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I found an article related to this, [0].

Apparently they dumped stuff in the North Sea as well. The dumping locations that are known of are mostly the deeper parts. The Baltic is 459m at maximum depth while the North stacks a chilling 700m.

I think the dumping locations in the North Sea would be easier to find (The North has been mapped fairly comprehensively due to oil and gas exploration) but harder to deal with (it's tough as hell). The Baltic is smaller and surrounded mostly by land, so I'm guessing the Baltic would be hit harder.

[0] http://www.chemsea.eu/characterization_and_mapping.php
I read it with the same reaction that you did, but I did read it: because it was interesting.

In the end I was considering whether the remaining staff are being abused, judged on subjective measures such as being "here for the right reasons", with their jobs under threat no matter how good their work is. It sets a tone of being awfully threatening to the staff, who must already have suffered through the uncertainty.

I was left wondering if any member of Jason's team would dare to give a negative or neutral answer to his question. Did he only publish the answers that he wanted to hear, or did he only get the answers that he wanted to hear.

I'm sure many people on HN would find this an interesting read and it's a shame that this won't be more widely seen.
You'd have to have a really large part of the acquiring market, if you hope to get consumers to use your new card brand.

The idea of Square doing tang seems similar to the idea of imo.im getting people to use their own IM network in preference to the popular third party ones they already support.

It might be doable but there would need to be a hook for cardholders, like cash back, loyalty points, analytics etc.
Would have been cool to know what actual algorithms the libs implement... So many sub bar ones out there.
Well... to say it is not a strong brand "at all" it is not true. I can accept more "it is not strong on the mobile phones scope"

Also, can nokia keep producing phone or just recreate a mobile division with another os? (like rebuying Jolla) If yes, it would really be a problem for microsoft, nokia branding really saved the ass of wp for the first years
Ecological concerns weren't really a thing until the '60s. There was a widespread belief that oceans could "take care" of everything; besides, in 30 years we'd all be flying to some other planet anyway.
Valuations do not mean you are "crushing it", or that "crushing it" will mean anything in three month's time. Take a look at Zynga for an example.
What makes you say the results of these studies are unfalsifiable?
When ever I mention anything about the current the gap
between the rich and poor; I get posts deleted? So, I
won't even comment on this article. I hope the Vigilant
Moderators are happy?
Biggest. Mistake. Ever.

But then again, memories of Nokia being actually any good will not be tainted by Microsoft Phone, and if Microsoft Phone fails it can be resurrected as NeoNokia..
Munitions are expensive, I understand that sort of dumping only happens in distress situations.
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Yeah, if we all prepared and planned perfectly for absolutely everything we do in life then we probably would need less assistance.

Meanwhile, in the real world, sometimes things have to be done fast and messily.
> Churchill and friends presided over the Bengal famine of the 1940s.

I don't see this as condemning capitalism but rather Imperialism.

The Ukrainian famine was partially caused by forced Collectivization of farms and Dekulakization. I'm guessing that imperialism greatly contributed to the Bengali famine.
There's a really wonderful tutorial on Coq [1] that holds your hand through all the theory you need to learn. I took a class that used this tutorial and I found it to be very understandable and practical, with hardly any background on formal methods myself. Yes, it's a steep learning curve, but at least with this tutorial, you know the curve you need to follow.

[1] Software Foundations http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/

Hint: Check out the overview [2] to see the chapter dependencies and decide which chapters you may want to skip.

[2] http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/deps.html
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Well in the case of lead wouldn't the prediction be: a jurisdiction that removes lead from its petroleum products will experience a significant decrease in crime rates about 20 years later?
So my initial feeling is it's not quite as catastrophic as it sounds. Would love to hear from somebody better-informed, though.

If all is spread evenly. But as you said, currents and other factors might cause troubles in a few areas. Maybe is better to disturb them, or break them open and have as much control it much as they can over this issue.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/08/magazine/paul-kagame-rwand...
(1) That is not at all a conventional theory of "capitalism"

(2) It is most certainly not what Piketty means by capitalism ... which is what we are discussing here.
I know this article only uses a simple example here, but it shows a hint of a pattern that angular tries to keep away from the JS, the template generation - generating the table children in the script sounds like a cumbersome pattern.

Otherwise, I think it's well known by heavy angular users that some of the built-in angular directives are not necessarily the most efficient - building custom versions of directives like ng-repeat has been the current solution to squeeze out performance in edge cases, although it's unfortunate no one has decided on open sourcing such yet.

One thing I am confident about is when Angular 2.0 hits, things should improve immensely - the whole framework is moving towards modularity so you could presumably swap out the template engine for React, or perhaps the revamp of templating in Angular will make it more competitive performance-wise.
"They" Are you working for Yaymicro or not?
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I'm also confused. I have a book on my bookshelf titled "Systems Programming", and it's about writing kernels and runtimes in C.

