skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The fertile crescent is one of the most geoengineered regions on this planet, with a long history of ecological collapses and recoveries going back five thousand years. The most major one is thought to have brought about the fall of Babylon and resulted in mass desertification. The construction of many dams along the Tigris/Euphrates/Nile and rapid salinifcation of the soil over the last hundred years also had a very drastic impact on agriculture. Then there's also the effects caused by the collapse and splintering of the Ottoman empire, including less investment and cooperation in repairing aging infrastructure and ethnoreligious conflicts that have been very destructive.

I have little doubt that climate change has contributed to these changes over the thousands of years, but it's just one of many confounding factors that have led to the fertile crescent death spiral, one that I'd wager is relatively irrelevant (at least for now) when compared to everything else we humans have done in that region.
I don't think that's true. All it would mean is that Uber would lower cash payout rates and provide some employee benefits, in effect forcing drivers to take some of their complemsation as employee benefits.

(The bit about "not having to pay employer tax share for contractors" is a red herring; the sum of the employee and employer tax shares is the same, and economic incidence is -- per a well known result -- unaffected by who the tax authority assesses the taxes on.)

It would be a little less profitable (because of the parties' supply/demand curves, and hence why they oppose it) but it doesn't break the core business model.
Thanks :)
It can be done, but the because of URL limits, the image should be saved. I plan to allow full scale downloads and I might just store custom uploads too.
Great question. We just have to make it better than what's out there in the existing software. There are multiple outside programs healthcare providers use because practice management softwares are not tech advanced in every area.
Ah, now you've spoiled it! Somehow I have the feeling this game is even more effective when you think of it as a retro game, until you discover by yourself that this world is… not right.
> In his ruling, U.S. District Court Judge Charles R. Norgle rejected Shutterfly's argument that only in-person scans of people's faces are covered under the statute.

That can't be the law, right? Because "scan your face" vs "take a photo and scan that" are identical.

http://www.ilga.gov/legislation/ilcs/ilcs3.asp?ActID=3004&Ch...

> "Biometric information" means any information, regardless of how it is captured, converted, stored, or shared, based on an individual's biometric identifier used to identify an individual.

Did shutterfly misread this...

> Biometric identifiers do not include writing samples, written signatures, photographs, human biological samples used for valid scientific testing or screening,

as this...?

> Biometric identifiers do not include [...] photographs.
There are many more writers on Forbes now than 5 years ago. You might not like them all. They may not all be of the same, high caliber. None of them are "randos" as the parent comment noted; they all come in with a body of work and a reputation and are vetted by editors.

> a lot of them have massive conflicts of interest of one sort or another

That hadn't been the case. With hope, it's still not. There are ~disclosures linked from every byline. There are points of view and interests, to be sure. Those interests should be at least as transparent as they are for Fortune, Business Week, The New York Times, et al.

> more interested in being provocative than being thoughtful or correct

Well-said. This has been the trajectory of news, entertainment, and the media in general for many decades. The web has helped accelerate it, but it's not proprietary to web publishers.

> And BrandVoice really blurs the lines between advertising and editorial

That's by design and intended to be so in a positive way: "don't just pitch products at me, but give me information I'll find useful or entertaining even if it does suit your agenda." My disclosure is I worked on BrandVoice and similar programs; I'm no longer with Forbes. My strong opinion is all media have forms of this ad/edit line-blurring via product placement, advertorial, sponsorships, and combinations of them all. (more on that https://medium.com/@sjkmcnally/you-call-e-t-a-movie-but-ther... )

re the parent post, advertorial is one way publishers are making some money and, in part, paying writers to bring you news and entertainment. It doesn't directly involve malware and usually not even ad networks. It's not intended to disrupt reading experiences -- like pop-ups, take-overs, & pre-roll -- and all the tools are there for advertisers to disclose conflicts and provide some thoughtfulness & value to people who engage with it. When that's not the case 100% of the time, it's about specific executions rather than corruption of the concept as a whole.
Would you let your daughter date a contractor???
Silicon Motion's SM2246XT is a 2-channel DRAM-less variant of their SM2246EN 4-channel mainstream SSD controller. The -XT is used in both SanDisk's SSD Plus internal SATA SSD and their Extreme 500 Portable SSD: http://anandtech.com/show/9847/sandisk-extreme-500-portable-...

