skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hate to be another to point this out but: does it matter at this point? Even if we turned off the USA, China and India would still tip us far past 400ppm by 2050.

Those two, as well as most of the developing world, seem to have zero interest in doing anything whatsoever about CO2. The entire movement to curb CO2 seems exclusively American and European, with a small amount of participation from Japan.
Understanding magic means you understand the concepts. It's a very advanced position to be in relative to your programming education.

I'm guessing it's also why "hard" classes in school start with the concepts rather than the magic (physics is a perfect example). You can't really go far if you don't get the concepts.

I've been doing some training lately for new hires, and I am inclined to start with the concepts and then teach the magic, but I wonder if it's the most effective way to learn in the short term?
I believe they did this to make more money off the Chinese market. While whiskey drinkers in China mostly drink scotch, they recently have warmed up to bourbon. They mostly buy alcohol not for enjoyment of the drink itself, but to impress business clients. So they are buying lots of Maker's Mark for the famous brand name and distinctive bottle, and they couldn't care less that it's being diluted--they might actually enjoy it more that way.
The worst part about all of this - to me, anyway - is that they had the opportunity to be clever and funny about it and could have left it at the McDonald's-buys-BK PR stunt with continuing professional-sounding tweets, but instead they wasted their hijack by turning it into the exact flood of childish dribble that people expect when they think "hacker".
That was "I agree with you" kind of no. English is hard, sorry.
The active claim that there wasn't advertising is what bugs me in this case, more than the links not being labeled. I don't really mind if people include some affiliate links if they aren't particularly spammy (i.e. the content doesn't seem to be written solely as affiliate-link bait), but then if they do so, I wouldn't expect them to solicit donations while claiming to be ad-free.
If you think I'm approving of the practice, you're wrong.

They're doing it though because it works and because there is no likelihood that they will actually be held accountable in a way that affects their bottom line.

We're talking about marketing here. Truth has no place in marketing. If your truth has any impact, you wouldn't need to market.
I think issue here is if you see an affiliate link, you start to question whether the author is heartily suggesting something because he genuinely likes it and wants to recommend it to you or he's just a bored blogger posting a new link on a new day, because that is what he does. On a side note, it seems to me that the author-reader trust is arguably preserved if the author of the articles does not choose what ads appear on his site because it absolves him of the cloud of doubt that he might have ulterior motives.

Maybe a lot of the folks doing this are the ones that used to see ads before they started using Adblock, and they still have a memory of ads leaving a bad taste in their mouth. Of course all of this is questioning the model of an ad-supported Internet. This is something I'm still conflicted about -- I really don't want to see ads on Google et al., I mean I really don't, I really wish I could give Google $50/month and tell them hey just focus on the experience, don't show me ads, and I'll be your customer. I'd do this for a whole array of sites on which I begrudgingly use Adblock and other extensions that prevent affiliate links from appearing.
When hacker news is down, I finally lifted my head and realized that there is life beyond the screen on my phone.

Now that it's back. I realized that it's finally time to create an account :)
Could you elaborate on that (I know nothing about the Indian education)? I was under the impression that the IITs were good. Would you disagree with that? Or is it that there is a couple of schools which are good but the rest is so-so.
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Yes, absolutely. At one point I made about $100 through amazon affiliates ( a link on Slashdot, actually, quite possibly the only time social media has made me money).

What happened was, I linked to a book on programming that was relevant, and being broke at the time, put it as an affiliate link.

Someone looked at the book, and went on to buy $2300 or so of camera gear. I got the 4% commission on the whole bundle. You get to see exactly what people purchased (though not, of course, individually, but "X of Y")

It's very interesting, if you've never worked with Amazon Affiliates, it's extremely rich data they provide.
You don't trust them because you either write too much such that it cannot be maintained or because you don't maintain them. This failing is on you. Light comments sprinkled on code which is complex in nature is never a bad thing and improves read times.
I'd hesitate on implementing this. What kind of discoverability does this have? Do er simple assume all our users have been trained in this technique by others?
Ah, I follow now. I knew I was missing something, and there it is. As somebody who writes English professionally, I agree wholeheartedly.
You must have your blinders on. Musk is not a god, and you have been eating up Tesla's story rather than looking at the data.