Can someone explain to me when the definition went from kernel level to server duct tape? I'm guessing it's about the same time the term 'full stack developer' started showing up.
What? I guess George Bush was extremely competent? I have
found people who bring themselves to power had a rich father. (This will get deleted. Whenever I talk about
the lack of Horatio Alger's, especially in the last 30
years--moderators get angry.)
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I enjoyed reading your breakdown of culture and its malleability. Any good books or links that discuss these ideas?
I lived on the Danish island of Bornholm in the middle of the Baltic in the 80s. The island is basically surrounded by mustard gas dumping grounds. Back then many local fishermen were seriously wounded by accidentally pulling mustard gas bombs up in their nets.
I remember reading how U.S. Navy dropped 4 bombs to Great Barrier Reef.

http://news.discovery.com/earth/oceans/u-s-accidentally-bomb...
> Mustard gas lasts longer, but is also much less potent

Maybe much less potent in killing instantly (ie in combat use), but what about long-term low-dosage exposure?

> possibly going up the food chain (does that happen?)

Bio-accumulation in general is very real thing, and imho the most worrisome aspect of this situation.
Making employees justify why they are there?

How about why did you convince 750 people to put their faith in you then fumble the ball so badly you had to sack 400 of them...

The post comes across too much like a dad-trying-to-be-cool moment.

"We are a start-up, I need 18 hour days from everybody. Now that we have lost sight of our objectives we need to redouble our efforts!"
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It must be an age thing. I feel the same.
The hypothesis that lead exposure affects early childhood development, and that this leads to higher crime rates does lead to testable predictions - it predicts, for example, that different regions that removed lead at different times would see crime rates drop at different times. And indeed, this is exactly what we see. Is this as strong as exposing a test population and comparing it to a control? No. But neither is it meaningless pseudo-science.

This line of argument is actually very similar to the cosmological example - the theory makes a prediction about something you should observe, if the theory is correct. However, this is still much weaker proof than being able to generate a Big Bang in the lab and examine the outcome.

The QM case is an example of how much more powerful it is in fields where we can do controlled experiments, I agree. But not everything worth investigating (and worth knowing) is amenable to that type of study.
It's pretty simple if I understand it correctly. GDP = total income in the economy = income that goes to labour + income that goes to owners of capital.

g is the absolute growth of GDP, r is the absolute growth of income that goes to capital. If r > g, then the share of income that goes to labour is shrinking as a ratio of GDP.

Another problem is that the income that goes to labour is increasingly unevenly distributed.
What happens, then? If Square goes out of business, does that hurt Silicon Valley overall? What about if they just continue as a zombie company taking huge amounts of. Only from dumb non vc investors to stay afloat? Or if they ultimately sell for a down amount?

A rushed IPO seems less damaging than these, but not sure if they can pull it off.
There's a strange battle going on in this discussion, but honestly -- I dismiss a lot of quasi-scientific articles that put a lot of importance on correlation without addressing a ton of alternate explanations.

This one, I can't dismiss so easily; I've read into the details of where this theory comes from via a few sources, and the correlations are rather more than just "this line goes up & then down where this other line also goes up & down".

I'd suggest the naysayers read into this one a bit more before dismissing it (though I do understand the reaction).
Take individual income as (l + c), where l is the return on labour, and c is the return on capital, and assume a recession reduces both. The rich are rich (long term) through large c, not a balance of l and c, and so as a group they will inevitably be hurt the most during a recession. The only way this wouldn't be the case is if the reduction in returns to capital was negligible which, given what recessions are, seems unlikely. Also, whilst the rich are, undoubtedly, proportionally hurt the most be recessions, I presume you wouldn't claim that they were hurt the most in absolute terms (on average)?

And a follow up to my previous question: I realise it's difficult to guess a figure for (abs(r - g) / volatility), and it inevitably varies with economic conditions, but I'm interested in your sense for how it changes. Are you suggesting that it is mostly less than 1, mostly greater than 1, or that it spends roughly equal amounts of time greater than and less than 1?

edit: Sorry, after re-reading my post I realise that my use of absolute could easily be misinterpreted - I meant that although those with large capital portfolios will lose proportionally more of their income, they will still, on average, have significantly more wealth in absolute terms than those who started with small capital portfolios; and so the suggestion that they are 'hurt' more is, itself, fairly misleading.
Gulf of Mexico is a big dumping ground too

http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/28/14141378-world-wa...

thirty plus million pounds of assorted weaponary
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Not sure how they make a lot of money on this. At $15/hr, and and average of 10 hours of booking, that's $150/day. 20 days a year (you can only book on weekdays), that's a total of $3k a month per space. In NYC, I've got to figure at least $1500 a month, probably higher. Furniture and app development is a relatively fixed cost (maintenance), cleaning after every appointment can add up if you've got a lot discontinuous, small appointments. Doesn't seem like there is a lot of margin - or margin for error if you don't fill the rooms. You've got a large fixed cost that's paid up-front on one side and no guarantee of selling that space - so the business has a lot of risk. Interesting but challenging.
Nokia brand was not sold IIRC, it stayed with Nokia. Microsoft had a license for a few years and that's all.

