skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, unlike ISPs they don't really make any money. They have many unnecessary regulatory burdens as well. I will say some of the regulation they face is from their actions. Industries that find it incapable to do the right thing in the absence of regulation are often the ones that end up the most heavily regulated and it doesn't really solve the problem either.

As for the seat. It's not about caring about your seat, because the seats on the flight that sticks out in my mind were pretty much indistinguishable. It was a 2x2 plane and there were like dozens of "empty" seats to choose from even though the flight was over-sold by one person. I refused to pay and then ended up being the one getting bumped (although in this case it worked out in my favor since I got bumped to the next morning and got paid 4x my fare). They do not make it obvious when you're purchasing that you do not have a seat either, they just "skip" that stage and don't give you one. Very misleading.
I haven't read this whole thing but by just by skimming it I find all the usual denialist BS with some engineer hubris mixed in.

There's the claim that CO2 isn't bad, it's needed for life. This is a common among denialists, ignoring the fact that lots of things which are needed for life are also unhealthy in large quantities.

There's the claim that far back in the earths history CO2 levels were higher, ignoring the fact that the speed with which we are altering these levels is what's unprecedented.

There's the claim that CO2 is such a small part of the atmosphere's composition that we have no need to worry, which I find hilarious because he's not an expert in atmospheric composition but the scientists he's trying to refute are.

The whole "those silly scientists don't know how to interpret data" thing is a new spin on it though.
It's postman, see: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/postman/fhbjgbifli...
Another example of a short peer-reviewed paper (and related to Computer Science, yay!) is "Counterexample to Euler's conjecture on sums of like powers": http://fermatslibrary.com/s/counterexample-to-eulers-conject...
So what can I do as a software developer? Any OSS written in Haskell / Scala / Java / OCaml I can contribute to?
You say global economy and then you say far beyond the reach of individual consumers. Yet the global economy is by definition composed of the demands of individual consumers.

You also say that top-down hasn't been working very well and so we may be running out of time. Isn't that a strong signal that we should look at a different approach?

As technologists, we can plainly see the power of our mobile computers and the influence they have over our behavior. Advertising is huge because it works. But what if its influence drives us to disproportionately purchase products or services that contribute to climate change?

If advertisement works, and technology works, and people's behavior is already being directed, then why can't we direct it another way?
I agree. The irony of that statement was huge. But it also brings it back to a "chicken or the egg" scenario. That's what I didn't really want to get into. Is the dock worker's union struggling because he's been paying the lobbyists or are they struggling because everyone else was?
Given that Microsoft has long published the support lifecycles for its major products, and that those support lifecycles are often guaranteed (as much as anything in the commercial world can be) many years into the future, any criticism on this score just feels like bad faith.

The alternative is to take your chances with free software where outside of any commercial support agreement with a specific provider you generally have no actionable guarantees of any kind that your support will last as far as the time your installation completes.
Hopefully, none of them. Work should be about working. It shouldn't be a preschool or kids entertainment centre.
Support for multi-tenancy is pretty awesome, will make it much easier to support Kafka as a shared service within an organization.
Accusing other users of astroturfing or shilling without evidence is a breach of civility that is not allowed on HN, so please don't do it. If you're concerned about possible astroturfing, email hn@ycombinator.com instead and we'll look into it.

We take the question seriously and have banned accounts for astroturfing in the past. Alas, what's far more common is commenters lobbing the accusation merely to attack someone they disagree with, and that's emphatically not allowed here.

Also, some of your other comments have been outright uncivil. We ban accounts for doing that, so please re-read the site guidelines and stop doing that.

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There is absolutely, positively nothing wrong with making "lots" of money in a conventional manner, and donating it to an effective charity taking on the target task. In fact, in the spirit of the Kantian imperative, if everybody actually dropped their "merely productive" jobs and then tried to "directly solve poverty", we'd have just made the poverty problem much, much worse!

You may want to Google the term "effective altruism".
When I am an interviewer, I do sometimes just shut up and see what the interviewee does answering a question. One pattern I see is that people who are uncertain (or outright lying) about something tend to keep embellishing when you give them the space to do so. You then need to circle back to see if they were nervous etc and do have a reasonable grasp, or are misrepresenting themselves (eg doesn't match the resume claims).

Doing it for everything is not useful or productive. Interviewers also need to realise they are selling the company, and while they may not hire the candidate, that candidate will have a career, colleagues, influence etc in the future. I am very wary of some companies and their products (and former employees for that matter) because of the interviewing experience.
> Every "new" webserver tries to fix apache configuration syntax mess, and imho they all fail.

Fail at what? What were they were trying to "fix"?

> Yes, setting up a reverse proxy looks simpler with nginx or haproxy for that matter.

