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Throwing things that could be eaten by wild animals near trails or roads could draw animals closer to humans, having some unfortunate unintentional consequences.
Carbon nanotube yarns generate electricity when streched
>for a loooong time Latin was the language of the scholarly and political elite

French was too for hundreds of years even up until now and maybe for the EU again after Brexit.
I had no idea either. I guess earthworms are mostly beneath (heh) our notice.
I am talking mainly about the one in Beacon St, Somerville. Also about others in the area.
I must have missed most of the Joyent drama then, because your description of it sounds bigger than I remember. Again, I don't follow Node closely enough to be sure.

Go is a good counter example, and it also doesn't have the corporate politics despite being backed mostly by a single corporation. I was thinking that my guess was probably missing something; the behind the scenes struggle for control between multiple companies might be it.

Is there a way to quantify this "corporate politics" thing in Node and compare it to other communities with drama?
The CdD figures usually do include crew costs, so they attempt to be "all-in" numbers, minus cost of financing.

The reason they're $0 on the report you're looking at is they're trying to sell you the report with the actual figures, not that those costs haven't been included.

Crew rates for majors are published. Here's Alaska's: http://www.airlinepilotcentral.com/airlines/legacy/alaska_ai...

Call the flight crew $300/hr, and the cabin crew probably another $150/hr.
The original paper is here: https://sci-hub.cc/10.1111/rec.12565

The original site was heavily degraded and was host to mostly a single species of invasive grass, introduced by ranchers for pasture. This invasive grass presumably was preventing native shrubs and other woody plants from re-establishing. The fruit company was permitted to dump 1000 truckloads of orange peels over 3 hectares (30,000 square meters) in exchange for donating 1,600 hectares of primary forest.

What's interesting is that the authors hypothesize that the acidity of the orange peels actually altered the soil pH enough to kill off all of the invasive grasses and allowed the native plants to reestablish themselves. Unfortunately the authors don't test this hypothesis directly, and the intertwined effects of {acidity, asphyxiation of invasive grasses by several tons of material, massive additional organic nutrient input} can't be teased out due to the experimental design. Though with effects like this, I'm sure restoration ecologists would be happy to receive 1600 Ha of old-growth forest in exchange for dumping rights on 3 Ha of disturbed pasture land, even if they don't know the exact mechanism.
I don't think glDrawElements() goes into the driver though (at least there is no sane reason for it I can imagine, you only need to go into the driver to kick a command buffer at the end of frame).

Nevertheless, even if some implementations actually do call driver, the GP's point is that the whole point of Vulkan is getting rid of global state to allow parallel command buffer creation. JS is single threaded so, no matter how cheap or expensive the calls are, you won't be able to take advantage of Vulkan since you are running just one thread.
What is the most plausible theory of the afterlife?
Thanks for adding this: I don't see evidence to support that conspiracy theory.

I see you are concerned with other comments here and elsewhere arguing a conspiracy of some sort to get the author banned. I have no opinion one way or the other on that specific accusation. I also don't think it is germane to my claims in this thread.

I was remarking that "Due Process" the specific legal term associated with the how the legal system deals with accusations, was designed to avoid the situation the author writes about where he asserts he was not told who is accusers were, what he was accused of, or given an opportunity to refute those accusations. This works because it removes information asymmetry that can be exploited by the attacker or the attacked. An recent example of how this can be exploited is the story of a venture capitalist who was accused of sexual harassment anonymously by someone who turned out to be a competitor[1].

In a system where, as part of the process, an accuser and accused are made aware of the real identities of each other this would never has passed the first examination.

If such a process were in place in this particular case, and the code of conduct violation was the one you cited, then the email to the author would have said

"These {insert identities} have accused you of failing
to enforce the code of conduct elements {identified paragraphs}
in the following situations {links to exchanges between author
and community}. We would like to hear your side of this
before we render a judgement."

And they would get back the authors point of view, then they might ask the accuser or the author for more information, and then they would render some judgement and an explanation of why they ruled the way they did so that in the future people would either recognize that it wasn't an issue or that it was and to not do it.

Processes are like programs or math proofs, if you do each of the steps in the right order you get the right answer regardless of the intent or opinion of the people carrying out the process.

[1] http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/25/lawsuit-sexual-harassm...
In some cases maybe it would be better off in a landfill. Any time you introduce something foreign into an environment there could be unintended consequences. I think it would be better to always pack out everything you pack in.
David Byrne: Eliminating the Human
Wonder if this would be good for where major wildfires have been such as the Lake and Butte fires in California in 2015 - the places where it burned strongest consumed all organic matter in the soil...
A bit late to the party, but my advice: unlesss your goal is to learn high-performance design, try to save yourself a lot of effort by using a higher-level HDL. Depending on how cool your professor is and what their pedagogical goals are, they'll be fine with it. Using something like CLaSH will statically prevent you from doing a lot of hardware stuff that's non-synthesizable, flammable, or just plain dumb. You can do a lot of things in standard HDLs that just don't make any sense, and a lot of students get confused and do them. Not only will something like CLaSH or Chisel prevent you from doing dumb things, but they will get you in the mindset of doing things correctly.
That may have changed after I got steam.