Even Tesla's data corroborates most of Broder's account (heat was turned off, battery dropoff overnight, etc), and the only thing that remains is the question of the call logs. It's interesting that Tesla has the logs yet isn't revealing them. I suspect the logs will show that Tesla engineers didn't properly advise Broder on what to do, which is Tesla's fault, not any sort of fraudulence on NYT's part.
I've made several posts to SO and then realize the answer moments later. I usually just self-answer.
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As I write this, there are over 40 Amazon affiliate links on her homepage alone. And as you correctly point out, they're prominently placed (esp. using images) to achieve maximum click-through.

She says the affiliate revenue she's downplaying is way, way less than what the article assumes. Well, if I were her I'd:

1) disclose all my Amazon revenue and

2) donate it every month to someplace awesome

That'd probably get her more monthly subscribers, earn her more money, and silence the haters. Unfortunately her dissembling on this issue so far sort of edges me into the latter category.
Thanks for the information all.
Honestly I have already taken that step of starting a company. A bit late on that, but I do take your heeding very seriously. :)
I agree, it seems recently that NYTimes appears to be embracing 'blogging' ethics over traditional journalistic ethics. They also have a negative bias against Apple, which I assume is purely for headline attention. (I've thought about gathering statistics to back up this hypothesis, how many negative stories vs positive stories over the last couple years.) As the Foxconn story seemed to inappropriately focus on Apple, when the entire manufacturing industry could have been explored. Maybe this is what real time statistics of what people are reading on a news website does to journalism...
thanks and would love to listen to your opinion.
> a growing number of bars in D.C. using Bulleit bourbon, a bit cheaper and rougher on the finish than Maker’s

Bulleit is better, frankly. Maker's is overrated.
I've had the opposite experience, similar to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5209207. I'm using a VPS so I'm not really looking for support.

On a few occasions, the machine has gone down because of some maintenance or some issue that comes up. I was not notified of this and had to submit a ticket myself, after which I was told that the techs had taken down my machine. After asking why I wasn't notified, I was given no direct response.
Although science is that which explains and predicts, there is a wide range of impact in the jump from journal to journalism.

A paradigm shift in the wake of a minor but widely experienceable portion of a representative sample is simply more prone to recent advances in the speed and dissemination of journalism. The all too observable phenomena of seeing becoming believing.

Contrast this with any meta commentary upon a journal by the same body of journalism. Indeed, it is much more difficult to see the wider reading audience take an interest if said audience is less exposed to something happening in their own back yards. Far more likely than paradigm shift is the placement of a collective reading audience's heads in the sand.
What I meant was that it needs to be part of a curriculum that begins with early childhood. IMHO, JavaScript is too complex for most four and five-year-olds.
There should be a progression with Logo, MIT's Scratch, etc. building up to more general purpose languages/frameworks.
Problem is that the battle scars from this little fight lie almost exclusively with Musk and are going to persist for years to come.

Tesla now has a reputation as being unusually aggressive in defending its position. Which has to be making media institutions wonder why on earth they would bother to review this ?
Hey, I'm moxie at whispersystems.org
Opera actually has a substantial sideline in selling mobile advertising, just like AdMob et al. I know this because my current employer spun-off our mobile ad network, which Opera then bought.
More likely it is a reference to its eponym, the Banach-Tarski paradox.
I think the product comes into existence because it has potential demand. Smartphones, for example, do have valid uses. For some people some of the time. I think problems arise when companies who make a product, in the name of higher profits, convince us that everyone needs the product all the time.
My bad, updated it to include other browsers.
I agree with this. Yes, if a link includes an affiliate code, you might want to be more skeptical of a recommendation.

But if, after due diligence, you decide to purchase the item, you'll pay the same amount either way. The only question is whether you want some of the purchase amount to be shared with the blogger or whether you want to make sure that Amazon won't have to share any of it.
Can freezing an Android device crack its encryption keys?
It can cause problems with competing for cache space, which could have large effects on CPU time.
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How much do you think the time of YC partners is worth?
You can also trigger the debugger only if certain conditions exist. This is helpful if you are trying to fix a bug in a code branch that is hit very often, but the bug only happens under certain conditions.

if (this.foo()) debugger
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I dimly remember a language that just hard-limited loops. I thought it was John Pane's HANDS system, but I can't seem to find a reference in the thesis...can anybody refresh my memory?

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/research.html

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~pane/thesis/

Pretty cool work regardless, I really like the way it deals with aggregates, for example.
Would it not make sense for the Valve Steambox to run on ARM since they're cooperating with Nvidia (and just launched Steam for Linux?) I thought the Nvidia Tegra 3 was considered quite the powerful chip.
I do love the docco style documentation, but I tend to think of 'literate' as a specific thing, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming which I don't think this quite matches.
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If that's the case, then why did they dilute it state-side? Wouldn't it be more prudent to just dilute it in China and not piss of customers in the US?
Everyone is really ignoring the real impact of this mess here.

