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97% of climate scientists agree that the current climate change is anthropogenic: http://theconversation.com/its-true-97-of-research-papers-sa...

It's not even the first review. How much more proof do you need?

I think it's arrogant to ignore scientific consensus.
Ask HN: submitting other people's libraries to npm / bower / jam / etc?
What do people think about submitting other people's libraries to package registries like npm, bower, jam or other package managers?

I'm against it. I've come across a few circumstances where a branch submitted to the registry and then not kept up to date, or where there are multiple submissions of the same library.

Isn't it much better to ask the maintainer to submit it themselves, and until they do (or if they won't) just install the library directly from their repo (which is supported by both npm and bower; not sure about jam.)
I will try to verify this with the next Win 8 Ultrabook I get for testing. I am not sure, though, at least on my desktop (with EFI Bios), my USB keyboard gets initialized right away - might be different on notebooks.
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I was thinking about this.. But then, this is supposed to keep us safe if we keep our computers unattended.
On the other hand, if you use password managers to autofill passwords, measures like this won't do much to keep you safe if you leave your browser unattended.

Bottom line: These measures don't do much, don't leave your computer logged in and unattended at any time.
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Your rhetoric makes me feel a little uncomfortable but ignoring that isn't the converse also true, that the system is disproportionately funded by white men.
Depends on the soil. Rain forest soil is not very fertile, and the vegetation is quick to recycle - most nutrients are in the very top layer and in the plants at all times. Thus if you take away the trees without letting them rot and release the nutrients you could run into problems very soon.
In mid-latitudes, on the other hand, it's not as big a problem because the recycling is a lot slower and the reservoir is far greater.
I have tested out using gecode as a minizinc backend as I like the look of gint. I've been skimming hakank.org but it is a little advance for me at the moment.

Is there a way to get a minizinc model into cp optimizer?
If you managed to install another OS then you managed to get to the BIOS therefore you must have accepted the EULA...
Connections and credentials matter in getting a job. If I had to pick between the two, I would say connections would tip credentials in opening the door and credentials could keep it open.
Getting a job in a startup especially in a smaller market, raw skills get noticed. When someone I know and trust, refers me to a rock star developer, I don’t even look at his CV and don’t really care who he knows. I simply throw the sink at him. His work shows his worth fairly fast. This is true even when the developer has no educational credentials.
You sure there was any ?
It's not even secure !
So after decades of arguing, finally getting close to a consensus that we stop blaming the victims and focus on the perpetrator with the crime of rape, we are now starting the same kind of discussion all over again with yet another kind of abuse? Well done, society.
Facebook has gotten too big for it's own good. How can they be held accountable for every single thing said by their users?!

It goes against human nature. People curse, people are horrible to each other, people make fun of terrible things... It's a fact of life. You can't cleanse the world of bad human behaviour. That's a fight you can't win. Facebook will try and censor their systems, people will hate it, and Facebook will die trying.

EDIT: I guess I'm being overly pessimistic here. Facebook has no choice but to do something. It just feels like:

"We have to do something."
"This is something!"
"Therefore we have to do it!"
What happens when a not-so-good doctor charges very cheap and start a price war? Or to make it affordable, the doctor cuts corners? Who's to tell the doctor to what to do?
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Ah right, I'd forgotten that. Bit of a drag like, 5 years!
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Who is C.Z. Nnaemeka ? Is this a pseudonym of sorts? Born to Nigerian parents, she has a philosophy degree and has worked in the finance industry. I did some googling to find out more, but there's very little information available.
In the same way I don't expect my government to take care of when people are mean to me. There should be social consequences (and there are) to being unnecessarily rude. I don't mind that people through fits over mean statements, but I mind it when they require laws to fill it in.

Surely, government and law enforcement have been things to take care of than people being horrible without being violent.
I think it is polite to communicate with the original author first. They may appreciate having somebody else in charge of package management.

It's not uncommon for an app author to provide only source code and then some other person decides to build and maintain binaries for a few systems. That's been happening for years. The author doesn't want to deal with various systems and compilers, but some other person takes an interest. Putting a lib in a package manager system seems somewhat similar.

Basically I think just communicating with the author is the best policy. And if you submit it - plan to keep it updated.
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This might help. The Jeff Bezos regret minimization framework: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwG_qR6XmDQ
The cost of food is very predictable and pretty flexible. Anyone who needs to can eat well on <$100/week as long as they have access to a reasonably-priced grocery store and facilities to cook and store food. (Also, note that even our barebones welfare state includes foodstamps.)

