skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the book Guesstimation 2.0 by Lawrence Weinstein a few years ago, and it had this breakdown. This is not addressing any other fact than how much time people spend worrying about the wrong thing, thinking emotionally rather than rationally or mathematically:

"Paper or Plastic?

How many plastic bags does the US use in one year?
10 bags per grocery store trip x 2 trips per week x 52 weeks per year = 1000 bags per person per year.
300 x 10^6 people in the U.S. = 300 x 10^11 bags in the US per year.

Is this a lot? Compared to what?
A roll of bags weighs a few ounces so there are about 200 bags/lb
Your 10^3 bags weigh about 5 pounds.

The 500 gallons of gasoline you burned last year weighs 4000 pounds (2 tons).

Your 10^3 bags are irrelevant. (Just don’t litter)."

...Or use a re-usable bag ;)

I want to read "How Bad Are Bananas?: The Carbon Footprint Of Everything" by Mike Berners-Lee. It addresses similar disconnections on how we think about our impact on the climate, and the steps we take to try and do something. For example, people who bike everywhere, but eat foods shipped from all over the world over local produce.
It's not technically a lambda at that point. By definition, lambda expressions are anonymous functions.
Methane is, however, much more potent as a greenhouse gas than CO2, and global livestock contribute a non-negligible fraction of greenhouse gas pollution.

This estimate says that livestock contribute 14.5% of all anthropogenic greenhouse gasses: http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/197623/icode/

As far as opportunities to curb your own carbon footprint, use one of the calculators available on the web. For many people, jet airplane travel dominates the 'discretionary' portion of GHG pollution.
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Can I ask you something - do you work in a homeless shelter or spend all of your time being selfless for other people? Or do you spend more than 50% of your time on personal gain like most of us?

Because otherwise, I really don't think you have a right to say that you question Gopman's future intentions. When someone says something bad against someone else and then works tirelessly for a year or two to actually do something to fix it like Gopman has, I think they deserve at least their shot at redemption. You seem to basically agree with that I think?

This makes me think though. Humanity is really good at holding grudges. But did the government of SF move ahead by just outright rejecting Gopman's later proposals instead of considering them completely, seeing if they would maybe potentially work, then rejecting them? Instead this is a binary, either someone and their ideas are 100% bad or 100% good according to their viewpoint based on track record. A few of them heard him out but then gossip and human nature got the best of us once again. And so he says fuck it and goes to South East Asia because even when you recognize you've done something wrong and try a few different ways to make it better, apparently nobody wants to hear it. Good works are good works if you ask me, regardless of intention.

If our race vilifies someone or claims that they are absolutely bad for the rest of their life/have bad intentions for something they said when they seem to be trying in earnest to make up for it as best they can in the now, that just sucks. Then nobody has a shot at redemption and more importantly, the good works that could be done based on that shot are lost.

I wanted to close by saying that I am also skeptical of Gopman and I think the initial words he said were pretty gross and definitely messed up. But I also think it's upsetting that we can't recognize the things he's done are a net positive, even if we can never 100% forgive him. And I also think holding grudges just isn't very positive, it just doesn't help much overall except make us like we're somehow 100x morally better than the other person.

Honestly you and I probably see eye to eye on most of this but I just thought your comment half matched my thoughts and half didn't! Peace
You aren't alone in your realization. I did the PSP for a while and found the same.

We are about one month into a three-month experiment where we are asking people to track time on their activities (mix of IT and developers). For some, it is a struggle with all the complaints when you try to make a small group "corporate". For others, they are having huge revelations of where their time is going that (I think) has been valuable.

What I've been trying to communicate is that the time tracking data has nothing to do with the individual, and is not being used as a measure of performance (it really isn't, and it isn't on anyones performance plans). What it IS being used for is a way for us to communicate with senior leadership to better demonstrate our value to the organization (in terms they are more familiar with). Basically, the "IT needs to better speak to the business" conversation that's been going on for ~15 years or so now. I suppose you could also tie it into the topic of when a startup grows beyond x people, with x in the range of 30-50 people.
I looked up the annual reports of the major grocery store chains operating in the US Southeast. Operating profits were Publix 8%, Food Lion 3%, Harris Teater 1-2%.

Grocery stores are high volume, low margin business. Even a 3% increase in the cost of getting paid would brutal.
>Hate and anger are only problematic if you act on them in destructive ways or are in a culture that stigmatizes them.

That is certainly a problem, but it isn't what I was referring to. I meant that hate and anger can lead to burnout (primarily fatigue and depression), if they are experienced excessively.

