skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, challenge accepted. :-) I am submitting this: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence

Please provide the comments why the evidence failed to prove the point.
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"The EU Court of Human Rights is a Council of Europe body."

I think you mean the European Court of Human Rights.
Absolutely, because it is the only way the US government can actually by law give American workers mandatory time off.
> Professionals, managers, and executives with a smartphone spend 72 hours a week (including the weekend) checking work e-mail.

No, they spend 72 hours a week "interacting with work" in any way. Though the thought of an executive sitting and refreshing an inbox for 10+ hours a day is quite amusing.
Ars Technica is reporting that Nest is willing in principle to support HomeKit:

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/06/ok-google-crank-the-a...

Rogers also sees the Nest Developer Program as "complementary" to Apple's recently announced HomeKit project. While HomeKit is going to allow users to control smart home devices with their iPhones and will supposedly make it easier to connect those devices to your network and to each other, Nest's API focuses on making those devices work in tandem once connected.

...

"The home shouldn't be a platform war," Rogers said. "We're going to be neutral. Switzerland."
Pfft. It's not as bad as you imagine.
This is a refreshingly honest analysis. Personally I'm not convinced by the need to maintain the status quo, however. We can read all about 'X species going extinct in Y years', 'Average temperatures will go up by .X degrees in Y years', and 'X miles of coastline will be destroyed in Y years', and yet none of this explains /why/ these are undesirable outcomes. The unstated premise is that "change is bad", which is a strange position to take, to say the least.
A lot of crackpots think that they already have. To make this a good-faith offer, it might be good to google all of the major theories from the denialist side and explain in black-and-white terms why they would or would not qualify for the prize. Otherwise, it's just asking somebody to volunteer to be your punching bag for free.
I agree with your first paragraph, but GDP is the measurement of one thing, and one thing only: products and services produced.

Should we compare the 'economic output' with other (in my opinion) equally important indices, like life expectancy, cost and access to healthcare, access to 'free' and universal primary/secondary/university education, income inequality, safety, etc, the concept of (social) productivity will definitely shift to other countries.

Don't get me wrong, I value GDP as much as almost any economist and finance minister, but all these other 'soft' factors are, to me, equally important.
My issue is that I've heard many pro global warming scientists on public radio say that even if man-made global warming doesn't exit, we should have all of these regulations and tax increases because it's good for the environment.
Would you mind naming the generic drug? It seems like this is a powerful argument against having (only) for-profit healthcare. I'd like to be able to point to a specific case of what you're describing.
Related: "Bring back the 40-hour work week" http://www.salon.com/2012/03/14/bring_back_the_40_hour_work_...
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Why should I spend (however much it costs) for this when I can find a copy of Strunk and White in any library (or buy a used copy from Amazon for $4.00(including shipping))?
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I think it's a bit unfair to label using a known fast library over a known slow library as "premature optimization". I would much rather start a project or feature with the coding standard of, "use the fast ones", rather than have to go back through all the code, profile it, and replace only the ones hurting performance.
How different trajectory of science in India would be had Max Born joined IISc [pdf]
Your quote includes Wal-mart greeters and burger flippers. I don't find it hard to believe that white collar professionals put in over 50 hours a week on average. My experience is in engineering for manufacturing.
This seems too simplistic. The article focuses on one of the inputs to a nation's economic system -- labor and the price of that labor (wages). It seems to truly answer the question "What is it all for?" in an article whose title refers to "hurting the economy" it would make sense to at least discuss the output of that same system by citing GDP or some similar metric.
I don't understand why that line of thought makes you a skeptic. Apparently you found something the current data can not answer. But why do you think your question is even relevant - more important than, say, average temperature? Just because there are questions a model can't answer, the model isn't proven wrong. It just shows that there are things we don't know yet, not that everything we know is wrong.

(I am not a climate scientist so I don't know what the main data points are that are employed in the arguments. I also don't know if your claim that your question can not be answered is correct or not)
I wonder how many people in the US don't take their vacation days because they've read things like this and not because of their own experience.

If you're afraid of taking vacation only because of what you've heard from the media, I suggest you try taking your vacation and see what happens. In all likelihood it will be a career non-event.
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The gasoline tax goes to maintaining the roads that are owned by the entity that levies the gasoline tax. In many areas that's just the state and federal governments, and not one red cent of it will go to pay for the street you live on.

