skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a spectrum between slavery and a happy, voluntary decision. Most of us want the floor on how an employer treats its workers slightly above gunpoint.
It matters precisely in a moral sense. Because of the (in)effectuality of the action. Resources are scarce, and you are taking food from a baby...somewhere in the world. Of course none of this matters if you are having "first-world" pyschological problems about guilt...or you are trying to secure some money or presige for your first-world cushy lifestyle.
Why would you fetch the same thing twice? Or is that just for you example and wouldn't be done in reality?
Well he sure sounds like a crackpot.
The summary is essentially just that systemd is just a bit more elegant. Basically the (non gamed) votes had those two at the top, but in the end upstart had a few more pain points, and systemd had a few more features.

- SystemD parallelization is more automatic.
- SystemD has built in logging for all managed processes.
- SystemD has Socket Activation (start process on demand)
- SystemD has more momentum in other major distros (Fedora, Arch)
- etc..
Throwing out a percentage like that is meaningless. I contributed to 50% of the trash in my household last month. If that's 300 lbs, then curbing it is significant. If it's 3 lbs, then it isn't. If he can't provide more concrete figures for his argument then the argument has no meaning.
So basically:

1. Moleskines are awesome.

2. Creativity is important if you want to be happy.

3. Work is no fun if it's hard and your partners suck.

4. This article has almost nothing to do with YC.
If you are looking for a secure desktop IM client, look at Pidgin with OTR.

https://securityinabox.org/en/pidgin_main

For Android, I had probably trust anything by Moxie. Plus, you don't need to trust him - it's open source. Not that you have to verify it, but it's a good chance it's more secure than closed-source products.
http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence
Another take on the graph, shown here:
http://blog.hotwhopper.com/2014/02/roy-spencers-latest-decei...

It's been speculated on RealClimate that Roy Spencer is continuing to use the highest emission scenario for these comparisons, which is not made clear on his site.
Less Than 40 Percent of Web Traffic Comes From Humans
A better way would be to hand each client a unique hostname (sessionidhere.whatsmyresolver.stdlib.net) and match that dns query to the http client? For example as an ajax call from the main website.
The global warming issue is complex. If you are a skeptic about CO2 increases due to humans, warming since 1880 or the basic science of greenhouse gasses you are simply uninformed. However if you are not modestly skeptical of mult-decade forecasts of temperature, rainfall or cyclones you are simply naive. These are incredibly complex systems that are only partial understood.
You lost me. Where does the author make the claims that you appear to be disputing?
I assume the 150 number cretes a feeling of urgency to hand over credentials. That is the effect it had on me. : )
Dual-N-Back is a simple, brutal way to stress your working memory, and there are a lot of studies behind it.

http://www.gwern.net/DNB%20FAQ
There's a certain point of "good engineer's" career where they want to make their own language/vm. I'm 99% sure this is what happened here. It's always a train wreck.

They really should have used lua. It would have been very simple to put in and it's robust enough and efficient for small memory devices.

While I appreciate the power/flexibility/efficiency of js it is no where near as efficient as lua. Lua keeps things as ints until they aren't needed etc. Very much build for embedded systems almost. I'm probably biased in that I've worked on a lua VM for mobile handsets for a few years.
I don't know why the uncertainties of climate modelling is valid reason for inaction. When one of the possible outcomes of dumping trillions of tons of GHG into the atmosphere is global disaster, then the poorer our models the more we should be worried.
Could this be a fishing expedition to troll in new product ideas ? I've heard some of the lean startup people are into building fake landing pages to collect interesting data. These type of well designed single form pages are getting easier and easier to build..
> That depends. If the software is fully understood by its creators, and if it has been thoroughly tested, there's no reason to doubt its reliability.

How did you arrive at that conclusion? How, exactly, is it "fully understood by its creators"? How do you know that it's "thoroughly tested"?

Type systems allow one to assert these ideas declaratively and provably, and depending on the type system, more or less of the design can be asserted.

> Consider that, in strongly types languages, things go wrong anyway ...

That's not an argument against strong typing, that's an argument against your understanding of type systems.

On top of which, you've deployed an illogical assertion: that because things anecdotally CAN go wrong with what you presume was a type-safe language, the failure rate is EQUIVALENT to a non-typesafe language.

That doesn't make any sense.
> Julia has a big future ahead of itself in the military and government.

Hmm, curious, why would that be? Or rather, what are the features that make you think Julia has that other languages and technologies don't have that would be killed in military and government?

I work within that area and if anything the military and government love their red tape, certifications, protection profiles, rubber stamps that it would seem like the last industry to jump on a new and largely yet unproven language. You wouldn't believe the number of Windows XP and RHEL 4 and 5 servers still running.
Changing the initial launch position makes it easier to choose what area of the planet the periapsis will be over. When I launch the birds, unless I take great care to do otherwise, my periapsis tends to slightly after my launch position.

