skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> because it will drown billions (sic) of human beings

That definitely fails my sniff-test, but I'm no scholar in the area, so could could please explain how the science do indeed tell us that? Of particular interest is the justification of the word "will", of course meaning definite and inevitable, not some theoretical worst case scenario. The usage of the word also implied that the substantial mitigation efforts surely expected to be undertaken by those at risk will be catastrophically inadequate. Also, the word "drown" strikes me as oddly specific. I always assumed that the most potent causes of death caused by global warming would be secondary, such as starvation, malnutrition, dehydration, severe civil unrest or even war etc.
Another one : http://www.siyli.org/take-the-course/siy-curriculum/
I'm waiting for this phone to hit the U.S. this fall. If your N95 ever breaks, you should check it out.

http://conversations.nokia.com/2013/08/28/iconic-style-meet-...
A Country As Ambitious As You Are.
Implying there are many Middle East countries that have better record on woman or gay rights, for example, than Israel? Care to name a few?

Israel has its problems, but compared to the rest of the ME, it is a shining example.
Chrome flagged this as a potential phishing attack. Anyone else seeing that?
Cassandra: safety and consistency
Just wanted to alert you that the issue has been fixed and will be pushed out in the next release.
You will get the highest impact with a personal analysis backed by links to said articles, along with a solid recommendation of next steps forward.

Your recommendation should ideally be a trial period of 30-60 days so that your manager can become comfortable with how this will play out.
> Everyone knows Java.

Untrue.

> It's the first programming language taught to every freshman Computer Science undergrad, everywhere in the world.

Except where Python is used. Or something else.

> Even most die hard Rubyists know how to write Java.

Well, a lot of the move to Ruby (particularly Rails) was a reaction to perceived issues with Java, so, yeah, Java skill is probably overrepresented in the Ruby (particularly Rails) community.

> Who in the world teaches PHP?

Judging from a quick googling, plenty of places teach PHP.
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All good points, but we're talking about how a country treats its _own_ citizens. And in this regards, the US is far better than most other countries, most certainly China.
A sim can have contacts, but bookmarks? Are you sure?
Ya, I'm seeing that myself. (I'm the author). Sorry about that! I think it's because it's my first post and it's about credit cards, processing, and commonly phished sites like PayPal, Braintree, Stripe, etc. I've entered my site on Google's reporting tools...I'm not trying to get any financial information from anyone!
These are almost exactly IBM's recommendations from their 1970s era analysis of programmer productivity.

A couple short items from their studies -- productivity for knowledge workers improves until they get 100 sq. feet of space and 30 sq. ft of desk space(!).

They recommend walled off areas for functional teams, three to four people per, 300 to 400 sq. feet per team. The teams can close the door when they want. You'd give them a couch and a whiteboard, etc. in there.

This gets you private time for functional work teams who typically want to be heads-down or talking at the same time.
I was able to view the article through a google search of its title.
I'm not saying it's not good, my point is that a "technical co-founder" will want to redo it _regardless_ of whether it's good or not. (Also not trying to disparage MBAs, it's just that's how technical co-founders will think of them.)
I think that is the whole point of bringing wikipedia along. Pretty sure you could reconstruct most of civilization from it...
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This has been done a lot in the card game Dominion (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10867765/genetic-algorith...). Dominion has orders of magnitudes less cards than Magic the Gathering.

I've always wondered how a machine would solve for these complex games... How do you build AI to play a combination and reaction reliant game?
Exactly what I'm preparing. List of links with relevant pull quotes, timemarkers or slides.

And exactly what I/we're planning...2 months.
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I've done my share of testing. When you walk into a meeting with the most senior dev team in the (significantly sized) shop, ask a single question about an underlying assumption, and have development go back for another couple of weeks to take another whack at it, you realize -- as one example -- that "testing" is not simple.

If you're lucky, you're doing real QA, where an smart, knowledgeable, and independently minded QA analyst can discover and raise such concerns before the work gets done.

"Testing" is a shithole because many (most?) shops don't give it much respect -- nor resources.

P.S. One of the shorter meetings of my life. 5 minutes, including the socializing. The technical part took maybe 2.
"Because I would expect geographical answers to take location into account"

Then why are you using DDG?
I made around $60K/month for a good 2 years from a side project, while still keeping my day job.

Nowadays I make close to $8k/month passive income, and I regret not quitting back then. I could've easily made double the amount if I had focused strictly on that.
> All you guys are developers and you know how hard it is to develop a computer system

As some interested in both computer science and the science of evolution, one of things I know is that it has been demonstrated that computational systems that may be hard to deliberately design for have been demonstrated to be producable by processes fairly directly analogous to biological evolution, so long as they happen to be what is useful in the environment inhabited by digital organisms. [1]

[1] For a place to start, see http://avida.devosoft.org/about/
How much Passive Income do you make?
Tell me about your apps, your web-apps or your side business in the mission. How much passive income do you earn and how do you do it!?
fall back to ctrl-alt-del.
Is Blue Apron the most exciting e-commerce startup in NYC?
Did you spend all 4 years on UsableHQ? And why do you think it failed?
A single button on the keyboard would be great for an OS login request or something to bring up task management.

