skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10691613 is related.
there is indeed an analogous dynamic here to Pascal's Wager: just as you ask "which God", one could ask "which emergency?"

Is it an analogous dynamic if the cure for almost all of the emergencies in the basket is reduction in harmful levels of pollution including inefficient farming/manufacturing/transport methods, noting the associated benefits such as food security that comes with unpolluted waterways in poor villages, not acidifying oceans, not tainting arable land with heavy metals etc? Belief in a certain God among many seems more variable than reduce pollution, aim for zero.

if we took immediate action on the crisis global poverty and got everyone up to Western living standards, that would conflict with the goal of reducing our environmental load

You make an interesting point - the big one is India which needs cheap energy to bring itself up from having no clean running water, no integrated sewerage system and severe poverty to competing with Europe and the Americas who have reaped the benefit of cheap [polluting] energy for a long time and before emissions were taxed.

But I see it as a benefit, at least in the long term, to start from this stage. Just as African countries have benefited from mobile networks and services like M-Pesa money transfer and microfinancing, never having to deal with maintaining an aging wired telecom infrastructure - India could reap the benefits of starting with a peer-to-peer energy network using residential solar, similar to what Germany has implemented. Of course this would need to be supplemented, however using fewer base load power stations than if it were purely centralized energy production.
The proof of your links to Estonia is really up to the bank. They each have their own policy. I think, in my case, it helped that LeapIN was there with me. A local business partner who speaks the language and is there with you for support, I think is an advantage anywhere.

If your company is a foreign-operated LLC (OÜ), which is what I opened, and what was recommended to me (I have no employees and reside in another EU country) then the only taxes are VAT, and dividend tax, which is incurred when dividend is paid out. There is no income tax.

Note that the dividend tax liability is of the company making the payment, not of the individual receiving the payment. So, even if there was a taxation treaty between Estonia and Serbia to avoid double taxation, you personally may still be liable for dividend tax in Serbia, if Serbia taxes foreign dividend income. But, here comes the usual disclaimer: I am not a lawyer or an accountant. You'd better check with one!
> If you agree because someone says so, that's just another form of ignorance.

No it isn't, it's not possible to educate yourself to the depth required on a great many things without becoming a professional in the field and while that's cool for those that want to; it's utter arrogance and ignorance to ignore the entire scientific community as a laymen and pretend you know better. Quite simply, if you are not a climate scientist, you're talking out of your ass. The people educated enough in the evidence to have the rational debate, have already had it, the intelligent debate is over and the conclusions have been publicized. The only people still debating are the few scientists in the extreme minority (which is fine), and the utterly ignorant (i.e. the public).
From what I have read (and I have to admit it's not a lot), this is re-inventing logstash/elasticsearch integration only it's written in Go and not Ruby/Java.

I would love to hear/read more about WHY would you reinvent this. Is it only because it's Java/Ruby and you think Go is better?

I went to each of the parts and search ElasticSearch/Logstash keywords and found nothing. Seems weird to even not mention those solutions.

Am I missing something?
You wouldn't expect Slack to be able to make so much off of messaging - there's got to be some way to be better enough to make money.
But I think that's true of everything, no?

Before people thoughts ulcers were caused by stress they probably thought it was due to too much "humor" and required treatment by bloodletting.

The point is that we advance scientific thinking by challenging ideas. If right now most scientists thinking global warming is real, then fine. Just don't try and shutdown the ones that don't agree.
Nice! I like it. I'm gonna add it to the "pastebin?" FAQ on the bot of a couple IRC channels I hang out in.

I'm a bit confused by the language selector menu, though. It looks like it's disabled ("faded out") until I hover over it. At first I thought it was just permanently disabled and wondered why it was on the page in the first place. I think you guys might be trying to do something a little unnecessarily fancy there.

(Also, and you may already know this, all of the links in the footer are broken.)
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Since we can't know the values of the founders of those companies I think that to say someone 'sold out' without giving them an opportunity to voice their position (and which they are not even obliged to state) it's a bit of a harsh judgment. Everybody is entitled to their own opinion of course but this 'failure' thing is another creative use of a word that has a different meaning in normal language. I have a problem with that. I do my very best to communicate and then people will start to use words in ways in which they definitely weren't intended.

Let's take Mojang as an example. Mojang was run for many years by the same people. Maybe they simply got tired of it and wanted to move on to other things. Having a significant chunk of money in the bank is generally considered to be a good thing and from what I see minecraft is still working just fine. I find it hard to square that deal with the meaning of the word 'failure'. That's just trying to be too clever for my taste I prefer a simpler and more direct interpretation of words, this cleverness is really rather tiresome.

