skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently the warming is going to give us bad tempers [0] ...

"In an authoritative report due out Monday a United Nations climate panel for the first time is connecting hotter global temperatures to hotter global tempers. Top scientists are saying that climate change will complicate and worsen existing global security problems, such as civil wars, strife between nations and refugees ... retired U.S. Navy Adm. David Titley, now a Pennsylvania State University professor of meteorology, wrote in an email. “The Arab Spring and Syria are two recent examples.”

They sully the real science with this kind of nonsense.

[0] http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/warmer-temperature...
Under no circumstance was a single order to "move" followed by an arrest the fastest or most probably successful method of addressing the situation.

What happened was more complicated than that. See below.

There's a reason why most cops are polite, professional, and (comparatively) slow to escalate: it's the best way to encourage in-kind behavior. It's pragmatic.

And there's a reason why prudent citizens are careful when dealing with cops, particularly cops that appear not to be aware of the pragmatic truth you have just stated: it's the best way to avoid having the cops decide that you're a target instead of a bystander. It should have been obvious after the first interaction with the aggressive cop, when she told him to leave immediately, that further interaction was wasted on her.

I didn't switch subjects...If they had more important things to think about, they wouldn't have gone and picked a fight

Yes, you are switching subjects. When the cop told the bystander to "Move", she wasn't picking a fight--that didn't happen until later. At that point the cop did nothing else but order the bystander to move. And that, the time of the first order, is when the cop had more important things to think about.

It was not until later, after the bystander had (a) not moved, (b) been told a second time to move and not moved, and (c) said that the other bystander, whom the cops had pulled away from the injured woman (I suspect because they weren't sure whether he was helping her or trying to do something else, like rob her--remember this all happened very quickly and chaotically), was his friend, that the cops actually arrested him. Then they picked a fight.
I'd love to see some evidence for your claims, because they're pretty ridiculous. Arithmetic coding is now something that anyone can use because the patent applying to it has reached the end of its term. If IBM had instead decided to keep the discovery as a trade secret, and no one else had figured out how to perform the same method of compression, we wouldn't to this day have access to it. But we do, this is clearly a benefit to society because we can now produce compression software with much closer to optimal compression rations than we could before. So there goes (1). Would you also say that arithmetic coding is obvious? It sure is, once it's explained to you, but discovering the idea took a lot of effort, and was definitely not obvious given the knowledge that existed before. So there goes (1). All that I would say is that I think the term for software protection is too long given the current pace of development in the software space. This will not be true forever though, like all other technologies, things will begin to slow, and discoveries will be even more valuable once the space of computer science is more broadly mapped.
I moved around a lot as a child, but one of the schools I went to for a couple of years when in primary school was a Steiner school.

The school had a large pond, with geese (that would chase and bite you if you got too near), and a school cow that would wander around keeping the grass trimmed.

Next to the school was an huge piece of land we used to call the quarry. It was an developed piece of land that had hills with trees and bushes growing all over. I'm sure there were snakes around, there were definitely plenty of large ant hills, and other small critters. Usually once a week our class would tramp over there, and play tag.

People would get scratched up running through a bush or fall over and skin a knee. But that was part and parcel of the experience. I think I recall someone breaking an arm or getting a knock to the head when they tripped over something - that was treated appropriately by the teacher.

I remember going on a week (or two?) school camping trip up to Queensland; at one spot we found a natural spring pool for swimming and a small waterfall (maybe 5-10 meters high? scarily high for me anyway) - everyone took turns jumping off the waterfall into the pool.

Nowdays I look at what schoolkids get to do, and it's none of that stuff. Climb a tree? no way, you might fall and hurt yourself. So what, it's part of living and learning.
I still think that if you live in a large city that it's unsafe to let your kid ride on the bus by themselves too early.

I might be totally wrong in using this analogy, but just because it's statistically unlikely that I will die in a fire doesn't mean I will tempt fate and use fire recklessly in my home.
> Did you think that the Tesla and Supercharger of proprietary connectors for no reason

This isn't just entirely for a competitive advantage, although I'm sure they plan on licensing as you mention.

The fact is none of the existing DC charging standards can handle nearly as much power as Tesla's system can. CHAdeMO can handle up to 62kW (but most are 50kW or less), and some of the new Combo chargers have demonstrated (but not implemented) ~100kW. Superchargers can do 120kW right now, and Tesla has claimed they will up this to 135. As with so much of what they do, the existing state of the art is just so far behind they had no option but to roll their own. Everything else that exists currently is simply too slow for recharging during long distance trips (which nobody else cares about, because no other BEV has anywhere near the range)
In most sciences when the hypothesis fails to account for what happened one decides the theory is bunk and moves on.

