skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the general principle is this: if we understand climate well enough to draw conclusions like "with 95% certainty, global warming is anthropogenic", then we also understand climate well enough for geoengineering.
Very nice! I'm actually using '09 but hadn't noticed that they had changed that. Awesome. Thanks!
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One approach I have seen people take in Objective C (and Scala) is to return a Maybe "monad" from functions instead of the value directly - forces the caller to match for cases when the actual value comes back versus the "non value".
He he. You have a point, he might be lying about his subject... :-)

(I have no idea, but as someone noted above -- there is no one writing here that has better credentials in any subject than the author has in this.)

Edit: I might add that I voted you up, for the humor. In the first comment you "bet" that the author just has anecdotal evidence -- and then you don't retract when you see he has decades of research in the subject!
But California can't sell them on the open market which is the point.

Think of it this way. California is at a point where they can't stop themselves from spending more than they owe and the result of that is no one in their right mind would ever buy a Bond from them. Because there's a really good chance they'll be bankrupt before they could pay it off.

So what the state is doing is taking the people they have complete power over (those who did work for them expecting payment at a later date) and giving them a certificate of debt so they can continue to pay creditors whose services they need and who they have no power over.
Dev program costs $99 and she didn't spend much time on the app before she decided to outsource the project. She estimates that the whole project could have been outsourced/billed for $2,000 which would still give her a profit of almost 100%.

Another thing to remember is that, although the month over month growth has stopped, it's still a hasn't fallen by a significant percentage. That means this app could still generate a few thousand dollars over it's lifetime.

(I run yappler.com and posted this article)
I have been noticing it too many times at too many places these days. Especially on big news network like CNN/ESPN. They will have completely misleading title for the post just to grab attention.
Again, this doesn't give the government any more power than it already has. If they want your home, they will seize it.

Arguing that the government needs to jump through hoops is some sort of defence to you isn't relevant. They can and do jump through those hoops all the time, and home-owners are left with assessed values that certainly don't reflect the value of the home to them.

In the Greek system, the home-owner can arbitrarily decide what their home means to them, by assigning a value to it themselves. I'm not sure how you take this to mean that the government will suddenly decide to buy up undervalued homes throughout the city. That doesn't make any sense. The government is not a real estate firm, and there is no benefit to them or the taxpayers to saddle themselves with property instead of taking a short of a few hundred dollars, which they will more than make up from people who do value their homes. They'll continue to act as they always have, Rezoning and developing as they see fit. In this case however, people will be offered fair value for their homes - fair, because they've priced the house themselves.

So to answer you question, if your house is truly worth so much to you that you would be crushed if the government decided to build a highway where you live, yes, you do price it a 200% (and pay the taxes as such). The Greek system gives you this choice. Under current North American systems, you'll get the assessed value and be told to bugger off. If you're really lucky this will happen during a recession when your assessed value is lower and most construction projects occur. If you're really, really lucky they'll build something next to your lot, force you to take them to court, then offer to settle at the new, post development assessed price.

The Greek system wins in my mind in all cases where a government would look to seize property from an owner.
The police don't have the authority to remove a kid from school without jailing them. The school administration is empowered to provide sanctions and have experience and training in dealing with children. It's a very different game than the police who deal with adults, using Tasers.
Revenue was $5,290. Like you said, "thousands," but not tens of thousands.

And revenue is still coming in.
The article didn't appear in The Guardian. You misread my comment.

I don't understand where you think this argument is going to take you. Whatever critiques you may have of the way Kazdin has boiled down the huge volumes of research on this topic for a Slate article, he's not a reporter. He's the president of the American Psychological Association, a professor at Yale, and the director of the Yale Parenting Center; he's also written a well-regarded book on the subject.

You may have a valid argument about what he's saying about bullying, but you are totally clouding it by attacking his credibility. He has much more credibility on this subject than you do.
IIRC, the same investors that own Twitter also own bit.ly.
Here's a more direct link to the climate engineering section:
http://fixtheclimate.com/component-1/the-solutions-new-resea...
Why is this newsworthy?

Users don't care about changes in implementation that have little effect on rankings and probably very few people would notice the speed difference.
Can someone please dig its name? Coming from different country, I hadn't been exposed to such kind of books at all.
I still see the same spam I reported weeks ago in the index. The new index even shows it at #1!
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Twitter won't re-shorten it now, but that could change at any time. What if Twitter wrote every URL to a bit.ly URL regardless of length? Would anybody stop using Twitter because of it? I doubt it. If they can find a way to make money w/ bit.ly then why wouldn't they?
Limited to yard work/baby sitting/uninteresting jobs? Where exactly?

After I turned 16 I enrolled in a community college, fully paid by high school, using a local dual enrollment program. When I was 15 I started working as a C++ developer, which was quite fun.