I only had Half Life, and Counter Strike was free when I started playing so I only got HL / CS. I didn't get the others free until HL2 came out...
The fact that this story of "dumped organic material composts and increases fertility" has gained so much reach really shows how disconnected we all are from nature.

Maybe the way for science to speak to the masses is to just pretend that every confirmation study is a brand new piece of science. "New study finds that reduced caloric intake causes weight loss!"
Nah, withdrawals and deposits within the same credit union network (usually Co-Op Credit Union) are free.
Q/A system, query results returned as memories. You wouldn't need to read about X, you would just remember that you already know about X.
We're basically already there, it's how funding for a not inconsiderable number of studies is found.
Have you ever played a flash game? Slither.io? There is a huge market there. Steam is not one click away from a tweet or a Facebook post.

Please have a nice weekend.
Exactly what I said in my comment and yet it was downvoted.
Geoengineering is just that thing we're going to do out of desperation, which will hasten the end, nothing more or less.
If you read the original study there's a bit more going on than how the article portrays it. In particular, this site was host to invasive grasses, and after the orange peel input the site was flourishing with native species. Simply introducing nutrients into a system isn't guaranteed to get rid of the invasive species, and in fact it might make the problem even worse, so the fact that this happened is quite interesting and there's probably some interaction between the soil properties, decomposers, and orange peels that made this particularly good outcome possible. See also my top-level comment for my original take on it.
I download zero apps per month because existing apps have trained me to believe that most "free" apps are actually user-hostile scams trying to trick you into spending far more on in-app purchases than you ever would on an app, and most paid apps still contain ads (or worse, requests that I advertise the app to my friends).

But hey, that's the best way to drive up short-term profits.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating tossing food trash in the woods, but what's the difference between someones mostly eaten sandwich and an expired squirrel? or apples dropping from the apple tree (which they are doing right now!).

Isn't that what wild animals do? scavengers will scavenge?

(again, to be clear, this is not feeding the "Yellowstone bears" from the car window in the 60s, this is bits & pieces of scraps of food or bio-waste here and there in the woods).

Are we not part of nature?
When you get to the edges / infrequently-traficked parts of Wikipedia you see a lot of writing like that. I'd take it for what it seems to be: non-authoritative, opinionated, or incomplete. Maybe just plain made up.
I personally think the OpenGL4.5 new functions, and Vulkan, are quite nice in readability actually.

In contrast, older OpenGL with the global state is the pure horror, and even 4.5 has lots of that still.
I've tried keeping up with what's been happening with Node, but I'm completely lost here. Could anyone summarize what's been happening or point me to a summarization?
> Question is, what did we used to have that drove research efforts in the more beneficial ways we used to see?

I don’t know the answer to your question, but decoupling progress from profits would be a good idea.

An international body dedicated to knowledge and research for their own sake, funded by everyone, maybe?
Seems like a lot of nerves were struck with this article.
Yeah, but the defense industry can't charge the firm that does the maintenance $1500/gallon for regular paint.
Except when all you have to debug it is a black screen.

Graphics work is tricky, you need everything to line up just right or stuff renders in ways that don't lend well to understanding what went wrong. When you put a framework abstraction in between that it can be really difficult to find out exactly what went wrong.
I find that hard to believe. Slow and insecure payments are not good for anyone.
We were often badly abusing all three terms: minimum, viable, and product. Probably that last one most egregiously.

So I put a moratorium on that terminology both internally and in our external communication. Now we use "Minimum Viable Experiment". Because it implies that we've established a stable hypothesis, that we've considered what a test and validation plan should look like, established completion criteria, and nobody starts prematurely projecting expectations of sales onto an experiment.

The product discovery and development processes are entirely outside that experimentation process. Though one clearly feeds it and the other is fed by it.

This has been very successful in keeping expectations aligned and in check consistently internally, externally, and with our investors/board. Even just making the change in language forced a conversation to explain it and that by itself was worth the small shift in terms.
"So wait a minute. What you're saying is that you want us to put water on the crops.

Yes

Water. Like out the toilet?

But brawndo's got what plants crave. It's got electrolytes."
If you're hoping the point is instant change, no.

If you're hoping for more realistic gradual change, then yes. Peaceful protest in particular gets your message to the masses.

