skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I just followed your [1] and, there, the first link,

S. Solomon, et al., "On the Depletion of Antarctic Ozone",

Okay, just as I recall: There have been some measurements of an ozone hole over Antarctica during the late winter and early spring there when there has been no sunlight for months. Of course there was ozone depletion; there had been no sunlight for months; we can't expect anything else.

Since that good measurement effort was new, we didn't have much good, historical data to compare; that is, as far as we know, there has been such a big ozone hole each late winter and early spring in the Antarctic for 1000+ years, that is, well before human generated CFCs.

But the paper did make clear that their measurements showed a hole only during the late winter and early spring and only over Antarctica. There was little discussion of an ozone hole over the Arctic. There was essentially no evidence to raise concern that ozone would be depleted in areas with both sunlight and humans.

Why just Antarctica and not also the Arctic? The paper outlined some differences in temperature and clouds.

As I already wrote, there was some cute chemistry there.

Of concern on earth where there is both life and sunlight? Nope. So, for life on earth where there is both sunlight and life, f'get about the ozone hole.

Indeed, if want to worry about life in Antarctica, say, the penguins, still nothing to worry about because the ozone hole is only there when there is no sunlight and, thus, no UV to worry about. Even over Antarctica, even with the CFCs from sinful, evil humans, when there is sunlight, there is ozone, from the paper apparently at reasonable levels, and no concern about UV hurting life.

So, why the big stink? Look for a hidden agenda. Follow the money. A big trilogy of sin, evil, transgression, retribution, redemption. Manipulation. Propaganda. Politics. Take a little, cute but nearly irrelevant, science and blow it up with a lot of scare headlines (get ad revenue) and build a big consensus to permit picking the pockets of everyone who wants to use refrigeration. So, a flim-flam, fraud, scam. Suspicions confirmed.

Science showing threat to humans? Nope.

Got some better evidence? If so, then trot it out. Else we should move on and f'get about the ozone hole.

But, we can learn a lesson: Some people who want to pick pockets with a hidden agenda can misuse and exploit a little science and use a lot of publicity and propaganda to mislead much of the world. And ozone is not the only threat they can scream about.

Too much of the Hacker News community looks too gullible.
What's "like children" about not wearing a suit and tie?
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That's the messy thing about the JS framework ecosystem. To the outsider, it looks like there's roughly a kazillion frameworks, and it's difficult to tell what they all do, what the differences are, and how to make a reasonable decision on which one to use for a project. Post a decent comparison article like this, and you get buried in comments about how you skipped these frameworks or those plugins.
Common Lisp has about 10 different anything frameworks, which nobody in particular uses in favor of writing their own, mostly because they can. Many of the ten are in fact written into the standard.

Common Lisp isn't so much a "language for writing languages" as a giant bag of everything.
Agreed, there's no reason this should be on the front page of HN.
Oh, yeah, one more thing: If you're a big fan, you may want to consider the Dune Encyclopedia: http://www.amazon.com/Dune-Encyclopedia-Authorized-Masterpie...

It was rendered non-canonical by either God Emperor or Chapterhouse, but it's full of interesting stuff if you're the sort that can get stuck on a Wiki-walk. This is probably the most monetarily valuable book in my meager collection, picked up without knowledge of its rarity from a library book sale.
Why were you forced? html5 was around at the time (and in fact twiddla was launched two years before flockdraw).
No, the gamma compression distorts high-frequency components that have close frequencies f1 and f2 into products such as the low-frequency f1-f2. The reason you don't see this low frequency on your screen is that the inverse gamma curve on your display undoes this distortion exactly. But if you remove the high frequencies f1 and f2 by downsampling before displaying, the only remaining signal is f1-f2, and because of the lack of high frequencies it isn't removed by the inverse gamma curve. So you're left with a visible low frequency signal.

And f1 and f2 don't need to be close to Nyquist, as long as they're significantly attenuated by the downsampling filter.
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Internal features (as you describe them, they sound like virtues) of grit, empathy (or lack thereof) and patience are second-order modifiers of base ability which is largely fixed at birth or at least by early childhood. Some amount of virtue can overcome a limited deficit of potential but it is more the exception than the rule.

We have had hereditary social stratification for basically all of human history. Only in recent centuries and only in the most developed parts of the world have we taken a brief detour away from some form of feudalism which is observed pretty much everywhere people settled down to practice agriculture and produce surpluses. It seems like today, we are busy recreating Feudalism 2.0 with American characteristics.

The wealth inequality we observe today seems fairly indistinguishable from that which we might observe in a world where genetically heritable features (not necessarily or only IQ) largely determine financial outcomes and where wealth is inherited, compounding effects through generations. Whether nature or nurture, advantages will be passed along even if we implement a 100% inheritance tax.
I thought the story at the end was interesting, where Obama points out the suit-wearing techie and he replies, "This is literally only because you’re here." What happens if you're invited to a meeting with the President and you don't wear a suit?
I think that it is nearly unlimited.

