skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short Channel 9 Video on .NET Fringe
Mine is starting to show its age.

That's a hardware problem.
I was initially dubious of the "4 million year" quote, but the quick searching I did doesn't turn up anything credible that would contradict it, and did turn up many estimates that concur.

I don't know enough to evaluate his methods, but Mark Pagani at Yale seems to have published a number of papers that give estimates going back 40 million years: http://people.earth.yale.edu/cenozoic-evolution-carbon-dioxi...

And this paper 2005 paper by Dana Royer provides an overview of a few hundred estimates going back 500 million years: http://droyer.web.wesleyan.edu/PhanCO2(GCA).pdf
Samsung is the opposite of hip.
Having lived in Somerville, it's definitely very much sparsely populated when compared to nearly Cambridge or Allston.
Yup that's all true. But when the next president of the largest economy either doesn't believe in climate change or wants to increase fracking then we clearly have a long way to go before change happens.
That's the "Tor browser" which is just a modified Firefox. That's not the Tor network.
> Global adoption of LFTR reactors ... if we start today

I'm a huge fan of gen IV reactors in general and LFTR in particular, but we are a long way from being able to deploy any MSRs, even if everyone woke up tomorrow and suddenly took the construction of LFTRs as a terminal moral value. All that have been created to date are small research reactors, mostly 40+ years ago. Almost all of the MSR research projects started recently have fizzled out; AFAIK the only project that has any kind of plan for future civilian nuclear energy is China's. The current regulatory and public opinion environment for civil reactors is absolutely abysmal, and that will likely take even longer to change than the research will.
As well as Intel 486DX/SX saga. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80486SX
There is a cost diff for Tesla, between these two scenarios. But it is subtle. In the cheaper variant of the two he cited, that battery is going to have (possibly) more charge buffer remaining when it's ostensibly "empty". AFAICT. Whereas that more expensive variant will not. Again, assuming otherwise identical. So in theory that more expensive variant is more likely to have more customers who reach empty, get stuck, need towing, complain, etc. Again this is just AFAICT based on info at hand. In this theory, Tesla is saying, "Fine if you truly want to squeeze out more miles, we'll let you, but to compensate us for risk of more complaints, we'd like a little more money."

again, just a theory. may be more complex than this.
Maybe bearing scale-up issues?
Read News 8x Faster.Unbelievable
"Smart" devices now seem to come with Big Brother included. The Times gets this; most of the "smart" is about the thing reporting what you're doing to HQ, not providing the desired function.

First, the "smart" devices just reported if you were home. That was Nest. Then they started listening to your every word. That was Echo. Then they started watching you. That was the Samsung Smart TV.[1]

But it's so convenient. New Echo feature: "Alexa, tell Hacker News to read new headlines”. Really.

[1] http://www.cnet.com/how-to/samsung-smart-tv-spying/
"crushed"?
From the article, here's the flight path - https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CGKBO
... which would eventually leak out all over (and under) your floor and cause potentially thousands of dollars in damage. Ask me how I know. No water connected to my fridge, thanks.
Keep in mind the employee who created the famous culture deck was herself let go.
Short answer: There are more trees and other green stuff in the northern hemisphere. As the planet tilts relative to the sun the north/south get more of the light and warmth that helps plants grow. So there is a seasonal up and down to CO2 levels. It's been around for millions of years. What is new is the increased average.
You'd be welcome to literally burn me with cigarettes during the flight if you paid me that $5,000 difference in fares.
Release notes:
https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.7
I'm pretty sure founders at Buffer feeling real bad about firing folks doesn't make the experience any better for the fired folks. Three to six weeks of severance is a tight turnaround to get a new job, particularly for non-engineering employees or remote employees. And, guessing based on their ramp-up and lifo scheme, they're probably firing some employees inside their first 6 mos. ie they most likely recently left a job for Buffer. I understand there's no promise of lifetime employment, but that's a serious dick move.
>There's nothing better than being content with what you're paid, and then learning that there's huge upside potential.

