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no, but unless you push back the moment they start preaching the right and wrongness, then they will use it to implement government policy to push their ideals, probably at 'your' expense. you may not be able to see what the article is doing, but many of us know too well.

I have literally heard urban planners cry foul to plans to fund schools with extra money with the idea that you would get a greater return back in taxes as the neighborhood improved because it would 'push out lower income people' and 'ruin otherwise beautifully economically mixed'.
My understanding of the situation is no one has even proposed a "very costly plan to save Miami." This is Venice on an accelerated time scale. Miami pales in comparisons proportionate wealth and power when Venice started sinking in earnest.

I'd be very reluctant to short Manhattan real estate because protecting Manhattan from higher sea levels is merely an engineering challenge and affordable relative to NYC economic output. Manhattan is basically made out of granite. South Florida on porous limestone.

Miami seems f'd to me.
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I backed that book you want. It's coming out next month.
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>Push notifications in mobile apps

There's no way this could get annoying. Push notifications are great for things like SMS, voicemail, email, and emergency management alerts (such as amber alerts, or if there is a fire nearby), but coupled with anything resembling advertising -- even if the user claims they want to see it -- I would wager heavily that it will cause a service to hemorrhage users. Is this an opt-in only "feature"?
There's R Markdown: http://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/authoring_shiny.html

(Found about this today because someone requested R Markdown support in [vim-pandoc](https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-pandoc/), which I manage. The result was [vim-rmarkdown](https://github.com/vim-pandoc/vim-rmarkdown/))
I wimped out, the list was too long and it is really hot. http://imgur.com/OB890bo at least my line is mostly straight, ;).

Lots of those questions were ambiguous within a couple hundred miles, at least in my mind.
i dont think that is fair. just because they are not taking advantage of their improved situation doesnt mean they dont have a situational advantage.

What im trying to say is, they do have a huge net benefit, but they may not be financially behaved to actually save it. My former roomate quite a bit of money and spent a great deal of it on alcohol. you could increase his wage, he'd just find a way to spend more. you could decrease his wage, and his spending on those non-accounted things would drop.
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Pointing out that the current problem exists regardless of the long-term cause is completely rational, but US politics (and no doubt politics in general) is far from rational. The denial half is so deeply invested in its beliefs that it's incapable of doing anything to address any current consequences that might be due to the change they don't believe is happening.

You don't have to believe in climate change to fix Miami's storm water system. But you can't be stuck with a belief system that holds that sea levels aren't rising and that nothing needs to be done to adapt to the sea level rise that has already taken place, because doing something would be an implicit admission that something has happened which you believe hasn't.
Don't forget X-box. They didn't miss the Internet, but they did misfire on music. They had an awfully good track record for a long time.
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I think it's absurd to place the moral event horizon [1] somewhere in the obscure fineries of anti-trust law. This is what I mean when I say that no-poach agreements are not an egregious or blatant moral crime.

Did you know there are real people living among us that don't agree with anti-trust law? They don't think it should exist, they think it's unfair legislation meant to disadvantage successful players. Are all of these people also "damned", to use your elegant and gracious terminology?

I'll reiterate, as I have many times up to this point, that Catmull may have been wrong, that he may have been breaking the law, and that his actions may have had the indirect side effect of suppressing overall industry wages (even if mens rea is eventually shown and an email wherein Catmull explicitly states that his goal is to depress employee wages emerges, the effect of the no-poach agreement would still be indirect). But there is another side to this story that people refuse to recognize because they now have it ingrained in their heads that this is a good v. evil, corporate bigwig v. innocent little guy case, and they won't allow themselves to empathize with the other side in fear that they may be considered guilty by association (as some in this thread have already done with me).

At its root, such feelings are the result of rhetorical tactic to win the case by shame. People will cast events like they could only be perpetrated by the dirtiest scoundrels alive, but it's not a reflection of reality. This kind of thing is the bread and butter of political pundits. We should be able to see through those tactics here, but over and over again, it's proven that most of us can't, as we lead witch hunts to drive industry luminaries away simply because people in this industry can't understand how to disagree in a civil manner. It's very discouraging.

I hope that you reconsider the case with a broader, kinder perspective.

[1]: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MoralEventHorizon
I'd have to dig up my notes. I was there in Sept for the auction for 10 days, drove a couple hundred miles over a couple days, just in Detroit. I probably went through Hamtramck a couple times, Grosse Pointe had almost no foreclosures.