Facebook's size is a limitation. They have over a billion users. Any change they make needs to able to deal with the lowest common denominator.

You can deliver value to niche markets by focusing on their needs & workflow. The "niches" can be millions of people doing a defined scope of tasks.
Phonegap plugin please!
The exception is chdir("/"). This will always give you the desired behavior, only error on EACCES, and prevent many nasty filesystem problems. This also removes the idea of relative paths, so the user is forced to use full paths (or, every relative path is a full path). Not very practical but it does work.
I just can't reconcile that a man of science (Brantly) credits magic ("God") for his recovery! Don't you get cognitive dissonance dude?
You've been using grunt wrong. It's a task runner, not an asset builder.

I use Grunt to run Broccoli and tests. Broccoli is the best asset tool right now. Trees are so much better than streams or anything else. I even made some Sweet.js macros for making Broccoli files look super neat: https://github.com/myfreeweb/sweetbuild
> while Backbone hardly evolved(which is not good of course)

Backbone is a much simpler library than Angular. There's less of a need for it to evolve, since it's meant to be extended on a per project basis.
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>That would hit right in the gut where the infection goes wild and does the most damage.

Ebola virus disease is not like c. difficile. It attacks endothelial cells, liver cells, phagocytes... it's as systemic as they come.
Where do you work? Here in the Midwest, I've had only one job where I've been able to wear jeans. Every other tech job has required business casual, meaning a button-up and slacks same as everyone else in the company (except the sales guys, they generally wear suits).

If you don't agree with the dress code of the company (and especially if you disagree that strongly), the company culture might not be a great fit for you. I've grown up expecting California tech workers to dress like Kevin Rose. I've grown up expecting everyone else to dress in business casual. I wouldn't say the image of the profession is necessarily disheveled. It depends on where you are and what company you work for.
No worries—these borderline cases are often tricky. Maybe you should just post the press release? I think that's how the original submission did it.
Working on that ASAP :)
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Wow, it must be the "day of the children" or something for letting 5 years old write the titles in Wired.
iosnoop (a shell script using ftrace to implement 'tcpdump for your disks') was introduced here last month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8045632
Interesting. Did you eventually get the account re-instated? Seems odd they'd close it without a warning. Did they disable the sites or the entire account?
> There are nearly 19,000 distinct Android Devices

I would have said "models", not "devices". But the point is clear -- there are a lot of different configurations and hardware, all described as Android devices.

I regularly hear from people who say one of my Android apps won't work on their device. At first I would try to adjust my software, but as the years have gone by, I realized there are too many fringe cases that don't have anything remotely resembling a standard set of features -- even if they're formally running some Android version and have some "standard" set of hardware features.
Actually, it is a very commonly used feature...many teachers using online whiteboards for tutoring will upload a preprepared word doc/ppt worksheet and then the student will write in the answers.
A dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8202827.
Personally, I think it's OK to hold professional writers accountable for what their words convey. If not intended, he still should have been able to realize how others would interpret it.

Everybody makes mistakes and this isn't a huge one, but part of making mistakes is getting called on it.
+1 on the request for experiences of people who've played with Webpack and Browserify.

Sooo many options, so little time.
“Nancy is free of the virus, but the lingering effects of the battle have left her in a significantly weakened condition,” her husband, David Writebol, said in a written statement. “Thus, we decided it would be best to leave the hospital privately to be able to give her the rest and recuperation she needs at this time.”

It sounds like she's weakened from not only fighting off the illness, but being bedridded etc for several weeks. The drugs may have also had side effects (that they don't want to publicise for PR purposes).
Good luck Brian!
I don't know what he's using, but Servlet 3.0 and its implementations have support for WebSockets which would work fine for something like this.
"Government issued Blackberry". I wouldn't worry about them getting too cutting edge.

I contracted for the US Govt. deep in their IT - several years ago. My takeaways were that, they get a bad rap for being that much worse than the private sector as far as knowledge and ability.

Also, the pay was higher for their regular employees than I expected, and the benefits. It can be a great great package compared to the private sector. If you're interested in job security (keep your head down for 20 years - can take the monotony of the types of problems - retire early with a great deal). Job security in the private sector went bye-bye a while ago.

I'm comparing with typical private sector IT jobs in the USA, not the bizarre inflated SV world of the present time where kids seem to be laughing at 200k.
Did you consider doing spline fits to the x,y coordinates and then just saving the spline coefficients instead?

The fit process could likely be done client-side, and could offer some subtle smoothing if wanted?