That's really the most your can hope for. Real actual change takes generations.
You are comparing the worst of Europe (companies can be very exploitative even if it's ILLEGA) with the best of USA (a lot of middle-income-class positions) and not even the complete thing (you get most of the things). That's not a fair comparison.
Ask HN: Advise on buying a mac
Which laptop is better suited for programmers :
1. Macbook air
2. 13 inch Macbook pro
3. 15 inch Macbook pro

Cheers
> I don't agree that people like to bind an object to a global variable, execute a global procedure, and unbind it. Does that sound like the API of anyone's dreams? The binding and unbinding sounds like pure overhead to me.

Isn't that how OpenGL works?
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Hahahahaha that actually would be painfully ironic.

It's funny, video distribution isn't a terribly expensive problem anymore. Maintain a devout forum of followers and debate, and release videos on Mega or Vimeo or etc. Or ask people to mirror.

Of course this is all about the youtube ad bux and discovery.

But it is not a right for a public company to allow you on the platform no matter what.
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There was a protest in state of Tamil Nadu, India in regards to jellikettu(bull racing) where the central government banned it. The whole state protested, and the ban was lifted.
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I never played D&D.

Promise.
The Node community seems to have more issues like this than others. This feels similar to the Nodevember drama where Douglas Crockford was uninvited to speak because a small group of people felt uncomfortable. What that community needs to understand is that speaking takes a lot of work and guts to do. Professionals are busy people and it’s a privilege to hear experts present. Same goes for contributing time and expertise to open source projects. If it becomes common to force people out for perceived wrong think than all that will be left are codes of conducts instead of codes of systems.
Better yet, announce we're building 2. That way we he can plan on building 3.
Sounds very Invader Zim-like.
Here is an article about this posted on Princetons news site (August 22nd):

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2017/08/22/orange-new-green-h...

It cites an interesting court case by a rival company that occurred after the contact to dump was signed:

"But a year after the contract was signed — during which time 12,000 metric tons of orange peels were unloaded onto the degraded land — TicoFruit, a rival company, sued, arguing the company had “defiled a national park.” The rival company won the case in front of Costa Rica’s Supreme Court, and the orange-peel-covered land was largely overlooked for the next 15 years."
Ask HN: Does survival bias in self-taught/bootcamp developer stories matter?
The stories I find always have one thing in common: the writers "make it." They get the job, get into a Bootcamp, or launch a profitable sass app; whatever their goal may be, if they're writing about it, they've achieved it.

Similar question asking for anecdotes here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/comments/6w30de/for_those_who_travelled_down_the_selftaught_path/
Remember the Occupy movement?

They had no immediate demands. People thought it was pointless and the protestors copped a lot of criticism because of it.

Almost ten years later Bernie Sanders rallied millions around a platform that was based on the idea of 'the one percent'. That wouldn't have happened if the idea hadn't already been made popular by the Occupy movement.

So yes, there is a point to protesting - even if you don't have any demands.
Is there a binary version of this tool that can be downloaded somewhere? Seems a bit of a pain to install.
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Would all this be possible using git? In that case, even normal people (non-professors , non-R&D engineers) who read research papers to quench their curiosity, would have to know to use git.
Wow first paragraph shames DnD players 3 times. Fuck whoever wrote this.
Can we see your engine?
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It's semantics and all about how you interpret MVP.

My MVPs typically are pretty much complete applications. I can't see it being any less whilst still being new and innovative.
Follow the link to homepage in readme, there you'll find download link to binary: http://mtuner.net/index.html#download
Numerically solving PDE on large scale.
> Sure, blocking or deflecting some light might lower Earth's temperatures temporarily, but you'd exacerbate CO2 levels semi-permanently.

This hurts to read.

Blocking sunlight "might" not lower temperatures. It is absolutely certain. It's a very basic fact that sunlight is what heats our planet.
I must be missing something -- how is dumping rights on 3 hectares of some land worth 1600 hectares of other land? How could this possibly be a better deal for them than clearing 3 hectares of their land, dumping whatever they wanted to there, and selling the other 1597?
This is pretty nifty. Cracking the extension open reveals a fairly basic API you can use to skip the extension. Here's some code to use it.

https://gist.github.com/9b/f5fe434bf9965d673963884b56d93d9a

On the privacy side, I could see concern from those using the extension. When the site is not found in their database, the full HTML of the page appears to be submitted to the servers and processed. This is a bit of what you would expect, but may present some concern for cases where a new site is submitted and PII is sent to WhatRuns servers.
Or we could invest in a proven carbon free generation technology.
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A team of 100 24/7 engineers amortized across the full amount of money transferred across i.e. Bank Of America or Credit Suisse's would cost a fraction of a penny per dollar, and it wouldn't require 100 24/7 engineers.

