skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is my sarcasm filter off here? The ghost towns in the US are dramatically smaller, were pretty much all the result of organic growth, and were actually populated at some point. They're ghost towns now because the populations moved away for any number of reasons (the end of a boom, economic shift, major catastrophe, eminent domain).

The situation in China is completely different. Regional governments are naively trying to stimulate their economies with these huge construction projects. So, they're building giant cities without proper planning or consideration for population shifts. These cities have never been occupied and it looks like they never will. Worse, they're being paid for by highly rated bonds issued from the central government. The whole thing looks like a real estate bubble that could tank the Chinese economy.
Another comment notes of that paper:The Science paper says their reconstruction is smoothed and has low time resolution. They say it displays no variation at all on timescales <300 years, and attenuates even 1,000 year variations. Superimposing this with the 30-year Hadley data seems misleading, because it is on a very short timescale which is suppressed from the older data.
I've had a lot of people tell me to start using MDN, but--don't hate me--the thing is I generally find W3S easier to use and more useful (at least for the basic stuff I usually need to Google for). I hate to admit it but I continue to use W3S even if it is at least partially because it's usually the top result, even when I make the effort to scroll down to the MDN entry I'm usually rewarded with something tangentially related and/or missing the actually thing I needed to know.

That said I think there is definitely a lot of room for improvement, I just haven't found MDN fills that gap yet so I wish the author of this luck but I hope they realize MDNs folly. Ad free isn't necessarily better. W3S is, despite it's flaws, fairly simple, easy to use and understand (mostly) and the relevant results almost always show up at the top of a Google search.
When is it too early for an MVP?
She's pretty hands on. This is an illuminating (though longish) piece regarding her approach: http://www.businessinsider.com.au/marissa-mayer-biography-20...
Those 50c saving bring the average DOWN since they're below the average savings of $1.08. On average, Amazon is an even better deal than just a 50c cheaper album.
AFAIK one of the main ways to reconstruct CO2 concentration is to study samples of air trapped inside old ice. This looks like a pretty direct and reliable method to me.
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1) about 2.6 billion

2) probably.

3) some segments do.

If they get small enough I suspect they'll be able to sustain operations. It will probably become quite a lucrative consulting niche.
It didn't work out very well for them (or the U.S. in general. Innovation simply moved to France- further away from harassment by the Wright's. I remember reading an article stating that this is the reason so many parts of the aeroplane have French names (fuselage, aileron, &tc)
Yet more money to be made selling our thoughts then.
Amazon's Music is also essentially unavailable outside US (currently ~8 countries compared to ~120).
Mostly? This may depend on perspective. The infrastructure behind the app is definitely in-house, but the UI isn't at all.
> Can I do some calls? - Fine Can I sync my calendar and contacts? - Fine

Then it doesn't sound like you need a device like the ones they are testing... For heavy users I can assure you touch latency is a big deal.
I didn't see a useful answer on "Why use steganography.js?" block, it just explains "How?".

I wonder answers about "When and why?" questions. Can you guys answer it?
but I can't help but speculate that the data source was chosen specifically because it made the point s/he wanted to make

You don't thing that isn't happening among those who raise the AGW alarm? As the morally "right" position to hold, it even grants leave to do so righteously.
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I think it is mainstream to acknowledge the possiblity of that, but not have a fixed believe. After all, it's climate science and we're only at the beginning, and who knows, there might have been another few thousand years of stable climate.
Quite some people, even professionals I've encountered, think that W3Schools is related to W3C.
Thanks so much :) That's great feedback.

And yeah, I totally agree. The site navigation for Mozilla Developer Network is really terrible. And the open wiki -- crowd sourced -- style of content editing means there is no consistency.

I land on W3Schools all the time when I'm looking stuff up, probably more so than StackOverflow. I just think we really deserve something better.
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A set of challenges that explore some of the things that happen when you connect with a driver on Uber.
Banks have significant flexibility. Capital One 360 (the former ING Direct) handles overdrafts by providing a line of credit. The fees there for short term over drafts are a few cents.
Also known as the places where everybody who thought five minutes about the topic would expect AI to come from.
Yeah, I thought W3Schools was an endorsed site of the W3C for a long time -- like years.
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Not having any paper trail to attract the attention of people and organizations you owe money to is arguably the only rational reason for being unbanked in an urban area of a developed country.
Why not throw your support at https://developer.mozilla.org/? They've done an amazing job of documenting HTML/CSS/JS.
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I am from Nepal (living in the US) so it gives me joy to see this post in HN. I see that you wanted to know if ICANN has basic guidelines that could be enforced in Nepal. I do not know much about that.

