skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://www.afdc.energy.gov/vehicles/electric_emissions.php#w...

Electric cars are a little bit cleaner, even in Kentucky which runs on 84% coal power. Everywhere else, they are significantly cleaner.

Oddly, hybrids turn out to be cleaner than BEVs in Kentucky that may point to light trucks skewing the gasoline vehicle numbers.

There's a lot of "thinking with your feelings" going on about this for a topic with so much hard data easily available.
> Or withdrawals from people. The deposits are non-committal so people can cancel without losing anything.

I feel this is going to be the killer for them.
The developers of Kite also replaced the functionality of a popular python autocomplete Atom extension from using jedi to Kite without properly warning the users: https://github.com/autocomplete-python/autocomplete-python/i...
If you're paywalled, you can see the article by following the link from Twitter: https://twitter.com/WSJTech/status/846786145832914944
Very well sums up my experiences working in the Berlin startup scene.

I'd add that, in my opinion, there is also a lack of appreciation for good engineering in many of the few existing startups. You could almost say even software startups don't consider themself technology companies. The implementation of the product is just something that somebody needs to do and often gets outsourced to some agencies.

In general the focus is on the founders more than it's on the teams. Ultimately that also shows in salaries. Startups are considers something for junior engineers that accept worse pay because they are doing something hip.
I mean more like the AST behind parsing/rendering the styling rules, not caching the downloaded file.
One of the things with a large framework is that moving to a completely new direction is more challenging than it looks. So, at times, ember has made unrealistic promises — and Yehuda alluded to this in the keynote — but one can learn from it and get better.

As for Fastboot, it has its edges but there are people using it in production (DockYard is one, if I'm not wrong). ember-engines also says it's experimental and it does have some missing stuff (from my experience) but what is there works well.

Some of the things perhaps needed a rewrite of the underlying architecture. One great thing about ember (apart from v 1.13) has been just how painless it has been to upgrade. All the major changes they have made have largely been drop-in. Getting to that kind of backward compatibility is also a pretty impressive feat considering how big it is.

So, all in all, I agree that some of the things were overhyped and unrealistic but it seems they have learned from it, and I think that's just fine.
Two hours after posting my original question, I am realizing that some skeptics and deniers might be persuaded by additional evidence, but others wouldn't. A next question then would be how many in the US are persuadable and how many not. I am pretty sure most are not, but it would be good to have some survey data.

I am also struck that most of the skeptics and deniers either didn't answer the question as to whether they they could be persuaded, or at least implied they could, but didn't say what specific sort of evidence it would take.
Worth noting that Tencent is also an investor in Future mobility which has been remarkably quiet since their funding announcement last year:
https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/future-mobility#/ent...
Much of the time, the software isn't what makes for a great company - it's how that software makes the business work. A company can have the best code in the world, but if Uber had no cars, AirBNB had no houses, or Facebook didn't have your friends - they would be pointless.
Try this - start from the end: assume "40 hours or I'll be unhappy" is everybody, and consider realistically if your company IPO-ed and this person cashed in the options you'll give him, would the rest of his life be materially better, risk adjusted for that IPO ever becoming a reality, for every day of the week you make him unhappy as a fraction of the total days in a year?
I can't stand this false equivalency.

You are conflating the entire media landscape with the New York Times. NYT has its bias, but you are effectively saying that NY Times is just as a responsible for the destruction of journalism as the likes of Fox News and Breitbart.
No, an LTE-equipped Apple Watch will not come with a physical SIM card
It's worth noting that those vulnerabilities appear to be from a security review; 10 of them were all posted on the same day (11/2/16). So the reality is that most of these didn't have practical impacts or attacks; they just needed to be fixed.

Putting that batch of 10 CVEs aside, the number of memory related bugs is quite small.

In the greater scope of things, ~60 CVEs over the course of 17 years is pretty small.
Yep, the 90-90 rule[1]

The other lesson to take is to be more cautious about announcing stuff before its really ready. But they don't seem to have learned that here. Here we have a project with its own logo, a marketing video with a nice electronica beat behind it, and a YouTube Live announcement...

... For something they are telling you to install from their master branch.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-ninety_rule
Indeed, the official participation rate may perhaps offer a better indicator of overall employment in the US [edit: than employment rate alone]:

https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000

Zooming out and eyeballing it, it appears the last time such a small proportion of people were working was circa 1978.
Steam has so much value add beyond just its storefront, which is still the biggest in gaming. The community features are the most important - being able to see who's playing what and more importantly, being able to join their server, is not possible (yet) with Curse/Twitch. A lot of the Curse stuff is honestly little value, and if we're keeping track, implemented in Steam already. Curse Voice = Steam's in-game calls or calls over Steam Message; add-ons/forge = Steam Workshop.

