skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I too spend a lot of time in the Sierras, though more of the Southern end. I would concur with your conclusions. While I'm not the most cognizant of foliage, I can say that the watershed has dropped noticeably over the years. People might say "who cares? you only need water for overnight trips.", but that's not only wrong, but missing the big picture. The Sierras have been getting less snow, and LA is literally sucking them dry with the aqueduct, refusing to even consider solutions such as desal plants. Public transportation to reduce AGW is also a no-brainer that no one seems to want. Damage has already been done, but there are actions that could be taken to improve the situation. No one seems to care, though.
I was attempting sarcasm.
Will it be as easy as making forms in VB (classic, not .NET) used to be in the 90's?
There's nothing quite like looking at old computer ads that takes me right back to my childhood.
Following you logic you would have to release your app now with a Open Font License ...
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>That's the key, is consistently trying to do it.

Laziness is a virtue; at least among programmers. "Writers" just use different language.

Writing to say you write is just creating needless noise at best, and perhaps a kind of technical debt at the worser ends.

If you have something to write, write it. If you don't, you don't (because you are doing something else).
My Mac Pro has been running for over a decade with only the addition of an SSD... Assuming the PSU doesn't die on me, it should be able to run for at least 5 more years.
You don't have to use the GPL to link GPL code. You are just required to distribute the final binary under GPL. When you distribute the source files, individual files can be under individual licenses, they just have to all be license compatible with the final license.

IE, use GPL code, license header all your own stuff as Apache, distribute the binary as GPL, but anyone else can use your own work under Apache if they want if you are individually licensing all your own files under it, they just could not use the GPL parts without also distributing under GPL.
For Scotland and many other parts of Europe, forests started coming back both because forests were (re)planted and because we started burning coal and oil instead of wood and stopped building wooden houses, ships, etc.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2014/12/04... has a nice gif showing forest area increase.

For Yosemite, my guess would be a different cause: the area depicted had fairly recently seen a forest fire.
If you value them as the same, you couldn't really support vegetarian diets either, as little furry mammals do die as a result of farming in general.

Granted maybe less death, but you are still obviously valuing the animals as lesser than humans, as you're saying it's ok if a few field mice or rabbits die so a human can eat a tofu sandwich.

Side note, if you truly believe carnivorous diets are barbaric, than you'd probably also have to kill all the carnivorous animals (especially considering many of them torture their prey, rather than quickly killing it).
Took them long enough ;)
Because between years ago and now, security experts convinced us that you should never write down passwords or store them anywhere.
Isn't that TTY (Telecommunication Device for the Deaf)? Funny, the first time a company gave me that option, I chose it, not knowing it was for the deaf only. Wish it was the default for every single person in the world.
Ubuntu package?
It's an interesting question because it informs where we draw arbitrary lines about what's ok to eat and what's not.

Honestly, and not to just be a smart-ass, but what are the acceptable life forms to eat? We've drawn the arbitrary line that "humans aren't ok to eat," but that's really about the only nearly-unanimous thing we can agree upon.

If we move the line further, to say, "no intelligent animals," then we're stuck defining what "intelligent" means, or how complex a nervous system needs to be before we classify it as intelligent.

Ok, we could say "no animals," but why do, say, sponges deserve protection that we don't extend to algae?

Don't get me wrong: I'm fully in favor of re-examining our modern diet and how other living organisms are included in that. It's just an interesting discussion when we move the line further than "no humans".
Again, that was a fairly quick but narrow reaction.

I did not say "astronomy". I said "cosmology". The choice was conscious. The one is the more practical study of celestial phenomena, and you are correct that neither Plato nor Aristotle were astronomers. The other concerns itself with the large-scale structures and phenomena, both in time and space. Astronomy studies what is going on out there. Cosmology tries to figure out how it all works together.

Astronomy was not an immediate concern to theologians. But they obviously were interested in what was then a proto-cosmology, intertwined with philosophy. If you were an educated person back then, and you were interested in an overall synthesis of how the universe works, Aristotle had it, and you were sure to read his books.

Also be aware that back then nobody had proof positive that Aristarchus (who was much closer to the current definition of an astronomer) was right. Just like today, there were many competing ideas. With the benefit of hindsight, we know that he was on to something. But really it took the invention of the telescope, and the scientific revolution after 1600 to definitely tip the balance.

It is good that you fight narrow-mindedness, but be aware that its antidote is having a broad understanding of these issues. Spend some time thinking about that, okay?
Human life is worth more to us because we're humans. What's wrong or surprising about that? There are plenty of valid arguments for the humane treatment of animals, but don't sit there and pretend you value all animal life equally.
People demand growth. Market capitalizations do not demand growth.

