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Regarding terraforming, I suggest a quick win may be to trigger a volcanic super-eruption. The cooling effect is known to reduce global temperatures to refreshing and/or bracing levels:

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

I was leaning towards using nuclear weapons to kick things off, but the potential side effects of such an event will probably be tricky enough, without the giant dust clouds soon to enshroud the Earth also being radioactive.

There may of course be other unforeseen consequences, but given the alternatives (which we see all too clearly) I ask: who's in?
Won't most mainstream languages have a built in library for that sort of thing these days?
"We can't afford to stifle the inventor who will get us out of this mess."

As long as that inventor doesn't turn out to be a new Thomas Midgley Jr.:

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

NB Inventor of both leaded petrol and CFCs.
Well clearly it has nothing to do with man-made pollution, it's nature taking it's course and these rampant wildfires. Oh wait, what causes the wildfires you ask? :-)
Nuclear power isn't some counter-cultural fad. It's the top recommendation and consensus among climate scientists. This messianic fantasy that solar and wind will save us, to which every anti-nuclear technologist clings, is not only wrong, but dangerous.

Global warming is no longer a theoretical issue. It is here. Now. Within 20 years people will begin abandoning the Persian Gulf, sending a wave of refugees across Europe that will make current migration look like a trickle.

We are facing an existential threat to global civilization. There's no longer time to bet on a solar moonshot. We're discussing geoengineering for god's sake. We need proven technology, and we need it now.
except for, you know, the price of the ipad as well.
The scientific community could not possibly hope to have a definite answer to that.

Hard liners on "man-made" climate change are sponsored through various channels just like hard-liners on no climate change at all.

I am no ecologist, but I know my statistics, math and logic. From what I've read on the subject, claims that it is man-made are based on assumptions which don't hold and huge jumps in logic and conclusions.

What we can safely deduce is that there is some shift in the climate with temperatures increasing. Humans probably are a contributing factor without any way of knowing how much we contributed overall.

Every paper which claimed something differing from the above made HUGE jumps in their logic.
In fact, at the time, I was working at LBL in a lab that developed new congestion avoidance algorithms. The problem was that most of our tuning for was for long-range links, while I was using the cluster for local high performance networking.
I will!

I'm guessing you mean these..?

http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/OSDevIndex.html
The biggest problems brought on by climate change will be 1) water shortages 2) crop failure and 3) flooding of low-lying areas, probably in that order. The "solutions" for 1 and 2 (water desalination and vertical farming) are being worked on by plenty of organizations. A few are also working on fast and efficient construction of housing, but I think that's where the biggest business opportunity lies.

People are going to need housing even if we're able to avert disaster, and there's billions of people around the world who are already in need of stable shelter. If you could figure out how to quickly build a cheap and safe high-rise apartment building using relatively unskilled labor and that could be expanded as necessary or even deconstructed and moved, then you would have a world changing, multi-trillion dollar company.
Will they be remembered as mass murderers I wonder ? How many people have died due to IMF policy by this point ? In Portugal alone I had to watch people go out in the street and almost starve. This was in a small Catholic town, where everyone (including myself) where constantly trying to help them. But there was just almost nothing left. I was living with my parents along with my 3 brothers, now work in London. And here it's no different. Hundreds of thousands, maybe more, are homeless and perhaps even starving. For what purpose?
You didn't think they would catch on in the ocean or on land? I drove through rural Minnesota and South Dakota on a road trip last week and was amazed at how many turbines are out there these days. Xcel energy in Minnesota offers a program for customers to get their energy from wind sources (obviously it still comes from the grid but I assume they offset any coal generation). We've had it for a few years and the average cost has been ~ $6/month. $6/month to support the local economy and the development of renewable energy production is a great deal considering the environmental and social costs of coal generation. Frankly I wish they would make it opt out rather than opt in.

I also caught the start of an interview yesterday about how the state of the national grid is a major limitation in our ability to consume these forms of energy (http://www.npr.org/2016/08/22/490932307/aging-and-unstable-t...). Hopefully our elected official will start working on that problem soon rather than bickering about bathrooms and building walls...
Is this real or marketingspeak? Are there YC companies here who can describe what the actual benefits are of being a member of YC?

My understanding of all venture capitalists is that they like to sell their business expertise, contacts, network, but does this really amount to anything ordinary they just want a slice of the company?
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> "Hey, my bonus depends on reducing the clicks on the "Request an appeal" button..."