But, I suggest that you initiate a local campaign to pressure Mercantile to make the process easier. Here are few ideas to consider -
1. Bring this to the attention of Computer Association of Nepal
2. Share this tragedy with tech-activists (Gaurab Raj Upadhyaya, Brijen Joshi, Bhupal Sapkota, Ankur Sharma, Akar Anil are few names that come to mind) and get their help raising the concern to the wider community (blogs, meetings etc)
3. Meet with Mercantile management to make sure they are aware of the current hoops and communicate how backward the current process is. Also make sure they are not being asked to make it this way from govt. agencies. Offer help if they need it.
4. Meet with government representatives and request them to facilitate the needed change.

Email me if you need intros to people I mentioned above or if there is anything else I could do.
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It never had a problem with MDN, but MDN is a lot. our detailed, so I see why it might potentially be hard to use at first.

Takes some time to get used to changes, even if said things are an improvement.
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"Even a two-year old iPhone 4 beat out the other Android devices,” Relan said. “You expect this from Apple’s design team, while others may view their responsiveness as good enough. Now we know why the Android touch keyboard is not as snappy."

They know why but don't bother to tell us in the article...
Oh sorry, sometimes I speak in "Twitter Speak" using the $<stock-symbol> to identify a company. So I would say $MSFT, not M$. I need to stop doing that and just type the company name out :).

The funny thing about you commenting on me "speaking out against the iPhone" is that I just spent 12 weeks building a game for the iPhone [1]. And right now I'm working on a cross platform authentication method using a phone number and the platform I'm testing it out on first is iOS (then Android, then WinMo). I'm actually a mobile-first iOS-first developer that is realistic about the state of the ecosystem. I can't consciously just jump on a bandwagon and say everything is awesome when things aren't.

[1] - http://xo9.us
It's almost as if the very scientists who collected, analyzed, and are most familiar with the 125,000 year cycle are also the ones who are very worried about the current trends.

The simple point is that CO2 levels are likely higher now than in the last 20 million years[1], and the current rate of temperature change is likely faster now than any time in the last 65 million years [2]. The prehistorical cycles are large, but they are also slow- we're acting on unprecedentedly fast timescales now.
How you can be so arrogant is beyond me. Do you think that climatologists, the very people who produced our complete understanding of our Earth's past, are merely unaware of prehistorical cycles? Perhaps they're "ignoring" it? (...while continuing to publish about and do research on them). Do you think you're more clever than scientists, who somehow haven't noticed that there are long term climate cycles in their published results, despite still managing to write extensively about them? It must be a bizarre mindset which leads to your arrogance.

1. http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc_tar/?src=/climat...

2. http://www.sciencemag.org/content/341/6145/486
I answered it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6423140
Why autonomous war machines shouldn't be allowed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMYYx_im5QI
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These places don't strike me as very "surprising." If we wanted to talk "surprising," we should be looking at the more offbeat, but nevertheless plausible sources:

1) Logistics & transportation. Inventory/warehouse management, traffic management systems, shipping, autonomous cars and even roads, etc.

2) Intelligence. Both industrial and government-oriented. Heavy investment is being made in semantic/parsing algorithms, pattern matching, and analysis.

3) Medical research. New drugs are already being invented by combinatory programs. But there are still a lot of inefficiencies in the system, because it's basically the throw-spaghetti-at-the-wall-and-see-what-sticks approach. There are billions of dollars to be made by the company who can develop a smarter combinatory program, and no doubt billions being invested in the effort to do so. Also: robotic surgery and medicine -- though that's more robotics than AI, per se.

4) Weather modeling and prediction. As the global climate and weather become less predictable, the challenge of prediction grows increasingly computationally complex (and more economically valuable). I would expect huge investment in this area in the future, if it's not happening already.

At the end of the day, AI seems most likely to emerge in the places where a) the difficulty of the problem at hand far surpasses humans' best efforts; b) the need for speed or scale cannot be accommodated by human effort; c) the economic upside is enormous (ergo, incentives for R&D expenditures); d) the nature of the problem is best solved by a "superhuman" intelligence model, i.e., a model of computation resembling the way the human brain thinks about problems, but more robust -- something requiring creativity, problem solving, and working memory at enormous scale.
Thank you, I was quite confused. Thought this might have just been a neat shell for another streaming radio of some sort.
I don't think one should be hated for opting for the quickest resource. W3S arguably does have a better design. Some people look for examples in finding out how to code something and as you mentioned, W3S is almost always usually at the very top of the page with browser compatibility at the bottom.

