skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have plenty of data to show that the climate of the planet has been very different at different times in the past. We also have good data that humans have had an effect on the climate (although why this would be surprising escapes me, perhaps the surprise is that its measurable).

What we don't have is any clue on how humans could control the climate long term so changing our behavior may reduce our contribution to the change but it will not stop change from occuring.

Its useful that we live through several of the annual cycles of weather changes before we have a chance to worry about it. Imagine if humans went from birth to middle age in three months, by mid-summer they might be afraid that the temperature was just going to keep on going up forever, as it had their entire life. We see a variant on this with multi-generational cycles like volcanic eruptions where something that "always" been true, and then it isn't one year.

That being said I'm all in favor in finding ways to be more efficient. We can't realistically consider stellar travel until we can create an environment which is self sustaining. I do wish however that we'd invest more in adapting to climate change rather than throw money away at trying to "stop" it.
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I sense disagreement due to the down votes. Care to discuss? I'm actually interested to hear someone else's viewpoint on this. :)
I got my current job because everyone I was competing against was unemployed. Companies treat it like the kiss of death. Friends of mine who have been unemployed fr less than 60 days find work. More that 60 days stay unemployed for months and months.
It may not be for you, unless you have a some operational complexity behind your web apps. Otherwise your favorite web analytics service will do the job well.

It's ideal for manufacturing companies, companies with some complexity in their supply chain, companies that wish to maintain service standards (e.g., a call center), have sales teams with measurable objectives, etc.

In other words, it's for companies that look more like traditional businesses in some way, versus a super asset-light web app company. By revenue, that is the majority of businesses in the US.
+1 for Chart.io. We use it and love it. It addresses the most costly part of BI tools which someone pointed out above - paying one of your engineers to hook up your data with an external tool or have to code something custom from scratch.
I would take taxis more frequently if they were a) more affordable and b) more available. As things are, a ride home from downtown costs about $20, and getting a cab on the street is a non-starter in most of the city. Medallion holders are supposed to 'use it or lose it' and must drive unless they are disabled; most of them fulfill this requirement by driving one day a week and renting out their medallion for the other 6 days at a healthy profit. It is they who are going to derive most of the benefit from these cost increases rather than the drivers, most of whom pay exploitative taxi rental fees and are put on the street with no training of any kind and are prone to getting lost in SF's peculiar geography.

I don't see what your point is in comparing a taxi driver's income with that of a tech CEO. I'm not wealthy either, and now take cabs only in emergencies because the cost has become prohibitive. Maybe you should compare drivers' incomes with those of medallion holders and taxi company CEOs. In general I'm a pro-regulation, pro-governance kinda guy, but not when it comes to price controls. the taxi industry is the way it is because of a corrupt arrangement between incumbents and administrators.
Steve jobs is Arab.
I think it's hard to get great honest constructive reactions from people you don't know let alone the people you do know who just want to support you.

With a startup (http://infostripe.com) outside the insider circles of the west coast (or even the US) it has been extremely difficult for us to get any professional response from the tech punditry so far.

I think you face three battles in this industry. Creating something new, better or great, having someone on the inside pass a little acknowledgement to you early and getting (and accepting) good honest (negative) feedback.

The lack of which can in turn lead you down the path of asking if something is any good after you have already built it.

If you've gotten so far as to build your vision don't give up because every visitor or user does not get it or need it. Is your product at all useful to anyone, it's it reasonably priced? If it is then market it to those people, continue seek out industry leaders and the everyman opinion and don't give up in the face of the internet's vapid attention span too easily.

If you haven't built it yet. Then consider getting to work on a prototype before spending months trying to convince anyone it's a good idea.
Could be where a lot of nightclubs are. People love taking tedious photos in nightclubs. And there's always a clubbing district where the tourists don't go.
Does anybody really google for "umbrellas"?
Generally speaking, you're not going to see people who buy paid apps ever seeing your app if you go completely free.

It's two completely different audiences.

I've seen lots of people report "ignore paid, go free with in-app adds, especially ads you sell yourself or get through a non-commodity partner".

With what you're helping them find, I am surprised you can't get commissions from sales or the like instead to pay for your operation.

Additionally, it doesn't come anywhere near doubling the QA time to just add a second version, especially if you make the fully paid version use the code branches that a person who buys the free version and completely upgrades gets. The rest of the stuff definitely does double.

