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Where are the people who said that the sea level would raise 1 foot to 1 meter per year?

You didn't answer that question. Everything you wrote is a distraction, which ends up increasing the confusion you describe and complain about.

You pointed to some artists and movies. So what? I can point to movies who have depicted meteors crashing into modern day Earth, and volcanoes erupting in Los Angeles, and even have the core of the Earth stop spinning. Artists have different goals. They are not required to only depict what science predicts +/- 1 sigma.

You point to a scientist who liked that "The Day After Tomorrow" used climate change as a plot device, even if the science was awful. So what? I'm sure some Spacewatch people like "Armageddon" and that some geologists like "The Core", even though the science is awful in both. Are you equally disdainful towards those scientists? Or do only climate scientists draw your ire? (BTW, "Water World" used global warming as a plot device, was almost 9 years before TDAT, and portrayed an equally scientifically absurd future.)

You mentioned "An Inconvenient Truth". Does Gore make a prediction that there will be 30cm or higher water rise per year? Does he even predict that the Atlantic will have reached the base of the Empire State Building by now?

How is the IPCC 2001 report not an attempt at a thorough rebuttal? What level of rebuttal would you require before you say it was sufficient? Do we all need to be like Neil deGrasse Tyson and pinpoint every single scientific flaw in a movie? Or go even further and reject every movie with a flaw?

In other words, I'm not going to get into a goalpost argument with you before you even say what the goalposts are.

Your argument of the structure of the argument is useless. It's so easily inverted. Watch: You have set up your own Motte and Bailey about what's going on in this HN thread, so nothing I say can dissuade you. You have inserted irrelevant commentary from your bailey to defend your views. Now you can ignore me because you think I'm using irrational arguments, because you have placed me in a spot where you think I can be ignored. Now you can enjoy your motte.

I argued that the OP presented a straw man argument that misrepresents what the large majority of climatologists and policymakers like Gore were making 15 years ago. Do you agree or disagree with me?

I presented the IPCC report to supports my argument. Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" also supports my argument. If you disagree, do you have an actual examples of people who predicted 30+cm/year sea rise, or even that much of Manhattan would be underwater by now?
I think the general trust issues people have are

- metadata / contact lists in the hand of Facebook

- a proprietary binary that _claims_ to use said encryption schemes

Scenarios that you could come up with:

The next version of WhatsApp sends unencrypted data again.

WhatsApp encrypts for your recipient just fine, but also encrypts the same message for the great Facebook skeleton key.

Basically trust is a bigger problem than you acknowledge here, I think. If you trust the encryption scheme, even the specific encryption implementation, then you still need to trust the (binary, closed) application. Ignoring the metadata issue completely for now.
People who dislike X are upset because they incorporated their favourite Y into their identity, and the success of X challenges their own choices.

True for football teams, political parties, games consoles, superhero franchises, religions, food choices, colour schemes, preferred spelling variants, ...
Managers gotta get paid yo
Love the idea. Indeed everything is connected and that's a nice tool to discover "how".
A great many programming languages aren't particularly searchable, especially when searching engines weren't up to todays standards yet. Things have improved, but I remember the dark days when looking for anything C# would shower you with C-related links.
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It's very difficult to do clinical research on schedule 1 drugs. You need a DEA license, and FDA approval. Lots of hoop jumping, lots of opportunity for prohibitionists to forbid the research.

Moving marijuana to schedule 2 will allow scientists to make honest assessments of its benefits and harms.
Im not building a strawman, Im just saying it's very late in the mobile game for reddit to build an app and expect it to 1) be good and 2) get used. it was about 5-6 years ago that 'apps' were the popular big thing and companies needed to have them. Reddit is a mostly text and image based website, the features it uses do not need a native app framework around it for them to continue to be popular. They should have focused more on making the mobile web experience better instead of building an app. They already have a strong web presence, use that to your advantage instead of shifting their focus to an app store somehwhere. Again back to my original post, its 3-4 years too late for this to be a needle mover for them and with their latest round of fundraising they need needle movers.
That's not stupid. That's chaotic evil, almost by definition: "let's just float this thing again and again, see if we can get away with it. If not, just pretend we didn't see it coming and retry sometime later. Repeat until law passes."
Comparing Kasita with the cheapest rents just means it isn't for those markets.The question is whether there are enough high cost markets where Kasita rack density and potential speed of installation for Kasita is financially compelling to the developer and Kasita owner to make sense.

