skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that the science doesn't conclusively prove either claim (or somewhere midway) between definitely human caused or definitely not.

> This doesn't seem convincing to me, Indigenous Australian populations maxed out around 1 million people, across the entire island. Considering the population density and ranges of these creatures, I don't see how they could physically do so.

Do we know of any comparable, but better understood / researched cultures, where population numbers plateauing were not directly correlated with local extinction events -- but did occur some time after the plateauing? Of course it's confounded by trying to estimate numbers from tens of millenia ago, climate and volcanic events, and so on, but I feel there must be some other peoples / regions on the planet that can we can compare to.

As to the last point, initiating regular large fires is one way for a small number of people to effect significant landscape change.

> All Indigenous Australians were nomadic hunter gatherers, with a deep seated animalistic dreamtime belief system, it doesn't make sense that a new culture suddenly rose up and caused mass extinctions ...

Keep in mind that there were around 250 different languages, reflecting the long-term isolation of many of these groups, and presumably at least that many different variations of 'the culture'. I think it's careless to assume a single, shared, and fully understood, culture existed across the entire continent for thousands of years, tens of thousands of years ago.

And I don't think anyone's suggesting that a 'new culture rose up and decided to eat all the giant wombats'.

> Not really, again 20,000 years and Australia is a big, big place.

True, but consider that today at least, about 5% of the landmass is considered arable, which IIRC puts us on a par with, say, France in terms of absolute arable land.

While grazing animals obviously don't require arable land per se, it helps to contextualise the landscape here -- there's immense areas of the country that are inhospitable to humans and large animals.

Almost all the useful (in terms of finding things to eat and drink) land is around the coast. Migrations of humans and megafauna doubtless occurred in response to local events, climate changes, curiosity, etc - but there are obvious constraints by and to both groups' movements due to this coastal limitation.
But you can just choose to stop accepting ErikCoin at any time right?
Like this?
https://s13.postimg.org/l8vjukezr/Screen_Shot_2017-07-21_at_...

It's just the search box next to the location/url bar. Now has search options to start out at wiki/amazon/twitter etc.
No https allowed in search?
Right which is why I believe that after the coming consumer solar revolution there will be something similar with wind energy. Especially with newer VAWT designs and areas that have a lot of wind.

They compliment each other so wind can continue producing at night.
Merge, not replace. If there's a special bookmark group that dynamically contains current tabs, then you have the best of both.

Let a group of tabs be a bookmark folder that has the "show" attribute set, and so dynamically tracks what is shown.

Want to show all tabs in a group/folder? Toggle show.
I have the same issue of not reading things I bookmark... Until recently, when I installed Random Bookmark add-on which allows me to open random bookmarks. So now when I'm bored I just click it a lot and finally read those bookmarks.
The relation is assumed; any complaint obviously must be a case of men oppressing women, and any suppression of complaints therefore must obviously be further deliberate oppression. It's a sign of the current political climate.
If you spend 1h30 each day commuting with a car, you are the reason why there is pollution in the city.
But the vesting schedules sure make a difference. It's amazing how things change once you've made it past that cliff, and how people jump ship once they've got their first year. Also a year is pretty standard to get a signing bonus and relo package covered.
During Iraq/Afg conflict, US army started investing in solar systems because they realized every fuel (alot used for generators) convoy that doesn't have to make runs to outposts means less exposure to attacks by enemy. Solar systems can help lower fuel consumption for generators.

I heard fairly high percentage of US veterans back at home are more interested in solar systems because they saw the high cost of moving fuel around.

Ironic. We supposedly went there to secure our energy source and we learned solar system is a viable solution...
The most glamorous right now might be AR and self-driving, but most challenging I think undersells the difficultly of problems distributed across virtually all of software engineering.
I don't understand why they don't hand out options on a more continuous base the way executives get them. It seems everything is geared towards staying 1-4 years and then jumping ship.
Your comment is absurdly wrong. Old Belarussian/Ukrainian is the circa-Early Middle Ages language of Kievan Rus that is the ancestor of modern Belarussian, Ukrainian, and Russian languages. What destroyed the use of Belarussian literary language in Lithuania/Belarus was the union with Poland - Polish gradually replaced Belarussian as a literary language.