In GW/CC (whatever they are calling it this week) the hypothesis is a forgone conclusion and you merely search for evidence to support it.

So since we're having a 'warming hiatus' one concludes that the worst is yet to come, because the alternative is the model has not been validated by evidence and one should not make predictions based on an unvalidated (or more correctly invalidated) model.

http://www.nature.com/news/climate-change-the-case-of-the-mi...
I've been adamant that we've needed a battery revolution since Terminator. Batteries were the major hurdle 30 years ago and they still today.

I can't believe it's been 30 years.
The "one-click" payment and 1% price discount is not gonna appeal enough to the average Joe who already has 1-2% cash back, airline miles, and consumer protection on his credit card (and 1-click checkouts on many e-commerce platforms).

Yes! The credit card is an amazing tool for consumers, and I won't be giving mine up unless I get something significantly more amazing in return (Merchants would need to offer 5-10% discounts on purchases with bitcoin, for me to begin to be interested).
This alarmism is getting really ridiculous.

Just 5 years ago, Al Gore claimed North Pole ice cap will be gone by now and instead we just had a record cold winter.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/dec/16/editorial-al...
For a second I thought WP was for Wordpress :)
Agreed, this highlights a larger issue that we've been dealing with as we've grown to over 100,000 customers and the platform has evolved.

When you have a singular product with a very narrow focus, say Instagram, it allows you to really strip away everything besides the core functionality.

When building a platform often you start off with something simple and elegant and as the number of customers grow you quickly begin to realize that as a platform you need to provide more customizability than first intended.

With that in mind we've been working with our customer support team to understand what are the most frequently asked questions and began to automate that directly into the support system as well as provide a more relevant and up to date help guide for the platform. Both inside the control panel directly but also searchable.

Of course one of the thoughts was to make all of the help documentation public on github and then also field requests from the community to help rewrite any documentation that wasn't clear.

Sometimes when you are engineering a product you take for granted all of the knowledge that you have and something that is obvious is entirely missed.

So that would be the idea behind asking our community to help us update the documentation since they come in with fresh eyes and can spot things that we can't see because for us it's been a continuous spectrum of development rather than something that we just walked into at some point in time.

Thanks!
This is a total non-issue. OP was wrong about his interpretation of the recoverable droplet, then pursued an argument with the same high-pitched rhetoric about what amounts to a UI issue. Sorry, not news
Make it easier to find prior art and make the loser of a patent suit pay for the suit. That will prevent the most egregious practice of patent trolls bullying small companies into settling befofe the case goes to trial. If the cost of losing a patent litigation was higher, trolling would become economically riskier.
Link On YC Main Page Broken
The link,"The most prestigious program for budding digital entrepreneurs" to the Wired article on the YC front page is broken.
surprised there wasn't any mention of these guys. http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Civilization_Starter_Kit_D...
> Humans are notoriously bad at risk assessment. We're more worried about child abductions than childhood obesity. Statistically speaking, only one of those is a real issue today.

Quit talking nonsense. A young boy got abducted mere blocks from where I live not more than 3 years ago. Those parents would give anything to have an obese kid right now.

Asking parents to make decisions based on the aggregate damage child obesity does to society rather than the acute damage an abduction does to their family is ridiculous.
"Now, every time I want to make a transaction, I need to keep track of my taxes. I know that some startups are already developing ways to keep track of this automatically, but that's just an extra headache for the average consumer."

Fortunately we have machines that are really good at keeping track of numbers and adding them up.

I expect Bitcoin wallets will just calculate your taxes for you automatically.
If staying in the home of interesting strangers is part of what appeals to you about traveling, Couchsurfing lets you do it while paying 0% of local hotel rates.
Actually, no. One of the big events leading up to Egypt's revolution was a grain shortage brought on by a heat wave and bout of fires in Russia [1].

1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08...
Millennials Don't Care About Owning Cars, And Car Makers Can't Figure Out Why
Well while it is clear the P/E ratios today are on average much lower than during the dot-com bubble, they are still high enough in some cases to warrant taking a closer look at whether they are 'reasonable', I think.