Also: 99/1.99 are horrible price points to fight at, especially 99 cents. For games, perhaps, but not for real apps. While your demand curve is as different as anyone else's, you may want to try a higher price point then occasionally drop it for promotions.
Ha, good catch. My argument crumbles to dust.
universities respond to society demands. She has been definitely an important player in shaping the society to demand (incl. reward higher) the highly specialized professionals with impaired critical thinking/initiative/leadership abilities. Cushy corporate or academia job vs. "not a team player" - who is to blame for such a choice posed before the youngsters? Universities?

Even at the micro scale - her "blame the others" leadership approach clearly shows a leader who isn't tolerable to critical thinker and leader types even in her own staff.
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Perhaps people downvote the argument which is based on socionics. I've noted similar down votes on comments where the underlying basis was not well established.
Re: mentioning Python via the ASE in the intro, it's a non-starter: the ASE can't make GUI or OpenGL apps . Other than that: yes, Scala is awesome (asides from all those curly brackets).
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conversation on that is much better than this repost
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Also: the spontaneous, unplanned usage patterns that this ease of use enables.
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"warming is real but that's not a fact that anyone I know of disputes"

Have you considered the positioning of the temperature sensors over the decades? Are they static? and if so, are their surroundings static, e.g. are there more parking lots or less trees around the sensors?
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Google Exec Says It's A Good Idea: Open The Index And Speed Up The Internet
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Cydia, despite being the de facto standard tool for installing non-Apple-approved applications on jailbroken iDevices, it has a major drawback: it won’t run in the background.
According to the tool in play here, yes, but mostly "patio umbrellas", in the summer.
I would presume they use a keyboard.

On a more serious note, as a native Finnish-speaker, I've always written all of my code and comments in English. It's just so much simpler than any other alternative I can think of.
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>Death is as much a part of life as birth. It will not be eliminated unless you eliminate life. To think otherwise is a denial of reality.

The immortal Turritopsis nutricula jellyfish would beg to differ.
A heart-felt "Thank You" to those of you who have contributed and up-voted. Alas, as I type, this item has now slipped to the third page of HN and is unlikely to be seen by "the masses."

So it is only you, the cognoscenti, who have had the privilege (if it be such) of discussing the dissection.

Again, thank you.
I am not very interested in puzzles, math, or much else that this question relates to, but I am incredibly curious-- why is this question being asked?

I don't understand the significance of this problem.

So there are nearly infinitely many ways to accomplish this. What does that mean though?

What are the implications of there being infinitely many ways to do this? Why is it interesting?
I reached a similar conclusion when I noticed two things that repeatedly happen when giving advice:

1) People don't follw your advice. I don't mean this in a frustrated, "I know more than others" manner, but just as a matter of fact: people want to solve their own challenges, and they know more about their own challenges than you do. When advice is given in the form of "Do this, it will work out for you," it's usually ignored, and often with good reason.

2) Advice is based on personal experiences. This is what the "Gestault Protocol" sounds like, and it makes a lot of sense. Your personal experience is the "primary source," in a sense, and your advice is an interpretation of it. Why not let others draw their own conclusions and benefit in a richer way from your experiences?

I've been following these two guidelines, and find it gives good results. Glad to see others are doing similar things.
Yeah. You 'watch' the match on TV and you 'go to see' the match in the stadium.
> But the functional part gives no guarantees of referential transparency or immutable state, so the killer value of FP is lost.

I don't think I agree here. First, the language's type system can give you those guarantees where you need them. (Even Haskell has unsafePerformIO...)

Second, a lot of the "killer value" comes from first-class functions (and in statically typed functional languages, type inference). Coming from Ruby you may not see the huge benefits these would give over Java... ;)

Finally I disagree with the "kinda-sorta" label: The entire Haskell standard library could be rewritten, more or less, in Scala. How is that "kinda" functional? Likewise, obviously any Java code has a direct scala analogue... and with the Dynamic trait, you may even be able to write direct translations of ruby/smalltalk/python-style code too, after a bit of plumbing.

Most (any?) "kinda-sorta" lies with the programmer, not Scala. ;)
This is #1 on my "Ask" page.
Woah! Cool! Thanks ...

I wonder how many people read the "Ask" page.
It certainly wasn't limited to Boston or the Eastern Seaboard. We had record amounts of rainfall in Los Angeles, and the San Gabriel mountains got dusted twice with snow. IIRC, it's been about 10 years since the last snow up there. And it was colder for longer (and yes, I know I am talking about "LA cold").
Don't take my System.out's away from me wierdo.
I am with the author 100%. The apocryphal VC batting average is 20%: That means that a VC firm with a full-time, professional team evaluating deals and has four failures for every success is considered capable. A VC who has just three failures for every successful investment would be considered good, and if they could do that based on a single pitch, they would be considered God-like.