It looks as if the whole thing is constructed in such a way that it a negative association is attached to the success of others in a way that says more about the user of the words than about the people and events that it is supposed to describe.
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I had a similar realisation a few days ago - I was putting a new microSD card in my phone, and realised that it represented 100 times the storage of my first PC (200GB vs 2GB). I still get a feeling of "this shouldn't be able to store this much" every time I use a microSD card.
I have no idea where you get the idea that the planet is cooling, but you're 100% wrong about this.

http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-guide/science/temp-recor...

This is not "bad science."

And it leads to predictable effects. The North West of England is partly underwater this week because of yet another "once a century" storm - the kind that have been rolling around every few years since 2000 or so. Increased rainfall for the UK has been predicted since the late 1980s as an effect of CO2 output.

"The sun, being the primary energy input for the system, is never causally linked to warming or cooling trends on our planet."

Climate change models have allowed for solar output for decades. See e.g.

http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08...

It might be an idea to educate yourself on the real science.
more here:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10688164
I think you're stuck in a groove of your own making. Selling a company is not a 'literal death' because a company never was 'literally alive'. It is merely a convenient fiction that allows multiple people to work together and to somewhat fairly share the proceeds. Survival of a company is never an inherent goal. Survival of a product can be such a goal.

Companies are utterly un-important, they are simply vehicles.
> Global warming appears to me to be bad science, however...

Climate scientists do and have studied the link between climate and the sun, as well as many other factors, but in the end GHG emissions from humans are contributing the most to increasing global temperatures.

http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-whats-warming-the-wor...

Also while it's a big system, there are also 7 billion of us. In 2012 we released over 30 billion tonnes of C02 into the atmosphere.

https://www.eia.gov/cfapps/ipdbproject/IEDIndex3.cfm?tid=90&...
Yeah, I don't subscribe to that conspiracy theory.
Shall we create a safespace for beigeist conservative think pieces?
In behavior as well -- you are correct.
Every time is see a post like this I get the urge to pretentiously rant about the ongoing decline of appreciation for aesthetic values. Tech culture often seems completely tonedeaf on artistic issues. Talking about the "value proposition" of the novel is borderline comical. If the fiction books you've read could be edited down to novella length, you should read better fiction books.

I have no idea how we got to a place where the value of Tolstoy, Cervantes, Flaubert, etc. needs to be defended from Breaking Bad and cinema (not that there's anything wrong with Breaking Bad and cinema). But apparently most people currently seem to be at a point where if they read the first few pages of "Lectures on Literature" they'd just squint their eyes, cock their heads, and proceed to not understand one part of what it means to "remain a little aloof and take pleasure in this aloofness while at the same time we keenly enjoy—passionately enjoy, enjoy with tears and shivers—the inner weave of a given masterpiece"
Well, that could be handled as part of taxation?

If someone has a very high marginal tax rate, then it would have a very small impact on their income and on govt spending?

If it isn't received above some income level, but is received entirely below that income level, then there would be a disincentive of that given amount against going a little bit above that income level. And, maybe that's fine? But if it is why not just incorporate that into taxes?

If there is a sharp threshold, it seems like trying to make that threshold as low as possible would be dangerous, because it might cause a personally significant disincentive against working, or getting a job that pays more. But if it was significantly higher than the apparent lowest possible safe value, that would seem unfair for the same reason? So, if instead of a sharp cut-off, there could be a gradual cutoff?

That seems pretty similar to the basic income or negative income tax ideas though. But not necessarily identical, just of the same form.

ok so if f(x) is the amount of taxes minus the amount of govt income that one must pay (so, negative numbers would be net receiving money from the government) , and x is other income, then,

f(0)<0, uh...

I forget where I was going with that. d/dx (x-f(x)) > 0 seems reasonable to expect? I suppose it could be <0 at a small area where it wouldn't have much impact, (or have a discontinuity, but same thing basically. ) but I'm not sure what the advantages of having that would be.
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Sort of a a circuitous way to drive a device that's ready to take a pulsed frequency input without tearing it apart. Should have tried harder to figure out how to do it in FreeBSD or just dump the OS and baremetal it.
Terra preta is formed naturally by falling fruits, leaves and branches that get composted on the soil. There's a agriculture method called agroforestry that make use of this concept, it's very promising for organic farms: https://vimeo.com/146953911

