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Could you substantiate your claim that climate researchers have made hundreds of testable predictions over the past several decades by citing peer-reviewed literature making the kinds of statements you describe?

Just to be clear, I am not asking for media reports of the scientific literature, but rather the original sources themselves, demonstrating that it is the climate scientists who have been making the kinds of predictions you mention.

I would also urge you to check any studies you do cite to make sure you are not misinterpreting stated uncertainties. It is disingenuous to claim that a study suggesting that extreme effects are possible but unlikely is "predicting" those extreme effects. One should either describe the uncertainty, or use standard summary statistics, such as the expected value.
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Nothing like being motivated by necessity...
An iOS first strategy might be an impediment to achieving critical mass for an application that depends on network effects. I mean, everyone I know does not have an iPhone nor does everyone in my favorite coffee house.

Good luck.
Here's the link to the e-ink holding's dev kits and naked screens: http://shopkits.eink.com/product-category/all/
> I don't know if she's going to stick with it when she leaves.

It's lovely that you got her into exercise, when she leaves you could still arrange to meet her at the gym for workouts assuming she doesn't live miles from the gym, retiring can be a nasty shock for lots of people since they go from full days to "what the fuck do I now" in a weekend.
Uber drivers are company employees not self-employed contractors, court rules
I think of goodwill as the premium you pay over the book value of an asset. It sounds like CTL will take on some goodwill in this deal. Likely, CTL views LVLT as having intangibles -- e.g. strategic regulatory relationships, exclusive fiber contracts, employee culture, etc.
> Steve Jobs was just much better at having many of those failures never see the light of day.

Not even that. A lot of his failures saw the light of day, we have just forgotten about them. The same we will do with the current ones.

This, BTW, applies to all companies. To reach this point the Surface line has gone through a lot of mediocre products and bad decisions, we just don't think about them anymore. And Windows 10 still has some serious pain points that need to be worked out, specially on the Surface line with touch interfaces.
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> But fortunately photographic ability doesn't decline with age, though the relevance of the medium might.

Side note from a few days ago: Sebastiao Salgado (72) believes photography in process of extinction

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2016/10/28/se...
I see it as it being very closely aligned to what IMGUR is, but MFile is more focused as a design solution. IMGUR is a social media channel. MFile is solely built to be a presentation and sharing tool. I think there is a large enough market that there is room for others, other than one dominant app like IMGUR. There are quite a few now and they seem to manage ok, except for postimage.org. But they are serving 1.8PB of images per month. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12825719
Could you expand on the polyamory part? Are you in a polyamorous relationship?
or make you happy

I'm not sure. I know a CEO who is an ex-developer and funded a startup, and I think he is happy to do those. It's still a worry, of course, but I don't think he lets it get to him like it would to me. It's all a game he loves to play, not just a necessary chore. In fact, despite having the skills, he was never a developer reluctantly doing business work; he's a CEO through and through, and only picked up technical work when needed, not the other way around.
Not trying at all in high school. I barely scraped by with 2.00 GPA and ended up at a public university that was gracious enough to accept me. I often wonder that if I had gotten better marks where I would have ended up.

I also regret not learning to program as a kid. I put that off until college.
I'm a huge Alpha Centauri fan, and have pretty much disliked Civ from Civ 4 onward.

AC and Civ up to 3: It felt to me like there were always multiple paths to victory, allowing me to do strange and crazy strategies that I enjoyed.

Civ 4: Felt as if they made it into a turn based RTS, it became too rigid and build-ordery.

Civ 5: I agree with you on the tiles, it felt very limiting and difficult to move units.

Beyond Earth: What a joke. I think I played it for 1-2 evenings before I gave up.