For instance although King.com has a P/E ratio at launch of around 10 and many other top stocks like Google and Apple have P/Es below 30, Facebook currently has an estimated P/E ratio (ttm) of 101.7 [1]; Netflix, Amazon and LinkedIn clock in at 213, 612 and 941 as of last February; and Twitter has a negative P/E ratio of -10 or so, having lost $645 million in 2013 [2]. Not a clear picture by any means, but it is fair to ask if all these valuations are reasonable.

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/FB:US

[2] http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2014/02/wh...
Get a 9-5 job, take a breather, save some money, then try again after two years.
pick up java, ATG/hybris -- or demandware might be closer -- join a professional services workforce, have them pay for your certifications etc
A working implementation is, and never will be, a requirement got the grant of a patent. The figures show an example of one or several implementations of an idea, but have no baring in the defining the scope of the invention. There's no reason for parents related to software could not include source/pseudo code, it's just usually not very helpful.
Started with a developer who was local and we all worked together for a period of time. He then decided to move and although we've continued to work together remotely, I'd venture to say it's been about 40% as effective as when we were all together. It's not that it doesn't work, it's just alot harder than being in person in the early stages, IMO.
Google is the new Microsoft. Which means they don't release apps for Windows Phone.
Yes it is still making a ship load of cash every month - I would like to have a 'bleeding' problem like this.
"feel a part of something bigger than just yourself."

This is the greatest benefit of sports. It is a easy way to experience collective identity.

When viewed from the outside, many collectives activities look silly (sports, dancing, praying, ceremonies) but it can feel powerful to be part of it.

My hunch is that most loners (myself included) have too rigid a definition of self.
>it's just they're failing to capture emerging markets

If anything MS is actually doing better in the emerging markets especially with Nokia smartphones.

>Their attempt at creating tablets, smartphones, music players, etc have all flopped.

What? Given the amount of Windows 8 devices being released, its nowhere close to being flopped. I wonder what your opinion would then be about Firefox and Ubuntu OS.
"Exactly. The military-industrial complex lives mostly on public money."

That's what I said. Is there some other point that you're trying to make? Getting a government contract isn't taking donations. You deliver a service or a product and you get paid for it. The US government spends a lot of money. Cray Supercomputer sold systems to the government too, for example. I imagine that if Elon wants to build his electric jet someday, one of his best business planes would be to build electric jet drones for the US government.
Yes, but most of the fat is trimmed by the HFT hedge funds, even long term now, the last vestige of growing wealth.

It is a very good thing that there is buying on the dip as a natural force of the market. The good news market is almost totally owned by HFT and already pre-baked.

But the speed of the algos trims much of what would go to smaller investors that really are needed just like consumers. More volume and movement is always good but being so efficient it takes most of the gains from the support structure of the market harms confidence.

Lots of the gaming happens pre-market and post-market where small investors can't always play and where the HFTs own by scraping 80-90% off the top, over time the delta is big. HFT does have benefits being so efficient though, may even help prevent bubbles because it can trade without emotion.
While I am absolutely against the cotton-wool wrapping of kids we see I would disagree on this. I always make my kids wear helmets when riding bikes, whilst still allowing them to do jumps and race down the hill etc. The way I see it, the helmet reduces the risk of serious long term injury and doesn't take anything away from them pushing their safety boundaries when riding about.
Chuck, if experts in their narrow field, such as myself, do not always know all the state of the art everywhere, what hope do the employees of the patent office have, who aren't experts in all narrow fields?

Why does it cost more to for the patent office to find out if there is an existing parent than there is to get one granted? Explain that one!

In short, we are getting more or less a coin toss when it comes to patents being granted. And then the cost shifts to legal proceedings, and sadly the threat of these proceedings causes many innovative startups to settle BEFORE any trial. The trolls then cite their success in obtaining licensees as they go and intimidate more small victims in a legal racket.
The less the sky falls the more imminent the danger. Ask any christian, or other believer in an apocalyptic cult, the end times have never been closer.

From the wiki page on doomsday cults:
"Referring to his study, Festinger and later other researchers have attempted to explain the commitment of members to their associated doomsday cult, even after the prophecies of their leader have turned out to be false. Festinger explained this phenomenon as part of a coping mechanism called dissonance reduction, a form of rationalization. Members often dedicate themselves with renewed vigor to the group's cause after a failed prophecy, and rationalize with explanations such as a belief that their actions forestalled the disaster, or a belief in the leader when the date for disaster is postponed."
I do it for the money
Oh I'm sorry, we'll all stop using our own favourite toys and start using your favourite toys.