The costs of real-time ACH have nothing to do with engineering payroll, and everything to do with executive payroll.
Rapper “The Game” is now promoting a weed-related ICO. Signs of a crypto bubble?
While Bernie Sanders may have rallied some people, in the end he didn't actually end up accomplishing much of anything.
There are common clues an email is an auto-response, too — from timestamp to headers: https://github.com/jpmckinney/multi_mail/wiki/Detecting-auto...
The author says the conversation was "total random discussion" but that seems rather unlikely. I think we all know how uncommon randomness is.

This discussion about listening came up a few years ago but about Facebook, who owns Instagram.

Previous Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10360761
Does it occur to you that HN users are probably users of the banking system, and therefore quite qualified to comment on what users need?
I disagree. Makefile syntax has been a barrier to entry for many engineers I've worked with. When I saw this I got very excited. I haven't used it yet, but I'm looking forward to playing with it next week.
So the parasites don't exist in Japan or they don't affect people who eat them?
Not to be a naysayer, but not all apps are stuff people _want_ because they aren't exactly solving their problems (or satisfying them). So IMO, the first step is having an honest conversation with yourself. Next would be to talk to your few users & friends, to try to find out if they like the app and if they would recommend it to a friend or two. As PG Says, "if you make something users love enough to tell their friends, you grow exponentially, and that will convince any investor"[1]. Note that, 'Convince any investor' here is proof of growth.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/good.html

If you haven't read any of these, you should check them out.
http://paulgraham.com/ds.html
http://paulgraham.com/growth.html
You can't assume that a reduction in sunlight reaching the top of the atmosphere means a reduction in total sunlight reaching plants on the earth's surface, because of complex feedback effects involving cloud cover.

Moreover, as multiple posts in this thread point out, sunlight is not the limiting factor in plant growth.
Say more?
Faster payments is one of the best systems I've used having lived in several countries. Paypal funds to a UK bank usually takes a few minutes.

Here in Canada they have the Interac E-Transfer which is money by email and not usually free $1-$2 per transfer.

It also has a question/answer security component which can be annoying if you simply want to send someone money.
"It doesn't matter! he did it! he inspired people!"

To do nothing.
Wow - this blew up. Sorry, just got back from another 14 hour day of tractor work (it's 8-9 hours on the job but then there is prep like sharpen all the chainsaws and after prep of you have to grease the excavator. It's almost 9pm and I need to take a shower to get the dirt out and go to bed).

I would love to go through all this and reply, there are a lot of thoughtful comments here, some I agree with and some I don't. I'll try and get to them on Sunday, I know that's an eternity in internet time, it is what it is.

I love that this has generated a discussion, in the US we are so screwed because you can't talk about anything without in devolving into my team versus your team. We are so stupid. We should discuss stuff. As in look at a thing, see what is good, see what is bad, be engineers and make it more good. In the US right now, that is simply not a thing. We suck.

On the plus side, I'm making close to as much as I made as a successful CEO doing tractor work. Who knew that was a thing? It's hard work but I'm liking it.
Unfortunately, FPGA designers don't get the big bucks anymore.
I think you're misreading. The uncertainty of "might" refers to the plan actually occurring, not to the temperature lowering.

You can read this sentence as:

"Sure, you might block or deflect some light and that will lower Earth's temperatures..."
I truly hope we are about the high water mark for this kind of entirely irrelevant nonsense. It seems at least in this case the majority of the TSC had the sense to properly deem this ridiculous.
Tried on a site whose backend I know doesn't contain any ruby on rails and it says web framework is ruby on rails. Maybe they use Bayesian inference and don't worry about not having any data...
The company was going to build a multimillion dollar plant (1997 dollars) to process the waste. Instead they just gave away a bunch of land they weren't going to develop anyway.

Also just because you own some land doesn't mean it's legal to do whatever you want with it, especially industrial uses like dumping waste. Costa Rica is probably one of the better countries in terms of protecting its natural resources (compared to say, recent events in Brazil) so it's unlikely that they could have just ignored laws. I would encourage you to read the original paper, and in general always go for original sources; they are surprisingly readable if you know what you can skip and what you have to look up.
Is it possible that they'd be otherwise restricted from dumping, even on land that they own?

EDIT: the paper says:

"D.H.J. offered a different plan for the
orange waste: biodegrade it on recently incorporated degraded
pastureland within ACG. In return for this agricultural waste
management, Del Oro could donate its forested land at the
margins of ACG that it had no intention of cultivating, and
eventually provide cash payments."

But I guess that doesn't really answer the question, hmm
Can you give an example of a fraud check that needs to take an hour?
So purposefully modifying cars to illegally pollute to huge levels, causing deaths and disease from said pollution gets a few years in prison? The range of time people are charged with is so arbitrary and usually inconsequential with mass scale “white collar” crimes, and totally excessive for the poor and/or minorities. It’s insane.
These sorts of things happen on long time scales. Let's see what the future holds.