skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
if you want electric cars to scale, you must RAISE GASOLINE TAXES AND ELIMINATE ELECTRICITY ( CARBON TAXES ).

EXXON has decided to support the global warming narrative and lobby for carbon taxes because it ensures that gasoline is NOT TAXED 'DOWNSTREAM'.

gasoline is being treated equal to other sources of 'carbon' on an upstream basis, such that natural gas is taxed like petroleum and coal is taxed even more.

coal being the CHEAPEST SOURCE OF ELECTRICITY.

so you are seeing gasoline companies ensure decades of stagnant technological uptake to the market by ensuring electricity prices go up, electricity supply becomes more scarce (through tax and regulation) and gasoline stays shit ass cheap and low taxed and in good supply.

if only all you environmentalists understood this.
Edit: Disregard this comment, my mistake.

Mozilla is such a disappointment. Instead of focusing on their raison d'etre they're busy branching out to one unsuccessful venture after another.
Because they don't know how to. (so even if they do test it, they fuck that part up too).
Queen of shitty Robots
Whole program dead-code elimination for native code OCaml executables
The front page tells me nothing. Go and read this blogpost about it instead. http://scripting.com/2016/06/08/1311.html
Audio on Linux works fine in my experience.
> But in the US we have too many Christian fundamentalist pointing fingers at the horrors of Islamic fundamentalism

If your political opponents speak the truth, you still shouldn't lie! If you do, you are the one who actually motivate otherwise moderate voters to vote for those who actually speak the truth, even if their hidden (or less visible) goals are much worse. People still don't want being too openly lied.

> I don't want American Christians to take us where Islam went 750 years ago.

Well there are already enough (enough to be dangerous for the whole world, again because of the influence and money, just like Saudis and other rich entities in Islam world) American Christians that are anyway at least 350 years behind Europe with their ideas, denying effectively everything that the science discovered since Galileo: that's how much they have to deny to be able to claim that the Earth exists only 6000 years. As far as I understand, any European Christian believer that claims something like that got his Kool Aid from across the Atlantic.

If Ataturk would be alive today in the US, he would be declared by the right and as the left atheistic extremist for enforcing secularism and by the left as the pure right extremist for trying to limit the unquestioned expansion of influence of the political Islam. Awful, as he achieved almost 100 years ago what today in the US looks impossible only because of such partisan thinking like the one you displayed: "but the other side says that, then we can't, even if it's true." Really?
In part 1, income vs life satisfaction, maybe for correctness you could mention that the functions don't taper off, they behave logarithmic.
Weren't these kinds of articles published around the time that managers replaced full time employees with H1B consultants from TCS, Infosys, etc in the early 2000s, successfully making their divisions more profitable?
We built Firefox 1.0 and shipped it to the world with zero revenue. Open Source is funny like that. Some people work on it because they love it, not because they're being paid.
How is employees leaving and starting a startup a failure of Mozilla?
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> No one owes developers a decent lifestyle or a liveable income.

If the developer cannot make a living by creating an app (or any other piece of software for that matter), why would they bother creating it at all?

> If Nike sold you an indestructible trainer (including non-wearing sole) that you could buy tomorrow, would you rather buy it outright or pay subscriptions in perpertuity

This is not a great comparison. As was previously mentioned, software like requires updates to continue running correctly (new OS versions, bugs, etc) while a shoe does not require any changes or maintenance. If the shoe fits, then you wear it and that is that. You can do nothing to it and it will continue to work as a shoe forever (especially, if it is indestructible as in your example). However, if you paid once for a piece of software and then do nothing to it for a few years, the chance of it running correctly on your device is close to zero.

People should be paid for creating and maintaining software.
"Governments" aren't anywhere near the complete scope of risk you bring on yourself by storing passwords badly.
All the Mobile Marketplaces are on fire. Nice.

Posted from my Windows Phone 8.1
But this doesn't work because the backend certificate is invalid (it covers *.github.io rather then example.com).
The resolution named Lithuania, Poland, Italy, and the United Kingdom

I wonder why the left out Romania. The former president even confirmed publicly that he allowed his country to host these sites:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/04/romania-president-admi...
Oh, wow, you're right. My brain completely ignored that "Ex-" at the beginning.
The thing to realise it's already that, essentially it's the place you go if you win at Kickstarter - if you went for $10k and got $1M - there's already a western hardware hacker community regularly rotating through the city.

Of course that's not exactly the traditional startup, these are often people bootstrapping themselves without a VC sugar daddy - not needing to have an exit story with 7 0s
You, I like you. You get it.
Your pricing model is extraordinarily expensive.
Yes and no. I see what you are saying, but in my opinion every site can have its own definition of user and visitor. For some sites the terms may be interchangeable, while for other sites they have completely different meanings.

