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"That's exactly my point. Silicon Valley rewards "go big or go bust", it doesn't reward "small, sustainable business"."

Because if that's your goal, you clearly aren't passionate about what you're doing. You might as well go work for a 9-5 company doing CRUD apps. /s
There are two doors. Behind Door Number One is a completely sealed room, with a regular, gasoline-fueled car. Behind Door Number Two is an identical, completely sealed room, with an electric car. Both engines are running full blast.

I want you to pick a door to open, and enter the room and shut the door behind you. You have to stay in the room you choose for one hour. You cannot turn off the engine. You do not get a gas mask.

I'm guessing you chose the Door Number Two, with the electric car, right? Door number one is a fatal choice - who would ever want to breathe those fumes?

This is the choice the world is making right now.

The choices aren't that simple, Arnold, and the analogy you're making isn't valid, either. Does he not understand that that "clean" electric car requires an energy grid to run on? And that this grid is very far from "clean", and will be for quite some time? And that the process of creating (and decomissioning) electric cars is very far from environmentally harmless, also?

I'm not saying that there's no positive trade-off in favor of electric cars; most likely there is. But fear-driven arguments (even if pointed in the "right" direction) don't help much, and have a similar effect on the brain as carbon monoxide, over time.
In fact, there's really great data on this same effect. Shankar Vedantam from the Hidden Brain podcast recently talked about this in relation to political arguments and experimentation related to it: http://n.pr/1uL0RAe
It is absolutely not an objective truth! It's an expensive consensus.

The mental image of 'burning' increasing amounts of wealth for a financial instrument of dubious value gets more strange the more you think about it, like a funeral pyre or a hugely destructive potlatch.
I didn't mean that they weren't Europeans, only that very little of Europe was involved and didn't deserve the parent's invective.
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What about people who already have a significant income per month?

Doesn't it seem wasteful to give them more money each month, rather than say, working on the homeless problem directly with this money, or increasing the amount given, but reducing the scope of people it is given to?

Can someone explain the logic here?
http://www.climateactionreserve.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/...
The assumption here being that the integration of the now disused product into the parent product (Mailbox into Dropbox) has no potential to reveal the internal workings of the parent product e.g. APIs or data structures. Or that those techniques would only be applicable to competitors in that market. Both are convenient for your argument, but there's no reason to think that they're correct. Moreover, there's no reason for a risk adverse company to accept those assumptions.

My point was to challenge open source cheerleaders to actually give a reason beyond their own gain for why a company should do this. Instead, we have blithe dismissals and narrowly constructed hypotheticals built on optimistic assumptions.
Yes, because unless you have actual, critical arguments beyond the conspiranoid baseless claims that climate scientists are all in collusion, all the science points one way, and the entire civilized world with the exception of some US politicians who are suspiciously befriended with certain economic interests oppose it.
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If the first was "covered in chocolate" it was decidedly not a turkish delight, but some mass market abomination of such.

The second sounds much closer to actual turkish delights. (Which are not just turkish, but all over the arab world + balkans, greece etc. Some of the best are said to be made in the middle east).
Yeap - i noticed that I didn't reply like 10 min ago.

The tolerances based on the laser specs are 0.01mm. It is in essence extremely precise. Regarding the surface quality I think that a few photos would be the greatest way to showcase it. What is important to understand is that we are providing industrial level parts + quality, but we do this through a process that is easy for designers, engineers and people unfamiliar with laser cutting. Definitely not just "decorative"..
No one would have supported him if they knew he would lose the war.
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Notice that the last value in that graph is around 280 ppm, and that it doesn't exceed about 300 in the entire graph (about half a million years).

Current CO2 levels recently broke 400 ppm and still rising.

To represent the current situation, you'd need to add a spike at the end roughly double the height of that graph.
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A good article, but it should mention async network programming (probably with http://www.tornadoweb.org/) which is the major driving use case behind the adoption of async programming patterns.
Isn't it Congress' job to specify naturalization law?
A President cant just circumvent the law, can he?
The point here is it's easier to control emissions at large-scale power generation plants than it is on millions of individual vehicles. How many cars would fail an inspection if exposed to one?

The same cannot be said about power plants.

There's also the renewable angle. Surplus wind power, as experienced in Spain, would basically provide free power for recharging vehicles overnight. You cannot do this with gasoline.