I am not a VC firm, I'm just one guy. I don't perform due diligence. I don't pick winners for a living. So if you ask me, what's your chance of success, what am I going to say? Even if I like your idea, and even if I was good enough to manage $200,000,000 of other people's money investing in winners, I'd only be right one time in four or five.

So I also tell people that I have no fucking idea.
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90+% of Google's political donations go to a single party. Is their business fundamentally political?

[1] http://money.cnn.com/2005/02/14/technology/google_democrats/
Just going to echo the chorus responding to you: It's a way of sharing context. When you ride with someone in their car, if music is being played it's being shared. Same with when you are with someone at a restaurant/bar.

Imagine a chat session with someone where you're listening to the same soundtrack (chosen by participant(s)). Potential for epic interactions.
USGS World Earthquake map: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsww/

I live in south-central Alaska, so I like to know if there are any new earthquakes in my neighborhood or if there are any big ones in the Pacific basin that might spark a tsunami.
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How A Startup Built a Robotic Warehouse in 90 Days
Nice, thanks for sharing this man. I really enjoyed having Mark on to share all his devops knowledge!
Unfortunately this article gets the details of S3 storage costs for Dropbox wrong. You only pay once to get (what Amazon says is) 3x copies of your data on the backend.
We use Java because we don't want to foist a 'weird' language on our clients.

If it wasn't for that, we'd leap at the opportunity to use Scala.
If you upload stock market data, you could see if there are searches that strongly predict certain stocks.
> Or just take the time to beef up your Github contributions. I'd rather see someone with great contributions to the FOSS community than continuous employment at random places.

Yes, exactly. The software industry is great in that, even if you can't find a job right now, you can do actual real-world work. Contributions to significant open source projects is a huge plus for getting hired where I work, and I don't think it's just here.

In fact, you can sometimes build your skills faster doing open source stuff than when employed - since you can more easily pick what to learn and what to do.

But in other industries, it is really very sad - if you can't get a job, you often can't do anything at all.
I'm a fan of courier, though my favorite became Bitstream Vera Sans Mono some time ago after I was searching through my fonts for a better font. I like it a lot because it makes it easy to distinguish between O and 0, and l and 1.
This is not directly related to fonts but for anyone using Visual Studio, this might be helpful: http://studiostyl.es/

It's a website that collects Visual Studio color schemes, so that people can download and install them rather than spending hours customizing their IDE to look like they want it to. Assuming they like one of the available schemes, of course.
Really. Please tell us which taxi firms are minority owned and operated then, since you seem to have joined HN specifically to educate us about this issue. I'm curious about this, because there seem to be far fewer Asian or Latino cab drivers than one would expect from looking at the city's demographics.

Perhaps you can also explain how it benefits minority folk who have arrived in SF in the last ~30 years that virtually no new medallions were issued from 1978-2010 despite a ~15% increase in the city's population during that time.
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Some puzzles don't have "significance", they are simply puzzles. Some people find some (but not all) puzzles intriguing. Why do people do Sudoku? Or crosswords?

This particular problem is also an excellent example of learning to think "outside the box," insofar as almost everyone comes up with the same solutions, and almost no one comes up with all the solutions.

Including me.

Finally, this is just a warm up to an unanswered question in math/puzzles. Solving that may turn out to be mundane, but it may lead to the development of new techniques and insights. You never know. It's like the Collatz Conjecture. Simple to state, no one knows if it's true, no one know how to prove (or disprove) it, and who knows what techniques may be developed to answer it.

You say there are "nearly infinitely many ways to accomplish this." Can I ask, what do you mean by "nearly infinite"? Anything that's not infinite is infinitely far away from being infinite, so I'm a little confused by your statement.

And learning to think about these things is an excellent exercise in logic and reasoning. Explaining solutions is superb training in communication.

And for some, it's fun.
I hope there will be a way to just use Spotify without using Facebook. It seems like that could become obnoxious if I had to sign into Facebook every time I wanted to listen to music.
Do they also provide a disproportionate amount of airtime to Mother Jones and the American Prospect? Are they also aggressively pursuing an agenda that people have explicitly described as "liberal".

It's not one thing, but its the combination of his apparent agenda coupled with his background.

With that said, if Google decided to promote planned parenthood links and hid southern baptist links, then I'd probably believe that politics might have something to do with it.

Everyone has a bias. But its important that you be able to see through their front to see what might be their actual end goal that's consistent with their bias.
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Let's say things go well, you stay for 4 years, loosing about 20*4=80K in salary. The company is then sold for $30m, of which you get 75K-ish (check my math though). Your risk-taking, lock-in and not taking other opportunities has not won you anything.

