices down and also have a 100:1 advantage in engineering and support staff.

Believe it or not, that's not even the "cynical" answer.
> I'm genuinely curious, how old were you when you had the heart attack?

I was 41.
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There is room for evil, but also for some good.

How about they start by testing parents for matching recessives that cause genetic disorders so they can know to have an Amniocentesis to make a decision on the child's viability?

Being able to edit out the bits for hemophilia, Downs Syndrome, Parkinson's, or <the genetic disorder you're familiar with here>?

It isn't all about trying to create some designer super race. Some parents knowing that they both carry dangerous recessive genes decide it isn't worth the risk of creating a child only to watch it suffer. More testing is good and IMHO ought to be strongly advised.
I have programmed on all kinds of stacks, and while I understand a lot of the .NET disdain, I’m perplexed by perceptions that years of .NET experience is somehow worthless or less than noteworthy? Beyond the stigma of being a Microsoft product, there seems to be a misconception that .NET devs are dragging and dropping junk through an IDE. Why wouldn’t their "12 years of ASP" include obtaining good debugging habits, writing readable code, building production ready systems that still perform at scale, and a knack for constant improvement? Someone who is a craftsman on one tool will share many qualities with a craftsman from another.
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> Of course, but more profits encourages people to create more businesses which create more innovation. Sorry, I thought that was obvious.

It isn't obvious at all. In fact, there are some indications that the opposite is true. For example, there are some simple economic models in Blatt:Dynamic Economic Systems where rate of profit and rate of growth are inversely proportional. Also, data from Piketty aren't very optimistic in this sense either (it seems that economic states with lots of private capital correspond to low growth and vice versa).
That's the view of an airliner captain. There are lots of us out there flying planes whose gross weight is well under 3,000 lbs, with a windshield that's made of plastic one eighth of an inch thick.

You're not necessarily wrong - I suppose it depends on how you define "overblown." Personally I have no desire to fly into a 12 lb drone at 130 miles per hour when the only thing protecting me is a thin piece of plastic. Or to have my prop destroy said drone while spinning at 2,400 RPM (which will require an engine tear-down, or possibly a 5-figure engine replacement). Or have one hit my horizontal stabilizer.

All of these may lead to a crash, which can lead to 1-4 deaths. Which may be inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but it feels significant to me.
Great breakdown, adding a few modifications:

1. I'd use a SAFE [0]. They are simpler than a convertible note since they don't have the debt instrument and match up with the investment intent more fully- to get equity at a future for money you put in now.

2. I wouldn't worry about the employee roles. You have different opportunity costs and can try to make them up later via bonuses etc, but I wouldn't formalize that now with an additional equity grant.

3. The most important thing here is that the split is relatively equal (50-50 as cofounders, adjusted by a few points by the investments). To make sure that both of you have an equal position in decisions and discussions, you should keep the equity gap between you as small as possible. That way there will be no weird power dynamics. Having 5% more due to your investment is fine, having 20% more is not.
I think thats the main problem with Twitter, saturation. Its mainstream enough the regular people are not likely to jump on Twitter now if they already haven't.
I would advocate it if it were actually a thing, since it would create an individual avenue of action against private mass surveillance. I just haven't heard many exceptions to unfettered recording and aggregation (these are all I can think of: expectations of privacy in a handful of places, two-party consent for audio recording, actor/model releases, theories of copyrighting building facades).

Instead we're left with only the possibility of regulating the large-scale behavior, which is a political non-starter in the US.
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The fact that points set multiple daily records per year has no bearing whatsoever on the significance, or lack thereof, of a monthly, global record.

Exactly the same principle applies.

Look at the title of this submission. Stop and before you knee-jerk a response, contemplate that this isn't "it's hot, yo, and getting hotter". It is specifically that July was the hottest month "ever recorded", which someone quite rightfully noted was since 1880.
That's part of the knock. DJI Phantom owners are stereotypically kids (or adults) who know nothing about multicopters, but fly them around breaking all kinds of safety rules.
Twitter had a Q1 revenue of $436 million. Doesn't it make it a $X0 billion business or am I missing something ?

The main concern to investors is primarily the growth and their ability to warrant a premium price on the stock.
>400m

400 feet!
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Actually you'd have to edit in genes to fix most of those things, as they're caused by missing/broken dna.
I don't think it's so much a question of an optimal temperature, as it is the consequences of different rates of change.
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https://github.com/basho-labs/riak-mesos is the source link that the site doesn't appear to include.

If there are more nodes requested than there are agents available, the scheduler will then start adding more Riak KV nodes to existing agents.

It seems to me like this tends to violate the promises you expect from Riak, in that you could end up with data replicated to three nodes that all happen to be on the same underlying hardware. Maybe set safer defaults?

