skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One other benefit to recycling other than reducing new material usage is keeping stuff out of landfills. Landfills are anaerobic, which means most bacteria that breaks stuff down can't live in them, so things break down extremely slowly[1]. That slow breakdown means we need more space for landfills, which are toxic environments. So even if the recycling process is neutral, or even somewhat more costly than producing new material, keeping stuff out of landfills is another benefit that you might not have considered in your calculation.

In addition, cities with recycling programs can actually sell the material they gather back to companies, literally turning garbage into money and creating a revenue source for the city[2,3]. One important component in this is that the cities can get a higher price for higher quality recycling streams, where the output is all composed of one type of material. This is why, even though St Paul is now single-sort, I still separate my paper from the other recycling. It helps keep the paper higher quality by avoiding getting it dirty and wet, and costs me no real effort.

[1] http://environment.about.com/od/recycling/a/biodegradable.ht...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/03/recycling-in-the-us-a...

[3] http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2015/12/recycling-matching-...
Disposal is not so complicated in all the countries.

In some you have much looser rules, eg. no labels removal, and [directly] paid collection.

While it's true that solving the causes is radically more effective than treating the symptoms, in the isolated view of the garbage recycling, separation by the consumer is still more effective than having it done after collection.
Why do they have to respond at all to that article? I fail to see how that article is relevant for anyone who has projects on GitHub.
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If you are looking for solid evidence that current living things originated by common descent and speciation through evolution by natural selection, that evidence is abundant.[1] Some of the evidence backing up what is called "evolutionary psychology"[2] is much more debated, and much more problematic, and other psychologists are quick to criticize many evolutionary psychology publications.[3]

[1] http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/comdesc/

[2] http://www.cep.ucsb.edu/primer.html

[3] http://www.larspenke.eu/en/publications.html
So? No sense of humor?
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> The principle at play here goes way back into common law, and was most famously articulated in the 1700s as "the public is entitled to every man's evidence".

One of the big drivers behind the American revolution was John Wilkes' diaries being seized by the government in 1763. This was done with a legal warrant, but it's still the reason why we have the 4th amendment today. So the idea that we have a tradition of the government being able to seize whatever they want with a warrant isn't entirely accurate.
Ah yes that is an important distinction.
Though "permanently brick" is incorrect. It would appear that physically disconnecting the battery will work, or just let the thing boot-loop itself until the battery dies and then recharge.
So it turns out the "zeitgeist" is just reporters cribbing from gossip.
> Twitter is the world’s most important social network.

I see sentiment like this and it just reminds me of how insular journalism is. Twitter is incredibly popular amongst journalists and a certain kind of person, but does that really make it "the most important" social network?

Facebook has an order of magnitude more daily active users. It might not have the appeal to news and political junkies of Twitter, but it's intimately involved in the lives of a billion people.

Calling Twitter the world's most important social network is like calling The New Yorker the world's most important media outlet. It's a niche product for a certain group of journalistically-influential people.
You are not kidding about the long flight. I wish someone could move Australia a little closer to California. :-)

Hope to see you at linux.conf.au next year, chris_wot! :-)
Tangent, but: giant NSA data centers are such a red herring. The inevitable outcome is one of two things:

1. We've been missing something fundamental about computer science for many decades and all the encryption we use everywhere is going to be broken.

2. Everything is going to be unbreakably encrypted by default and no data center any country can build will ever so much as recover a single emoji from a single IM.

Again: don't think about the status quo; think about 15-20 years from now.
I think some people are miffed that it took them almost a month to just respond to the letter. Maybe you don't care as much about certain software, but some people are really passionate about it.

Perhaps HNers would have appreciated some more substantive action by now, rather than just a response.
> deeper need, like "need to not feel alone", "need for social recognition", "need to feel secure" and so on

Why is this such a big problem? We are social animals and like to be around others. And yes, part of it is social recognition, we mostly do what's expected in our culture and don't like to be the odd ones. Many people like to boast how unique and non-conformist they are, but deep down most of us want to be accepted.

You could say there's no need for career achievements either, because then you're just a workoholic. There's no need for anything in particular.

I don't like this sentiment that everyone must be a rock and steel-strong independent individual who never has to rely on others/relationships/family/society and just cuts through life like a knife through butter. Most of us aren't like that and if you listen to any successful person they will tell you how much they can thank other people (spouse, family, friends) for their support and how they couldn't have achieved the things they did without that support. The totally individualist mindset is not healthy I think (for most people).