That sounds entirely too plausible as the real root cause of this problem.
>this marketing tactic raises all my alarms

How would you market this product?
The problem is that costs are subsidized by basically letting businesses destroy the environment. The solution should be simple: add lots of taxes, let the off-the-shelf cost of meat and gasoline reflect the real cost to our environment, make deforestation a crime, tax the shit out of all polluting industries and if a country is not participating add taxes on imports from said country, or ban those imports altogether.

As long as the burning of fossil fuels keeps being dirt cheap, there's no incentive for innovation.

You mentioned meat - if governments would tax the current CAFO practices in accordance to the destruction of the environment and of our health, the consumption of meat would go down because of the price, but that meat would end up being raised with sustainable farming practices, on organic grass, locally grown, as that would prove to be the cheaper way to raise meat and so it would have a higher quality.
strange, it never rained once when i was there, and i was there for at least 3 days.
Haha, I was just about to reply to your comment with nearly the same thing! I think one day I may need to do a book on C++ for embedded folks. Chapter 1 will be "Please don't use std::string!".
The chasm is entirely the same chasm defined in the book, they need to obtain profitability, either their plans are to cut expenses and have no growth, or to cross into profitability by starting to acquire early majority customers. Additionally the book is not nearly as timeless as you would think. Its telling that all the marquee examples from the first two prints are pretty much out of business right now, and a few of the examples from the third printing are either greatly declined or also out of business. Finally a company that provides a subscription based, online platform for ongoing consumption of education services is pretty much a textbook example of a SaaS.

The theory of trim down and assault a targeted market to cross into a larger market space is sound, but if you are trimming down your future like the book suggests ( i.e. fire most of your sales and R&D staff, but none of your marketing staff ) then in a modern software world you won't survive long once you reach the other side.
Nice timing.

My dev env is deteriorating after 2 years use and I'll set up a new one this weekend.

Probably going to use NixOS, but also looking into Docker.
The synchronous job processing is something we had to add to our beanstalkd client, but none of the other enhancements are useful to us.

The biggest limitation of beanstalkd IMO is the fact that robustness features have to be handled by the client. That's why we're considering switching to disque or alternatives. It doesn't look like workq supports this, and it's likely something that should be designed in from the ground floor.

But beanstalkd's proven history is a huge mark in its favour that we'd be loathe to give up.
This quote is toward the bottom but I think it has a significant point to why this IRS perspective matters:

>"An owner is one who shares in the profits and losses of the business," Caprera said. "If the manager's compensation is reasonable and not tied to profits or losses, the Rev. Proc. recognizes that the manager is not an owner."

The details in the article clarify the reasoning. Maybe a few here are tax/policy students too (amateur or otherwise). Hoping the US infrastructure will find ways to benefit, I'm of the belief a lot of investment is needed and employment of local, perhaps stationary labor in a CCC-type make-work program. Worked before...
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The first seat belt was invented over 20 years before air force testing, they went into common use directly because of studies on rapid deceleration and mandates for adoption. It's hard to credit that with any other cause.

Consider, you might think break inspections would be completely unnecessary because who would drive a car without breaks. However, in states without annual inspections have accidents related to this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_inspection_in_the_Unit...
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A big yes to this! Signal handling will be covered in a future update. This is critical to Workq, being that it is intended to run as a standalone. A zero downtime deployment is required. There will be a more in-depth roadmap in the repo soon. Someone earlier just asked for it also.
This is more or less a message queue, one side (client) sends a message, the other side (worker) receive and act on it. But structured around the common use case of someone submitting a "job" to be performed(whenever possible, or at a certain time) and workers picking up and performing the job, reporting back the outcome.

"ping" here is just a message, not the name of a system command/executable - in this case the worker receives the "ping" request, and just replies with a "pong" message - both sides are code you need to write.

You can encode whatever you want in the payload, json, simple plaintext - it's up to the client and the worker to agree on the meaning.
It's always convenient to blame the tool. But I've used a
lot of different tools and I can tell you that the tool
is almost never the problem.

This is both true and also misses the point. Given a sufficiently smart software engineer Javascript is fine. But like the old adage about compilers the joke is that there is no sufficiently smart engineer. Even the best will occasionally make mistakes. Over time those mistakes will accumulate. When enough of them accumulate you experience serious pain.

Any argument that rests on the idea that all you have to do is: "Just hire engineers that can be perfect in perpetuity" is doomed to be a poor one. No language is perfect, however there do exist lanaguages that make it possible to fix problems after the fact with higher levels of confidence and more guarantees. Javascript is not one of those languages.