I know a couple of people here who have "dry bathrooms" (or banheiro seco) that is just a bucket to collect the poo, when you poo you cover it with dry leaves or grinded wood (they are the source of carbon, and stop the bad smell), when the bucket fills up they take it to an area outside far from the house where it will compost, naturally kill the pathogens (because of the heat it produces) and became terra-preta, much better solution than to send it down stream, easier to decentralize and the end result is the best product you could have.
I tried some similar things when making Zombition, but I found that blurring the line between email and instant message mainly results in a more complicated UI and more details for end users to remember. For example, with instant messages you generally have some status information about whether or not the other user is online, whether or not they may have read whatever you just sent them, and whether or not they're typing a reply. If you want to add that into a email interface, how do you indicate to your end users that another user will never have associated status information because their account is on a server that is incompatible with the method you proposed?

Plus the behavioral differences between email and instant message didn't blend well: was I going to wait in a mixed email/instant message conversation for a response, or was I going to move on to the other conversations in my inbox and send a reply or archive each so that I could move on to doing other things? And if I wanted to temporarily leave an instant-message-like conversation so that I could deal with some more email-like conversations, would the person I was chatting with know whether or not I would return?

Eventually I stepped back to look at what additional value a user gained by blurring instant message and email in this way. Fundamentally they're both asynchronous text-based communication, and the things you can actually do with them aren't strikingly different. The biggest difference is in the expectations that a user has for each.

Anyway I still wanted to "innovate in the email space", so I decided to go a more extreme route, and I made my own pull-based protocol (superficial similarities to IM2000 - http://cr.yp.to/im2000.html) that retains backwards compatibility with email while adding abilities like stateful plugins (JavaScript apps/widgets) that can share data through the new protocol, editing messages after they're sent (SMTP recipients receive the new version after the update), and inline replies to parts of messages to enable nested conversations. If you're interested, I posted it earlier this afternoon here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10693535).
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I agree about the language selector, we tried to save some space but I don't know if it's working that well there.

I fixed the links, thanks for the heads up! I pushed a refactoring a few minutes ago that broke them, I need to write some more tests. They're up now, if you want to read!
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Where is the line drawn for income where above it you pay more net (through taxes) and below it you pay less?
No one is trying to shut down scientists that don't agree; they're trying to shut down the ignorant public who's non agreement is baseless because they're getting in the way of setting public policy based on the best information science has to offer us at the moment.
> Why celebrate meanness?

Because meanness stands at the basis of our Western civilization, of which this website is more or less a part of. Think of Cicero's "Catiline Orations", which was an ad-hominem attack through and through, Aristophanes's plays, Lucian of Samosata's works, almost everything written by Swift, Shakespeare's Marcus Antonius's speech, which is another much celebrated ad-hominem, and the list goes on and on. Adversity helps us move forward.
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No, he means the 'Gmail' app (on Android phones at least, not sure about iPhones) allows third part servers. They rolled the Mail client into it.
That is true. However in that case, you should agree and disagree on the positions based on the merits of the arguments for the position, and not the authority of the person.

Therefore I may happen to agree with Andrew Jackson on some things, but appealing to Andrew Jackson as an argument for those things is still a bad argument.
I think people read these notes for the "big ideas" presented, not for the majestic prose of Bill Gates. Given that, why do you care who assembles and copyedits the information for him?
same as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10687624 , but they didn't trim the URL properly.
> New internet users are no longer even setting up email accounts.

What percentage of new internet users do not have any email accounts? I haven't been able to find any reliable data.
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Hey, even small, remote Hackensack, MN (pop. 308) has a Thai restaurant. So it's not exactly mission impossible to find (Americanized) ethnic food in the Midwest.

https://www.zomato.com/hackensack-mn/udoms-thai-restaurant-h...
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Argument from authority is not always invalid; especially when virtually all of the authorities on the subject agree. In fact you can't find a statement I made in the original post you objected to, that isn't true. It is factually true that if you disagree with most scientists on a subject, you are probably wrong. I didn't say you were definitely wrong, I said it was near 100% certain that you were wrong.

> It's weird you are attacking someone who agrees with you in policy. Just because he does not think "correctly".

No, it isn't weird. It's perfectly rational to disagree with people because they reach the right conclusion for the wrong reasons because "thinking" wrong is often dangerous and leads to superstition.
I wouldn't say that-- I know MANY people who applaud what Snowden did... I'd say even a minor majority say 54% -- maybe even more.. (I haven't done any polls or anything)--as for Hillary -- I've always voted democrat, but I'll be writing in Bernie Sanders if she gets the primary vote.
No it's not. The little ice-age is a well documented period of time of below average temperatures at the end/after the medival ages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

There's still a lot of speculation going on, what caused it, because the explanation for the "Big" ice ages (the periodic tilting of the Earth's axis reaching a position that gives to a colder climate) doesn't fit. So there are a lot of possible explanations.

