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What terrible arguments:

The temperature trend is so slight that, were the global average temperature change which has taken place during the 20th and 21st centuries were to occur in an ordinary room, most of the people in the room would be unaware of it.

Well, yes, people are bad at noticing gradually increasing temperatures. A room full of people can heat up from 23°C to 26°C without most people noticing.

That has nothing to do with whether a global temperature increase of 3 degrees would be healthy for the planet.
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in my experience interviewing is a game where you have to display a good measure of self confidence (but again not too much of it);
I guess that too much self examination upon a failure here will work against you, as it will make you part with your remaining self confidence.

The problem is that it is very hard to appear self confident if one is looking out hard for a job for more than two weeks; Any ideas on how to manage this particular problem?

Interesting that most hiring processes do not give much weight to past working experience or good references - instead one is supposed to perform well on the detailed check list of the interviewer. What does that say about the company that is adopting such a hiring process vs one that doesn't ?
If you liked those interactions, I'd check out the iPad app Al Gore / Bret worked on - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-edAGLokak
Is that a problem (the non-renewability)? Even if we deplete our available uranium while transitioning to fully renewable energy, we've still quit dumping carbon into the atmosphere. At that point, economic pressures are adequate to force us to renewable energy, I think.
If you're going for professional level work then you certainly should care whether they want you there, or more importantly, if you are providing any value to the company. Because if the answer to either of those is "no" then you probably won't go far in the company anyway and so you're wasting your own time.

If all you care about is eating then there's plenty of jobs where you can punch the clock, do your time and get the hell out of there.
I believe they want to eventually land and recover all pieces.
I think the best strategy is to try to emulate how you actually work as close as possible.

If in the former case a candidate were expected to get started, it's probably indicative to the culture of engineering that the behavior is valued. If they are one that likes asking questions and clarifying before working on it, and that's counted as a negative, at least they won't be in a situation where how they normally approach problems is always criticized, seen as a 'weakness' and probably brought up in reviews.
I look at the human-caused part of climate change as a billion or so smaller and easier-to-solve (but still hard) problems. Each one of these billions of problems is a person like you and me who acts without truly knowing what they are doing. Not in the sense of faking our way through life, but that we have only a superficial awareness of the consequences of our habitual or culturally-driven actions. This makes climate change an information problem, and technologists do information splendidly.

It's an information problem because we base much of our behavior on feedback loops. When we get a big electricity bill, we take a closer look and perhaps rely less on our heaters or air-conditioner. When we see the odometer on our car hitting big numbers too soon (and repair bills looming), perhaps we look into a job closer to home. There's thousands of examples, many of which have an impact our our environment.

So if we focused on developing a tool whose sole purpose was to give us quantified feedback on the consequences of our actions - much like how we use utility bills - we might be able to make a real dent in the big problem of climate change and others like it. We already have the pieces for a tool like this (Internet, computers everywhere, software libraries) along with the skills of technologists, so what's needed is the vision and the demand.

I recently wrote these ideas in long form: (https://medium.com/@SteveHazel/we-re-drowning-in-low-quality...)
Working for a non-startup, in retrospect, is a much better deal. First there are a lot of soft-benefits you don't consider when you compare salaries, like the quality of health insurance plans, etc. Secondly, one inexperienced manager's stupidity usually doesn't put the company at risk. At our five person company, i'm constantly scared that our CEO's idiotic behavior will bring us to bankruptcy any day.
I know I absolutely could make that README a lot better, and add an example set of code.
This is at the plug using an AC watt meter. Incidentally FX-8350 has an internal watt meter that measures ~18 watts at idle and 125 at full load. I expect the power supply conversion losses you're after explain the difference between the two sets of numbers.

Both hard drives were in standby mode (it reduces the power consumption by ~5 watts), though things like that should add the same amount to both systems and make no difference to the relative numbers. If anything I'm biasing against the AMD system because the i5 is using its internal GPU whereas the FX has a low end discrete GPU which I assume is adding five or ten watts to its numbers.
Well, kind of. The F9-1 would be on it's way to orbit, but not there. It's a first stage after all. It would certainly have much higher energy, and is huge in comparison.
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Sourcegraph CEO here. Fair Source is not an open-source license. It is intended to be an improvement over closed source (GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.) and open core (where many important bits are closed source). Fair Source is not intended to support forking and independent redistribution.
How can one tell how many citations a paper has?