On one hand the OS is Microsoft, on the other Microsoft just isn't hip and has baggage from past years. It's a dilemma
I'll chime in. Macros and simple syntax.
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Uh yeah probably shouldn't jump into the tiny Linux debate, but I recommend looking into Rich Shingledecker's attitude towards desktop distribution bloat even on versions considered "tiny" vs the 6 to 12 MB distro that he turned into Core Linux. Divergent philosophies, and I found it best to leave the desktop world behind when approaching Linux education. Best not to confuse what's being worked on to compete with iOS, Android, OS X and Windows with the education that will serve you best on servers and embedded systems. Even Puppy and SliTaz are large-ish desktop versions of Linux in comparison.
> Lead was removed from petrol at a time of massive upheaval in the way the public looked at raising their kids.

Okay; now did that public view also change per-state, and per-country, tracking the date ranges that lead was removed?

The crime rates track when lead was added/removed regionally, not just generally.
http://www.pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly... SBCL: The Ultimate Assembly Code Breadboard
You could replace the scope with a viewfinder from an older video camera. These are essentially smallish monitors with eyepieces, giving you all the freedom you want wrt. spectrum displays overlaid over video imagery of the targeted area. Driving the thing might be an exercise in itself but it should be doable from the HDMI port on the Pi using a VGA converter or through a USB display adapter.

Personally I'd tone down the gun aspect of the whole thing though... lying on a roof somewhere in the US of A, pointing this thing at a window in an office building nearby is an open invitation for unwanted attention from trigger-happy defenders of the realm.
How has an increase in system complexity affected new programmers?
one of biggest costs is regulations, medical devices which this would fall under are are heavily regulated industry. The liability bill is enormous, let alone the costs of technology behind it.

anecdotal, a friend with an artificial leg needs it replaced every few years because of wear and tear on it and him. The fitting, maintenance, as well as physical rehab, is an ongoing costs. Hands don't experience the wear and tear that legs would so I wonder how 3d printed legs would hold up?
This is a good point (does anyone have a good source on global GINI?). But I suspect that what we're currently experiencing in the very-developed world is what's expected globally long-term. If global inequality is shrinking, it's probably down to deploying existing technologies and catch-up growth. When all that's over - when there's no such thing as the "developing" world anymore - at the End of History, r>g.
With the rise of the cloud, now everybody manages a server. I am curious about how many of the admins actually know what are they doing. If I have to speak for myself, I set up my first ssl by following a guide that seemed to written by reasonably well informed stranger. It was my first exposure to the topic so I could not tell what I am doing until I break things and start reading deeper materials so that I can debug the problems by understanding what's going on. Turns out that the stranger who wrote the tutorial I followed was not well informed at all.
Businesses generally aren't interested in taking on the risk of having random, non-vetted people in their space. Too many potential legal problems. A former boss of mine said it best when he said that companies don't want to be landlords. But they will sublet to another company when forced to (took on too much space as a common issue).
I've had good experiences with Webfaction - they've been quick to respond to tickets and communicate issues/outages well.

Roughly looking, your setup would be about $20/mth with them, I think.

Direct link: https://www.webfaction.com/features

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That's true but the vast majority of urban crime is poor on poor and takes place in the neighborhood where the victim and perpetrator both live.
> Which leaves just housing - only 0.1% of the people literally do not have a place to stay, and local authorities are obliged to provide accommodation for those people if they apply. There are also large private charities to address this issue.

Local authorities absolutely do not have to provide accommodation for those who apply. Accommodation is provided to people in priority groups.

Even people who have no home and who are living on the streets (which as you say is rare in the context of homelessness) could find themselves excluded by rules for local authority accommodation.

And for the people who do meet the rules there are huge waiting lists. Tower Hamlets has a population of about 250,000 people, with about 24,000 people on the list.
This is absolutely true. During the housing crisis, I couldn't get the time of day from Wells Fargo. I must've spent half my days playing phone tag with their useless reps. I finally got fed up and looked up the names of every executive member of their home mortgage group from the vp of service up. I included them all on an email (including the CEO) explaining my situation. No more than an hour passed before the VP of service had called me directly.
Well, it's probably at least lame. All this kinda crap is just some guy who had a free weekend and happens to have a decent podium to speak about it on. Clearly the device itself is useless because it's the opposite of what you want - something inconspicuous.
Neat idea. It's a bit like that facebook auto-generated video, but for github.

