skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And this is exact polar opposite of science. Science is all about challenging not only other, but your own ideas and rejecting those that don't hold on to the tests thrown at it. The rebellion at the campus today is a rebellion against science, against very idea that facts are universal.

I sometimes wonder if rebellion like this can cause another dark age someday if it gains enough support from young people. Or maybe a beginning of "Idiocracy" type dystopia.
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Yes, it absolutely does cause warming at times. In fact, prior to human effects, it was the driving cause of climate variation. These periodic variations driven by orbital changes are called Milankovitch cycles[1].

Unfortunately for your theory, Earth's axial tilt is decreasing at the moment, and therefore we should be in the 'cooling' phase of the cycle.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
I'd like to see Venus go towards an Ice Age, which might bring down the surface temperatures from average 462 degrees Celsius to Earth norms, and then maybe the place could be relatively habitable, albeit still with 96% CO2 and clouds of sulphuric acid to deal with.
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As a few dozen people managing a webapp on AWS from home while eating udon noodles, it'd be a cash cow.
The planet might still be going into a cooler period, while what we see right now is just a temporary warming that will trigger that cooling. ( i.e warming causes glaciers to melt, which in turns changes/stops jet streams, which lowers the temperature all over the globe )
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2 minutes of runway delays, according to the wikipedia source, the FAA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_haircut_controver...
You could possibly use the Amish as a control group. They are probably exposed less than almost any other group to these types of radiation due to their distance in proximity. They, of course, do come into contact with it in minor ways when interacting in public, but far far less than the general population.
I agree with the point being made: I would be really pissed if a desktop app had the window management buttons on a different corner, even the same corner but different icons would feel bad. However, mobile apps are more like websites rather than desktop apps. The 'shell' has to be consistent with UI design and behaviour whereas the 'content' can have a UI relevant to function and maybe a different brand. For example, if you open gmail on Chromium and Safari, you'd expect it to behave and look the same on both.
It's not like they orbit the same star or anything.
What made you take the leap? (from programming to CEO)
I thought most, if not everyone was unhappy at work?

I always thought the idea of being happy about doing a job was a little weird, and maybe it's just me, but given that almost every job puts you in a service position, I find it weird that people expect you to be happy to act as a service-monkey to someone's whim all in the goal of making someone else lots of money.
Bingo. Progressive leftist ideology, in its essence, is anti-white racism. All of its purported ideals are really about stripping whites of any power or identity and giving it to others.
One would hope they got their crypto right (I'd assume it's done via ssl with a pinned cert, but I haven't checked). More worrisome is what they do at their data centers - officially they might paint one picture of how well they have secured their system both technologically from outsiders and from employee insiders but behind this pretty picture could be a total shitshow behind the scenes and we wouldn't know. A rogue employee could socially engineer his way to data and dump it on the internet - similar to what happened to OkCupid. They could be infiltrated by Chinese with their infinite budgets and then you take a "voluntary" trip to China. They could be forced by USG to reveal data, and I'm all for nabbing terrorists, but USG has proven that they aren't any better at securing their stuff so China scenario again applies. Or Microsoft is after a few years pushed into corner even more and become really evil and start monetizing data to everyone with a dollar and it turns out they consulted lawyers to arrive at minimal method of data anonymization that would still be accepted by courts.

In the end, it's customers who have bought their computers and should retain ultimate agency over their hardware and what Microsoft is doing isn't necessarily in their customers' best interest because it puts undue, poorly communicated risks on them. Most users aren't equipped with necessary background knowledge to evaluate these risks so aren't even capable of consciously accepting them.

edit: oh it's you ryan. I'm sure you already know all this. :)
It absolutely is a factor on Earth. Right now the axial tilt of the Earth is decreasing, which should be resulting in a cooling effect.
Some people do end up with nerve damage that impairs their ability to know when they need to empty their bowels. What you describe may indeed be useful for them.
True, the OS does not know best, especially in the case of Android. But the user benefits a great deal from consistency of behavior across all apps.

The bar for deviating from OS convention should be high, not only to preserve the user's sanity, but also because most users will tire of an app's design innovations, however brilliant, if those innovations impose a learning curve. Most users are not that dedicated to a piece of software.
Absolutely, those sins are not just for project managers but for everybody in general. Arrogance is never the solution, we should always listen and think how to improve, as there is always a way to improve.
David Sacks and Peter Thiel wrote an excellent book "The Diversity Myth". They report on how corrosive impact have certain ideologies on higher education and academic freedom. I recommend to read it just to get a boarder view into the problem no matter on what side you are now.
Yes there is - it makes your app integrate better with the platform. Sure, the initial choices may have been completely arbitrary, but as an app developer you have to live by them now. Consistency is the reason. Users learn the platform and learn its standard UI paradigms. Should you choose not to follow them, your users will not be very pleased to say the least, often confused as to why your app doesn't operate like everything else on their device.
Why not just use your smartphone? Or even just look at which direction the sun is.
It's not about "knowing best" in that case, it's about familiarity and reducing cognitive load.