People don't choose nginx and haproxy because of the configuration syntax, they choose it for performance and features.
This is really awesome, both layout wise and for it's data visualizations. I'm a huge fan of Brett's work and this seems like it fits right in with his other exposes.

That said, anything that doesn't discuss the global shipping industry (or more abstractly, emissions due to globalized trade), nuclear power, and solutions for developing countries* is missing more than half of the discussion (I'd personally argue it's almost missing the entire forest for a couple of trees). I'd be very careful to follow any conclusions or suggestions that don't factor any of that in.

* This is the biggest annoyance for me when climate change is discussed in general. Moving the US and other developed countries to clean/renewable energy is mostly a matter of time and money. But developing countries like, say, India, have neither the money, infrastructure, or time to do so (not even broaching the fact that some don't even have the human rights framework to maintain an environmentally sustainable economy). Furthermore there's a moral issue, in that US/China led development essentially set the stage for global climate change. Is it morally acceptable to punish developing countries for following the same route? Fossil fuels are essentially the only way these companies can begin to compete... and after all it's the developed countries that took us, at a dead sprint, to the edge of the cliff.
Were the diagrams done with software, or hand drawn? If software, I'm curious what package/style you used, the style looks very similar to Martin Kleppmann's presentation at StrangeLoop; I assumed his were hand drawn but I'm realizing now this might be a omni style or something.
It seems weird to me that the first byte for index.htm i the many-files test arrives at 0.175s

while for the packaged-files test it arrives at 0.092s

Since it's the first request, there're no concurrent requests in the view.

Maybe they run their test while benchmarking it?
Still, if the environment is different, I'm not sure if their timing numbers are truly significant
Get lost. You're using a textbook ad hominem argument, while the author you're talking about has boatloads of evidence and put a lot of work into this page, and you think it's bad thing that he's humble enough to admit that he was a lack of knowledge on one particular topic? That just boggles my mind.
Honestly, reading even a little bit of this article leads to the conclusion that the only solution is to switch to nuclear energy as our primary source of energy.

I'm sorry, but wind kites or wind blimps aren't going to substantially affect carbon emissions.
SpaceX "lost" to BO in the same way you lost in a foot race to me just now down the hall.

They aren't even close to the same thing.
Is it too far-fetched to conceive that there might only be sub-optimal decisions to choose from for some people? Not saying that this is strictly the case for all people, but I certainly can imagine that there are some for whom "parental support, scholarships, grants and subsidized federal loans" are hard to come by. In that case, is it still completely the fault of the individual? What do you suggest that these people do instead of taking out -- what a financially-aware person knows to be -- a bad loan?
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Is there a way to get rid of the 'Sign up with Facebook/Google' overlay that blocks the bottom part of the comments?
But what do you do with the time if you don't cook? Do you sit in front of the TV, searching for something worth watching so that you're not bored? If so, then taking the time to cook is free, because you're essentially valuing your time at zero.
>Free and open source software, a la Richard Stallman, is a totally different thing with a philosophy akin to how a virus operates.

Copyleft is not a virus. I'm pretty damn tired of this meme.
Hi Marat_Dukhan! By the way that paper has also been annotated on Fermat's Library: http://fermatslibrary.com/s/counterexample-to-eulers-conject... :)
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10621576 and marked it off-topic.
Somewhere in this cloud is the paper that could change your life and you have no idea which one it is.
I've noticed I'll get more feedback when there's a recruiter between me and the employer. But yes, it's quite frustrating when all you get is "not a good fit" when as far as you can tell the interview went well. Was it a technical problem, or a personality issue, or what?

If it's any consolation, I know exactly why I didn't get the position at a few interviews, and it's because it went poorly - they wanted experience with X and didn't feel Y was a good substitute, or I didn't solve the brainteaser, or other obvious issues.
Well, the Sourcegraph page links to another page describing the benefits of a Fair Source Licence. In the interest of a balanced discussion, would you care to provide a list of points describing the drawbacks of using such a licence?

As it stands, your comment may successfully describe your opinion but it doesn't attempt to contribute to a healthy discourse.
Just 20 more years now... ;-)
Has anyone come across a similar message queue that implements offsets in a comparable way?
In CS it's customary to stop citing papers at some point. E.g., lots of papers are published about Turing machines without citing Turing.

Also, absolute limitations on page count is really common in CS, and the page counts tend to be pretty low. In other areas, journals might allow for more citations or citations might not count toward page count.

Also, arxiv is physics-biased.
The astonishing escapes of Harry Houdini
To further develop this with respect to my initial comment, there is nothing unusual in Russian pilots behavior (i.e. in connecting corners). They have done it constantly near their direct neighbours and also in Syria.

