skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That probably depends on their ad model. For example, I would imagine that Google ads would not cause them to change their editorial model, while a referral-based network or a more niche banner network might exert some influence.

Further, whether they were truly independent to begin with is beside the question of whether it would make them less independent or not.
If the information isn't market-moving (i.e. would not cause a reasonable investor to change their prices - a judgement for the court) then you're in the clear.

If it is market-moving and Acme lets you share that information then they're violating Reg FD.

If it is market-moving and the person you talked to knows that you weren't supposed to share it, that's insider trading. When does the court say they should have known that you weren't supposed to share the information? When they know that you received a personal benefit for it (or a few other circumstances e.g. they know you agreed to keep it confidential).

This is particularly important because often these cases are about investor relations people rather than janitors. If an investor relations person tells a trader something, they can trade on it. If a trader bribes an investor relations person to tell them something, they can't trade on it. (The law aligns with common sense here IMO). Now, what if an investor relations person tells an intermediary something, and then they tell a trader that thing, and the trader trades on it? The law here is that the trader has to know that the investor relations person was bribed - because otherwise they have no reason to think they're committing a crime.
> 1. All the content is the ad. 2. It's not unique content, it's content created for the sole purposes of selling something.

Google Search fits the same definition. It has no unique content (CSE and booking sites do by the way, they have product information, reviews and ratings etc.) and it only points to other sites, just like their ads.

> Literally everything you listed requires that there be something to sell, whether a product or sex/dating. So the Internet should effectively be one big shopping district?

No, selling something is just one way of getting revenue without annoying the user. Perhaps more websites should try it.
What the author calls "Percentile Distribution" is the same thing as a probability density function?
As a total noob, I'd say climate is a pretty complex problem to cheer at this as a 'good news'. Yes, there may be highly exaggerated attitudes on both sides, but scientific problems should addressed with data and verified scientific models. And I say this as an YEC. As opposed to science of the past, which poses specific epistemic issues, climate issues is something that can be observed now and here.

Personally, I think that there are much more important problems on the table before sea level rise, but nevertheless, climate change or not, pollution should be addressed on all fronts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulation_Fair_Disclosure
Uh, of course it is. This is why they continue to resist showing any meaningful property data. I'd wager good money on the majority of their rentals also being illegal. But it props up their value and makes money cheap for them so they'll continue to fight until legally forced to do otherwise.
Apple products got good because of large amount of investment, not because they were popular. If IRC tech got the investment slack has now, it would only get better.
What does this mean for compile-to-js languages, like Clojurescript, Elm (and ES2015 one might argue)?
Ask HN: How to get stock as a contractor or consultant?
I make good income contracting with startups, but startup employees at top startups will be handsomely rewarded with stock, not salaried income. How do you position the conversation to earn stock while still not being an employee?
If the new way forward allows everyone distribute unreadable binary instead of readable, or de-obfuscatable, JavaScript, I think this definitely bad for open source and bad for innovation which depends upon stuff like: "oh, now I see how that did that. I think I can apply that technique to something else".

Of course, people can release their js, python, java, et al that compiles down to WebAssembly, but because you are not forced too, I do not think most will.
They are actually fairly heavily regulated, but they choose to ignore that regulation. The majority of their listings are in cities where they are illegal.
Right, blame it on geography. And climate. Warm water ports, right? Home to the smallest, least significant of the 4, strategically trapped Russian fleet, but it's warm all right?

But how about Urals? One great natural defence barrier from the East right there, what was the point going beyond it? (Rhetorical Q). Hint: the Duchy of Moscow (renamed to Russia by Peter the Great) did not end up the biggest state on planet Earth by playing nice with neighbours and sitting in defence.
This is an article that's going to get intensely mis-interpreted by the press and is going to sway public opinion in favor of non-anthropogenic global warming. While the study is solid, the fact remains that in spite of this ice gain, global sea levels ARE rising. Thermal expansion: When water heats up, it expands. About half of the past century's rise in sea level is attributable to warmer oceans simply occupying more space.
How come losing your own people adds to winning?

I see how killing enemy's soldiers adds to winning though.
clickbait bullshit...

how can it be the worst if it makes 1/3 of the advertised formula?

Also hardly anyone sucks at their passion (and admits it to himself, which would be crucial for the calculation, too). That makes it at least 1/2 of the formula...
No, what I mean is: doesn't Stripe require this?
The only chance for the regular guy to make money for retirement is through the stock market. No pensions and polices like 401k and low interest pretty much leave no other chance.

I am fine if Wall Streeters rip off each other but with the regular guy pretty much forced into the stock market I think there should be very tight regulation and certainly no insider training.
> Good to see this project making progress, but I don't see a changelog. What's new?

