skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We use core samples to measure historic levels - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_sample
Somerville is in the process of updating its zoning code: http://www.somervillema.gov/zoning/resources/2015-01-22-ordi...

My impression is that one of the goals of updating it is to make much more of the city be zoning conforming.
I believe in global warming, but I also think a higher or lower temperature Earth with a greater level of CO2 just means that different organisms will thrive. We think that we have damaged the Earth, but the Earth is much, much older than us, and we've barely made a dent if you consider the full lifetime of everything that ever will be. Now- if we had started a global thermonuclear war and eradicated all life on Earth, I wouldn't be saying that, but all we have done is to change the temperature and the atmosphere a little, which has serious consequences for the way things currently are, but in the end it will just mean different organisms take over and what grows where will change.

If anything, the thing we need to be concerned about is being ready for changes, which will happen. We might need to grow different sorts of foods, focus on better insulation for our homes or move underground or underwater. We may need new laws to avoid wasting resources. But, there is no reason to be depressed about it. Those things will happen with time.
> That said if we cracked fusion, we would have all the energy we would need to desalinate seawater and sequester carbon.

I've not heard this before. How does desalinating seawater help with sequestering carbon?
Do you mean Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wGR4-SeuJ0
Here's another visualization by Oregon State University, similar to the video but with a navigable equal-area map :

http://co2.digitalcartography.org/
I don't think the early Christianity was monolithic enough to say a pice of text represents it's beliefs. Looking back you can find some threads that where continued, but nothing suggests they where dominant in that time period.
ISTM they probably mean nautical miles, since they're quoting speeds in knots? So after we do the full translation that's 62.28 statute miles per US gallon... and then we realize we didn't really need to go to that trouble.
> It has better type classes

Haskell and Scala win and lose on different criteria but for type classes, I find Haskell's syntax and semantics infinitely more elegant, more terse and more flexible than Scala's. Defining type classes in Scala is a cacophony of syntax boiler plate riddled with implicits and brackets. Haskell is much more elegant in that area.
Ah, well you might want to stick to a more defensible complaint - because two sentences is all it took to make you look like an uninformed loon.
I worked at 1 company that did business class IF your flight was over 10h or something, but in 2008 that got revoked. Since then not seen any business class for mere devs.
So is third party you are relying on then effectively scraping these brokerages?
As a resident of near-downtown Boston, I want cars out of my neighborhood, ideally the entire downtown. I love the wide sidewalks and want bigger ones. Mostly I'm jealous that we can achieve neither the efficiency nor the beauty of transportation in Central European cities like Zürich because the suburbanites, their remote matchboxes, and their eyesore parking garages are obstacles to every proposal to improve (or even maintain) public transportation. To choke those folks out of the area with narrow streets and zero-car zones would be a blessing.

Although a more effective solution would be to scrap zoning laws and actually make the suburban blight towns convenient for workers and pedestrian residents.
Gospel of Philip (63:33-36) and Gospel of Mary (17:10-18:21) both, though not canonical, are ancient manuscripts that are supposed by some to suggest an intimate relationship.
> The fact that no gospel mentions it, could be the exact same reason women get ignored throughout the rest of history.

It would be weird to leave out Jesus's wife when it mentions his mother and sisters, as well as female disciples/deacons/apostles. Also the NT mentions that Peter and the other Apostles had wives.
No, there are very dumb question/statements. And it is indeed correct to call them out.

Why is it dumb? Because it packs in an assertion that is implied true, without asking.

An appropriate answer is "Mu". Or 'unask the question'.
The first video I remember downloading from the internet was The Spirit of Christmas in 1996[1] followed by Troops[2] the following year. 30MB takes a long time to download over a 28.8 modem. Streaming was out of the question.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spirit_of_Christmas_(short...

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troops_(film)
An American thanks Australia for its gun laws
Ha, I was wondering if I was the only one here old enough to remember it! I couldn't imagine a tech writer not leaping for this analogy.
Am I the only one who got a laugh out of the caption, "The last sunset of the summer at the South Pole"?
But will we be able to eat the different organisms that will thrive in this environment? What happens when today's staple crops no longer produce the yields we need to sustain our civilization?
This might be a more intelligent discussion if you focus on the substance of the answer instead of the behavior of the participants. I admit that I was, technically, "making up" the answer, in that I did not have direct confirmation. It is rather like, if you asked me what the color of the sky is on a cloudless day in Barcelona, I'll "make up" the answer, having never been to Barcelona. But I know how skies work, and I know there's only one possible answer. And, as it turned out from the link you provided, I gave the correct answer.