I'm excited to see new work coming out of Basho.
You're assuming a world in which ISPs have managed to make themselves the gatekeepers for sites, which assumes they have the power to do so. Given competition among ISPs, no one ISP would have the power to do so, and a group of them getting together to do so would quickly find itself facing antitrust charges.
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It's difficult even with that. The mean temperature is calculated via inference (obviously you can't have a thermometer everywhere). And there's occasional adjustments to how the global temp. is inferred. The NOAA recently did one [0].

They have a nice comparison list of the ten warmest years [1].

[0] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/pag...

[1] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2015/5/supplemental/pag...
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I have a consulting client that I'm trying to build a proposal for. Besides the normal term of a fixed rate per project that I would be asking here, I also would like to add a residual component where I get paid X amount of money per month per active user on this platform that I'm contracted to build.

Any idea how to go about (1) asking for it, (2) structuring the deal/contract side of things?

Thanks!
Evolutionary pressure has adapted us to an outdoor agrarian life. Few of us live that life. Its entirely possible to deliberately design people who fit into modern cities. Evolution just got a jet engine.
They all tie together, though. Yes, ultimately you just want to know what will happen if things go on as they are, and how that will change if we change our activity.

But the first two strongly feed into the last two. If climate change is not anthropogenic, then cutting emissions will not provide any benefit, while potentially causing economic harm. If climate change isn't happening at all then there is no need to do anything, and the entire framework for predicting the outcomes of changes to human activities is completely busted.
yup, it's nostalgic. don't judge it by any other metric.
In your parent post you said:

"Liberals want to heavily tax fossil and subsidize renewable energy. Problem with that is that taxing fossil make life and the economy harder in the meantime and subsidizing often goes to cronies which is bad for innovation"

Something to consider here is that taxing oil production or similar carbon emissions creating isn't really a tax. It's actually just reflecting the real cost of the activity. The problem with these industries is that they have externalities which are not reflected - some of their profits are created by a cost being put onto society. Nobody likes 'taxes', but I think everyone can agree that any activity should reflect it's true cost.

Plus, if you step away from climate change for a moment everyone can see that the demands for energy are only increasing. Some of the new technologies around energy generation will be extremely profitable - whole new sectors. The USA has a strong tradition of supporting innovation and then reaping the rewards in private enterprises. So you might consider the "subsidies" as just priming innovation.
According to the Wikipedia entry on Michael Crichton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton), he actually told another professor about his suspicions, and more importantly his intention to submit an Orwell essay under his own name. If he were to get caught, informed consent from another member of the faculty may have been a mitigating factor.
I have to say, this is both impressive and infuriating; they beat me to it!

My effort was started in Nov. 2014, and is similarly written in Go.
Clocking in at ~1600 LoC, it is certainly nothing special. I have no background in finance and only a cursory understanding of the technical aspects of the exchanges. It's mostly working, but I've really stalled because I can find neither a real purpose to continue, nor any resources on building interesting models. All it does is make financial noise (random trades between similarly irrational parties)

All in all, I'm happy for the guys working on this for doing what I apparently couldn't.

If anyone's interested, I'd be happy to post it to Github.
Part of Twitter's challenge is that it's mainstream, but in a "write-only" way. Every celebrity, politician, religious leader, and journalist may be tweeting 24-7, but their followers aren't engaging in the same way they do on Facebook. A lot of users don't login, tweet, or spend much time on the site/app according to various reports.

Chris Sacca said a lot about this recently. http://lowercasecapital.com/2015/06/03/what-twitter-can-be-2...
This. Nobody who could conceivably make an account is just waiting to hear about this hot new thing called microblogging.
"Am I too douchey for this douchey company"

or

"Am I not douchey enough for this douchey company"
> Why is it okay for programmers to be turned into lifetime billionaires for what amounts to an interesting hack and a little hustle (e.g. Facebook)

I didn't say it was, and I don't expect me to become a billionaire either.

To be quite honest, I find the startup culture of 1. Write tiny hack, 2. Get acquired for billions to be completely weird and wholly unsustainable.

I just code because I like coding. If someone is lucky and gets rich in the process, good for them I guess.
Interesting that a story disparaging of drones is being written in a newspaper owned by the biggest commercial proponent of the technology. What am I missing?
It sounds like you have an enjoyable life then. Congratulations. I feel happy for you.

Look, I am not complaining about my situation. I signed up for this. I like what I do. I just get really sick when people claim "you are going to be sooo much more productive" if you work less. Like it was a general truth. Like they are an authority and know better. Like it applied to everyone and everything at all times. Like there was no need to look at a particular situation and then decide if it's a statement that's actually more than a phrase.

