skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although D may have a fast json parser, this benchmark is a horrible comparison. Really need a better way to do cross language comparisons.
It's not as much in one day as the entire US does in a year. It's as much in one day as the entire US does in one day.
Much of what's burning here isn't forest; it's peat. Peat is an extremely dense carbon sink that builds up very slowly (about 1mm per year!), so burning it releases carbon that's built up over a period of thousands of years.
I graduated from a mediocre school with a 2.99 GPA with a computer science BS. I have great work experience and had great letters of recommendation. I can email you with more details.

I applied when it first opened for applications. I was not admitted. Two session later they reached out and mentioned that my application was flagged for re-evaluation and asked if I was interested. I said I was and a few months later I was accepted.

It is a great program, I highly recommend it.
In some ways, this would be the best possible outcome. If they have it rubbed in their face that a backdoor simply can not be secured even with their full resources (as one imagines this would be the highest top secret possible), then maybe they'd flip from using their resources on trying to backdoor our stuff back around to using their full resources to help us.

I suspect this falls into the "too good to be true" category.
To add on - the goal is to preserve more forest space. If we do that, we can effectively sequester that carbon for long periods of time.
Hi,

We're trying to make the software as worker-friendly as possible.

We're doing this by:

* Letting workers choose when they want to work

* Giving consecutive days off - If a worker has at least two days off in a week, our algorithm tries to schedule two of those days off consecutively.

* Rest Time - Managers configure a minimum time between shifts through worker profiles, and we enforce this while creating schedules to make sure that workers have enough time to rest between shifts. This can be used to prevent "clopens".

For contractors - we have some customers operating in a "claimed shifts" mode where we generate unassigned shifts, then workers claim them: https://help.staffjoy.com/docs/claimed-shifts-mode
I'm located in Germany and it takes around 50 seconds for most of the text to render on your homepage for me: https://i.imgur.com/N33T8Ci.png
It's worth noting the natural gas (mostly methane) is burned as it's vented to atmosphere, so it's mostly CO2 and water.
As a very experienced web guy working in India thats a big amount.
How is it misleading? The title seems to be saying exactly that. Or was it edited?
Great way to create a creative culture that respects engineering but also the rest of the team.
We use Gelato at MinuteDock for our developer portal, and we're really excited about what them teaming up with Mashape will come up with!
Cartoons use a myriad of figures of speech in order to build a setup-punchline structure that is actually funny.

One of the tricks of the trade is to use logical fallacies, as they are mechanisms for hiding premises or faulty logic, which is ideal to build assumptions in the viewer's mind that are then shattered by the punchline.

The figure of speech employed here is a fallacy called Begging the Question. When the character says "what if we create a better world for nothing" he is implicitly accepting the premise that the changes proposed by the presenter would create a better world even though he might not agree with the presenter's conclusions.

So the "funny" comes from pretending that we all agree that the list of things the presenter is talking about actually describe "a better world".

As for real life, I would say the cartoon, while funny, does not "sum up perfectly" the issue in real life, because in real life what is under dispute is whether governments taking more control for themselves, in order to carry out those things in the presenter's slide, is actually a better world than all of the alternatives, including taking care of the planet without giving more power to government institutions which have proven themselves incapable of seeing to completion endeavors several orders of magnitude simpler than "saving the world".
Agreed. They actually specifically say that when you open an incognito tab...
Are you sure about that?

Burning the tress is not part of the natural process that I can only imagine have been built over millions of years to find some sort of balance.

Just like any other system if you overload it beyond what it's built to handle it has consequences.

Genuinely interested.
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Your statement does not square with reality, or the facts as stated in this article. Indonesia is a country close in population to the US, but the US releases dramatically more carbon, both in aggregate and per capita. For the Indonesians to even draw even with the US, they have to literally set their entire nation on fire.
The storage abstraction layer is also a shared concept, even down to providing only a free RAM implementation.
Pigs age about 5 times faster than humans. Wouldn't pig organs age 5 times faster than humans also? That might be one more thing you needed to tinker in pig DNA. Make pigs (or at least the target organs) long lived.

All this tinkering begs the question: Which is easier, tinker pig DNA to make pigs compatible with humans, or tinker human DNA to make humans with pig-like-brains that grow fast enough to be used as organ source? Does it ethically make any difference?

What if we could grow human bodies with no consciousness what so ever (this might not be even super hard, or require DNA tinkering, just damage the fetus where appropriate brain parts are about to develop), wouldn't that be the most humane option? Since we wouldn't be killing anything, but hunk of human meat that never had a conscious thought...
just found it via a search of "management myth ebook". Thanks for the recommendation, I'll be reading this one tonight.
One has to ask, compared to what?