The sealed room is also a way of presenting what we're doing to our climate, that the automobile emissions don't just go "into the air", but become part of the environment.
So, to sum up all the comments so far on this thread:

"No regard for the consequences of his actions"

"Fascist" + Comparison to Hitler.

"Has answers that are clear, simple and wrong"

"He's somehow still allowed to continue running for
President(sic)"

"Have to endure his ranting and raving"

And to play devil's advocate a bit, no one has so far even mentioned any one of his actual comments/arguments. Instead it's a clear-stream of ad-hominems with really no substance. One would think that if he's so obviously in the wrong, judging from these comments, we would have an easy time criticizing his ideas/arguments?
Yes, that was for sober driving. NOVA has a pretty good article on it at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/space/how-risky-is-flying.html.

Their chart is slightly different from mine, in that they're counting deaths per vehicle mile rather than deaths per passenger mile, which greatly favors cars because of their lower passenger capacity.
Read the column. He's very obviously talking about multiple studies. The Nisbett study was about farm animals, not fish.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/opinion/12brooks.html

> When the psychologist Richard Nisbett showed Americans individual pictures of a chicken, a cow and hay and asked the subjects to pick out the two that go together, the Americans would usually pick out the chicken and the cow.
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I'll add another that is quite nice...280 in the Bay Area. I'm fortunate to do the reverse commute so traffic isn't as bad. But coming North during Spring and Fall when the sun is setting around 6:30-7 is seriously relaxing after a long day's work. Rolling hills, tree covered mountains on one side with the fog slowly creeping over, and then the sun slowing casting the entire area in a golden glow that occasionally lights up the skies with vibrant color when there are clouds.

Seriously relaxing and helps me just get in a lane, put on 'Sea Green' by William Orbit, and practice traffic smoothing.

Actually found a video someone uploaded[1] of that drive, but unfortunately you don't get the full effect during the afternoon when the sun is overhead.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POnvKvQinBQ
I was once berated for posting a blog article on how to build a multitude of data structures, in 3 different programming languages. The reason for this was because "This is hacker news, and this article is first year computing science stuff." - Yet Bill gates reads a book about Richard Nixon, and suddenly it is the top item on here, even though it is in no way related to anything technical. I'm out, this place is most definitely a circle jerk at this point.
Poor Americans can only vote between pest (Trump) and cholera (Clinton). I don't know why this is still called a democracy.
I thought the 97% of climate scientists claim (based on Cook et al) was shown to be a really flawed study.
In any event, Consensus does not equal science.

I think given the broad definition of "human activity is causing global warming", you'd be hard pressed to find disagreement. If you refine it to "human activity is causing a majority of global warming and that warming is bad" there is a lot less agreement.
This article underscores one of the most interesting points in the book, that was applicable throughout the Americas, but was most startling in regard to the Amazon basin. It was that there was really no "untouched", virginal wilderness in the New World. Even the Amazon ecosystem was stewarded by the people that lived there.
Well, not that unlike Japanese-Americans being detained in concentration camps during WWII.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
Movies are for short stories, but they remain superficial. I like reading fiction because it takes me on a journey through a world. It's always a bit sad when a great book ends, because it means saying goodbye to a world. Trying to read a good book faster is like trying to receive a backrub faster, it makes no sense. The whole point of a book is going slow.

I used to read a lot of non-fiction but mostly stopped when i realised a year down the line i retained very little, and i wasn't actually enjoying the read.
Nothing on those lists contradicts what I said, but thanks for the links.
Don't think I might have upvoted it, but it does represent a minor convenience.
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I actually love turkish delight.

It's funny though, it's true I heard of it from the Chronicles of Narnia. It sounded so good for some reason. I mean, if that kid would throw his family under the bus for some, I want to try it!
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I agree with you. One of the tweets in the article says, "Yikes @IBM! I’m a girl & actually know OS Assembler language & have “hacked” your MVS operating systems." Well, sure, if you're already in tech, "hacking a hairdryer" might seem patronising, similar to "making math pink." But if you're not already in tech, a hairdryer is a relatively simple, common, and familiar device. It has potential and I'd bet it's mostly untapped[0]. It seems like the perfect kind of thing to get started with, IMO. To me, the fact that it's a "beauty product" to is irrelevant.

