skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you wanted coordinated global action on climate change, with teeth, you would make it a prerequisite of the trade treaties.
I always thought that when people used the word "settled" in connection to climate change they were referring to the question of whether humans have influenced climate. Even though this article dismisses that question as "yeah there's little doubt about that", this is precisely what plenty of people have been arguing is not the case. So this article seems a lot like moving the goal posts to me.

Obviously climate science as a whole isn't "settled", any more than any other science is "settled".
Except Google is selling Chromebooks at car dealerships and calling them cars.
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The size of an integer n is O(log n).
The massive proliferation of angels is not due to simpler documents. The massive proliferation of angels is due to the smaller amounts raised in seed rounds.

It's just as easy to use template equity financing docs as template debt financing docs. I'm not sure where this alleged complexity comes from. There is no intrinsic complexity of equity docs that doesn't exist for debt docs. I've negotiated debt docs (for real loans to companies further along that were far, far more complicated than any equity docs you've ever seen. Because having more than one type of financing in a company adds intrinsic complexity (because the interests of different parties are no longer identical.) The reason convertible debt docs are simple is because no one cares enough to legally protect themselves. If you and the investor cared that little in putting together equity docs, the equity docs would be just as simple.

You can do a rolling close with equity. At least half the equity financings I've been involved with in the last ten years have had more than one close (my firm in the 90s tried to be the only one in the round, so there was only one close.) You can also do an equity round with no lead just as easily as a debt round. Why not? The reason most equity rounds have leads is because smart investors insist on leads and smart investors prefer equity. That's correlation, not causation.

I've done priced seed rounds for less than $10k. Series A and later are more expensive because there are more reps and warranties and checking of charters and etc.
1 can of coke contains 160% of your recommended daily intake of sugar. But you won't see that on the label because money.
Isn't consumption what drives the huge American economy? I'm not an economist, but it seems like implementing a bigger sales tax would reduce consumption, which would reduce profits, which would results in less jobs and smaller salaries. So in effect you would be reducing take home pay and increasing the price of goods. Is my logic here incorrect?
This has nothing to do with anonymity though.
Sorry for the confusion. To clarify, extroversion is not nonsense at all. It's a very desirable attribute.

However, many of these team outings are perceived as "nonsense" by the types of minds that make up a significant percentage of programmers. It doesn't mean that programmers are anti-social. It's just that they'd rather hang out with people on their own terms instead of a corporate sponsored gathering.

Yes, extroverted people are great. Baseball is also great. But going on a team outing to a baseball game might be "nonsense" to them. It's just the way it is. I'm just saying that dev managers need to take personality differences of programmers into account. Instead of team building, the manager is inadvertently causing team members to harbor resentment for wasting their time.

>I also find that teams that function like you describe are terrible for growth,

Can you explain further what you mean by this? Why is there a belief that devs need to firewalk with their coworkers cheerleading on the sidelines to foster growth? That's not been my experience at all.
> The sun is no where near that unstable.

I didn't say the sun was - this calculation is past the point of radiation and already in Watt being received by Earth. And I'm pretty sure those Watt are linearly (edit: or at least somewhat like it, given enough time) related to temperature.

Edit: parent had a good point (which may or may not have been edited out) about how radiation from the sun - Black body radiation - is power to the fourth away from translating into temperature. Which, though, I don't think is too relevant here.
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Ah, gotcha. I'll patch that up. Thanks!
Looks like it doesn't support IPv6.

src/main.c:
conf->fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)
A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted
I think it's interesting (euphemistic) how you imagine my friends and I interact. Given that I have actual experience interacting with my friends and you have only your imagination, perhaps you should reconsider the casualness with which you've insulted me. My conversations do not infact involve lots of "I don't know", "...", annoyed responses; people describe the details as well as they remember and then either they or we as a group try to look things up.

Next time, try asking questions instead of imagining or assuming.
Who is trivializing anything? This is what is so bizarre about these discussions, and why I use the term "Warmist": because it identifies a nearly religious zeal on the part of some non-scientists who insist that anyone who does anything other than repeat the mantra "the science is settled; we must implement every imaginable solution except nuclear power" is somehow "trivializing" the issue.

I'm clearly on the record as being concerned about climate change and strongly in favour of implementing social policies (including carbon taxes) that will a) reduce GHG emissions and b) protect the most vulnerable, but because I don't quack like precisely the right kind of duck I'm routinely accused of somehow trivializing something, or being the enemy (this is not the first time I've had this kind of discussion, obviously). This is what you see from rival religions, not from scientists. I was involved in the 17 keV neutrino controversy, so I'm no stranger to scientific disagreement, and it simply doesn't have this strange dynamic.

