skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually yes there is data.

A cursory reading of the literature would suggest that American Lung Association, Natural Resource Defense Counsel, and Physicians for Social Responsibility all concurred that coal burning does impact our respiratory system.

See:
http://www.lung.org/assets/documents/healthy-air/toxic-air-r...

And:

http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/coals-assault-chapter-3.pdf

Your second argument is a bit like saying, well we have to get nicotine from somewhere. If not smoking, what else will people do to get their fix. Are we really ready to give up our nicotine habit?

A lot of people did give up smoking once they figured out it was killing them. If people realize the same thing about coal, I suspect there will be a much faster and stricter set of regulations coming into force.

As for the problem of where to get energy, natural gas is a more efficient and cleaner burning alternative that you didn't mention. Of course if that gas is delivered via fracking there are a whole lot of other problems with ground water pollution. So the energy mix needs to change and it needs to be found in a less impactful fashion.
I work with CaptionAccess, which provides the type of services covered in the article. One reason there isn't more captioning is because people associate captioning with disabled people and accessibility.

The article began with people looking into captioning as a means of meeting an accessibility need (a speaker losing a hearing aid) and ended with the discovery that there are many other benefits beyond accessibility. It was a great read and everyone won. Many planners never get to that point.

The lack of widespread real-time captioning isn't a technical or cost issue, it's an education issue.
I'm a PhD drop out. Certainly, original research is part of it. But what is required to do original research? A deep dive into a single thing. :-)
Or perhaps more likely, THAT will be the time that some organizations finally realize that they need to make the move to IPv6. Nothing like an added expense to drive behavior. :-)
I've been following Penflip since you posted your Show HN(awesome damn job by the way). I was building both a front end editor along with the build system. It ended up being too much to build, so I focused on the generator portion of it.

I do know about softcover and gitbook(both great products). My hope is to work on the generator rather than providing a store front/ public facing sites.

Next thing I would like to tackle is code insertion from source files. Where the source files can be tested and Arturo can put snippets from the source files. Would be great to have community books and examples that are self tested.
yep definitely. mailchimp can already hook into the existing subscription panel/section. But yeah great idea to expand it out so that you don't have to dig into the html.
I don't particularly like the OTO because of the distortion of Enlightenment Era groups and Freemasonry. Crowley and some of the esoteric philosophies are interesting but there's not many concrete ideas there.

John Fleming wrote a great book related to this called The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Wizards, Alchemists, and Spiritual Seekers in the Age of Reason.

There's a distinction between Freemasonry, philosophy, and DMT; and the speculative ideas of John Dee, the OTO and mystical reasoning. A lot of the most fascinating things are polluted with ridiculous claims and beliefs.
GPUs run at a pretty low clock rate anyway (600Mhz-1100Mhz), should be able to get 300-400Mhz out of an FPGA, the main issue is interfacing with the GDDR memory, if you can.

There were some pushes for wafer scale stuff in the 80s [0], I think we are better suited from an algorithms, EDA and architecture standpoint now to actually make it work. A GPU is actually pretty good test bed and eventually GPU and FPGA functionality will merge into a single programmable compute fabric.

Yield on a wafer scale FPGA could actually be much better than a special purpose chip. The faulty logic elements / LUTs could just be marked as bad and not used.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer-scale_integration
I'm not sure - how arbitrarily setting prices introduces certainty? Today the Congress or EPA decides the price is X, tomorrow Republicans take the Congress and the presidency and appoint the head of EPA which drops the price to Y, then next cycle Democrats take the power and rise the price to Z, etc. etc. - where's certainty in that? I don't see any objective way of setting such taxes, and as such - any reason why they would be stable is the price is purely arbitrary and thus subject to political games.
I don't think it's anything to really worry about. Congress has sent thirty three amendments to the states in a period of 225 years. There have been over 11,000 proposals in that same time period[1].

Theoretically possible, sure. Fascinating, absolutely. Likely? Not really.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_Unite...
Direct link to the article: http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/209622/patsort-sigmod14.p...
Interesting, but goofy in spots:

Why did Britain evolve such a complex mechanism when this pattern seems so simple? Water economy: these valves can leak and can be kept permanently open, allowing precious gallons to be wasted.