If you want the job, counter with $80K salary and 5% of the company (not of the options pool, of the company). INSIST to talk about your percentage in terms of percentage of the company. Let them make really offended faces, and let them get back to you.
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It's not lying. The Internet is unavailable to your app, and it tells your app that. Now, it may be unavailable because the user said, "make the Internet unavailable" instead of being unavailable because the phone is inside a tunnel... but the end result is the same. An action the user took caused your app to be unable to contact the Internet. If this is a problem, pop a dialog saying, "hey, get out of that tunnel if you want to play my game."

The "permissions" that a user gives to the device say that the app has permission to use the Internet. The permission does not make the Internet magically 100% available. It may well never be available. All you're getting is permission to use the Internet if the Internet happens to exist.

Anyway, I know you're trolling, and that's fine. Because your opinion doesn't matter: it's my phone, my internet connection, and my open-source firmware. Your software is an invited guest. If you don't want your app to run on my phone, don't let it get on my phone. Once you've done that, it's mine to take with me into tunnels (virtual or otherwise) whenever the fuck I want, and there's not a thing in the world you can do to stop me. My house, my rules, so fuck you. Hahahaha!
"This is not hard to do."

That's a big assumption. I've worked with systems that wouldn't have been able to provide this without a LOT of work and upgrades, and they weren't anywhere near the size if Google and Amazon.
There's a lot of truth to this. In his seminal work "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" Thomas Kuhn pointed out that paradigm shifts (a term he coined) don't happen because lots of people who used to think one way start thinking another. Rather, a very select few who are capable of changing their minds start thinking differently, providing a guide around which new entrants can form their own opinions. This continues until the advocates for the displaced view have reduced themselves to a minority by literally dying off.

In other words, you never see a true paradigm shift take place in a single generation. Two or three is the more realistic norm.
>as long as there is no decision made by politicians which will affect ordinary internet users, entrepreneurs and investors nobody cares.

The ironic thing is that, if they think nobody is paying attention/cares -- that is precisely when they will feel empowered to make decisions.
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How do you market your startup on a shoestring?
Since launching a startup (http://infostripe.com) earlier this year I have been learning a lot about how things truly work online. I've been around the internet since the mid nineties, I have worked in web development throughout that time (for a government) and have intensely followed tech news, podcasts and events very closely as an interested observer. I have gotten a lot out of that practice but it was truly when I tried to reach out with my own thing that I discovered the height and depth that is the 4th wall of the marketing underbelly.

We are not yet in a position to spend what resources we have on a lot of things so it has been a grassroots campaign to reach out to tech punditry, journalists, bloggers along with some minor experimental spends on Adwords, Stumbleupon and Facebook Ads. This has been somewhat successful on small scale but we have run into some interesting observations.

- It seems to matter who you know more then what you are if you have little to spend.
- Tech journalism is in some corners a vapid recycling of the same daily hot air with very little investigative instinct.
- There is a lot going on each day online and getting heard is tough.
- Spammers have made us all afraid of each other and new things.

So the question, How do you market your whatever as a small yet unfunded startup on a shoestring?
It's not unethical (as suggested by another commenter) because this is how you are able to afford a flat fee.

I agree and want to expand a bit. Even if a change or addition only takes me 10 minutes of my time now, it's important to remember the months and often years of experience that I'm drawing upon to make that change so quickly. Explain to the client that they are not only paying you for your exact time, but also for your skill set and ability to do a job quickly AND correctly. All of those qualities cost money and clients who don't want to recognize that fact are toxic and should be dumped (as suggested by the poster I'm responding to).
The big rotating picture banner is way too much. Who are these people? Immedite turn off from the site. Use this space to tell me (simply) why I would want to use this.

Overall you're trying to accomplish WAY too much with your first release. Compete with Myspace + Facebook? "Music discovery and distribution platform"? Purchasing? Artist profiles? Album of the week? Some kind of thing I'm supposed to download and install? "Taank it?" Sign up for a newsletter? AHHHH! Just give me a single, simple reason to use this site. Do exactly one thing really well, and go from there.

Site design / browser compatability wise:
http://i.imgur.com/FYWTP.png

I like the domain though. The logo looks cool, but it's too small to see. Simplify and go with an art-direction / metephors based on that little fish in the taank.
There's also the issue of all the ephemeral garbage Clojure tends to create and gets disposed. Not sure if 1.3 generates less but oh a phone that stuff adds up.
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I don't know. Verdana and style? Verdana?

Letter Gothic, for example, has tons more style than most other fonts, proportional or not. Verdana, in that context, is to me just as to quite a bit more boring than nearly all the fonts mentioned in the article. (Courier excluded.)