With periapsis's in different positions, you can get birds into rarely colliding 'resonances' of sorts. Making sure that the periapsis of birds is not over the default starting location is also good to ensure that you do not lose orbiting birds to a pre-launch bird.
Its not a forgery as long as it isn't misrepresented and there is already a market for reproductions see http://www.ebay.com/bhp/starry-night-oil-painting for instance (no connection to this seller, just came up in google). More than likely though you are going to get a better reproduction if you go with someone who specializes in that sort of thing. The people who do this do very much specialize, not just in doing reproductions, but typically in reproducing the style a handful of artists.
Indeed, had to look at the author after the poor emotionally charged writing made his biases immediately clear.
That's pretty cool. What I'd really like to know, though, is if anybody knows how to drop into a pry-debugger debug session during a unit test.
This is great! As far as I can tell by reading the source code, it encrypts everything locally before uploading it, and the server does not have the encryption key. Is this right OP? If it is, I think you should make more emphasis about it in the project's home.
(Full disclosure: I'm the developer for this site).

You make a really interesting point, and I think the reason for this is that each college's solution is different in tiny ways. In my opinion this is not an insurmountable problem, as seen with Facebook's success. Clearly not every single person has the same exact needs with a social network, but the key is 1. Facebook is typically "good enough" for most people and 2. Everyone uses Facebook, so people look over tiny inconsistencies with their own usage to be on the same network as their friends.

However the difference, as I see it, between Facebook and something like a Craigslist for campus, a campus chat board, or campus event system is that there is only pressure to use it within distinct communities. For instance, if our site grows to dominate this space at Penn, then only students at Penn feel the pressure to use the site. A student at college X will have different classes, different events, and different needs, so even if all his/her friends at Penn use it, they would get no utility out of hopping onto the College X version of our site, if no one at College X used it.

What we have there is a situation where instead of Facebook's virus-like growth, you have distinct bubbles that need extensive, personal attention to break into. You can't just launch to a new college and immediately have users rolling in, you need a personal "in" for each college, someone (ideally multiple someones) to get real students to use it. This, naturally, requires much more effort and a lot of connections, and it's to this that I'd attribute your observation that no one product has grown to dominate this space.

For now, we're considering our site a simple experiment for Penn, and if we do end up expanding, it would only be if we could justify-—with profit from the site—-the effort needed to expand to other colleges.
Here you go:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2013/13
Does your ctrl+f not work? Both of those quotes were in the sixth paragraph.
For a blink I thought I had read "posterity-destroying" and I nodded.
Anyone want more proof why creationism must be banned from schools and homeschooling has to be forbidden?
Read his post again. He knows what is happening. He even mentions that he could block the IP address. He simply wants to know if there are better solutions.

So the problem is the way he titles the post. Sure, okay. So make that your argument. You'll sound even pettier but at least you're not fighting a strawman.
Yes!

Server side can't read your configuration because all your data are encrypted locally by 7zip.
It's mean that you are the only one who know your pass phrase, nobody can't read it.
This is an important thing, cause we all have api key, password, sftp connection, things like that in our SublimeText configuration, and it must be private.
Great work. Big innovation in taking a clunky method of crawling info and turning it into something extremely elegant with how its outputted and someone can work with it.
The problem with doing net present value calculations on climate change is the possibility of "infinite" cost events.

Sure it might make more sense from a NPV perspective to spend a given number of dollars on say improving the water treatment in poor countries rather than stopping GHG emissions, but only if we know the maximum cost of climate change. The problem becomes how do you do a NPV calculation on the possibility of a positive feedback warming event that causes the Earth to become uninhabitable. This is effectively an infinite cost event. Even if such a risk is small, no NPV calculation has any value.
Except that the entire "humans are responsible for say n%" is the latest diversionary tactic by climate deniers to sucker rational people onto opposing policy that mitigates climate change.

The argument is akin to saying "your program slowdown is - and I'm making up a number out of thin air - 50% caused by systems outside of your control so you should definitely spend 50% less time optimizing the things you can optimize".

The logical flaws are blatant: the % is an invention, and the truth or otherwise of the premise has no bearing on the action you can and should take.
But if you asked me for the one reason why it didn’t work out, the truth is that it just wasn’t fun anymore

Is YC fun? Not the dinners. The work you're there to do.

It seems like doing a successful startup is closer to this than to fun: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7222850

Maybe in the wake of a failed startup I deluded myself into thinking great teams are predicated on great friendships, a truism that no longer holds absolute truth.

