skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is a large social penalty for false alarms

There is absolutely no social penalty for false alarms of that sort - not so long as the alarm goes in the right direction. Remember Schneider's "we have to offer up scary scenarios" quote - coming up with alarms (that might be false) is essentially part of the job of environmental activists, even ones who choose to do science for a living. If there were a large social penalty for false alarms, Ehrlich wouldn't have remained credible after all his past prediction failures. (predictions such as: "The battle to feed all of humanity is over. In the 1970s hundreds of millions of people will starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now.")

The idea that our "missing heat" is hiding in the deep ocean is still a speculative hypothesis. It could potentially be correct but it's hard to be sure because the data coverage wasn't there until recently. The trend one gets depends on how one does the reanalysis.

Curry discusses the question here:
http://judithcurry.com/2014/01/21/ocean-heat-content-uncerta...

Pointing in particular at this paper (which I've only skimmed so far): http://www.pmel.noaa.gov/people/gjohnson/OHCA_1950_2011_fina...
I like how I'm in 1% for income, but in 13%-17% in wealth. Fourty more years and I might be able to own a flat.
Ask HN: how do you manage todo-lists in a team?
2 methods that I usually use

spreadsheet with list of tasks on google docs: probably not what a spreadsheet is intended for, people keep forgetting to fill things in and end up losing track of progress. But pretty quick and easy to setup one.

Trello: very complete set of functionalities, feels formal and engineering process oriented. Often would only use it for larger on-going projects, but feels overkill for a quick todo list during discussions.

what else do you use? anything you'd recommend, or have complains about?
I'm actually really looking forward to the day that technical people become more financially literate. There's a reason why Elon Musk is such an unstoppable force in the business world. Technical people have such a deep love of science and tech that they sometimes forget about the economic and political realities of modern western societies: capital rules all.

Understanding and managing time and capital is the most important task any individual is faced with in the western world. As I've said many times, every single person reading HN most likely undervalues their time, and ends up severely miscalculating their opportunity costs as a result. The nature of capitalism is such that taking risk is the only path forward, regardless of how many failures it results in.

As the commenters above have noted, very few become billionaires by working 9 to 5 for someone else. Work for yourself, and with equals (as co-founders). Never work as an employee. If you need to contract your services out, do it as a consultant on a milestone or hourly basis. Take absolute control of your time. No overtime, no crunch time, no favors.

Understand the system we operate in, and optimize for it. Don't be sucked in by stupid hype, marketing, "culture", free pop, ping pong tables, personality cults, or any such nonsense. Your time is worth just as much as the CEO's.

I'm hoping that once the tech world wakes up to this reality, we'll start exerting far more influence over big corps, big finance, and big government. This is the only way we can really change the world for the better. Not by being employees to big corps, but by running the show.

The Hacker mentality espouses efficiency and ingenuity. It's nigh time we applied this to our lives. It's not enough for me to do it on my own, everyone here needs to do this so that we can collectively exert influence to enact real change.

P.S. I know it may be hard to herd cats, but I've seen the community here rally around many great ideas. I want gigabit fiber everywhere, renewable energy cities, preventive genetic medicine for all, and colonies on Mars. Why haven't these happened? Because the people in charge have no vision, and are caught by the institutional quagmire of a country established 300 years ago. Just because this is the way it is, doesn't mean that it will always have to be this way.
What is a tock?
Oh really? Please explain this to London real estate market.
"Whether a particular instance is a bubble will never be objective; we will always have disagreement ex ante and even ex post. But to have content, the term bubble should indicate a price that no reasonable future outcome can jus- tify. I believe that tech stocks in early 2000 fit this description. I don’t think there were assumptions— short of them owning the GDP of the Earth—that justified their valuations. However, in the wake of 1999–2000 and 2007–2008 and with the prevalence of the use of the word “bubble” to describe these two instances, we have dumbed the word down and now use it too much. An asset or a security is often declared to be in a bubble when it is more accurate to describe it as “expensive” or possess- ing a “lower than normal expected return.” The descriptions “lower than normal expected return” and “bubble” are not the same thing."