If you dig into the answer in the link you provided, Simons says gained his initial funding (as well as his data) by what we could accurately call gambling. He had no strategy, no reason to believe he was successful, and no expectation of being successful. He was - through luck - successful. With that success, and having gained money he could then afford to lose, he noticed some structure in the data, and hired some mathematicians to evaluate his hypotheses. It was in fact more likely that he would have lost all his gambled money before even thinking about approaching the problem technically.

He was lucky, in the most straightforward sense. Anyone else, too, could be lucky. But the nature of probability is that the common case is not the lucky case. That's not a digression, that's the exact discussion at hand. If you want to insist that occasionally people are lucky -- sure, and occasionally a newcomer will invent a secure block cipher.

If you have enough money to test hypotheses, and you're okay with losing that money if your hypotheses are wrong, fantastic, go test them. That's exactly what Simons did. If you want to get rich by investing in the stock market without a strategy and hoping to get lucky, well, yes, some people get lucky. Simons happened to be one of them. But that's hardly evidence you should emulate that part of his behavior.
My response to you is "what right do we have to usher in these changes?"

You might argue the "might makes right" perspective that anything within our capability is acceptable and appropriate but I don't agree with that sentiment. I feel that we, as sentient/semi-sapient beings, must be as custodians for this world and all the life within it.

We are actually the least among all, until we begin to serve the rest of this planet that has seen us to this point.
Is it, if the GP instilled the same values in his children? I hope that my children will hold me accountable for my actions and vice versa.
There's plenty of agreement with you, so I'll offer a counterpoint.

When a company is small--less than 10 or 20 people--it really can feel like a 'family' in that everyone would rather see the company fail than break apart. "Layoffs" aren't realistic in such an environment; the company is either working or it isn't.

As a company grows, these rules necessarily change. It's just a fact of having more people, as the momentum of the company becomes bigger than any individual. It's part of how a company grows. I've watched it happen; it's a strange thing and it feels like something has been lost, no matter how necessary it is.

The change from a tight-knit team, battling for success against all odds, to a sizable company with growth curves, finances, lawyers, outlooks, audits and EBITDA can sneak up on you. I think it would especially surprise early employees and founders, who remember the days when it didn't feel like a company at all.

Employment is never quite 'family'. But there's reasons to be empathetic to these founders' mistakes and choice of words, rather than a blanket "anyone who thinks that way has another thing coming."
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This sounds essentially like the plot of the Book of Ember series if anyone (or their kids) is into post-apocalyptic cave living fiction.
It doesn't. It won't be pretty, it's basically fighting for survival of the human species at that point.
I agree in some sense, an astonishing number of Bach pieces have been rewritten for a bewildering array of instruments and sound absolutely amazing. But Bach is kind of like Math, it's true regardless if it's written in chalk on a chalk board or in mustard on an umbrella.

Yet there's also plenty of great music that really only sounds good on the instrument, something about it is very "subjective" with respect to the particulars of the orchestration.

I'll sometimes spend hours digging into covers of favorite songs on youtube, and it really is amazing how different kinds of music can survive this kind of instrument shifting.

just some sharing

here's a well known Bach Suite https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGQLXRTl3Z0

now on guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGipFrts650

on piano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhfxM5FOzjQ

flute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWKQevA68DY

on Nyckelharpa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs3aUCM8BX8

electric guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bsr0MyH-3IU

another electric guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8OVpjdBevs

Baritone Saxophone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXz67syyse0

Michael Hedges https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfnm__lNNUg

Bass Guitar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-tzPu7e2pg

Recorder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PAhkoATipk

Tuba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neiTiiFp0bM

Banjo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLyM4gCrn1k

Rock version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIo59bHw54Q

Bobby McFerrin (not quite the same, but still...) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14LcvpXmb74

Pipe Organ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRMrGo2UTH0

Marimba https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0eVALniBKE

Ukulele https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC230wdYl1c

Clarinet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdTh4plaV9E

Dubstep https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7qxeXNqCHw

Mandolin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdKGI5zfkE0

Harp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUWU4DdxdwU

Horn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNsdcmDoDY0

Chapman Stick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbWkDlPM8oI

Bassoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMl7j-Q1DEE

Accordion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGE4l7ObPvQ

Trombone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqvapAxXsVE

It survives completely intact across instrument types, performance arenas, recording methods, synthesis, voice, octave...it's absolutely astonishing.
Brainfeel...I like that word. I'm going to keep it.
It's very difficult to derive 'ought' from 'is'.
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Command_line_arguments

However, stymaar (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11916985 )'s suggestion seemed to be specifically about avoiding the command line:

> I have an advice for you though, you don't need to open Firefox from a terminal if you want to be able to choose your profile at start-up.

