skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking into it a little more, I was definitely underestimating the amount of CO2 released from soil after the incorporation of compost. But I'm a little confused by your rule-of-thumb, or more particularly, the assumption that the soil carbon levels are constant.

While the percentage may remain constant in the steady state, why doesn't the soil mass increase? For example, I presume the total mass of carbon in the soil is greater now than it was prior to the evolution of green plants. At what point did it transition from accumulation to steady-state?

I'm not saying it didn't, just that I don't understand the logic that it must have. For example, I'd guess that there is more absolute organic matter in the soil in the northern US now than there was just after the retreat of the glaciers. Is this false? In the absence of erosion (and human agriculture) I'd presumed this process was still continuing.
Not at decent companies.

Stick it out for a year or two (to avoid the "job hopper" stigma) if you don't hate it, and bounce. Why be loyal to a company that isn't loyal to you?
Yep, completely healthy and I often forget that I ever had cancer. Of course the names of the company officers are etched in my memory, but hopefully over time I won't harbor such a grudge.
How were they out on the FMLA for a year? The federal FMLA caps out at 12 weeks, and I'm not aware of any state that has a FMLA that would extend to a year's leave.
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it has precisely nothing to do with the content

Do certain types of content set off the ring-voting detection more frequently? The type of content likely influences how it's shared and how people respond to it, which would affect how it's voted (and/or flagged). Algorithms are not unbiased, particularly when no one's bothered to study their confounding factors.
Pride is helpful for overcoming the shame society lumps on us for it.
"You will be shocked to hear that the updated policy was developed in part by a man who does not have children."

You will be shocked to hear that even men without children can recognize the need to retain employees that they value, because you can be sure that your competitors in the employment market will offer less misogynistic polices.

Sadly, I had to argue this very point years ago with my Microsoft coworkers. "Wah, I don't have kids, it's unfair!" Hey, I don't have kids and never will, but that doesn't mean I can't recognize the value of offering company benefits that I will never use.
Vacation is still an option for employers, not a requirement. If the government required vacation time and a company did not previously offer vacation time, it's net-effect would still be an additional tax.

I'm not making a moral argument here -- actually find it rather immoral for a company not to offer adequate time off. I'm just saying the net-effect of a government forcing a company to pay more money than it normally would is a tax.
Conversation (yes, often about announcements) is the main thing I use twitter for. To me twitter, at its best, is basically a giant irc channel with some filtering features.

Now you've seen one. I think you're confusing emergent with wrong, tbh.
How is gay marriage analogous to Mardi Gras in this context? Marriage provides certain federal and state benefits. By denying it some people, you are denying a certain class of people those benefits. If you cancelled or banned Mardi Gras, you would be denying the benefits of Mardi Gras to everyone equally. The only way your argument makes sense to me is if you banned Mardi Gras only for gay people. If you ban it all together, you aren't denying any particular group their rights.
If you criticize the effects of cars on society, are you a hypocrite for driving? How about riding? If you critique capitalism and wish it would end, are you a hypocrite for buying?

That's always a low accusation to make primarily because it's ad hominem and completely irrelevant, but secondarily because it's an easy attack that requires a detailed defense.

If a person making billions from running tobacco companies doesn't smoke, prefers people he's around don't smoke, and thinks that it's a nasty habit, is he a hypocrite? What about if he makes money from a rise in sales of sugary candy but thinks people eat too much sugary candy? What if he makes money from selling housing but rents?

edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8535040
Who cares about Tim Cook's personal life and preferences? Answer: no one should care.

Tim Cook is a exceedingly boring man talking about the most boring/banal/useless topic there is: sex preferences. Get out of my face identity pols!
I am a free market proponent. It is difficult to predict what the free market would make of this situation since we are currently so far from the free-market model. Here are a few stabs at looking in my crystal ball.

* Minimum wage laws pressure companies to cut benefits such as this.

* Many laws and regulations make it more difficult to start your own business. In a free market, having more small business owners would even the playing field and make benefits like this more common.

* When businesses no longer have terrible laws like the FMLA to serve as a reference for their time off policies, more would craft their policy based on attracting and retaining talent. Businesses that do so naturally are more likely to succeed and will crowd others out of the market.