[0] For curiosity, I thought I'd check out results from HackADay for hairdryer hacks, there isn't much to see: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:hackaday.com+hairdryer
It's not necessarily bad, but "best" books should be judged on rating, not recognition. With this rating system a book with 1000 reviews rated at 3.5 stars would score higher than a book with 500 reviews rated at 4.5 stars.
Related article: "Algorithm writers need a code of conduct" (http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/06/algorit...)
Many people choose their car based on their peak requirements, rather than their average requirements.

I've seen people commute in a minivan every day because the space was useful taking their kids' stuff back and forth to college a handful of times a year. I've seen people buy SUVs because they tow a boat or a horse box once every six months. I've seen people buying larger cars so they can transport five adults in greater comfort - even though they only need to do that a handful of times a year.

Now, it's possible that these people would be better served by one car for their everyday needs, hiring different cars for these occasional needs - but most car buyers aren't used to behaving that way at the moment.
With Trump polling 36% of likely primary voters, has GOP "jumped the shark?"
I totally agree that the tool itself is only a very small sliver of the problem and I'm well prepared to fight the cultural battle of adding process to task management and communication.

My greater concern is picking a tool that won't buckle under it's own weight. I use Trello personally but from what I can tell it won't hold up well when a team starts throwing a lot of tasks into it. Basecamp seems to have a similar issue with not handling volume well. Basecamp quickly becomes unruly because of the sheer number of places where the same information can live although I will grant that with enough discipline that shouldn't be too big an issue.

Brightpod seems like an interesting option because it's almost identical to Trello but with multiple views to narrow the problem space depending on the goal you're trying to assess/accomplish. Asana is another top contender for me.
Yes at least the other modern politicians responsible for disgraceful inhuman behaviour have the smarts to hide behind sophisticated political theatre.
It's not like the president is more than a puppet. Trump can say all the BS he wants on the campaign trail. In reality he might just swing a couple of things a little worse than a "good" president.

If he ever gets elected he'll be more or less the same as every other president -- there are far more greater forces in control for a huge country (from established bureaucracies and state organizations, to parties, lobbies and big conglomrates) than some guy in the white house.
It's so obvious that it's unnecessary. You shouldn't discriminate people based on religion. Not all muslims are terrorists. There are many muslims who have contributed greatly to the united states and the world in general. You happy now? What are you looking to hear here? This isn't exactly a nuanced argument that needs to be picked apart. It's just "these people are muslims, therefore we should ban all people who (say they) are muslims" - that's wrong because you can just say you're not a muslim, and because correlation does not imply causation. It will affect exclusively innocent people, because terrorists are smart enough to lie on a simple yes/no question. Do I need to keep going?
The point of that chart is that the temperature appears to go up before the CO2 levels, leading to the theory that higher temperatures (due to natural cycles, perhaps solar activity cycles) heat up the ocean and other CO2 sinks, leading to a rise in atmospheric CO2.
I guess appreciating humour has something to do with one's brain perception - or the lack of thereof.
Great quote from the article: "“What if we had barred Russians from America because of the Cold War? Who would have invented Google?” Mr. Patel asked, referring to Google’s co-founder, Sergey Brin."
Well now I'm hungry for some. Anyone have a good source for Turkish Delight? (online, or in SF)
Hear, hear. The fossil-fuel industry fought long and hard to sow doubt that ambient lead levels in the atmosphere were increasing due to the burning of leaded gasoline. Losing on that point, they then attempted to prove that low levels of lead are not harmful to humans; this has since been shown to be wildly inaccurate.

It blows my fucking mind that people accuse scientists of being untrustworthy due to having a financial interest in proving global warming to be true; this is in spite of the fact that the fossil-fuel industry has already been caught putting out junk science that justified poisoning humans to protect their profit.
I have read articles suggesting that more moderate republicans are greatly concerned that he is doing long term damage to the republican brand.
[1] Because there's more money and the same amount (or less) of things to buy. Think of it a bit like someone issuing stock: yes, that dilutes your shares.

[2] It's not just pay. You CANNOT pay me to do that job again. I'm sick of being cut by glass. I don't like dealing with horrific bloody injuries, though I'm incredibly conflicted there--I mean, I did volunteer for it and I don't regret doing it and helping people. And I'm glad to be able to do it and that I was able to help people and I'd even volunteer again... but it's a horrible thing to have to do and I don't wand more of it.