It's probable that you're speaking metaphorically here, but your metaphor is abstract enough as to not communicate any meaning. It's clear that you think someone is demanding growth. Who is demanding growth? When you figure that out it will be much clearer to you what's going on here.
> In the real world, you use a well-tested premade off the shelf library to traverse a DAG or implement a red/black tree.

I reject your real world assertion, unless you do not count Google as the real world. The reason these questions are asked is that they're relevant to the work engineers will be doing at Google.
I recently contributed an awk filter for doing text transformation. I think it was some kind of code for converting POSIX attributes to LDIF or something like that. I was kind of surprised when one of the replies that I received was a request to re-implement it as a Python API. They didn't seem interested in using piplelines as a way to glue utilities together into something bigger. I don't have anything against Python, I just like the idea of being able to integrate wildly different implementations (C, perl, awk, sed, m4, Perl, Python, etc...) to solve problems. It's a kind of component based approach that the Unix/Linux/BSD shell makes really easy.
How is cultured meat unethical? Sure, it's uneconomical at this point, but I'm not sure how it's unethical. You could even go so far as to culture your own cells, and eat meat derived from yourself. That would be somewhat unappealing to most people (at least with current cultural taboos and stigmas), but I'm not sure how that could be seen as unethical.
You've just put a new idea about "the good life" into my head… This sounds positively delightful, to combine tech with rural living. I just might give that a try someday!

As someone who has struggled with his diet for ethical reasons for a long time, I have a question though. You say

> at the end of the season, when it's time to turn living creatures into meat, doing it yourself ensures that it's done well, and with minimal stress and pain.

How does this work? Do you not get cognitive dissonance from killing "your children"?

In the abstract, I completely agree with you that 1) eating meat can be done in a good, respectful way and 2) that perhaps the best, most honest way is to do it your way. But I would imagine that once I actually raise a chicken, I could probably not bring myself to kill it with my own hands (let alone eat it). Hell, I'm probably soft enough that even spending just enough time with a chicken to get a sense of its personality would make this impossible for me. Well, maybe if it's a particularly nasty personality, I could kill it but then how could I put such a revolting character in my body? Either way, it seems undoable to me… So how does it actually work, in practice?
On my system, it puts the backtick as an accent mark. When I type more than one backtick, they overlap. "`a" displays as "à". "``a" displays the same.
> Did RethinkDB spend $8M in 3 years?

Not necessarily. It's possible they still have cash on hand but limited runway. Anything leftover would go back to investors.

That's assuming they never had any revenue. If they had money coming in, they could have spent that as well so the formula gets more complicated.
A somewhat better article on this is here: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lq6/the_galileo_affair_who_was_on_th...

There were also politics involved. Galileo insulted the pope and did some other controversial stuff. He wasn't persecuted for his scientific beliefs.
Who else thinks Musk has turned into self spreading machine with a broken PID ?
It does. If people elect Trump, you're calling it cognitive dissonance, I'm saying it is democracy.
My fear exactly.

I get the impression that LinkedIn truly believes that companies will use them and them alone for recruiting.

This option will fail with really bad consequences for some job seekers.
http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/GRPN

http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/TWTR

http://seekingalpha.com/symbol/ZNGA

Cherry-picking isn't that hard. Plus, when DHH wrote that post, Facebook was a totally different company. They only really started justifying their valuation in 2013, after they got lucky with how mobile advertising worked to their advantage.
I've been using Snapchat for around 3 years. It's probably the only purely social network I regularly use anymore, which is a testament to its staying power.

That being said, I've noticed numerous changes over the past half year or so that have lessened my tendency to use it. There are ads everywhere - on the Stories page, inside stories, on filters, and so forth. Performance gets worse with almost every release, which would be understandable were it not for the fact that the end user product has remained functionally identical for the last year or so. The new "Memories" feature, which I've never bothered to enable, feels like a Twitter-like step back from the original Snapchat model (transient, temporary photos).

It'll be interesting to see how Snapchat reconciles this massive IPO with its users interests. As an end user, I don't feel particularly optimistic.
I found a tweet from 2015 via google and wanted to see the surrounding discussion. I couldn't find a way, so I tried just holding page down on the feed, trying to infinitely scroll my way to it. After around 5 minutes it stopped loading tweets.

Oh well.

edit: I meant this to be a reply to the "failure to handle the basics" post.
Exactly. The modern myth of Islamic invaders "preserving" anything was just a myth and as far as I know is very recent.

The areas that we today identify with this faith had the history of a lot of science work before the invaders came. And the religion was also not that one:

From the five holy "sees" only Rome survived the invaders:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_see#Listing_of_the_s...

