skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah pretty sure that's because of other more obvious factors:

* Greater anonymity in cities
* Higher population density
* Juxtaposition of poverty and wealth
However you also have the luck of having a computer, being interested in computers, and being able to further than interest. Do you think you would've fared nearly as well, if your interest instead was in cars? Clothing design? Social work?

Us tech workers are fairly lucky that in all honesty, the things we tend to like seem to be problems that can be solved with one another.

I'd also argue, that while the billionaire's life is not a million times better than the thousandaire, that this never was the case, and that is thinking of the best of times.

However, look at the worst of times. You get a serious illness- say, a cancer. For one, as a wealthy person you likely could have it detected much earlier from regular doctor visits and various signs. The poor never get this opportunity. When time comes for treatment, the best medicine, procedures, and rehabilitative therapy are available- and for the poor, they might be able to get the procedures, but the medicine will often be second-rate and there likely will be very little, or perhaps even no rehabilitation.

Similar states repeat for smaller life disasters. You get in a car wreck; The rich man likely has a newer car, and can much easier afford to use the insurance to get a worthwhile vehicle again without being out very much. The poor was probably driving a car worth less than $1500, with numerous problems already, but at least it was paid off. The wreck might leave them with only enough money to get another car, but now they must make payments and still only get another 2-3 years out of it, if they're able to at all thanks to an insurance plan with less coverage.

There is a huge quality of life gap here. Being poor today isn't at its worst when everything is going well- overall, things are pretty great there, and are a good reason why even lower middle class people rarely fall into absolute poverty. But the inability to pull oneself out of a hole is a much, much more pervasive problem.
Just like parents do not forget teenage years rather the experience of being a teenager is much different, so programming evolves and changes. But your point is still true, while non-programmers can appreciate the result, it is a job for professionals at thge top of their game.
You got it, more than a Reddit-style thing, I think a location based wikitravel is what my original idea was leaning towards.
Piketty's worry is not about earned wealth; his worry has to do with inherited wealth.

Disclaimer: I don't mindlessly believe everything pg says just because he is a co-founder of YC.
I suspect the powersat evolved as a mission justification: so, we can conceive of human-habitable structures in space, but why would we do that. From Heppenheimer's book, it seems that the colony concept emerged first, then the powersat concept.

Once you've arrived at "orbiting solar power stations built from lunar regolith", questioning your premises and realizing that the colonies really don't make all that much sense. But then again, pragmatism and overt missions never really ruled space anyway -- see Apollo and the Shuttle.

As for the technical reasons, to paraphrase Douglas Adams: Space is expensive. Really expensive. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly expensive it is.

The ISS is the most expensive single structure ever constructed, and among the most expensive single projects ever undertaken -- and that for a habitation for six people. Total cost is somewhere north of $100 billion (how far north isn't clear, the budget's spread among multiple agencies and nations).

Given that, and absent tremendous gains in efficiency and automation, the cost of solar power satellites let alone O'Neil space colonies would be in the tens of trillions of dollars, minimum. That's on the scale of the entire US GDP, if not more.

As for your observation "a lot more than actually did [happen]": Colonies in Space is one of my benchmarks for rates of technological change that didn't happen. I'd anticipated that that could well be my future, but a decade and a half past when it was supposed to be a reality, it remains science fiction. It's given me a good sense of the sorts of change which are possible and likely, and those which aren't. And no, not all progress is subject to Kurzweil's Law of Accelerating Returns.
Too fast. Truncating the Y-axis makes more of the relevant data visible, it's not misleading at all here.
I downvoted you. I didn't downvote you because you disagree with the article, but because your comments are empty dismissals of the headline without addressing the points in the article.

I also downvote anyone who mentions betteridge if they don't make any other point. Comments like those are toxic and pointless. They add nothing to any discussion. We know that headlines are usually stupid and misleading and link baity. Ignore headlines. Read the article and talk about that instead.
I was so thrilled the first time I saw Babylon 5's cylinder designed. 2001's toroid design was indeed iconic, but it kind of anchored the idea of what a space station should like for several decades!
Runs great on a Lenovo ThinkPad T430s and X220T.

However I had to send back a T440s, and I guess it is the same with all the new Thinkpad models :( The "virtual" trackpoint buttons work so bad (while clicking the cursor slides) and when you disable the trackpad alltogether then you have no mouse-buttons at all! But I guess this is not Ubuntu's fault - it's Lenovo who screwed it up.
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There are a couple that stick in the back of my head, but I can't remember the names - I'll try and dig them out when I get home next week!
I welcome your strong defence of best quality science. The general public needs to know how the stronger sciences differ from the softer sciences.