Phison's new S11 controller is also a DRAM-less design that will be used in low-end internal SATA SSDs.
Well to be frank, I am sharing an experience dealing with a problem member in a 5 person startup. You are correct it is an anecdote. One I want to share in hopes no one has to go through a similar issue. Your victimization does not mean every member-company transgression is due to the company. Minority members that have insider information can do serious damage and not care of the legal ramifications when there are obvious consequence to them.
Any examples of pages where such an effect is used in practice?
"I live in China, and enjoy cheap rides with Uber. I'm pretty sure the money is flowing the other way, and investors are subsidising local drivers and riders."

For now. When the local market is won then the taps reverse and the money will flow the other way.
To give just one example, on-demand ride startup Lyft recently sold a batch of stock that increased the company's implied value to $5.5 billion. The amount is eye-popping for a not quite 4-year-old company that is spending far more money that it generates, and reported a relatively slim $47 million in revenue for the first six months of 2015, my colleagues Eric Newcomer and Alex Barinka have reported. To show how outlandish Lyft’s valuation is, consider that on a roughly similar basis Apple would have a stock market value of more than $12 trillion, about two-thirds of the annual gross domestic product of the U.S.

Can someone ELI5 what a "roughly similar basis" might be? How did they arrive at this number?
Yup, and when this came out I took my RFID reader kit out and read the tags on my tires. And yes they were all unique.

Some folks at UC Berkeley built an RFID reading device you could put by the side of a (one lane) road (like an on-ramp) and read the tires from it. From a traffic analysis standpoint it would be much more effective than those hoses they put across the road to measure cars going by.

At the point we reach Tools Offering Aggregated Surveillance Things (TOAST), you'll be able to figure out where a tire (and the car it was attached to) was 24/7
Sure, yesterday I just had an idea to enable WebGL shaders as an input, but I have to research the idea a bit further.
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Thanks for the downvotes! Are you denying that this happened? It most definitely happened.
A business making high margins is always suspicious – because they need to get the money from /somewhere/, and if you’re a customer, then the company will only get those margins by charging you more than it is worth.

(By the way, too high margins are even illegal in some countries)
SDL and Allegro are great, but there isn't a very robust software ecosystem around them. You can put together something great with SDL, chipmunk2d, and enet, but there's not a lot of options. It's really nothing compared to what's available in the C++, Java, and JavaScript worlds.
Not yet, I published this tool yesterday.
It is still a minority of users (though this varies a lot by demographic). PageFair's annual reports are very thorough if you are looking for stats: https://blog.pagefair.com/2015/ad-blocking-report/
The key part you're ignoring is "Most significant products (e.g. Dropbox)"

There's no way you could clone Dropbox's first version in anything less than 6 months, and that assumes you're a great programmer.

It took the Dropbox team something like 18 months to publicly release, which was all paid for by funding. It required significant funding to build and to operate (freemium).

reddit was also created with funding and could not have existed without funding. It made no money.

I know the story of a lone developer creating a little app that takes off sounds good, but the reality is most significant projects take a good amount of time and money.
Wouldn't it be possible to have http://imadefood.com/recipe/NkgHYiLPl/herbs-and-gin redirect to http://imadefood.com/recipe/NkgHYiLPl, or vice versa, thus allowing short links when they are desired and informative links when they are desired?
Clearly, they haven't.

Why are there so many jerks here these days?
Those are very different drivers than those I've had experience with in the US. All I've seen are family/personal cars pressed into service when times got tight.
I like this technique, only thing I'll really disagree with is the usage of videos. I really hate videos as a medium for learning computer-related stuff. Just write down your explanation, maybe throw some images or gists in there, so I can go back without having to guess how far to go back if I need to.

Or if it's a "how-to" just make it a list. For example, I was trying to figure out how to do something in Windows the other day and all I could find were Youtube videos. Now I have to sit through someone's excessive intro for their channel with 382 subscribers and wait for them to get to the point.
The lens of history doesn't have much to say about the resource consumption and environmental destruction issues, nor about the giant population, advanced weaponary and technology in general, the implications of a hyperconnected world...
So how much faster is C over C++ compilation on a AAA game codebase, can you tell me?

I, personally, cannot since I've never seen a AAA game in C. However, I've never seen a AAA game compiling under 10 seconds. Or under a minute. Just linking with a console SDK libs is about a minute if you have a fast machine.
They already acquired a company that does that and makes them into photo albums: Groovebook http://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/11/18/shutterf...

Know that you're just giving an example. Points about simple and honest business model comment. Maybe this is considered simple now in terms of the Valley. The honest part, almost no one reads the TOS/EULA.
> the field of criminal justice needs a huge overhaul in terms of rigor. We need professional statisticians working on cases that involve guilt and innocence. We need to provide accurate probabilities to jurors. We need replication and peer review of lab results.