Include a decent plugin architecture, and you could get lots of contributions to add in data from everyone's pet CI system, bugtracker, download counter, etc.

[actually, if you started with something like Rails, you could launch versions from old code, take screenshots, and stitch together a video]
Many "hackers" seem to magically stop caring about hacking devices if they're made by Apple. Clearly they must have been perfected prior to release, so there's no need.
Nearby friends is opt-in, i don't think it will have much succes in the normal world.

+ every app that notities me about a discount in an ice Cream shop is getting deleted.
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>Microsoft just isn't hip

There is a whole world out there beyond the hipsters that buys phones, most of them not being able to afford the latest iDevice.
Recently navy mine hunters set off an old british mine in the sea just outside my office. It wasn't too big, which is interesting because the shock wave was. There are some videos from controlled demolition on the net but the shock wave in the ground just has to be experienced.
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You are forgetting context. Its hard to sell something to someone who is chatting.

On Google, people search stuff... Thats the place for ads. When you buy things, you search for products and reviews. You dont need social context for that .
Because Nokia is a soure of pride in Finland. It means a lot to a small country to have a company like that.

And then they made a deal with the devil. And now it's all gone.
Are there any associated blogs which outline the core values of AirBnb culture? What do they consider the tenants of this culture?
Correlation does imply causation, it just doesn't prove it.

Multiple correlations over different data sets, in the presence of an extremely plausible mechanism - we know for a fact what lead exposure does to developing brains - is as close as we ever really get to proving a causative link in this world.
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HELCOM referenced in that article also has relatively good overview of the situation and links to further info:

http://helcom.fi/baltic-sea-trends/hazardous-substances/sea-...
65,000 tonnes of chemical sounds humongous, but picturing the volume makes it look a lot smaller (not trying to diminish the potential gravity of the problem).

Assume the chemicals have a density of 1 g/cm^3, the same as water, which seems reasonable for organic liquids and such. Then a cubic meter weighs a metric tonne. So 65,000 tonnes is the same as a cube that is 40 meters on a side.

Another visualization: 1/5 of the volume of oil that can be carried by a Very Large Crude Carrier supertanker according to Wolfram Alpha:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=65000+m^3

EDIT: Without diminishing the potential gravity of the problem, but trying to visualize what 65,000 tonnes looks like, I'm surprised it doesn't look as big as I thought it would.
Cool. Thx. Will check out and update.

Someone also emailed me and suggested the founder of Balsamiq. FYI.
You can usw iodine to ger free internet access when your 4G mobile plan runs out of GBs and your ISP blocks you.

Example from sweden, I got around 200kbit after my 4G was supposed to block further internet due to unpaid bill. Hehe.
The author dismisses the RULE based approach. I'd love to see it compared, as it was the only thing that I could get to complete for a multi-GB table merge (I can't recall what other approaches I tried). http://stackoverflow.com/a/6176044/6691

It would be a boon if upsert was supported as a declarative primitive in psql so that the query planner can do it's magic. Pity it didn't make it in 9.4.
If we're talking about chemical weapons, that sounds like a lot of chemical weapons to me.
Here is their github repo - https://github.com/baasbox/baasbox
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Livereload extension for mimosa web framework server (http://mimosa.io).
With this extension you don't need to add to your web pages (probably in the layout) "socket.io" (unless that you use it for your own implementation) and "reload-client.js" scripts, basically it will deal with the server to reload your page whenever server notify changes.

Repository link: https://github.com/ifraixedes/chrome-extension-mimosa-livereload
FWIW, it's $25 an hour in New York. Still challenging I but also perhaps not limited to 10 hours a day.
Same feeling.
What a nausea.

Once I moonlighted webdev for a young thugish team of car dealers
and the boss would pay me according to my advancing on the "project".
But the "project" was never clearly defined.

I see it as a way to assert dominance in a soft but disgusting way.
If key-words like "project" or "culture" were precisely defined
one would have ground to assess his condition :
payment on the project, respect of the culture (like work conditions).

The boss presents himself not as a master but a minister :
"Project" is a devine word that he is to interpret.
We're a community. I'm just our pastor. And a cool one.
How is the brand valuable in a practical sense? On the other hand, it has plenty of negative association as a company that tried and failed to compete with Samsung and Apple.
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I wonder if that means that other vendors like samsung/lg/huawei/... will not manufacture windows phones anymore as the name "Microsoft Mobile" sounds to me like there are no other vendors that can install MS WP systems on their devices. Any idea?