http://www.cfapubs.org/doi/pdf/10.2469/faj.v70.n1.2
Do you make $32k per year or less and live in the US and support yourself / your family? If so, then perhaps you have a valid argument. Otherwise, I think you're insulting those who make that amount of money by putting them in the "we" group that you're trying to speak for.
According to https://wiki.debian.org/FilesystemHierarchyStandard /opt is for "Pre-compiled, non '.deb' binary distributions", and then using the standard bin/ share/ .. subdirectories. The "own prefix" convention is for RH variants IIRC
where does it mention that oly haskel, scala or clojure should be used?
Do you feel all in-app purchases are shady? Or just the 'pay to win' types?
Unfortunately I don't have actual numbers for you, but a company I used to work for that did a fair bit of CPO had good data that removing that selector reduced conversions (the most interesting thing to come out of that study was that, at the time and with our client base, removing the actual card logos (e.g. leaving only the textual names) increased conversions).
They've already ported it. iOS is OSX for ARM plus different UI stuff -- all the kernel, basic userland etc are there.

So, it's mainly a matter of porting the higher level stuff -- mainly the Cocoa libs, which are slightly different on iOS vs desktop OS X.
> The supply of domain names is effectively infinite

If you don't mind going to places like, adjkdhad3fnnkjd.com for all your future services, at which point domains lose their intended use, you might as well just remember and type out the ip number.
Yeah, I was just thinking "first they require a camera, then they require that it retain 8 hours of video for 'crash investigations'" ...
Rethinking Fat: The Case For Adding Some Into Your Diet
Previous submission, much discussion, and less shouting:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7377213

Other submissions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7367503 (one comment with reference)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7363305

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7385509

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7407449

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7495183
And the logical follow up, evil.css: https://github.com/tlrobinson/evil.css
That was my initial thought as well, but additionally it serves as a form of misdirection, presumably taking many people's attention away from the other countries where the program is being implemented.
Talks from Hackcon, the first Hackathon Organizers' Conference
Using Inkscape as a router? Good lord. I don't think that is a suitable starting part.

The right starting point is probably (1) a good choice of implementation tools (I've been sketching out some ideas. I'm thinking C++11 and Qt with python as the scripting language), (2) cannibalizing as much of the existing functionality from other efforts possible: KiCad, gEDA, etc. and (3) then focusing on useability and advanced functionality.

The question is, why not contribute to KiCad or gEDA? That might be the right answer. If they don't collapse under their own complexity (would gcc have gotten to llvm given enough time?), they'll get to Altium eventually. I think the key is to focus on software architecture that enhances productivity. In my experience, that's the only way for a small effort to compete with big, well-funded teams like Altium.
As much as I appreciate the concept, you need to adjust for buying power for these numbers to be worth anything.
Is this only for homesick Dutch expats? I'd like 3 per month in a regular envelope.
Austin fastest-growing big city in U.S., latest Census data shows
...and no mathplotlib, either... I even don't like python that much, but you have to recognize mathplotlib... but hey, at least they got pizzapiechart.js...
I'm amazed at the depth and breadth of detail that is going into these student events. Kudos to them!
Purported iPhone 6 pictures said to come from inside Foxconn
Fair enough. I'll admit my speculation is about as useless as hypothesizing Rescola was somehow manipulated by the NSA into putting his name on the extended random paper.
A little outdated... The Salvadorean "Colon"[1] isn't used in that country since 2001.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvadoran_col%C3%B3n
Someone posted this on /r/Startups a few days ago:
http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/21s1e0/massive_che...
Multiverse Controversy Heats Up over Gravitational Waves
Would you support large-scale income redistribution in the US? Anyone making over $400,000 is in a new bracket where all income over $400k is taxed at 70-90%?
this site is based on BS theory, Google it. It's all over the place, you can see so many articles based on this theory.
There's a small bug with the security code tooltip. Click the ? to open the tooltip (shows AMEX), focus the card number field, select-all (cntrl-a/cmd-a), then type "4". It still shows AMEX in the tooltip instead of visa. Closing it and opening it will still show AMEX.
Alibaba invests $692 million in Chinese bricks-and-mortar chain
window.location = "http://someone-elses-site.com/Falun_Dafa_exercise_video.mpg";
LMGTFY: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Tick-Tock =)
Is the Triffin Dilemma unfolding?