I think that Twitch's streaming capabilities are going to be the question - are they enough of a differentiating factor to break people away from Steam and onto Twitch Desktop?
Those are called "universal errors" and it's not very useful to reason about them. You could prove your program correct, use a total-function programming language, but it still could fail to complete - the power could go out halfway through execution.
Most of the traditional definitions of "memory safety" are not violated by having null pointers, as long as they just crash when used incorrectly. nils in Go don't let you start accessing things you shouldn't or anything. Golang is memory safe by most definitions. (Possibly not by a definition that includes concurrent memory safety. I expect in 20 or 30 years the term "memory safe" will indeed involve that. But at the moment, it doesn't, because almost no language has that right now.)

This doesn't invalidate your underlying point that you want to use a language without implicit nulls... it's just the wrong terminology.
I'm curious what type and size of companies and industries you primarily work with?
Seriously just hire 5 people instead of 4. You have 125% right there and the fact that you aren't burning out people means you'll have less employee turnover. THAT's what costing you. Not people working 40h. You'll get better people for your money by being clear that even though it's a young, growing startup, work/life balance is valued. A single key person burnt out or unhappy will cost you more productivty than those extra nights and evenings ever could.

> It it would deeply bother me if I found out one of my workers was feeling burned
out/demotivated.

Then make sure people don't overwork. If something happens with a deploy that means people had to work late on thursday, then make sure they are compensated with time off.

> how to detect someone with your 40-hours-or-I'll-be-unhappy mindset

Yes. Here is how: if they aren't unhappy about working a lot then they are inexperienced. Another tell is if they have a family. In your situation, don't hire anyone with kids. Their kids will thank you. and those people don't want to work for you anyway.

The problem is you can't afford to make your company an evening pizza 27 year old bromance company because you likely can't cut out that much of the talent pool without it costing you.

Also: I don't mind people working a lot if compensated well. I could certainly have worked a ton of hours for a period of my life (before kids etc) but I would have been pretty annoyed had I accepted an offer at a company and later found out that the offer was for an expected 50h and not 40h. Don't have people come and waste time at your interview without knowing what the situation is.
I assume that's because few of the CC app developers have any real world experience in a call center. The applications I've used have terrible keyboard support - it is not cool to require an agent to use the mouse when they are expected to asynchronously take and give information.
Internet availability is not a problem. Just check cable availability and your up and running with 100Mbits+ in a few days.
i don't propose a "main culprit" as i understand climate to be a classic complex system. i simply don't know what the main culprit is or even if there IS a main culprit.

i'm not yet convinced that the temperature increase that we've seen in the past 150 - 200 years is abnormal from a geologic timeframe. esp. considering the warming pause of the past ~20 years.

as far as the article you posted, i've read it before. it's fairly standard in that it adds another theory (southern warming -> release co2 -> increase northern warming) that, for me, would require more observable predictions to prove. that's not an easy task, but my scientific skepticism requires it.

maybe if we could see that effect happening in our modern temperature data? i'm just riffing here, but it seems like if that's the mechanism to explain the ~800 year lag where temperature increase preceeds co2 increase, then it should also be observable today.
Thanks for the feedback, that will get fixed soon.
From a dev point of view, the multitude of platforms is making it incredibly cumbersome to deal with.

Assume you make a game in Unity that works well both in mobile and desktop. Now you need to publish on iOS, Google Play, Amazon App Store (Underground or not?), Steam, GoG, Twitch, and Facebook. You may want to make a WebGL demo version for web portal sites as well. Each Platform has their own contracts you have to read carefully and not break.

To complicate it even further -- your game may work best as a paid game on iOS, but ad-revenue based on Android, and Underground on Amazon. These all require exceptions and finagling in the codebase.

Lets add some more complexity! "Gamecenters" -- Google Play integration, Amazon Gamecircle, iOS Game Center, Steam. Do you have Achievements? Steam has their own Achievements, as do all the platforms. Cloud save, Leaderboards? etc.

Now you make an update on your game..and have to export your game for all the various platforms and their special cases, and test them as well.
I often keep doing the same thing and pray for the same result. My computer usually tells me to get bent. Which in a way fits the original quote.
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>This is entirely incorrect.

The comment was 4 hours old, based off a Seeking Alpha news bulletin (I should have known better) and was prefaced with "it's my understanding..." which left it open for you, or anyone else, to correct.

What exactly are you out to prove here?
>Yeah I think I agree on the meaninglessness of work these days.

These days? In all of human history your likelihood of being a slave was pretty high. Talk about real meaningless. If anything we live in a rare break from slavery which is an outlier.

