skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a pretty solid factual case for quantifiable damage here: floods in Louisiana, Texas, India, West Virginia and France and fires in California, Portugal and Canada. There's also decreased crop yield due to droughts and decreased fish yield due to ocean acidification. This is non-zero.
I'm a little skeptical of the accuracy of the info released to the public.

Thing is, companies lie when they talk to the press. Or they release a number with no context behind it, which will be interpreted differently by outsiders than insiders. Or the press makes up a number when the company refuses to release it. Or the company chooses not to get press coverage for an event that's pretty important.

When I've had inside information about a story that later breaks in the tech press, I'm always shocked at how differently it's perceived by readers of the article vs. how I experienced it. Among startups & major feature launches I've been party to, I've seen: executives that flat-out say that they're not working on a product category when there's been a whole department devoted to it for a year; startups that were founded 1.5 years before the dates listed in Crunchbase/Wikipedia; reporters that count the number of people they meet in a visit and report that as a the "team size", because the company refuses to release that info; funding rounds that never make it to the press; acquisitions that are reported as "for an undisclosed sum" but actually are less than the founders would've made if they'd taken a salaried job at the company; project start dates that are actually when the project was staffed up to its current size and ignore the year or so that a small team spent working on the problem (or the 3-4 years that other small teams spent working on the problem); and algorithms or other technologies that are widely reported as being the core of the company's success, but actually aren't even used by the company.

I figure that if such a high percentage of what I do know about is misreported, most of what I don't know about but hear from the tech media is probably wrong too. Ironically, the effect of having a little inside information isn't to make me feel well informed; it's to make me realize how uninformed everyone else is, often including top decision-makers at companies.
I think the problem with your idea is that there's huge lag in the system. Even if all human CO2 production ceased today, there would still be huge changes for decades to come. A global catastrophe due to climate change would eventually put a stop to further climate change, but by then it'll be a little too late.

It's a bit like arguing that you can't die from jumping off a bridge, because then you wouldn't be alive to make the jump. It misses the important temporal relationships.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11750331
Hi, I recognize you as a PyPy developer. Do you think it's fair to write that "no one uses PyPy"?. I feel there are quite many companies using PyPy, mostly for web backend. You don't see many usages in other usages like Linux distros or ad-hoc scripts, even when the C extensions are not used, because 1) In 95% of cases, the performance is good enough, 2) the warmup slowdown dwarfs the overall gains.

Anyway, I think PyPy doesn't get the attention it deserves - the performance gains are fantastic and the vision of the Python ecosystem as Python-only packages with occasional lightweight C libraries integrated with cffi looks very nice to me.
Why are optimistic asymmetry and pessimistic asymmetry presented as the only two choices? Why not a third, symmetric choice where everything is viewed as specific, impersonal, and impermanent? I think this world view is the closest to reality, and I also think seeing the world this way promotes good mental health. I don't have any research to back this up, though. Do you happen to know anything about this?
In my case, FB's political guess was way off. FB Interests also indicated that my primary browser is Safari, even though I use Chrome exclusively.

The first mistake is understandable given the politics of many of my friends. The second mistake is a bit harder to understand. I guess they've got some work to do over at 1 Hacker Way...
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I am well aware of how much automation exists. The amount of work we are doing is going up - 40 years ago it was mostly men in the workforce, now both men and women work.
Part of my meaning was that there are programs created without much attention to the real incentives they create. The programs have abstract goals.

If you buy the microeconomics hype, you'd at least examine what sort of incentives you are creating in that context.
Utilities need fast-reacting ways to deal with rapidly changing generation from sources such as wind and sun. Large users can get a big benefit from reducing their theoretical peak usage, reducing their grid connection charge. Both of these usages are economic today.
What's the evidence for increased CO2 leading to increased biodiversity and agricultural yields?
To first question: actually, yes it did - in 1997, South Korea took a bailout from IMF and restructured the economy.

As you can see, it worked fairly well, though it involved some painful changes certainly disdained by many people at the time. (The dismantling of Daewoo, for instance).
That idea about all pasture-raised, grass-fed beef isn't even possible. Current pasture-rased beef is 9% of global cattle. Grazing, mostly beef, occupies 60% of the world's pastures. So we would only need to move the grazers to 666% of the world's pastures to build our sustainable future!

One of the main causes of global warming right now is grass-fed beef because it requires so much land. In South America, it's common practice to burn down the rainforest to feed herds of cattle, which is why we end up exterminating thousands of species per year. They're eating straight through some of our biggest carbon sinks and annihilating biodiversity.
That's exactly my thinking. The people I email generally open the link, look through the photos, and sometimes even write an email in response! It's the damnedest thing.