In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–2008, the governor of the People's Bank of China explicitly named the Triffin Dilemma as the root cause of the economic disorder, in a speech titled Reform the International Monetary System.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triffin_dilemma
> This is the whole 'eminent domain' debate in a nutshell.

Actually, a lot of the debate about eminent domain is who is on the receiving end of the property. Eminent domain is supposed to be about the taking of private property for public use. E.g., building a school. It gets a lot more dicey when you start taking A's private property and making it B's private property.
Feature Flags and NancyFx
Scientific Python in the Browser: it’s coming
Workaround:
Just edit the file's time edited by "saving as" and it will change the hash.
It was a thought experiment to encourage people to think about the issue at hand and not dismiss it with a knee-jerk. Your concern is now key stretching and password selection.
I heard that this event was baller!
> The article discovers an important tradeoff: speed vs. convenience. Generated code is faster but less convenient, because it adds steps to your compile.

Not if you use languages with built-in metaprogramming capabilities that are expressive enough to generate scheme-specific code at compile-time (e.g. Scheme, Scala, D, Rust, Nimrod etc)

I'm personally a huge fun of typeclasses as implicits + macro materializers in Scala: http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/macros/implicits.html
There is probably some over-valuation going on, but it's nothing compared to what was going on in the dot-com bubble.

In the dot-com bubble, companies were getting huge valuations without even having revenue. This time around, they at least have some revenue. They might not be making a profit, and they might not have enough revenue to justify the huge valuation, but at least they aren't completely disconnected from reality like they were back in 2000.
There's some really great talks in here. Definitely worth watching.
So there's a question. How do you reimagine certification testing to cut the cost 10x.
Spam, most likely. Crawl LinkedIn and associate to public email address somehow, I got the same thing and deleted the app once I realized it was fake. Nice way to get pissed off users...
Nit picking here, but birds as a biological class are defined as having wings as opposed to being able to fly. So the bird abstraction allows you to assume a bird has wings, and if it has wings it is likely able to fly (but not guaranteed).

Overall agreed, though. This ties into timr's point that if there are errors in your classifications, then your class hierarchy is incorrect.
To WordPress or Not to WordPress
>You view welfare as having an ethnic connotation but 'greedy parasitic financiers' doesn't? Examine the very hateful history of your line of reasoning.

Defensive much? I never commented on the ethnicity of the financiers or any connotations thereof. In fact, ethnicity has nothing to do with my comment at all. It was a simple analogy intended to illustrate that, like the phrases I mentioned, the phrase "1%" is loaded and does not simply mean "the wealthy".

But, while you're pouncing and introducing an actual hateful "ethnic" implication, you should probably consider that bitterness towards the 1% supersedes race.

>Who exactly wrecked the economy and how? What schemes have been run?

If your obtuseness is genuine, then you might start with Google, one of the many books that have been written, or a documentary.

If your obtuseness is deliberate, then have fun with it. Either way, I won't engage in a debate about facts.
Startups for #netneutrality
also only 2 days to go in Europe see http://www.savetheinternet.eu/
This is great. I have been looking for a service like this. A pain point when navigating through tutorials and courses online is finding the proper material for your skill level. Hope this service will be able lighten this task, and provide suggestions based upon a users previously enrolled courses.

