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> I was talking about pollution in particular, not every possible conceivable action.

Can you point out in your original post ("We already saw what happens") the wording you used to constrain the actions you are talking about to just pollution? I missed that. I don't want to accuse you of poorly wording your arguments, or fixing them up as you go along.

> For times and places where pollution was not regulated, look at just about anywhere before 1900 or so.

So now what you're saying is this:

We already saw what happens when the government lets the industry do what they will regarding pollution, but doesn't let them do what they will in numerous other aspects: the result is massive pollution (your example being, I suppose, US in 1880).

"And in fact we already saw what happens when government does take control. The result is vastly improved pollution, and without wrecking the economy."

Where is that place? What's the place that right now doesn't have a wrecked economy, whose government tightly regulates pollution (I want to know how often that government sends workers to collect samples from factories waste, test it in the lab, potentially sues the company for non-compliance, etc) and that had a horrible pollution problem that was vastly improved by government action?

I still think what we should try is a situation where a government lets the industry do what they will in every aspect (not just pollution). That, it seems, has never happened, and according to Rothbard, Hayek, Friedman and Nozick, would yield the most positive solution of all possible solutions (which in this case would be the cleanest environment).

By the way, this means that your original post did not refute what I said, because you only refuted the regulated-industries-excepting-pollution, whereas I was talking about unregulated industries.
Do you use the mobile web version? I did exactly that when using the web version on iOS (chrome specifically). Scrolling down the page ended up with me accidentally hitting like on a number of various posts the feed.
Considering how hard of a time Planned Parenthood is having right now providing fetal tissue to researchers, the regulatory landscape doesn't look good for anything that involves using humans as an organ source.

And modifying pig DNA to make them compatible with humans is indeed proving to be very doable.

Source: my mother works in this field.
http://medschool.umaryland.edu/facultyresearchprofile/viewpr....
there is a classical explanation for it, look into the BSM-SG model from Stoyan Sarg. Most brillian physicist ever lived. If you find a error in his theory, tell me, because for me it makes sense and everybody I asked just ignores him but could not tell me a error eighter. If its so wrong, should be easy to disprove:
- find a logical error
- find math error
- find something that is not explained in this framework

nothing of those happend
> Further, the comparison itself is misleading as the CO2 figures for the US (and all other countries, for that matter), only count burning fossil fuel (and producing cement).

Some of the things you note that aren't counted should be counted. But burning trees should not. Those trees removed the same amount of CO2 from the atmosphere while they were growing that is given off when they are burned; it will eventually be absorbed by whatever is then grown there afterward. The same thing goes for most (but not all) agricultural processes.

The real problem is not the CO2 that's given off, but the CO, soot, and various other organic and nitrogen compounds. Better known as smoke, which fouls the air for critters, like humans, that breathe it. Any change in the greenhouse effect is incidental and temporary. That doesn't mean that Indonesia should not be required to compensate those whose air is fouled, if they wish to continue allowing this. My guess is that if they were forced to do so, they would suddenly find it much easier to enforce their existing law against this type of burning.
Yup, I had an anthropology professor charge us $20 for a textbook he wrote. He said it was what kinkos charged him - give or take. Awesome professor.
Why Yahoo is worth less than nothing
The article has a photograph of Professor Bourget cuddling a copy of Strang.

https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Introduction_to_Linea...
That's a pity. It ended just as it was starting to get really interesting!

It is a good read but be aware that this is just an except from a book.

Seems like it might be worth buying though.

Thanks for sharing.
What about entrepreneurs starting a business that is not yet profitable? Is that something the government doesn't care about or are the numbers just too small?
Well, once you start building your own library, you might find that the next step is improving the UI.
You have even more people to deal with the new problems ?

In general this entire mindset that there is "limited resources that we can't go beyond" is completely bogus and proven false over and over again - resources are just things that our knowledge/technology allows us to use to solve particular problems as we create new technology we grow potential resources.

Oil was used as a folk remedy until we learned how to refine it.

Earth becomes physically overpopulated - that's so far in to the future that you can count on realistically colonizing space by then.

A realistic concern is if we can reach innovation fast enough to avoid "rough patches" but long term it's incredibly unlikely that we can't solve technical problems.
18-22 year olds looking for a job would be more interesting. This measures post high school and the "in college" fraction.
Architected system designed by one company isn't a silver bullet. Win32 or COM APIs? Even modern iOS has stuff like Core Data which is an incredible pain to work with. Don't think anybody needs to even get started on some of the APIs lurking in Android...

There's good and bad APIs from both open standards and closed ones.
Depends on the grad, I assume, but I'm not too surprised at the range you're reporting. The 200k+ salaries are probably very rare, considering most new biomedical PhDs would jump at 100k.