I put effort into arranging everything, and everyone else puts effort into looking at it. It's a pretty fair trade.
I mean, it's obviously unfair. Even in the scientific community someone uses PyPy. As far as download statistics go, I think between 0.5-1% of downloads from PyPI are for PyPy. This is far from "majority" but far from "noone" as well. For what is worth enough big players use PyPy that the consulting company that I run can stay afloat, so I somehow doubt that's the case :-)
It should work now. We have worked to get python3 work across platforms.
KDB+ .. Not opensource but you can use the 32bit version for free
I am a semi-active Pokemon Go player in the SF Bay Area and I can tell it's definitely died down over the last few weeks. In the beginning, every Friday/Saturday/Sunday night, the whole downtown area would be lured up and people would be out mingling and catching pokemon in the local park. This past weekend, there were only a few lures and a few diehards milling around the park. There's a few dynamics at play based on personal experience:

1) Many players don't care about the gym battling system and just wanted to "collect" Pokemon. Once you've collected most of the ones in your area, you're going to get bored catching the same pidgeys, weedles, and rats/bats. My SO and I have gone to different areas to catch other Pokemon but you just need to go a few times and now we both have "most" of the common Pokemon. We're not hardcore enough to want to spend more time hunting the last few missing in our deck.

2) The lack of support and response from Niantic when the game was badly broken turned off a lot of casual players. Hardcore players will forgive them but casual players especially on iOS expect a lot more polish and "it just works" from a top selling game. I wonder how much of a fit Nintendo threw when this happened given they are a partial owner/investor in "The Pokemon Company".

3) The gym battling system mechanics are not great. You basically can throw bodies at a gym until you knock them down. There's no P2P battling which would make it more exciting since the gym AI is predictable in their attack patterns and most players know the dodge, attack, dodge routine now. The whole premise is to take down a gym, revive your Pokemon, collect potions/revives, do it all over again.
From my sample size of one, myself, I was diagnosed with ADHD quite young, as well as tourettes and OCD to add into the mix. I had no problem focusing on school work when it was interesting.

Then again, when is school work ever interesting? I suffered from chronic boredom. It didn't end well for me though. I was rebellious and refused to listen. I'd like to think my obedience issues were worse than my hyperactivity issues.
docker recently adopted it for its new docker swarm feature.
Yes, I just email a URL to a page.
I identify with a lot of what you say. I was not formally diagnosed with ADD (now properly called ADHD-PI, the non-hyperactive variant) until a few years ago, in my 50s. I did well in school but ADD has been the bane of my career. I get bored easily with uninteresting tasks and the mental effort to complete them is exhausting. If I slip, and find something more interesting to do, it can annoy my boss, to say the least. I'd like at job that fits my brain better, but at my age, opportunities are rare. I'm now taking a mild dose of an amphetamine (Vyvanse) and it does help, but I still have to maintain a lot of self awareness so I don't wander off into the weeds.
They need 180 million dollars to move 600 people ~5 miles? That seems a bit ridiculous.
What about games? Lots of them are frontend and backend at the same time.
Not the person you're responding to but perhaps that person meant assuming your insertions are uniformly distributed? Then I think insertion is O(n) amortized..?

At an insertion you'd have

(n + (n-1) + .. + 1)/n
= O(n^2) / n
= O(n)

The first part comes from each possible run times, each with probability 1/n. You might have to expand the list but that'd also be O(n) amortized.
If all offers are the same, that's a strong indicator to say that's your actual value and not anyone low balling you
We simply don't know what the impact is of administering powerful amphetamines to children upon their development. Is there a population of children that would "age out" of the ADHD spectrum and develop coping mechanisms, if they were not given pills that prevent that? In such a case, the medication is actually hampering their development.
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> I can't work with silence, I always have to have music on. If I don't, I start wandering around the internet and getting nothing done.

> Pair programming is basically God's Gift to ADHD.

Just keep in mind that there is a huge variation, not every AD(H)D-er is the same.

> Taking the medication is hell.

Then you should possibly contact your doctor, it shouldn't be that way as long as you follow the recommandations, but sometimes even minor changes can make major differences, even changes in dosage or even type based on the same active ingredient.

> Then, they have to try to handle kids sporting events, social events, etc. on the weekends without it to try to keep their tolerances down.

This isn't R, is it?
Yes, but that is capitalism.

These companies primarily get created because investors want to see a return, the side effect is that they produce novel drugs.

So, no, they probably don't need to raise prices. Because they now have a temporary monopoly they are finding the monopoly price point as you say.

Having said that, try coming up with a better system to produce drugs.
Its really not "joining" if you are cancelling a service as part of the announcement. What is so wrong with actually saying "we were acquired" and the new owner does not value some / all of our existing customers?
I wasn't giving mine, I am leaving that up to the experts in the field and trusting that they will do a better job than me.
>So you recognize the inequality inherent in the situation.