Let's take HN for example (I don't know if HN considers this their metric or what, just using it as an example.). Let's say they made a change that now requires everyone to login to the site each time they visit. So if you closed your browser window or were inactive for a period of time you would have to log back in. While you could still read posts and comments, you would be unable to submit new stories or comment until you logged in. While you are not logged in you would be considered a visitor. But when you log in, you now become a user.

While at first the traffic, or visitors, may remain the same, without participating users on the site the number of visitors will eventually drop as not as many people are submitting or commenting.

A site that does not require interaction, may on the other hand, simply use the two terms (visitor & user) interchangeably.
Sure, if it's clear who the property is owned by it goes back to the rightful owner. But in cases where that is unclear or nonsensical (like money obtained by selling illegal drugs) it goes to the state. Where else would it go?
CS is somewhere in the middle of those two extremes. You write grants for things you haven't done yet but also you typically have some initial work (maybe a minor publication, maybe not) to prove the direction is promising enough to fund.
> Apps are a service.

No. Flat out no. If I spend $x0 or $x00 for an app to create something (music, code, mechanical drawing, whatever), I darn well better be able to access my music/code/drawing at any point in the future, even if the maker of the app has gone out of business.
Sci-Hub launches Telegram bot: scihubbot
Author here. At the time the problem was that DNSimple stopped resolving DNS for customers AND their management interface for a long period of time (iirc it was like 12 hours), which was affecting people who had registered domains through DNSimple and used their DNS service. This affected a disproportionate number of my friends and several clients.

You can't change your nameservers if your registrar's management interface isn't resolving.
What was the rationale behind the redesign?

Was there any sort of A/B testing done beforehand to see if the changes would bring actual improvement or was it more just trying to mimic current design trends?
In the short to medium-term, it's a hybrid product+consulting business model with consulting gigs to add features, custom sizes, or integrated with specific testing frameworks. Long term, competition is based on brand, build quality, distribution, ISV partnerships, and the ability to keep innovating. Also, it's a B2B product, so success or failure is predominantly driven by the quality of the sales team and their process as much as anything else.
again you assume that California laws, or even US laws apply everywhere on the planet, they don't - the 2nd amendment is historical curiosity everywhere else
Truly awe-inspiring and inspirational work. Over a decade spent working on that one game. A bit over two years ago I started working on my own similar type of game (a Dwarf-Fortress-like or DF-like if you will) and it's given me so much appreciation for the insanity that is game development. The sheer amount of time it takes to build out a system with so much depth is incredible. I've probably been working an average of 8-10 hours a week for 2 years and I have but a fraction of the functionality. Dwarf Fortress stands as a bastion of inspiration I can look to any time I feel like quitting.
Glad to answer any questions here. (I'm a Mapzen staffer.) Or we're available at hello@mapzen.com, @mapzen and @transitland
There is no answer, there is no law, no standard, no precedent, which any "unusually sophisticated" lawyer looking at it for a few minutes would realize. But instead of informing the "unusually sophisticated" court honestly "hey, I had this idea, but I researched it and it doesn't look like there is anything directly applicable" (you know, truth, whole truth, nothing but, and no standing by while the court is misled) lawyers get to raise a huge holy stink about it. After I pay for the huge holy stink, do I get an answer? nope. That means that it could come up again tomorrow and I'd have to pay for it again.

Lawyers have huge laundry lists of these ideas they get to spitball, except they get paid to do it, the more they spitball the more they get paid, and none of it has anything to do with the matter at hand, the legitimate grievance that the two sides have and are trying to resolve.

I just found it on more than one occasion to be unusually playground bullying rather than sophisticated. And on the same-ish topic as sophistication, lawyers like to couch things they say in the cloak of "truth and justice", like for instance, how many times have I heard that the right to petition is so sacrosanct that it's in our Declaration of Independence? Yet went you actually try to pursue a right to petition you are bogged down in lawyerly bullshit.
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This is why someone who has assets confiscated can make a claim (with a very low burden of proof) to get them back. People here are making it sound like that doing this is incredibly difficult or expensive but it's really not.
My initial reaction to your comment was along the lines of

> Do you consider how a black person might feel writing it? It seems somewhat necessary to bring up past persecutions.

I had likened this to swearing to highlight emotional intent. However I have no idea how that word affects some people. I'm just a white guy who is in no position to have an opinion on whether this is okay and was wrong to belittle it.
Artificial-Leaf Inventor Slams New Energy Finance, Blames Universities
I always find this "language evolves"-argument a bit strange. Maybe I am reactionary, but it is "though" not "tho". More people using it wrong, does not make it right to me. In some cases I will eventually adapt, but not when it is about concept that was invented, explained and named by a person with sources you can cite to prove it.
If this piques your interest and you have a few hours to kill, you might enjoy reading the Roomcarnage saga: http://imgur.com/a/xhQHE/layout/horizontal#0

Briefly, it's a very experienced DF player trying to conquer a frozen volcano who has written up his exploits in narrative form. Fun read and will give you a good idea of what DF is allabout.
Was the `nano` command a joke? I know it's a fine editor, but it seemed like sarcasm.
What to do about this?