* Since people can't rely on a government for their own welfare in a free market, they would be more proactively aware of time off policies when taking a new job, thus creating a natural pressure for better policies.

* Since businesses wouldn't have the "We're completely compliant with federal regulations" cop-out, more outcry may result from stories like the OP because these policies are actually counter-productive to business.

But in the end none of that really matters in the free-market debate. Either you do have the right to use force against people who are honoring a mutually agreed contract, or you don't. If I want to work for a company with a no-time-off policy, what right do you have to steal that company's money (fines) or property (confiscation)? What did we ever do to you?

If it's okay to use morality as an argument to make such laws, then why is it not okay to use morality as an argument to leave people be?
He's also an AIDS denialist and anti-vaccination, from the looks of things.
I've used a variety of services similar to this over the years; delicious, spurl and currently diigo.

My use case works like this:

1) find an interesting website / article
2) highlight a paragraph
3) click the magic button (ie: diigo's chrome extension button)
4) save the url along with the high lighted text and a tag
5) my blog then pulls in this info from my diigo user's rss feed and displays it to visitors

I'll be checking out google's effort, but I can't see me moving away from diigo unless I have to.
I think there's plenty of evidence that humans by nature are uninterested in "politics", except when it might effect them. Then it becomes an object of great importance.

As for the role of the algorithm, I think its just an extension of "garbage in, garbage out".

Stories like this are a nice reminder that every community is also a bubble.
No, that is not an alternative as Seafile is server-client, where as BTSync is client-client (peer2peer).

syncthing.net is an alternative to BTSync.
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When you compare the time fukamachi's spent on these libraries to the time spent on Clack, Caveman, etc., it's pretty clear there's obsession with performance.

As aroman said, "The real story here is that people are working on a number of new libraries/modules/tools for doing web development in CL".
It also helps that POODLE is in the news too.
Or Pinterest...
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Here, I'll translate:

Admirable is a moral judgment.
Admired means that "the others" have drank the kool-aid. (Sheeple, etc. etc.)
That sort of provable rng isn't novel. tenhou.net [1] (a site for playing riichi mahjong) has been using sha512 of rng values/seeds since at least 2009.

[1] http://tenhou.net/man/#LOG (in japanese)
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While I realize you can't go into too much detail about ring-voting detection to prevent people from finding ways around it, can you elaborate a bit on what ring-voting means to HN, beyond the obvious?

The obvious definition would be a clique of accounts that all upvote each other's stories, but that seems rather unlikely in this case; is there a secondary criteria? Are you looking to prohibit what Wikipedia calls "meatpuppetry"? Are you also looking to prevent upvotes from people who reach an HN discussion via Twitter or other sites?
yes, 'ew' was my first thought.
"S... O... C-I-A... L-I-S-M is the only way" (Sam Roberts, The Canadian Dream)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tutTzTYuU1Y
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I don't know about "compiling" ruby in javascript.

At the end of the day, you are debugging javascript. From my experience, debugging is not 80% of the programmer job but more like 99%. And I feel adding a lawyer of abstraction is just making the job harder. Even if you find a good plugin to match JS to the actual Ruby source, it still feels very gimmicky.

BTW, I love Ruby and I want this to happen but it's not going to be. :{
If it was truly 120, that would make over 10% of the population (based on a standard bell curve) geniuses. I've never seen it that low. 160 seems to be the current acceptable number, but of course there will always be a range.
The example echo server is very elegant.

(with-websocket
(lambda ()
(send-message (string-append "you said: " (receive-message)))))

I'll add "porting Chicken web sockets to GNU Guile" to my ever growing todo list.
No data, just anecdotes
India is far from been mature and accept for what we actually are.. in India you will mostly see people who are pretentious and care more about society thinks about them than what they actually feel..

Same is the case for a treatment for "women".. in india they are treated unequally.. the boy child gets all the care, education, preferences and most of all "FREEDOM" and girl cant even do anything of her choice.. india people still believe in child marriage..

I don't understand what makes gay people unacceptable? they are not hurting the society like the criminals do.. they are not disrespecting anyone.. they are simple believing on what they feel is right and who is to decide that being gay is wrong..