Yes, I think the inequality inherent to the relationship between men and women will inevitably result in people being impressed by certain accomplishments when done by men and other accomplishments when done by women.

>The reason society praises men getting sex is because women are / have been historically treated in part as objects of pleasure / things to be won / conquests.

Don't you think it has more to do with the fact that it's difficult to convince a lot of women to have sex with you?

>Once the "object" is "defiled" it is shamed, but the men are not defilable because they're not objects!

If it turns out that either A) women having casual sex is bad for society or B) women having the sorts of personality traits that lead them to have lots of casual sex is bad for society, is shaming not an appropriate tool to improve society? As far as defiling goes, do you believe that sex has the same effect on women that it has on men and that the sort of personality traits that cause a woman to seek out sex with men other than a life partner are the sort of personality traits that men find desirable in life partners?
Since I've had the responsibility of managing the treatment of at least a thousand adults and adolescents with ADHD, it's a subject I've studied quite a bit. And as the medical literature attests ADHD is probably among the most researched of all medical conditions and its reality is unquestioned based on the scientific literature.

When people say "I don't believe in ADHD" I point out it's not like believing in Santa Claus, the reality isn't changed by our "belief". Might as well say "I don't believe in cancer", it's not going to make it disappear.

The fact is that ADHD has been shown to affect 4 to 5% of American adults and 5 to 8% of children. When the same diagnostic criteria are used, populations of other countries show comparable prevalence. This means it is a much more common disorder than usually considered.

The key issue in my estimation is the level of disability ADHD can produce in adults. Studies show devastating adverse outcomes in virtually all domains of functioning. People with ADHD fall far behind peers in educational achievement and employment, and far exceed peers in rate of divorce, motor vehicle accidents and injuries, greater rates of general health conditions and larger health care costs.

Furthermore, despite the availability and relatively low cost of effective treatments, among adults with ADHD only about 1/5 receive treatment. The total costs to the economy of untreated ADHD very likely is on the order of $100 billion annually in the US alone.

Bottom line is ADHD is a very common and disabling condition with a high cost burden to the individual, family and nation as a whole. We underestimate the impact of ADHD in all these domains at our peril.
Or sell the shovels, don't dig for gold.
You are core that there is no most superior. That's not my point. Some languages are (technologically) superior to some others.
We put in a lot of work to make gRPC work well with python 3.5, so give it a try if possible. disclaimer: I work on gRPC.
I think the best way to start user acquisition is to find other people that have the problem you have / had, and ask them to try it unrestricted. I would remove any notion of plans and pricing at this point until you've validated that it works for quite a few other people.
>Anyone who cooks can instinctively understand how "carryover heat" works

My thermo professor was fond of re-branding "global warming" as "global heating." Right now we're just melting the ice cubes. If that heat-reservoir ever dries up, things will really start warming.
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If you'd like the links that really helped me, check out this:

http://www.osdever.net/bkerndev/Docs/title.htm

http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html

https://github.com/stephenfewer/NoNameOS

https://anastas.io/osdev/memory/2016/08/08/page-frame-alloca...

https://github.com/kjiwa/x86-boot-sector-c

These are all useful. If you're more of a book worm check out Minix as said in other parts of this tree. Very very easy to read, interesting bits of history about OS development, and source code included! Nothing's useful without source code.

If you'd like to look up some general software books check out Programming the IBM PC, or something to that effect. It's commonly called The Pink Shirt Book. Has interesting stuff on IBM interrupts, coding standards, and bits on filesystems!
The Liskov substitution principle always holds in a type-safe language with subtyping. What is failing isn't the LSP, but rather your expectations from types. Just because a type is called “Rectangle”, it doesn't mean its instances actually behave like rectangles.

See: http://blog.tmorris.net/posts/identifier-names/index.html
In my experience amazon and TripAdvisor reviews are pretty decent.
Dave Evans at the University of Virginia taught a class on that in Spring 2014: http://rust-class.org/

Rust has changed a lot since then, but you might take a look there.
You should read the post.

> For you, the Instapaper end user and customer, nothing changes. The Instapaper team will be moving from betaworks in New York City to Pinterest’s headquarters in San Francisco, and we’ll continue to make Instapaper a great place to save and read articles.

They are shutting down a developer product Instaparser that I don't think had much traction (first I've heard of it actually) and is less than six months old.
This is from a guys perspective.