That's a good point. I feel somewhat fiscally irresponsible since I have student loans and such. On the other hand, part of the reason I'd like to make more money is because a lot of my close friends became engineers, etc, and make a lot more money. It's not very fun to always be the guy who is like "Uh, guys, can we plan something a little cheaper?"

I'm contributing to my 401k and I'm saving money on top of that though, so I don't really have much to complain about. It's just little things.
I tried like 30 different mailinator e-mail address as a way of getting through to this article without giving my real e-mail address.

Kudos to the Washington Post tech team!
The first YouTube viral video that blew me away, in terms of content and in showing the potential of democratized video, was the anonymous Korean kid shredding Pachelbel's Canon in D in his bedroom:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjA5faZF1A8

The Times wrote a story about it here: "Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last"

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/arts/television/27heff.htm...
I would image they'll go through the same evolution that was brought on by the competition from Android devices: cheap, full-features, and massively popular.
But that is what's mind-boggling. That one species has managed such global impact.
yes you can program to zap you! Useful for reducing social media usage (i use it on reddit), and staying more productive (integrated with RescueTime).
I can relate to this. When I was on a project at work once maintaining legacy code, I got no fulfillment so I had about 3 side projects going at once. Now that I am back to interesting stuff at my day job, my motivation for side projects has gone way down.
See this 1946 Oldsmobile ad, "The Smart Way to Drive," referring to the new automatic transmission: http://oldsads.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/olds_08x.jpg -- really hammers on the "smart" theme. That was 70 years ago.

I'm simply suggesting that "smart" is a moving target based on the cutting edge technology of the day, and that many previous "smart" devices are now ubiquitous and invisible in daily life.
Lol, I thought this would be about Canada and carbon emissions, greenhouse gasses.

As for the greenhouses, as a canadian it also makes me laugh when to buy tomatoes at Costco that were grown only a couple miles away, sans chemicals, and picked the day before. You don't need to go to a farmer's market to buy local.
No humans then. No civilizations then. It was hot, and species were OK with that. Or just weren't.
This kind of engineered inefficiency for market segmentation purposes irritates me to no end.
I've actually made a couple of small killings in the last few years. I had one bomb (lost 20%) and even though I'm still up really well, I'm moving everything to index funds because that one loss eats at me.
Those may be inflation figures given my the government, but real life has real inflation -- like things that are not counted in the world bank inflation period. Could of questions to think about:
- In real life, how much has your rent gone up by?
- In real life, how much have your medical premiums and co-pays increased?
- In real life, how much have your drug co-pays gone up?
I just entered [myname]@aol.com and it worked. It's not like they're making me authenticate the email. What problem did you run into?
Doesn't sound like anything new. Never heard of the guy.
Over a year with string-saw.js
https://open.buffer.com/hiring-at-buffer-in-february-2024-ap...

i wouldn't be worried about an employee exodus as they get loads of applications as is. and everyone is replaceable IMO.

the company fascinates me with their high salaries for customer service and relative low salaries for engineering. from that post, they've way more applications for customer service than engineering. why not save money by paying way less?
Um... not much has changed in the technical writing world. There's a few better tools for using images/video, but nothing really that great (someone go build this please!).

The things expressed in the article are still pretty valid. Except for the first one (I don't like cutsy documentation), the rest are solid starting points.

The biggest one for me is to tell people what to do. Don't ask or talk in the passive voice.
This is likely the future of food. More and more needs to be squeezed out of every acre of land.
Computing boot-camps: Should for-profit crash courses get federal funds?
Everyone is a NIMBY in their own way, it's just a difference of how much annoyance you are willing to tolerate. Most people wouldn't want a noisy factory or a smelly dairy next door, for example, but those things have to be somewhere.

Now imagine you spent a lot of money to get a house with a nice view. Suddenly Larry Ellison decides to build a skyscraper next door, which blocks the sun on your property every day. You can't even grow flowers anymore because there's not enough sun. Some of your trees die. Are you happy?