Perhaps there's a misunderstanding of what a friendship is in a business context. The cofounders have to have been friends for quite awhile, otherwise the stress will tear them apart. But they probably don't have to be dear friends, or the kind of friend you hug. It's just business.

to those like me who held the institution on a pedestal

This seems the central issue. YC is ultimately about business. It's awesome, it's changed the world and my life, but having expectations that it's going to be fun and that you're there with dear friends seems off the mark. But I've never done YC, so this is just speculation on my part.
Ah, got it. I misunderstood your question.
No, they're not generally law officers, however, they may redirect your call to an actual law officer or police dispatcher. I do not know whether George Zimmerman was talking to a civilian 911 rep or a police officer, but either way, the 911 agent did not offer any lawful orders, the most authoritative statement given to Zimmerman was "We don't need you to do that."

Having interfaced with law enforcement at local and federal levels as part of employment, I happen to know that particular phrase literally has no meaning, except "please don't sue us if you do that, because we aren't liable, and need it on the record that we did NOT tell you to do whatever it is that you're about to do."

It's not a statement of encouragement or discouragement. That said though, if you consider the outcry that he "deliberately disobeyed a police officer", it's clear that many do not understand the concept very clearly (or they were blinded by the rest of it and went in to full witch hunt mode, which may or may not have been warranted).
Yep, that why I was asking. Also telling the users that if they loose their encryption passphrase they loose their data would be cool.
Then you've never had a bad run-in with someone who was decidedly unhinged.
"Earth and its ecosystems – created by God's intelligent design and infinite power and sustained by His faithful providence – are robust, resilient, self-regulating, and self-correcting" - Roy Spencer
Loving the book, seriously the examples are easy to follow and realy well paced.
I bet you also like geraffes.
In a world where twenty-something founders are highly praised, can this be really reflected on the startup scene? Me being 33 now, I feel like I can achieve much more with much less resource now. I am not sure if this is just an illusion or truth, maybe I can write back in ten years and see if I am right on this one...
The node/js implementations provide a stream interface to bitcoin, for watching transactions live and doing real-time updates. Its very difficult to do that with the bitcoind API because it is only polling functions. Whereas push/event-based handlers and filters are natural on a node implementation (eg watch all new transactions for a particular bitcoin address, how to do that using bitcoind, without long polling?).
> The linked article I was rebutting wasn't making that utilitarian case, they were making a moral case about not being obligated to avert warming at all

I re-read the article and I don't understand how you arrive at this interpretation. This appears to be something you're assuming. The article is precisely about the utilitarian argument: the trade-off between the expected effectiveness of energy policies and their cost.
The problem is if you totally max out freogeoip it doesn't scale (or let you pay) for more requests.
Its in documentation :)

http://sublimall.org/docs
" If we can only affect it half as much"

You've made a great point - if we've really reached a tipping point at some of the more extreme global warming alarmists, you wouldn't spend any money at all. So they've inadvertently caused logical people to decide we shouldn't do anything.

The other end of the spectrum would try to convince you that global warming isn't real (global warming and cooling has happened for eons - without man's help) and that it's therefore not worth doing anything.

As an ecologist, I drive my wife and kids nuts with my need to recycle ... and take it a step beyond. I've repaired all sorts of "throw-away" household gadgets (most recently my wife's straightening iron) and try to give away working items we no longer need (freecycle). So I still believe we should each do what we can to minimize our impact on the planet, whether or not global warming is real.
I just came to say I love this style of writing. Easy to read and funny. Good job.
>p.s. I might enjoy trolling more than the average bear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KxdSytVrRk
I'm curious how the OP found his startup partner(s) and what the irreconcilable differences were.
Considering how strongly your sources disagree with the OP, I find it surprising that the opposing graphs are not all that far off from each other.

The graph from the last article you linked to: http://skepticalscience.com//pics/ProjvsObs.png

The graph from the OP: http://www.drroyspencer.com/wp-content/uploads/CMIP5-90-mode...

In both cases the actuals are at the low end of the predicted range. They disagree as to how low, obviously, but not as much as I expected.
The New Normal: 200-400 Gbps DDoS Attacks
Est 80% of entrepreneurs have ADHD – Here's how to leverage it [video]
I'm afraid not. We appreciate that you asked though!
I've had success syncing my SublimeText config across machines using homesick (https://github.com/technicalpickles/homesick), but this looks pretty slick.

One issue with syncing configs using either method right now is that certain keyboard shortcuts don't make sense across OS types, and your font size may not work well at different monitor resolutions (especially retina vs non-retina). See http://www.sublimetext.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5135 for related discussion. If you could incorporate per-OS/machine config overrides into this it would be very handy.
> The basic idea is: that given our limited resources how can we do the most good? The answer is that focusing that effort on climate change is frivolous even by the most optimistic predictions.