I'm guessing that the higher salaries are for people who are experts in (did their dissertation on) extremely narrow subfields of subfields which Google has an intense (but probably only capricious) interest in-- they want THAT person because they're one of a dozen on earth who specialized on that particular thing. This would drive the salaries up quite a bit, but only as blips. From the outside, this would also explain the "seemingly random" criteria used to select people-- it's not random, just very focused on an otherwise obscure/esoteric item.
Sorry, it's a vastly misleading headline, US wildfires release a lot of CO2, but it's counted as ~zero because that carbon started out in the atmosphere. So, the net effect (ed: of all forests) over the US is ~zero in the average year.
Back to Our Future – Prototypes of the Original Backblaze Storage Pod
I've got nipples Faulker.
It's not "this year", most indonesian forests sit on peat. This year's bad because it's a severe El Niño year making south-east asia very dry and thus fires worse. The article notes that the previous record year was 1997… which was also a strong El Niño year.
This.

Having studied environmental and social science for 11 years, published and achieved multiple "degrees of knowledge" for a solid career base; it was so very sad and frustrating that everyone seemingly persisted to "talk" around the elephant.

It drove me bonkers and was labelled a pessimist by my peers. I left academia 3 years ago and now travel the world, programming and documenting tropical flora and fauna. Best decision I ever made, pity it cost me £20,000 to arrive at it though.
That's pretty much my understanding as well. It has gone up in the last 15 years but not much.
> Additionally, regarding the observer pattern in my experience that leads to tightly coupled code where you can't always easily trace the line of execution or separate it out later when you need to.

That's definitely a danger. When I use the simpler (compared to Rx) Observables in Knockout.js, I make sure to keep my ViewModels small and single-purpose, which helps address this problem.

When I used RxJS with Cycle.js, you can kind of do something similar using widgets, but it seems like it might be harder since a widget in Cycle isn't supposed to have any domain logic. I know Cycle's author recently posted a fairly large example in use at his company's site, so maybe that shows the way to structure things.
Ok, we changed the title in an attempt to make that clear.
Scalability in Java EE
Even for that, can't you just rip the disk to files (as a VIDEO_TS directory)? I believe Plex handles that, but I could be wrong.

Not trying to be a dick, just always interested in how other people handle media and what works best for them. I am VERY familiar with software not interested in dealing with the particular way that I store things.
Has Google released any numbers regarding the age composition of their workforce? They have for race and gender.
AXFR is one of those things that is perhaps less valuable - after all _you_ put the data there, via their API, so you have it to-hand.

On that basis you don't need to do a zone-transfer to get the data out, just use your existing source of truth.

(In my case I upload to Route53 via a git repository and push, and regard that repository as the source of truth - https://dns-api.com/ )
Really fun read! Oh man, file, that could take up another post entirely couldn't it?

I wonder about textarea though, I always related the closing tag requirement to XML where you could not put CDATA into attributes. So was it shortsighted to have <input> use value instead?

This is where I run away screaming like my hair is on fire, specifications are a beast.
Yes, the same phenomenon exactly. Even the end profits generated by labor of the game devs don't get redistributed back to them, as this isn't necessary to keep them producing games. Passion begets paupers.
That makes no sense unless the forest can be regrown as-is within a year.
Set SSLKEYLOG to a filename, invoke something that uses OpenSSL, and take a look at the file contents. [1]

[1] https://isc.sans.edu/forums/diary/Psst+Your+Browser+Knows+Al...
Yeah, I think these brackets could use reworking for present-day interpretability. Working-age population traditionally starts at 16 in U.S. government statistics, since that's the traditional age where both mandatory schooling, and most child-labor-law restrictions ended. However the first part of that is becoming less true: currently only 30% of states still allow you to legally leave school at age 16. Another 20% have extended mandatory schooling to age 17, and 50% to age 18.
The number of people in the industry will increase regardless, whether it's through Google boot camps or otherwise.

When given the choice between diploma mill graduates and Google Developer Bootcamp graduates, I will choose the latter. And you will too.

Bare-minimum spaghetti code from passionless software developers is going to be mass produced and it will continue to be mass produced.

Honestly, I think we should look at this from a pair-programming perspective -- but on a massive scale. It is more beneficial to partner with existing educational institutions and make an on-going, consistent, and strong effort to create a robust pipeline from school to the industry.
Bug report: 61 words. Your ignorant comment making assumptions about what the bug report: 138 words. Sometimes people need to listen before they talk.
My faith in Fastly was shaken after earlier this year, we experienced connections intermittently failed (HTTP 5xx) to any service behind Fastly (ours and third party) in our Amsterdam datacentre. We contacted their support but told us repeatedly it must be our fault (like a proxy). Long story short after investigation it was confirmed to be their fault and most likely a machine-gone-bad in their PoP and the intermittent nature was related to balancing across them. This was not resolved until their team woke up and we pinged their team on IRC. It shook my support from the obvious lack of monitoring or on-call system.
In the picture of the linked article he's clearly holding Strang's book - see a picture of it on Strang's site here: http://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/. Also, the campus newspaper reported that the book was Strang's here: http://www.dailytitan.com/2015/10/math-textbook-drives-divid...
I haven't come across anyone from Hack Reactor yet, but if the numbers they put on their website are true, then that's pretty impressive.