The NYT published something that is absolutely impossible to fact-check outside of an op-ed column. This wasn't even fit for publication to begin with.

Print journalism is in no way superior to the bloggers they are in competition with - in fact, most journalists have to keep their own blogs now just to compete. Margaret's reply basically dances around saying that Broder failed to do his due diligence as a journalist.

If you need any clearer sign that newspapers are not just declining but dead, this is it.
It looks like a syntax error to me. You can add numbers in array index brackets so a plus sign already has meaning there. Considering that a[10+] is just one character off from a[10++], it seems to me that this is just a bug waiting to happen.
I don't even need to think about it. That would be HUGE.

The biggest problem with consoles right now is what I call TTP (time to play) which is the time between switching the device on and playing a game. For the old consoles e.g. SNES it was seconds. For today's consoles it is in the minutes. The iPad is back in the seconds.

As people get busier the ability to bust out a quick 5 minutes of game play is going to be so important.
> Problems With Precision and Judgment, but Not Integrity, in Tesla Test

Oddly, I would write the exact opposite headline. The NYT review has minor problems with precision and judgment, but major problems with integrity.

Imagine a gasoline car review: "I'm here at a gas station with an empty tank, and I have 61 miles to the next gas station. I'm going to put in half a gallon of gasoline, hang up the nozzle and start driving to the next station. Oh no, I ran out of gas! Well, this proves the technology is still immature and that gas cars suck."

Can you imagine this being a publishable review to the NYT editors?
Hey buddy, just because you don't get along well with vodka doesn't mean everyone else is a drunkard. Thanks
Right now, it's implemented just like the iOS mail app. Your suggestion sounds more intuitive though. I'm curious to hear if others feel the same way.
Funny coincidence, that the guy who originally cracked the xbox 1 DRM also implemented a way to overlay graphics on a HDMI HDCP-encrypted stream without decrypting the source video (and thus claiming to be non-infringing of the copy protection)

http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2117
"The less discipline the compiler demands of the programmer,
the more discipline the programmer should demand of
himself."

That's a great way of putting it. Completely agree.
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Dying of cancer? Or something else?
Glad you like it :) You should be able to accomplish edge swipe detection with Hammer.js http://eightmedia.github.com/hammer.js/
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Your conversion rate from unique visitors to sales is 23%? What type of traffic are you talking about? That's absurdly high and would still be high for a site that directly sells something, let alone a site that has a link to a book.
I'm not advocating it as the right way to distribute libraries. It's the right way to deploy applications.

OK, I agree that's a different case, one for which jars may be appropriate whenever you don't have access to an OS-level package manager. But when is that? When using Windows, but not in the enterprise? Surely most would avoid that grim situation. Since I use apt or the equivalent to install and update apps (unless I have a reason to be closer to the current version), I primarily think of python distributions as providing libraries, although of course they may include applications as well.

It just means that whoever is responsible for security (which should be operations _and_ development, IMO) need a list of the libraries used as part of an application.

Of course it's nice when the applications one installs are supported by developers in the same organization, but it's a rare luxury that doesn't obtain for the typical sysadmin. Even in that case, however, aren't you proposing to make a lot of work for yourself that your package manager is happy to do instead?
The minimum hourly wage for an 18+ employee with no education and no experience the area in Norway is 152 NOK which is 28 USD. That's what you might get if you were to help building a house.

So the only way you might get a $40k/year in Norway, is if you are under 18 and work in a supermarket. Here it's 102 NOK/hour (but you probably wouldn't be allowed to have a full time job like that, this is just if you help out in a shop say 10 hours/week as an extra job while getting an education).

That's all the net wage, not including overhead!

Expect a pizza and a beer to cost you $50. Maybe $100 if you want some Danish cheese on top of it, which has a 277 percent custom tax. Foreign lamb has 429%. Such is the result of Norway not being part of EU proper!

Source: http://www.arbeidstilsynet.no/fakta.html?tid=90849
I was reading along, thinking 'this guy seems to have his head on fairly straight' - an even-handed evaluation of the situation. When I read what I quoted above I experienced (maybe more clearly than I ever have before) the classic 'wait, wut? [sic]'. The first thing that came to mind:

This Party Took a Turn for the Douche (by Garfunkel and Oates)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHH3brmhPyw

edit: Trying to explain how odd it was to find that in the article
Given that several publications have already reviewed the car in the aftermath of this brouhaha, I doubt very seriously that anyone will avoid reviewing Tesla automobiles in the future.
His time. Maybe the core and HD are Very Nice ones, too, of course.
Heh you can tell by how crappy it is to work somewhere when the first thing they tell you is how great the people are. And then follow up its sunday night, a working night.