This appears to be the first release, so there's no previous neovim release to issue a changelog against.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/releases
I can't find one either but this issue filter should be helpful: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues?q=milestone%3A0.1-fi...
> I do wonder if there is a business model to implement and support this type of network for small towns.

Well, you can outsource the NOC, but no amount of remote handwaving is going to help when you need hands on-site. In the end you get what you pay for.
Not only that these atheist socialists are stealing revenue from God fearing business people.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/fcc-overturns-state-...
I tried to install it on Mac, but it fails on building phase.
CenturyLink has gone so far as to tell customers who cancel their DSL service that they will not be able to start it up again, Brems said.

That seems awfully abusive.
I was going to say something along those lines...you can draw an arbitrary line for what constitutes "real" experimental science, but I think that's missing the point of the original comment.
Yep. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QS_World_University_Rankings#R...

In the top 50, 18 are US schools, 10 are in the UK, 11 are from other former British colonies (Hong Kong, Canada, Singapore, Australia).
Which means IRC itself doesn't suck, only the UIs we have made so far.
The company must have a stock/option plan that explicitly covers consultants, or one does not define who can or can't get options.

When I was at a large Internet company, they had a "Directors and Consultants Stock Option Plan" that covered special case workers.

Prior to that, only full-time employees could get options.
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Average global temperature starts to drop unexpectedly, and continues to drop for a decade or more (so that we can rule out yearly statistical noise), despite the increased level of CO2.

No, it doesn't have to drop. It just has to not rise. Which is exactly what has been happening for close to two decades now.

Furthermore, the level of CO2 has not just increased--it has increased by close to the "business as usual" scenario in the models--i.e., the worst case scenario, which the models predicted would show significant temperature rise that has not happened. In other words, the models have already been falsified.

> falsifying established science is hard.

Climate science is not "established science" in the way that GR or QM is. Falsifying GR or QM within their established domains of validity would be extremely hard, yes--but that's because their established domains of validity are nailed down by mountains of evidence from controlled experiments that matches the theoretical predictions to ten or more decimal places. Climate science is not even close--not even within orders of magnitude--to that kind of accuracy.

In fact, we should not expect climate science to be anywhere close to GR and QM in accuracy, because it's still a fairly new science, its domain is very complex, and it's not possible to do controlled experiments in most of the domain. We can't re-start the Earth's climate of fifty years ago with slightly different initial conditions and see how it performs.

None of this, in itself, disqualifies climate science as a science, or means that climate scientists are not doing important work. But it does mean that climate science simply cannot make the kinds of claims that GR or QM make about what is going to happen if we do or don't do particular things. The honest thing for climate scientists to do would be to admit that.
It looks like this is not being treated as a range operator, but a flip-flop operator I've never heard of
Firing has never been a postive punishment for a person nor is it intended to be. It's mostly just to protect the companies

Companies arnt paternal entities delivering justice and fairness
There you go, 75 days a year? That affects small-owners in the same way as multi-owners.
Since WWII, how many square-kilometers of territory did the US seize from its neighbors, versus USSR (before it broke up) or Russia (after breakup) from its neighbors?

Even if you believe the leases on US bases are somehow secret hostile seizures from their host country (which is unlikely, except for in Cuba)... I'm pretty sure we're talking much less in terms of "taken" territory and people.
And then content makers are still scratching their heads on why people please won't stop using adblockers?!
Yes, and even if the tools are not available perhaps the domain verification would help.
You probably want http://elixir-lang.org that way ==>
Playing devil's advocate here:

> I know, these are tough scenarios, but falsifying established science is hard.

It is also very hard to falsify the theory that invisible pink unicorns are causing global warming. It's not necessarily a good thing that a theory is hard to falsify.

For 2): there has been a 15-year global warming pause, which none of the models predicted. With your definition 2), that's actually close to a falsification of AGW.
This new finding raises questions about the accuracy of predictions about sea level changes, not the entire theory. Sea level rise is one of the results of global warming, not a cause. We have independent measurements showing that average temperatures are going up even if the predictions about sea level rise need to be adjusted.

Furthermore, there are independent measurements of sea level changes showing how much it's rising per year, even if we don't know where it's coming from.

The real consequences of this finding are explained in the article:

"The good news is that Antarctica is not currently contributing to sea level rise, but is taking 0.23 millimeters per year away," Zwally said. "But this is also bad news. If the 0.27 millimeters per year of sea level rise attributed to Antarctica in the IPCC report is not really coming from Antarctica, there must be some other contribution to sea level rise that is not accounted for."
Bad logic. Whether we caused it or not is irrelevant, if it's going to harm us, and we can do something about it, we should regardless of the cause.
It worked for Nike and De Beers.