Not to mention back-breaking farm work. Or working in a mine. Or being gang pressed on a ship or into warfare. How's that for meaning? I think punching out some code and rebooting the occasional server and leaving at 5 is slightly better than the above.

I think people need to learn some real expectations of what work means and perhaps to read Studs Turkel's Working before they get to complain about their cush white collar jobs being these horrible things. I'm not trying to trivialize work stress, but phrases like 'these days' are highly loaded and non-historic. If anything, we have it easier than all of our ancestors and by a wide margin.
The CEO may have already made a couple million and was happy to retire with handsome profits.
>TBH I think most quotes can be over analyzed like this to the point that the quote seems ridiculous.

>IMO quotes are just ways to remind you of lessons learned; you take them at face value and move on.

If that were how they're used, I'd agree. But a lot of people will "misapply" the quote, as well as present it as fact. The reason GP felt compelled to complain about it is that this is one of those quotes that is often presented as fact when it isn't.

Also, people often say these things as an excuse not to go in depth or justify their stance. When discussing an issue, they provide this as a reason. One of the most common examples is "Well, where there's smoke there's fire". This one really bothers me as it's almost always wrong whenever it is invoked (i.e. allegations were usually false). Not only that, the literal statement is plain wrong.
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Discord is going to be very hard to touch, even for Amazon. They should buy them as soon as possible. I know they bought Curse to try and break in, but it's just not going to be enough. Discord already has insane market-share in the community/VOIP area and there's not much even Amazon could do better that would get people to switch at this point. Really great software that consolidated people from IRC, Ventrilo, Mumble, TeamSpeak, etc.
Because in my experience the "out-of-the-box" solutions always break down the more you want to customise them.

Now I rather prefer solutions that have customisation in mind from start, so it's always easy to switch things.
This reminds me my conversation with a salesperson in a Deutsche Telekom retail shop in Berlin. The fastest DSL in my apartment was 6 Mbit/s. No VDSL available because "all sockets are taken" probably by the neighbours or by the business on the ground floor - the guy was literally blaming their shitty connection on my neighbours. I was this close to killing him with the chair he was sitting on.
The zealous petulance displayed by Pewdiepie fans in this thread over anything that doesn't try to excuse his anti-Semitic remarks and behaviour is really weird.
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There's isabel healthcare's CDSS, the interface seems rapid and one of the reviewers("sprecher") says that he can use it in a patient visit:

http://www.isabelhealthcare.com/customer-satisfaction/testim...

Could be just marketing, but maybe.

There's a free test. if you do test, please share your opinion of it, it's interesting.
Hi there - ex professional recruiter here.

I used to think I was a horrible interviewer. The best advice I ever got as a recruiter was to ask about what motivates a person. And ask why. A lot.

The best interview I ever had was at Amazon. They didn't just ask why, they asked how. Basically, ask questions about what a person did - not what they would theoretically do / how they would solve a problem - and why they did them. Past success is indicative of future performance. And I ended up getting the job.
It's a little known fact (is it?) that there are database functions in Excel! You can calculate simple aggregates like count and sum of records subject to some constraints. Example: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/DAVERAGE-function-a...

These functions were available since Excel 2.0 but many people don't know they exist
At one point I made an attempt to do this from the CVE database, but it's difficult to do since CVEs aren't really machine readable from a "memory safety vs. other security flaws" perspective. I recall finding a lot of reported vulns with buffer, overflow, null pointer dereference, double free, etc., but that's far from scientific.
Not believing in something does not require an alternate affirmative belief.
Solar radiation, changes in Earth's orbit (it has been proved to be chaotic, longterm, AFAIK), microvawe from space hitting steam in atmosphere, volcanic production. There are few things that come to my head and might be connected to the problem. Some of this may sound as fringe. Nevertheless I would like to see credible debunking, using data and logic. May include calculus. If I see worth, I will relearn calculus. Heck, it may include whatever that will make me want to think about it - models, tables, photos.

Given the gravity of the problem and weight on future if there is miscalculation, I claim this should be taken out of politicians' hands. Wikipedia style.

The hockeystick scandal did not help, either.

And last but not least: what made the last glaciation melt and what caused it in first place? Model, please. Something I can compile on my computer. Twenty five years ago, maybe twenty, it would have easily placed itself among first ten fastest supercomputers (if I am correct). I am sure this machine can handle some computation. Even if not, give me a source code and let me worry how to run it.

EDIT: Ok, I would prefer a bunch of equation, differential too, rather than source code.