My grandmother was born in the 1920s in Western Belarus - Belarussian only became an official language and started being used in higher education again after Western Belarus was annexed to the Belarussian SSR after the end of WWII. In her town most people spoke Belarussian and few were literate in Polish. This was the case for most of Western Belarus, but the literary Belarussian language was only taught at the primary school level (in those towns that were fortunate enough to have schools), and there were very few Belarussian books published (to place this in context, some of the first books printed in a Slavic language were in Belarussian in the early 16th century). The literacy policies of Belarussian SSR is what revived the Belarussian language.

What has happened after the fall of the Soviet Union is Lukashenko's government pursuing a policy of suppressing Belarussian as an official language in favor of Russian. Recently this has started to become a bigger issue of dissatisfaction in the country.
Are they public?
That seems to fit:
1.) move from Palo alto to east bay
2.) manufacturing company with software engineers
3.) lots of people leaving
4.) CEO changing the world.

However, I'm sure many companies meet that.
Please, everybody, if you haven't read it, stop now, get a copy of "Humane Interface", spend the weekend reading it, and then come in Monday and apply it.
The internet is telling me that there are 17,424 feet of rows in an acre of plants if the rows are 30 inches apart (eg, corn).

The internet also tells me that the average California farm is about 400 acres (a little less than 2/3 of a square mile).

400 * 17424 ~= 7 million feet of row. Million. That's 1320 miles if you want to walk or ride the whole thing one row at a time. I think you're right about speed mattering a great deal.
I have been thinking about Yishan-style CEOs and getting rid of nondisparagement in things like severance.
Wow. Just goes to show: No matter how novel you think your great idea is, someone else has probably though of it too.
Turbo Pascal was taught at most UK college in the 80's I think most electronic engineers and CS guys who went to school around then were exposed to it and you would be surprised how many PC/DOS programs in the 80's were written in it.
Angel is free to waive their NDA and we can hear from a primary source. Their unwillingness to do so makes clear what that person would say.
This story is probably true, but it feels like we're only hearing half of it.

Why wasn't the employee terminated immediately when the behavior became apparent? That would certainly qualify as termination with cause.

I know you sweep their behavior under the rug of "mental illness," which by definition means they weren't thinking clearly, but why would anyone possibly commit career suicide like that? Were they trying to extort you for money? Why would they do that for a paltry 30% of their salary when they could've just stayed with the company for 4 months instead?

I think what I dislike about this comment is that it comes across as almost bragging about bankrupting someone with a mental condition: "Right before it bankrupted them...guess what stoped happening. We dropped it without taking a cent. Hasn't been a problem."
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Many (if not most) companies do stock refreshes annually, don't they?
I usually max out at around 50. Today I got to 40, by reading several articles in the morning, and then starting a programming project in the afternoon. And the project included several unfamiliar topics, and I opened multiple tabs for some Google searches because not every website has the same take on the matter.
Cool! My commute is on here (Newburgh / Beacon, NY), although mine is a hair better.

My commute usually ranges from 1:50 to 2 hours. I get up at 6:30, a 10 minute walk to the Beacon train station for the 7:08 train which brings me straight to Grand Central.

I'm working from home right now, but I was literally always there first person into the office at about 9am.

The fact that no car is involved and it's only one mode of transportation to get into the city is what makes the commute very easy for me.

With my phone or iPad as a hotspot I can easy work, Reddit, or just play on my computer.
Grab a book and now you've got some good dedicated reading time.

To top it all off, you ride along the Hudson for the entire trip.

At times I certainly didn't love it, but I found it surprisingly bearable.
And at the weekend hop an easyJet to a European city. Do that every 2 weeks for 5 years and you still won't have been everywhere you can go.
From what I understand, that tends to be two separate questions. How enforceable are they if the individual in question can afford lawyers, and how enforceable are they if they can't.

It it something that would get thrown out immediately or would have to be argued extensively, and is it something that the various activist organizations would provide lawyers for or that lawyers would take on contingency?
This is why its always possible to hire great developers - because some companies and hiring managers think that people should be not just great developers, but willing to jump through ridiculous hoops to work there.

If you want to hire people, drop the attitude of "we don't want people who aren't willing to prove how much they want to work here". Instead, give them every reason to want to work for you.
>But then, if you drop out an algorithm that does that, handle it to users, would their results be art ?

in the same respect, did someone not create art in photoshop because they used some fractal noise?