Yes, I was a freak and still am a completely asocial misanthrope. But no one is limited -- it is solely by choice (and probably fear of the unknown) that children stay in high school.
A very similar point was made in the blog comments, but I'll restate my response here in brief:

Concurrency is hard even when you're just using a pencil and a piece of paper. If you write down a description of a system using any kind of simple notation, it will be difficult for me or anyone else to read that an have a good intuition about the runtime behaviour of that system. This isn't a discussion of statefulness or mutability. It's just about the presence of a very large number of interactions that essentially defy any usual sense of causality.
I like the ;?> on the top left. The title is a little misleading, the article is actually much more rational than the title sounds.

I’m a father of four children, and about 10 years ago I noticed—I couldn’t help but notice—that my 15-year-old son was remarkably mature. He balanced work and play far better than I did, and he seemed quite ready to live on his own.

For parents that help educate their children, stimulate their interest and set an example this might be so, but for others, school might be a better alternative.
SF Chefs. Food. Wine. Highlight Reel
Recap of the events in Union Square over the weekend. Delicious food, celebrity chefs, and the best restaurants in San Francisco.
I don't think that would be an issue, as it should be scaled to the traffic it receives. I could be wrong though.
California IOUs do pay interest, at a rate of 3.75%. Since you are resident in CA, I am surprised you did not check the basic facts about this.
http://www.sco.ca.gov/5935.html
Yeah but there is a law against anti-competitive actions too, like Twitter not allowing users choice within their profile setting on the site to select shortener of their choice.

Also, Apple and At&t rejecting apps that clearly are rejected because the app is their competition(Skype for one).

This is all new territory and these companies might be the impetus for much needed precedence!
Is Tim Ferriss acting like an asshole?
Did the sesamoiditis & stress fracture heal and does she still wear Frees or did she give up on the transition?

Did you have any problems?
A choose your own adventure book for adults:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lifes-Lottery-Kim-Newman/dp/06710159...
Clickable: http://www.sixcentral.com

Site looks pretty nice. Slick UI. Seems like a useful product to me but I think there are others apps out there that handle this sort of thing. I don't have any clients so I can't really say how it stacks up for sure.

You might want to mention to them that they can add their app for free on my startup, launchly (http://www.launchly.com), to try to get additional feedback and some analytics on their launch.
I think you are wrong, but I guess we'll need some statistics to resolve that one.

However, the point I was trying to make has nothing to do with the share of nerds among the victims. The point is that it's unnecessary to select particularly weak people because anyone targeted by a determined group of bullies becomes weak and most of the time there's no way to turn the situation around.

It's a mistake to think that anyone could be strong enough to do that, nerd or not.
Why can't they sell them?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Municipal_bond

Many other states and munis do.

Whether its a good investment or not is dictated by the risk and interest rate associated to it. You can't not pay your obligations which in this case would be the interest rate to cover today's expenses. Otherwise we are talking about a larger issue which would be bankruptcy.
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> x, a reference, should normally denote an object but can
> be void, in which case the call will fail and produce an
> exception, often leading to a crash. *This is one of the
> main sources of instability in today's software.*

Says who ?

I have been routinely programming in C++ for the last 10 years and not only I have not ran into this sort of bug in my own code, I have never seen it encountered by anyone else in my vicinity. I understand they wanted to create a dramatic backdrop for some cool new feature they are really proud of, but conjuring facts out of thin air is not a way to do it.
Why is the sentence about Wolfram Alpha in this article?
I see. The post was essentially a reaction against people going "concurrency is easy! What are you talking about it being hard?!"

When people say "concurrency is easy", they mean "I use little bits of concurrency that I understand well and I find those easy". That's not the same as "concurrency is easy". That kind of arrogance is essentially like saying "flying a jet fighter is easy, because I know how to use a seatbelt".
Sounds overblown. Carbapenems (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbapenem) are beta-lactam antibiotics that are resistant to all [previously] known beta-lactamases. This seems to be a newer beta-lactamase, but that certainly wouldn't confer resistance to non-beta-lactam antibiotics like chloramphenicol.