I am happy Tim is supporting the gay community because if 100 normal people claim and accept to gay it would have been neglected.. however Apple's CEO supporting the gay community should help a little..

There is one basic rule in life that "Be good, Do good.. Never dis-respect any human or animal"
More useful is a link to the release notes: http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.4
I'm wondering that as well. In particular, it seems like content that's more likely to be shared via various social networks would be more likely to set off the ring-voting detector.
"Clip full page" in Evernote Web Clipper does a nice job snapshotting the current page, even if it is behind a login.
Yeah, most good office jobs give you sick days "as needed" - take them on the honor system, don't abuse it or your manager will get suspicious, but they don't check up on it. The reason is that they don't want to incentivize employees to come to work when sick, because then they get everyone else sick and the whole office's productivity is reduced.
NL doesn't have a president but our PM is openly gay and as far as I know nobody cares.
That's true, but if electric vehicles don't take over the world, a useful application could be to use nuclear power to make liquid fuels. We could have a carbon-neutral civilization with the same cars, gas stations, and pipelines we have right now.
I knew America has awful employment law, but wow.
I was using Sync as recently as last month. I just opened the iPhone app and it looks like now you can add a folder but not sync the data to your phone which is a huge improvement however the iPhone app is still a steaming pile of shit IMHO. It froze up on me 3 times while I was trying to browser through my non-synced folder and I had to force quit (iPhone 6+ no other apps running).

Also I find the web/app interfaces to BTSync to be extremely laggy or contain stale data. On my MBPr (late 2013) it took a little over a minute to launch (well it "launched" right away but the web interface showed a loading screen for a minute, I have ONE folder synced) and the UX is terrible. I'll click something and a few seconds later it will open, I'm constantly wondering if the click registered or if BTSync is just being slow. In my experience the web/app does not seem to save my settings on which columns to show which is quite irritating. Lastly as I mentioned above trying to have BTSync sync 300+ folders brought it to it's knees and I can't even load the web interface to remove folders so that it's usable again (On my Ubuntu media center).

As for the API key there is NO VALID REASON why I should need an API key to access something I host myself, none. Period. Exclamation point. I had to apply for an API key before I could start scripting BTSync and the first thing I did with scripting was to add all my media folders for shows to BTSync and it fell over and died. If you just want to sync a handful of folders it might work fine for you but when it brings my beefy media center to it's knees something is really wrong. Another gripe I have is the documentation for BTSync is woefully out of date and flat out incorrect in some cases. Once you manage to get an API key there are no instruction on what you do with said API key. Do you add it to each request to the BTSync API? No, you actually put it in a config file for BTSync itself which I only found out after scouring the internet and BTSync forums for help.

BTSync has failed me multiple times and I'm done wasting my time with it. I'm glad it works for your but trying to use it for ~10TB of data is pipedream. To be fair Syncthing (Pulse) may be no better but I already like them more because they are more open whereas BTSync feels like a bait and switch waiting to happen IMHO.
> The paranoid user is worried Google will have access to my saved sites and sell my usage stats.

Google doesn't have access to your bookmarks if you set your Chrome sync encryption password to something other than your Google password. When first launching the new bookmark manager, you'll even get a privacy message in the manager reminding you that Google does not have access to your custom sync encryption password.
I went through this last year with the birth of our second son. My wife was making sure that everything would be taking care for talking to HR multiple times and they all saying she would be fine. Come time for her to take time off we were presented with a whole other story. First she would't get all the weeks off because she went into labor a week early then expected and to top that she wouldn't be getting paid over the summer (She worked as a school RN at this time). So we were out 5 months of income. Luckily I gotten into a bad habit of placing all the money I will need for my taxes at years end into my account and just not touching it. Well that bad habit saved us for sure, but now the taxes are a pain in the ass. I guess that's life.
> Bookmarks seems like an outdated technology.

I agree. I made http://fetching.io because I hate having to remember to save something just to easily find it later. Everything you see should be indexed and easily searchable.
Must have been very cool to be bit-saving and over-optimizing in our "era of plenty". Almost nobody cares about a couple extra MB nowadays. And starting from a blank main.c? Gutsy.