When someone picks up a new piece of software, they have to figure out 1) does it solve their problem, 2) how do they use it, and 3) how do they solve their immediate problem with it?

When you have familiar UI elements, actions, terms, and explanations, you can speed along Step 2 for minimal effort. If you introduce new interactions and ideas, you're adding a Step 2b that will not pay off in the short term. It might in the long term, but not right now.

Every question, struggle, etc that you put in front of a user is one more reason to not use your software. Some users really NEED it and will overcome everything but that's not something to bet on.
FWIW, I agree that this piece went on about various aspects of Theranos for way too long before getting to the meat of the piece.

That said, the purpose of a piece of writing isn't necessarily to communicate a list of increasingly less important facts--which is what fits best with inverted pyramid. Different people have different preferences. I'm not necessarily writing things to maximize eyeballs on the first and second paragraph.
TL;DR

Modern medicine is over! Get to the zombie apocalypse shelter!

Not really though; everything scary in this article is either wrong, exaggerated or both. Ars Technica explains it expertly:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/everybody-be-cool-a-n...
It varies by far more then on a state to state basis. I also grew up in Florida, and we had 2 bins of recycling, one for plastic/metal, one for paper. Moved to NC, we had just 1 can for all recycling, and then they decided that the recycling wasn't worth it, and stopped picking it up. Now everything goes in the trash, which is rather sad.
I am registering the site as down, and isitdown also can't resolve[0] host. Anyone else having trouble reaching the site?

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Doesn't profile data count as _creative works_ as opposed to facts, licensed by the users to OKC?
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I counter your link with this one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terraforming_of_Mars

There is presently enough carbon dioxide (CO2) as dry ice in the Martian south pole and absorbed by regolith (soil) on Mars that, if sublimated to gas by a climate warming of only a few degrees, would increase the atmospheric pressure to 30 kilopascals (0.30 atm),[26][not in citation given] comparable to the altitude of the peak of Mount Everest, where the atmospheric pressure is 33.7 kilopascals (0.333 atm). Although this would not be breathable by humans, it is above the Armstrong limit and would eliminate the present need for pressure suits
Fun note: you could let Blogger publish to your own FTP and host it that way and use the site only as the CMS.
It's all summed up nicely as "first world problems."

I emphasized to my son when he entered college to always remember why he was there, and my expectations as the one paying for it. He's mostly lived up to that.
SJWs have done more to set the race discussion back in this country than anything else in recent history. Identity politics is ruining this country.
Looks like I'm the only one, but I think this is pretty nifty. Then again I had someone cut open my hand to shove in an rfid chip 10 years ago, which wasn't everybody's cup of tea either.

What I'm most worried about is battery life. If I have to recharge every week (or more), I would give up after a few weeks. Also, what risk is there snagging this thing on your shirt when you get dressed, or crushing it under a barbell when working out? Doing any sort of fighting sport would be impossible too I guess, even if you could take the actual sensor/vibrating thing out.
Yeah, but when you are getting hints about direction of North while moving around, you'll subconsciously be aware of orientation all the time. Your spatial orientation would improve dramatically.

For me this looks too bulky and inconvenient to actually use.
Kind of disappointing how those who attacked the original source have now fallen silent
Why would it be difficult to profile and find the bottleneck after a few decades? It should actually be even easier with better profiling tools and practices.
> But if there is no proof, you will never know, because it always could be the next proof you haven't looked at.

But that's exactly what I meant. So the brute force program proposed in the post I replied to doesn't exist, right?

Let's say, you have proposition A. You write a program to brute force proofs for A. If it finds a proof, it will halt and output Yes, if it finds a disproof it will halt and output No, otherwise it will check the next proof.

So if you say that your brute force program can proof/disproof proposition A (and A1, A2, A3, ... for that matter), you will have to proof that your program will halt for sure after a finite number of steps. Now that's proposition B.

If you find a clever proof for proposition B, then you can claim that you wrote a program that can proof or disproof proposition A - maybe in a zillion years, but it can.

If you can't find such a proof for proposition B, you can always try to write a brute force program to proof/disproof proposition B... then C, D, E, etc. :)

And here comes the halting problem: you may be able to proof that a specific program will halt on a specific input, but it can be very hard to proof. But you can't proof that a specific program will halt on every input. This is directly related to Godel's incompleteness of formal systems.
The star is not the primary driver of periodic climate variation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milankovitch_cycles
Being written by some privileged Caucasian scholar doesn't make the facts false either.
It's really interesting how you get to this position.