Civ 6: I'm not even going to bother.
Yeah, of course, but you could do the same without ever leaving the US, or in any of the world's continents.
It's simply the difference between the money you have paid when acquiring other companies and the value of the business you were acquiring from an accounting point of view (including tangible assets and also intangible assets that can be identified and valued).
Interesting that you mention the impact moving had on your faith. I moved to Switzerland when I was a teenager and wholly attribute that to my loss of faith.
Never heard of OpenSfM before but have been looking for something like it.
>What technology are you talking about?

The way the pen and screen work together, and the screen sandwich layering that significantly reduces parallax between the pencil tip and image.

Regarding processor tech I was mainly thinking of the move to 64bit and secure enclave which completely out-manoeuvred the competition.

I'm not saying Apple is the only company innovating, Android Wear is a credible and innovative alternative that's holding its own in the market.
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Can we not post obvious clickbait horse shit like this on HN?
Hard to think of anything particularly bad, but my main regret is not speaking up in favour of a more intellectually competent environment at my previous startup fund.

I seemed to be the only person keeping an eye on developments in the wider field, machine learning, coding, investment strategy, that kind of thing.

I was working with people who didn't even know what version control was, or that we actually used it. Sloppy thinking that was mistakable for expediency in the early days turned into pure intellectual laziness.

The same people had and still have a completely unrealistic view of what they've built. No real understanding of markets, no real understanding of coding, and no real understanding of how to run a business.

I've moved on now, but I feel there was more potential there, and it should have been used to build a truly amazing investment firm. Instead I allowed my colleagues to continue thinking they were excellent when they genuinely weren't, robbing them and us of the chance to improve ourselves.

It's hard telling people they're not up to a task.
I have found 1000+ pound LCD monitors, messenger bags that would fit the Big Friendly Giant and who knows what else.
This, I started lifting at 17 but didn't really work out "how" to lift until mid twenties and didn't get a good grasp of nutrition until 2 years ago.
Radeon R9 M370X (MacBook Pro 2015) vs. Radeon Pro 460 (MacBook Pro 2016)
You can use two fingers over the keyboard for moving the cursor on an iPad (force touch on the keyboard with iphones)
Yikes. I'm sad to see that stuff backsliding.

Back when I used Linux, my solution was to avoid the desktops entirely. I used i3 with Debian. That kept things simple enough so I could understand them. That meant no niceties like a display manager. Back then I could explain the differences between startx and xinit, and I could compile kernels. The desktops were way too complicated to fix if they broke.

I tired of the whole thing after doing my USA income taxes through fill in PDFs because there is no commercial Linux software. I didn't want a browser based solution. I bit the bullet and bought a Mac.

It is the best computing decision I ever made. Proprietary software is readily available and works. Free software is available through Macports. It's Unix when I need it, but when I want a GUI it always works. I spend much less time fixing broken stuff.

I miss my Thinkpad keyboard. Also, since Mac is an expensive proprietary platform, bugs in free software take longer to fix. For instance the GHC Haskell compiler currently has issues on Mac OS Sierra and it will take awhile until they fix that.

However there are many things on Mac that I could never get in Linux, such as the awsome trackpad and Duet, which gives me a cheap second monitor via an iPad.

My days running Linux on hardware are over. If I really want Linux I will get a Mac or even a Windows machine and then run Linux in a VM.
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I have been super happy with my ThinkPad X1 Carbon running Fedora (migrated from MacBook Air to this about 7-8 months ago as I heard the airs were likely to be phased out).
It depends a lot on yourself. Math is really like a sport, I was doing it each and every day as part of a Physics/Mathematics major. Whereas in the same class that I was in, many people passed calculus, linear algebra etc, but failed programming courses.

Programming might be easier to get into though
I don't have one of the new macbooks, but wouldn't making a wrapper around the macOS authorization services thing do this as well?

Something like:

osascript -e "do shell script \"$*\" with administrator privileges"
> We were going to see the end of arctic ice

Sea Ice Extent Is Near Record Lows--South as Well as North: https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/sea-ice-extent...