Acting out the anger may in fact lead to reduced chance of burnout, as it prevents the emotions from building up inside.
Fully agree. React for beginners was great.
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From the article: "An estimated 30 million small-scale fishermen and women depend on reefs for their livelihoods, more than one million in the Philippines alone. In Indonesia, fish supported by the reefs provide the primary source of protein."
I'm not sure if you have any biomedical background so I will start from the beginning. Looking for details on "how a medicine works" the key phrase is "mechanism of action". This is a description of known interactions of a medicine with protein molecules in the body. DNA is code for proteins and proteins are the interactors in the body (a rough analogy is DNA is the source code, proteins are the binary).

So, the mechanisms of action are the key to both major effects and side-effects. If a medicine works well, it mediates a single pathway of protein interactions and produces no degradation products or side-effects in other pathways. Here are wikipedia descriptions of mechanisms of action for different medicines:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracetamol#Mechanism_of_actio...

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibuprofen#Mechanism_of_action

They do have COX inhibition in common. COX is a protein enzyme that mediates pain and inflammation response:

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

However, they have slightly different side effects (secondary interactions) and some may have additional primary interactions (those that mediate pain). For instance there is evidence that tylenol has direct interaction with receptors in the spinal cord to mediate nerve signaling (separate from inflammatory and pain response sources via COX).

So, the indication of a side-effect with acetaminophen does not imply there is a definite side-effect with all painkillers (or even all COX inhibiting painkillers). Although it is a good indication that other painkillers should be evaluated for the effect and if it is common to all COX inhibiting painkillers then it may be that specific path.

Living animals are a beautiful and complex interaction of proteins and small molecules. It is exciting when we determine how one piece of the puzzle might work. The complexity involved makes it difficult to broadly apply results until the broader context has been evaluated.
I don't think the idea of a for-profit company for the public benefit is so outlandish.
You can probably find them all by considering all the valid starting (boundary) positions, mostly obtainable by symmetry.
The job creation effect isn't the argument here.

The argument is wether wealth is better while active rather than passive capital. People with great wealth don't spend proportionally as much as people with less wealth.

I.e. it's true that the wealth of the 1% doesn't trickle down but the 99% does because it's active and thats what makes the economy go around (economic activity, spending money)

But if you want to discuss that then:

"...American Business is Overwhelmingly Small Business.
In 2012, according to U.S. Census Bureau data, there were 5.73 million employer firms in the U.S. Firms with fewer than 500 workers accounted for 99.7 percent of those businesses, and businesses with less than 20 workers made up 89.6 percent..."
JS: The good parts – Still relevant?
I'm a junior web dev and I think I have some grasp on JS (use it every day, basically). However I feel like there are major parts of JS that I do not understand, so I started reading YDKJS (https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS). I find it well written with good code examples.

I was wondering, is Crockford's book still the resource to go? Is it of any value for me to read it? I'm just asking because the last edition is few years old and I'm not sure if I could find better information elsewhere.

Thanks for any input.
Thanks for commenting on the post. :)

To take another contrasting opinion. Who cares if you know exactly why you're going. We know in a general sense why we're growing: we constantly improve the experience of our service and make customers happier.

It's quite hard to maintain aggressive year over year growth targets. If you're pulling it off it really doesn't matter if you figured out why via a/b testing or not.

Obviously, we'd prefer stronger YOY growth without knowing the exact causes than weaker YOY growth because we wasted resources on a/b testing to get precise answers to why we're succeeding.

Beyond that, I wasn't referring to trending growth via GA to see if you're making good decisions. You can trend conversion rate by channel to see if you're getting better over time. Obviously, if conversion is going up and to the right for most channels you're making good decisions.
Robots aren't affected by nerve gas. The terminators won't come for us with shiny exoskeletons and miniguns.

EDIT> Bullets are expensive. Industrial chemicals are cheap.
Kepler has been such an amazing mission. I really hope they can fix this soon.
How did they survive the ice ages and previous warm ages, and what makes this different?
There's another sense where "Politically Correct" means speech that conforms to a set of rules about what is ok to say, regardless of the truth of such speech. It means censoring yourself and maybe using a special limited vocabulary instead of existing words that describe the situation better.
Melatonin (to me) are a bad sleep aid. It definitely helps you sleep, but it's a weird sleep
Do not listen ddorian.
I replaced PHP by Rust and regret nothing:
https://medium.com/@eugeniyoz/restful-api-in-rust-impression...
Doctors absolutely do have unions, Google the British medical association, or many others across the world
Perhaps they had sold >777 by the end of the month, but they happened to send out their press release after their 777th sale.
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That would be an erroneous assumption.
There's some research that the creation of paper bags, and those more permanent plastic bags, is just as harmful to the environment as plastic disposable bags.

https://skeptoid.com/episodes/4460
Carried interest isn't the problem, but it is a problem.