A single button on the keyboard is utterly unsuitable for a request for soft reboot unless it is recessed and requires turning the keyboard over.
Wow... didn't know middle eastern countries (Islamic) legalize slavery. Can they catch someone in their country or outside of their country and make them a slave?
This is the way to go (adapted to your circumstances of course)

I did this calculation for myself, and concluded that the only way I have is being fully profitable before quitting my job
Jetbrains Webstorm 7 released
Instimage.com here

I'm still in the pennies.

How I do it? Simple. I build it, wait for them to come, then they don't.
Nice peek at why Health Costs are so screwed up :-) You could ask the patient (use the machine it's covered, use the Anaesthesiologist and pay his fee (up to $2,000)) Of course that sort of approach will be made out to be threatening the poor and those unable to pay with a risk of death.

I've known a couple of anaesthesiologists in my life and something the article didn't mention was that their malpractice insurance premiums go up linearly with their patients seen (I can't verify that directly but believed them when they said it). The argument was that they are one of the 'most sued' doctors on the planet. Hard to sue a machine of course, we'll see.
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Is Goldman Sachs hacking my website?
If you're going to flag this, please let me know why.
Black gold used to mean the slave trade towards America and within the British Empire and the Dutch. What does that have to do with Islam : simple. Who did they buy the slaves from ? The Ottoman empire.

Most kidnapped slaves never did end up in the western slave trade by the way, but were instead kidnapped into north africa and the middle east (which was the effective center of the muslim empire, they even relocated mecca into africa). Almost none of them survived, and today with a few small exceptions no significant numbers of those slaves survive.
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>The glib answer here is that there's really no such thing as the 2nd law when you're talking about a small number of individual fundamental particles. The statement "entropy never decreases" is actually a purely statistical claim, and it only rises to its usual level of essentially unbreakable validity when you're dealing with macroscopic numbers of particles

All the fundamental laws of physics, including the Schrodinger equation follow the 2nd law, so it is somewhat
"Someone watching him climb wouldn’t know he had a prosthesis based on his gait, Hargrove said, though they may hear the motor whirring."

That's incredible. We may not have flying cars, but this is quite a step in the right direction.
Seeing as other ruby implementations (rubinius and jruby) have been very iffy on refinements and may not implement them it is probably best not to use them at all if possible.
What happens to Walter White? We got predictions from 700 ‘Breaking Bad’ fans
You can't just assume away human capability for adaption.

If we have 1000 years to prepare for it, it most likely means that we will gain several miles of coastal land as we discover the best places (which may well be some way out to sea) to build dikes around the (relatively few) places where it's impractical to just move the population.

The Netherlands are often mentioned as the first place to go, but that's disingenuous: Nowhere else is better prepared to slap 50cm each century on top of their existing dikes. No, it's not quite that simple, but it's orders of magnitude simpler than constructing building a dike from scratch around, say, New York City.
Thank you for the response. I should have been more specific in my comment. I meant that the Microsoft Surface Pro and Surface Pro 2 have 1024 levels of pressure sensitivity.

You are correct that the Wacom Cintiq Companion has 2048. Another down side for the Wacom Cintiq Companion is that it's quite heavy compared to other tablets. I have a Cintiq 13HD and I'm very pleased with it but for portability I might get a Surface Pro 2.
New keyboards could simply send the Ctrl-Alt-Del key combination with a single button press.
To an extent, you're right, I overstated my case. They make their profits from hardware, yes, but they don't sell to carriers. They sell to consumers, some of whom buy from individual carriers but the majority channel for iPhone sales is from Apple itself. No other phone maker can say that.

Secondly, Apple's profit is uniquely enriched because it has built the platfrom that it has -- again, no other phone manufacturer reaps the direct from consumer benefit Apple does.

Lastly, because Apple sells markets/sells to the consumer, the consumer picks Apple first and then the carrier -- many change carriers but continue to be loyal to Apple as a phone maker. This is definitely the culmination of a major sea change in the mobile industry. Apple may not the only phone maker that has ever had a consumer act this way, but they are the first to have it happen on a widespread basis.
it used to be left pinky and index, and right middle finger..but after getting used to mac it's now left ring finger and index with right middle finger.
This implies a fuel mining and refinery process that is off-planet. Otherwise, you have to launch the fuel, and that is an extremely expensive prospect. If a mission is going to be engineered to operate for a long period of time, you'd either launch the mission with all the fuel it needs or plan refueling launches specifically for that mission, as is done with the ISS.