Not to mention that single threaded callbacks have an inherently lower ceiling on concurrency that multithreaded approaches. Some times you have to make the decision on whether to save thousands-millions of dollars on infrastructure so you can stick with your current codebase or to rewrite and take a medium term hit on velocity instead.

There most definitely is such a thing as outgrowing Node.js.
I do of course understand what you mean.

> At first it seems to work fine

It so happens that I have been working in OS- and low level areas for many years, and independently am also a pretty early adopter of C++. I have a reflex of routinely giving a quick glance to the link map, and am frequently dumping assembly for areas of code I have doubts in.

All this to say that reading 'it seems to work fine' in the context of OS development kind of provokes a skin reaction in me.
> Regulation has never fixed anything.

...

> And especially when it comes to science, we need to remember that innovation and regulation are opposite ends of the same spectrum.

So, regulation has never protected us from the negative externalities of a scientific discovery destructively applied by the market or state? Remember, the state is also subject to regulations - the same free market that fuels your utopian free-market fundamentalist pipe-dreams is protected and sustained by regulation.
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Same thing with Asthma inhalers.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/13/us/the-soaring-cost-of-a-s...
It's worth noting that 'blackness' is a kind of modern era invention -- the Romans were deep into north Africa, it was entirely integrated into the empire, more so than much of Europe, and in their texts the colour of Africans skin is not really even mentioned. They are just referred to as Africans, which means Romans who live in North Africa. That's it.
> We can opt either ... or

Or, we can have a compromise, since the world isn't black and white, and we needn't restrict ourselves to a binary choice.

That's how the European rights work, on life, expression (speech), privacy and so on.
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I agree about unproductive rhetoric, and my question wasn't aimed at you specifically, I was just wondering out loud about the opposite viewpoint. The focus of the climate discussion in general should definitely be more towards the points you raised, I'm just curious about people who don't think it's even a discussion worth having.
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The claims that climate change is likely mostly man made are based on a combination of well-established physics and chemistry as well as observations of how climate change correlates with the various conditions which are theorized to drive it, which gives a pretty clear idea of the direct contributions, and we have very good ideas of the root causes of those direct contributions, at least to the extent of which ones are largely the result of human activity (e.g., atmospheric CO2) and which are not (e.g., variations in solar conditions.)
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Just one result? I wonder if it was one of their plant results. I've heard rumors of Google seeding some (just a few) obscured google searches with totally irrelevant results, so they can catch competitors scraping results from their site.
I know, let's make the rest of the world just as aspiriational and let's also import people from places where they had little environmental impact right into societies where they can have far greater impact, and then let's let them keep making more of them with abandon, especially in the third world where they then emerge to overrun the civilized world from because they reproduce at far than sustainable, let alone carrying capacity rates.

The problem is clear, the solution is clear, yet the vast majority of people don't have the will to even just face the only solution. You simply can't rationally claim to want to do something about climate change and global warming on the premise that it's negative and needs "fixing", without talking about population control of poorly educated, low qualification people. Anything and everything else but qualitatively weighted population control is simply delaying disaster (if that is the premise you are operating on). We need to stop "saving" every child and person in the third world just so they can reproduce with abandon. For example, Nigeria is projected to reach 1 BILLION people by 2050. They can barely sustain themselves at the current 140 Million, you cannot consider yourself a rational or intelligent person if you think they will be able to do so at 1 BILLION.
You mean "If you reduce CO2 production by 90% by humans"

The analysis that I'm waiting to see is "of the global CO2 production each year, how much of it is due to humans?"

If we contribute 90% of CO2 production, then reducing it may change things.

If we contribute 10% of CO2 production, then even reducing our portion to zero, the overall change is near-negligible.
Holy downvoting. Why?
Thank you. When you're a web developer and very tired.. Yes, HDMI.
It's actually not very clear what North Africans would have looked like prior to the early Muslim conquests of the 600s. The entire Mediterranean-North African-Middle Eastern region has been conquered and reconquered so many times that trying to pin down the population to an ethnic category is (even more) difficult.
There is a sad counterpoint, though, and one I think of often.

There are discretionary purchasers of fossil fuels - people/companies who would buy units of fuel but aren't because it's not cheap enough. All of the actions I named above reduce the demand for fossil fuels (by an infinitesimal amount, but still). Reducing demand reduces the price such that some other user will consume those fuels anyway. In this case it might as well be me, as a self-interested economic actor.

This is the idea behind putting a cap on emissions and selling the right to emit, but so far such schemes are a failure. And as much as I hate to admit it, they really do need to be global in scale - if cap and trade just results in more stuff being manufactured in nations that don't limit emissions, we haven't really fixed anything.
It's certainly not an easy issue, but it's important to remember that privacy isn't a black and white issue either.