I've had this conversation and thought about it a lot for what I'm doing and come to this conclusion.

art can be directed, it can be accidental, it can be both (every artist loves a happy accident), it can be because of a million iterations whether by hand or computer.

it's up to you, the viewer to decide if you think the end result is good art.
I'm guessing it has something to do with the missing part of the first quote. It doesn't look like the lawyer quoted used the word "employees" to start that sentence, and I'd wager it was more specifically about women in the workforce being made to sign these agreements.
Federal judges tend to be incredibly competent and intelligent. It's not an elected position like it is for most state judges.
I liked nested functions in Pascal, and put them in D. They turn out to be surprisingly useful:

1. Properly encapsulating their scope, as opposed to having static functions sit awkwardly somewhere else.

2. Factoring out common code within the function.

3. A lot of my need for goto statements vanished with nested functions.

4. Take the address of a nested function, and it serves as a lambda.

5. No need to create "Context" structs to pass local data to them.

6. They replace a lot of what C macros did.

7. They're inlineable, so are not costly.

I use them more and more as time goes by. It's a pity C doesn't have them, they'd fit nicely into the language.
> Stated bluntly, there aren’t enough new immigrants for the state’s nearly half-million farm labor jobs

That's why we need a "farmworker" visa system, which lets workers come when required and go back as needed. Millions of people work on such visas all over the world; I don't see why it won't work in the US.
The Case for More Science and Philosophy Books for Children
Give more love to Ubuntu server. Remove this update notification from the MOTD (this message encourages newbs to break their box):

https://imgur.com/a/6SD97

further elaboration provided here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14006747
How do I enable that? I can't find it anywhere.
The Religious Mind is Not Dead
Wasn't there the story where Musk scolded someone who took off to be at the birth of his child?
If you enter customize mode, you can:

1) Choose one of the compact themes, which have square tabs instead of curved

and

2) Re-enable the title bar
> So you prefer a library's handling of a book over a restoration?

This is a false dichotomy, but I will nevertheless say that I do prefer a library's approach of treating books as 'living' artifacts that attest to history, rather than being objects of purely aesthetic appreciation.

(Maybe that's also a false dichotomy ;-)

I think we can all agree that they should not be treated as a resource to be strip-mined for profit. Speaking for myself, that extends to the whole process of destroying rare books for their more aesthetically valuable components, even if done legally.
That's the downside to living in complexes!
DAE keep finding their eye drawn to this headline because their brain sees it as a story about Shia LaBeouf?

I mean, I don't really care about Shia LaBeouf, but I'm unfamiliar with ShareLaTeX and Overleaf so I keep pausing on this headline as I parse it.
I used to have a coworker who was REALLY slow at reading code. For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why, but eventually he told me he was dyslexic.

I mentioned that I had hear of some fonts that were specifically made for people with dyslexia, so he downloaded one and tried it out. There was an almost immediate improvement in his output of code, and it was always interesting to go read over his shoulder and see things not-monospaced.

Personally, I only stick to monospaced fonts, but I wouldn't be totally opposed to trying something else. I even tried dotsies for a while (http://dotsies.org/) but could never get used to it and it slowed me down too much.
Slander can get you in trouble. Anti-disparagement agreements should be considered unconstitutional, or at least have some kind of high bar for being allowed at all.
needs to be a federal mandatory public policy exemption to nondisparagement

I could see agreements not to spout off opinions making sense, but having actual facts (or things you reasonably believe to be facts) ought to make it ok.

Rather like what the Internet tells me the difference between US and UK defamation laws is; if you have actual facts on your side you're ok, but if you're just expressing opinions then it depends (on where you are; or I'd like to think on what agreements you have).
You can take a clear-text password and authenticate it to AD via kerberos.

If you have MS-CHAP data, you can't convert it to something which will be accepted by kerberos. You MUST send it to AD as MS-CHAP data (i.e. ntlm), and then AD returns "pass / fail"
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Despite the overall theme of this interaction, opening an office in the East Bay seems more employee friendly than keeping them in Palo Alto.
There's refreshes and then there's the speed of the vesting schedule.

Some places offer a bunch to start, but very little after that, which means people tend to leave once they have vested all their options/RSUs.

After the first year, sometimes your vesting schedule will be monthly, quarterly, twice a year, or once a year. As to why they don't allow everyone to be monthly - it's probably because they get to claw back a fair amount of the equity if people leave.
Darknet Messenger Briar Releases Beta, Passes Security Audit
This somehow seems relevant - http://nypost.com/2017/05/21/coachs-viral-response-when-aske...
Can you just open a new window as a "workspace" and have tabs within that window?
IIRC https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/?s... is a replacement

Container tabs is totally different, that's about basically having multiple profiles in one window. E.g you can have the work container logged into your work email and work stuff, and your personal container logged in to your personal email and personal stuff, and they don't know about each other. Like incognito, but persistent and within the same window.
My guess is square. The CFO went to stanford for an MBA, where the author taught.