EDIT: Clicking a paper and then "(citations)" will you show the one-level graph of citations, and under the search bar you can see how many results there were.
If I've paid for the bare metal machine then by definition I already have root on the host machine. Securing that is just as much my problem at that point as is securing my EC2 instances.
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I thought it was "employment" through services like Uber where workers are independent contractors who set their own hours.
FYI, I browse with cookies and localStorage disabled... your site doesn't come up at all for me. I understand that as a logged-in user I'd need to have cookies enabled, but for just browsing around the site it seems weird that it wouldn't show me any content at all.
Rail is vastly more efficient at transporting people and goods in large volume. This is why automated cars won't turn rail investments irrelevant.

The RER B in Paris, a two tracks north-south rail tunnel, is equivalent in capacity to a 40+ lanes highway. Even with automated vehicles, you cannot move the capacity of the Paris, New-York or Tokyo rail network to surface transportation.
Nuclear is not really low carbon when you take into account the amount of concrete you need to build a modern reactor.

Unless we have a major breakthrough in mining uranium or we actually manage to make breeder reactors safe and cost effective then nuclear is not really a viable option.

Edit. I should have been more precise in my language. By low carbon I am meaning minimal carbon, not just lower carbon. Natural gas is lower carbon, but it is not low carbon.

It really doesn't matter too much because there just isn't enough uranium to make it a viable alternative at the scale we need to have a significant impact on carbon emissions.
Somewhat towards this end, the University of Michigan has built this: http://lab11.eecs.umich.edu/projects/powerblade/
Sourcegraph CEO here. Fair Source is not an open-source license. It is intended to be an improvement over closed source (GitHub, Bitbucket, etc.) and open core (where many important bits are closed source). Fair Source is not intended to support forking and independent redistribution. If you fork a Fair Source-licensed project and try to distribute it, users would have to also acquire a license from the original author.
1. Never heard of mass extinction of penguins caused by the Great Antarctic Ozone Depletion. Antarctic plankton (very _basic_ thing in that ecosystem) is also not depleted. So? What 's so global about that?

2. That one is grossly exaggerated to force people buy some gasoline products. There are local impacts on local human populations, but this is not a global problem and can never be. Total area of all cities and motorways is just 0,5% of land. Everything humanity built on this planet is negligibly small if properly scaled.

Here is what can do a real climate change, for example (and it did). Cyanobacteria long time ago consumed most of "greenhouse" gases from our precious atmosphere and produced oxygen is such quantities that massively extinct themselves, leaving some nice fossils still visible in Australia. Humanity is not even close to that scale of activity.
Also I imagine it's another effort at reducing weight. I recall a big hoopla years ago when they started putting cameras on the cars. Even those few pounds caused a fight. And a racer, on race day, has a crew that can monitor their speed and relay it to them via radio.
You consider an author honestly assessing the scope and limitations of his own knowledge, and disclosing it, a negative? Really?

I'd wager that a good chunk of our problems today originates from policymaking on the basis of people who don't know, or don't admit, what they don't know.
Let me investigate. Neither of those should be required but perhaps something's busted. Browser you're using?
Sockpuppet voting and comments are not allowed on Hacker News. We ban accounts and sites that do that, so please don't do that.
If you look at the progression, the US was listed after the rest. UK, Australia, etc. have all had big controversies over block lists and I think they're still working on implementing them in Canada.
Interesting. The main drawback I saw was that your paper is one of those paywalled behind ACM. Many end up freely available on academics' sites, Citeseerx, etc. Yet, some portion are stuck where few will ever look at them. Another example recently on here was OcaPIC: Ocaml on PIC MCU's. Recent paper locked up where people can't read and improve it.

Is there a public copy of your paper for people here to read? Might increase interest and contributions.
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A couple things not mentioned which can bog a team down if not addressed are data cleaning, statistical significance and quality, quick reporting, and thorough understanding of the data and its pitfalls.

Data cleaning is often a huge process and often needs large chunks of dedicated time. Statistical checks can make sure results are significant and no errors such as bias in the data cause problems. In reporting it shouod be quick and to the point, no need for fancy dashboards and such, those just take away more time from necessary things like cleaning and answering more questions. Understanding the data is crucial, knowing the databases and any weird gotchas can make or break an analysis.
Well your evidence sure is overwhelming! Hundreds of man-years of research based on multiple, independent lines of evidence pointing towards a singular conclusion and you, the voice of reason, here to refute it all without the aid of satellite data, ice cores, spectrometers or computers models.
Here's the thing. SpaceX already landed a rocket. Lots of people have landed lots of things. So saying Blue Origin beat SpaceX to something, you have to be more specific about what that something was. SpaceX isn't even trying to land a tiny test rocket (which they already have), they're trying to land real full size rockets on real launches that go to orbit. It's a huge difference.