I don't know, on Mac or Windows, how (although it would be nice) to wrap your script, or any other command-line executable, as an app that takes its arguments as parameters specified on double-click.
During the little ice age, people ate things that grew in colder climates, like potatoes. We will find a way to survive, and we have more technology now to help than we did then.
The changes are already ushered in. Our responsibility now is to manage the consequences as well as we can.
Worth noting that, after reading the article, the researcher now thinks the papyrus is probably a fake: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/karen-ki...
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My coworkers have the newest 13:DE. Meanwhile, I just bought a T460s for personal use.

Honestly, they're pretty comparable. The Dell is an attractive package, and has a better display, but the ThinkPad wins the input battle (IMO) with it's keyboard (curved keycaps, better travel) and trackpoint. I also have more ports and RAM available (one stick is soldered, the other is user-replaceable).

Another thing to take into account is that you can get the Dell w/Linux out of the box. In my case, I had to pay the Windows tax and then install Linux.
If you have enough energy to spend, capturing CO2 is quite feasible.
He's not saying this is all fine and dandy, hes saying its not an apocalypse, just a global catastrophe from which both the earth and humanity will recover.
Yeah. Now that I think about it, I probably haven't paid attention to this since about 2007-2008. I'm getting old... I was thinking it was just the other day ;-)
Argh. I really like airbags.
In the summer I like to get tomatoes from my garden slice it up and put it on some rosemary ciabatta bread, toasted. Maybe a bit of mayo or instead some olive oil.

It is far better than anything grown inside.
I disagree with most of your points but let's take an example of how TV/propaganda differs from reality: On TV, brave agents would be "incapable of any sort of undercover/sting operation." In reality, a super-leak would end abusive and dangerous confidential informant ops that depend on blackmailing CIs into enticing others into pseudo-crimes. CIs also commit thousands of crimes that they get away with while being CIs. The FBI wastes a good deal of time on these ops, which might have something to do with why, after his co-workers had concrete concerns about the Orlando shooter, the FBI found nothing wrong. Secrecy hides a lot of ineffective, expensive, and abusive practices.

In every area you cite, it is likely that secrecy hides more appalling counterproductive corrupt practices than it protects secrets that make us safer.
Why? Global population is already forecast to peak pretty soon.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/1993001...
Who cares about his wife if we still can't get what he looked like right. He wasn't European.. let's stop drawing him that way.
But the output per acre is multiples of regular outdoor farming, so it's the opposite of wasting the fertile land. It's making the land area even more productive.

W/re taste it's possibly just the variety grown rather than the cultivation method.
Really I just don't want to fly by wire. Analog control would be fine with hydraulic assist for steering and brakes.
Ok, we changed to that from https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2....
I think grandfather commenter is more worried about clean freshwater here. (A scarcity of clean freshwater might be one of the consequences of changing the climate and thus the water cycle.)
And plain old demand shifting.
That sounds more like capitalism, which says that you might someday earn a one-bedroom condo, if you're innovative enough to start a company and get a good exit.
I agree managed NAT is probably better (although can be more costly), but you still need a managed NAT Gateway in each AZ.
I'm pretty sure that video is what got me to signup for Youtube 2 days after it was released - amusing to see my uploads from then, 10 years later, still getting views (and annoying Youtube comment emails).
So if a whistleblower tells the government about illegal activities of a business or of an organized crime group, the government should release the identity of the whistleblower and the details of exactly what information they provided?

If people tell the CDC details of their sexual contacts so that CDC can track and deal with an outbreak of an STD, the CDC should release the names of the people involved and those sexual details?

Or do you think law for cement and public health are not areas that government should be involved in?
No, I'm pointing out that the hypotheticals used to make NIMBY sound sensible apply very, very rarely, and also presume that the supposed beneficiaries of NIMBY have a higher initial, pre-urban-density standard of living than we actually do.
Unless you bury the plants. That's what happened to create coal and oil.

The problem of too much CO2 in the atmosphere will solve itself in a few thousand years: the ocean currents will sequester lots of carbon in the depths of the sea. Of course, people alive today and their children and grand-children don't want to wait for so long.
Density is always a difficult comparison as it depends upon the area chosen. But,according to Wikipedia, Somerville is about 50% denser than Munich for example.
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>In the rare cases when corruption was masked by military secrets, e.g. the Iran Contra affair, the profits were small (in the tens of thousands

Where did you get that figure? Ricky Ross made billions personally on that racket
> I really don't want a ... smart fridge.