I did a bit of research and found a Quora answer regarding GA's success with its Web Development program here: https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-hiring-rate-for-graduates-...
Yup! We ran on Spark as well, though we were only focused on reproducing (and minimizing) known bugs, not on finding bugs. For more info, see our research paper:
http://eecs.berkeley.edu/~rcs/research/nsdi_draft.pdf
>but in reality day to day problem is CRUD.

that is the state of the industry dominated by "developers" instead of "scientists" or even "engineers". An industry with endemic Dunning–Kruger.

The point is to move industry beyond the CRUD. "Developers" just don't understand it and are happy to manually churn it again and again like those manual workers before industrialization or like those car assembly line workers before robots...
Play a list of WAV files with PyAudio
Do they work? How many last in these jobs for a year? Two years? What's the quality of the work that comes out? How much of it has to be redone?
Mocks in Swift via Protocols
> You are the type of person I was hoping not to encounter!

Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. I'm sure you can express your thoughts about programming languages without them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
That depends on whether the OS or package manager does a better job of providing security updates, or the application does.

Historically, browsers -- because of their enormous potential risk (easy to exploit) -- have done a better job of providing security updates quickly than have other tools.
jordanlev said "a perfectly architected system would mean it's controlled by one company"

not "every system controlled by one company is perfectly architected"

to counter, you'd need to find an example of a perfectly architected system developed as an open standard by multiple companies
They're counted as employed.
No one is really knocking substantive choice, just the fake illusory choice such as the toothpaste manufacturer with 15 lines of effectively identical paste.
Genetics probe identifies new Galapagos tortoise species
Way more common than you think it is. It's less that their biomedical experience is valued particularly highly as it is that they're on the engineering pay scale now, and Google is paying very high prices for good engineers at the moment. Uber is too. New undergrads are ~$130k + bonus, PhDs are routinely $170k + options. A few years of experience brings this up pretty fast. Facebook is also paying new undergrads $120k - $140k. It's just that PhDs are basically considered engineers now.

Edit: Worth clarifying is that the cases I know of first-hand for this got their PhDs in "bioengineering" or something similar, not a traditional biology or chemistry.
They get money from Yahoo for putting it as their default search engine in the USA.

What was your point exactly? I fail to see any relation here.
Well, CAFE standards are a twisted joke, and we're still promoting wind and solar above nuclear. Existing federal regulations for inspection of safety and environmental conditions at oil wells is nonexistent. The DoE can't get their crap together regarding the care of superfund sites.

So color me jaded about Dems shouting about tax credits for GM Volts or implementing cap and trade.
New Galapagos giant tortoise species found hiding in plain site
seconding the gentoo recommendation. PaX/grsec is far easier under OpenRC.
maybe you also leave a way to buy the equity out for some amount of money for like 10k euro or something.
Thanks for explaining it, I guess, because your web site sure doesn't. The about page is worse than useless.
You mean hypothesis, not theory.
I don't know how sure I am about that.
I do not mean to diminish what has happened around the Aral Sea.

What I mean by that is, don't diminish or dismiss what happened in Owens by saying that the people involved "were compensated".

FWIW, I would have preferred the phrase "The farmers received some compensation, as I understand it."
no, we don't.

There are plenty of reasons to argue for more equity but risk is not one of them. If you're good at what you do you can get a job tomorrow anywhere and there is near zero stigma about being associated with a failed startup unless you're on the founding side AND you've failed multiple times.
I've only just heard of the "online-pass" used game style of putting the squeeze on the used textbook market yesterday, from that post you mentioned.

My jaw is a little agape about the whole thing. online passes died in games after awhile, but it almost seems like the college textbook racket could probably get away with doing it forever.

The biggest difference between this application of it and the way it worked in games seems to be that it's designed to force your hand a little more. With games, you just got screwed out of the online features. With this, it sounds like you can't even complete the course without the online pass.
When I get home you'll be getting another 5 star review. I saw the algorithm you use on the About page which was my only question. Being familiar with SRS, I'm already trusting of how SRS works, so I'm not judging the app based on "what is it supposed to do" but rather "how does it look and function".

It's well designed and easy to use which is all I could ask for for an app like this. Thanks for sharing!

Two things I've found that are both minor so I'm not "docking points" ;)

>Click the Hibou highlight button. It will be saved here until you make a highlight.

I think you mean "Highlights you make will be saved here."?