Basic income is just welfare on steroids. The effect should be something that depends on the scale of how much money and how many people have their 'stake' diluted by how much. The scale of this is bigger than before (everyone gets money) according to what's planned--I don't seriously think anyone will implement it as $5 for everybody and if they did, it shouldn't have any meaningful effect.

Due to more money being issued, there should be more inflation caused by it, as we can't all suddenly start producing more windows and whatnot just because we're paid more. People are also likely to start charging more because everything costs them more and people have more money to spend now.

Now, all that said, maybe it could work as a replacement for welfare. I'm not sure about that, but it doesn't seem terribly unreasonable. Maybe everyone has an ID card and they can charge $X a month for food/rent/clothing, especially with the theory that people who don't actually need it might not use it. As I said, the main issue is the scale. If you get to the "work is optional" state that everyone seems to want, that's where I worry about the effects. But, there's obviously a long continuum between it being 0% optional and 100% optional and I honestly don't know what things happen where.
Those are general arguments against pretty much any long term space habitat and they are completely wrong.

The ISS is constantly supplied and refueled that's not a reason why not to maintain it, it's an argument why we should not have built it in the first place which is a very silly argument to make.

We need space stations the more the merrier, China and India are getting into the game, Russia wants a new one of their own, and the public sector is also looking at such platforms for everything from micro-gravity manufacturing of drugs to space hotels.

The argument that people in favor of decommissioning the ISS should make is we need a bigger, better, further away one that we could use to go cheaply to the moon, asteroid belt, mars, and the Jovian and Saturnian moons.
I haven't read much of his writings, but recurring themes are "youth today" (e.g. people used to be more humble than they are today), or how western culture is doomed.

He seems to be very careless with how he handles the facts from studies he references.
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This is exactly the use case I ran into most often, and I have designed a small library precisely to do these computations without touching the DOM. If you want to have a look, it is on https://www.github.com/andreaferretti/paths-js
The only people who are questioning the science are the ones who don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate the claims scientifically and who have an economic stake in continuing fossil fuel usage.

That's dismissive: you're claiming that the people who disagree with you are only disagreeing because they're idiots who should be ignored, and/or are being paid to disagree.
Not sure if sarcasm, but shutting down the k-cup business would be a great step toward a better world.
Revisionist history much?

We added lead to gasoline in the 1920s and it remained legal in most countries (including the US) until 1990s. In other words, it took us seventy years to stop actively adding toxic heavy metal to gasoline so that it spreads everywhere cars can go.

After all, we're talking about an industry that can spread FUD about a whole branch of science. I see no reason why they wouldn't do the same to other pollution problems.
I do not support either candidate (and honestly think the 2 party system is a bit shit), but I would like to point out the fact that she failed to disclose/provide, and basically deleted data that was requested by a court of law (some of which they later retrieved since it seems she didn't actually zero the memory).

She's clearly not accountable to the same set of rules that others (maybe just people who aren't rich enough to deftly use/manipulate the system) live by in the US. Maybe it's just afforded to former first ladies, that might be the case too.

Unless I'm sorely mistaken:

1. A court requested a private mail server from her

2. She deleted/modified stuff on it, then gave it to them

3. She's not in jail

Given 1 and 2, I would normally expect 3 to not be the case (in short, I would expect her to be in jail).
I think the actual goal should be to have government programs that provide an acceptable standard of living without money. Basic income is both a necessary patch for problems too individual to solve this way, and the single most straightforward way to get started, but it's not a panacea that removes the need for all other programs.
It might be that people see this headline and are interested in returning later to skim the book list and all of the other lists linked here in the comments.

Upvoting Bill's book list might not mean they like his list, think it belongs at the top of HN, or that they even read the blog post. The top-of-front-page ranking could just be the result of a large number of readers upvoting in order to have the discussion show up in their "saved stories".

edit: A "save story" button that is independent of the voting/ranking mechanism might actually change the front page significantly.
How do you get to this conclusion? The density is probably not going to get much higher than it is already, but the technology is going to continue to improve.
Sure, but that goes for Hillary Clinton as well. Is electing an open racist really the message america wants to send to people on how their citizens feel? And the president does matter quite a bit, even if s/he doesn't flat come up with the laws.