(sorry this may be an exception to the rule,and fyi i've probably owned more macs than you so think hard about that groupthink downvote ok.)
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BTW, there is nothing wrong with someone submitting his own stuff.

Vote or flag submissions on their own merit, not because of the submitter.
Sure, but it's located below the donation section, which still claims to be ad free. And the site itself is JAMMED with affiliate links disguised as pretty pictures. She can justify it however she wants, but at the end of the day, she's misleading readers (IMO).
At a gas station, the time difference between putting in half a gallon and filling the tank is about 5 minutes. At the charging station he'd stopped off at, the difference between the charge he did and a full charge is about 9-12 hours. This is a fundamental, and currently inescapable, difference between gas and electric cars.

Edit: Also, in a gas car your tank doesn't empty itself overnight unless you park in a really rough neighbourhood. He didn't have any reason to disbelieve his contact at Tesla when they said the lost range would return - hell, I've had Tesla fans tell me that their cars don't really lose range overnight, it's just calculated wrong, and I'm spreading FUD by pointing the range loss out. I bet they'd be going after Broder for that too if he'd waited for more of a charge.
Can you give an example of a tip that would speed a particular program up? Does PyPy have a lot of knobs to tune?

CPython doesn't seem to have that many knobs... You can tune some settings in GC, and maybe the GIL acquiring interval, but it doesn't seem to produce speedups in most programs.
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(and believe me Indians in particular have done the UK proud, and me personally, so much so I argue they are more British than us fairly useless white lot

It seems to be ideological where that type of thinking comes from.
> Even Tesla's data corroborates most of Broder's account

I see you have it all wrong. I'm not in disagreement with that. (And there goes the basis for your comment.) Either you are willfully misreading my comment, or you're trying a subtle sleight of hand. The facts mostly fit Broder's account. I'm calling attention to the fact that all of the inaccuracies and bad decisions were pointedly in one direction. A reporter should have some facility in curbing his own bias. Apparently, Broder has insufficient competence in figures and self awareness for this.

This is precisely what Feynmann is talking about in the quote.
* while you are displaying a tree keep track of the items you already displayed so you can detect a cycle
People that do the work to find these types of niches don't usually just announce them to the world on Hacker News.
Feynman's quote is about the search for scientific truth. He intentionally said that in the context of scientists accurately conveying information to laypeople and specifically points out that "extra" truth is different than truth in other situations. Science is a tough SOB, wanting nothing less than 100%. It wants peer review, replication and no counter examples. But science is also patient and willing to be wrong. Scientific truth is a fine ideal but it just isn't generalizable. When you ask for scientific truth in other fields it is a hornet's nest. Just look at the debate around medical malpractice lawsuits.

Asking journalists to be scientists removes the need for journalists. You can say maybe we don't need journalists, but there clearly has to be different standards for science and journalism, even if only because of the vast differences in expected timeframes in each field.
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I'm pretty sure any ordinary carbon filter will do it.
I am thinking why not use the both and embrace the best of the two worlds..

PostgreSQL for handing all mission critical data and something like MonoDB for non-critical data..

What do you guyz think of something like this for a big project ?
Or you can add context-sensitive keywords, which are keywords only where it’s syntactically valid and identifiers elsewhere. Those two contexts are almost always mutually exclusive, and it’s obvious which one you’re in. ActionScript 3, though absolutely not a good example of language design in general, has a good example of this. You can say:

public function get foo():int { return 5; }

But you can also say:

var get:int = foo;
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That sort of thing is fine for a startup in it's first year or two of life, but HN has been around for a while now ... surely you must have some sort of process by now?
That may not work - organic compounds often will travel with the water vapor.

Distilling is really only for inorganic compounds. For organics you want a regular carbon filter.
Same here ... So I created a dynamic version myself: http://bramus.github.com/mercator-puzzle-redux/ :-)
Revenue is the important metric. Funding can only delay the inevitable if they do not have revenue. Being funded does not mean you won't have to look for a new vendor in 6 months. Only the runway is a bit longer if the revenue isn't there.
* Don't push new code to production while operational problem is ongoing (unless it addresses the operational problem)
^^ absolutely!