I'm told, you may be put to trial in East Texas, if you're selling your goods or services there. – So, why not stop selling to East Texas and let them settle the resulting collision of interests themselves?
I think I broke your program. Its my turn and I should be able to take the King but the game keeps on going: http://imgur.com/ZLbHaLK
“Transit Nerds Get a Handy New Tool for Easily Turning Data into Apps”
This Woman Wants Facebook to Ban Unsolicited Dick Pics
Some of these ideas live on in Neocities: https://neocities.org/

Just HTML and your own assets. No node.js hosting, no JSON+XML backend storage (that we can see), no sweat.

Granted, Neocities isn't built on 1999-era technology either, but I think it better captures the aesthetic of "web sandbox that i get to play with in my own webspace" a bit closer than this.
You have my sympathy, I've never had a gap like that but I have struggled with job hunts in less tech friendly areas.

I mean this constructively so please don't take it as a knock, but you seem to be coming at the interviews from a somewhat adversarial perspective. This sentence is what stood out to me in particular:

> Most employers (or their needlessly combative tech hiring staff, anyway) seem to make a point of saying cutting comments to me about my university degrees (two Ivy degrees) and my Stack Overflow rep -- even though I don't ever try to project pride about these things and fully welcome and prefer to be judged solely by my talents and do not want any form of laurel-resting, especially not based on "prestigious" degrees (though, to be fair, I did work extremely hard in university and accomplished many things that now seemingly no one cares about).

Perhaps they were joking around with you about it as a way to acknowledge your pretty formidable credentials? This strikes me as a very odd response (on their part) and I wouldn't expect to see it again and again which is what makes me think you might be misinterpreting their intent.

Anyway, I'm not you. Best of luck to you, I hope you find what you are looking for.
We've been doing passwords on the web since before 1999 and we weren't storing them in plaintext even then. I bet there is a proven authentication framework they could use in this project.

https was there in 1999 too but luckily we must use the current one, which is more secure.
There are leaks galore. NT4, 2000, and more recently, the Windows Research Kit. Just google something like 'apcobj.c' and see. (Hah, first link was a github repo!)
Yeah on Kaggle I found myself getting routinely outperformed by people with scripts that simply ran a gradient boosted decision tree and nothing else. And yet the topic was never mentioned in my modeling and stats courses!
What does this have to do with 1999 exactly? RSS 2.0?
Actually, using actuarial science in that way is still very much open to debate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actuarial_science#Actuaries_in...
The ugly little bits of the data science process
This x1000. Just because a piece of software has a subscription does not mean that you automatically lose access to that software if you stop paying. The developer of the software can choose to handle a cancellation any way (s)he deems appropriate. They could cut you off entirely, or they could leave you on the version you have forever with full access, or they could remove features which rely on their servers, or......
To level the playing field, and if we are to take your opinion seriously, it would be beneficial to know what books or articles or whitepapers you have read to inform yourself about the design of the NT kernel.
You reject offers after comparing compensation with your previous job, but forgot to take into account that your old job was 'destroying you' and your new one hopefully wont.
> Generally I do not think it's true that large companies pay better than small ones - if anything the opposite.

Anecdotal data point: I recently made the switch from startup to Megacorp, and my base salary remained the same, but my equity compensation went from being made of unicorn farts and fairy dust to something a little more real. Meaning if I stay the year, my total comp'll jump roughly 50%.

And my base salary at the startup was pretty good compared to some of my friends working at smaller places.
Can a lawyer or something with legal background please weigh in on this?
Well, you can do it on some versions of Windows. On Windows 10, and even future version of Windows 10, not so sure...
These are separate issues:

1) DNS resolution stops working - use a different provider.
2) Registrar interface stops working - wait till it starts working.

You were trying to solve problem 1 which required problem 2 to be solved first, but there's no way around that. This means that everyone has the same dependency issue with their registrar being a single point of failure. Hosting your actual DNS elsewhere doesn't change anything or prepare for this situation any better.
It also depends on your environment. On a platform like .Net it's not impossible to get your JS serializer to serialize 64-bit ints and floats as strings while keeping 32-bit and smaller numeric. So no matter how you represent it server-side it will survive a round trip. For a language that doesn't make that kind of distinction in the type system (I'm thinking Python, but I could be wrong), you really have to toString it right when you get it from the database. The only other option is to base the serialization decision on the value, which means sometimes your ids are returned as ints and sometimes as strings. At best it's ugly, at worst it leads to bugs.
Don't forget Webrings!
Oh, I laughed out-loud (in a horrified way.) Thank you.