However, this post is needlessly rude.
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I fully agree, this is for me the "best" feature of 14.04 LTS (coming from a 12.04 LTS).
The only reason is because your other clients might object - they might not want to be put in the position of having to ignore what is going on next door in the middle of a meeting.
Don't make the mistake of thinking the pattern "[something perceived as greater than X] is just glorified X" calls into question the value of X. Rather, it's the perception of being greater that is being called into question.

If I say "soda is just glorified water" do you think I'm mocking water and that I don't think water is vital for all life on this planet?
> First class seats go for 10k a pop which makes them really expensive only affordable by big corporations. So something in the middle may be a good thing to explore.

Most airlines have an "Economy Plus" type class nowadays, which is usually economy-style seating with more legroom. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium_economy
I do the same on Windows 7 ;) I am wondering if it would be possible to get rid of the top panel altogether and put the information in the vertically aligned left panel, just like I have it on Win7. For maximized windows it would not gain anything, but for 2 side-by-side terminals it makes a (small) change.
Power management and flash/SSD-aware filesystems are also quite the rage.
You could I guess define Science as only applying to areas where you can do controlled experiments - but you would thereby eliminate all observational sciences - evolutionary biology, astrophysics, cosmology, etc.

I suspect most people would find that a somewhat extreme position.

Also, fraud is an issue in all fields of Science, so that seems somewhat an unfair issue to introduce.
There are places that got rid of lead much later than others, they also showed a corresponding later decline in crime levels. What's even more interesting is that the decline occurs regardless of criminal policy (eg. zero tolerance or rehabilitation, shorter/longer sentences).
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I've thought about the opposite of this idea for a while, a social media platform where your posts/updates only last for a few days or perhaps longer based on engagement. How many people really look at your Facebook profile / Twitter feed from years ago, or even a few weeks ago? People are really only interested in what's happening right now. I guess this has kinda been filled by snapchat but only for photos, why not everything
You have to act more appalled by trivial annoyances, or you slow down the building of the whole hyperbole storm that the people here like to create. Otherwise, they are unable to distract themselves from the boredom and feelings of lack of empowerment in their lives.
There are such places already in London, though you might not like the prices. The more business-focused private members' clubs typically have offices, meeting rooms and bedrooms available (for rent) as well as the kind of bar, restaurant, reading room facilities you might expect.
These are not bar charts, so truncating Y-axis is acceptable (although I still wouldn't recommend it).
The chart plots video game revenue and youngster violent crimes over time. If there is a correlation there, it is negative. It does disprove the theory of video game caused violence.
IPython Notebook: combine code execution, text, mathematics, plots, rich media
Are these factors so obvious?

As an example poverty is most prevalent in rural areas according to this study: https://www.google.dk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd...

Be careful of citing "obvious", it can be deceiving.

Note that I'm not arguing that lead in gasoline proves a definite link between crime in rural vs. urban areas, just noting that there is the same correlation as stated in the article. I merely thought it was interesting, and that it might be the same effect at work due to the dilution of lead in rural areas because there are fewer cars.
Used to be on Ubuntu, but ever since I've started using Elementary OS I have had no use for anything else.
Problem there is that click register and some text disappears and leaves me with a blinking cursor. If I don't remember what was there before, then I don't know what to do.

Better might be to open another field, clearly marked with "enter your email here for your free trial!" or something. As it stands, it's still not clear what to do - you're taking a lot for granted. When you design something you then assume various things are obvious - that's unavoidable.

And I still don't really understand what you do.
You can disable the "search stuff" in System Settings -> Security & Privacy -> Search (tab).

This is what I immediately did. So, this is a shame that the article only mentions a command line method to switch it off.
Here, I fixed the graphs for you: http://imgur.com/xi2nhgx
Ember is really fast and well thought out. It's a complete framework that you can build on to of rather than a few pieces that you can assemble into a pile of self-indulgent jank
I, too, was hoping the culture that AirBnB shouldn't fuck up was that of the locations where they are doing business. I guess asking them to care about that would be too much to expect.

I agree with the other comments in this thread, AirBnB essentially opening up the market of desireable destinations to real-estate speculators, regardless of any impact this may have on the local population. Facilitate residential hotels, let speculators invest in them and handle the management, take a nice cut, damn the local regulations (and taxes) by claiming to be only an intermediary, and who cares about disruptions to the lives of the locals (directly through residential zoning violations, indirectly by warping the local real-estate market).

I think voters in destination cities and towns need to pass AirBnB legislation to limit residential subletting to something like 40 nights per year and collect sales and hotel tax on every transaction.

The picture of an appartment turned into commercial space (startup office) is telling of their "culture." Culture of cheating and disrespect, essentially.
It was a simple, critical fault in a bit of software which had a lot of very qualified eyes on it

Do we know this particular bit had had a lot of very qualified eyes on it? This is the problem with the eyeball theory. That a piece of code is open for anyone to read does not mean people who care actually read it. Everyone: it's open source, there are many of eyeballs on it, therefore I don't need to read it!