The entire sports drink industry.

The supplement industry.
Killed German troops should be attributed to both USSR manpower and the US industrial power:

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lend-Lease

The USSR was highly dependent on rail transportation, but the war practically shut down rail equipment production: only about 92 locomotives were produced. 2,000 locomotives and 11,000 railcars were supplied under Lend-Lease. Likewise, the Soviet air force received 18,700 aircraft, which amounted to about 14% of Soviet aircraft production (19% for military aircraft).[23]

Although most Red Army tank units were equipped with Soviet-built tanks, their logistical support was provided by hundreds of thousands of U.S.-made trucks. Indeed, by 1945 nearly a third of the truck strength of the Red Army was U.S.-built. Trucks such as the Dodge 3/4 ton and Studebaker 2½ ton were easily the best trucks available in their class on either side on the Eastern Front. American shipments of telephone cable, aluminum, canned rations, and clothing were also critical.

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No idea. But I assume that if a contract has an opt-out clause, then it should be possible to do so without voiding the rest of the contract.
I guess the residents of the San Juan Islands must be quite a different demographic from the Canadian islands just across the border. This would never happen on one of the Canadian Gulf Islands, because too many residents are worried about the "wireless radiation" causing headaches or cancer. (This is also where 1 in 6 residents refused a smart power meter [1], mostly out of supposed safety concerns.)

[1] "Gulf Islanders 15 times more likely to oppose BC Hydro smart meters than Vancouverites" http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Gulf+Islanders+times+...
This article captured exactly how I feel. Airbnb has become it's own worst enemy by getting greedy and not proactively removing bad actors who make them money. And I really hope SF passes prop F to force their hand.
With this being on HN top (and with the word spreading), this story has potential to kill livecoding.tv.
That's neat. But the comparison time for oriented bounding boxes is no better than that for convex polyhedra, if you use incremental GJK.[1] It does, however, take less code, and the termination condition for GJK in the presence of roundoff error is quite difficult. If you do implement GJK, be aware that testing it with random polyhedra is not a good test. The hard cases appear when two objects are coming into contact and their face planes are becoming parallel. Since this is what usually happens whenever an object comes to rest in a simulation, that edge case comes up in practice.

Axis-oriented bounding boxes are cheap to test, but bounding boxes oriented to the object are really just convex polyhedra with 6 faces.

Lots of collision detection articles today.

[1] http://www.cs.ox.ac.uk/stephen.cameron/distances/
>However, it seems to me you don't quite appreciate how strong the case for the general picture of climate change really is.

No one is denying climate change.
If a business can get away with something and profit they will do it. They are amoral entities.

I know plenty of scummy small businesses
Portable Native Client is a really huge project that takes a lot of PhD-level talent to implement correctly, and it requires a very specific type of organization that has the requisite "will" and "way" to make it happen.

Even if Mozilla had the will, they really don't have any way to contribute very significantly to the development effort, because it sort of requires a lot of very talented people getting paid large sums of money for long periods of time... which is obviously something that Google can afford to do.

I think everyone has always known that NPAPI was eventually going to have to be completely overhauled or even replaced. For anyone to constantly harp on the idea that "all that matters is the open web" when they come from the very same organization -- although going by a different name -- for which the original binary plugin architecture was named (Netscape Plugin API) is just patently absurd.

There is so much quality, freely available C/C++ code in this world that it is pretty mind boggling, and the purely technical achievement of allowing this code to be efficiently used by end users through the web platform is, again, a fairly mind boggling idea.

I'm not saying that this web assembly concept won't have any use cases whatsoever in the future, but I am saying that the proven PNaCl technology that exists right now is way, way too powerful for any web-based applications developer worth his or her soul to pass up very easily.
Yeah, that last quote is pretty scary. I wish the article had talked about some of the other possibilities that could account for the sea level rise (if it's not Antarctica).
I was quite depressed at the time, I can only apologise for my tone.

I've started to read your piece, but I've honestly been interrupted constantly so haven't been able to give it my full attention, which I intend to do as soon as I can!

My disagreement with you over systemd, incidentally, never had anything to do with my assessment of your abilities. It was pretty obvious we both have technical skills :-)
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I always hesitate to point this out, because I'm firmly in the 'we are stewards of this earth and we need to be a lot more responsible about that' camp - which the denialists are anything but. But essentially what you're looking for, at least for the 'this is a bad thing' part is chart 1-5:

http://muller.lbl.gov/pages/IceAgeBook/history_of_climate.ht...

i.e. AGW might be a not entirely bad thing, from the northern hemisphere's limited point of view at least, were it to be sufficiently finely calibrated to maintain the interglacial period indefinitely.(I suppose if the many worlds interpretation is correct, there's got to be at least one earth that gets lucky.)