There is a difference between one photograph of one place at one time and a systematic collection of photographs of many places or over an extended period of time.

There is a difference between a single photograph taken by a private individual for their own use and a photograph taken by a powerful organisation to go into a large database of similar photographs.

There is a difference between a photograph taken for personal or in-house use and a photograph that will be shared with others or openly republished for anyone to see.

In all of these cases, the photograph itself may be the same, but the implications for privacy/anonymity are quite different. Once you start running computer vision algorithms on the photograph and correlating the results with other data sources, the implications go much further still.
Well, the nuclear weapons could remove most of the carbon emitters, but that's morally challenging.
I LOL'd when I read this...sometimes HN takes itself too seriously.
I read that as "Management Contracts to Facilitate PS3s" and couldn't for the life of me understand why they'd want to use an older console.
I think I'll just make a new account on a fresh IP and profile and see how it goes. This is getting old in a hurry. Thanks for turning a regular user into something a little less straightforward though, top moderating.
I think it's more about the feature surface. C++ is a gigantic language while C is fairly limited. I actually like C++ when I'm the only one writing it, but my experience has always been that for complex use cases (large) c++ code bases tend to always evolve to a mess of complexity, even with expert programmers.

But yeah, smart pointers alone help a lot with writing tidy c++...
Isn't another benefit of wind and solar the fact that it's distributed rather than concentrated into a few locations? Between the increase in frequency and severity of storms associated with climate change and the threat of terrorism/accidents, I would think the distributed nature of renewables would be a consideration even if nuclear remains a key part of the national grid.
Since I can't edit it, let me try again to make a bullet list (srsly?):

* 50 DM/h working for a great agency as a student (that was in 2000)
* 15 €/h working for an agency as a student (Yep, I was dense enough to take a paycut. Didn't even occur to me to ask for at least 25. So much facepalming...)
* 30 €/h working for the same agency when I decided to do freelancing full-time
* 30 €/h, then 40 €/h working for a small software company (First time I got to 40 hours a week of billable time. I was swimming in money! ;)
* 45 €/h working for another agency (iOS development)
* 50 €/h first contracting gig at $BIGCORP (160 hours a month - 8000€)
* 65 €/h second contracting gig at $BIGCORP2 (which is where I still am, 160+ hours a month - > 10k)
* 65 €/h working for a friend with a product idea (only a few hours, far from full-time)
* a few fixed-price projects in between, most of them were a desaster, one was decent
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I must not have been clear about what I meant. What I mean is that, if you do it your way and just implement Select and SelectMany, that's all you get - you don't get any of these 143 methods [1] for free.

Higher-kinded type support would improve the ability to abstract over these kinds of things and allow API designers to get more for free without repeating oneself time and time again.

[1] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/9eekhta0(v=vs.110)....
OK, I can understand that. Does that however not come with the assumption that we can solve that problem quickly when it does come about (assuming we can calculate roughly when we run out of fossil fuels)? I don't know how much evidence there is out there that that's the case.
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It's relatively easy to setup on windows compared to other dev stacks.
Can you clarify the missing robustness features?
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Definitely good stuff to think about in the piece, but even as a Go fan, I found the rhetoric to be insufferable. "Go obviously doesn’t have classes—instead we have the far more powerful notion of composition". Go's syntax may frame things differently than Java or Ruby or C++, and I don't discount the impact of syntax and abstractions on code design, _but_ just because you don't call them "classes" doesn't mean they are something entirely different.

Go types can have public and private fields, a set of associated functions which can also be public or private, and ways to extend other structs or pose as other types. So you've got encapsulation, inheritance, and polymorphism. Pretending you don't have "classes" is just silly.
This. Taxes (and some kinds of regulation like Germany's "fell a tree, plant a tree" rules) are immensely helpful to price externalities into the market.
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They are pretty good indeed to begin with. However, the best resource there is is clearly osdev.org, both the forums and the wiki are full of information!
Thank you, that clears up my confusion.
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> better alternatives around with much more sound models and environments, Erlang and Go

Node.js makes it extremely fast to build robust and fully featured web apps quickly. I'm using Go currently for the backend and it's a pain since everything has to be written from scratch. I still enjoy it since the language is simple.
Not to mention that along particular corridors, there was contact with sub-Saharan Africans. Especially down the Nile, but also via routes through the desert.
While not ideal, you can read kindle books on a computer using Amazon's Kindle Cloud Reader[1].

[1] https://read.amazon.com/