So, who will be the first to mine off-world and refine into usable rocket fuel? This seems pretty far off considering the exotic materials needed for rocket fuel, like hydrazine.

I think it's too far out to make a reasonable bet on who will provide the first in-orbit refueling station.
The cold sink is the water. Water has a specific heat capacity of 4.2 J/g/K, so its temperature isn't going to rise nearly as fast as the hot side of the device, and you need to provide even more energy to get the cold side past 100F...
Sadly, yes. I've heard of some who believe that nothing man can do can possibly damage or destroy Earth before it's time for Armageddon, because man is unimaginably weaker than Earth's creator. Or, who believe that Earth was made for man, and thus will always have enough resources and never become inhospitable.
Using more than one payment processor is definitely a smart move. Not only to avoid unpredictable consequences such as this acquisition, but also because it will give you a negotiating advantage as payment processing becomes more and more of a commodity.
Looking at Twitter and at Google's first 50 results on Note 3, I can't help but wonder : is the marginal profit they expect from region-locking so high that it will pay for all the bad buzz?

At first sight, even though pricing differences exist between regions around the world, on this kind of products they are not that big, not to mention that that part of these price differences come from retailing alone...

So these differences must be big enough to justify alienating your early adopter userbase, thus endangering the whole adoption process, not to mention bad PR that will stick. When you try too hard to get every cent out of people and they start seeing it - and any locking of that kind screams "I'm going to get more juice out of this" - they generally don't like it.
Yes. I mean developer friendly as in Nexus (hopefully stays that way), or Firefox OS right now.
could have something you put in the fire, with copper pipes coming out to a water turbine outside of the fire.
This seems like a pretty big blunder. Every day I grow more and more paranoid about my personal data including HIPAA.
to play devil's advocate (I don't necessarily believe this; I just don't know) - why is this necessarily a problem? For example, one possibility is: Over time, an increased culture of distraction will through social selection filter itself out into "improved multitasking ability". There are always growing pains associated with any seismic shift in society, especially those created by technology. What makes this one different, or are you someone who laments that time given over to learn cursive is now used to teach children to type?
Well, they're also good[1]? British Airways didn't become a better airline when the Air France plane crashed, just like Air France didn't become a worse one.

1: Except, of course, IRC which is a protocol, not a service, and it was never designed to be private, but that's pedantry.
I think there's a OpenGL test suite from Khronos, but it's not free and otherwise there's the piglit tests from Mesa.
I still wonder why a lot of activesupport's monkey patches are not merged into ruby's stdlib proper. Sure some of it is quite rails specific but things like String#constantize is just so damn handy it should be in ruby stdlib.
I'd like to know more about what happened between 1995-'96. Besides their introduction, how did they become partners? Were they office mates?
Lot of firsts in 1999:

First dog

First chef

First non-engineering hire

First press release

First female engineer seems to be missing...
> I'd really rather have one top-notch guy than 5 ok guys

1. Your one top-notch guy who getting in a car crash would put your business on hold for months until you could find a replacement. My 5 "ok" guys are fault tolerant, providing constant development regardless of what life throws at them.

2. My 2 developers aren't just "ok", they're rock stars. 1st class all the way. I pay them $5/hr. Don't underestimate India or the Philippines because they're low cost. Don't overestimate the difficulty of programming. It may seem hard to you but to someone who knows how to program it's incredibly simple. To a fluent developer, writing code is like writing an essay.
So there's evidence-based faith, and faith-based faith?
US and Europe have some black pages in their histories, that is true. Not that they are unique in that - we all know about slaves being brought into the US, but I encourage you to look up who was selling those slaves and where the centers of the slave trade were located and how much of power in Africa and Middle East depended on selling the slaves - but with all that, the past can not be denied. However, for US and Europe is is the past and slavery has been long recognized as immoral, unacceptable and evil. In Qatar, the slavery exists today. It is not hypocritical at all to call Qatar out today and tell them that in 21th century we don't do these things. Even if people did it some time ago. We grew past that, and it's time for Qatar to do the same.
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A typical salary for a software developer is between 35 and 40k Euros in Germany. Of course, if you've got a special skill set you can make a lot more. To people coming from the US, those salaries often appear to be "shockingly low" at first. Of course, this is before they take into account all the benefits, and this includes --- to pick three random examples --- not having to step over homeless people on the way to work, very low crime rates, or an extensive public transport system.

By the way, the few Americans I know who moved to Europe don't complain at all about the nominal wage differentials.
"A head-up display or heads-up display—also known as a HUD—is any transparent display that presents data without requiring users to look away from their usual viewpoints."