I've never been to Britain, but my impression is that it's not a particularly dry place. Why would "water economy" be so much more important there than in e.g. Israel or California? Perhaps toilet technology is as path-dependent as any other evolutionary process?
Bitbucket for sure. I'd be exhausting my Git fu, if I where to guess at what it entails to implement the 3rd party support. So, I shy away from promising it.
Ever been somewhere where coal is a real issue? I lived in SLC for years and, particularly thanks to the mountains creating a nasty inversion in the winter, there were times when the air was downright toxic. I recall doing a project about it in high school and finding a lot of data related to increased health issues when it got particularly bad.

Of course SLC is an extreme example, most cities never see inversions like that, but it is certainly the case there that probably the largest contributor, and far and away the main source of power, is coal emissions.
Pointless meandering. Probably an easy stream-of-consciousness article to write, but there's nothing new here.

I read half of it and gave up.
I hypothesize that with two years remaining, President Obama is again delivering big for the Futuregen 2.0 project in his home state. I mean, if he was really looking to reduce carbon emissions he might make that a priority in his dealings with China and Russia and the developing world. This is politics, not policy in my opinion.
Nonsense. If you're hoping to earn your living on this, and it's good enough that people want to use it, they can cough up $5 a month for it, or use the free plan. And it looks like it's attracting some good attention...

People have to realize that even open source devs have to make a living, and not all of us are fortunate enough to work for an open source friendly employer. In fact, if you're like me, a single well-paying project like this one would greatly free up your time available for open source projects and increase your open source contributions.

I've seen what happens when open source devs rely solely on user donations, even ones with really popular and useful projects: they starve.

Side note: assuming the cost is indeed $5 and $19.99 a month, you need to make the "per month" explicit. Right now, if someone signed up and you dinged them for multiple months, they could technically but correctly lodge a complaint with your payment processor for illicit charges.
thanks for the praise :) putting out MVP launch pages is what its great for. The vision we have is to have it being a single page website construction set, so not just launch pages, but for anything that lives in single page world.
> Is there any data that our lungs are seriously hurt by these particulates right now?

There's a lot. From a health perspective, PM is way worse for human health than carbon dioxide. Here's two EPA fact sheets and a well-cited article:

http://www.epa.gov/airquality/particulatematter/health.html

http://www.epa.gov/region7/air/quality/pmhealth.htm

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969799...

> We will have to get the energy from somewhere. The only viable alternative on that scale that I can see is nuclear energy, but given current panic mood about it, does not seem very likely. If not, are we ready to seriously cut energy consumption and accept the accompanying life standards drop? I don't think so.

Easy answer: natural gas. It's already a bigger source of electricity than nuclear, and it'll inevitably play a large role in the grid in the future as it neatly solves the dispatch problem (renewables can't really be controlled, but NG plants can be dispatched at a moments notice to make up for lost capacity).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_of_the_Unite...
Well it doesn't, no. IF you have stable government policies, than a carbon tax would be a predictable cost, where a cap would be highly volatile. Obviously if the policies are changing too, then you can't predict much of anything.

"I don't see any objective way of setting such taxes,"

How about: estimate the economic damage of a marginal kg of CO2 (external cost), and set the tax equal to that? [0]

As an order-of-magnitude guess: [total climate change damage] / [total CO2 emitted], both discounted to present dollars.

Not an economist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigovian_tax
Looking at the wikipedia article on Ritchie, I found this photo of attendees of the 1984 Usenix Conference [0].

At the bottom of the page it points out some faces. There is a tall guy to Dennis' right, named as Erik Fair (not familiar with him, I'll admit) but he looks a lot like Larry Wall.

The only other face I recognised was Peter Langston, it demonstrates how little is known by the general public (including myself) about the contributions of all these people to CS.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usenix84_1.jpg
Payback time: First patent troll ordered to pay “extraordinary case” fees
Why should we not start with black guys instead of making special exceptions for white kids committing "white collar" crimes? Why does the involvement of computers make some criminals better than others?
Good catch, its /month when actually signing up but I've updated it.
I suppose what I mean is that I don't think it's fair that fundamentalist christians don't get to post on HN about how they have a savior who performs miracles but yet it's relatively socially acceptable to have posts about "Magic" which is a reference to the same type of thing as miracles but yet it's considered "esoteric" instead of "religious" and is therefor socially acceptable. I mean lets not forget that with the discussion of Dee and Kelly we ARE talking about the scrying of the same Archangels from the old testament, so in some way it is related to the abrahamic religions. That's why I don't see why it gets a special category instead of being labeled 'religious'
Natural gas burns cleaner than coal in almost every respect. Sadly, long-term effects of chemicals used to extract natural gas from shale are unknown.
I sense a lot of hostility toward product managers here, and I don't know why. I could understand why, as a developer, someone would not want a bad product manager, but a good one should make a developer's life easier.