The same data can be levelled at almost any form of fast food or even grocery store food, such as ADA-bleached flour - which is basically used by every major chain pizzeria in America. And most of these don't entirely apply to McDonalds in other countries which have different regulations on food. "3 days to digest", by what study, and compared to what?

Other stats are nonsensical and meant to sound scary - sodium levels have zero impact on health unless one is salt sensitive due to renal impairment, heart failure, or blood pressure. Most good French fries (even chicken!) are twice fried - has anyone read Food blogs where they try to recreate the perfect fry? A McNugget is mostly corn? How about compared to breading in ANY fried chicken? Etc.

McDonalds is a big target, but it is a complicated and fuzzy space between what should be the responsibility of consumers to eat what they want, governments to regulate food, and producers to not produce what is "unhealthy" (under the assumption that no one else will just do it anyway).
Benchmarks would be fine if they could somehow actually compare performance between languages. I have yet to see any benchmarks between languages that are even close to being results that would actually be seen.
We're finding that, due to better control of the workforce and enforcement of rules, managers have been able to provide more predictability in terms of hours to workers. This is because we make it easier to guarantee a certain number of hours each week.
I had a math prof in college who would create a custom textbook for each class week by week in latex... it was amazing.
Basically all vegetable oils are the same; palm oil is actually more efficient than any other crop that grows in Indonesia. It would be clearer, in my opinion, to say that Indonesia's vegetable oil fires emit [...], which prevents the interpretation some people apparently take where they buy coconut oil instead. Coconut is only better because it's expensive but if everyone used coconut oil it would be way, way worse than palm oil, because it takes three times the land area of coconuts to produce the same amount of oil as oil palms! If they used soybeans, it would take six times as much land to produce the same amount of oil.

In other words, the only way to lower demand for palm oil is to lower the demand for all oil. In my opinion, the best way to do that is to kill the perception of biofuel as sustainable. Eating food is bad enough -- all agriculture is bad for the environment -- but burning it is ridiculous. With the exception of biofuel avgas (which is a tiny proportion of the market) electricity is superior in every way.
Founder here. Hibou is a Chrome extension that allows you to highlight whatever you find interesting, then sends you a notification when it's time to review those highlights. Spaced repetition is a proven technique that waits until you're about to forget something before reminding you to review it, thus helping you remember as much as possible as effortlessly as possible.

I'd love to hear the thoughts of the HN community

Will
If the fires only burn e.g. 1 day per year, then they emit far less per day on average than the US.
Giving up after reading an article telling to quit. Definitely is a sign you ain't got what it takes.
Ask HN: Where do you get your reading material from?
Where do you get your technical reading material from ?
Engineering Blogs/ Books / Guides / Tutorials ?

From technical learning for new topics, I am using safaribooksonline.com on a trial basis and so far I have liked the experience of being able to read from whatever material I want.

Are there any similar services out there which are more affordable?

For the ones who have used it, how do you rate safaribooksonline ? Is it worth paying the hefty subscription fees?
For confirmation:

http://calstate.fullerton.edu/inside/2012su/Promotions-Tenur...
> All animal-produced carbon came from the air.

All carbon comes from star fusion, what relevance does that have?

> It's irrelevant in the long term view.

It's irrelevant over geological term view, over "human" long-term view it's very relevant.
The flipside: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.planning/wBgLRXC...

"That said, the fact that Linux distros might switch off Telemetry and [Firefox Health Report] by default causes issues right in that way: they are undercounted and [Mozilla] may disregard them completely in data-driven decisions. If you are a Linux distro package manager, think about that."
Thanks for the heads up! Looks like our cover photo assets need to be shrinked.
I'd like to see pricing information before I look at anything else.
I submit computer science departments have enough expertise to operate a graduate data science program. Maybe not every CS department, but enough. It is interesting that the actual stats departments do not encompass all statistical knowledge and expertise. More specialized experts in econ, finance, many fields of social science, not to speak of all engineering fields and computer science and applied math. Data science predates modern statistics; Laplace used least-square to ignore "the God hypothesis;" the function-approximation view taken in many engineering fields is just as powerful as the statistical approach.
I'm not a medical expert but I would assume the theory is this. Take a donor part, wash it of the cells, re-populate with cells from the recipient... transplant... no rejection.
I don't think you have to sell your house. But in a startup, with at least 80% probability, you are going to be faced with a choice along the lines of "Do I sell my house to keep this thing running for another month, and hope it takes off? Or do I kill it now, and write off the last year and all the money I've already lost?"

Note: the 80% probability claim is based on my understanding of the probability of a startup failing.
The title implies continuous superiority of indonesian emissions, not that they out-produced the US emissions for a peak day (or 20, out of 365)
Different people, different strokes.