I get you're upset because you combined a tautology (arguing that it's fine for carried interest to be taxed how it is because that's how it's taxed) with pedantry (being upset that people refer to a carried interest exemption, when they really mean that the tax laws which define income were written in an exploitable manner, such that partnership income is considered capital gains even if the risk capital was provided by others and the partners were engaging in ordinary professional activity). But what the hell is the point of your post, beyond letting us all know that you're not terribly intelligent?

Was that it? Did you just think that the world needs to know that amluto is a silly and unintelligent pedant? If so, well done!
Lockheed's data sheet pdf says

"Up to two orders of magnitude more permeable than today’s industry standard material"

and "10-20% reduction in energy consumption due to pressure reduction"

so maybe the journalist got his energy and permeability muddled?

http://www.lockheedmartin.com/content/dam/lockheed/data/ms2/...
What? This is much more impressive. It climbs stairs in a human-sized stairwell.
Graphene has been creating quite a few news (other was raindrop electricity).

What's the cost of graphene, is it cheap enough?
(Tangentially, my instinct would _not_ be to associate "running your own business" with "stress isn't a major factor" -- totally depends on how the business is going and how it's structured, but given no other information I'd assume just the opposite by default.)
If this was true it would change everything: agriculture in the worlds deserts would cut food prices in half or more, greening he deserts would suck up a ton of co2, no more water shortages.
Most managers decide things without tests. Doing this well is easier said than done, but it's the reality of why some companies outperform others.

Exceptional growth doesn't happen because you're great at a/b testing. It happens when your team is good at decision making period.
Here is my take on the subject:

https://github.com/ustun/reactjs-introduction

There is a video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSeurgO39Hk if you are interested.
Thanks, so it's a human-food availability concern.
Yeah, right? This is the kind of innovation that makes me feel stupid. Well done.
This was a wonderful comment. Thanks very much!
And what are the consequences of you being wrong ?
The so-called 'ethics' of vegetarianism just don't hold up. Its hard to see it as anything but cherry-picking which creatures are important, based mostly on how cute and fuzzy. Never mind the billions of low-level organisms we digest and kill no matter what we eat. Gardening and farming vegetables kills thousands of vermin per acre - mice, snakes, bees. These are not morally important. But grazers and cute fuzzy sheep are morally important. I can't buy into that logic.

Folks can argue, intelligent creatures! But its not clear how that makes a difference. And it sounds like an argument made up after the fact - "How are we going to criticize eating pigs?"

How 'intelligent' is a hive of bees? How 'smart' is a creature in its own environment? No, its only human-like intelligence that matters. Again, what's emotionally cute and fuzzy.
Your attitude reminds me of The Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/article/nations-experts-give-up-682

and

http://www.theonion.com/article/experts-say-best-option-now-...
We use Split: https://github.com/splitrb/split
Finally, I will summarize the findings and provide a few tips to fellow engineers in hopes that these kinds of mistakes will not be made again.

On the other hand, those of us who like to actually own our hardware very much hope that these mistakes do happen again. :-)
Just critiqued someone's short story recently which had an A.I. deciding to do exactly that. Nuke most of mankind to save it, so a small percentage of it would survive and wouldn't be totally fucked by things like climate change.
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Every USB device that the browser has access to will have a driver that the OS uses to expose its functionality. It doesn't matter whether that driver is built into the OS or not, the OS driver would still exist. The only other option is if the browser is managing hardware outside of the control of the OS by running with lower level privileges, but that opens up an even bigger security risk.

You suggested in another comment that you had some prior background in this area, are you involved in the development of this new web API?
Just to add to my previous comment: there seem to be a few people who can achieve continual high levels of work output on about 4 hours of sleep without burning out. I suspect this is a combination of genetics and being highly in control of -- and motivated by -- the work (e.g. owning the company). Perhaps it is a kind of long-term mild hypomania.

The problem is when these people sometimes think that their employees should be able to handle the same workload, which then inevitably leads to burnout.
"Fertilisers and fuel did not come from the air."

True, and they are probably at least a small net flow into the atmosphere. But:

"There are hundreds of millions of cows (and other livestock) that did not exist before."

... that part doesn't matter: agriculture is by nature carbon-neutral (except if you count mechanization aspects like fertilizers + fuel).
Yes, this is one path to getting someone hooked on learning CS, which works for a small percentage of students (myself included). However, most learners are motivated by other ideals beyond intrinsic language purity. This academic book highlights dozens of research studies that go deeper into this fascinating topic:
http://www.amazon.com/Learner-Centered-Design-Computing-Educ...
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So this article obviously is not representing truth. Essentially author picked old news, as someone said, Graphene has a new publicist. Also didn't really understand how thing work to be able to claim 100 times better efficiency.