Of course I don't mean you should be desperate. But people in our lives are not just "supporting actors" in our movie, but a lot more important. They shape us in many ways.
Besides the UI, "reviewable.io" is a memory hog. It's simply unusable if you try to browse the site from a device without a lot of free memory (e.g. older tablets, ARM SoCs, etc).
L2ARC is extremely well documented right in the code

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/cddl/contrib/openso...
Brite.li is a content curation engine and we call it the curated web. The idea is to collect useful content for popular topics into collections, from apps to products.

Its like a add-on to a typical web search where you get to see the best apps, products, books for a topic.

We are getting close to the final public beta. Some of you might have already seen the curated apps section which we demoed in late Nov.

Please try out the early beta and let us know what you think.
Part of why Montreal is still reasonably priced is because the French-language barrier to entry keeps a lot of jobseekers out.

The vast majority of Canadians outside of Quebec and the Ottawa region do not speak French. Sure, they all took French in high school, but most wouldn't be able to hold a conversation let alone conduct business in the language. Perhaps in some types of jobs with a lax rules about French proficiency, it would be OK, but you are unlikely to find a job listing in Montreal that doesn't state a requirement or "strong preference" for high-level French communication skills.
Yup. You could also use something like PeerBlock which gives you a little easier control.
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Always and I think it's deliberate. Those who know can keep it going, but it requires deliberate effort (just enough more than clicking reply) that it might stop some of the back and forth ("Do I really need to put in this much effort for this conversation?").
For a programmer team, I like to look at the ratio:

people writing code/people not writing code

The smaller the ratio, the less productive the team.
http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/01/attack-of-we...

This article talks about tls and corruption, including dtls. I found it educational!
That's by design, no? Consumption stimulates the economy better than investment does (particularly under present conditions), and by discouraging investment we disincentivize the concentration of wealth and the political problems that leads to.
Seeing how much it's used there, I wish ZFS would land in linux(-next/-staging) already :-).
Totally agree.

A few examples for me:

- From a "pull request / files" view like this (https://github.com/google/protobuf/pull/1191/files), when I want to view a whole file, I always want to click on the filename. But the filename isn't a link: you have to look at the right side and click the button that is generically named "View" (View what?).

- At the top level of a repo (ie https://github.com/google/protobuf), you can click "X commits" to view the list of commits. But when you go into a subdirectory (ie. https://github.com/google/protobuf/tree/master/benchmarks) the "commits" link disappears, and to view the commits in that directory you have to look on the right side instead for a button that says "History".

- continuing from my last point, if you view an individual file, (ie. https://github.com/google/protobuf/blob/master/benchmarks/Pr...), the "History" link is in yet another place! So between the top level, a subdirectory, and a file, the link to view history is in three different places. I don't follow these links quite often enough that it becomes automatic, so it slows me down every time.
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A ZIP file is less helpful than the GitHub interface pointed at that specific commit ID.
In fact, for me, it is the other way around.

When I was dating some girls, I couldn't concentrate on myself completely.

I had to stop it and check what I really wanted, what I wanted "besides" not being alone.

This lead to questioning my job and quit it too, haha.

When I was single, and knew what I wanted, I didn't had to cry after someone who didn't accept me for who I wasn't, it became okay for me.

I started to see the opinions, people have about me, simply as an opinion and not criticism about me as a person. Like some people don't like peanut butter, and I do, and it doesn't make peanut butter less delicious just because some people don't like it. I don't liked monogamy so I didn't date mono-people anymore.

Then I started to project this into my work life as well.
I looked what I wanted and threw away what I had.
I didn't want a 9-5 job in an open office space, I wanted home office without people disturbing me while coding, without commuting etc. So I didn't accept any offers that didn't at least offered this.

Now my life feels much better :)
> Higher taxes should come with the benefit of more services

Daycare services in the province are absurdly cheap compared to anywhere else in the country.
Well, they just published a down to earth response didn't they? Some companies don't even respond at all.

As I said, I can understand the frustration but they seem to be working on it. Give them some time or use other tools if you can't wait.
But if they ban encryption, there won't be any more bad guys.
I'm about to being a rant here because this is a larger problem than anybody likes to admit.

Developers are good at development. By and large, they are not good at task management, project management, and certainly not estimation. One of the primary reasons for this is that their plates are always overflowing and they work more efficiently than many people in other professions. They shift priorities on the fly when work in one area cannot be progressed. Development time is social currency. You can make your boss happy by progressing his priority, or you can make someone else happy by progressing their priorities. Not many developers truly answer to a singular master. And few allocate time for learning although we all spend a significant amount of time doing it - how else do we maintain relevant skill sets?