Developers are the ones who should be coming up with ideas about HOW to do things. Make something more efficient? Dev. Implement an incredible new technical feature? Dev.

Product Managers are the ones who talk to the customer and steward non-technical vision. They are the bridge between sales people—who are incentivized to say yes to every customer request—and developers—who in most cases do not have the time to be thinking about what a customer might want, doing customer interviews, etc. Product managers are there to avoid the lukewarm tea problem, to adhere to a coherent version of a product, and to help coordinate the many parties who have an interest in seeing a product succeed but who might have different perspectives on what that means.

Some places that have Product Managers (or Product Somethings (editors, gurus, swamis, whatever)): Apple, Google, Dropbox, Box, Evernote, Square (they exist, I know some who fill these roles), Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft, Spotify, and many others. These people not only exist but also are a central communication hub if they are doing their jobs right. Today's shining stars of PM are Apple (for hardware), Google, and Facebook. Everyone wants to hire people away from those teams.

The thing that bothers me about the other comments on this thread is the attitude of superiority that some people are taking: "if you aren't a dev/engineer/technical person, you aren't worth shit." Sure, in some companies, technical ability is all you need. But in most, particularly anything of reasonable size, you need a variety of people. Developers are not lawyers or finance people. In many cases, developers don't want to interview customers or aren't good at it. Developers are GREAT at developing (at least some are, others are complete clowns who have no ideas what they are doing), they chose to develop, but a company is so much more than development.

A great team--across all roles--is what makes a company great, and that includes product managers.
"Creative had a technologically superior MP3 player, but customers preferred the iPod, to the utter dismay of the Creative managers. They just couldn’t understand how customers were so irrational!"

I think design is just as integral to 'technological superiority' as any other factor might be...
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So: I don't really know, but I have a theory.

Good product managers are really really hard to find. I've had the pleasure of working with a few, but I would say about 90% of them are worthless. The gems are definitely worth having around though.

The problem is, since finding good product managers seems so incredibly hard, I think instead of hiring for it and making it an official title, most organizations just evolve someone into the role. The problem is, being able to be a good manager requires a lot more domain knowledge than a lot of people realize, IMO, and so it ends up that often times the best product managers are people that either evolved into it from a design or development standpoint, or a person that had a lot of good domain knowledge in the subject matter that could step in. The commonality of all the product managers I've know that weren't good was that they really lacked domain knowledge, to the point where they were basically trying to tell people what to do even though they were clearly the least informed person in the room.
Some of the people behind bars are because they did something that was morally right but condoned by the government. While I can't argue for the guy mentioned in the article, people like Bradley Manning are wasting away their lives. Do you really don't want to help these victims?
Counterpoint: allowing those watching the game to place bets on an event after it happened (or to pass information to others that enables those others to do so) is dishonest towards those who do not have access to that information. In some jurisdictions it also is against the law.

If the tournament organizer is the only channel through which information flow as towards the betting office, by definition, it is impossible for the better to know the outcome of something he bets on at the time of the bet.

Of course, there are other ways to prevent this. For example, one can forbid bets on events that are expected to happen within five or ten minutes. I guess that isn't done because it decreases revenue.
How to Catch a Chess Cheater
Why, so he can get re-elected? Absurd. the sticking point with getting the BRIC and other developing nations to cut emissions has been the US failure to lead in doing so. The recent Supreme Court ruling that the EPA is authorized to regulate pollution that crosses state lines is a sea change and has been a long time coming.
"Search for the Wreckage of Air France Flight AF 447"
"Hit or Miss? The Effect of Assassinations on Institutions and War"
The book is "Calculus Made Easy" by Silvanus P. Thompson. I had a copy of this some years ago. He skips delta epsilon proofs entirely and uses the infinitismal method to describe derivatives and integration. Makes for a very slim volume.
Why Mega-Projects Fail
The mentioned technical report: http://www.sarapp.com/docs/AF447%20Final%20Report%20to%20BEA...
The guys I know who stuck with this stuff got themselves involved in the modern OTO or gnostic ceremony or whatever. They aren't exactly what I'd call focussed people, they might not make great programmers. In all honesty, I couldn't get my head around it. They vocally rebel against their Catholic upbringing yet replace it with... dogmatic rituals based on Catholicism.