Sorry for the inconvenience.
Where are these mythical cities where you can walk everywhere, though? I've lived most of my life in the U.S. (29 years), and I still spend about 2 months a year there (I moved abroad in 2011). But few people anywhere I've lived, or where I currently visit, will walk places, especially solo after dark (especially women, it seems). And the people who do are extremely cautious, absurdly so from a Danish perspective: the idea that a young woman aged ~20 could bike home drunk at 4am on a Saturday night by herself seems reckless to Americans, but entirely normal to Danes, because Copenhagen is safe in a way that no American city is. In the U.S. in my experience, most people are very cautious late at night in urban areas. Perhaps they shouldn't be, but it's a very noticeable cultural difference.

I could be looking in the wrong places, I'll admit. I spend most of my time in the U.S. in Houston and Atlanta, where I have friends and relatives, secondarily in L.A. and S.F. Maybe those are bad choices, despite being some of the most economically booming cities in the country? I could imagine much of Manhattan is safe these days, so that's one possibility. Is there anywhere else? Houston, Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco certainly don't lend themselves to random walks at night; people tend to carefully delineate which areas they'll walk in at night, if at all. Much of NYC is still sketchy; parts of Brooklyn are safe but you have to be knowledgeable about which ones. My brother lives in the Mission in S.F., and while it is sort of safe nowadays, past midnight walking safely really depends on what street you're on, and you don't exactly just take the shortest path on Google Maps to get somewhere else in S.F., especially not if it takes you through the Tenderloin.

I mean actually safe, fwiw, not just relatively safe: as in, you will definitely not be mugged, even walking solo at night. That's to me what it means to live in a safe city. A large proportion of the people I know who walk in an American city have been mugged at least once (off the top of my head, one person in Brooklyn, one in Atlanta, one in San Francisco, three in Los Angeles, one in Houston, I lost track of how many in Chicago). Whereas if you're mugged in Copenhagen, it's so rare that you'll make the newspapers— especially if you're mugged by someone carrying a gun, which will produce front-page headlines and a multi-week police investigation trying to figure out how this person could've gotten a gun. Overall, I just feel much safer here, despite being born and raised in the U.S. and feeling more "at home" in the U.S.

If you mean that there exist small upper-class walkable neighborhoods in the U.S., sure: that's also true of Istanbul. But are there walkable cities?
This approach to discussing inheritance treats JavaScript as if you're a Java or C++ programmer, and completely lacks any clarity with how inheritance in JavaScript really works.

Best intro I've read on the topic I'm talking about is from Alex Sexton (just read the last example, it really hits the nail on the head):

https://alexsexton.com/blog/2013/04/understanding-javascript...

So you might want a wee bit of hierarchy, if you're thinking like those "shared options" scenario, but not in the "OO type abstraction tree".

So, you might have something like a "Account.prototype.primeInterestRate" property that you can change in a running program, and then all the other types of account can calculate interest based on that shared property.

However, the more experienced jS developers I've met might take those "Account.prototype.balance" and "Account.prototype.deposit" methods, and push those into a "mixin" type (like "CurrentBalance") where those methods are copied (not inherited) onto the child class prototype, and those methods, might have initializer helpers to set up the "currentBalance" property they use. This mixin approach only gets gnarly if there's any feature envy. (Document your object properties clearly, folks. This is where javaScript's flexibility often becomes a crutch - lots of issues happen if mixin code uses "this.foo" for different things.)

Anyhow, what's interesting here is that Account carries the property that's shared, but CurrentBalance carries "behaviors", and is not shared, and your "child classes" like VisaDebitAccount embed both in different ways. It is a very different way of thinking about object relationships, and often works smoothly.

But if you're using classes in JavaScript like you would Java, well, then, you're not really using JavaScript, right? And, this whole talk about biological-style ontology just becomes the wrong metaphor, because while "humans are a primate" we can't change aspects of primates to add behavior to people!
I don't know whether this is going to be useful to you or not, but I have been thinking about this a lot lately, and your situation is weirdly a situation I desire to be in and a situation I'm trying to avoid.

I want to avoid your situation, because of the large variance and unhealthy unsustainability that accompanies the startup lifestyle.

I desire your situation, because working on new products and ideas is my (currently) most ideal working arrangement, I value being in charge and be flexible.

So for me the solution I have thought about and try to implement in the next couple months is to do a split:

X% involves "mercenary labor", freelancing/remote work
Y% involves working on my on side projects
Z% do other awesome things

Minimize X with the restraint of providing enough sustainable income and maximize Z% with continious estimation of whether Y can actually make some money realistically.

Would love any feedback