There are very many scientists who think that global warming is happening, and is caused by humans.

There are a small number of industry groups and politicians, mostly on the right, who think global warming isn't happening (or if it is happening that it isn't caused by humans) - these groups use the same techniques used by big tobacco to spread uncertainty and doubt about the overwhelming scientific consensus.

Yet somehow global warming is a "leftist"[1] conspiracy, a religious belief.

[1] That word is a great signal, btw.
The data collected points unanimously to this not having happened in the previous ice ages.
That goes entirely too far. There is certainly a subset of "leftist" thought which is about searching for offense, but you shouldn't paint the whole progressive left with that stroke.

Plenty of progressive movements (including the original Progressive Era) did not make racial causes central or important.
Did the next generation make encryption 2x better by having double rot13?
I was in New York a short time ago, and though I was outside, in daylight, I had absolutely no sense of direction. I came out of the wrong exit from Grand Central, and had to pull out my phone's compass (after reviewing the map) just to get a sense of which direction I had to go.

It's still very easy to lose your sense of direction in unfamiliar territory, even when you're paying attention.
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I just recently got into Snapchat. My fiance and I just snap each other during downtime at work, nothing major. It's a lot of fun but I'm not sure how they could monetize it beyond the sponsored filters they have now.
I'm not sure if it's me, but when ever I see WordPress in a news article, the first association is always with 'Mass Hacks'...
Haha, that's a good idea. But no, the "ryanlol" account has rather restrictive ratelimiting in place.
Melting glaciers results in a lower albedo, which results in more warming.
And still, the (mis-)use of antibiotics in meat production carries on (at least in Europe) -- even using last-resort antibiotics.
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You could rephrase it, "if you don't provide [an easy and] secure way to get shit done, motivated individuals will figure out how to get shit done, security be damned. happens every time. that's what happened here."
> What can someone really do with that? At that point the claim becomes pure politics, you have to just support the person making the claim or not.

Not a whole lot, and that's by design.

Subjectivism of what is art in the modern art movement was annoying but didn't really affect most people's lives. Now, we have the same thing with the same rhetoric and tactics (well, with the added violence) happening on US campuses.
It does mean there might be cognitive bias that influences those facts.

Science experiments like CERN have to go to great lengths to eliminate bias. It's easy to see how bias can influence softer sciences and arts.
You have every right to know it. Put it in the contract before signing. They (a private company) has every right not to tell you and not to do business with you.
Thank you. When I was in college (many decades ago) I just though insertion sorting was it. Then bubble sorts. I did not expect the mental flip I did when we starting researching quick sorts. That changed my perspective on obvious but incorrect assumptions forever.

These visualizers I think can get you there even faster. I just love this stuff.
The battery situation worries me too. Then again, I've been OK with taking off a phone/watch and putting it on a charger on a regular basis for a few years now, so one more item wouldn't be a huge burden.
Agreed. These days, Identity politics is absolutely dominated by the idea that everything is just a point-of-view and ideas/arguments are inseparable from the identity of the person putting them forth.

I often say that a "scientific temper" is something we should all strive towards - the scientific method is possibly the greatest achievement of civilization - but there are an inexplicable number of people (who have never heard of it) that simply claim that enlightenment ideals are Eurocentric and that my subscription to those (as a non-white) would count as internalized oppression.

By some, nuance is denounced, absolutism is glamorous.
Some others cannot be argued with; they grow an argument for every exception to their blanket theories until the entire ideology is a tangled mess of patchwork, at which point the application of this monster to any real-world situation becomes intractable and the evaluation of new observations strongly correlates with in/out-group membership.

It is incredibly sad to see this dynamic being played out by otherwise smart people that I respect.

That you and I have to explicitly advertise our non-white status when saying this for it to hold any water is a travesty, and demonstrates how bad the environment has become.
David Petraeus, Director of the CIA, lost his job and had to plead guilty to a misdemeanor for inappropriately sharing classified information.
Yeah, I'm not sure what that's about either. It seems far too thorough to be accidental, but the association is a strange one for a command line utility. I suppose it might make sense if the logo is designed for consumption by people who don't know much about computers, but that's really not something which can accurately be said of the thing the logo is for, so...
Well I thought it was obvious, but my reply was intended to be sarcastic. For it to be taken at face value by anyone kind of highlights the problem with the systemd approach, IMO.
My thinking was the bar would be "first output after boilerplate setup", in this case immediately before beginning to write any yelp-ish logic.
You've made a negative comment in nearly every thread on this post - do you really hate Snapchat that much? Do you not see how some people might enjoy using it?
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This article provides more context:
http://www.ashedryden.com/blog/the-ethics-of-unpaid-labor-an...
Maybe a dumb question, but doesn't YourMechanic do this as well?