It's notable about John Dee that he was doing this stuff as part of the British elite inner circle, royalty, rather than of a rebellious clique (Crowley, Yeats) or of privileged, decadent society (like the Hellfire Club).

His life was pretty tragic though. His partner in scrying was clearly a chancer and serial bullshitter, who used Dee's obsession to take everything from him - including his wife.
Excerpts: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/fB26RKUZ...
Open Pandora's Design Files Are Now Open Sourced
The Unearthing
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I think their big issue was that they couldn't get to "we're the best at X" - there was no use case where they were top dog. They tried to find it - recipes, etc - but they just couldn't get out of Evernote's shadow. I wasn't surprised when they announced they were shutting down - they were pretty clearly thrashing around, trying to figure it out.
At exactly 7 minutes into the video, you glimpse Brian Kernighan's pair of walking boots, sporting some fabulous purple bootstraps.
Ask HN: client reporting bugs that don't exist, causing me hours of unpaid work
I do freelance work and offer my clients bug fixes for free (for defects in the software I wrote, that they already paid for). I have a client who for several weeks has been sending me long lists of bugs they find in my software. But for every single issue so far it's because other components of their system (written by other developers) are failing. And in some cases it's just user error (entering wrong username/password). Should I just accept that I spend hours at no charge addressing their concerns? I would feel bad sending back an answer that it's not my bug, and then saying they owe me a few hundred dollars.
Actually it is politically viable, we're building the first new addition to our nuclear fleet for 30 years: http://www.ajc.com/news/news/breaking-news/a-65b-federal-loa...
Maybe he'd share the source with his friend again.
The "average" end user also doesn't want to spend weeks uploading 1TB of files to the cloud.

Imagine a typical American or Canadian "broadband" consumer internet connection with 10Mbps down and 1Mbps up. If you keep your computer on 8 hours a day, it will take just over 9 months to upload 1TB of data to the cloud at that speed. A multi-TB RAID array would take years to back up. (This is why I think Backblaze et al. can afford to offer "unlimited backup" for a flat monthly fee. The customer's ISP is doing all the limiting for them!)

It was a major PITA when I first started using online backup services while in Canada. (TekSavvy FTW!) Despite paying for one of their faster plans, I had to keep my computer on for a couple of weeks 24/7 to make the initial backup.
He did a mini-AmA here:

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I see nothing in what NamTaf said that means we should be 'making special exceptions for white kids committing "white collar" crimes'. To me they're saying that we should treat anyone as a human if they show genuine remorse and a desire to change. This could apply to any crime committed by any race, any age and any gender.

The fact that you throw the race card down so quickly when it comes to a discussion about crime concerns me.
Clearly quite a few find this interesting since it made its way to the front page.
This is not true at all. Making energy more expensive to harvest, store, and consume directly impacts production costs. The higher the price the more organizations move production to areas of lower costs. When they are prevented from moving they pass those costs on to their customers.
Obj-C / Cocoa uses very long variable names. Someone mentioned this in a post above with a link for example. It's very hard to stick to < 80.

leftWall.physicsBody = [SKPhysicsBody bodyWithRectangleOfSize:CGSizeMake(100, wallHeight)];

close to 100 characters.
Well, bug fixes may be covered by your warranty, but the work you described is not bug fixing. I believe you should send them an invoice detailing the work you've done, the assessment for each instance, and charge them for the hours you worked on that.
How Research Limited Hardware companies can market Minimum Viable Products
Occultism is based around personal experiences and beliefs. I know of no occultist or pagan that actively recruits in the way like Christians and Moslems do. In a way, I don't want you to be an occultist. You be the way you are, and I'll be mine.

Now, I don't mind talking about various occult facets. It is a very interesting area of study, wether you believe or not. And some phenomenon, like the Icelandic guy who can stay warm no matter what does seem remarkably similar to the Tibetan art of tumo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacy_of_relative_privation

"What about the people wrongfully on death row?"
Remove Your Ego from Your Design
I hope this was horribly mangled by some chthonian sub-editor, because I hate to think that this rambling disconnected potpourri is considered acceptable output from a PhD candidate as the bio claims.