Are you planning on adding a feature like this?
Depression is a serious thing, and it could be necessary to get on some medication, or some other sort of professional involvement that's beyond anything I can do. But what I can tell you is what's worked for me: I've been through rather severe depressions, and I find that the number one thing that help me is exercise. Lots of exercise. A balanced life is what you are really after, and the best way I've found to start is to get a lot of exercise. At least half an hour, five days a week of aerobic exercise is what really works for me. I've tried strength training and aerobic exercise does more for my overall mood.

It's easy when you are depressed to see everything as much worse than it actually is, so you should be aware that your brain is, in a sense, lying to you. Give yourself credit for trying something, even if it didn't work out quite like you thought it should.

So here is my advice: Do one small thing today (or even better: right now) to get some exercise. Go for a walk outside, even if it's just around the block. Get away from any electronics for a while and go for a walk or bike ride, or anything physical out in nature.

If you want to get some extra credit, then go spend some time with friends. Find a friendly local coffee shop or a meetup group, or whatever you usually do when you're feeling social.
Not at all -- they are a necessity. I just feel that some developers implement them tastefully (map packs, new characters) while others are only focused on money. I'd like to offer IAP's that look like a mini expansion where at least a solid amount of dev effort is recognizable.
So then, we should just accept what NSA is doing?
More Wi-Fi is better: FCC expands use of 5GHz spectrum
I managed one of the largest MongoDB installations and I can safely say running it at scale is extremely difficult.

They've made a few changes, like not hardcoding the maximum number of connections and shards anymore, which helps but overall the big problems like database-level locking are serious problems even a year later.

The reasons for choosing it were very simple - the lead developer was familiar with JSON and liked using it for queries, and he liked the "schema-less" nature of document storage. No consideration was given to performance or scaling issues, it was purely a comfort level decision.
I own a domain name that is basically mynamemyindustry.com . It is of zero value to anyone else who doesn't share my name, which isn't too common.

Someone bought myname s myindustry.com and occasionally sends me an email that it's going up for auction soon and enquires if I'm interested. I've just ignored them in the hope they get the point. They have been trying to make it seem like there's lots of other demands, when there's absolutely no reason to buy it other than the kind of similarity to my domain.

It can't even be profitable typosquatting. Nowdays the domain just redirects to a newer domain of mine and has been for a number of years, so in the unlikely event that someone tried to type in my current domain exactly and mispelled it, they still wouldn't end up on that domain. The only reason I keep up the registration is Google's inability to swap the primary domain on Google Apps.
Searching an ios developer
Hi guys. I've got a lot of cool ideas for ios app. Any iOS developer out there that want to partner up with me?

I am an Italian interface designer.

Check out dribbble.com/Gianluca and contact me over gianlucarispo {at} outlook.com
SMS-powered money transfer system arrives in Europe
Personally, I would rather we didn't.
Same here, in terms of the practical elements of the course. I still found Dan Grossman's lectures entirely engrossing, and I'm not just saying that because I noticed he was a HN user.
I think the real point here is for the OP to show that there is a huge disparity in what we consider to be poor and what people in other countries consider to be poor.

Sure $1 can get you more in Bolivia or Haiti but things like Playstations and TVs are WAY more expensive there. Yeah I can get rice and shitty medicine for $10. But overall high quality items are hard to get.

And yes you don't have wealth, but the potential is there. This just shows your earning power as compared to others regardless of spending. Even then your potential is high. Many people in other countries live in shitty one bedroom homes that are completely open.

It is meant to be a reality check, and yes "rich" is about wealth, but give yourself 20 years and how will you have spent your potential wealth, I'd argue that income is a decent indicator of potential wealth...
We use Trello for everything from managing development progress (big projects) to individual tasks and to dos.