Seriously? I want a smart fridge and smart cabinets. Everything RFID'd, and all the shelves are scales. Everything is tracked and when it gets low, my shopping list is auto-populated and semi-automatically purchased and delivered.

Not sure about clothing... Can you detect thread-bare socks?
What if we (humans) don't survive this?

It won't really matter in the long run.
It's from Dr. Strangelove, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
Understanding the climate is hard. Scientists are working on exactly these kinds of problems.
This paper is an order of magnitude more interesting than the topic article. Thanks!
A rare, risky mission is underway to rescue sick scientists from the South Pole
See https://qntm.org/destroy
That's not true. Tesla's AEB and side collision avoidance are always active, regardless of whether Autopilot is on or not.
Litigating the truth-or-falsehood-of-all-religion is a classic (the classic) religious flamewar topic, and as you know that is not allowed here.

We detached this comment from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11918569 and marked it off-topic.
Hmmmmmm... As someone with family in Boston and who plans to return there, I really want a some way to invest 20% of my IRA contributions in the Boston housing market until I can actually afford to buy a house there and move back.

I wonder if I can help someone else hedge against the market going down.
I always think of my microwave.

It has modes for defrost, popcorn and a bunch of other stuff I never ever use. Its always at 100% power, I just punch in a time.

I like my devices generally dumb. Though I do appreciate that microwaves turn off when you open the door (watching people open the office microwave while still on).
The forecast may or may not happen. Everyone having at most 1-2 kids would help.
I am not sure, I wonder if having kids mean you will care more about the future?
No, sustainability is an empty concept in a future where the status quo is past the point of no return (which we're already in). We will need to move a hell of a lot faster than the Paris Agreement to prevent huge die-offs of people and loss of biodiversity.

We're going to need a Manhattan Project for carbon sequestration.
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"We don't care where your income comes from, we just want our cut of it."
> What logic would make them good when they already exist, but bad if you wanted to build more

A duplex is split between two families. They both think multi-family housing is for college students, the universal bane of Massachusetts housing debates.
You are correct. As long as this does not mean we will hit severe resource scarcity that starts one or several wars that turns so bad that nukes starts flying.
Howl's Moving Castle?
Lots of Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, etc opting for zero already.
Note as well that for 50-80% of the year (depending on location), the farmers market tomatoes are just Mexico tomatoes bought at Costco.
Large-scale engineering, the kind we'd need to do large-scale cleaning of the atmosphere, or large-scale high-efficiency hydroponic farming, or building huge earthworks to protect cities from rising sea levels, or anything else we might need to do to deal with global warming, is driven by large-scale energy production. Without energy, we can't do the things we need to do to survive without a lot of pain, suffering, and death. With plentiful energy, we can do the things we know we need to do, and new technological advancements become possible.

I wouldn't rule out nuclear energy. There are risks, but it can produce a lot of energy in a small space, and the waste is much lower volume and easier to contain than chemical energy production. In my opinion, we should've built up our nuclear energy production over the past 30 years so that coal and oil could've been phased out by now, while we developed viable solar energy tech to replace the nuclear tech.
They want to do their first relaunch with a paying customer -- meaning the customer's insurance needs to be willing to insure a relaunch. So, now, they're talking to insurance companies to see what will convince them that the risks of a relaunch are comparable to those of a new rocket launch. This may involve doing a teardown on one of the returned stages, just to check for damage after the first launch and landing, even though they do not expect to do anything like that level of work on stages that they actually relaunch.

An article that goes through all this in excruciating detail is here: http://spaceflightnow.com/2016/06/03/spacexs-latest-booster-...
I'd say the less emissions we have to less severe the consequences will be and the the easier it will be to work around the problems in the future. Every tiny reduction buys us more time.
South Park definitely set a precedent. There was also a very active community of sharing MPEG1 recordings of Futurama in the warez 'scene' from the very first episode which aired in March 1999.
I wonder why you assume I am a haskell person, why you assume I am "so hurt about scala", and mostly why even if those two absurd assumptions were true, that you could generalize that to "haskell people".

I am obviously not a haskell person, or I would have just used haskell rather than trying scala first. I am not hurt about scala, it simply was much less productive than haskell.

Scala is not remotely the closest to haskell. Not even the closest JVM language.

And my "claims" are my personal experience, how can they not be "very well founded". You seem to be putting some emotional context into this that has nothing to do with me.
This algorithm is so simple that I once accidentally implemented a workable approximation of it while experimenting with creating a simulated tape delay in a flexible-architecture DSP system that was designed mainly for sound reinforcement (Soundweb London). I was floored when I fed white noise into a very short filtered delay (with noise retriggered by the tape delay's output level) and started hearing plucked string sounds.