I didn't buy anything, for a myriad of reasons. Nearly everything was ruined, could get something on the open market for lower marginal cost of repair. The only homes, and I say homes, worth buying were those clearly occupied, all by old people that had lived there for many years. I am not going to be that person.
The federal flood insurance plan carries some of the blame by disincentivizing responsible construction. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progra...
This effect comes from the effect of regression to the mean. Some people will vastly overestimate, while some people will vatsly underestimate, thus cancelling out.

It holds as long as the people used are very diverse (not under the same cognitive bias)
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Do you really have no idea?

Do you believe in a likely lower bound for the time gap between reincarnations? And an upper bound for when the first one was? Or do you believe that both of these could be arbitrarily small (large, resp.)?
I've never heard of this. Do you have an actual source?
It's not even hard to distribute if you want to sell it. You can upload it to Amazon and it'll be for sale anywhere on the planet in less than a day (they claim 12 hours or less). Likewise for Barnes & Noble, Apple, and the rest (Apple is the slowest...it can take up to a couple of weeks, but that's still amazingly fast compared to the year or more of lead time for old-school print).
LinkedIn is a social networking site for business professionals. In fact, it is heavily used by recruiters and employers to source candidates for employment. So, don't be surprised if you've seen people in Sales or Recruitment who are trying to connect with you.

In regards to your question about the positives and negatives of LinkedIn connections - let me provide you some:

1.) Career Networking - We can all benefit from building a network and LinkedIn can serve that role.

2.) Identification - LinkedIn is not going to work for you if you don’t identify yourself. However, if confidentiality is a concern, and if you are trying to stay anonymous, just be careful to connect with only people you know well.

3.) Search Engine Exposure - You can connect your blogs and other social networks to LinkedIn. Your LinkedIn statuses can be updated when posting to one of those places, providing the opportunity for greater network connections.

4.) Job Hunting - Let say that you are looking for a job, but you are currently employed and you don't want to jeopardize your current position. Be strategic and don’t announce to your connections that you are searching for a job. You can still do your job search confidential by not providing your company's email and phone number.
I have never been a hater and respect the man, but knowing that he had a role in promoting Common Core actually lowers my opinion of him considerably.

Have you seen what ridiculous methods they're requiring children to learn in math? No longer can teachers be reasonable by allowing you to solve a problem your own way, as long as you show your work and get the right answer. All this has done is remove parents from the teaching process. I only know about math from my younger cousins and friends who are teachers, but I'm sure some of the other subjects have their own issues.
I'd consider Midtown and the Whole Foods as downtown.

It is interesting, everyone I talked to was great. Way safer than Chicago (probably cuz everyone is gone, ;)

The one thing that really surprised me was that all the black people I talked to WANTED white kids to move to the city and bring it back. They weren't worried about gentrification, they were more worried about decay.

The property taxes are too high and are pushing old people onto the street. 5k a year was not uncommon for taxes on lots of places I looked at. Rent would barely cover the taxes, leaving nothing for upkeep, so a rental market is not viable. I applaud the move at the next auction to require local buyers.
Nice idea, but I do take a bit of an issue with ideas like these. More often than not, they serve as a fig leaf and give the people using them a false sense of comfort and achievement.

There's a reason sports programming exists, and a certain level of intensity, planning and rotation is necessary for results.

A better thing to follow for at least a modicum of impact is http://www.7-min.com

Anyone who's done any amount of exercise worth the designation will have to do a few rounds of this to actually get into heavy breathing territory, but it's a (structured) start!
If you look at what the organisation that is Hamas does to it's own people, I really question any one-sidedness. Plus, let's face facts here : it's a war. Hamas has declared it's intent to hunt down every Jew on the face of the planet (and atheist, incidentally), and they do stuff like this :

E.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQtZ9DY3MnU

There is absolutely nothing wrong with using violence against these people. There I've said it. Are the Israeli's innocent ? No. But that doesn't mean they are morally on the same level as the Palestinians.