In other words, nobody said "orbit". But they did say Blue Origin beat SpaceX, which doesn't make any sense.
Interesting, you find my comment to be fairly ad hominem but you don't the slide deck you shared?

Basically all the "data" and arguments that he's presenting are cherry picked to be on the edge of plausibility, but as soon as you poke at them at all they fall part. It's really just a standard piece of denialist schlock.

For example on slide 4 look at his plot and compare to the wikipedia page:

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

It's a bunch of canned and repeated arguments that are easily shot down, but doing each one takes so much time. It's like "debating" a creationist, shooting down an argument means that many more easily shot down arguments come right back up, with the denialist side somehow never loosing credibility while trying to assail the credibility of others.

If somebody finds that slide deck interesting, please read other data too, it's a completely biased picture, meant to trick people. Something balanced like the IPCC will be far more solid information, with proper citations, that can be backed up.
It's easy to be right in the long run. What's hard is doing the right things in the short run that will bring about that long term rightness.

Stallman is basically like Richard Altmayer from the Asimov short story "In a Good Cause—" [1].

[1] http://www.epubsbook.com/ScienceFiction/Asimov41/27354.html
You can choose to serve the full sentence, and you would not have all of the fees, but you would still have some...like reimbursement of court costs. You're also subject to some classes. Drug offenders, in some states, have to take classes if they want their driver's license back. (even if the offense was not vehicle related in any way).

It's also not a trivial trade-off. Varies by state, but in Texas, for example, you could be choosing between 2.5 years + probation or 5 full years.

Not all felons need SR-22 insurance, but many whose offenses were NOT vehicle related have to have it. Drug convictions, for example, even if it had nothing at all to do with a vehicle.
Shutting down the site actually censors it in all countries, not just one. I'd say that's more dangerous than blocklists.
S. America had enormous silver mines. Venezuela is big on oil production.
You can see how the 'design' evolved here http://blog.meetifyr.com/2010/11/evolution-of-web-app.html
Apparently there are STILL people who think 1 is uncontroversially false -- see the slide deck posted by cpr on this page.
Well, if you take the sentence:

>The energy needed is the square, i.e. 9 units for space and 900 for orbit.

at face value. It is either claiming that 9^2 = 900 or, it either mistated the units for space or mistated the units for orbit. This is incorrect.

If you take into account the context of the prior sentence:

>Getting to space needs ~Mach 3, but GTO orbit requires ~Mach 30.

you can probably work out 3^2 = 9 and 30^2 = 900. However, as InclinedPlane said, that's only in an idealized number, in reality, you must expend even more energy than that to achieve Mach 30 from the surface of the Earth.

We can check back to the prior contexts:

>Congrats to Jeff Bezos and the BO team for achieving VTOL on their booster

>It is, however, important to clear up the difference between "space" and "orbit", as described well by https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/

To be short: you'd need to find where Jeff Bezos or the BO team claimed anything about "orbit".

Since others have already given up on this conversation, I probably will too.
A side note: The big banks expose mobile apis to their apps. However, I'm pretty sure that those are for private use
Data is - I believe - currently held on Conveyal's (the consultancy spearheading this) db. As I understand it, this has been developed in tandem with some World Bank initiatives and a test version of this is already operational with traffic data the WB has accrued in a number of international cities. Recent pushed wrt this project have been aimed at getting US cities on board, which (from personal experience) is much, much harder than getting buy-in on this type of work in cities abroad.

And wrt anon data versus specific trip data - that is anonymized when the trips are uploaded to the system. There will be no way to identify specific trips with the tool.
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To answer your question regarding SR-22 for all felons, I did not (in fact my insurance went down twice while I was on probation for a year). Unless there is some mitigating circumstance, I think that would only be limited to vehicle offenses.
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This. While I don't know if they would do it if they were as popular as they want to be (maybe bitbucket desperately wants to charge but don't feel like they could compete if they did), I personally use bitbucket for this very reason.