Can a developer really estimate a project and tell his manager that 3 weeks in the timeline are for 2 unknown and unforeseen problems that require interaction with vendor support? No, because the manager will fight back and say that those 3 weeks are really just zipping up logs and making three phone calls and "if it takes anything more than that, hand it over to me!" Most can't tell their manager that it will take 2 weeks to parse a CSV because the source data is shit and they have too many other things they are working on. So they stay an extra 6 hours in the office and get called a rock-star until the day that they opt to go to their child's school play instead.

The solution to this problem is simple. Take task management and project estimation out of the hands of developers. It's time for the return of the secretary to the workplace. A single $50-80k administrative assistant could easily support, manage the priorities of, and improve the outward facing communication for five developers. With experience doing so, that admin could provide better time estimates for all of them and would be better at negotiating realistic timelines than any of them individually.

People have been coming up with methodologies and software to solve this problem for decades. Developers don't have brains built for project management. Yes, they can do it, but they don't get paid to work in MS Project. They get paid because they know the difference between a bubble sort and a quick sort and when to use either. Conversely, I don't know a soccer mom who doesn't successfully manage a more challenging schedule and competing set of priorities better than every nose-down developer I've ever met. Give appropriate work to appropriate people. Developers have their talents. Scheduling, estimating, and task management are not among them.
I was actually shocked two weeks ago when I was talking to someone about Gerrit and they complained that their comments were never addressed. Turns out they hadn't been hitting the "Publish Comments" button, and had been assuming that every draft comment they left was being sent as an individual email.

This taught me (or reminded me of) two things:

* GitHub is so dominant that even its poor decisions are being enshrined as "the way things work"

* Gerrit really needs some UI love as well.
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> I know that Sprite is owned by Coca-Cola, the analogy doesn't run forever

It's a great analogy and I think it runs that far (that Twitter might be best served by becoming a subsidiary of a larger tech or media company).
Thanks Jono :-)
No, let's be smart about it; when designing tax policy, take into account what's easy to measure and what's hard to.
I wonder where they get their Rust musl static releases from? As you cannot bootstrap 1.7 with 1.6 you always need to use the officially tagged nightly snapshot for the particular release when building rust, which happens to be for glibc. So it's a pita to build and use rust with musl, unless it's part of the official release channels already.
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Anyone else find it ironic that access to the law is so difficult yet every adult citizen is expected to know every single law that applies at any time in any location in the US and all possible interpretations, case law history, precedents, rulings, etc in history. And that's just to stay out of jail?
I always considered Twitter to be a subset of Facebook, namely the status update.
> The step from walled gardens to demanding that the the gatekeeper keeps out certain crypto apps is small.

The step from walled gardens to demanding that the the gatekeeper keeps out certain crypto apps is what causes the walls to fall.

If you can't get secure messaging on an iPhone but you can get it on Android or Ubuntu phone and many people start buying competing hardware because of it, Apple would sooner give up the walled garden than lose that much business.

And you can't draw any kind of meaningful distinction between a phone and a 7" touchscreen laptop, so the only way this would actually work is to ban PCs.

Javascript is Turing-complete. Microsoft Office is Turing-complete. So you would have to stop people from running Javascript or Office or shell scripts or Minecraft or graphing calculators.

And you would obviously have to ban anything that resembles a REPL, which might create some difficulties for software development or anyone trying to learn it.

It's not possible for the enemies of general purpose computing to win the war. What is possible is that they be allowed to make the attempt and end up killing lots of innocent people, both figuratively and literally.
You're right that this phenomenon undermines confidence in scientific results. It also undermines truth in those results. Garbage in, garbage out.
I really don't see how it's "public infrastructure."

If Twitter disappeared tomorrow, most of the public wouldn't bat an eye.
The reason for this is that in many circumstances, male social value is determined disproportionately by the approval/disapproval of women. So when a woman turns a man down in this way, she not only rejects him for sex, but also reduces his social value.

Any "fix" for this will drastically reduce women's social power.

It's far from clear that women in general want this to happen. One complaint I've heard from a number of women about tech environments directly relates to this; a social butterfly who organizes parties and hackathons has lower status than the fat neckbeard who fixed all the performance problems.