If anyone is trivializing anything, it is Warmists trivializing physics. For example, why anyone would go from a 0.5% change in energy budget to a 0.5% change in absolute temperature is beyond me. Heating and temperature in the atmosphere are connected by complex and non-linear factors, which is one of the reasons we need to do modelling in the first place. Even in the simplest case of a black body the non-linear Stephan-Bolzmann law applies, not Newton's law of cooling (which is linear, but irrelevant to this case.)

So the argument you're making is not even wrong: it simply doesn't speak to the question of what the plausible effect of climate change on the Earth in general and humanity in particular will be.

This kind of argument just feeds the Denialist trolls who are doing so much damage to this discourse, because they will pick up on your errors and cry "hoax!" and other such nonsense rather than "honest, innocent and naive mistake", which in fairness what I think your error most likely is.

Finally, as I said above, I've had this kind of discussion before and it's never ended well, so I'm going to stop here and let you have the last word. Enjoy!
> make sure I have something to show [...] even if it's just one level,with bad AI and bad controls.

Kickstarter funders did in fact get a downloadable demo/prototype.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV39GiK4Hw0
That's interesting. I have had panic attacks so severely that it is impossible to shake them off. My jitters and anxiety about further attacks can go on for hours or even days. I think I have a normal amount of depression ensuing from this, but not what I'd call clinical depression.

If I could put it into words, I'd say I felt more scared than depressed. "What if this is how my life will be from now on? I don't see how I could possibly cope. This must be what torture feels like."

(Fortunately the reality is that I managed to stabilise my anxiety using some of the methods I mentioned, to the point that I have few if any discernible symptoms for periods of months at a time.)

I've actually read papers by psychologists who seem genuinely unaware that quite severe anxiety disorder can present without any significant depression.

However, when I was a teenager I had a form of OCD that psychologists at the time considered to be a holy grail, essentially untreatable. I taught myself some mental tricks, which I later learned are standard fare for psychologists (CBT basically, although I'd never heard that term), and it went away after two years. I really and honestly thought full recovery wasn't possible at the time on the basis of what psychologists thought.

With anxiety, I choose not to own the condition. I don't feel attached to it in any way. I view it as definitely temporary, even if it does still flare up occasionally. And I believe that full recovery is realistic based on my past experience.

Of course I am just lucky that I don't have clinical depression to go with my anxiety. But I have friends who have fully recovered from that.
Yup. The proper way to emulate new is

Foo.call(Object.create(Foo.prototype))
Um, no, they aren't facts at all.
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Yeah I agree. The article was actually good and calls out very reasonable criticisms against current climate science. However the headline makes it seem the debate on whether humans influence the climate isn't settled.
It's kind of like wondering how 100 people managed to eat a whole extra large pizza. Like, the pizza might seem quite large to you personally, but it's really very little food compared to what 100 people would normally eat even as a snack.
Solar forcing as an explanation for AGW has been tested and rejected by the scientific consensus. The scientific consensus could certainly be wrong, but it's a huge red flag if anyone implies that it hasn't been given serious consideration by mainstream climate science, that it has been swept under the rug, etc, because that couldn't be further from the truth.

Pages 188-193 summarize why the scientific consensus believes what it does:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-cha...
There is one problem with your response ("The first is that not all of the ocean is a shared resource.), 99% of the ocean is a share resource and there are no fences between the shared and unshared portions, so fish and other wild life can cross the boundary (during migrations, etc).

If the shared portion of the ocean were to be destroyed (over-fished or polluted) then I dare say that the unshared portion would be, too.
You're right. Looks like Wikipedia disagrees with itself: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonated_water#Chemistry_and_....
> away from individual grants and towards group work.

I see this in the startup world in the form of a strong bias against sole-founder companies and toward large teams with huge numbers of advisors and even "party rounds" with three dozen VC firms involved. It looks like a football pileup, but hey they can't all be wrong can they?
Sorry, had a bad edit. I am going to skip out on this discussion, but I really suggest you do some reading on Thermodynamics. It's complex and most people really mess up when talking about it.
I have no idea how to check that.

Edit: Okay, apparently it's just that comment? What made that part of the discussion so offensive?
A "class" is quite useful to programmers vs. some of the alternatives; even JavaScript is (syntactically at least) moving away from prototypes to having real class constructs. I prefer traits (the mixin-like scala kind, not the field-free smalltalk kind), which are basically classes enhanced with linearized multiple inheritance. There are also Beta-style virtual classes, which are quite useful, and there are even languages that support dynamic inheritance (via prototypes, predicates, or on demand).