This misjudges the fundamental operation of the justice system. Talk about probabilities is there to sound good, not because the justice system wants to use statistical calculations.

http://volokh.com/2014/01/02/wrongful-convictions-proof-beyo...

> So here we had a case where there were no other witnesses, no “corroborating physical evidence,” a “word against word situation,” yet the judge concluded that Montgomery was guilty beyond a reasonable doubt because the judge saw “no motive whatsoever” for Coast to lie (though it turns out that Coast indeed had such a motive).

> My sense is that in such cases convictions are fairly common (though not universal), especially when there’s no obvious motive for the witness to lie, but sometimes even when there is.

This wasn't just any word-against-word situation. This was a girl retroactively accusing the neighbor of raping her seven years in the past, when she was 10. No evidence was ever offered (nor could it have been, really); no support of any kind was ever required for her to have a young man thrown in jail for several years.

And my observation in passing earlier, that her accusation couldn't have been supported by any evidence even if it had been true, is significant:

> What’s doing the work in many of the convictions, I suspect, is that the very ubiquity of the risk makes factfinders realize that — if we were to constantly consider this generalized risk, in the absence of more specific information — a wide range of crimes couldn’t be effectively prosecuted. That’s especially true of child molestation and rape, but it’s also true of many sorts of felons’ possession of guns, robberies, and the like.

We've created a justice system that requires large numbers of punishments for crimes which could never be demonstrated under ideal conditions. It shouldn't surprise us that we then don't prosecute those crimes with statistical, or any other kind of, rigor.

Consider a very typical word-against-word: a traffic cop writes you a ticket for running a red light. You show up in court and say "it was yellow". The cop says "it was red". He doesn't have to give evidence; his word is worth more than yours. Why?
There's a lot of tricks you can do to optimize build times, and I've tried most of them in my previous game engine. Got ~90kloc recompilation time from 15min to something like a few minutes, although that required rewriting a bunch of code to not use templates. And removing boost. Multiple days' work.

But the point is, that I'd like a language that is fast to compile by default. C seems pretty promising, as doing a full unity build of my 25kloc codebase takes something like 3 seconds. Not sure how much of that is actually compilation, and how much IO. I'm expecting the project to grow to something like 100-200kloc, and hopefully never have to spend time figuring out why the compilation takes too long, and instead use that time to do something productive.
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Legal or not, this is plain creepy. For those who don't use Shutterfly or Facebook, knowing our faces, found on random backgrounds of photos, are being scanned and analyzed without even our implicit consent (by not having these services at all) is simply mind-blowing.

I don't know how these companies can make this consensual or not. If they scan a face that opted out, then that information of "not opting in" is stored somewhere, so even to opt out, you have to be implicitly opted in once.

I think the issue is that these companies actually believe people don't want or value any sliver of privacy. I really don't understand how this is different than government dragnets.
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I use Clojure which have a repl base workflow, I never need to compile anything to test my code and the feedback is instant.
Not the definition "vehicle that arranges rides by line of sight without a third party". And that's not trying to be cheeky; there are very good reasons tfor the historically lighter regulation of livery service (where the customer has to ask for and pay for the ride through a central booker who monitors the transaction) vs cabs in the above sense of the term.
Interesting. But...

> by denying the law of the excluded middle, e.g., NOT (a ≠ b) does not imply a = b

Ouch, that is where my brain starts hurting.
Sorry for the caps, was copy/paste.
The public Urbit documentation page:
http://urbit.org/docs

The current version of the Original Poster's Nock doc link:
https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/master/urb/zod/pub/docs/...
It worked for marriage in many cultures.
I'd carefully weigh any advice received with the experience of the source. Not to say that anyone that has not been in a similar situation had no value. But rather people who have had similar experience will be of more value.

That being said these are the considerations that were in my mind when I was in a similar position.

1. Just like an investor or even more so, how much do I believe in the founder.
2. How confident are you in your abilities. Are you able to cope with stress/uncertainty and preserver in the face of daunting tasks.
3. How much do you believe that there is a business somewhere in there?

If you are enthusiastic about all 3 the risk is worth it. Feat and doubt are poor reasons to not do something. Fear is a good sign to pause and evaluate the situation. There is only one way to find out if you have what it takes. Also if you think taking a low income (or no income) is a big issue now. It only gets harder as you get older. Wife, kids, mortgage and general lifestyle inflation.
> Is the thermal envelope really that tight?

Not an automotive developer but I've done quite a bit of embedded stuff that was placed in/on various items including cars. Yes, it is that tight. You're in a sealed container under the hood of a car, the ambient temperatures can be quite high and you're not going to be able to dump any of the heat you generate outside of the box you're in other than through conduction. Those boxes are typically made of ABS so conduction will be terrible.