"Rome, in Italy (Saint Peter and Saint Paul)

Constantinople, now Istanbul in present-day Turkey (Saint Andrew)

Alexandria, in Egypt (Saint Mark the Evangelist)[14][15][16]

Antioch, in present-day Turkey (Saint Peter)[17]

Jerusalem, in the Holy Land (Saint Peter and Saint James)[18]"
They do state that in the article. Perhaps the writer hopes that due to articles like this it may not be.
I have a remarkably similar story! My local RS let me plug away at a CoCo for hours on end. I remember when an older boy showed my friends and I how to use if..then..else. Wow! My head almost exploded. Good times...
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To be fair I agree with most of that (except the web IDE), abstraction can do a lot for productivity, stability, and scalability but you certainly need the hard won experience when it all goes wrong.

My point was more towards the JS side of things. JS just seems like a terrible choice of language for the tasks being performed where there are so many better alternatives, sure it makes writing a desktop app as easy as a web app but it just doesn't seem suited for the purpose. To me it's like writing complex systems in bash, sure it works but it's a pretty terrible choice.
Snapchat sadly takes a dump when I open it on my 5S. I can't just open it and quickly snap something anymore.
Just because a feature was added doesn't mean you need to make use of it. You can still style a website using well-documented and easy-to-use CSS Level 2.1 if you really want to, it'll still work.

If you feel even that's too complicated then just go with CSS Level 1.
You'd be surprised at the resourcefulness of a person faced with the threat of starvation.
We do not use shippo for this product.
100% correct. Far too many misinterpretations of the LGPL out there seem to ignore the requirement that the LGPL'd portion must be able to be replaced/updated.

I've seen way too many LGPL-licensed embedded-C libraries and VHDL libraries where it just does not make any sense. If your target platform doesn't have a dynamic linker, then LGPL is the same as GPL. There are some hacks where people distribute unlinked .o/.obj files. This is acceptable as well, but I don't see it too often.
Has anybody written a plugin to turn directories in to cd hyperlinks yet? That's the main thing I'm looking forward to being able to do with this project.

That, and replace TotalTerminal, which seems to have hit EOL. :( Goodbye, my love..
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FYI. You can right click on a line and "Run to Cursor" in vs2015 and older versions.

Nice touch.
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I don't understand why they can't have an appeals process or even the possibility to talk to a live person and work things out. This is a business relationship, after all. This is simply indefensible on Apple's (and other companies' that do this) part.
I almost wish Clinton gives Feinstein a cabinet position by then. In 2012 she almost single-handedly pushed the FISA Amendments Act reauthorization on the Senate floor (with some behind the scenes push from Obama as well).

But I fear it wouldn't make a difference, and she'd keep pushing for it from whatever high position she would be given as well.
Howdy! Me and a friend built out an online calculator that models your tax payments over a life time (assuming a static salary). It also shows which agencies and services your money is used for.

Would love some feedback. Does the site make sense? What do you think of the design? Did you find it interesting?

Criticism more the welcome!

Thanks!!!
I find it odd that the fire scars from a few years back are still black. Many years ago I was doing some volunteer work with my father here in Colorado, running donated supplies up to the base camps of the firefighters working an active fire. On the drive up, we passed through areas previously burned by the fire, I want to say a couple weeks earlier, and you could see new plants sprouting up everywhere. It seems to me that fire fertilized the soil and made room for new plants to start growing.

I was of the understanding that fires are a healthy thing for a forest, though I must admit that it's been decades since I've lived in California, and that the local climates and ecologies are quite different.
Hahaha. That is surprising! Thanks for the helpful advice.
This is precisely what I'm worried about.
What about Lidar lite? https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14032 it uses LED instead of Laser so it's much cheaper. RIG for turning: https://hackaday.io/project/4087-360-degree-lidar-lite-scann...
The tests should be as objective and unbiased as possible. Yes one can never remove 100% of bias, that doesn't mean we shouldn't do anything at all.

Remember, the whole point is to only have people qualified on a topic voting on said topic.

So if you're voting on, say, the minimum wage, you should be familiar with the economic ramifications of it. You should be familiar with both the arguments and counter-arguments, and perhaps the general consensus of economists.

If you're voting on trade policy, you should know the economic ramifications of a tariff. You should probably know the history of our positions on trade as well.

If you're voting on some issue related to the national debt, you should know the difference between a country's debt and household debt. You should probably also know the role of the Fed as well and how it relates to this.

The tests should be on a federal level because knowledge is universal. I'm really surprised that you and the other commenter implied that these tests would be on a state basis, and am curious as to what made you guys think that.

> We already have a long history of stifling voting rights

Poll taxes and religious tests are totally irrelevant. Literacy tests are sort of comparable to what I'm proposing, but I wouldn't advocate literacy tests because I don't care if you can't speak English if you know what you're talking about. Again, the main idea is that only people qualified on a specific issue should be voting on said issue.