This is actually a fantastic point. Given the real, quantifiable health effects pollution has on humans (and other species), it seems more beneficial as a whole to deal with more immediate issues. Rather than quibbling over something that might, maybe, possibly reduce global temperatures by a few tenths of a degree. Maybe.

Great video, by the way. Thank you for sharing! Bjorn's basic premise could apply to so many things beyond simply world problems, which is what makes his talk fantastic.

Judging by the emotional investment some people have had in this thread, it'd be shameful if your post is missed. But, reasonable, balanced, rational measures seldom get people quite as excited as those that evoke emotion.
> it's changed the world and my life ... but I've never done YC, so this is just speculation on my part.

If you haven't done YC, how has it changed your life?
The shortest and most accurate history of the world.
Even better then

first prize: billion satoshi
second prize: half-billion satoshi
third prize: 300 million satoshi

Very large numbers, almost sounds like dogecoin.
> $ RAILS_ENV=production bin/pry -r ./config/environment
Perhaps it's my own superego unable to understand experiences outside of my own mind, but I think you either didn't get enough money or haven't learned how to transmute it into happiness. Money is freedom and freedom is happiness. It's that simple. If money doesn't make you happy, nothing will. If you have enough money, you can do anything you want. If you don't have enough money, you can't do anything you want. If you can do anything you want, then by definition you either have happiness or you are unable to achieve happiness. It really is that simple.
The ! are stripped. I saw a few problems before, for example with:

* the "not equal" operator: != (something like "Joe Doe Proved that Is P=NP")

* the "factorial" notation: n! (something like "Why 0=1?")

Usually the moderators add the ! when someone notice the missing !.
I'm curious why the op didn't address why he's such a pussy.
YES. This is my main beef too. I can't work out the scheme scripting. I found layer effects I like but can't apply them in any sane workflow.
Look, startups suck. Failed startups suck. Successful startups suck. Silicon Valley sucks. But so does working regular jobs, and so do a lot of things. The problem here is probably that you had the wrong expectations, and then when reality hit, it hit really hard.

If you want to play the game, you better be mentally prepared for dealing with a lot of shit. Egos are going to clash. Friendships are going to be strained. Stress is going to occur. To use one of my favorite quotes my dad always said to me, "that is life in the big city". Startups are not romantic -- they are a slog.

But... if you are building something you want to build, it can be worth it. Just don't expect it to be easy.
If you believe that life expectancy in some particular group has gone down in a manner correlated with inequality, post data showing it.

In cities, if you are also black or hispanic , a high chance of death by violence.

Do you believe that if the 1% had less money, poor blacks/hispanics would be less likely to kill other poor blacks/hispanics? If not, this is irrelevant.

I haven't double checked this, but I strongly suspect that even as inequality has risen in the US, the rate of poor blacks being murdered has gone down. (Reason: poor blacks being murdered is a big chunk of the murder rate, and murders and other crime have generally gone down.)
Indigenous Love Words Project
"expect where prohibited by law"
Thanks for the feedback! I just added the link to the site.

Do you have any advice for me regarding finding investors? I'm on Angel List, but don't know any investors, or have any contacts who know investors.
It's "juraffes", idiot.
That's what I do.
what made you stop?
We placed it at the angles so you can see a closeup and also notice the texture in the brush strokes and paint. If you receive a painting and it's not what you expect, we'll refund you 100% plus the return shipping, or send you another painting.
stretchwithme addresses that in the third (and subsequent) sentences of his comment. I know that's a lot to read, but still. They were in fact describing a voter-verified paper trail system.
I believe I remember you previously writing that you're also going to allow site owners to come to login to kimono and turn off spidering for their site?
which 7za returns "/usr/local/bin/7za" - I get the same error with "7za_path" set to this or ""
I dropped out of YC in '08. It's really OK, I am not out on the street with glazed-over eyes wondering what could've been.
nothing more than a rationalization and opportunistic bolstering of his preexisting belief system

Whose behavior does that not describe?
Same boat here! Any sense of how long the queue is?
China shutters Windows ‘rival’ Red Flag Linux
Seriously. The title is 'why' and there is no explicit explanation.
Yes, absolutely... we'll be providing more control for webmasters before we exit beta.
In case any of the HS team sees this..

With the application periods overlapping, if one were to be rejected for the Summer session would it still be possible to apply to Fall later on?
That's really interesting.

Powermonger I liked better than populous. Populous was too many levels and maps were too big IMHO. I never understood the ecenomic strategy (build big houses or small ?) but I was quite young (small then big I spose).
It seems like he was into YC to write about how he dropped.

He could enjoy the ride just for fun.
> If you have enough money, you can do anything you want.

Man lives not by bread alone. Only a simple hedonist is going to find contentedness through a pallet of cash.