Of course you could re-design the enclosures, have a heatsink mount point on the outside (some expensive trickery required to do that without breaking the sealed environment), or even an air duct that would allow you to use a fan (but fans tend to fail).

So I can totally see why the constraint on power consumption for such an embedded system would be so drastic.
This analysis brings to the front a personal frustration, and I imagine it's not unique to me.

This article discusses some architecture techniques, but moreover, it buys into a Culture of Architecture that we don't have a word for yet. This CoA is predominant among Java engineers who worked at large, slowly-dying companies (e.g. IBM).

The issue with the CoA is that it cares more about buzzwords than quantifiable claims or objective measures. CoA was once addicted to microservices, when that model failed it'll be "all about" another, and so on. Rife with academic good-sounding CoA words that nobody can argue with like "SOLID" and such.

To be a little more concrete, "Broker topology" is a 25-cent word for a 1-cent idea (and it's not the only one, see every keyword in bold in the page, it's almost like a college textbook). There seems to be an implicit assumption in CoA that there is a finite number of architecture patterns and they must be learned by name.

Again, to be more concrete, "layered" architecture is an oversimplification of a fundamental idea (abstraction) in engineering.

This textbook-esque presentation also really misses the spirit of coding. It presents a UML (another CoA must) of "Event-Driven" architecture, then one of "Layer" Architecture, without really explaining if these can be combined or are mutually-exclusive (of course they could be combined). But by treating them as named nouns it creates a misleading and complex language around fundamental ideas.
Someone needs to give the marketing team a 'budget' just like how they have a financial budget they must stay within.

300ms average load time added by the marketing team, or 200kb JavaScript, or whatever. Split it all up however you like, and let them fight amongst themselves for what goes live on the site.

That won't work for the developers who lack the authority to make this a rule, but that's what you go to management with along with any of the various studies showing how important speed is to users.
What about PHP?
Y'know, people who want to steal for a living usually learn very quickly how to tell if you're gonna fight back. They don't want a fight, they want your money.

If you look like you'll bolt the moment you're threatened, that's a better outcome. Better than being stabbed or shot, at least.
Man, that would be super awesome!
> This is either beneath you, or it should be.

I'm sorry, but 'catnaroek is completely justified here. Multiple people have told you that you are simply factually wrong in your interpretation of the halting problem, and you are acting arrogant about it. If you tone back the arrogance a bit ("Surely you knew this?", "The misunderstanding is not mine") and concede that, potentially, it's not the case that everyone else is wrong and you're right, you might understand what your error is.

It's a very common mistake and is frequently mis-taught, especially by teachers who are unfamiliar with fields of research that actually care about the implications of the halting problem and of Gödel's theorems (both in computer science and in mathematics) and just know it as a curiosity. So I've been very patient about this. But as I pointed out to you in another comment, you are misreading what these things say in a way that should be very obvious once you state in formal terms what it is that you're claiming, and it would be worth you trying to acknowledge this.
Keep it simple just like grandma used to make; C4 and a Nokia 3310.

Homeland Security and the NSA can detect satire, right?
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That's a valid point. I guess this comes down to personal preferences.

I do use articles too, but I normally start out with videos. If it's too slow, YouTube fortunately has got the 1.5x speed option :)
Quite a few Javascript fanboys downvoting me but let me tell you the truth, users don't care about animated page transitions or whatever. Just want to read the article or buy the product or whatever. Javascript does nothing for them, never did, just developers with too much time on their hands is all.
>To add something to the topic: I find that I usually don't use algorithms that I don't understand even if they are available.

On the contrary, as everybody else does, you too do it all the time. There are thousands of algorithms hidden behind higher level APIs you use, which you don't understand.
As someone who worked briefly on "enterprise" software (in Java), this article brings back memories of preposterously complex and uncomfortably bureaucratic monster-systems that were a nightmare to work on. It also reminds me of http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html
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I do the same. uBlock allows me to disable scripting which is good because pages load faster and become more static. However, if a random page is unreadable because Javascript isn't there I just click a button (another extension) to reopen the page in an incognito window where uBlock doesn't run, and I get that full-blown modern browser experience but with no private data offered by my browser.
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In our case Google was very proactive and willing to sign a BAA. But the terms of those agreements have to satisfy both partners which for some reason ultimately did not happen.
> I don't think their intent is to replace existing database servers.

We thought the same with Freebase and the Knowledge Graph. It will happen again.
If you can get enough access to read the target RFID, couldn't you just plant a device then, rather than a roadside device?