In very general terms, in the US, Kasita will be a tough sell. In most places land is cheap enough that something like the Rural Studio $20k home designs, which are around 550 sq ft, are going to prove significantly more cost-effective.
Pretty sure Microsoft never advertised Skype as something they couldn't intercept, so you probably shouldn't have been using it for anything you wouldn't say over the phone line in the first place.
Very sorry to make an aesthetic complaint, and Raleway is a fine font for certain applications, but blogs that use low contrast fine raleway for the body text just kinda make me want to read something else.
Why would anyone think Go and Rust are bitter rivals? They're great tools for different things, with a broad margin of overlap.
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That's ture, But on the other side you get to enjoy the vibe of London i suppose.

I'm already decided to move to London , But i don't know if the recruiter i'm working with is not good, Or the average PHP dev salary is low.
I didn't know about it, but I don't find those slides compelling, not at all. For example, their response to the "keys shouldn't change" is "what is CASCADE for then?". That seems like a naive view of data.

It ignores things like integrating with other systems. If I export my data to an OLAP database, I can't just cascade that key change through it without manual effort.

It also ignores managing historical data. Maybe I don't want that natural key update cascaded everywhere. In their example of hotel room number, if that public-facing number changed (which does happen), I wouldn't necessarily want that cascaded everywhere. For example, I might need past reservations/invoices from before the change to keep the old room number, to match all correspondence with the guest, etc. Okay, so maybe you don't automatically cascade everywhere, but then you need some way to link that old room number and the new room number in all of your reporting.

Bleh. That's a lot of headache that can be greatly minimized with a surrogate key, for very little drawback in my experience. Sure, I can imagine scenarios where the performance impact or additional storage could actually be a real negative, but for your average CRUD app, I think surrogate keys add way, way more value than cost.
You could also just live in an RV.
In other words, now you can imprison anyone, while pretending to uphold the rule of the law.
What kind of anti-troll solutions are you considering?
> A suggestion. Try to take an iPad or other tablet into a courthouse. Those devices are forbidden in the courthouse in my neighborhood, as are mobile phones.

As a counterpoint, all the courts and jurisdictions I practice in permit attorneys to bring an electronic device into court. (Although may god have mercy on your soul if it should make a noise in court). Several have implemented e-filing and provide wifi in the courtroom for attorneys. One has laptops provided by the court on counsel tables to access the court's filing system and in another the prosecutors have computers in the courtrooms which are on their office's network. Come to think of it I can't think of ANY court I've been in the last 5 years which doesn't permit attorneys to bring in electronic devices. Non-attorneys -- yes, they are not allowed to bring in electronic devices.
I requested two weeks off - first vacation in 3 years, 6 months in advanced. Leading up to this, the guilt trip was laid on thick. Luckily I was leaving the country, so just said I had no internet and phone during this time. Yes, USA.
Is this in Tokio? In Germany & Austria 37m^2 (~400sqf) will also be seen as small, even in the bigger cities.
Just because most programmers don't actually program in Go themselves, it doesn't mean they don't know what it is.

I haven't written a single line in Go, and yet it's immediately obvious to me what the title refererred to.
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Software is a popularity contest.
How is this an advantage over a person actually going into a branch and talking with a banker?
Couldn't this argument be made about all languages? People into dynamically typed languages would have statically typed languages for the same "don't touch my identity!" reason.

I personally don't "hate" go. To be honest, I have barely read 20 lines of go ever. But I do not like the idea of a language specifically designed to limit my possibilities. I want to keep seeing "programming" as an art and a creative activity. Not as a factory-like process where there is only one way to do thing, all developers are inter-changeable, etc.

I get why it's interesting for big corpos like Google. I just don't have to like it :)
Here in the UK Amazon seem to be heading for same-day delivery for Prime customers (we already have free next day on Prime) and ultimately "within the hour" types of delivery in major cities.
And as usual, http://9front.org/who/uriel/

Can you give some background?
Unearthing the memories of my (long) years worth of organic chemistry classes, Hexagonal aromatic molecules are some of the most stable due to resonance. The shape of the molecule allows electrons to essentially ferry themselves between atoms of the structure to form double bonds, adding unique stability and reactive properties.
"The sources even citing roughly 'granting powers other governments already have'" - do you think that government bullshits not? I do remember a similar way of reasoning "but Iraq has WMDs aplenty", coming from a Prime Minister or somesuch.
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I've been using this for years to rip ~256k mp3's off youtube.
(1) In the normal case it just counts a certain number of VM instructions each process runs before it gets to rescheduled. But it gets interesting as well with internal modules or C modules (for example regex matcher), in that case the C module periodicaly as it works through the data, reports that it consumed some number of reductions and is possibly told to yield now. (On that note: in 19.0 we'll have dirty schedulers by default so in that case blocking long running C code will be handled much better).