Pros

The Valley -

- Great tech thinkers

- Great engineers

- Great companies

- Great tech sector

- Great VC scene

- Great weather

- Great nature

- Great food

- Great wine

- Great tech startup culture

- Great interface design scene

New York -

- Great food

- Great intellectuals

- Great financial sector

- Great fashion scene

- Great media sector

- Great energy

- Great serendipity scene

- Great industry spread

- Great club scene

- Notoriously beautiful woman (i.e. great dating scene)

Cons

- The Valley -

- Decentralized tech scene

- Lots of driving needed

- Lots and lots of "me too" startups (surprisingly many)

- Horrible club scene

New York -

- No real tech scene

- Expensive

- Lot's of conservative business

- Extreme weather

In other words

Both The Valley and NYC are great places to be. In a perfect world you would spend half your time in The Valley and other half in NYC.
How is it the saying go?

Live on the West Coast once but leave before it makes you too soft, live in New York one but leave before it makes you too hard.

Personally I think NYC is best for young people (<40) and the Valley is where I want to retire others might think the exact opposite.
> holy fuck it's a lot of sales people patting each other on the back though

Meanwhile at my company the engineering boss spends a brief time every monthly meeting pleading for somebody--anybody--to submit nominations for corporate recognition. Not sure if it's mass-imposter-syndrome or just high expectations or what.
Somehow my mother-in-law still finds it worth her time to open my emails and text me saying "thanks"
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you should read the post

> As we focus on the future of the user experience, we’ll be sunsetting our developer product, Instaparser. Starting today, we will cease signups for Instaparser and halt billing for existing customers. In order to ensure a smooth transition for current users, we will keep Instaparser running until November 1, 2016.

[edit: parent added another sentence after my reply]
In a way, those can both be true simultaneously. Just from the assumptions that the "established powers" make more money by modifying the kid implies that even if modifying the kid's environment cost $0, it would "cost" them lost profits of modifying the kid.

Costs are relative, and I think the point remains that the kid's parents are relatively powerless to alter the kid's environment significantly enough to solve the adhd problem. Thus, the decision of the cost/benefit analysis of modifying the environment vs modifying the kid falls to the "established powers", also known as, collective society.
They have gaze tracking so this should be fixable.
The costs are dominated by the chemical energy requirements, as I understand. They seem unlikely to fall greatly.
Windmills mill down gears/bearings into metal/ceramic powder. They produce toxic electricity as waste which is transported elsewhere for disposal.
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People in the industry should realize that by windmill, we mean that big rotating thing. What it does with the rotation is not visible to us for us to need to make a distinction, and for the majority of their existence, those big rotating things were just windmills.
With the 1.0.0 release, there are Windows binaries for all supported Python versions (2.7, 3.4, 3.5). Make sure you upgrade to the latest version of Pip before trying to pip install grpcio. (The binaries use some ABI tags that are only recognized by newer versions of pip)
Larry Ellison does this too. Netsuite (Nelson) and Salesforce (Benioff) are seen as two major cloud computing titans.

Both were Ellison proteges who were given enough money to safely work on growing the new generation of the same business.
Your arrogance really shows with "hypothetically" in that context. That's part of what the article is discussing as a real issue.
There's an entire book written about the second approach called Traction [0] which boils down to: find the most dominant distribution channels and exploit them. Of course it includes plenty of non-traditional channel ideas and strategies as well.

[0]: http://tractionbook.com/
Small scale, USNRL, though the lack of anything more does concern me.
That is not capitalism. The existence of the FDA ensures that it is not a free market. Trying to label it as such is disingenuous.

The EpiPen product is basically a plastic housing around a syringe to make it easily injectable. There is no high sky-high R&D cost here.
Yes, the API that no one uses and was announced in April. The product Instapaper that is in the headline and is what everyone knows about is not going anywhere.
Depends on the release, but generally the numbers are released in a consistent machine-readable format.
Very excited to get this off the ground - we've got some big ideas where this can go - ultimately we want to support many use cases, but before we get there we need to battle test it in the market - would love any feedback, and if you want to get involved reach out to me denis at proxy dot co
This analogy doesn't really work, because obesity is caused by living a modern sedentary lifestyle, whereas I'm suggesting ADHD is what we're labeling kids with for not living, or rebelling against, that sedentary lifestyle.

Obesity is a disease in an objective sense because it directly causes ill health. There's lots of studies to show that. The symptoms of what we call ADHD seem to simply be caused by unhappiness and boredom with the way we live today. We're demanding kids do something that makes them unhappy, and any reaction to it, is labeled a disease.

> take medication to help our bodies [...] function properly in this society, because we agree its advantages vastly outweigh its disadvantages.

This seems like a problematic kind of statement, because the implication is that people who don't fit into society should somehow be coercively medicated. What about their rights and bodily autonomy?
That's totally valid, but they shouldn't use Node.js if that's a mission critical part of the project. Nobody is saying that Node.js is the holy grail, but I see that expectations are that high.
Well I would argue that universities are here to create acidemics, not create job candidates. That vocational work is exactly what you need to be a software engineer. I think the issue is more people don't understand what university level CS is, or that it's NOT a "get a job" pass.