I'm trying to think of ways to make people wake up and routinely review the code and changes they use. You really don't need to be an expert programmer to spot a duplicated goto fail or the total lack of bounds checking.
There's a network-manager plugin too: https://honk.sigxcpu.org/piki/projects/network-manager-iodin...
I don't know how it is where you live, but I pay about 60% tax on gas. This is quite common in Europe. How much more of the externalities do you want to burden drivers with?
I recently managed to release my first game (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.thomshutt....) using LibGDX and it really was a pleasure to work with - lightweight and not too opinionated, but with some nice abstractions over the more fiddly aspects such as out of the box Desktop/Web/Android/iOS support, input handling, app lifecycles etc.
Fully agree. It should not be named "hands-on" if it's in the VM.

Fortunately, for me, it runs really great in real install. I even managed to make a dual-boot Win7 + Ubuntu 1404 and then inside Ubuntu tweaked a Win7 machine, that allows me to run my "physical" Win7 by booting and in a VirtualBox VM from Linux. Now I will boot Win7 very rarely.
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So we are reporting it just because it is JavaScript.
More likely with general fear/dislike of air pollution combined with dislike of noise and high traffic itself. Living close to freeway is unpleasant, rich can afford something else, poor can not. Where it is not about about direct money, it is usually rich not poor who make decisions.
I read an article about it years ago. According to it, the Allies were supposed to dump those weapons into the ocean, but they didn't care to go so far, so they dropped them into the Baltic instead.
Is the documentation as accurate and up-to-do date as OpenBSD's?
Two thoughts

1. Has anyone suggested making yourself a new moderator account? eg dang_mod for all mod-related comments. It might ease the mental burden for the reader (at the cost of increased mental burden and user-switching for you - so maybe not worth it).

2. As a simpler variant of the above, why not make two separate comments? I expect readers are capable of telling apart your user comment from the moderation if they're cleanly separated.

Edit: The first option would also have the benefit of a user id with its own comment history.
What would happen if you lost your domain name?
How to make sure you don´t loose your domain name!
Cannot edit for reason, but I thought I would mention, as this is of vital importance to me when i'm learning something new, that both Idris and F* are open source;

https://github.com/nikswamy/FStar (Apache)
https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev (do whatever, just retain copyright)
> I downvoted you.

Join the club. I have lost 54 points so far in this single thread. The radical environmentalists seem to be upset with me. I actually don't care though, because whenever I see politically-motivated opinions masquerading as (junk) science, and otherwise intelligent people lending credence to it, I am going to say it.

The article's main thrust is not remotely provable, but is easily disprovable. That is all I have said. There you go, now downvote me. Let's make it an even -55 points.
I'm a target shooter, I wonder how the lead contained in the bullets and that is burned at firing time is affecting me :s
> Because the uncontrolled nature of the observations means evidence cannot be reliably collected in a way that separates one cause from any number of unintended causes and side effects.

If we couldn't scientifically deal with this scenario, we'd hardly do any science. The world is noisy, measures are inaccurate, life is not perfect, but we learn to deal with it. Not all science can be math theory. When it touches the real world, you have to deal with imperfection.
This piece of "journalism" is pure speculation.
That comment was such an epic burn, it contributed to global warming!

... Which is why, I suspect, the commenter you replied to won't believe it either. Sigh.
Not enough fuel.

Projections that there's enough uranium for 200 years[1] are based on levels of present utilization: around 3.7% of global energy use[2]. Bump that to 100% and we'd run through all available reserves in less than a decade (7.4 years, if you're counting).

Solar energy (including solar mediated via plants, wind, or water), hydrogen fusion, possibly geothermal energy, or with really long odds: hydrocarbon prospecting from another body (say, maybe Titan) are the only energy sources which could last a considerable human population for the possible maximum lifetime of the species.

Yes, a small Mars outpost could be powered off of nuclear power for a considerable period, but that would take away from available nuclear fuel supplies on Earth.

The likelihood of managing usable sustainable fusion under terrestrial or other contained circumstances are fairly unlikely IMO.

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Notes:

1. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-long-will-glob...

2. IEA: http://www.iea.org/Sankey/index.html
"Dynamic Content: Nope." - not strictly true.

Whilst this is true in a lot of cases, especially due to TTLs and slow purge times from edge nodes, services like fastly offer <1 second purge times across all edge nodes, with built in guarantees.
This means caching dynamic content is possible in a lot of situations, triggering page cache purges with specific actions on the backend.
At Mt. Gox Bitcoin hub, 'geek' CEO sought both control and escape
That's a known one, then there are the ones from the Soviet union.
I read an article about it in a polish science magazine many years ago. I'm surprised that given the potential catastrophic consequences of this, no one seems to be doing anything about it. We knew about this "time-bomb" for decades. Can anything be done about it?