I suppose auto repair and geo-location are a better match together than house cleaning (rip HomeJoy, I really liked that company but it isn't as hard to book cleaning services as it is to get a reliable taxi on demand...)

But yeah, once I've found a few mechanics in my area that I like, why would I book them through an app?

Also I do all of my own repairs, I know this is not typical of auto owners, but it's very rare I need car repairs from a professional
> This wasn't just poor IT security, this was willful ignorance of the consequences of state secrets being in the open.

To be clear, this was unclassified email. Classified email is on a separate network.

Certainly having access to the Secretary of State's unclassified emails could yield valuable intelligence insights but these are not emails that are going to contain "secrets" per se.
I assume you also object to the 60's civil rights movement in universities in the same way then?
As for the cache Cloudflare's free tier as allowed me to handle pretty large traffic loads in the past, much more then my $5 droplet should be able to handle. This was for a blog platform I wrote in Flask though(and optimized for cloud flare) so it might not be comparable.
The insane air-pressure ruins it. Basically, the solution to terraforming Venus is to convert the CO2 into water. The problem is that this requires hydrogen that's not readily available to do it. A lot of it.

How much?

At 1 Earth atmosphere, imagine a balloon filled with Hydrogen the size of the planet Mars. It would take two of those.

But then you could scrape enough CO2 out of the atmosphere to make oceans and Earth pressure.
YES. This is impossible to gauge during an interview or even within the first week on the job. The only way to de-risk this is to have known the team members for some time prior to working with them (hence Buffer's bring-your-own-team experiment).
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There's an explanatory post there that in particular is very much worth reading: http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/113840433022/wh...
Often it doesn't, but to me, that's not the point. The point is the consistency between disparate apps from different vendors and backgrounds is what matters for usability. That ability to know your way around nearly every app on first use, just from knowing the OS trumps most else. There's lots of things I use occasionally - I don't want to RTFM every time.

I dislike how Windows and Android do a lot of things, and how OSX does some. I'd still prefer devs respect that than "improve" on it. When I find a utility to add a dark theme or fix some niggle the OS does really badly - multi-screen perhaps, the standard stuff interoperates with it just fine. The clever "knowing best" program is the one that breaks it, or interoperates only partially. eg Photoshop has a lovely dark GUI now, but now doesn't get the multiscreen util's extra icons.

Let the user decide. They can add a multi-screen util or theme, or even simple things like xmouse and they should work everywhere, or they can just use the vanilla OS as they prefer.

EDIT: caseysoftware puts it rather more succinctly.
Do you have a more in depth tutorial about this? Thanks
This x1000. Plus when it silently decides to send emails instead, or you email as caller id address, or whatever it does. When my Dad asks "Why I'm I getting emails from text messsages" I don't know, don't care to know, and will respond by not using iProduct. Don't care if it's a setting or what, if you're going to merge different services then be explicit about it. Don't have time to figure out what you thought was best for me.
But it's okay for Apple to inflict their design on Android because it's Apple.
I don't have enough "karma" to do anything useful on Stackoverflow. Apparently I have to do, as I said, a bunch of piddly bullshit things to earn enough to actually add useful content to the site.

I understand why, it's a spam prevention method, but it also keeps me from contributing.
I got there via freelancing. I was unhappy at a company where the owner was making poor business decisions (in hiring, management and general business direction) and began freelancing in my off hours. Got so much work I had to subcontract it. Realised the potential of the services I was providing and started a company. Just put on my 13th employee and not looking back.
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Something has been removed - a $7,500 'plane'?
It would be interesting to know which articles were pulled.
Yes, apps should be designed for the user. However, most users want to get something done on an app without having to learn it for hours. So it's better to adhere to OS conventions and make things predictable. There are so many apps that seem to be done by designers who had too much time on their hands. Even the Google apps are going that route. I barely can't figure out how to use Google maps on android anymore.

Also, once something works, don't change every two months.

In short, provide real functionality and stop redesigning the surface.
The atmosphere of Venus, for what it is worth, is one of the most Earth-like places in the solar system. Breathable air is a lifting gas in the thick Venerian atmosphere, making floating habitats viable. Furthermore, at the altitude where the pressure is 1 atm and a habitat would stabilize (around 50km), ambient temperature is also in the range for liquid water. And even at this height, there would still be enough atmosphere left to provide protection from cosmic radiation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonization_of_Venus#Aerostat...