Anyhow, really nice execution!
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I can't speak for ProductHunt, but I think one reason people release iOS apps that are basically just WebViews, is because it's the only way to make the company "findable" in the iOS app store. Users expect to find stuff in the app store, and if you have a website but no app, they won't find you. Just how Apple wants it ;)
Ask HN: I think I was the cause of a large CC breach, what should I do?
I'm a programmer living in the USA. I did some work for a client that they never paid me for. Before they completely locked out my account I installed a c99shell on their server (I was so upset and I knew they would lock me out but I didn't want to lose some upper hand. In retrospect this was a big mistake).

Well it turns out that they were storing credit card numbers in their database! Not long after I uploaded the c99shell script they had a data breach and a massive amt of fraud charges on customers credit cards. I assume the c99 script had some linked asset that showed up in some hacking group's log (this thought even entered my head at the time but I thought screw it who cares)

I'm a little frightened at the moment. I know I did something wrong uploading that script and accessing their server without permission. But I didn't steal any credit card numbers or do anything criminal! No government authority has reached out to me at the moment but I assume there's an investigation - banks probably get the FBI involved and stuff.

What should I do? What kind of legal issues might I be faced with?
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Okay, so this whole scenario is absurd, but I'm enjoying the thought experiment. Don't take this post as anything other than fun noodling about -- the fundamental fact is that no city is trying to raise revenue this way.

The simple answer to your objection is that it doesn't matter if you stop at a light for 30 seconds or 60, you still decelerate to a stop and accelerate to your cruising speed again -- the marginal difference is idle time, not decelerate/accelerate time.

"Ah," but you say, "But presumably if the red light is longer, some number of people who would have in the counterfactual world cruised through the green light will instead come to it while it is red, decelerate, stop, and accelerate again."

True enough. But while that light is red, another light is green -- for longer, presumably. So compared to the counterfactual, some cars who would have come down to the stop at the red in the other direction are instead cruising through the intersection.

(I presume, here, that nobody actually just sets the intersection to "all lights red" for extended periods of time. That would indeed increase the gas use of everyone in the city, but it also rather gives the game away.)

Indeed, ignoring the all-lights-red approach, the fact is that presumably however long you set the reds for, the intersection spends 50% of its time red and 50% green (or whatever for more complicated intersections, but the point is, you aren't altering the overall amount of red at the intersection, you're just changing it from many shorter intervals to fewer longer intervals). That being the case, we can reasonably answer whether it's possible to raise revenue at all here. Is every increased stop balanced by a missed stop?

And the answer to that depends on whether it's more or less efficient for overall city traffic to have longer or shorter reds. My intuition fails to provide an answer, and I don't have any formal background in traffic engineering.

But in any case, the difference seems unlikely -- at moderately reasonable red light lengths -- to make drastic changes to the city. At which point the $25/resident/year that I earlier estimated starts to look like a huge overestimate.

TL;DR: There is no conceivable way that cities are cynically lengthening red lights to raise revenue. Not effectively, at least.
It was more like two years actually :)

Anyway, back in 2007 java and flash were reasonable solutions. Today, not so much.

PS, how do you make any money from twiddla if you give away free educational accounts?
In political philosophy (at least the standard USA political philosophy I learned in school) rights are things that we agree in principle people should be allowed to do. Laws are made to protect rights, but they are not the source of those rights. Rights are founded in our collective moral beliefs.
If people you don't trust can boot your VM from arbitrary floppy images, I have bad news: you have already been exploited.
That seems a minor complaint about GIMP. It's should be easy to fix after the major changes get done. By that I mean full integration of GEGL and migration to GTK3. IMHO if these don't get done soon, GIMP will get replaced. It's been years since they "inadvertedly ported the core graphics code to GEGL".

You might say my priorities are wrong and GIMP is short on developers and I care about infrastructure more than something like gamma. But I'm moving to Wayland soon, and if GIMP has to run with GTK2 via XWayland I'm just not going to install it. OTOH I'm not a major user of it.
We're adding the ability to handle sequential tasks (and other cool combinations) in Gulp 4. See bach[1] for some ideas.

[1]: https://github.com/phated/bach
I would happily pay for soundcloud, however I will stop using the service entirely if I start hearing ads.

I don't care how good the music is. If I'm grooving and hear an ad for redbull, the mood is lost.
Developers have realized that the technology of fashion, just like that of software, doesn't need to be stuck in the past. There's nothing slovenly or disheveled about wearing nice jeans or nice shorts instead of stuffy slacks.

Suits can look amazing, but they are just one tiny corner of the realm of possible styles, and nobody likes being backed into a corner.
"For instance, it does not allow to sequentially execute tasks: everything is done in parallel."