My favorite horrible moment playing dwarf fortress came one day when one of my dwarves was unable to find a required bit of silk to finish the artifact she had swimming in her head.

She went crazy, presumably from the frustration, and took it out on a dwarf near her in a dining room. Soon thereafter my happy fort of approximately 100 dwarves was down to 10 or 12 dwarves, only 2 unwounded. There were bodies everywhere. Blood was tracking through the fortress.

Dwarves were wandering around, then seeing bodies, vomiting, going crazy, attacking each-other. It was terrible.

Long story short, we ended up with two battle-scarred, insane but deadened dwarves and a beautiful fortress for them to share. Cleaning the bodies out took both of them a couple of years. They'd haul for a while, stop to vomit, then keep hauling. Every so often at first immigrants would show up, and the entire group would go crazy looking at the carnage, and we'd be back down to my two dwarves.

I was trying to imagine what they might want or feel after all that, and decided it was likely they would have fixated on something, so they pulled all the gold and gems into a little room and made a throne room. The tougher dwarf was detailed to clean and haul bodies and bones, the other one just sat in his throne room, brooding.

Finally the tougher one died; he had some sort of minor injury I hadn't noticed, and we were down to one.

I can't remember exactly what happened, but I think that one was on his way to clean something up as the sole surviver, got too close to the river, and that, as they say was that. He drowned horribly, mercifully.

I occasionally think about the two dwarves just cleaning up the castle, slowly going insane, and when I do, I appreciate Toady's work, and I laugh. Then I feel guilty.
Thank you for your advice. It seems it'll be worth seeking legal advice on this.
U.S. Shipping Industry Slams Amendment to Exempt Puerto Rico from the Jones Act
If anything, the problem with the given code snippets is that the code is needlessly cluttered by explicit type annotations for trivial things. Unfolding a lazy sequence is a short and sweet affair in Haskell and even ML (which doesn't enjoy the benefit of piggybacking on built-in lazy evaluation), where you only supply type annotations when inference can't possibly work (e.g., polymorphic recursion, which most code doesn't need).
I don't understand what is this about. Is it just a poorly implemented super-common blog engine?
I think that's why they were suggesting to make it a button with a radio button inside it(?), but that seems kind of wacky to me
Is this bias, or does it just take time for other researchers to go into areas opened up by novel papers and then publish other papers that cite those novel papers?
The "original design" was the UserVoice support system, a fact conveniently missing from the article, which leaves us to speculating as to why they would have moved away from that platform in the first place...
We believe npm's scale is a direct result of having the lowest ceremony to publish a package. Turning the dial in the direction we did has pros and cons.
CSS structure and anti patterns
An old classic --- pascal.h:

http://thedailywtf.com/articles/_0x23_include__0x22_pascal_0...
Actuarial Science is a hard science that is a few hundred years old, not a social construct that you can manipulate.

There is no desire to "show" anything beyond having an accurate representation of probability.
This corruption is a government feature, not a bug. Washington needs trial lawyer money and has had trouble figuring out how to fleece Silicon Valley directly, so trial lawyer patent abuse is a win-win for Congress and the Obama Administration. Remember-- the entire basis of this nonsense is the patent office issuing vague patents, everything is running exactly to plan.
Dropping the Ball, GSD, and Staying Productive
Webapps...
She's kind of the poster child, the realization, of "neoliberal multiculturalism": as long as have some representatives of disadvantaged subgroups in some positions of power, then that validates "the model". Once we establish that the model "works" (because, hey, there can't be inequality if we have a woman president, right?) then you can change the narrative about the people that fall through the cracks of society: it's their fault, because clearly the people that work hard get to live the American dream.
Or, much earlier in Dwarf Fortress's history is possibly the most famous DF story, the epic saga of Boatmurdered: http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/Introductio...
Actually CSS 1 is quite old but support wasn't good even in IE4/Netscape 4. IE5 in 2000 was the first browser with almost complete support and that was one of the reasons for it wiped out Netscape.
This is a clear troll. Absolutely nothing said by this poster has anything to do with the actual article. Additionally, the user account is only 13 days old. Moderators, please kill this account and postings.
Yes, there is - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_stop

Consider, however, that the law in theory differs very much from its practice. In a Terry stop, just like most encounters with the police, the officer holds all the cards. Non-compliance can be met with force, and there's always the threat of being charged for obstruction or whatever else the policeman thinks up, based on their word alone(which has more weight than yours in court). Policemen are given a wide latitude to act, and a good faith presumption to all their actions, so they can get away with stretching any applicable law to its breaking point.
I've heard that Plan 9 doesn't have ioctl. But I guess that doesn't count as mainstream.