EDIT2: As of "being caused at least to a considerable degree by human activity", I am already rather certain that humans did their best to be part of the problem. The question I am trying to answer is "to what degree", not "if".
I hope their efforts involve an overhaul of Curse, because Curse's UI is the #1 reason I use Discord.
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I'd like to mention that Amazon already has too much power.

That AWS failure that was... last month? The month before? Took out half the Internet, including AWS's own status panel.

Good job, Amazon.
I didn't know that it's possible to do 100Mbps on telephone line. Last time I used DSL, there was 8 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up, but practically much less.
I wonder if it comes down to humans actually believing they can control what is basically an electric signal for its life time, if that makes sense.

01001101 01100001 01111001 01100010 01100101 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100101
Haha, lunacy!
Tessa is crap.
I think we are using the term "subjective" differently. In your original comment, I thought you were using the term to indicate biased thinking. Now you seem to be meaning people's direct experience of the temperature. Or am I misunderstanding you?
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Twitch has monthly 'subscriptions' for popular streamers (roughly 300-500+ concurrent viewers, from what I've heard), at $5/mo, and Twitch takes some portion of that. They are pretty good at monetizing.
The article doesn't mention it, but I guess this is related to Amazon's new Lumberyard game engine [1], a "free AAA game" that is deeply integrated with twitch. The Lumberyard FAQ explicitly says "Lumberyard is free, including source. We make money when you use other AWS services", presumably Amazon GameLift

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/lumberyard/
Oh, I like replay and review! My brain was stuck on Git lingo, like show and revert, though these seem much more natural.

I agree with your comment about protecting people, this is one of the reasons the server is also open source. Though I believe that if the need arises and demand is there, either myself or someone else will make it happen, and I already share all the tools (code) to make it happen, so people are protected.
I don't mean that the program requires the input in that form, but that the problem specification (in its strict interpretation) specifies it, and I'm missing that requirement in my solution.

Obviously, there is here a language-level requirement in K that 0, "0" or "a" all denote an index zero, at least in the exemplified situation.

Though that may help get points on http://codegolf.stackexchange.com, it comes across as rather arbitrary.

We could easily acheive the same thing without pushing it into the language, at the cost of making a function call, which could have a one-letter name.

12> (defun $ (x)
(cond
((numberp x) x)
((chr-digit x))
((chr-isalpha x) (- (chr-tolower x) #\a))))
13> ($ #\b)
1
14> [mapcar $ "cdba"]
(2 3 1 0)
15> [mapcar $ #(1 3 9 5)]
#(1 3 9 5)
16> [mapcar $ "012a3"]
(0 1 2 0 3)

We basically have to operate under the assumption that writing a function is unacceptable, and I could cater to that view easily by having this function in the TXR Lisp standard library in the next release (probably not under the name $, to reserve that for users). I am rather too convinced of its lack of utility to do such a thing.
The remaining time, in my experience, is to coordinate meetings with management.

Managers at my company have meetings almost all day. I, however, only have a few meetings per week. They can do meetings for 8 hours just fine, but I can't code for 8 hours. I could go home after 4 hours and be just as productive per week, but I'd miss potential meeting hours.

And naturally, they are the ones whom we have to cater to when this kind of divide comes up.

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
What about other men-dominated (thus sexist), well-paying industries?

Are you also concerned about the lack of female plumbers? Construction workers? Miners, perhaps?
I'll take a stab at this glib comment:

1. You've inherited an application written in Common Lisp

2. Common Lisp has features you find desirable that aren't available in another system

3. You like Common Lisp

4. Common Lisp helps you get the thing you're trying to do, done
The reason is probably flowers (cannabis) versus leaves (tobacco)
> This is basically common to all languages with a strong emphasis on functional programming

Also modern Fortran falls into this category. (I mention it because it's far from a functional language.)
"Twitch sponsors conferences, runs an elaborate developer relations team, and makes a lot of strategic investments in other games."

Other than maybe that last one, and that depending on what it expands to in practice, it is not clear to me why I'm supposed to somehow consider these things a bad thing. Hosting, creating, and engaging with community doesn't seem like "manufactured" cultural bona fides if the effort is real and substantial. An accusation about "manufactured" cultural bonafides would to me involve trying to project an impression of greater involvement than actually exists, not doing a lot of real involvement.

Am I missing a nuance you are trying to communicate here?
I said he caused an outbreak. Yes, he did not personally infect anybody, however he removed the testing, and he acted directly in delaying aid that would've kept it under control, thus allowing it to become an outbreak.

Being responsible for one's inaction is a thing, especially so when one is in a position whose job description it is to be responsible for such things.

If you're a chicken farmer and you fail to feed your chickens, then you did cause your chickens to starve.

E: Thanks for the reply though. It was fascinatingly insightful for me.
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