Neither CFO Tesla has had went to Stanford.

Can't find anything about Dorsey working at one of the startups listed on the author's wikipedia page, but he seemed to have been involved with many so it would be unsurprising if it just wasn't listed there.
While I generally have a few windows open with 10-25 tabs open. I know one person that sells/buys on eBay and 200+ is fairly standard
Or they have blanket rules, specifically so that people can't make reliable inferences from their behavior in specific cases.

There's even a standard joke on this, IIRC the setting is some sort of court case:

"Did you sleep with Joe on Monday?"
"No."
"Did you sleep with Joe on Tuesday?"
"No."
"Did you sleep with Joe on Wednesday?"
"I refuse to answer that question."
"Thank you."
From what I know the refreshes are typically pretty small.
Maybe just store everything in sealed landfills until it becomes valuable enough for people to mine it. The abstract should break out the landfill versus natural environment numbers, as they are very different end locations.
Fwiw, one "advantage" of "wanting to work there" is that counterproductive management practices can survive longer.
If I'm your boss and am treating you like trash, and you complain, I can just say "oh it sounds like your commitment to this company isn't very high, shall we discuss your future?"
That will work a multitude of times with a gaslit employee who really drank the company kool-aid.
I'm curious, if you go to about:support are HW_COMPOSITING and OPENGL_COMPOSITING enabled?

Someone (likely here) mentioned that setting layers.acceleration.force-enabled to true in about:config makes a dramatic difference in performance, and based on my limited experience, it does. So much so, that I'm thinking about switching to Firefox after many years of only using it sparingly due to lousy performance on Linux compared to Chrome (e10s has helped too).

edit: I should note that HW_COMPOSITING and OPENGL_COMPOSITING are not enabled by default on the 2 Arch Linux systems I have (Ivy Bridge and Haswell iGPUs, up to date Firefox, Mesa and Kernel). Not sure if there is a white/blacklist, or if its just always disabled in Linux.
Yes, but after the initial grant has vested entirely your opportunities for growth are limited.

Here's an example - say I'm hired with 1000 units of stock over four years. Each year I receive a refresher grant of 250 units of stock, again vesting over four years. Once I reach Year 4, my stock compensation stabilizes, assuming my refreshers remain the same (I'm am obviously grossly simplifying - you could be promoted and get larger grants, the company could do badly and your dollar value be significantly reduced).

But what you can do, and what the parent is alluding to, is jump ship around year 3-4 and get the company you're going to match your current amount of outstanding stock, meaning your initial grant becomes much higher, and your refreshers do too. At least, that's the idea. It's worked for me.

Additionally, although personally I did very well on my refresher grants I know other people at my employer did not. So that's another factor.
This would make sense if there was naturally 'cheap' housing and 'expensive' housing. There isn't. It's just housing. The fish analogy just doesn't work, we're talking about increasing supply of a durable good, not a natural resource. The only way is to make more. I'm sure tons of developers who don't bother playing the bay area would come back if cities lowered their BMR requirements. Leading to better designs, and more units. That plot of land that's designated mixed-use and has a gas station and a strip mall in the sunset isn't getting re-developed because developers know they'd have to do 25% BMR. With 0% BMR, that plot of land gets re-developed into 5-10 housing units. You're counting on prices being high-enough for redevelopment which is another self-fulfilling prophecy, instead of just building normal units. You can have 10% BMR and still get redevelopment quicker.

I would agree about the in-elasticity of the labor market, we're finding out right now. I see plenty of hiring signs around.
Lazarus IDE and Free Pascal Compiler are available if you really want to play with Pascal. It's super easy and fun to do simple GUI programming in it especially.
No, it's a sign that it's a quote taken from interview whose context was a woman being prevented from relating her harassment story by a non-disparagement clause.
Bingo. The company was Rocket Science Games. https://web.archive.org/web/20121113115319/https://engineeri... says Blank was involved, and one of Musk's internships was also there according to the Musk bio and a few sites listing his internships (simultaneous with Pinnacle, apparently).
Okay, what's your proposition for the displaced workers?
Musk worked at Rocket Science Games, a Steve Blank startup, almost two decades ago.
I can't imagine anything less productive than debating the details of a story introduced anonymously like this.