From archeological evidence we know that in the timeframe before the little ice-age begain large parts of the North American population fell victim to disease and/or famine, so one proposed model is, that the regrowth of forrests on (fertile) ground left unmanaged by the decreasing population sucked out a lot of CO2 from the atmosphere.
Actually a large portion of the foods we consider "ethnic" such as Orange Chicken and Burritos originate or are tailored specifically for an American palate (and did not exist as such dishes natively). Even Tikka Misala is a British take on Indian flavors.
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I'd say that the sweetness is not the primary difference. It's the uncommon flavors and textures specifically in combination with sweetness that are the big difference. e.g.Cardamom and sugar are not a combination that my taste buds understand. Objectively, there is no reason that sweet cardamom tastes bad to me while sweet cinnamon tastes delicious, but subjectively there is.

For Chinese sweets, the ones I've had were really not that sweet at all. They were mildly sweet and just odd flavors and textures. e.g. Gummy and barely sweet was just not appealing. Others are just boring to my taste. At Chinese buffets there are often a selection of desserts that I can eat but don't care to because I don't enjoy them enough for the calories.

In fairness, I have not interested a bunch of my time trying to find new ethnic sweets that I like. I have them mostly when co-workers provide them and I feel adventurous (or less frequently obligated) enough to try it.
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You are restricting the list of Chinese sweets to those limited to Western tastes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasma etc. The things put in Chinese jellies and sweet soups are far more diverse than your list which I would not even call uncommon since you can get red bean or green tea whatever at a middle american strip mall buffet. Try a Chinese dessert shop in Chinatown. Personally, I have difficulty enjoying most of the items as dessert.
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Lots of people we know do that / say that to people. A friend called me just last week telling me his wife was pregnant and to stay off of Facebook until they told everyone.

Most people comply - those that don't - get defriended.
It's difficult to buy stock in a product. It's difficult to make an index fund of products. It's difficult to retire on "product dividends."

Companies exist as an attempt to get all the money in the world, and most fail that goal. Apple is pretty close. Refusal to acknowledge failure as failure is pathological insanity. Getting paid to fail (or to "soft land" and save face on an outright failure) doesn't mean the fail didn't happen.
In any case, it's clear that companies succeeding are never really the goal. ;)

Either the founders/investors/employees succeed, or their product succeeds, but the company can never succeed absent of one/both of the above.
> The Carousel and Mailbox teams have built products that are loved by many people

And now those people will hate Dropbox.
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I don't agree with the GP view that the government does not have a role in the future of space. However as an employee in the government sector I can confirm that the stereotype of an inefficient organization is true. It's more then just being a large organization there is a real lack of competitive pressures that force efficiency. It's not a rejection of the idea that democratic self government is a good form of government it's just a recognition that there are certain downsides of the current implementations of government agencies.
The other day, I was looking at a smart lock on Amazon, and they listed the price per ounce. I think you may be on to something.
I'm not sure of the details but surely the answer involves semi-colon insertion.
This is the sort of thing we would verify the calculations of, many times, and consider problems ahead of time.
>Science is about finding truth. Truth doesn't give shit what anybody thinks.

Truth is an abstract concept. You can't get hold of "truth" in raw form. Consensus is the only thing that validates a statement, and scientific consensus, that is consensus among experts following (each perhaps imperfectly) the scientific method, is the only thing that validates a scientific statement.

Even direct experience is not some failsafe -- a single person might just be misinterpreting, lacking skills and knowledge to understand what you see, or plain delusional (e.g. Wilhelm Reich and orgone or Linus Pauling and vitamin C).

>Scientific consensus is just educational and political tool. Get everybody on the same page. But it's pretty detached from the actual process of science itself.

Not according to any philosophy or practice of science that I know of.

>Questioning established consensus has been scientifically very valuable in the history.

Sure, but only to establish a new consensus, not to say that "my sole opinion, that remains my sole opinion, is more valid than the rest of the scientific world's".
thankfully many is very different to most.

its a pretty good approximation that compared to dropbox /nobody/ uses those products.
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As Rideshare guy has figured out, it's more profitable to sell picks and shovels than it is to be a gold miner.
If you want to try Middle Eastern sweets, check Kunafa or Baklava instead because Turkish Delights (Lokum) are really for kids not adults and they're served along something like Dragée in special occasions and mainly to kids too.

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