It would be interesting to test out a feature where the user could select simple vs. complex document layout.
While I agree, they did pretty much redo everything on the UI while adding a bunch of features on the backend. They might have some more tricks up their sleeve later as well.
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What kind of support are they looking for? and will this solve the problem or is it a different kind of problem they are solving?
Okay. What do you say of purely geological phenomena, like glacier coverage. You can look at hydrostatic rebound, erosion patterns, etc to see where glaciers usually are. And you just have to look at pictures within the last 50 years to see where they're not. Much harder data. Same for ecological ones like flora and fauna existing in and being habituated in environments that are no longer very compatible climatologically. And for anyone in their forties or older, there's always your own damn lying eyes.

There's a billion pieces of supporting evidences for global warming. As far as I have ever heard, there's not a single piece of evidence against it, just piles and piles of FUD thrown at each model that tries to explain it.
SIGKILL seems a little aggressive for a controlled process restart.
more excellent points here : http://www.w3fools.com/

I have stopped going to W3C schools for various mentioned in the above website.
Don't sell your thoughts to Facebook then. Very simple.
"And you are lynching Negroes". I'm not going to respond to this obvious fallacy beyond that.
I can understand this. My mother in law was sick for a while and in a hospital for a few months. During that time she was late on one of her mortgage payments, which she as been faithfully paying for 2 decades. She also took an equity loan to remodel her house. Because of the missed payment they cancelled her equity loan. She went to the bank to talk to them hoping they would understand, but all he heard was how his "hands were tied". She tried telling them she was a customer for years, she had a number of accounts with them, mortgages, car loans from the past, she even paid extra on her mortgage payments often. She explained her medical condition hoping they would understand, but all to no avail. He kept hearing about how all these rules and triggers are automated in the "system" and nothing could be done.

She lamented the time when banking was a personal experience just like the article wrote. You went your teller, you'd known for years, they'd ask about your kids. The manager migth know you, might send you a birthday card and so on. I can see how she would be a person willing to pay $5 per check just to get back that personal touch.

The article also touched on this, but many people who are poor also don't happen to see a lot of human kindness, sometimes fake customer service kindness is better than nothing, they don't even mind paying extra to get it.
There's also the Pieds-à-terre phenomenon: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/12/nyregion/paying-top-dollar...
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This is UI, as a user there's no right or wrong. The designer should accommodate you clicking on the "Show Me" link. I guess that way this works how you would expect it.
Go also provides a syscall for ReadDirectoryChanges, and one really nice Go library that uses inotify/ReadDirectoryChanges is https://github.com/howeyc/fsnotify
I do the exact same thing; MDN is an absolutely brilliant network and anyone can contribute to it.
Yes, I’ve met some relatively decent neo-Nazis too.
I think this would be fascinating to work on, the size and variety of FB's data is mind boggling. If I was looking for a job and had more ML experience (it's only been a focus of mine for the past year or so) then I would be finding out how to get on that team.

Any interesting ideas I have involve a heavy machine learning component. I'm sure the most valuable software companies in the future will have too.
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I was talking to my girlfriend last night and she mentioned how her ex-boyfriend doesn't have a bank account. He's actually well off financially, so I wondered why. Indeed, the answer is to avoid wage garnishment for child support.
give it time, iOS 7 has been out for just a couple of days.

Android's been out for 5 yrs and it still feels rushed. ;)
This is part of why I think I've developed a reflex, after searching Google, to skip over the first few results after the sponsored links and start looking near the middle of the page. W3Schools, Wikipedia, and a few others. And it's a great example of the central failure of the pagerank idea: if the strongest signal is popularity measured through linkage, the highest quality results will rarely be at or even near the top. Right now Stackoverflow is good and deservedly ranks highly, but I fully expect it to be supplanted in Google's search rankings by an inferior copycat within a few years: one that just happens to generate more revenue for Google by carrying more advertising.
I disagree very strongly with that. Here are a few rational reasons that someone may choose to not have their money in a bank:

- Moral conflicts. Most banks use your money for purposes that many people consider evil, so choosing to not give them your money is a rational choice.

- Lack of trust. Many banks over the last century have run out of money and been unable to honour withdrawal demands/requests. It's reasonable and logical not to trust them to keep your money and give it to you when you ask.

- Inconvenience. If you don't have very much money, having a bank account is a drain on your resources (fees, mostly) and your money is not immediately accessible.

There are plenty of other reasons, too. Running away from people you owe money to is certainly not the only rational reason for not having a bank account.
This is a good initiative, but it's a big task, so I think it's worth nitpicking now if you're going to have any chance of displacing w3schools:

Fix the font. It's too faint and if I were a newbie landing on this and comparing it to W3Schools, I'd immediately switch to W3Schools. Your site's wide body width also hurts readability.