I guess it's time to get used to the thought that "holiday on a beach" will soon mean visiting Croatia.
Light beers are usually higher than 4%. Bud Light is 4.2%

[1] http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/1320/

EDIT: Ah, here's the confusion. I'm pretty sure the 3.2% is ABW instead of the usual ABV. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-alcohol_beer#Categories
Not just in the Baltic Sea. There's a dump of WWI poison gas grenades 2km off the Belgian coast, buried in the sand. You can see the marker buoys from the beach.

Here's a little map of the area: http://www.wereldoorlog1418.nl/gasoorlog/paardenmarkt.html

EDIT: Then there's the stuff on land. In Belgium they still recuperate between 100 and 200 tons of ammunition per year. Farmers post them by the side of the road for the bomb disposal teams to pick up. A couple of workers in Ypres (yes, that Ypres) died last month unintentionally digging up a WWI bomb.
Yes, but unit tests and TDD are not synonymous. TDD is a design technique first and a testing tool second. It's goal is to get you to a good design place, not produce a unit test suite - let alone one with 100% coverage.

I love declarative testing tools like QuickCheck. They're excellent. I still test-drive my code though.
https://i.imgur.com/sBGycyF.png

(would give - curl 'https://news.ycombinator.com/news.css?Iufnib6nCakqGh6wo0m6' -H 'User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/34.0.1847.116 Safari/537.36' --compressed )
Yes, so you could write

r + (amount that upward volatility helps) - (amount that downward volatility hurts) > g
"Most registrars have a bullet proof ToS to protect them incase you loose your domain due to their fault, sure they will refund the value of the domain, but not the market value of the domain, only the cost of registration value."

Terrible writing. Allowances made for Swedish author but still, when selling a service heavily linked to legal ramifications it pays to have good copy.

1. How is the user protected from a mistake by domaintower service? The process of renewal now simply has an extra layer of process regarding it.

2. Legal precedent tends to sit well with domain owners when they have a legitimate grievance/ownership issue.

3. Aren't you just replicating a service my domain provider already affords me for free or as part of my hosting package?
So is your thesis that inequality will increase in periods of economic stability, where the volatility is low?

Also, can you provide a ballpark figure for (abs(r - g) / volatility)?

(edited to improve phrasing)
With your native angular plnkr example, change ng-repeat to:

ng-repeat="line in data track by $index"

Now try timing again.

http://plnkr.co/edit/PHzYFa9N4RkxcDzZMcHk?p=preview
Verified formally, tested, audited, and whatever else we can throw at it.
Because as with most things related to the environment, if you disagree with their assessment your a oil company shill. If the environmentalist claim something is you are not allowed to say otherwise.

that and Congress loves the farm lobby, Congress guarantees them income and they in turn feed it back into approved groups.
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Stopped reading at this collection of mental diarrhoea.

"Because you get your news from copy-cat members of the state-controlled media.

Because you are unwilling to ask this simple question… “What if it’s all a lie?”, and accept the possibility that maybe it is; that just maybe, the methods of mass media are under direct orders to: keep you distracted.

Because you call me a know-it-all but refuse to call yourself a know-nothing-at-all.

Because I thirst for knowledge, regardless the topic.

Because while you’re busy playing Candy Crush, or Megalopolis, I am reading about string theory and quantum mechanics."

Dunning-Kruger of the absolute highest effect. Compounded by paranoia.

EDIT TO ADD : I once sat in a long car journey with one of the founding scientists of the Large Hadron Collider. He knew nothing about football. At all. I guess there are some things you don't get from books on string theory.
Some more detailed information: http://www.mir.gdynia.pl/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/BST-NATO...
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And then there are 28,500 containers of radioactive waste, dropped into the English Channel between 1950 and 1963: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/legacy-danger-old...

[..] at a depth of 124 meters (406 feet) just kilometers from the French coast.
A/R can actually screw you in an acquisition
I intentionally dismissed them because renewable energy is still a minor percentage of the total power produced in the world. Not counting biomass it is 6% according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy
First use a tool like ab to see what your site can currently handle.

From that monitor the requests to see what's taking up most of the time (NewRelic is one tool that can help with that, or just analyzing your log files ia fine too). For me, I've noticed caching database queries or just caching entire pages helps the most.

Then rerun the ab tool to see how much you've improved. Repeat as necessary.
The crime reduction reliably occurs 20 (23, from the graph?) years after the lead reduction; there's no response in the crime rate until the less-lead-exposed babies have become adults.

The politicians who tackled crime (or didn't, or did whatever) 20 years ago haven't been in power most of the time since then, generally.

I've read about this theory before; it's impressive and (to me, at least) pretty persuasive.