And btw I would really appreciate it if people wouldn't down-vote my comments just because they disagree. That would make this community just a whole lot better.
Why aren't public and private cloud solutions converging to be the best of both?
2nd link at the top left, "Biography" is quite clear about that -> http://www.michaelcrichton.com/biography/
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> "Why do you need to "convince" anybody?"

I don't. However, I was pointing out for those that want to try, there's more to it than listing the technical benefits.

To use another example, most people accept that investment in public transportation is a very good thing (both for the environment and the vitality of a city), yet people still plow huge sums of money into their cars, because cars = freedom. In cities like New York where many people don't seem to own cars, is their freedom restricted? Doesn't seem that way. Cars only = freedom if your other options are subpar.

Why bring this up? Reliance on cars is an example of what results when people think individualistically, whereas investment in public transport (and investment includes use) is an example of when people think collectively. Some changes require an amount of consensus. Whilst I agree you could let companies try it and let the market decide, I expect you'll encounter NIMBYism before too long. It's no problem to me though, I've got no horse in this race, will wait to see how it plays out.
Because they are not profitable - everyone who defends startups who lose money have the same rationale - increase users now, at a loss, and turn it around later. Twitter is neither growing users nor turning it around.

Maybe they will come up with a new CEO and a new strategy... maybe not. But there is almost zero reason to hold their stock. There are better investments out there.
Describing a contract as "bulletproof" and drafted by "top attorneys" is likely considered puffery [1] under the law, and should be fine in my opinion.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
> Yeah, and the company "owes" you as high a salary as they can possibly afford...

When a company makes a job offer, you agree on the salary. For X dollars, you agree to be their employee and do your job. Your job is not to sabotage a project or commit binaries where people should commit source code...

Pretty sure if you had employees you would not love it if they did that.
Canada and Siberia are large & mostly uninhabitable right now, 5F warmer & maybe Edmonton won't be so bad.
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You've choesn to insist on replacing the actual continuous data with a weaker derived parameter (period between record breaking events). Of course tests on weakend data have lower power. Should I be surprised that a test which relies on data extremes has less trend detection power?

But I'll also note that you haven't even bothered to go back and compute the probabilities in the first place.

It was one thing to make this argument in the 90's, but two decades of data later it's plainly ridiculous and it doesn't take nuanced data analysis.

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/glob/201506.gi...

https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/service/global/lo-hem/201506....
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> Being able to edit out the bits for hemophilia, Downs Syndrome, Parkinson's, or <the genetic disorder you're familiar with here>?

Don't misunderstand, I'm totally for this. In the cases you mention we have a proper baseline. We know exactly what will happen when we do the edits, on average. We are returning to the norm, not deviating from it.

The issue is all this super race talk that crops up around these discussions. It's just stupid.
Prey is one of a very small number of books I never managed to finish because it scared me at the time.
Some of us recognize it...and I wasn't being judgmental. It's just that, well, you're either under the bus or driving it. Not much room left for riders anymore. :(
I am the founder. When it's Friday afternoon I have worked around 50 to 60 hours. The rest 10-20 hours I do over the weekend.

My employees have regular 40 hour work weeks.
The downturn in the demand for "highly-paid entry level grads" is quite recent, and driven mostly by the general economic downturn in the U.S. Slower growth = fewer transactions that need to get papered and fewer busted deals that turn into litigation.

Meanwhile, West/Lexis went electronic in the 1970's, and electronic research has been standard at business law firms probably for the last 20-30 years. In any case, the process of legal research was probably faster than you think pre-computers, because cases were all indexed by West/Lexis on the basis of their content. So even back in the days of book research, the primary use of young associates was, as it is today, discovery, not research.

And it's funny you mention PageRank. Google Scholar has gotten better for legal research, but it's still vastly inferior to old-school search queries in WestLaw. PageRank is pretty much useless for legal research. The strength of referencing a case has nothing to do with how often it's cited, but the similarity in the factual/legal scenario in that case compared to your own.[1] A case nobody cites that addresses the specific wrinkle of the law your situation falls into is infinitely more authoritative than one that's highly cited for some generic principle of law.

[1] PageRank is pretty good at finding seminal/controversial cases in an area of law, but that's rarely useful. You already know what those are, because you paid at least a modicum of attention in law school and/or you started your research by reading a chapter in the relevant treatise, which lays those cases out for you.
Yes, there was one report of one problem with iOS pipelining, and circa-2000 IIS had problems. But these aren't what caused them to disable pipelining, allegedly it was the unknown software causing problems. For instance Google reported that some small percent of requests failed, but they never determined the cause for it. We know that SuperFish and other malware was out there intercepting HTTP, and unknown software was causing pipelining problems, and malware isn't known for its attention to detail.
Their revenue exceeds 1bn per year so...yeah. They are a billion dollar company.
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