The OOPL design space is huge. I wish there was more activity there, but all the new hot languages either do little to innovate on OO constructs, or emphasize the functional (or worse: try to push type classes as OO).
You aren't having a discussion. You are arrogantly dismissing discussion and proclaiming yourself not just right, but beyond reproach, while strawmanning your opposition.
Whatever.

I am sick to the back teeth of "the sky is falling!" rhetoric.

I refuse to live in mortal fear for the future of humanity.

The climate will change, big deal, we'll adapt -- the range of habitats humans inhabit far exceeds the variation in climate that individual habitats will experience.

On the list of things to worry about climate change should be way down. But wow, you're so vocal -- because you feel that it is an existential threat. Newsflash, it ain't.

Homelessness is a bigger problem. Ditto poverty and starvation. I _welcome_ the push back against the drumbeats and rhetoric and hope climate change disappears off the political agenda entirely. Some hope.
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Recently I prefer using ES6, and transpiling/compiling/translating (which would be the right word here?) to ES5. Browserify with es6ify has made the workflow quite easy (same as Browserify + coffeescript).
It's a shame that the message was lost when we shot the messenger and didn't upvote this topic. The writing quality aside, even if this were FICTION, the idea of using 'nanobeads' or magnets to bind to and extract an undesirable element from a target environment was the eye opener for me. What other ways can this/has this concept been applied, inside or outside of biology?

Even if the DARPA grant leads to a dead end, there's bound to be some interesting side effects to pursuing this. I wish them luck and will be on the lookout for more related articles—even poorly written ones.
Have you seen the cheap Android phones out there? The Android One phones are about 100 bucks. The Moto G is $180. Still not $50, I know, but it's getting close enough the really start squeezing those phones (and JSME) right out of their niche. And Android development is Java (for all intents and purposes) too.
The link covers all govt spending.
I don't think pH works the way you think it does.

Neutral pH is 7, things with a lower pH are more acidic
Things with a higher pH are basic.
So Carbonated water, with it pH of ~4 is a much stronger acid than something with a pH of 5
Yes, as seen in several videos on YouTube, there's a slider just like on the Paperwhite, with a checkbox at the top for "Auto Brightness".

Here's an example: http://youtu.be/5-vZqmdwWSo?t=1m16s
See also his book "Computer Power and Human Reason."

Quote:

"The computer has thus begun to be an instrument for the
destruction of history. For when society legitimates only
those 'data' that ... 'can easily be told to the machine',
then history, memory itself, is annihiliated... Soon a
supersystem will be built, based on the New York Times' data
bank.. from which 'historians' will make inferences about
what 'really' happened, about who is connected to
whom, and about the 'real' logic of events."

That was in 1976.
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I get queries about jobs all the time and I just wrote this:
https://medium.com/terms-conditions/if-you-think-the-job-hun...

Not sure if it's helpful.
You don't think homelessness/starvation/food security/water security will be affected by any future changes in climate?
It seems like a risky move to announce that, oh btw, we gave $700 in refunds to some random people from the forum. Now the comment thread is full of backers saying "if THEY got a refund, then I want one as well!". That could get quite ugly.
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I agree with this. The surface area of most modules is small enough to be covered in a README.md, which is displayed prominently on npmjs.org, github.com and a copy of it is in your ./node_modules folder.

As said earlier, the core Node.js framework has great documentation, as do other frameworks such as Mongoose and Express.
Your reaction to this is exactly what is wrong with the discussion: I can stomach the person who talks down climate science because they fear for their job at the oil refinery or whatever, but when someone so viciously responds to someone simply saying that the common narrative about climate science is oversold (a simple truth that anyone with any rational sense understands), it is disturbing. It is when it is far past a rational scientific winnowing to an understanding, but instead has become religion.

Wage your religious battle and set up the caricatures of anyone who might disagree, but you sway no one.
J2ME programming is actually kinda fun, because the concepts make sense, and there aren't many of them. Canvas/Screen is pretty straightforward. Android's Context/Activity/Fragment/Intent/Bundle/etc/etc are a cognitive nightmare by comparison.

Unfortunately JRE 1.3 is almost 15 years old, and it's just annoying to e.g. not even be able to use java.util.List. And MIDP just isn't very rich in support for ... anything.

But FWIW you can compile C to J2ME, and it kinda works: https://code.google.com/p/cibyl/
> I hope Koonin's piece will help bring the scientific discussion back to fundamentals, and perhaps decouple the policy discussion from models a bit.