> have a perpetual ozone hole necessitating sun screen when venturing outside and decimating wildlife from cataracts

Antarctic ozone hole beginning to heal: http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/06/antarctic-ozone-hole-... (as mentioned elsewhere, this is thanks to the quick, decisive action taken in the Montreal protocol)

> see New York and other major cities drowned

Hurricane Sandy: http://www.weather.gov/okx/HurricaneSandy (6 ft of inundation in NYC due to storm surge)

> (Not to mention famine killing billions of people, etc.)

How Global Warming Helped Cause the Syrian War: https://www.wired.com/2015/03/global-warming-helped-cause-sy...

Sorry if some of these effects didn't occur in comically exaggerated "Day After Tomorrow" style, but that does not mean they aren't occurring.
great site with a decent repository of assets. Some are from the 2012 Liberate Pixel Cup, which I participated in when learning python. I wish they would do another cup.
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Arch (Antergos if you want nice out of the box setup[1]) works very well on my 2015 work MBP, perhaps give it a try.

[1] https://antergos.com
If you want the comparable one (i5, 128 GB), they cost the same. You get a much better screen on Surface 4, but a bigger one in the Macbook.

Also, Surface price doesn't include a keyboard.
I wonder how much waste can be averted if remote was the default option everywhere where it is a viable way of working. Perhaps this is one of the easier ways to contribute to averting the catastrophe.
Seems pretty self-explanatory.

In most places in the world, we are raised to pursue monogamous relationships, whether that is predicated on the idea of "true love", or just the need to "settle down and start a family". Either way - monogamy.

In reality, a lot of people aren't happy with monogamy. See the extreme prevalence of cheating/divorce. I'm not OP, but I think the world would be a much happier place if everyone stopped trying to be so monogamous all the time.

If someone prefers monogamy, they can find someone that also prefers monogamy. But society in general shouldn't be trying to dictate that.
But there is now 7 billion people. And no, it's not just "People will have to move": +6 degrees in one century is a temperature change we haven't seen since humans appeared on Earth: https://www.xkcd.com/1732

So we need to come back to emissions of 1990 (when they balanced natural absorption), emit a even less for a while, but with 7 billion people, everyone has to emit much less than in 1990.

To preempt any question... I still eat meat and I don't see how I could do without.
I don't mind the plug at all. I know Metabase supports raw queries, but we're going from normalised schemas to 'flattened' denormalised ones to help the reporting effort.

At the same time, I don't expect the whole organisation to know SQL while I do expect them to make a slight effort to use Metabase's 'Question' interface (if they want data out).

I'll be sure to take a look at Redash
I'd be happy if they made things opt-out.

I tend to agree. Windows 10 is better in some respects than earlier versions and worse in others, but right now most of those don't matter very much. The forced updates, forced telemetry, and emphasis on online services make it a non-starter for small businesses like ours. I've given up even feeling Schadenfreude when I read reports of friends or colleagues who have moved to 10 and then lost something due to a bad update or untimely reboot. Now I just feel a general sense of disappointment mixed with concern about what we'll order in future when we can't conveniently buy new machines with Windows 7 preinstalled any more.

Sadly, I don't anticipate any change in direction for Microsoft as long as Nadella remains at the helm. He clearly has a vision for how the future of Microsoft software and OSes is going to be, and it's clearly backed by the board who put him there, and a traditional desktop OS would seem to be in conflict with that vision. And at least for now, the business as a whole seems to be doing OK with this emphasis on services, even with the unpopularity of Windows 10.
Steve Jobs, like everyone, said and did many things over the course of his life that can be seen as contradictory. When they're around to explain they can often give reasonable explanation for why there are exceptions or how their thoughts about something developed.
I was finding Google ads and ads on The Verge, particularly at the bottom of articles, weren't getting blocked. YMMV, of course, and this was about 8 months ago. Oh -- I think I may have found the relevant setting: "Allow some nonintrusive ads" I don't think I discovered that checkbox months ago.
Love this quote:

“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford

Very motivational. I really wish people would stop using this one though:

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

Just seems to trivialize the problem, very de-motivating in my opinion.
http://eve-tech.com/

Since BI's website is broken for me again and I just wanted to know what it was about.

