skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There aren't any oil-filled voids within the ocean floor. Oil and gas is contained in pourous rock, but the oil-containing rock is mostly solid. In the Deepwater Horizon case, it was also more than five kilometers below the ocean floor, so in other words very far underground.

I have heard the same speculations you refer to in the news, but I think they instead refered to the topmost portion of the well being destroyed, creating cracks in the top of the shaft of the well and allowing oil to leak in all directions. I am not a geologist, so I don't know how plausible these worries were.
I think it's fair. These measures protect against all unwanted intrusion, whether criminal or government.
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You're absolutely right in regards to tools.

Just as knowing photoshop doesn't make you a solid designer using Slack and Google hangouts doesn't make you a solid remote company.

Remote working is 100% people and culture. If you are having a hard time finding responsible, communicative employees remotely I highly suspect you'll have the same issues hiring locally.

Communication is not only important for remote teams.
Nonsense. The things you say about a persons opinions are still things you say against that person. It just becomes more acceptable in some circles to describe someone as having naive opinions than describing the person as naive.

The best course of action is to leave the emotive language out of the discussion.
We nerds dwell more on the function, than the form. Would, say, Knuth's notes be less useful if they were written in Comic Sans? Sure, they'd be hard(er) to read, but the message would be the same.
Apparrently, DVB-T(2) is pretty close to the maximum allowed [according to] Shannon -- so it really just depends on what frequencies are used (and coding details). It is a frequency that is well suited for broadcast ("push") -- so not sure if de-regulating it for general send-receive is such a good idea (see sibling comments). Anyway, did you see:

http://www.satbroadcasts.com/DVB-T_Bitrate_Calculator.html

And:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-T2#Technical_details

?
Probably better for the investors who own SF property, that's why I assume VC are always so anxious for companies to relocate.
Slutty girls inspire Seattle men to make a new hookup app.

Problem?
It does make business sense to delay the inevitable for a while. My understanding is that print ads pay better than the mobile/desktop ads.

That said, it's kind of disingenuous of the Times to charge the advertiser for an impression when I just recycle my paper without reading it.
> On the other hand, this is a good argument against the libertarian dot-point that private charity 'would happen if we weren't taxed so much'. Given that you can offset your tax by your charitable donations, it becomes a zero-sum game (...).

From what can I tell, the game theory itself is essentially one big argument about libertarian ideas.
I continue to use Dropbox the way I always have: it's for stuff that I don't mind the rest of the world finding out. For example, I have my O'Reilly library delivered through Dropbox. I have cheat sheets, bookmark lists, cat pictures and what not on Dropbox.

I always treated Dropbox as if it was a wholly owned subsidiary of the NSA. Having Condoleeza Rice on the board doesn't move my opinion away from that state.
"I'm somewhat insulted you assume my ignorance."

It was not assumed. You'd demonstrated it. There's nothing wrong with being ignorant, only with insisting on maintaining it.
Your product look useful and I might try it soon.

However, there seems to be an issue on that page: on Win8.1 x64 and Firefox 32.0.3 I get constant CPU of between 25-60% when it's loaded (I'm on a i7 Haswell CPU with 6GB RAM, and I see my RAM usage creeping up by about 1kB every couple seconds as well).

On Chrome 37.0.2062.124, I see the RAM usage creeping up in the same way, but CPU is low.
So are you saying if they were building hardware, ie building something complicated and creative it would then be important to not be remote?
It's hard to define what a "fair" columnar store scan is. We use a technique that is called "segment elimination", which allows to skip over compressed segments of data as you scan. However every solid columnar database uses such techniques. It just happens that Oracle 12c doesn't have the ability to sort columnar indexes, and neither does it have the ability to store columnar indexes on flash or disk, which bloats the overall cost.
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Lack of marality? Do you not see the writer's total bias? The guy is just a regular entreprenuer who is being brought down by an over eager (crappy) journalist.
In my experience (and take it as just a data point), the success of a remote worker depends on the worker more than anything else. If it's a shitty place to work, even the best remote worker won't accomplish much.

I have seen remote workers slacking off; and I have seen remote workers who were so good that I couldn't believe they weren't in the next building over.

I'll take a guess and say that if Reddit is doing this, then it felt that the remote workers weren't as productive as they could be; hence the desire to pull them in and keep a closer eye on them.
> you may need a new monitor

No, I'm actually perfectly fine with my Eizo. It's not its fault that it isn't able to show half-pixels. That's by design.

> the Lato font, one of the most widely used fonts on the internet

I seriously doubt that this is the case. Last time I stumbled across it was heartbleed.com, and I had to use the F12 console to de-Lato the page, that's why I remember. That was half a year ago, thankfully.

If you spend your day reading about cool parallax scrolling plug-ins for your site, then you might see a lot more Lato than I do, yeah.
Using Intel VTune to Tune Software on the 4th Generation (Haswell) Processor [pdf]
Oops. I kind of read that bit over and over and still came away with the wrong idea. Reading comprehension failure I guess.
You could have your paper copy delivered to a nursing home, a school, the ebola isolation ward at a hospital, a shelter, or some such place where they would appreciate a free Sunday Times (after asking first, of course).
US top cop decries encryption, demands backdoors
I think they are talking about a radical change in your sense of smell being a predictor, rather than your overall sense of smell.
Is there a link where you can listen to the author's original recording? It would be nice to be able to compare it to the Gaga song.
It's kind of amazing what a good spin people are able to put on "move or you're fired."