And if I activate Hibou on a page, I can't seem to disable the highlighter without refreshing the page. Pressing Alt+H doesn't get rid of it and neither does clicking the button to deactivate the highlighting cursor. This is an annoyance, but it's unlikely that I'll ever press Alt+H without the intent of highlighting something - so isn't an issue I'd run into day to day.

Clicking onto the page to close the app dialogue and then re-clicking the icon to bring open the options shows that the highlighter reactivates itself. Upon reactivation or clicking the bubble I expect it to remain disabled until I activate it again.

http://i.imgur.com/SQGXKbI.png

Lastly - it should be clarified what benefits "Logging in" gives. How does it make Hibou "even better"?
Thanks for that. I'll take a look. It's just such a shame they're alienating LAN users and pushing their Plex Pass bloatware.
Why is an email address required?
NTT Docomo Fujitsu F-02D easy to hack?
Would it be easy to hack this Linux based phone if I get it shipped from Japan? Maybe the rarity of the OS here in the US would make it more difficult to break into?
My thought is that security in our phones are trending, i.e. Android M w/ granular permissions, Blackphone 2 release getting widespread coverage. But what if you just use another mobile OS other than Android/iOS that's rampant in the States? Perhaps the oddball OS by Fujitsu is enough to deter most hackers.
Show HN: Animated Gameboy in CSS
theorems and bad assumptions. first: speed of light is derived from 2 energy states and affects ONLY matter with rest mass. Once you understand all the energies involved it becomes clear where the GR effect comes from.
Einstein never said that speed of light is necessary for virtual particles.
Photons are NOT particles but waves with boundary condition and therefor appear particle like.
Photon entanglement is based on a string like (has 3 dimensional space of course) energy state in in our vaccum, but I can't explain here the BSM-SG photon model. Read it for yourself.
Cool service, and glad to see it in Spanish as well as in English, but I found a few typos there :)

The tooltip for "Servicios" says "Ir a Servios" and the one for "Contactar" says "Conatactar", there are some other translation errors on the keywords part too.

I've used several similar tools in the recent past (it was HARD to find a domain name both me and my cofounder wanted, and we're still not sure), the one I liked the most was http://www.panabee.com/
"Most companies will, understandably, shy away from letting you take your Salesforce info with you. Closed systems are beneficial to employers."

This is an old issue in sales. When a sales rep leaves, do they take their customers with them? It varies with the industry, and it's something that top sales people negotiate when they take a job. Since they will be bringing in customers, they insist on taking them when they leave.
move fast and break things?
her page is all bubbly and cute
The point is that I've been buying toothpaste from Colgate pretty much for my entire life. The manufacturers attempt to segment the market just drove me away.

And that segmentation ensures that it isn't just a once a lifetime choice. Each to time I look at the Colgate shelf I have to consider what is more important to me this week - the state of my gums or the likelihood of cavities.
"Our fees are just 10% per successful transaction in addition to Stripe's fees. These fees are deducted from sales automatically."

Please remove "just" word. Or replace it with "EXORBITANT" to reflect the true value.
Could you link to that discussion?

I'm very interested in the concept of federated identity and I would like to see where previous efforts have failed (and what they did well).
Well, Microsoft is more like several companies (often with conflicting interests) operating under the same umbrella. This is well-documented.
The salient point in the article is about opportunity cost. When you take a 100K startup job, and could have been making 200K somewhere else, that's a very real loss. Now, those are made up numbers, and you need to plug in real ones to make an accurate assessment, but that's his point.
Please don't conduct flamewars here.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10433068 and marked it off-topic.
> Properly weighted keys are for some reason very, very expensive to do well on a digital piano.

You can get a decent hammer-weighted digital piano for under $1000: http://www.pianoworld.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/216745...

More expensive than a $100 unweighted keyboard to be sure, but still much cheaper than a decent acoustic. Plus they can be played silently, can be used to record MIDI tracks, and you never have to tune them!
The test could work both ways, if you really think about it:

1. I vaguely remember hearing stuff like that long ago - e.g. "Lotus 1-2-3 used such low-level features of the OS (MS-DOS) and the hardware (PC) - for performance, that it would not work on PC clones that are close but not 100% compatible.

2. It could also have meant: MS-DOS clones and PC clones were different enough (even if just slightly, but in crucial ways) that Lotus would not work on clones.
FTC says not-so-fast on new connected car laws
Here's some criticism for you: if this is not a cult, why did they lie about the "97% of scientists" consensus?

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240527023034803045795784...

"Yet the assertion that 97% of scientists believe that climate change is a man-made, urgent problem is a fiction. The so-called consensus comes from a handful of surveys and abstract-counting exercises that have been contradicted by more reliable research."

If it's Science, why the lies? And why the push for government intervention? I thought Science was about reality, not policy.