In fact, activists regularly moan about this: https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/acknowledging-non-coding... https://modelviewculture.com/pieces/how-tech-devalues-social...
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That's an interesting argument. What historically have been the exceptions to what the government can seize with authorization from a judicial warrant?

The "every man's evidence" principle isn't just an English thing; it's been repeatedly confirmed by the Supreme Court, it's baked into our rules of evidence, and can easily be read out of both the text of the 4th Amendment and the actual actions of the framers once they actually put the Constitution into action.

The Wilkes thing in particular is a little more complicated than you're acknowledging, though I think you must know much more about it than I do. The warrant the King used against Wilkes was a general warrant, the kind the 4th Amendment was intended to forbid: those "warrants" were like a cross between a search warrant and eminent domain, allowing the government unrestricted access to all the property and possessions of its target. They were instruments of harassment, and their unpopularity was definitely a driver for the revolt.
Years ago, sitting in a meeting, I tried to think who the [big company, IT-related] sales team looked like. Presently it hit me: the homecoming court, back for the 15th reunion. There are exceptions, certainly among the men, some of them attributable to living on an expense account.
Honest question: if the California subsidiary is able to provide those services at the set fees (i.e. pay salaries, etc.), how can it be considered "below market price"? Is it required by law to make a profit?
Humans, eh? Typical.
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> The diagnosis criteria for most mental illnesses include that the patient is negatively affected by their specific symptoms.

This is a false claim. The only requirement is that a psychologist deem you mentally ill. For example, in the eyes of psychology, Bill Gates, Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, and Thomas Jefferson all are/were mentally ill -- that is, until the imagined malady they were supposed to be suffering from was abandoned because of public outrage.

In the same way and with the same effects, homosexuality was a lucrative mental illness until the public forced psychology to accept that it is not an illness and abandon it.

These are two among dozens of examples in which psychology invents illnesses, then offers bogus cures, all for a fee.

> Or regarding the specific quote, in the context of going to a normal school, "severely gifted" might be the right word for describing these children.

That's absurd. It stigmatizes a gift, an example of nature's occasional generosity. To an adult, the absurdity of this kind of writing and thinking is obvious. But to gifted children, most too inexperienced to understand psychology's real role in society, it constitutes yet another burden in their formative years -- years spent in therapy listening to an intellectually handicapped person exhorting them to try to be more "normal."

> If these children are given something meaningful to do in school instead, then the moniker would not be apt.

I agree with your point, but it's never apt -- it stigmatizes the gifted without recompense. You seem to be missing the point that (a) public schools are notorious for failing the gifted, and (b) this kind of talk only shifts the burden onto the children and away from where it belongs -- on our broken educational system, and on psychology.
And yet London's population continues to grow at an astonishing rate, and businesses continue to move into London. Doesn't seem like the high prices are doing any harm to me.
I definitely agree with you re: insular journalism, though I think Twitter has been more present during world events than FB ever has. For instance, allowing people to mass communicate during crisis. It's much better at breaking news than FB ever has been, which I would say is more important, and IMO the Twitter team needs to recognize that and quit trying to become FB.
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TLC just released 6 additional months of trip-level data (Jul-Dec 2015): http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/about/trip_record_data.shtm...

GitHub repo updated to process additional data: https://github.com/toddwschneider/nyc-taxi-data
I wonder, was Amazon losing money at the same scale? The graph in the article shows revenue is huge in contrast to loses, while it keeps growing while losses are stable. For soundcloud, increase in revenue means an even bigger increase in losses. That said, I don't know how it was for Amazon at the beginning. It is clearly that in the last years Amazon was willingly operating at losses, because it needed AWS to be competitive enough to dominate that market, so it was clearly an investment in the future rather than a struggle, from it's strong online retailer position which was making lots of money...
All excellent points. But having done big waterfall, bad corporate agile, and good agile, the problem of work failing conceptually is common to all of them. The question is, how do you recover from it? I think good agile recovers more gracefully from conceptual failures than either waterfall (which tends to throw good money after bad, because admitting failure is not an option), or corporate agile (because corporate agile is usually just buzzword-compliant waterfall).
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It seems like we could achieve the economic goals mentioned in the article and avoid the pitfalls of plastic in the environment by simply getting over our dislike of waste incineration. Modern incinerators are quite wonderful things, but need careful management of a couple waste byproducts. I was pleasantly surprised at the comprehensiveness of the wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incineration
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I guess we should all give up and only use what RHEL provides to us, then, since it is the only universally available distribution.