Yeah, three months' severance is pretty nice, but it's still ultimately "move or you're fired." These people probably thought they had job security yesterday, and today they have to find a new job.

It's basically a big round of layoffs. Sometimes that's necessary, but angst is standard and expected when it happens.
And thus does the javascript ontogeny finally finish recapitulating phylogeny, and we arrive at the inevitable end point: The Erlang/Go way is the best way to do this stuff after all.

If you still end up using Javascript at the end of the process, hey, great, go nuts, but after years of swaggering optimism in the JS community about how somehow their stuff was so much better than anybody else's despite "event-based code" being extraordinarily well-trodden ground since the 1990s (as in being the default programming model for all serious code and entire major dominant operating systems), it might be worth people taking a moment to consider whether some more listening at the beginning of the process might have cut some years off this journey of discovery. The Javascript community has not been leading the charge of writing asynchronous code... they just caught up.
I like how the article succinctly discussed different possible causal mechanisms for losing a sense of smell that an individual formerly had as a marker for declining health and impending death.

This is especially interesting in view of the reduction of sense of smell over millions of years in the ancestral line of human beings. Before animals in the clade Primates developed trichromatic color vision, they distinguished fruits ripe enough to eat from fruits that were not mostly by smell. But after color vision improved, there was no longer selection pressure to maintain the sense of smell genes that gave the same information about food plants, and so random mutations gradually knocked out those genes. Comparative DNA analysis shows that human beings have descendant genes that were once used for accurate sense of many smells that human beings can no longer distinguish, but that sensory capacity was lost by genetic drift until lack of accurate sense of smell for many substances became fixed in the human population. A fascinating book that tells this story in more detail is The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution by Sean Carroll,[1] a very readable and enjoyable book about molecular biology studies and the evidence they provide for biological evolution.

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Just don't get confused about who Condoleeza Rice is working to support. It's not you, the user, it's Dropbox as a company.

There are many decisions that Dropbox will have to make which will not be in your favour but will be in theirs. If you're lucky, they'll even tell you about those decisions.
"My city" is perfectly idiomatic English for "the city in which I live."
> Lack of custom operators limits expressiveness.

I understand that this is going to be hard for some to swallow, but it is explicitly a non-goal of Rust to be maximally expressive. :) New features are motivated almost solely by solutions to concrete pain points in Rust code (especially Servo). This may sound particularly Blubby, but the devs are well-versed in Haskell (and Lisp, and Scala, and ML, and...). With respect to custom operators and infix operators, they're taking the cautious approach of leaving the option open for future versions of Rust, since they can be added completely backwards-compatibly if there's significant demand for them post-1.0.

> It seems that currying, partial application, and
> function composition are sorta cumbersome in Rust.

There are two different camps in competition here. One camp wants Rust to have default function arguments as per C++. Another camp wants Rust to have automatic currying. These camps are in opposition because they both want to control what `foo(bar)` does for a function `foo` that takes more than one argument. So far the devs have resisted entreaties from both camps. Experience post-1.0 may change this.

> It seems there's a difference between function
> types.

Closures are really terrible right now and are in the midst of getting a complete overhaul to be more useful and less hacky. :) Procs won't even be a thing afterward. Please excuse our mess!

> Why doesn't Rust warn when discarding the result of
> a function if not unit?

It does warn, for any type that has the `#[must_use]` attribute. This includes the stdlib's `Result` type, which is basically Haskell's `Either` except explicitly intended to be used for error handling.

> Is Rust planning any sort of syntax that'd let
> users implement Option or Async?

I'm not sure what this means, as users can already implement Option. It's not special-cased by the language in any way.

(As for the lack of HKT, that's a hotly-desired feature for post-1.0. It's still a bit pie-in-the-sky, but the devs have acknowledged that it would be very useful to improve our error handling story.)

> Please, please, please, reconsider type inference.

Not going to happen. :) Requiring type signatures on top-level functions is so useful that even the languages that allow it to be inferred tend to enforce their presence via social pressure. In addition to providing powerful self-documentation, this vastly improves error messages. Finally, I suspect that Rust's trailing-semicolon rule (especially combined with the willingness to ignore the return value of most functions) would interact poorly with function signature inference.

> Statics/consts should also have type inference.

IIRC this isn't possible, but I've forgotten the reason for now. It certainly isn't motivated by any sort of philosophy.
It is better for company, because it can control workers.

There is a reason companies give all those perks to employees - their (employees) loyalty grows. Employees get addicted to all the great stuff large corpo have to offer.

Its like small startups getting office dog. People get emotionally connected to it so they wont leave the company... Cheap trick but it works. Free snack bar, transport and gym anyone?
They sort of do https://nytimesathome.com/hd/205 except they insist delivering you an actual weekday paper in exchange for $4.25 a week donation.
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A communist state and local government?