I do not know why they are doing this i.e. do they do this from ignorance or does it come from their display of disrespect and superiority but I have seen many people to forecast that when they continue to do this with Turkey, it will end up with a shotdown.

It does not follow that I agree with Turkeys actions. I think that it was very irresponsible, but I am not overly surprised either. I just wish that it had not happened.
Ahem,

> The volcano released approximately 0.15 million tonnes of CO2 each day, but the massive reduction of air travel occurring over European skies caused by the ash cloud, saved an estimated 1.3 to 2.8 million tonnes of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere by 19 April 2010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_the_April_2010_Eyja...

> The grounding of European flights avoided about 3.44×10^8 kg of CO2 emissions per day, while the volcano emitted about 1.5×10^8 kg of CO2 per day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_eruptions_of_Eyjafjallaj%...
I mentioned this over on lobste.rs, but I'll mention it here in brief: fair.io does a really bad job of stating this intent. The elevator pitch mentions open source but not proprietary. Please consider rewording fair.io to be clearer about the non-open-source intent here.
I have this feeling a lot. Being able to ship software seems like such a powerful thing, and then you try to apply this skill to difficult social problem and you realize how unimportant code is. I suppose if problems like these could be solved by an app, they would have been solved already.
I did considerable research into jobs where I would have the opportunity to help with climate change while I was a freelancer. I came up with a short list of companies, evaluated on a somewhat subjective basis of "effectiveness". (I read an essay by Bill Gates where he explained his investment strategies to "making the world a better place" were based on applying financial input where it had the most leverage.)

Most of the companies were here in the Netherlands, one was in the USA. I applied to them all, and got 3 interviews. I ended up choosing a utility startup called Vandebron based in Amsterdam.

Vandebron (https://vandebron.nl/) means "from the source" in Dutch. They're an AirBNB-style marketplace for renewable energy. Customers choose the supplier ("generator") they want to buy their energy from. They're growing quickly!

I've been there a little less than 3 weeks, and I feel like it's the best career decision I've ever made. I've never felt so motivated before. I encourage anyone wanting to join the effort against climate change to dig deep. Find the company you think will make the most impact. Get yourself in the door. Most companies are happy to find talented IT people.
> Nuclear is not really low carbon when you take into account the amount of concrete you need to build a modern reactor.

That sounds really preposterous.
Also wanted to add the invaluable http://www.amazon.com/Sustainable-Energy-Without-Hot-Air/dp/...
I was a bit confused at first, but this explanation makes a lot of sense. Please put it somewhere prominent on the Fair Source page.
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Yes, we did.
If you ask me, Satoshi Nakamoto is the greatest self-made billionaire story. Creates a piece of software out of thin air which legally makes him a billionaire without revealing his/her identity to anyone. Perhaps not a single individual but still impressive as hell.
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Well, Sony Pictures is huge. Their database of movies is enormous. (Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is one of the movies distributed by Sony)

Imagine they stored all of the movies they distribute in 4K in your TV. Whenever the movie is displayed they just find it in the database and reproduce the 4K version.

Of course, that is very much infeasible, it requires too large of a storage.

What they do is something like Waifu2x I linked, they train a neural network to learn how to properly upscale movies. They put the "algorithm" on the chip, and its fast enough for real time usage.
Sure, but the need to transition away from non-renewable energy is not the goal that Bret is working on (limiting anthropogenic CO2 and therefore its atmospheric concentration). I think everyone agrees there is a much longer "grace period" before those resources would be depleted than there is for even the slowest of hypothesized AGW scenarios. So if accelerating the depletion of uranium (ha) would solve the more pressing issue then it makes sense.

Perhaps your concern is that people would get complacent with what can only be a temporary solution (even if temporary means thousands of years), but if AGW is regarded as an urgent and critical problem to solve, I don't think you can afford to ignore the opportunity.

> Currently we have about 200 years of uranium available for economical extraction.

In that 200 years a whole lot more uranium will become available for economical extraction, exactly the same as what happened with oil and natural gas.
https://people.ok.ubc.ca/rlawrenc/research/Papers/LittleD.pd...
Many of the things on this list are more or less technical requirements. Forced security updates are required to stop the spread of botnets, for example. If you make security updates optional people will turn them off and you'll get botnets, ransomware, and DDOS flood epidemics. DDOS floods are a major threat to the open web, requiring web sites to cluster behind MITMing 'protection services' like CloudFlare.