It's a matter of serious concern like any other new antibiotic-resistant bug, but it's by no means "resistant to all known antibiotics". In fact, MRSA was already resistant to carbapenems, having lost all D-alanine residues in it's cell wall. Phage therapy is also an option for bacterial infections that are resistant to all available antibiotics, though it's not very popular in the West (it's mostly used in Russia).
most of what happens with the opposite-sex is detrimental and unpleasant

I don't know what to say other than to quip: you're doing it wrong.
http://hnstartups.com/ was started to list the startups of HN users. However, it does not check that a submitter really is a HN user, so it's mostly spam now.
I've grown to really like Objective-Cs way of just ignoring the problem. Sending a message to nil returns 0 (or a few variants on 0 depending on the return type). No thrown runtime errors.
Users don't, but I'll bet a lot of hackers do. Apparently it has had an effect on rankings - what you consider to be "little effect" can be huge deal to someone whose business relies heavily on referrals from Google. And the speed difference that I've experienced is actually quite noticeable.

edit: To give some concrete data, I took the queries I've done on Google today and compared the first page of results. Roughly 40% of the results were ranked differently than they were before. News results were more recent with Caffeine. Previous requests took perhaps, 1/2 a second to display - it's relatively instantaneous now.
How will they actually get the rover's to the moon? That seems like the hard part?
Actually, I was wrong about the last one. vsprintf does what it is supposed to. The issue is that $wpdb->prepare can take an array of strings as one argument (as in $wpdb->prepare("%s - %s", array("a","b"))), or as multiple arguments ($wpdb->prepare("%s - %s", "a", "b")).

The code that calls $wpdb->prepare in this exploit intends to do the latter, but because there is only one argument which happens to be an array, it ends up that the former is used.
Really? I'm surprised at that. Did they take into consideration the lower price of electricity at off-peak times?
The property tax model is a deeply flawed idea because it is subject to a kind of DoS attack. If everybody valued their home at 50% of its FMV, the government would not be able to afford to buy everybody's home. Also, if everybody self-valued at say, 90% it would not be worth the government's hassle to buy everybody's home.

The pie model works because there are only 2 players.

The Greek antiquities thing works because there are probably only a few people that own priceless antiquities and the government is actually motivated to acquire more (because they would prefer they were in museums rather than private hands). So if everybody who owns antiquities self-priced them at 50% FMV, the government would probably be happy to snap them up.

The property tax application would not really work because there are 1-to-many players and the 1 player doesn't really want the item - repossession is only used as a threat/punishment.
Thanks! Guess I should go and publish the post I wrote today, then ;)
It seems the West should pay more attention to phage therapy. Here's where I first learned about it:

"The Soviet method for attacking infection"

http://www.slate.com/id/2142626/
If anyone wants to sue over this, pay attention to which day you go to file - all California courts will henceforth be closed the third Wednesday of every month. Your public dollars at work.
I thought this was going to be one of those sites like isitchristmas.com, where it just says, "YES" in big letters.
Would you consider 190 participants that participated by clicking on an ad to be properly selected?
Two reasons I want to stop seeing them. First it means phasing out IE6 is the norm which will only happen when its market share is insignificant. Second, I don't like seeing them because they don't really give you anything useful. If you need evidence that it can be done, you've got that (YouTube, etc) and I doubt that your site size and audience are the same as one of the large sites so your reasons for supporting or not supporting it will be very different than a large site, depending on your audience. So they're basically useless.

If you like them because it's reassuring to you that there's hope one day you won't have to suffer through supporting IE6 I can't help you. We'll always be wishing for some legacy barrier to be removed.
Incorrect. If I am the state of California and you are a bondholder to whom I owe $1 in daily interest, which must be paid in cash, accepting IOUs in the form of tax receivables doesn't reduce my debt to you at all.

Taking them in reduces the liability 9and thus the interest payable) on the outstanding IOUs, which I agree looks like a good thing. Thing is that California needs the cash now whereas it has invoked its authority to pay on the IOUs later, because the state's contractual promises to its bondholders are more onerous than the promises it makes to its suppliers.

Unfair? Sure. States need cash more than they need goods, so they give better terms to suppliers of liquidity than they do to suppliers of goods and services.
A fair coin has a roughly 51% chance of landing with the same side up as it started with. See the paper by Diaconis et al. "Dynamical Bias in the Coin Toss."
I'm confused:

"17. Can I use my registered warrant to pay my State taxes?
You can use a registered warrant to pay some of your State tax liabilities, although you will not receive interest unless you hold the warrant until it is redeemable. For more information, visit the Franchise Tax Board’s website at www.ftb.ca.gov."
from: http://www.sco.ca.gov/5935.html

And:
"We will accept registered warrants that are not yet redeemable for full face value towards the payment of tax liabilities."
from: http://www.ftb.ca.gov/aboutFTB/newsroom/Registered_Warrants....

Is the state not accepting them for payment of sales tax? Or?

Aside from that... 3.75% interest on those, that is tax free. Sounds like a deal to me.
Why would Britain want to stop people from doing that when they have socialized medicine?
My understanding of their plan is they're taking a tiered launch strategy.

They start with the low-volume, high priced roadster. Then they bring out the sedan at higher volume, and about half the price. Finally, the release a mass-market car at an affordable price after that.