Now imagine you spent a lot of money for your house. A housing company proposes changes to the neighborhood that will reduce the value of your house by 20%. In other words, you will be working and paying for years on a portion of your house that no longer has value. Are you happy? Well, maybe you can handle it because you're rich.

So these are the kinds of things that go through the minds of NIMBYs.
You want one of these[1]. I see them all over the place second-hand, and they are damned near indestructible.

Almost like the Kitchen-Aid mixers, that reached the heights of perfection somewhere in the 80s, and have declined and become cheaper and flimsier since.

[1] https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/ee/16/d3/ee16d37f1...
One of the heroes involved:

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

These planes are special things. If you want to go somewhere dangerous, or just weird, this is what you want carrying you.
The light-sport license is relatively easy to get, compared to everything else.

You only need to log 20 hours of flight time, and you can use a drivers license in place of an FAA medical exam.
I came here to comment about the Thinkpad.

They are cheap, they are sturdy, and they are fast.

The design is one that works with the user. Even though it doesn't look 'good', I love it and don't think I'll ever be able to change.

This video embodies my opinions of how great the old thinkpad designs are: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doEZMNXz1JY
Recommender systems, Part 1: Introduction to approaches and algorithms(2013)
>...Energy storage is possible.

Possible, but except for pumped hydro, it looks like still a lot of work needs to be done.

>...3) Fusion is attainable in the time frame we need it in, if we increase research funding, but its not required. That said if we cracked fusion, we would have all the energy we would need to desalinate seawater and sequester carbon.

I am not sure if fusion is attainable in the time frame needed or it would be economically viable in that timeframe. With fission we have working reactors right now and with a little more research effort we could soon have 4th generation reactors. With reactor designs like the integral fast reactor (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral_fast_reactor) there would be enough potential electrical generating capacity to last the world thousands of years. (Of course we should also keep investing in fusion research and energy storage.)
I just put in an @washingtonpost.com address. If they start sending spam, no reason anyone else should have to deal with that.
That's exactly what Trump has tapped into (ie anti-free trade like the left; anti-immigration, pro-life, pro-guns like the right). It's the same populism underlying early 20th century European movements.
We don't know what happened to our ancestors. Anything from environmental disasters to epidemics could have wiped out 95% of our ancestors at some time, and the only trace of that would be slightly lower fossil counts.

In other words, "our ancestors survived" isn't really reassuring. There's a really wide gap between "Everybody's lives become seriously harder" and "Humanity goes extinct".

After all, even WW2 only managed to kill ~3% of the human population. A completely survivable event.
Serious question, how is business from ATL -> Vienna almost 5k? I don't understand this at all, especially given the fact that Atlanta is closer to Vienna.

In general, I'm always perplexed at the costs of flights, so was surprised to hear about such a relatively cheap international flight. Disappointing upon further inspection.
So many articles from just ten years ago are dead links now. But I found this amusing:

"lonelygirl15 is the hottest thing on YouTube at the moment (18,222 subscribers, 1.5 million views)"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2006/aug/28/islo...

18,222 subscribers! And they're still talking about it a decade later.

Meanwhile rocketboom.com was serving up QuickTime that required a plugin to install before you could view a video and claiming 400,000+ downloads per episode. (Later investigated and disproved by BusinessWeek.)

Early web video was a debacle. So many shady companies. Cool times, though. Fun to watch the history get re-written. Note how CAA was in on it from nearly day one.
> For many, the idea is to pay the high cost of living here, save up, then move to somewhere much cheaper after an early retirement, career change, etc.

I can definitely understand why this is attractive. Maybe I'm on the other side of the argument because I'm not really an engineer and don't plan on being one. So while there are jobs I'd consider in the Bay Area, there's a similar number of similarly paying jobs in NYC and DC, where rent is less.

> Cars cost basically the same across the US. So do flights, vacation homes, stocks, etc.