I'm not trying to nitpick for nitpick's sake...coming from experience, it's harder to change these things (not technically, but mustering the will to do so) later on in the process. And readability is key in winning the masses over, and is not just a minor detail in relation to the overall goal.
Considering they're making record profits and if not, seems they can always turn to the government for a few billion... Probably not.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSBRE97S0O520130829?irpc...
"U.S. bank industry profits hit record $42.2 billion in second quarter"

Doesn't sound like an industry desperate to squeeze more pennies from paupers. They have much better ways to do that than urban branch banking.
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Dimensionality– and also, a theory about the rarity of female programmers.
This is the easy part, the hard part is actually actioning this across you and your spouses 401k, Traditional IRA, and Roth IRA (god forbid you have 401ks from previous employers as well). If you are lucky enough to have the same funds across them all, it helps a little bit.

As an example, I target a portfolio with 85% stock, 15% bongs. Of the stock, I'd like at least 35% international. So, when making our IRA contribution for 2013, I need to get asset allocations of all funds and their balances, from all accounts. Figure out my total allocation and then figure out where my additional funds should go to maintain or rebalance to my target allocation.

There are some tools for this [1], but none are great. I've considered building a tool to do it myself, even started on one, but getting the asset allocation data costs and I'm not sure that there is a real business opportunity for an app. This leads to increasingly convoluted spreadsheets for managing the process.

Target funds can also help, but you typically get better expense ratios for doing it yourself. Though, I've recently considered just giving up an moving entirely to target funds.

[1] http://portfolio.morningstar.com/Rtport/Free/InstantXRayDEnt...
Why does the author find the young female Java students pictured on the other site insulting?
> To fix it properly, we need to fix it everywhere, and for everyone in the world.

Assuming they will say one day "ok, we fixed it", how can we ever trust them again?
I'd imagine another reason is they need the certainty of having their money be there. My wife had an account she didn't use since college, and apparently she fell below a balance limit and they charged a $5 fee, which overdraw her and turned into a $35 overdraft charge. Inconvenient for us, potentially a disaster for someone scraping by.
Although it's an entertaining idea, I'm not exactly a fan of the pseudo-Java. The showImage() method also overlays the text in a pretty ugly manner.
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The dispute isn't about AGW, it is about CAGW.

AGW: human activity increseas CO2
increased CO2 => increases temperature

CAGW: Catastrophic Anthropogenic Global Warming
human activity increases CO2
increased CO2 => increases temperature
positive climate feedback mechanisms => magnified warming

It is that last item where the controversy lies. Climate models all have a parameter that represents the climate sensitivity which predicts the way the climate responds to changes to input.

If you believe that the sensitivity is high, then small changes to the input (via CO2 warming, for example) lead to large changes in the system and catastrophic results.

If you believe the sensitivity is low, then small changes to the input do not have catastrophic outcomes.

There has been considerable news of late that observations of temperature changes over the last 15-20 years do not match the predictions over the same time period of the models using a high climate sensitivity values.

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They leverage that misperception to sell useless 'certifications' - over 10k sold so far (at $99 each), they claim.
Cool. How is the quality of music on the Cloud Player?
I know that some folks in paleoclimatology are interested in these core methodology problems. But these concerns are not conveyed to a wider audience. When a temperature reconstruction graph is released to the public there is no mention at all of these problems and one can easily get the impression that these reconstructed temperatures can be known almost as accurately as going outside and taking a reading from a thermometer.
We're talking about the US in the twenty-first century: profitable local ventures can borrow money at low interest rates from non-local commercial banks at much better rates than the check cashers could possibly offer.

The check cashers don't offer deposit accounts because they couldn't possibly invest their received funds well enough to pay interest after covering the overheads of managing many tiny retail bank accounts with constant withdrawal demands, and their customers are far happier paying a fat commission to get cash than now than a bank account fee to get it later.
Ah, the joys of linking W3Fools to everyone who even mentioned the word "W3Schools".

I wonder if anyone's made a Reddit bot or something of the sort to do just that automatically?
I use Google's Personal Blocklist extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...) to block W3S from my search results, which usually results in the first result pointing to MDN.
Clicking the button does nothing for me on FF 17.0.1, Opera 9.60, and IE 8. Appears to be broken?
I wish MariaDB would make a version for Mac OS.
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no slack in your income, and $35 overdraft fees are unarguably rational motivators to avoid big-box banking.
FYI - I am getting the following warning on FireFox 22.0 for Ubuntu 12.04:

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I was expecting to see some examples about why there are so much hate in W3schools but I didn't find any on this rant.

I remember to have seen some bad examples showing bad habits but to be honest, I have seen more people ranting about W3S than bad examples on the website, maybe it would be more useful to show why W3S sucks that much.
I guess I expected the whole point of an immutable string class would be to have O(1) copies. What does this buy you beyond 'const std::string'?