(2) Erlang VM instance (it is called a node) is an OS process (plus some helper processes, but they are not important in this case) is of course one heap from kernel's point of view. But internal allocator keep spaces separated for BEAM's data. It is not always as basic as in some cases for binary blocks and sub-blocks it can actually share and ref-count them.

In the new release I like that it could have mailbox outside the main heap of each Erlang process. That could be an interesting parameter to play with.
So.. no HTTPS for them?

But the general question is this: would companies rather exit from such country and protect some values, or provide a non-encrypted version of their services to secure their userbase?
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I think about this sentiment all the time. Any C-level professional (even if you're in a company with a single digit of employees) should be constantly challenging their own line of thinking.
I think this nails it.

They want to learn email? They do.

They want to learn to use FaceBook? They do.

If they really wanted to learn to download YouTube videos (Ideally using youtube-dl), they would.
No, the article is wrong on that. Moore's Law is merely the simplest and most obvious example for our current generation to understand the occasional exponential scaling of technologies.
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Using "golang" instead of "Go" nearly always gives the correct results in my experience.
Sure there is. My phone number is private information. And it can trivially be traced back to me (no possibility of anonymity).

I don't necessarily want to share it with everyone I want to talk to. Or every company that makes a chat app.

I'm pretty sure Snowden didn't start out by giving his phone number around...

Plus every successful chat app before WhatsApp (from ICQ, XMPP apps, MS Messenger, Google Chat, Facebook Messenger) was fine without this requirement.

Is the hypothesis that it is now impossible to have a successful chat app without it being tied to a phone number?

We are not discussing a convenience "option" the user can skip but rather a requirement for these apps to work.
I am not agreeing with your sentiment for Go but I do want to strongly agree with this statement:

> I'm afraid I might end up having to maintain code written in it one day

I have similar fears about Ruby. This is also true of many contractor firms where they write beautiful tested code which is designed to work really well right now, but not designed to last (think views rendering database objects).

I think this is a sentiment people need to have when they see something cool or some sort of solution: Will I, in 4 years, want to maintain this? Will some person, in 4 years, curse my name for having written this?
I think there is a better explanation for why people dislike Go. All programming languages currently used for the web have gigantic downsides. They're slow. They have terrible package management. They have poor standard libraries. They have no static typing. They have no visual debuggers. They have no good IDE support. They don't integrate well with frontend code. Some programming languages are more flawed than others, and no programming language fails on every front, but they're all pretty objectively terrible.

Then Google announces Go. A cross-platform systems programming languages for high quality web services. That sounds great! I can't wait to see what Google came up with.

So when people saw Go disappointment set in. It has some great properties, but the language is not expressive. So Go web frameworks (like Revel) generate Go code at compile time to get the dynamic parts working. Just like we did in the 70s to work around C's shortcomings. Want a container for a specific type? Code generation! It's so clumsy. The lack of exceptions makes writing correct code really tedious. A web service is not a device driver where every edge case has to be carefully considered. Bailing out with an exception is fine. Go disagrees.

I think the disappointment in what Go could have been explains the vocal dislike. There are only a few companies in the world that can create a new programming language and ensure it becomes popular. Don't get me wrong. Go isn't a bad language. It's just not the language that will push the web forward, and Google was in a unique position to create a programming language that would.
I mean the first. If you want to jail everybody using encryption, you have to jail everybody. So, the best action for that is to close the borders so the Hungarians can't leave. It is a ridiculous solution for a ridiculous plan.

> Right to emigrate out of a country is a fundamental human right

Not if you're in jail.
I like Go but I hate my self for it.
I appreciate your interest! I've started my sales sprint, lean start up style.

I've got this amazing author offering a 1 percentage ownership stake in her future royalties for just a hundred dollars, to get the ball rolling and create the need for what needs to be built. As for taxes, I'd get some help on that for sure, but I cut you a check for your earned royalties, you pay taxes on it, no different than the writer themselves would. I would think.
The latest house on This Old House [1] is being built in the same way as the Sears houses were from a company called Connor Homes [2]. They even talk about the Sears homes in the first episode.