With glass you have to look UP and the screen is almost never on.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head-up_display
Strange that Gmail is not mentioned in 2004 unless I am missing it! They mention Chat for Gmail but not Gmail?
Nope, just find a CA that will give you a certificate with SAN extensions at a cost that you can afford. Usually you can get up to 5 SANs at a reasonable cost, and up to 100-150 SANs for more dollars.
As a lawyer I'm always concerned about changes designed to make it harder to sue someone. You almost always end up with unintended consequences. Take for example the heightened pleading standard. This standard has been used with other case types in which the allegations are considered dangerous to one's reputation, like fraud or discrimination. In many situations, people with legitimate claims have been unable to overcome the heightened pleading standard, not because their claim is weak, but because the evidence required to plead the claim is difficult to come by.

Many of the changes suggested by the article can already be accomplished using existing procedural devices. The only provision I see as having any teeth is the one that deals with fee shifting. Fee shifting provisons are a big deal as recoving attorneys fees is very rare in the American legal system. Generally fee shifting provisions allow the winner to collect legal fees even if nominal damages (e.g. $1) are awarded. This greatly increases the risk of trolling since any loss, no matter how small, could equal hundreds or thousands (probably millions) of dollars in legal fees owed to the other side.
If you want to understand everything that everyone is working on, where does the time and energy come from to do that? It comes from everything else you are trying to do. It is not "free".

An open office plan may make it easier to see and hear what everyone else is doing. That seeing and hearing, however is going to take time and energy away from what you need to get done.

In college, did everyone study in the cafeteria? No. Programming and learning and implementing new technologies are a lot like studying. Why would you try to do that in the cafeteria?

Why do typical organizational structures break management down to a few direct reports per person? Because it is really hard to keep track of what more than a few other people are doing with any degree of precision.

I suppose if you have an open office, you can get rid of all middle management and have everyone direct report to the CEO because you all (including the CEO) know what everyone else is doing all the time?
It sounds to me like the benefit is to the customer, easing their maintenance. Maybe you should raise your prices?
It looks like something one could craft in Minecraft so I like it, seriously though, I've been shopping for a solar charger just in case there is some unforseeable disaster and I need to be able to keep the GPS and compass working at least. This looks like a good alternative, I looked at two of the competing products in the comments here but this one seems to me to keep the most distance between the heat source and the electrical cord while still staying out of the way of my cooking. The collapsible design seems like a good idea too.
I'm intrigued as to how a society could be considered successful (or sustainable) with rising unemployment.

Let's see. My axioms (and bear in mind these are written in half an hour) are:

1) People cannot ever be equal.

2) Things are not of equal value.

3) People need and want things.

4) It is not possible for everyone to have everything they want.

5) People want to own things.

6) It would be simpler if people did not want to own things ;)

7) People are fickle.

8) Given 5 and 7, trade will naturally arise.

9) Barter is impractical at scale

10) Barter is impractical across nonlocal distances.

11) Given 8, 9 and 10, money will naturally arise as a token for items.

12) People do not have a constant natural supply of valuable items.

13) People do have a constant natural supply of time and energy, at least for as long as it matters.

14) To gain money, people can sell their items

15) To gain money, people can sell their time and energy

16) Given 12, 13, and 15, jobs will naturally arise as a way to gain money.

At this point I start asking questions that are beyond my knowledge of economics.

a) How does money stop having a hard relationship with the items it originally represented (aka the "Why can't I get five pounds of gold for my fiver any more" question)?

b) How is the value of money set?

c) If money is subject to (a), then doesn't trade in money critically undermine the value of money?

But those notwithstanding, how do you rate my reasoning as to why jobs are essential to society?

edit: perhaps I've only demonstrated that jobs are one way to gain wealth. That's what I'm asking really. Assuming I've not made some huge error with my axioms, what is your number (17) that allows people to acquire money without selling items or their time and energy?
Bzzt. The correct answer is no button.
Brainstorm is no surprise. That card is the reason so many people enjoy the format still.
Google Glass competitor ships 50K devices, takes Intel investment
I just read this article on David Cheriton over the weekend:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2012/08/01/professor-bil...

And surprisingly, the Google Timeline doesn't include him in there (though he should probably be listed around the 1998 time that Andy Bechtolsheim wrote his check...unless they both contributed to the same check?).
I noticed the same thing. The first mention of Gmail is when they launched it for mobile in the US in December of 2005.
That sounds like a problem of too-tightly coupled tests.
It would. I've actually considered it and warmly recommend it to anyone who can. It's not an option for me due to personal reasons, but if I could do it, I wouldn't wait a single minute.
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My plane ticket to Europe was region-locked. I bought it in the US, flew to Europe, and then couldn't come home. Wouldn't work.
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