Yes, but the cost of living calculator should be resulting the same amount saved, after all expenses are paid.

> Edit: let us not also forget that the ceiling for pay as an engineer in the Bay Area is currently around half a million a year in salary

This is the most convincing argument, I think... If that's true, that the ceiling (after adjusting for cost of living) is higher in the Bay Area, then yeah it's a pretty clear choice for engineers.
I really appreciate your further comments. I agree for most part that humans and other living things ultimately act out of self-interest.

However, there are circumstances when rationale breaks, like when member of your family develops a terminal decease. A purely rational decision would be to cut emotional and financial losses and abandon them, wouldn't it? Yet, luckily, we don't see that happen.

The length to which we go to keep family relationships is irrational, yet I suspect it's a huge component of how we managed to ensure reliance of a system and develop huge societies.
Hm, that didn't work for me either!

A random gmail worked.
"I think we're going to be a planet covered in trees. I wonder what that would be like".
https://youtu.be/YxJLyPSRusc?t=52m4s
For a revenue-generating business like this, is 90 employees with $10M ARR normal?

Admire the transparency.
that lady rocks... love it!
I really doubt that zoning laws improve quality of life for people in your average randomly selected town. Zoning laws give us things like parking requirements which drive down density and force everyone to drive. Then there's frontage requirements, setbacks, bans on multifamily and commercial construction.

One way we could price zoning laws is through their impact on buildable space. As long as we raise taxes on the beneficiaries, everything'll come out in the wash, right?
I didn't know marijuana was a cure for blindness or psychosis (if anything I thought it was an aggravator of the latter).
Funny you mention Ellison. That's pretty much what he's doing on Lānaʻi, though less the giant skyscraper and more the idea of remaking the island for his own purposes.
I think that's what my old Chrysler had. The one where when it failed, absolutely every electrical accessory went dead at the same time. HVAC, radio, wipers, turn signals, tailights.

The only thing that still worked was the engine management computer (it still ran fine) and the headlights which seemed to be wired directly. I think the brake lights also worked but I'm not sure.
I remember watching that, and now re-watching it, it's still amazing. This kid has serious skill, I could watch it over and over.

My father, a life-long musician and music teacher, always told me the hallmark of a good piece of music is that it can be transposed and arranged into any other genre of music and still sound amazing. I don't know if he was right or not, but this seems like decent evidence he wasn't all wrong.
> such as... well... a lot of stuff in this article

Can you elaborate on some of these things and provide some reasoning as to why they are markers of inauthenticity?
And, well, much as I like our local industry... generally they taste nothing like a tomato.
Having a transparent formula for salary limits or removes the effects of negotiation, which likely benefits engineers (typically bad at negotiating compared to e.g. sales people) and women/minorities (worried about increasing "otherness" further and sometimes lower leverage, at least in tech).

There are potential downsides such as increased politics or income inequality pressures, but it seems like a viable policy at least. I'm curious how someone like Google's Laszlo Bock would respond to this approach in comparison to their "pay unfairly"[1] mentality.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/google-policy-to-pay-unfairly...
They've learned an approximation of what stuff looks like projected into 2D.

My guess is that your brain is creeped out by an uncanny-valley-like effect. The images are plausible in their structure so part of your visual system is happy, but the causality is not there, so your brain is thrashing around looking for meaning that is missing.
Smart blender? No. Duh.

Smart robotic house, including a kitchen? A machine/system that does grocery shopping, cooks for either or both of us if we don't feel like it - with the option for remote advance notice - and washes up?

Likewise for laundry, ironing, towel folding, toiletries, and domestic chores in general.

That could be a thing.

I'd pay money for the option to have breakfast appear on the counter a few minutes after I tell the house I'm up, or dinner waiting for me/us when I get in.