I got really bored working on e-commerce checkout funnels and A/B testing and constantly learning about new Javascript frameworks that churn out every year that does the same things over and over. With Coding Bootcamp churning out more CRUD people year by year, and JS frameworks and Agile automating web dev work to be like assembly-line; I found it to be both increasingly less financially secure and spiritually filling.

Genomics (for me personally) is more interesting; you get to learn a lot of statistics, biology and backend pipeline code. Also work environment in a lab is different, you have a lot more autonomy and you get to present your work and learn more about things in an academic/journal club/talks setting vs. the typical IT/Software Agile morning standup's. Not to mention the field is constantly changing, new sequencing technologies and new search algorithms are published constantly.

The salary for post-doc's is at that range. A research scientist or a software developer at least if you land at a well-funded place or BigPharma is about the same as a software developer (100-130K). I got out of the web-dev game a year ago; and I think while I am no longer on the cutting edge of the latest React.js/Node technology, I picked up new skills in concurrency, messaging system and machine learning (HMM, SVM, clustering etc) building whole genome annotation/analysis pipelines.

It has worked out for my personality but I have plenty of friends who get excited about doing new iOS and JS languages/frameworks so I respect that too (but not for me).
The implication is that their de facto salary is higher than that figure by some amount, due to their innate enjoyment of what they're doing. I think jobs with high innate enjoyment (teaching) often end up having a lower de jure salary than jobs with similar requirements but that have very low innate enjoyment (oil rig worker).
So interesting to follow the chain unintended consequences.

Trans fats make great muffins. But, oops, they happen to kill humans. So we ban them. Turns out palm oil also makes great muffins and doesn't kill humans. So, we burn down the ecosystem in Indonesia to make more of those delicious muffins and contribute to global warming.

Maybe we can just go back to using butter?
Better than any course is real life experience, learning as you go.

Here's an idea. Pick a product on Clickbank, set up an affiliate and train your marketing chops with it.
Microsoft's First Open Source DataCamp
We're trying to make Staffjoy as friendly to workers as possible. For many businesses, when they need workers can vary from week to week. Things like holidays, seasonal weather, etc can make repeating the same weekly schedule a hassle.

We accommodate workers by only scheduling them when they are available to work, making it easy to claim available shifts, and algorithmically-enforcing things like enough rest time and consecutive days off.
Except for the 2 million who "want a job but aren't looking"
The problem is not knowing when those hours are going to fall, so you cant arrange to do social things more than a week ahead because you don't know if you're going to be working.

An option to enforce scheduling to be fixed at least n days in advance would protect the employees, but that goes against the entire point of the app.

Reading again, it looks like your app prioritizes the employees' preferences over the employers desires when resolving the schedule; that makes sense. You could set yourself to "not working wednesdays" and then safely organize social stuff on wednesdays. The problem starts when you dont have that right, as many workers in the UK now don't.
> Burning trees doesn't actually change the atmospheric balance at all.

Of course it does. I have a tree. I can leave it alone for 100 years and it will reproduce itself several times over and then die and rot. Or I can burn it today.
I don't follow. This is an unusually bad year for these fires and they surpassed US emissions for 26 days. US emissions are cranking year-round, year after year.

The US is the second largest emitter of CO2 in the world, and emits one seventh of the world total. China emits twice as much but has four times as many people. If you brought China into line with the US on a per-capita basis, you'd increase their total emissions by a factor of two!
My first thoughts was "Slander / Abuse". I'm going to go with the naming wasn't meant to be in Japanese (or Chinese), but thought you might want to be aware of that. :)

This is great. A reminder to go through what I'd normally slap in a bookmark with an intention of "reread later". I'll give it a test-drive.
I was in finance as well as trading risk management at one of the largest physical commodities trading houses in the world ($100+ billion revenue) and orders, positions, PNL, inventory, inventory movements, market research and analysis, and general business reports... yes, very expensive systems backing them... and they had to be done on Excel manually and synced daily to make sure if the main systems (absurdly complex) got out of sync, either one could be repaired as a failsafe.
Can you cite one, please? I'd like to see an example of a comment considered to be Reddit-like that isn't downvoted on HN to diminished visibility.
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A debtors’ prison in Mississippi
I don't see it. Maybe because I already knew that the fires aren't a continuous thing?
Not all greenhouse gases are the same. One of the unfortunate things about agriculture is that it's a major source of nitrous oxide, via fertilizer decomposition, and methane, via mostly cattle. Both N2O and CH4 are drastically more potent GHG than CO2, essentially because the atmospheric concentration of those gases is already much lower, so the proportional impact of N2O/CH4 emissions is much greater.