Sometimes I also use bitbucket just to get away from hosting every single thing in Github. Nothing against Github (I use it quite a bit, and from what I've read their culture and ethics are good if not great), but regardless of their intentions, I'd rather not have one company monopolize mindshare
So... Travel agencies have been ripping me off for my entire life due to the fact that I'm American... effectively making me pay double what some other world citizens pay.. and I'm supposed to feel GUILTY about it?

This should be the biggest class action suit ever.
Maybe take it to Reddit?
I am more impressed with your project management experience with agile. Did you follow agile process strictly in that company? I love to hear your experience and can be new blog post.
You don't understand, because you have probably just done the math on paper, rather than lived it.

Anecdotally, I have realized more value per dollar spent on rented homes than on purchased homes. If I had never purchased a home in the past, renting instead, I believe without a shred of doubt that I would have a greater net worth today.

I cannot make a rational case for home purchase now, because I cannot guarantee so many years of steady paychecks within an acceptable commuting radius of any home I could buy. Look back 30 years before now, to 1985. How many jobs existed then in the U.S. that no longer exist now? Do you think you can predict what the job market will look like in 2045?

If your job was to make buggy whips, would you feel safe making a 30-year financial commitment in 1890? Perhaps, but the Ford Model T came in 1908. Technology develops faster now. I get the impression that jobs that don't even exist this year may become obsolete before 30 years elapse, and yet employers still routinely hire based on specific experience rather than aptitude or trainability.

Perhaps it would have been more accurate to say that I will never take on debt to buy a home again, and I don't expect to ever be able to afford to buy anything without doing so.
I think it's problematic to focus exclusively on individual responsibility for averting climate change. Climate change is a massive global problem, intimately related to the structure of the global economy. The scale of the problem and the changes needed to mitigate it are thus far beyond the reach of any individual consumer. Problems at this scale can only be addressed by nation states and transnational actors, as was done for CFCs for example. Unfortunately these actors have been dragging their feet for decades. I am skeptical that they will be able to get their acts together in time to avert catastrophe.
Thank you for your list. The books on there look good.

Here's some books that I read & recommend re: applied systems thinking & ecosystems.

http://www.amazon.com/Permaculture-Principles-Pathways-beyon...

http://www.amazon.com/Edible-Forest-Gardens-2-set/dp/1890132...

http://www.amazon.com/One-Straw-Revolution-Introduction-Natu...

http://www.amazon.com/1491-Revelations-Americas-Before-Colum...

http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Societies/dp/03...

http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Succeed-Revi...

http://www.newsociety.com/Books/D/Decline-and-Fall

http://www.amazon.com/Thinking-Fast-Slow-Daniel-Kahneman/dp/...

http://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Social-Brain-Michael-Gra...

http://www.amazon.com/Sex-Scratch-Making-Relationship-Rules/...
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Without being employed to do this kind of work, your opportunities for networking and partnership are vastly diminished, which translates to less success. And that's ignoring the fact that competition demands ever-increasing capability. There's a huge difference in capability between amateurs and professionals in almost every field, and there are relevant reasons for that difference.
My unscientific take on this is it's about micro adjustments and just in time feedback. By focusing on where you ARE going, you will make that happen subconsciously through your motor skills. If you are going the wrong way (in micro amounts), you will self-correct.
> So if we focused on developing a tool whose sole purpose was to give us quantified feedback on the consequences of our actions - much like how we use utility bills ...

Utility bills and a carbon tax are the only feedback you need. All the rest is politics.
Thank you this is great feedback. I agree with you the navbar is kind of a mess. I've got a code branch in progress to clean that up substantially.

I'm a recovering executive remembering how to code, and my design skills are awful. I have a designer friend giving me styling advice. It is too heavy. I was going for that hawaii feel but I think it's too much :)

My articles is getting a revamp shortly - the gist is, just as you can get book recommendations, you can get article recommendations about books - kind of a Flipboard for Books or StumbleUpon for Books. But that feature is still formative....i.e. not really ready for primetime.

Thanks for this. Keep it coming. You can find my email address on the About Us page if you want to send more.
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The liquid hydrogen is one reason you'll never see me near this thing, let alone on board. One facility that I know about that was used for liquid hydrogen production was basically built on the assumption that it would explode, and not just once...
Right. That was the point I was making. The conspiracy stuff was all nonsense, but somehow we still ended up in the same situation where no one can afford anything.