You're an idiot.
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distinguished - "successful, authoritative, and commanding great respect"
Is English your second language per chance? Not meaning to be rude but you're taking things very literally and seem to think that MS has somehow trademarked the word "distinguished."
If a school gives out "Academic Excellence Awards" to it's students, it doesn't mean that only those students who get the award(I don't know what Mr. Shamgunov's title at MS was) can describe themselves as excellent students.
As noted below, the fact that it's in lower case and precedes the words "senior database" makes it pretty clear that it's being used as a descriptor not as an official title. Especially since unless you're from MS, no one would even know about it.
I see such literal interpretation of English from immigrants that come to the US when they are adults. Unsolicited advise, try reading fictional books to get a hang of colloquial English :)
I hear you and agree.

I think what rubs me the wrong way[1] about this issue is treating (or appearing to treat) certain classes of people/needs differently. If drag queens can have personas, but furries can't, that's not cool.

If the push by the LGBTQ* community to win this accommodation for drag queens and trans* folks relaxes the rules for other groups at the same time, that's a good outcome.

[1] Afterwards: Oops, no furry pun intended.
Did they ever figure out how to prevent downgrade attacks?
The football team doesn't pay its employees.
I must ask this question and someone please enlighten me but --
1. Where does money come from to support these Organization ( e.g. dollaraday or Watsi ?

2. How do these Organizations pay for developer costs , website, office maintenance and employee salary ?

Do they take cut from donation and donate rest of the money ? If that's the case then its pretty much scam.

Susan Komen for women's breast cancer collect millions of dollar. Innocent people pay thinking money is going to cancer research. But they instead pay their CEO some $500k+ salary. What a shame !

I must ask this is starting a non-profit new legal scam in United States to collect money ?
Uh. Relative to other parts of history it is a better time to a single middle classish man. 50 years ago most men had to be married to engage in romantic "happenings". Now you don't.
Yeah, they really turned me off when they started banging the war drums for Dubya's little Iraq adventure.

Oh, wait, that's probably not what you were referring to at all, is it?
Ah yes, your average Windows user will definitely intuit that. "Windows 10? What happened to Windows 9- oh they bumped the kernel version in 8.1 of course, that makes sense."

If Microsoft is targeting people who care about kernel version numbers in their marketing strategy, they're even more off base than I thought.
> Premium video has a similar problem

For premium, wouldn't the conversion be easier? Having HBO bill me $12/month through my cable company or $12/month through their app doesn't make a difference to me as an already paying user.
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You can post this as many times as you want, it still completely misses the point.
Rust in peace: Photographer captures the demise of America's factory towns
From the article:

Ordinarily, an expensive notch filter would be used which is cost prohibitive for most average people. My system avoids this cost by using two less expensive edge filters which when combined in the correct manner provide the same benefit as the notch filter...at the minimal cost of a little extra computing time.

If the goal is to cancel the incident light "carrier" frequency, couldn't this also be done interferometrically, just using mirrors and beam splitters?
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Nice post,

> that managers could review offline

web pages can be viewed offline
Just to be clear, I speak more broadly of the idea in general that conditions are perhaps not right for life everywhere, rather than the specific claims of a particular book.

In particular because it both easy and tempting for some people to overspecify the conditions for life and for others to underspecify. On the one hand it is trivially easy to get odds as long as you want by overspecifying exact details of human ascent. On the other hand, looking up into the sky it's hard not to notice that if life were really so easy and abundant it really shouldn't look like that up there. (Or Great Filter handwave handwave. But anyhow, something is up, and the general idea of Rare Earth is still in the running.)
You cant have two devices at a time (prison security) - so if inmate buys an mp3 player he has to give up his walkman
I use WiFi sync on 1Password specifically to avoid syncing through Dropbox or iCloud.

Anything stored on servers in the USA, UK, New Zealand or Australia should be treated as compromised, exposed or public information.

I certainly wouldn't hand my 1password file to random strangers in the street, much less anyone associated with any kind of law enforcement or intelligence agency.

So treat cloud storage as that random stranger in the street. Sure, E's always there with your bag of loot and E's pretty reliable about giving your stuff back, but you have no guarantee that E isn't letting everyone else look at what's in your bag (or that other folks haven't figured out a way to see what's going into and out of the bag, or figured out a way to determine what's in the bag without letting E know they're looking).
Most websites that have a "Most Popular" tag on a plan are almost always lying I've noticed. In reality, its just the plan the company wants you to get and has no reflection on actual sales volume.
The big apartment will be $3.5k. That's very workable -- the price is a $50k raise to get that $2.5k/mo post taxes.

What isn't workable is the price of a home for kids. If you have two kids and want a three bedroom apartment or house, plus parking for a car, in most of sf you're starting at $5k/mo+. Plus probably needing private schools if you're not lucky enough to get into the handful of decent publics in sf.

Or you can move to eg San Mateo or Belmont, which have good public schools. A nice 3-bed rental will be ~$4k/mo, but you're eating a 50 minute each-way commute up 101/280.