Municipalities frequently use property taxes to cover roads, but that's potentially a poor way to pay for the extra infrastructure costs associated with curbside parking. In major cities it would be downright regressive, since a lot of less-wealthy people don't own cars. It also fails to account for the fact that in denser areas there simply isn't room for everyone to own a car - and in such a situation it's not necessarily so great (and certainly more authoritarian) to expect everyone to pay for parking regardless of whether they'll be using it. And it fails to account for the fact that many people own cars, but acquire the location they use to store their car when they're not using it on the private market (perhaps by building a garage on their property, perhaps by renting a space in someone else's lot or garage).

It's unfortunate that Americans' way of thinking about taxes has become so distorted that they'll knee-jerk dismiss a tax they're not familiar with using weasel words like "pork", even when that tax is actually more equitable and economically efficient.
A lean HTTP Switchboard fork, very welcome :)
To be fair, it's not obvious if you're not a JS expert: coming from some other language, you could naively assume that function call gets inlined, with no overhead.
Yep. It's dystopian. Our society is exploitative, and the people have been trained to see the exploitation as just.

The bugger is that people are too terrified of losing their jobs (read: lives) to demand change.
"I'd love to be able to use something like Haskell, as a lot of my problems are functional in nature, and it'd be able to catch a lot of stupid bugs. But it is too esoteric to be realistically adopted by the community."

The esoteric, and what you need to do what you said, are nearly entirely partitioned from each other. Reading in a list of things, running some code over it, and spewing the results out is not that hard and will not involve anything you can't understand.

That said, even after some relatively extensive use of Haskell I still have poor intuition about how well it performs on such tasks... no, not because of "laziness", but because "naively" written Haskell still involves things getting boxed and other such performance killers that can take you halfway back to Python. I can say writing Haskell to do your described tasks isn't hard... I have a harder time promising you can write performant Haskell just by doing the obvious things. There's some promising work on doing fast numerical calculations, but it still seems like it's very easy to be doing something very fast, then change a bit of code, which silently breaks optimizations and suddenly it's slow for no obvious reason. (Note this is NOT unique to Haskell... all compiler optimizations can have this problem. It's just particularly acute in Haskell, but I've encountered it elsewhere. I've often wished for more transparent optimization feedback in many languages, or the ability to assert that I'm triggering certain optimizations so that if I do break them in the future, I find out at compile time. Alas, I've never seen such a thing.)
Rapid User Testing with Mechanical Turk
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Battle for the Zen Mind: Five Finger Death Punch and Ajahn Chah
Companies already can choose to interview anyone who's taken relevant coursework, but usually can't commit that much time so they screen applicants first. If the grades in a few particular online courses become widely known for getting students interviews, I think most of us would expect cheating in those classes to rise and the classes' role as a screening mechanism would degrade.

I don't have data on cheating available, but anecdotally, I've TAed economics classes at UCSD where---routinely---over 100 students in a class would turn in word-for-word identical homework (this had nothing to do with whether students were allowed or prohibited from "working in groups" on homework, so it was definitely considered cheating in some of the classes). I suspect that cheating varies a lot from university to university and from major to major.
NASA’s tiny 460GHz vacuum transistor that could one day replace silicon FETs
Screenshots are easy to fake - that employer would get dozens of applicants claiming they graduated but saying they only had a screenshot to prove it. Only a few would be telling the truth. Under those circumstances the employer would simply reject them all.
Great point. One way to argue for more vacation time is that it's economically a better idea- but you're setting yourself up for a tough argument.

Instead, it might be easier to argue it socially or through a simple declaration like, "this is what we want".
Why The GOP Should Embrace Net Neutrality
OS package managers make two assumptions:

- that packages follow semver

- that the OS packagers are in a better position to test package combinations.

If the author releases a new version of libfoo, and A, B and C in an OS repo depend on libfoo, then the OS packagers do not release a new version of libfoo until the tests for A, B & C pass.

These are two good assumptions, and the language package world would be in much better shape if they followed those assumptions too.
In the US, property taxes are probably more relevant, unless the road is a major one maintained by the state.

But the same principle applies, these street parking spaces are in front of residential property that's paying into the city's coffers, which the residents pay, directly if owners, through their rent if renters.
My point is that you cannot even begin to ask what humans are doing to the global temperature if you do not even have an idea what it would look like without humans.
All of the measurements are based on the workforce, which is a term of art that means something. When you get more efficient, lay off people and have everyone else do 1.5-3x more work, you get efficient.

The problem is, many of the discarded people are ending up on disability, and are thus out of the workforce. I'd like to compare the productivity of various societies based on population.
bultwith.com just scans web pages and guesses front-end libraries. We use Ruby/Sinatra/MySQL/MongoDB/IronMQ for the back-end.
> lack of a safety net?

That's one argument. Here's another:

Cost:

http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...

http://healthcarereform.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourc...

vs Quality:

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/press-releases/...