A crowd sourced laptop is an interesting idea though I wonder how they balance what gets included since everyone wants different things it'll kinda average out.
I don't regret a lot for long, I find it to be an incredibly depressing feeling and I try to make short business of any regrets I do have. I've found most of the time, actions (or inactions) that have lead to me regret can be reversed by sincere apologies, shifting your stance, or otherwise try to undo the thing causing you regret. In the case of inaction, if the train hasn't left the station...

But there is one thing I can't shake.

I met a girl a little over a decade ago, and fell madly in love. We became a couple, but due to various events our relationship ended. Not least because at one point years ago, I was put on the spot and asked where our relationship was headed, a thinly veiled attempt to get me to commit. I loved the girl – still do – but I wasn't ready to settle down and marry. I wanted to focus on my career and build a business and do all of these other things and I just couldn't commit. Not long thereafter, our relationship ended and I relocated to a different country.

It's cheesy and unoriginal, but it's the one thing I regret: not marrying that woman.

Before anyone comments to that effect: I don't have a particularly hard time dating, and have plenty of experience both before and after this woman. But I've never connected with anyone like that before, and it genuinely feels as though I've lost someone hugely important, like family. It's a very sad feeling and cheesy as it may be, it's my only real regret.
Have you read Bob Baer's "See No Evil" - it goes into a lot of details about his experiences being recruited and working in the CIA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_No_Evil_(Baer_book)
I love their goals, and will be keeping a close eye on them as time goes by.

If they really want to make a difference, they should open source their firmware, and use coreboot/libreboot. I've never understood what manufacturers had to gain from keeping their firmware closed source.
Any game that diesn't sell well and make a lot of money for the studio is a joke.
Could you elaborate, in what ways?

Also, I've noticed that people in the gym are somewhat narcissistic, so perhaps the benefits are only for this group?
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Windows Mobile, Bing, Google+, Allo etc. show companies are willing to invest billions to win a market. But Google+, Bing and WM shows spending multi billions don't win you the market.
> I have a MacBook now, but I'd love to go to a Surface Studio. If they can work to get up-to-date hardware in all of their offerings ...

The problem isn't so much the hardware but the OS. I have awful memories of Windows. I suppose it has gotten better, but I wonder if it's a realistic replacement to Mac OS X? Essentially, I want something that just works and where I can use common unix tools. Maybe the new Unix subsystem + an X server will do it.

Concerning the new MBP, I don't mind the touch bar or the specs but they are really expensive (esp. in Europe). If they don't get cheaper, I may try a windows machine.
Do you really not understand the point that is being made here?
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I'm a die-hard MacBook Pro fan, and despite the negative press around the new model's specs, I will somehow find a way to convince myself to buy one.

This comparison is the first good news I found. I just entered the GPU model from my Retina 2015 MacBook Pro and the highest GPU option from the 2016 line-up.

I think, for a notebook, this looks pretty good, and it uses about 1/3 the energy of its desktop counterpart (Radeon RX 460).

A few spec comparisons to the 2015 GPU:

1. floating-point - 82% faster
2. texture mapping - 82% faster
3. texture mapping units - 60% more
4. shading units - 60% more
5. GPU memory - 100% more

Radeon Pro 460 (MacBook Pro) vs Radeon RX 460 (desktop):

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/Radeon-RX-460-vs-Radeon-Pro-460

That's not as bad as everyone has made it out to be, right? Or, is it that the 2015 was just terrible?
The latest iPhone literally cannot plug into the latest MBPs. The MBP also lacks the chip the AirPods need to work smoothly. I think it is safe to say "just works" is officially dead at Apple.
Thanks for the feedback, some interesting insights from other vim users.