What world do you live in? You know exactly what Koonin's piece will do.
If they don't deliver the rewards, they should return the backers money (I think Kickstarter says this, but I haven't carefully checked).

This quickly leads to not promising tenuous rewards, but hey, that's fine.
That statement was on the level of: look we tried to return money to those who asked. Of course most people don't know that the project failed.

How will they deal with those? Ignore, Abort, Retry...
Ask HN: Is there a beautifully done commenting system out there?
I was thinking long and hard about this for the last week - there are 2 main systems out there
1. Reddit - Tree where indentation determines where you are in the visibility of a new user based on your "score"
2. Yelp - Flat wall of text which is not very usable
3. The rest - Disqus, forums et al which have some variation of this but are not very usable.

Is there anything better out there for documenting comments in a usable way?
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I was hoping to find something about acidification of sea water, caused by CO2. Even if the warmth of the earth isn't caused by us, it seems like the acidification of the ocean might be. A similarly skeptical look at this would be welcomed.
I think a log n example would be useful, e.g. a basic divide and conquer. Given that many algorithms strive for logarithmic complexity, it seems a shame to miss this out.

Also how about a list of complexities in order of growth time?
I would take the opinions of an industry expert with a large pinch of salt on the subject of negative externalities of the industry they are involved in, no matter what the industry.
Well... That's not good.

Cool to look at but very very not good.
The union-busting incident, while dark, seems to be an isolated incident.

If you saw the kinds of gangsters that become union leaders in South America these days, you'd at least consider using mercenaries.

The local Coca Cola union head here in Uruguay is not a man to be trifled with (Richard Read), he has gotten them incredible benefits (it pays better than programming over here :P ).

And the guys in Argentina are legitimate thugs and crooks (well, so is the government :P )

See for example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Moyano

Edit: a side effect of such union power is that Uruguay has the most expensive Coca-Cola in the world, a 2 liter bottle costs 3.5 dollars after taxes (so almost twice what it costs in the U.S.)
It might make more sense to ask "is humanity inherently sexist?"
That pdf is a great link, thanks. I've gone looking for this information before and failed to find it.
And your link does not support the 60% number for redistribution. For example, you might think pension means SS, but states spend 200B/year on pension bennifits which are simply deferred compensation. When you read medical expenditure you might think Medicare and Medicare but local, state, and federal worker bennifits are limped there as is R&D.

Edit: I assumed you got the 60% from the federal numbers aka 24 SS, 22 Medicare Medicare etc, Safety Net 12% = ~58%. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1258
Weizenbaum is discussing the received doctrine of most computer scientists. Probably most of you think we are making "just tools" and that their end use is not our concern. As you read this article, particularly the later portions, think about all the codenames we've heard since PRISM and how much the problem has grown since 1985.
But not too many of those countries also have bauxite mines, coca plants and kola nuts.
KS currently is just a platform to match backers to projects - more like Ebay than YC. But, you're onto something here. Maybe they start a guidebook? Or a certification program? Or a community (like HN)? Or a school?
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The number one concern of substantially every company with more than 10 engineers right now is hiring additional engineers. You can't make a hiring manager who is looking for an engineer mad by offering to introduce him to an engineer.

I'd take time to customize the pitch and make it obvious that you're sending it to someone who may be or may know a good fit, as opposed to any routable inbox you can find from the Internet.

example one:

Dear sir,

I am a C# Java C++ engineer from $LOCATION with extensive experience in mobile applications, front-ends, ... <-- absolutely nothing in here suggests that they know who I am, and they're imposing on me because they're offering nothing of value to me.

example two:

Hey Patrick!

I've read between the lines of some of your recent posts, and it seems like you are overwhelmed on Appointment Reminder. [Patrick notes: Someone literally wrote this to me last week. Got my attention in a hurry.] I'm an experienced Rails engineer with 6 years of experience working with legacy codebases. I think I could take the engineering work for AR off of your plate, so that you can focus on marketing/sales. Would you like to have a chat about what that could look like? I am open on next Monday and Tuesday from $TIME to $TIME -- what half-hour in there works best for you?
<-- Even if I were not interested in this, I'd be interested in this. It is very respectful of my time, demonstrates unique understanding of my situation, etc.
>It's easy for us white dudes (as I assume you are, based on your post) to say "games should just be whatever!" because we implicitly have the privilege of identifying with the inevitable white dude main character.

I am neither white nor dude and it is easy for me to say it too. Stop trying to hide behind me to justify your politics.