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-healthcare-systems-in-th...

EDIT: not sure if downvotes are because people think I'm saying that cost is less important than the lack of a safety net or because people are butthurt over figures demonstrating that universal health care is also cheaper. Please clarify.
When you say that "the average american student pays about half of that", are you counting student loans towards the half the student pays or the half they don't? I've seen loans treated both of these ways before. I went to Harvard, and like your wife at Princeton, I found the financial aid incredibly generous. Their net price calculator online is a pretty good guide to their policies: https://college.harvard.edu/financial-aid/net-price-calculat... .
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TL;DR: You were subjected to a $2000 ordeal over a $20 charge because the audit and compliance system is broken and has no concept of measured response. Because layer after layer of bee watchers have been hired at six, seven, or eight figure salaries to ensure that every other layer of bee watchers is properly covering their asses in case that deli sandwich you bought turns into a lawsuit. Meanwhile, the good bees have left, and no one has noticed that each spoon of honey costs a hundred grand, while tasting oddly like corn syrup.
It's the only argument here in the USA.

It sucks that things are this way, but the only way to justify anything or argue for anything is an appeal to higher profits.

Money is this country's highest value, and all other values such as decency or shared prosperity have been thrown into the garbage and decried as socialism or wishful thinking.
This is the very definition of dogmatism. You literally just claimed that thinking differently is okay, as long as it's not your sacred cow which is getting involved in the discussion.

Let me help you understand what this sounds like: "Because they don't just 'think' that evolution is real; they claim that the bible isn't the inspired Word of God!" That's absolutely no different than what you just wrote: science is your "inspired Word" about which no one can disagree, even if they're allowed to disagree about everything else.
Is there no legal requirement for minimum number of days off?
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Like someone else pointed out, it would be ideal to be able to delete reports (or at a minimum ssn information).

The site looks nice and clean. After running a report on myself, I noticed it said for a minute or so that my ssn was incorrect before it changed to stating it was cleared.

Also, while the national check for me came back clear (as expected), I was curious if that was literally all the report said. I would love to see more detailed reporting underlying the results. Obviously if it doesn't say anything more than "clear" or "no results" or something, then this probably wouldn't be useful.

Pricing-wise, I think it is somewhat fair and were I a bigger company with an HR group, you would be a solid candidate as a vendor.
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The problem is you're focusing only on one part of the evidence. The other part is the law of conservation of energy, the fact from which follows (after some modeling) that atmosphere will heat up when you add greenhouse gases.

And, quite interestingly, these two independent lines of evidence, match. (There are several others.)

In other words, you doubt the relevance of historical data. But the evidence is not just historical, it's also based on our understanding of the underlying physical mechanism.
my cheap argument: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uif1NwcUgMU
Otoh, home automation might finally go from being a hobby to something normal people actually can use to make their lives easier. I also dabbled with X10 in the 90s and personally I can't wait for apple to come along and do it right. Needless to say, I completely disagree with your final observation.
I just knew I wanted to solve a problem I personally experienced: having a closet full of clothes but still nothing to wear.

Maybe her real problem was picking a big "problem" to solve that wasn't.
> I'm not sure where you get that idea from but companies the size of google don't page engineers because of customer tickets, regardless of whether they're opened by a callcenter agent or e-mail.

Maybe not for a $12 domain registration but Amazon does in some cases.

I'm also pretty sure that is what Google's Cloud Platform Platinum offers if you are willing to pay enough. [This part is just a guess]
I disagree with 5 being a requirement for a HLL (otherwise LISP is lowlevel) and will content that C++ lacks 7 since in my mind it GC has to be non-optional and enabled by default. In addition 8 is hardly satisfied by C++, since it has neither an XML parser nor an HTTP library by default (at least last time I checked). I do admit that it has a standard library that is decently designed and much bigger than Cs.
The Disruption Debate is Focused on the Wrong Ideas
I've talked to some other professionals about this, and for many of them, they readily admit that they feel like they need to be at work for their employer to function properly. They also admit this is their own impression, not something their boss has given them ("if you take that vacation, I don't know what we'll do without you").

I suggest you try taking your vacation and see what happens. In all likelihood it will be a career non-event

I think this will probably be the case. I know it is for me (I take every last hour of PTO I am given every year, and have been known to request time off without pay, too), but I suspect there are some employers that truly do what they can to discourage holidays (constant arbitrary deadlines, for example).
It simply means there's no obvious fingerprint that builtwith.com was able to detect.

For example, the default Express app contains `X-Powered-By: Express` in the response header. Ruby on Rails is usually sniffed by its predictable cookie signature.