My question is this, why do these things happen?

Is it because Gizmodo is hiring people who would work for rock bottom salaries?

Is it because journalists are pushed to crank out articles?

Is it something else?
Good feedback, agree completely :)
Who really benefits from the Panama Papers scandal?
Excellent related book: »The Ocean of Life: The Fate of Man and the Sea« by Callum Roberts.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Ocean-Life-Fate-Man/dp/067002354X

https://twitter.com/Prof_CallumYork
A landlord (or tenant) on month-to-month schedule can provide a 30-day notice to vacate, while those in 12+ month leases must provide a 60-day notice. So it's partially about increasing landlord's flexibility (which might or might not involve raising the rent or kicking the tenant out in case prices go up), and partially about what the market will accept - it seems that everybody else is doing 12-month leases and switching MTM afterwards.
I'm aware of him but what I have isn't well known or something that is amenable to normal physiotherapy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringomyelia basically a cavity in the spine that presses on the nerves causing pain and eventually permanent spinal damage, prognosis ranges from painful for rest of life through to you die depending on size, location and progression.
The author doing the usual journalism thing of not understanding what's going on and then breathlessly reporting something similar and very wrong that'll get certain people excited is one thing, I know to expect that. Watching this get upvoted onto the front page is... well, maybe my expectations are too high.
The reason lambdas are powerful -- one of the only reasons -- is because it's a closure. The fact that you can reference variables outside of the function is the power, not whether it has a name. A label is just a convenience. (Or in this case, an inconvenience.)

If my understanding is flawed, I'd like it to be corrected, though.
Yes, of course. However the OP's business seemed to be similar to mine (earning reasonably good money from a product that is already developed and requires minimal support), which is unlikely to be a significant source of stress. At least, that's what I infer from reading his bio.
Because if there's one thing the world needs, it's paper with DRM.
Well... As a big fan of this book. How about this, it is very short book, why don't you read it and see if it was valuable?

I don't know what else to tell you, it is very short book, which doesn't diminish quality of the content and insight it provides.
I've never before seen someone making the mistake of saying 'Legos' go so far as to capitalise it and append a registered trademark icon. LEGO is a trademark; 'LEGOS' is not.
> the language rules are simple

Completely agreed

> anyone can understand all in one sitting

Goodness gracious, no. At least it sure wasn't as of the last time I TA'd a class that was taught using it (admittedly during the previous millennium). In a typical group, approaching half the students - smart students, this was a fairly selective school - dropped or failed. A huge chunk foundered on figuring out how to do useful things with lists (cons/car/cdr and friends are elegant, but they are also weird). Another huge chunk struggled with let/let*/letrec. And closures weren't very fun for many students, either.

The one neat thing I've noticed about Scheme is that, if you get Scheme, then you will have a very solid grasp of how to compose abstractions. I wouldn't be too quick to infer a causal link there, though. It might be that Scheme makes people better at CS. It could just as easily (given those failure rates, possibly more easily) be that Scheme is a filter for identifying people who have a pre-existing knack for the academic side of CS.
I'm not an expert in this area but I suspect there is more of a US apartment market than you think.

Of course specific cities are going to show deviations from the national trend. Take a look at the Case-Shiller index[0]. You can add comparisons between the national index and major city indexes.

There is probably strong spatial autocorrelation (Minneapolis and St. Paul are more similar than Minneapolis and Atlanta) but cities that share characteristics (e.g. population size, density, etc.) would also share similar trends.

[0] http://us.spindices.com/indices/real-estate/sp-case-shiller-...
Maybe it's a SEO hack.
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Of course, we're all individuals with our own set of bodies and problems.

But still, if some developer at my office is getting neck problems, HR starts looking into her officespace, what chair is in use, can it be tuned, etc. People expect there to be an external cause for the problem.

Same person get headaches? Painkillers.
How alarmed are they exactly?

Oh my God Oh my God We are all going to die alarmed

I have bad feeling about this alarmed

Or Hm how odd alarmed
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Can you explain the friction?

To have friction you have to have two things moving at different speeds rubbing on each other. But infalling gas all moves in the same direction.
Sentence level translations, rather than word or paragraph level, graded by difficulty as beginner/intermediate/advanced.

You can look up more about that research from here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensive_reading
We're talking about the need to relocate entire cities at this point. Those bleached corals don't just close shipping lanes near Queensland. They protect islands comprising entire nation states that now have to relocate. In the Pacific atolls, entire islands have had to give up conventional agriculture because of sea water intrusion.

It takes willful blindness to "not agree" at this point.