I do agree about the privacy aspects, but unfortunately most users do not care about security or privacy and "most users" (the mainstream of the market) pays the bills. Until users care and vote with their wallets, companies will continue to disregard these things.
That line of reasoning isn't convincing to me (though I have no data to confirm or deny it); CS could still be a more prolific paper writing community, just that papers compete more for citations. In CS if I want to cite something, I have my choice of 10 papers from the same era from roughly the same group of people saying roughly the same thing (some might prefer to cite earlier papers, as the "original", others might prefer later papers as the ideas are more clarified). In other fields, there might be one "standard" paper to cite for a era/topic/group.
> That has nothing to do with whether a global temperature increase of 3 degrees would be healthy for the planet.

Don't leave us hanging here!
This is precisely the mistake San Francisco has made. I strongly suggest not repeating it.

The problem is that the fallback position tends to be building no new housing at all. This results in the same new people with more money moving in, driving up housing costs and gentrifying the area. No amount of not building housing makes rents low.
Progress takes time, but it is the future of energy.
I still think that in addition to storage work needs to be done with super conductors in order to one day circle the earth with various power lines that fed from where energy is being produced to being used where generation is currently lacking. Before writing it off, it would not have been that long ago that wrapping the world in cables for communication would have been seen as a pipe dream either.

I am not a fan of the idea of lithium or current tech batteries being stacked in mass. I just think that there would be bigger environmental concerns long term with these as servicing is a big issue.

Still as a technologist two things.
First never consider the science of the climate as settled. As soon as you do you close so many doors in your own mind that you will hamper yourself.
Second realize the one big area we are truly short on isn't the technology but the people who can service it. From electricians, hydraulic engineers, and mechanical. Get people interested in those careers too. For many who might not have the technical chops to create such systems many more are far more capable of maintaining them
Wasn't his logic more like, "I need lots of single thread performance, but the only way to get that is consumer hardware and anyways my database servers will have ECC"?
I'm disappointed that the one item most accessible to the software/consumer-electronics world: telecommuting, doesn't appear much in the article.

Giving people the tools to properly manage a remote team (including non-experts that are unaccustomed to remoting) is something we can do and that will take commuters off the roads.
True - but unfortunately he/she cannot be confirmed.
Why? If ID showed one thing it is that you can safely publish your source code as long as the user still has to pay for the actual assets.
Oil companies like it when dealers sell gas powered cars.
Does anyone know of a US bank that offers an API as a service? For consumer-level access and without requiring fees or a third party service, preferably.

The hackathon this app was a part of doesn't mention developer-friendly banks:
https://getmondo.co.uk/blog/2015/11/22/mondohack/

I'm left to assume these are private APIs. I would love to play around with APIs similarly, but don't want to depend on privatized APIs.
This website is the TeX/Web combination I ever dreamt of!
You are incorrect. "Open Source" is a well-defined term.

http://opensource.org/osd
The simple answer to the question is to create source of power and distribution that are cheaper, easier, and as reliable as gas, oil, and coal. Add to that a cheap solution to remove carbon from the air and oceans and you solve the problem. Anything that requires sacrifice of the first world or impedes the third world's progress is not going to be adopted.

Swing for the fences since we need the homerun.
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Rail is point to point efficient because of load but should always be considered just one part of the equation. Branching out from there is the real key to savings, there you get your electric trucks and such which provide the flexibility of delivery that rail cannot. Same reason I always favor buses in cities over light rail, buses can adapt to changes in population that light rail cannot
I mostly agree with you but at least India is trying to move to nuclear[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India's_three-stage_nuclear_po...
Postman is awesome.
This still doesn't make it easy to understand how it is executing. Is there a hook on import that detects the file in which it's imported, searches for the # coding language pragma line, and then actually alters the text of the source code before the Python interpreter resumes parsing the rest of that file?

Initially I thought this was something like James Powell's "astexpr" literals example (towards the end of < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2O7yj-Nh6AY >), which would require actually implementing a new C-API type, adding parser logic for its literals, and recompiling Python.

If you can add a comment or two to clear up my confusion, I would really appreciate it.

Great work on this!
Mondo looks neat. Anything like that in Canada?
That said, it's worth paying the $10 to upgrade so that you can automatically include authentication credentials in your requests. (E.g. hit the auth endpoint to get a token, and then have that token automatically included in all your subsequent requests.)
I would even say that paper is shorter, but I don't see an objective way to weight and measure the length of figures presented in a paper so it's kind of subjective.
Yeah, we did hot tests as well as cold. The problem isn't whether you could detect defects given all the time and resources in the world, but whether you can maximize the probability of detection given finite resources. If you're in test, you've got to deal with an avalanche of material coming out of the fab, as well as constant pressure to get it out of the door and off the books. Upper management doesn't see you as adding value, but they'll come down on you like a ton of bricks if there's an incident and you don't catch it. It's a tough job, and I'm glad it wasn't mine.