P.s
The E Ink display isn't in contact with the actual user, the keys are just a transmissive body for the display.
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This is because wssdl is still within the boundaries of the lua grammar: the file you provide is still lua, so you have to abide by its rule.

I experimented with a key/value approach on the syntax itself (something like `{ src_port = u16 }` or `{ src_port = 16 }`), which was nicer, but the problem was that, in lua, table literals are unordered. The current approach uses the method syntax (`a:b()`) as a nice workaround, but this mandates the use of parenthesis after the type and other specifiers. This is fine though since a lot of the provided types are parameterized (e.g. `bytes(n)` which takes a number of octets)
> I also regret spending around 7 years of my life without really sure which path I would like to take.

Sorry for your loss. I've spent 15 years feeling the same. It's tough, but I'm grateful to still have hope, mostly thanks to having a large amount of what could be called non-professional interests. If not for discovering the endless value of, and joy in, non-institutionalized learning, I'd have been a goner a long time ago.
Arch (or Antrgos[1] if you want an out-of-the-box experience), work very well on my MBP, can recommend.

[1] - https://antergos.com
Short circuiting means branching, which is likely to be slower than running operators that you know to result is zero.
I regret dedicating my life to sitting behind a computer building things that don't exist and don't really matter to anyone - rather than making a real difference to real people in the real world. I also regret that that endeavor has severely limited my time spent with the people I love most, and exploring the world.
This is really cool! I'm tempted to try and write something generic for this same concept, so i can use it in whatever lang and logging framework desired.

Concept: A simple pattern match against each line to link their respective contexts. Eg, if you log each request with an id `[timestamp] [request-id] some module: some message`, then theoretically you could parse a log to show visual relation between all request ids.

Furthermore, you could filter out request ids with generic tools like grep/etc.

There must be logging viewer tools that work generically like this though, so perhaps i'd be wasting my time :)
It's BS assets that companies use to add phantom value to a balance sheet with things like "brand value" and "intellectual capital". There's no way to assess an actual value, so a lot of companies give outlandish valuations to themselves to make themselves appear more valuable than they are. Some people will disagree with that, but that's the reality.

There are of course a lot of companies that have extremely valuable brands and IP, but those tend to trade at pretty fair market valuations and don't have an unusually high percentage of goodwill relative to the rest of their assets.

In the case of CenturyLink, that would be a major red flag to me.
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This is the first comment I've ever favorited on here. Not just because of how true it is, but mostly because it applies to so many startups I've seen that have taken a little risk, gotten a little reward, and totally locked up with risk aversion and failed.
I regret leaving my freelancing career 3 years ago to become a full-time employee. I made the decision out of fear because I had increased my standard of living and was afraid of not continuing to make enough money as a contractor to pay for it. My life has gone downhill ever since. Today however, I put in my two-week notice. I realize how unfounded my fears were and for the first time in a long time I finally feel like I'm in control of my life again.
I feel like there aren't many professional artists on HN, but from that point of view, Apple have been criminally negligent of the industry that made them and MS have blown their doors clean off. It's a great time for artists, maybe not so much for anyone else.
They do do very similar things, Metabase even has a raw sql interface hidden away.

Metabase however has a better interface in many regards but especially in it's 'Questions' interface - under the hood it's generating SQL, but it gives any person just enough flexibility to select, filter and aggregate results and then turn them into graphs and stick the graphs on a dashboard.

I don't particularly like Metabase's false peppiness - it's a bit like Slack's "You look good today!" type messages - that really get under my skin, and the blue+light-grey on white colour scheme.

For those who do know SQL and write the majority of the reports, Django SQL Explorer was a great drop-in just-works lib to get insight into several of our data silos.
I regret clicking on this thread on a Monday morning. But to echo what you said, I wish I had hung out with my dad more when he was alive. Things happen, spend time with your loved ones while you have them.