However be aware, there is also a theory floating around that it might in fact trigger the next ice age, if it shuts down the global conveyor belt currents, in particular the gulf stream.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2004/05...

And that, as much as anything, is why it's called climate change, rather than global warming these days.
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Bad career advise. But great life advise. There is more to life than money and being high on the exec ladder.
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In a perfectly efficient market with perfect information there's no profit to be made. So to make money you either have to be more efficient - either by market-making where you do millions of small trades, or the kind of value investing where you just buy what other people are selling and vice versa and hold them for a while - or you have better information. (Which doesn't have to mean inside information. It's certainly possible to make a living out of good old-fashioned detective work based on public information - recent clever tricks have been e.g. tracking the tail numbers of CEOs' private planes to know when they're on holiday and/or negotiating a merger).
Personally I wouldn't put a lot of effort into getting stock as a contractor/consultant. The chances of being "handsomely rewarded" in terms of future fortunes are very slim and far between. By the time you throw in the cost to exercise and the tax obligations, it may not be as much of a reward as you think.

With that said, you may be able to negotiate to reduce your hourly rate in exchange for earning a equity position. You could also work out a convertible debt type arrangement. But again, I would walk cautiously here. Having $100 today can be worth a lot more than the gamble on possibly having $1000 five years from today. Just because a company is offering employees stock does not mean that the stock will be worth anything or that the employees will be rewarded on an exit.
So far, not much. Clojurescript, Elm and most others assume that JS is taking care of garbage collection for them. Meanwhile, WebAssembly so far does not include GC support. If someone were to implement a custom GC for Elm on top of wasm's "here's a big array of bytes" memory model, it would be very interesting indeed. But, at the moment wasm is primarily a target for C/C++.
"Denier" is a loaded word, meant deliberately to evoke "Holocaust denier". I prefer skeptic. Because if you're not a skeptic, you're not a scientist.
The next time someone argues handwavily that pure functional programming makes code "easy to reason about," consider the fact that implementing a data structure as simple as a double-ended queue in that paradigm was PhD level work.
Yeah, IRC clients are hard to use, too many are command-line based, although on Linux you can still find a few with GUI, but not as pretty as Adium on Mac OSX. Your mileage may be different, but when I was working at Mozilla everyone used IRC and it was not a huge burden because most people really just do /join or pm a person. As long as you provide a documentation on how to use IRC, you are golden for the most part. If you mandate people to use IRC and have resource available to help troubleshoot or setting up IRC, you are good. If you need to set up some complicated things with IRC, well, it is tough, but you are on your own.

Slack's interface is not very impressive, very messy in my opinion, but that's me. There are businesses out there offer IRC as a service, so that's another option.

Final point: I really don't care about FOSS vs OSS vs Proprietary. As long as the company truly respects my data privacy and security, and is easy to use, I can give zero damn about either of three. It's 2015, we need to stop arguing and actually make things better. Business needs to focus on improving product experience and security. But you know what, some people do, that's fine, none of my business anyway.
Well, personally I like having clean air and water, and the idea of not giving a completely barren Earth to my offspring. Even if climate change is not caused by humans, the things we would do to try and stop it are good things we should be doing anyways.
My bet is that the emptiness you feel has little to do with a title, or how much you’re paid.

I suspect that it has everything to do with meaning/purpose.

Maybe you need to ditch the day job (regardless of consequence), move somewhere cheap, and make something you care about.

Some of us aren’t meant to be employees.
The empirical evidence for your gut feeling is actually pretty strong. You are better off putting your money in a nice indexed fund instead of trying to chase money in the market.
A "denier" is anyone who disagrees with Al Gore and Bono. Count me in.
Obviously what Livecodings Michael is pulling is some high level disgusting BS. Still some metacognition is in order. I highly recommend "Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus"

> so in reply to “how often?” the answer was basically “not often”. At some point it got pretty frustrating to keep receiving these emails, but whatever.

>I let them know that their last “soon” was over a week ago with no clarification of when their “soon” is

gee, I wonder if the two are connected somehow.

TLDR: Girl lies, because she thinks its more polite to lie instead of being upfront ("I dont know If I will even stream at all, stop asking me" versus "I am totally into you and we will definitely date, just not today because .. umm.. my cat is sick!"), girl is outraged at being lied to in exchange (polite "we will delete your account soon" versus "no, we dont delete accounts ever, get lost").