On the other hand, medical costs can vary wildly and randomly. A perfectly healthy person who's been following health best practices might suddenly develop a serious condition that is treatable, but only with five to six figures of treatment.
Obviously picked on him because he's so smart and brilliant. Some birds aren't meant to be caged, their feathers are just too bright.
Caucasians (aka "White") is a pretty broad term. It does not necessarily mean that you have to be as pale as a Finnish or British person, in order to be classified as white.

As far as I understand it, many arabs are also caucasians, including most bedouins in North Africa. So again, it covers a lot of people, so logically it should (as far as I understand it) cover hispanics with 50%+ european origins as well.
Tom Friedman quit writing real articles back in the 90s.
With all this hackathon bullshit I think that companies try to squeeze out more free time from people for their needs, including advertisement.
If you click buttons in http://purecss.io/buttons/ they don't have pressed state. I assume that they are not fully styled, but it's better to demo full experience in the beginning just like Foundation does http://foundation.zurb.com/docs/components/buttons.html#
lag in fullscreen while scrolling on a moderately powerful linux desktop in firefox.

i'm not sure how to give you more input on the subject of my experience with the lag, but i'd be glad to.
Looks nice. I currently use Draft for writing like this, primarily because it lets me write at work. Login with Twitter isn't permitted on our network (one thing that pains me, otherwise I might write straight into drafts on Medium) so I'll probably stick to Draft for that reason.
Does anyone else find Seth Godins advice to be totally devoid of actionable suggestions? It reads to me as "the key to being successful is to be awesome!" It has some hand-wavey concepts, a few cherry picked anecdotes, and a pithy title. I don't get it...

The original article had a similar quality when it came to the question of how to actually acquire advanced skills. How many jobs exist in which the main skill is knowing Excel? Maybe there are, but usually if it is listed it's as part of a laundry list of required skills.
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I paid money for Windows 8 when I bought my Dell

Dell almost certainly preloaded some software in exchange for compensation that almost certainly exceeded what Dell paid for their Windows license. Even ignoring the testing, support and return issues people usually bring up, Dell probably couldn't sell the computer for a lower price with no OS or a free OS without losing money.

In short, third parties effectively paid for Windows 8 when you bought your Dell, not you.
Those aren't technological problems.
You just need twitter login if you want to delete your posts later.
The distinction between "hardcore" and "casual" is blurry, but even more important, seems to be heavily emphasised by self-called "hardcore" gamers and widely ignored by most "casual" gamers. Self-called is the key term here.

With very few exceptions, most of the heaviest gamers I know play games from almost every genre, and the more genres they play, the less likelier it is that they call themselves "hardcore".
There are laws and medical licenses for this reason. There are always incentives to cut costs, whether administering medicine for cash from patients or for insurance payments.

At least with this model, the patient is choosing the doctor, paying him, and receiving he care. So if he cuts corners in a way that makes the patient less satisfied (eg. very short appointments, cramped/dilapidated office, bad on-time performance, office in a bad part of town), the patient can choose to go elsewhere. If it's the one place the patient's insurance will cover thanks to the reduced price from cutting those corners, the patient has no real choice.
Great news!

Check out this map of ODF adoption in the world [1]. Purple is mandatory standard, green is officially approved. Governments around the world are really pushing ODF forward.

... Now just get my uni to move off of docx and I'll be a happy programmer :)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:OpenDocument_adoption_worl...
Well, i did the same and came to vastly different numbers.
It's easy to do: Do a git checkout and run

git ls-files | grep -v udev | xargs -n1 -d'\n' -i git blame {} | perl -n -e '/\s\((.*?)\s[0-9]{4}/ && print "$1\n"' | sort -f | uniq -c -w3 | sort -n

Even taking out udev shows Kay Sievers contributing nearly as much as Lennart. It also shows many other people contributing. That there is a main developer that does a lot of work is not something negative about a project, isn't it?!
Well, my design skills are horrible, but since I was playing with the idea of creating an application to design and print work outs, I stumbled against the limit of buying my own icons as many exercises are very specific and there is no complete set out there.

So, I started to use Inkscape and there are many very good tutorials out there. Check how to go from a sketch to an icon (for example: http://kalaalog.com/2007/10/11/dragon-sketch-to-vector-art/).

Of course that's not "professional" web design, but it's a start. If you start studying this, feel free to ping me for questions (you'll probably know more than me soon enough I will ping you for questions).
I was told that working on those projects was a privilege and that we had to perform at our jobs (minus any output from hackathons) before we could work on the stuff we wanted to. I think it's a sensible strategy. Hackathons do keep engineers on the edge and excited about work, but you want to avoid it distracting from the core focus too much.
There's definitely demand, and you should be able to get decent wedge if you're any good at it. The reason why there's a race to the bottom on freelance sites is precisely because there's demand: a large number of people who are just in it for the money, rather than a love of programming, choose java because it's popular.