You gain nothing from broadcasting your back-end stack to the world.
>It seems like in a lot of EU countries if you fail there is something to catch you (higher, longer, easier to get unemployment pay for one example)

For the avoidance of doubt, that does not include England (these days). People with cancer in the final stages are declared fit to work
Jsperf for Fast.js, Lodash, Native
We're seeing hints it's no longer axiomatic.

But I'll agree the long term outcomes you sketch out are likely. The article itself indicated this phone is in part intended to get you to later buy a higher grade and branded Windows Phone.
One of the problems with always doing things the 'Rails Way' is that people start thinking there are no other ways. Plenty of people build significant apps with rich and engaging interfaces with much lighter frameworks than Sinatra even.
Cargo assumes the former.
Nice reading this was
You appear to be saying that you think this could be explained by some natural variation. That seems plausible, but is not supported by scientific evidence.

The term "man-made climate change" is a term for the truth of these three claims:

1. Human activity has increased the concentration of CO2 (and other green-house gases) in the atmosphere.

2. The global temperature has risen over the last 150 years.

3. An increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is the cause of the rise in global temperature over the last 150 years.

Point 2 is simple scientific fact by now. Measurements show that this is the case, despite being critically revised and corrected for sampling biases over the years. Point 3 is also scientific fact; the theoretical effect has been shown to be true in simple laboratory expirements (it has been known for over 100 years) and the strong correlation of CO2 concentration and temperature over the last 150 years overwhelmingly implies that this laboratory effect applies for the atmosphere as well.

That could still mean that the source of all of this greenhouse gas is natural. Still seems plausible, but again scientific evidence shows that the large majority of this "new CO2" is sourced by human activity [1]. Various sources of evidence exist; the isotopic signature of CO2 in the atmosphere is atypical for natural sources, the concentration of CO2 in the oceans is rising fastest near the surface, and there are many more pieces of evidence.

It is true that there is still a large degree of ignorance on how global temperature varies "naturally" over long periods of time. However, we can show that this specific warming we're observing today is not just a natural variation. It is caused by humans.

[1] http://www.skepticalscience.com/co2-increase-is-natural-not-...
My wife has taught as an adjunct (music) at a pretty large state school. She had to decline the last couple of offers from them because we self-imposed a rule that she can't lose money by teaching there. That's right, the cost of gas (just 21 miles round-trip) plus her parking pass for the semester would exceed the amount they were willing to pay.
What I mean to say is that Amercians are overworked because they like to be overworked.

Typically an American's sole sense of identity comes from his or her job, and while we give lip service to 'happiness' as our life's goal unless happiness means ambition and success in one's work, you are an oddball.

The problem isn't that Americans are hurting the economy with over work; the problem, if you want to call it one, is that because we have nothing else in our lives, we don't mind that we're overworked.
I'm not talking about the challenge, but those supposed commercial JS libraries with DRM that you're advising "should take notice".

There are no mainstream examples of such libraries. You're likely confusing minified libraries for having an intent to obfuscate, or talking out your ass.

One or the other.
I spend 8 or 9 hours a week commuting - that's the biggest waste for me. I don't dislike it - I listen to podcasts, mull things over ahead of getting home (which really helps with not taking problems home) and so on - but I can think of so many better ways of spending that time including on my health.

Ideally I'd live closer to work but I like living rurally and that's not ideal of IT jobs. As I work in management remote working is a relatively limited option, at least for most of the opportunities around here.

Parking further away is possible but really I'm just adding more time to the commute - 15 minutes walking rather than 3 minutes driving. If I could free up that time I'd probably be better off just taking it off as a 30 minute chunk and going for a walk a lunch.

Walking meetings have been a good solutions - I have a few informal one to ones which can be done walking in the nearby park. Similarly I'll sometimes do calls where I'm not expected to be taking notes or doing anything else on my mobile phone.
It doesn't say that to me. It says: "Nokia baggage". That is all.

Either way, I'm not writing another damn mobile app or picking up another damn smartphone again. It's all totally crazy bananas now. I'd rather write win32 again with a broken-ass compiler.
The US has a lower population density than those European countries, more natural resource is divided between fewer people. That is the primary reason for the higher GDP per capita.
I've pointed this out in other threads about this subject, but there are actually employers who pay out a bonus to employees who use 100% of the PTO in a given year.
Sinatra is the perfect REST API server language for a client application. Given the way apps are going these days, I'm not sure why everyone isn't building single-page web apps that put 90% of the responsibility on the client and use only simple JSON communications with the server for persistence or authentication.
YAML is a serialization format, not a configuration format.