This is false. You can set perquisites for a task, which will be executed in sequence.
The Q & A on those actually says:

Q: I want to get this for use in the office. I hear everything from birds, keyboarding to footsteps. Earplugs are a pain. Would you recommend a pair?

A: Nope - They are designed to cut out noise at higher levels. Solid earplugs are best to cut out noise from birds, footsteps, keyboards (even loud breathing). With these earmuffs you will likely still hear these "quiet sounds". Now if you are around leaf blowers, lawn tractors, heavy machinery, .50 caliber guns, or the like you will be happy with the comfort level that these muffs provide!
Just gotta say this is a strange outcome of our technological developments.. I mean think of the energy that was spent making this work - it could've been done doing something.. I dunno fucking useful?!

It's almost as bad as watching two "grown-ups" play Street Fighter lol.
Nothing the GP said implied it was necessary, merely sufficient.
Read ahead is a kernel level parameter; having tuned it before (also for a Cassandra ring) I would not expect to have to restart any user level processes for it to take effect.

But the real issue is understanding the platform that you are building on, and having the tools to explore how that platform works. I am so thankful that Brenden is out there doing this work and sharing it for the rest of us to benefit from!
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These lame baity titles are usually written by lame baity title specialists. Wired has been doing this a lot more lately. Perhaps they hired someone to Get Those Clicks Up.

You're right—the article itself is considerably better. It's quite noticeable, in fact. Pity the author can't just tell us what he would have called it.

(It's a moot point in the current case, though, because this story had a full airing on HN yesterday.)
No offense but this is pretty common. Also, "in the field" you'd have a hard time differentiating a fairly-stochastic chance outcome (or 'luck') from a loaded die without a bit of infrastructure in place for your benefit. The two are probably related and nothing to get worked up about, IMHO.
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I often think it's because there is no pressure to sleep.
Writers don't write headlines like 99% of the time.
I worked for a government agency as an intern, in software, for a few years and they were issuing iPhones by about 2010 which is about the same time at which Fortune 500 companies were doing it.
http://mynoise.net is the best if you ask me. You can customize everything.
This notion of dynamically typed languages being a unityped static type system is how a static type system models a dynamic type system. If anything, it shows that dynamic type systems have nuance that can only be modeled as a "unitype" in a static type system, thereby exposing limits to static typing. The "unitype" also shows that types are orthogonal & incidental to solving the real problem. Types may or may not help the programmer, but types are not the direct solution.

I also object to Robert Harper's convoluted rationalization that dynamic type systems are less flexible because it goes against my practical experience. I'm not claiming that I'm the authority when it comes to programming languages. However, I gravitate toward dynamic languages in my career because I feel they offer me more flexibility & less incidental complexity than static languages.
I'm blanching at the term "coder", myself. It implies badly managed offshore labor just there to soak up billable hours that isn't capable of independent thought.
"orientated" may be a perfectly cromulent word -- and may generally be a synonym for "oriented" -- but the phrase describing the programming paradigm is "object oriented" not "object orientated". Just as "functioning" is indisputably a good word and may be a rough synonym for "functional", but if you talk about about Haskell as a "functioning programming language", you may be correct in a sense, but it won't be as a statement about the programming paradigm it supports.
Your "customer" as someone working for the Executive Office of the President is almost invariably high level leadership.

Choosing to flagrantly break the convention of the business makes you like a prima-donna and is an obstacle to your own success. Why blow the large investment of political capital that the POTUS is investing in you to get past stupid political problems caused by wearing inappropriate material.

This goes both ways -- if you stroll into a Valley company in a three-piece suit, people are going to look at you funny and discount your advice.

You don't win by alienating the customer.
The increased housing prices are caused by "rent seeking" by wealthy landlords (think people who own hundreds of rental units for example) that want to increase the value of their property. They do this through zoning ordinances that artificially restrict zoning density and also through overuse of "historic preservation" laws. See Harvard economist Edward Glaeser's writings for more details. He very clearly demonstrates the increasing cost of land and as distinct from the cost of construction.

It is important to understand this reason, "rent seeking" in microeconomics makes for market inefficiencies. It is a means for people to enrich themselves through politics by making people pay more for rent or for buying a house instead of through actual wealth creation. The solution to the ever increasing housing prices is to reverse the "rent seeking" by fixing zoning laws so that there are not unfair zoning density restrictions and restricting the overuse of "historic landmark" laws.
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It may have a somewhat different focus (extensive and quickly accessible clipboard history), but you might find Ditto (Windows) interesting to have a look at.

http://ditto-cp.sourceforge.net/

I've missed having something similar on this Ubuntu machine I'm using. I'll have a look at CopyQ when my time frees up.

P.S. I seem to recall reading that Ditto allowed at least some level of hooking/triggering based upon content, but I never used it and I may be mis-remembering.
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