To get your day rate up, though, you're going to have to build up your own network, so that you're not competing against everyone else on the freelance sites. Check out Brennan Dunn's books/blog/email list. [1][2]

If you're good and get the right connections, you should be able to get up towards that $100/hr mark. To get beyond that, you really need to be able to point to a bank account and say, "because of me, there's more money there." See patio11 [3]. At that point, language is far less relevant - and in fact, I'd hazard a guess that Java is a particularly difficult language to do that with (because it tends to be more backend rather than front-end, but that's an unsubstantiated gut feel.)

[1] http://doubleyourfreelancingrate.com/
[2] http://brennandunn.com/
[3] https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
There will always be an option to install Linux on x86 somehow. But I found really disturbing growing number of locked ARM systems. Perhaps we could start 'green' campaign; freely installing Linux on such devices expands their moral life-time and causes less emission.
A method that acts as a "getter" by querying some sort of state wouldn't take arguments and shouldn't have side effects.
This. It's a good thing to have on your portfolio. I made something similar (totally local however) a few months back.
Playing devils advocate, the author does list the most prominent/active emulators for each system and even manages to generally characterize the difference between Snes9x and ZSNES. That being said, the list doesn't meet it own criteria, even with "best" being defined in a loose, consumer sense.

While I'm here, I highly recommend Robert Broglia's, http://www.explusalpha.com/ , emulators for Android and iOS. They can be pricey, but almost all of them are GPL and Robert cites his sources. The exception is Snes9x EX(+), which is free and under a noncommercial license.
Nice! One thing I would like with something like this is to be able to add custom CSS to the preview
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Are you suggesting they effectively treat the first six weeks of employment as little more than an "extended interview" and fire anybody who doesn't make their cultural fit in that time frame?
Ok, I would really like some evidence that the government is tracking your withdraws and dispatching police cruisers to pull you over and confiscate the money.
Looking at the huge backlash against the XBox One in most gaming forums, it seems so, although there is a strong self-selection bias there.
> always have a money backup!

If it was his first job out of college, he may not have had much of a choice here. Wouldn't his signing bonus have been revoked since he wasn't employed for a full year? (Not a Facebook employee, not sure on their offer details.)
From what I've read about the ancient history of Egypt, the area has gone through major cycles of fertility and desertification.
There is a mute button at the top.
This is how it works in Ireland. You pay GP, dentist and other small items out of your pocket and send your bill to insurance company. Hospitals and other large stuff is passed automatically and you will not even see the bill. Prices are fixed, GP visit is 50 euro (~70 dollars), MRI scan is about 200 Euro (~270 dollars).
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I'd be surprised if this isn't prevalent already. Psychologically interesting though.
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United States | health spending | at parity | all sectors | $2.199 trillion per year (2007)

Military $503.4 billion per year (US dollars per year) (2005 estimate)

I assume these numbers have expanded since then. What is really disturbing in my mind though is that while it is quite easy for most people to get EBT/Welfare in the USA to purchase beer/cigarettes/chips, it is much more difficult to get effective healthcare.

HFCS-laden soda is quite cheap, so are trans-fat laden baked goods and frozen foods. Diabetes and heart disease are not though.
Watch the Aral sea dissapear : http://earthengine.google.org/#timelapse/v=45.03875,59.72822...
I'm so sick of this bogus story.
> do you just die with a huge debt

People do die with large amounts of debt, this is not unheard of.
Having a miserable job and thinking that Facebook is largely a waste of great engineering talent are orthogonal things. I think a lot of good knowledge on the scaling front comes out of it, but I wouldn't say that it's the most efficient societal use of our best engineers by a long shot. I think it's everyone's right to choose how they spend their time, even if it squanders their potential impact, but we generally shouldn't feel proud when we squander it.
Exactly, even more in an institution in which 'trust' and 'honesty' should be the basis of behaviour ('Veritas', you can read that on the coat of arms of Harvard...).

If you are going to act behind someone's back without telling him, you had better go to the police rather than perform this kind of 'paralegal investigation'.
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The Republican Party and the Democratic Party (the national versions -- the RNC and DNC) are both in favor of big government and a police state. Big government accrues power, and even though the parties only get to time-share the government, a time-share of a big government lets them do more than they could with a time-share of a smaller government. Full fledged support of small government would be suicide; they simply talk it up when it helps them get elected. There's a lot of political machinery supporting the parties and the government at the size they are today. Reduce government, and some of that human machinery becomes unemployed. Some of those people who would be unemployed are the people setting party, and government, policy.