Or maybe I should propose it from this angle - we should institute direct democracy instead of our current republic system due to the reasons I outlined in my original post. Direct democracy however has some glaring flaws (mainly that most people are too stupid and emotional), and the solution I propose seeks to rectify the glaring problem with direct democracy.
Why would you think Yahoo was the only recipient of the order?
Those arguments could be applied to just about any behavior, including not eating meat. You're presupposing the need to justify eating meat, and then using generic arguments to dismantle specific statements without point. If you want to have a useful discussion, please provide an argument..
Hey Dhruv, thanks for answering questions.

In what degree is the material tailored for cars vs other forms of autonomous vehicles? Would you say the knowledge transferable to, for example, autonomous drones?
I see that the USDA has some software related to conservation up for download [1]. Anything from water budgeting on farms to Animal Waste Management. I did not download or test any of this software, just found it after a quick search.

Then there's this organization that ran out of funding, but contacting one of the former team members may help you. [2]

There is development of software that doesn't directly affect the environment but rather helps dictate what work should be done to improve/conserve conditions. This book seems to address this topic. [3]

Here are some other random related things. [4] [5]

Unfortunately, it seems like software engineers are mostly used to develop management software. Modeling software is closer to the type of action I suspect you are interested in. It is needed, though I doubt the software engineers are helping analyze data and building solutions based on that research. I could be very wrong.

EDIT: I should clarify. A SE COULD analyze the data, but in the context of a paid full-time position I doubt your employer would want you to spend your time doing that.

If you find any information regarding "environmental [activism/conservation] with software", or something like that, please let us know.

DISCLAIMER: I don't know what I'm doing ;)

[1] http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/ndc...

[2] http://se4s.ics.uci.edu/

[3] http://www.journals.elsevier.com/environmental-modelling-and...

[4] http://www.conservation.org/NewsRoom/pressreleases/Pages/sof...

[5] http://www.capterra.com/environmental-software/
The roadmap has been built around major releases, with big updates to internals and major new features, a little less than every 2 years for a while (2008, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015).

But, there have been pretty substantial updates about every 4 months since about 2012 (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Visual_Studio#2013 and https://www.visualstudio.com/vs/release-notes/). There's a balance between the stability and maintainability big enterprises often want and the feature updates developers (esp. in web and other fast moving segments) want. These updates usually include a lot of new features, pulled in as new VSIX extensions, updates to frameworks, etc., that can add a lot without blocking big corps by significantly changing the core (functionality or user experience). For example, here's the release notes on VS 2013.3: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/2933779 - there's a ton of stuff, especially when you consider that all the sub-frameworks (e.g. ASP.NET Web API new release) require tooling updates and testing.

As a dev, I want new and shiny ASAP, and VS Code is definitely nice from that point of view. But from the VS point of view, I think the 4 month update cycle has been pretty fast.

Disclaimer: Microsoft employee, Nazgûl
Here's a link to the issue on Github:
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/issues/736
http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/3996068979/the-levels-of-em...

"It was all just text. Why did you need another application for it? Why should only the shell prompt be editable? Why can’t I move my cursor up a few lines to where the last command spewed out its results? All these problems simply disappear when your shell (or shells) simply becomes another Emacs buffer, upon which all of the text manipulation power of Emacs can be brought to bear."
I guess the simple question to ask would be: how many processes do you have running after startup?

How many of those services have dependancies on devices that may or may not be online/attached at any point in time?
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I am mystified that people have so much trouble grasping basic computer concepts. But from the users' perspective, technologists have foisted a system on them that seems to be poorly made and requires a high level of expertise to use safely. Blaming the user when they are victimized by someone taking advantage of a shoddy system is, well, victim blaming.
...You've completely overstated the beetle problem. It seemed as though it would have massive impact a few years ago, but it didn't. Very specific locations saw a lot of damage, but the overall impact is negligible.

http://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-in...
I used this feature and recently landed a job. I'd say I love this feature.

My main problem has been that I don't get nearly that many recruiters approaching(when I am actively looking for a job) as many as my peers claim they get. I don't really understand it.

Then I turned this feature on, and my job search became easier. I got plenty of recruiters reaching out to me regarding jobs (I went from 1-2 a week to 2-3 a day).

I'm assuming that it improves the signal to noise ratio. If everybody started to use this feature, recruiters would target better and people who do not want to be approached by recruiters at that point in time, will get less of those mails.
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In between you have stuff like Universal Robots' stuff which is human safe and relatively fast. For a startup knowing that the arm you're using isn't going to kill anyone[1] is huge in terms of being able to develop stuff quickly.

https://www.universal-robots.com/

[1] Or kill yourself with it, I've managed to hit myself in the head but didn't even get a bruise.