1. http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tv/house-project/overview/0,...
2. http://connorbuilding.com
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I remember back in the old days when bots were enabled by open protocols …
I've been saying that Google Maps has gotten worse for a while now, and many people just say that other maps have gotten better instead. But I don't think that's true. I really do think that Google Maps has gotten substantially worse.

For one, it's super slow. I've switched to Bing Maps when I need to get an address quick on the desktop, because it's much faster. Google Maps has tons of lag when I'm sliding around the map on every browser and every major OS.

Secondly, the "natural language" features of searching has taken a major step back. I used to be able to say "[my town] mcdonalds to [neighboring town] chase bank" and as long as the map view was over my town, it knew what I meant. I just tried it now, map hovering over my town and McDonald's clearly shown on the screen, and it asks me which McDonald's I want, all of them from a city with the same name but in another state. It's like it doesn't know where it is, anymore. You have to get super specific in writing your search because it won't just assume you're talking about the McDonald's displayed on the screen anymore.

To be fair, I stopped using a lot of Google services when I used to have a Windows Phone and Google decided that anyone using a Windows Phone was inherently inferior and weren't allowed to use their services[1][2] but even now when I try to switch back, everything seems worse. Apple Maps is a better mobile experience, Bing Maps is a better desktop experience, and Outlook handles multiple email accounts much better than Gmail does. Bing search is just as good as Google in my experience, but they pay me to use it (Bing Rewards).

I'm honestly not sure what happened. Google used to be cool.

[1] http://mashable.com/2013/01/05/google-maps-windows-phone/#qY...

[2] http://betanews.com/2013/08/15/google-once-again-blocks-yout...
"We automately searches Google for certain terms, followes
links from the results, watches video on Youtube, searches on Google Maps, visites popular websites that contains
Google plus plugins and widgets."

It's like reading a security paper authored by Gollum.
Delivery has gotten really bad. When they used DPD it was great, but really nothing to do with Amazon, DPD are just far and away the best UK courier.

Recently around me they switched to "Amazon logistics" which to me is code for "a man in a van we hired". All in all quality of delivery has dropped; I've got about a year of free prime because one delivery driver, delivering to an obvious business address, couldn't wrap his head around "work hours" and kept turning up at 7pm.
This "problem" isn't confined to ETFs - its relevant to any fund (mutual fund, ETF, etc..) that tracks an index. ETFs only have about $2 trillion under management. Compare this with maybe $20 trillion under management in the mutual fund space. Though, not all mutual funds are passive index funds. Movement of stocks in and out of indices doesn't really create an issue. But it does setup an opportunity for arbitrageurs.
People has been predicting super-human intelligence at the 30's for decades. (That's the original singularity prediction.) Yet, 15 years earlier, we are just having a couple of breakthroughs on AI every year. Yeah, sure, total failure...

Gotta love people that can't read a date.
How often do EU countries do that? African countries? South American countries (except maybe Brazil)? As somebody from an excluded country (in the EU) that has zero history of app censorship, this rings quite hollow to me. In fact it is almost insulting, given that you bundle some freedom-loving countries in one bag with Russia and China.
For a one line summary, it's pretty accurate, but it's also a great illustration of why basing opinions on one line summaries is often a bad idea.

The difference between Go and pretty much every other semi-popular language is that Go is very much defined by what it isn't rather than by what it is. In that way, its success is an implicit criticism of other languages much more than the success of any other language would be.
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I tried that with LaserShip.

LaserShip still gets my Amazon packages. After the last one, even with their "here have a refund" (after digging around trying to find a help/support contact on Amazon's page for 20 minutes), I stopped ordering off of Amazon completely. I've spent at least $20,000 on their site in the last 5 years.

LaserShip is universally reviled and has the worst complaints in the entire logistics industry. Amazon does not care. Amazon just cares who and where the lowest bidder is, and for small packages in Midtown Manhattan, LaserShip is it. If you don't live in a doorman building, you are fucked.
While I concede it is unlikely anything resembling a Vingeian singularity is going to occur in my lifetime, I am actively working towards building the technology to bootstrap the singularity. It seems far more useful to spend time building new technology that people look at and consider real and surprising accomplishments (for example, AlphaGo), or to understand the neural correlates of intelligence, than to spend time pontificating about whether the singularity will occur.