Have never felt for a moment that it's overkill etc for the day to day stuff to be honest.
Given how flexible Trello is, we've always felt that it's as easy or complicated to use as you make it (which really is the key to Trello in our experience)
"I Love Lucy": A "Lifestyle Business" That Changed an Industry
Because is not going to make you happy, and on the long term is going to damage the mankind. Keeping the hippy crap out of the discussion, the problem is that you are already suffering from of the greed of your parents. And for your sons will be even worst. Problem is that greed, most of the time make you choose for an easy income vs substantial growth. But the problem is probably deeper.
Someone few days ago suggested this book. I invite you to give it a try. http://hn-books.com/Books/A-Guide-to-the-Good-Life-The-Ancie...
I hardly found any in Paris, myself. A bunch near the Google offices in Mountain View and Roppongi - maybe it's using past visited location data?
This post got nailed by the voting ring detector, but I'm restoring it because we want to see original work on HN.

Please everybody, don't ring-vote your posts; just take your chances with HN's randomness. If a post is solid and hasn't gotten any attention yet, a couple of reposts is ok. Be careful not to abuse that, since we eventually penalize accounts for reposting too much. Send questions to hn@ycombinator.com.
http://i.imgur.com/01VEUKN.jpg Looks like this for anyone not getting it yet.
The question was clearly about censorship. There is nothing of the kind. You can access anything you want and publish anything you want. Certain things you publish might offend people and potentially get you in trouble, but the government doesn't censor the internet.

That said, it is not a battle that is completely over.
The home page of this article has a section comparing text inputs vs drop downs [1].

[1] http://creditcardjs.com/#drop-down-for-expiration
Inside The Data Centers Powering High Frequency Trading
Ask HN: Advice\feedback\polls as currency?
I would like to build a site where the more you give advice or feedback or even help with your website/project you get points to get more responses/help.

There are plenty of sites you can get a little feedback or advice but with this the more involved you get the more you get in return.

I'm sure there are sites that do similar. what would you view as their short comings?
To offer an alternative, I've personally found checkinstall to be useful for putting together ad-hoc .deb packages for deployment.

http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man8/checkinstall...
> Do you really think Bill Gates created equivalent value to 100,000 Americans?

No. Not equivalent, in fact he created vastly more value than 100,000 Americans. Probably on the order of millions.

> Bear in mind that if he hadn't created Windows, something similar would have taken its place - just as likely something better.

How does this prove your point? If something better were available then there would be someone else rich that doesn't deserve it right? What do you envision here? A world where thousands of engineers mobilize to build software who's value will be determined later by committee?

> The reason Microsoft is Microsoft is that it secured itself a monopoly. That isn't adding any value.

For 10 years MS was dominant. Now the cracks are showing. MS has made plenty of engineering strides, and has some of the best executed backwards compatibility of any OS ecosystem. Again it hasn't captured even a tenth of the value it created.

> But even if Bill Gates did add 100,000 times more value than the average American, it doesn't logically follow that he must be paid 100,000 times more.

The more value generated by an endeavor, the more people will be motivated to follow. Could you imagine the sorry state of software if it was only a $100million/year industry?

Everyone along the chain benefited. Not just MS's customers, but also their shareholders and employees. BGates got rich by the unanimous agreement of all the parties involved. Show me any alternative arrangement that could possibly be better?

> You might easily argue (I would) that the last million you pay to him doesn't make any difference at all to his happiness or motivation, and it could be much better spent else where.

He's not keeping it under his mattress. Money by itself does nothing. Like most rich people he immediately looked for other possible investment opportunities. Finally he turned over the bulk of it to direct charity (including that last million). Where could this have gone 'better'?
This is somewhat alarming. What about just making sure people are able to responsibly operate their vehicle? For me I feel comfortable using mirrors to back up, I've never felt like a camera was necessary. I've driven cars with backup cameras before but typically just use the rear view mirror or turn my head.

Maybe others don't feel this way, thoughts?
> and all it does is save me the two seconds it takes to put a plug in the end of the phone.

I prefer wireless charging, as I've had to replace the USB port (Galaxy Nexus) due to the number of insertions/removals over ~2 years.