I agree that you should read many different news sources, but keep in mind who owns Al Jazeera just as much as you'd take who owns the BBC into account.
Just add it to your home screen and it'll always be there!
Arbitrary weird GUI control that doesn't work on mobile and doesn't have an accessible fallback mode, even though the information content can be easily expressed with short simple text: yep.
You might not be aware that the idom "I could care less" is in common usage, espechally in American english, and has the same meaning as "I could not care less".
This article is more relevant, and better written, than 99.9% of the Techcrunch, inside baseball, Ayn Rand worshipping bullshit that makes the front page on this site.
It is just another asset of the company being acquired, like a desk or a chair. As part of the acquire agreement, they may be required to pay down existing debt with any cash on hand or something too? Just guessing.
Any thoughts how software-transactional memory might apply for a use case like this?
Yeah, but what paid for that to be built? Taxes collected from individuals who succeeded.
I can just about guarantee you those companies couldn't care less about a few 10 thousands of people eating a little organic food. It's not a threat to them and they simply don't care enough to put out sock puppets. This lack of caring actually gives the new hippie-science disregarding (or whatever you want to call it) authors like Micheal Pollan more air time because nobody calls them on it when they get out of bounds of good science. Nobody writes sensational books about the over-hype and under evidence of the benefits of organic farming nor the dangers of un-regulated and un-inspected food production.

The amount of anti-science junk regarding food production I see posted on HN is stunning given that this is supposed to be a group of intelligent rational people.
I'm sorry you saw it that way. I think the DMCA is flawed to the point where crude requests are complied with. I would be happy to respond if you tell me what you disagree with.
Organic is a toxic anti-science religion.

Do we really need an article explaining how organic is not better for you?

Do people on HN really think that could be true? I'd like to think not.

If you go to an organic farmer and explain that this method using chemicals has been prove better and harmless through science they won't do it because they are fundamentalists.

I'm amazed by the tolerance of the organic religion by the scientific community.
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working jobs that don't need a college degree

The employers probably "need" employees with at least average intelligence and conscientiousness, for which a college degree (in anything) is a decent proxy.
Pittsburgh is a pretty amazing place right now, because it's a recovering rust belt city that's managed to transition from manufacturing (steel) to services (health care, banking, higher education, technology firms) pretty well but because their initial crash was SO hard they still have very affordable cost-of-living comparitively. So you have all the public transit and nice museums and great libraries and all that but a bartender and a waitress can buy a house and raise kids together too. It's someplace where "hipsters" are not secretly living off their parents' money to front as making it.
Hm. I don't know about your assessment of the Dutch (my world history isn't up to scratch to agree or disagree), but if the Dutch was a prelude to the British, and the American just a continuation of the British (which I entirely agree with, though I'd emphasize things differently than you have),

Has there been more than one world hegemon at all?
Some of Google's new designs are starting to roll out
Was n't there a news recently that Square is losing millions of dollars and struggling to survive? There were some buyout rumors also.

May this be Caviar acquisition talk is kind of survival step by Square to diversify into other areas.
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Ever try eating a sugar beet? Naaaaaaasty. Sugar cane, on the other hand, I'll agree with you about. But you can only really chew it, not eat it.
Interesting read, but I am not sure how it will all play out.

If the rise in sea level is gradual, then I think there could be decent solutions.

If it happens fast, like in a 3-5 year span, then it will get ugly, housing prices will crash and people will leave.

Crazy, I hope we get more progressive politicians in South Florida to help mitigate the damage.

And this isn't just for Miami, this is for most of Florida from the Treasure Coast all the way down to the Keys, and including the Gulf Coast (Fort Myers, Naples, Tampa).

There could be 7-10 million people affected.
Pesticides have not been proven harmless, just acceptably harmful. Much like how lead is bad for you but some lead in drinking water is accepted.

There is a similar issue with GMO food. Everything out there might be safe, but there is little research done before new strains enter mass production so some caution is reasonable even without demonstrated harm.

PS: IMO, anything still considered safe after 30 years is probably ok but organic / non GMO is a reasonable catch all for that kind of a track record.
Hm, I think I understand the essential concept, but your point about trade seems misplaced. International trade doesn't require a globalized er... hierarchy of labor; it just requires comparative advantage of some sort. I suppose a unified "division of labor" (these terms are not being used the way I am used to their being used) would certainly intensify the volume of international trade, but I do not think it is required by any means.
I know someone who did because they had grown quite a bit since they had originally applied to YC. I guess Quora demonstrates how you can never be too big for YC, though :)
This is a good example of why it's bad to develop too much brand loyalty. Software changes quickly. In a few weeks, these problems might be solved in Chrome. But Safari might innovate in other ways. I have been impressed with every web browser's rate of progress and convergance on standards lately.
Could monadic types solve the same problem in codebases, by letting you compose "business" and "implementation" functions?
This article contains a perfect example of why I don't like to write or read comments in code. Comments are not compiled and thus allow for sloppy verbiage such as the following:

# Exit the completed processes
for p in processes:
p.join()

The comment should read something more like: "Wait for all the subprocesses to exit" but is that really any more helpful than just reading the code and seeing that join is called on each subprocess and connecting the dots from there?
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I'm glad nobody told Larry or Sergey that before they started Google.
>And we can frown upon it all the same, because it's not as if he did something innocent with unforeseen side effect - the agreement was illegal, and the fact that it was secret suggests everyone involved knew this.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't most corporate agreements like this secret by default? It's an internal business mechanic and can be considered proprietary based on that. The press releases only come out when a company thinks something is of low enough tactical value that it can be revealed without harming the company and high enough PR value that it can be used to woo investors or consumers.

I don't think there's any inference that the pacts were considered immoral by the signatories in the fact that they weren't publicly declared. There were obviously many people between all of the participant companies that knew about these pacts, and it doesn't sound like it was considered super-duper-top-secret and could only be mentioned behind the closed doors of the CEO's office.

As I stated elsewhere, we should also consider the DOJ's angle on this. Prosecutors want to make a name for themselves and it's in their interest to portray all of their defendants as scoundrels. They want to blow open a big public scandal. They want to leave a legacy before the next president comes in and restocks the department with his own people. The prosecutor's job is practically to convince everyone that the defendants are evil, but in cases like this, it's rarely true. We need to acknowledge these perverse incentives as we read about this case, too.

>what you're seeing (some have stated this explicitly) is backlash against business folk who are so concerned about the high-level game being played that they've forgotten that the pieces on the board are people.

I don't think that's a fair characterization either. An executive's concern for everyone on his staff causes him to act in the best interest of the company as a whole, and not just the best interest of a specific individual or a specific type of employee that may be in greater demand. If bidding wars and poaching becomes disruptive, it's natural to seek a remedy. Catmull states several times in these articles that poaching is "bad for everyone" and seems sincere in that belief. He believes it's bad for executives, employees, competing studios, etc., and one can see the logic in that belief. He tried to stop a practice that he viewed as parasitic. In Catmull's view, even if an animator got poached with a big raise, this practice is still a net negative, presumably because it destabilizes the industry and potentially decreases the longevity of that career.

Maybe he was wrong and maybe he broke the law. But it doesn't mean that he forgot that his employees were real people.

I appreciate the rest of your post, which acknowledges that Catmull is probably not irredeemably evil.
Then go read the context. You're not required to make life-altering decisions when comprehending data. That's for people who cite single studies as justification for their latest hare-brained scheme to do.
I don't think there are many chemicals that work that way, though. Is there any one chemical that is so great for us that only a very biased diet would give it?

Different soil conditions could lead to deficiencies -- if you only "eat local" you might have to pay attention to selenium or magnesium (http://tin.er.usgs.gov/geochem/doc/averages/se/usa.html) due to geography or geology. But setting aside deficiency, what chemical would we want to load up on in isolation?

(ok, caffeine comes to mind. but that's not really for health, and I get it pretty well from ground plant products.)
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I had a similar idea like this, but using shortwave instead of DVB.
If you do follow up with a new article you should cover why the Dreamcast failed in more detail. As I recall it failed for a variety of reasons but the one that stands out was it's high price but lack of DVD playback while the PS2 and XBOX were priced competitively but had that.

I had a dreamcast when they launched. Sega Bass Fishing, House of the Dead 2, Sonic, and Crazy Taxi were awesome.
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The current source for OpenSSH no longer requires linking to (Open|Libre)SSL http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140430045723
Interesting. Certainly not in my country at least (and possibly most places English is spoken outside the US), it's a mistake that you will be pulled up for and possibly will harm your argument by making you look uneducated, since it's such a simple statement to parse.
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For IEEE floating point, there is NaN and +/-Infinity which are raised when dividing by zero: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/faq.html#exceptions

For integers that don't have NaN/infinity values the options are less clear. Note that languages with two's complement fixed width signed types like int32 have the same problem with INT32_MIN / -1, since the result is not representable as an int32.