There are exceptions on both sides. Some Democrats have a philosophy that's sort of socially aware quasi-libertarianism (Senators from Oregon and Vermont come to mind). There are also libertarian-flavor "less-government" Republicans; Ron Paul being the canonical example. The Republican libertarians tend to go more for small government -- unless your social habits violate their social norms, in which case you're a criminal -- while the Democrat libertarians tend to go for medium government, but they are, or at least try to be, against a police state.
Shouldn't make a difference really
This is pretty interesting. Looking for 2nd part!
Here's his follow up post that responds to comments in this thread: http://lionoftheblogosphere.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/follow-...
Maybe this is a nitpick but I'd revise the opening sentance: "There is no better way to learn something than to watch someone else do it".

I think we can all agree that when it comes to programming the _best_ way to learn it is to actually program.
Off topic, but is anyone else concerned about the fact that the URL has a ref=relatedSidebar in it? The website will probably get a lot of hits from an incorrect referal in their traffic monitoring tool. I hate it when stuff like this happens.
The US currently spends far more per capita on health care than the UK - more than any other country in the world. It also spends at least the same on public healthcare from US taxes as a % of GDP. Moving to a national health service would dramatically reduce the bill, probably result in lower taxes, and certainly lower bills overall, when compared to the many other countries with single-payer public healthcare systems.
My tailored suit is uncomfortable.

It requires three layers when often one is more than sufficient. It comes with a noose that fits tightly around my neck. It comes with shoes that have no grip. To keep the cuffs just-so, one wears tight bands just below the bicep. The pockets are easily distended and thus barely useable (I miss the 80s, when a distended suit pocket was the sign of that most ugly of status symbols, the mobile 'phone). Easily smutted, one must carry an umbrella or yet another layer to protect it from the rain.

Still, it pays well...
> Getting a team to self-organization is tricky. Sometimes rules help.

Absolutely true. I actually feel bad for not emphasizing that properly. Teams of self-organizing people aren't as common as it should be.

My point is that we should not add rules unless we really need to, and that people are more likely to self-organize if given freedom.

E.g. If we turned out to have actual persistent problems communicating to the project manager, we would introduce rules.
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That's great - coming from Rails I was always curious learning Python and especially see how Django differs from Rails. Will definitely watch this..
> Does anyone else find Seth Godins advice to be totally devoid of actionable suggestions?

Same as most motivational and self-help advice, then?
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Indeed, the mere fact that ZSNES is on this list makes it basically worthless. While it had its benefits a while ago (when people were running 500Mhz machines with 128MB RAM), there is no reason to use it to day, except for the fact that a few fan translations and romhacks require some of its bugs and inaccuracies.
If you don't want your CPU to be at 90% when playing a game from 1992 (this is bsnes/higan, the requirements are this high because it strives for 100% accurate emulation) use Snes9x, for which byuu (author of bsnes/higan) has ported many of his discoveries and improvements.
Well it would have been better to ban rape jokes (shorter stronger and easier to communicate and connect to), but seems PR departments are quite busy in transforming the English language to Bureaucracyspeak already.

It is good to see movement of the problem, although some for m of hellbanning of pages and profiles is a better solution.
Sorry, but the "bug" is that someone doesn't know well the language's syntax and/or has spent too much time with braceless languages and tries to put as less braces as possible because of their personal preferences, resulting in a wrong block structure.

Maybe I'm just different than you, but I immediately notice the missing braces. Actually, the visual cues I look for (even when skimming the code) are the braces, not the indentation; especially, the missing closing brace at the end of the block alerts me. The indentation is a plus, an added redundancy.

Moral of the story: not everyone reads code the same way.
I know about ML and Haskell but let's be realistic. Neither is anywhere near ready to embed in a browser or mix into a future version of JS.

We worked in the context of ES4 on gradual typing -- not just inference (as you imply, H-M is fragile) -- to cope with the dynamic code loading inherent in the client side of the Web. Gradual typing is a research program, nowhere near ready for prime time.

Unsound systems such as TypeScript and Dart are good for warnings but nothing is guaranteed at runtime.

A more modular approach such as Typed Racket could work, but again: Research, and TR requires modules and contracts of a Scheme-ish kind. JS is just getting modules in ES6.

Anyway, your point of reference was more practical systems such as Java and .NET but these do require too much annotation, even with 'var' in C#. Or so JS developers tell me.

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I'm not an expert on government documents, so I am wondering: what formatting does the Australian Govt need?

Why wouldn't plain text suffice?