It makes sense in the market. There is really no way to ramp up to immediately high volumes if you're new in the auto business. If you're selling in low volumes, the unit price will be very high. So if you're selling expensive cars, they might as well be sports cars that are worth the money, and raise your profile. (mostly paraphrased from what I've read Elon Musk saying.)
If you're smart enough to test for it returning 0, you're smart enough to test if it is 0. And if you're stupid enough.. now it fails silently?
My testing: Similar results. Similar speed.
Couldn't agree more. The statistic when I was in college was ~10% of students studied abroad, which I found shocking. A year's paid vacation to almost anywhere on the planet and 9/10 people said no! Also, despite the fact that you spend most of the time partying and traveling, employers look on study abroad favorably when you get out. I always found this amusing.

Two other things: 1) go to western Europe or Tokyo, or somewhere similarly developed and 1st world. It is far more difficult to go live in those places when you are no longer a student. 2) Go for a year. The people I studied abroad with who opted to do one semester were devastated when late December rolled around and it was time to go home. Although it may not seem like it, you aren't missing anything back home, and the friends you left behind will not have anything interesting to report when you get back.
There is a lot that independent learning by teenagers can do to help them grow faster and more happily. My son likes Project Euler

http://projecteuler.net/

as a framework for practicing computer programming related to pure mathematics, and runs his own literary discussion website both to learn about online community administration (including coding site features) and about creative writing. The most annoying aspects of his teen years, for him and for me, have been his closest approaches to "high school" experiences. Senior year of high school for him should be mostly dual enrollment at our friendly state university and a distance learning course in advanced microeconomics.
There are way too many witnesses for that argument to hold water. Usually everyone knows who is being bullied and who is doing the bullying.

When confronted the bullies will present a long list of reasons why the victim deserves to be a victim. Of course violent attacks are kept semi private if you can call it that considering those "happy slapping" pics that are being posted on the internet and sent to people's phones en-masse.
If a company that sold implementations of and support of open source products were subjected to this kind of sales cycle for its services, then it wouldn't cost any less than closed-source products.

IBM Global Services will happily rip out your "legacy" infrastructure and replace it with nice shiny Linux. But not for free... And when the dust settles, it's not going to be any cheaper than if they did the same job with AIX (why would they leave money on the table?)
There was a post on HN some time back from former house speaker Newt Gingrich, who is a fairly outspoken advocate on this issue:

http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_45/b41070852...
Two especially interesting nodes (95, 91).

On one you either win or you die on the next page. On the other you win no matter what.
with one critical caveat: you need an unlimited bankroll

That doesn't sound very practical. And why play roulette for money (rather than just for fun) if you already have unlimited money?
They might have been reluctant to bring back the matte, so they tried to see if they could make $50 off of each one, and it sure did. I wonder what's next, take out the "space" key on the keyboard and charge $10 for it?
Nice! Been looking for something like this for a while now.
So now, look at your job, and ask yourself: How would you feel if your work was reduced to a contest? I’d guess you’d find it rather insulting.

Uh, no?
Olin is designed to be challenging, and your fellow students are all going be selected from the top tier. This means that you have a 50% chance of being worse than the median (and probably the mean, too). You may need to learn how to learn from your peers, and learn how to act when you are not the smartest person in any given room. It may be the very first time either of those two situations has come up for you!

To get to graduate school, you'll need at least a 3.0 and good recommendations. The good recommendations is pretty easy at a place like Olin as long as you are enthusiastic, but the 3.0 may be difficult given the average GPA at Olin in combination with point 1.

You can have any two of: friends, grades, and sleep. I recommend the first two, but make sure you sleep enough to maintain a baseline of bodily health, or else you will lose out on all 3.
No. Though the "meme" meme isn't too far behind. :-) Seems to me that "let's go shopping" is merely an expression or a figure of speech.
Steven Frank Gets Reply From Phil Schiller on iPhone Boycott
I will surely be downvoted into oblivion for saying this, but just about any comment that starts out with the claim that it is being posted with the expectation that people will downvote it is instant karma gold, whether there's any genuine merit to the comment or not.

Apple has always been oriented toward consumers, and Microsoft has always been oriented toward developers. I don't think there's anything new about this phenomenon. In Apple's early days, the consumers were hobbyists, and when they released the Macintosh, they made the transition to serving a non-technical market. Ever since then, I think they've essentially pursued the vision of releasing sealed, polished, all-in-one products. I think in Apple's ideal vision of the world, there would be little or no role for third-party developers.

I still prefer Macs (post-OS X) because I prefer Unix, and I like my iPhone because, well, it is a nice product. But I also hope the FCC delivers a healthy smackdown.
In many locations, employment of minors (< 18 years old) is limited to family businesses.
And then you die.
The Value of Self-Enforcing Protocols
Shepard Tones
It's a testament to how rarely Scheme (lisp, etc) are used when a story like this makes it to the #1 on HN.