The big problem with IoT is that this kind of automation isn't practical yet. We're getting little piecemeal micro-products that sort of nearly kind of do something useful, but the big opportunity is automating the boring stuff in a more comprehensive and ambitious way - and the technology for that just isn't there today.
> Yet, luckily, we don't see that happen.

is it lucky? especially in the west, we'll fight a terminal disease long past the inevitable, at the expense of the patients well being. at some point the humane thing to do IS to "abandon" them.
You could always rent your fridge. It could be manufactured by the people who run your grocery store. That's probably where the fridge is headed.
>Now imagine you spent a lot of money to get a house with a nice view. Suddenly Larry Ellison decides to build a skyscraper next door, which blocks the sun on your property every day. You can't even grow flowers anymore because there's not enough sun. Some of your trees die. Are you happy?

I have trees now!? Flowers? Luxury! My current apartment doesn't get enough sun to grow plants that need sun. And we pay $2200/month for a two-bedroom apartment here.
> When they get to that again.

Looks like they're still hiring: https://buffer.com/journey/full-stack-developer
I can't claim to remember all the details (this was several years ago before I started at uni), but I'm certain I attempted to find an option like this and didn't. It may have been added in the interim or I might have simply been too inexperienced.
> If you are running a business, though, you shouldn't be building things that aren't what you sell, unless you really cannot otherwise buy them.

Using the "aws specific" features that are always touted as the reason it's expensive, have a secondary "invisible" cost to them that many don't or won't recognise: you're tying your business directly to a single provider, and one that has a history of predatory pricing to gain market control.

You don't need to buy physical servers to not use aws. There's lots of middle ground that can be achieved for equal or lower costs, with less lock-in and more control for your business.
"Good terms" is setting a pretty low bar for family.
Reflections also make this not work.
Truly, we are living in 2 billion years ago.
Yes, the fact that you couldn't raze and rebuild Somerville does imply that the existing zoning laws are illegitimate.

Proponents of zoning talk about things like reducing congestion and preserving the character of the neighborhood. If you can't exchange like for like these arguments fall flat. Changing the rules of the game after you've won, so to speak, smacks of crony capitalism. Cynically I believe that zoning laws primarily exist to extend property rights over land that a person is unwilling or unable to buy.
Most zoning codes with which I'm familiar permit rebuilding on the same footprint even after a total destruction (fire/earthquake), even if the building does not meet current size/setback codes.
That video is legendary even in the guitar community.

I must have watched it a billion times by myself.
The actual outputs look grotesque. Disembodied dog torsos with seven eyeballs and such. It's cool, but to me this is clearly showing the local nature of convolutional nets; it's a limitation that one has to overcome if one is to truly generate lifelike images from scratch.
the more FUD (like your post) that comes out about ethereum, the stronger my urge to invest in learning Rust, in order to use Parity[0]. I've been downvoted every time I buck the trend, and I've experienced financial gains almost proportional to my downvotes. I'm still living off the profits I made after the last bitcoin debasement (check my post history to see when). Bought back in at $400/BTC, and _really_ enjoying the profits I'm currently looking at.

0. https://ethcore.io/parity.html
Sports teams don't actually pay market rates. Every sport that I can think of limits pay in one way or another especially for stars, ostensibly so that small market teams can compete with big market teams.
My family is from Leamington and my grandfather laments to this day about how sad it is that the acres upon acres of glass and plastic have been plopped on top of the most fertile land in Canada. The Leamington area has seriously mild and fair weather compared to the rest of Canada and a sizeable chunk of its farmland comes from drained marshes. Fresh water is limitless as well (Lake Erie). That combo is killer and is the reason Leamington became the tomato capital of North America. Leamington was so successful in this that Heinz dropped a large factory directly in the heart of the city and bought up the majority of the area's tomato supply. Good on the farmers for making the most of their acreages but it's sad to see land you don't find just anywhere trapped beneath glass.

I should also add that outdoor tomatoes are still so much tastier. You could test the same type of plant grown inside and outside, just meters apart, and know immediately which one is which.
Every tomato I've ever eaten has always tasted pretty much the same?