CH4 emissions from agriculture could be potentially reduced by improving manure treatment on farms (because untreated manure releases CH4) and regulating feed quality. Both have the side-effect of higher meat prices. N2O emissions are harder: you'd have to stop using nitrate-containing fertilizer.
Yep, although it is slightly worrying that there are 2.6 million people who want a job but aren’t looking. If I had to guess, probably a lot of that is due to a lack of marketable skills.
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Trees, on average, have a life span of a couple of decades. If we could capture all that carbon back by just re-growing trees for 10-20 years, we'd be fine. It's releasing over a period of 200 years the carbon accumulated through millions of years of oil and coal formation that is uncontrollable and will have devastating effects on the environment.
Early employees take the most risk today
Death to rent-seeking business models which prey on captive audiences. Go make money the old fashioned way: provide a service which people will gladly pay for.
> This is a hiring market that they can easily dominate by offering salaries of 50k-90k

Yes. Most of academia pays as per NIH guidelines -- http://www.niaid.nih.gov/researchfunding/paybud/pages/salary...

Even 60K will get them a PhD with 5 years of experience anyday
2 million out of 318 doesn't seem especially newsworthy.
I didn't see it that way at all. In the current environment (especially somewhere like HN), there's a constant chorus saying that A Startup Is What You Should Do. Pointing out that it comes with the real possibility of destroying your personal finances is in fact a valuable service to those thinking of doing a startup.

It's not all rainbows and unicorns out there.
Hey philip - nice work!

Have you looked at going into the healthcare industry in particular?

I've been working in the patient scheduling space for almost ten years, and people are constantly complaining about the sorry state of staff scheduling in every part of a hospital.

Healthcare tends to be an infuriatingly unique industry, which means lots of client hand-holding and industry-specific product concessions, but the flip side is that healthcare is a great sandbox to play in - large enough to build a decent business, but specialized enough that you can be a market leader with a relatively small number of customers.

Hit me up if this sets off your spider sense, I'd love to talk offline.
The Case for the [Galactic] Empire
Addressing non-HTTPS Web issues with migration to DNSSEC instead of migration to HTTPS is totally bogus. It's especially bogus as a use case in the Cloudflare case, since Cloudflare had HTTPS first.
Thanks to your feedback we have fixed the website, so enjoy!
I can't really say what I imagine the alternative to be (if I could, I'd write it up), but I do know that if it had an inherent complexity in it's mathematical structure, I would image it to be more resistant to attack by a good mathematician than otherwise. At present we cannot prove that any of these algorithms is actually NP complete and the best device in existence to prove the conventional wisdom wrong sits between two ears. I think any algorithm designed to make the human brain less effective at analyzing it necessarily adds security, although I wholeheartedly cede the point that it also makes the flaws in said algorithm harder to find, so there is obviously a trade-off inherent to this approach. I also agree that any analysis will ultimately take a mathematical flavor (it is an algorithm of course, math is essentially the only trick humans have come up with here), but that isn't to say we can't craft one which makes that analysis fiendishly difficult. Thanks for the XSL link, I'm not a cryptographer, so wasn't aware of that.
How is it 200x more effective to reduce the emissions of Indonesia and Malaysia by 5%? These fires exceeded the emissions of the US for 26 days and otherwise the US far outweighs these countries when it comes to emissions. If the choice is 5% of ours or 5% of theirs, surely 5% of ours produces a far greater effect.
That's what I did, and it's worked very well for me. I have a degree in another science, then spent a couple years as an sdet. When I transitioned to a dev, I began to self-study via textbooks, lectures, and MOOCs. It took me about three years to cover all the topics included in a CS degree, and now I'm as knowledgeable as anyone I work with.

I credit a lot of my ability to learn to my bachelor's degree, though. I wouldn't recommend most people skip college, and I've considered going back for a MS in CS.
No, but you can still increase the amount of sequestered carbon by expanding forestland, as forest is a carbon sink. We can control atmospheric carbon by reducing emissions, but we can also control it by sequestering more carbon, which more forestland can help do.
Checkpointing and Rollback Recovery [pdf]
> You derive a schema from data already stored in a relational database by looking at multiple, non-data places.

No, the schema is itself stored in tables; conceptually, while the structure of those control tables needs to be immutable (that is, the data in the control tables that also relates to the control tables needs to be protected against modification), in an ideal DB following the model, schema changes that can be done through DDL are logically equivalent to executing DML against the control tables and can be done that way, as well; in practice, several RDBMS's do allow this, though typically they only allow superusers to use DML against system tables, even though normal users may have permission to make equivalent changes through DDL.
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"On 26 days from the period of Sept. 1 to Oct. 14, their daily emissions surpassed those of the entire US"

It seems they claim 26 days not 1, but you are correct the initial assumption readers will come to is that every day they exceed US emissions.