I hope you get your dev blog approved :)
Is this some kind of joke?

It has a Twitter icon on his website that links to his active Twitter account. On that account, 4 hours ago, he tweeted about this blog post (https://twitter.com/Alex_Gaynor, https://twitter.com/alex_gaynor/status/527851651097309184)
It was merely meant as an illustration of why some people hold 'conversations' on twitter. The provider is Vodafone.
These aren't actual APKs right? I'm assuming this is an actual binary that would get called by an FFI from java land.
There is no point in betting on something that has a 50/50 chance of disappearing in a few years to store your valuable bookmarks — especially when (I assume) cross-platform support will be lacking.

Use Pinboard instead.
I'm surprised at seeing no reference to reddit which does allow for participation and discussion.
I am from Greece. Unfortunately, I can't find anything in english but I have read quite a few "theories" about ancient Greeks traveling to America.
Well, you might waste a cycle on the first run (or any-run after the branch has been flushed from the branch prediction table), as well as wasting cycles elsewhere from clobbering the table.

One solution to both of these problems I have thought about, but do not work at a low enough level to know if it is already a thing, is an opcode for unlikely branches. Sementiclly, this would behave like a normal jmp instruction, but the CPU branch predictor would always assume that the jump is not taken, and not bother keeping track of it.

In this particular case, it would also involve a way of signalling to the compiler (or the compiler inferring), but for loops it could be usefull.

Of course, in this case it is also possible that the compiler can infer that the branch can never be taken and remove it, so you really do not loose anything.
We are in complete agreement in that the way out of the current mess is a world-scale governmental movement to assert policy change that at least tries to solve the problem of human created environmental change, and carbon dioxide specifically.

I don't think we will run out of "cheap" oil though, since oil can be produced from coal and coal is hugely abundant. I agree that waiting for oil to become more expensive than renewables before investing in renewables, or in other words expecting free market dynamics to solve the problem, is not going to work.
don't trees and plants do this? Could'nt we just plant more. Especially on top of buildings?
> Do certain types of content set off the ring-voting detection more frequently?

Sure—people posting their startups, for example, set off the ring detector more frequently than the typical news article. Friends voting for friends' blog posts, too. But is that a bias of the algorithm? That strikes me as a stretch.
The (unstated) objection that can be inferred from the article is that because the US has no firm protections here, it pushes the burden and costs of these programs onto employers, who are incentivized to minimize spending on these programs (and thus the benefits).
When I look for a job I apply to multiple companies at the same time when I find job openings that match what I'm looking for and also apply to companies I'd love to work for that don't have openings.

So I end up having multiple phone interviews and then on-site interviews until I get one or more good offers. Just recently I got 3 really good offers in the span of two weeks and took the time to chose the one I really wanted to accept. I told each company I was interviewing at other places too and wanted some time to think.
My favorite thing with the OpenBSD folks isn't that they add APIs that avoid classes of security bugs but rather that they then ruthlessly update their code base to rely on the safer version.
This must be something newer then because as early as a month ago I could find no way to do this. That may be failing of their documentation however I clicked every button/icon there was in the mobile app and found no way to do it. I can see now that by clicking the icon to the right of the folder name I can choose to have it "Auto-sync" which I assume means the data is stored on my phone but it's still confusing.
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What you're describing is the end game. The CO2 for beverages is only one example of a mid-game strategy to get to the end game.
Fukamachi has done some stellar work. I've used his code and have generally been very happy with it.
The article is all about how he doesn't want to communicate with people unless they are in his specifically selected group of people he thinks is OK. So allowing blog comments would probably let anyone communicate, which is what he dislikes about Twitter. So I see the blog comments being disabled as more in line with his philosophy, at least.
"...nearly all have the same problem, which is that any data you upload can be decrypted by the provider. In the event of a bug or a breach, anyone could have access to your files."

Hey folks. Thomas from IDrive Online Backup. We are of the few cloud services which uses private key encryption so only the user can decrypt their data.
Seeing Past the Highlight Reel
The correct term is 'transpilation'.
What does a mathematician do? Explain it to future students
Looks great but do you have a demo? I really want to try this before buying it. I used MenuTab in the past and I found that it was pretty buggy after I installed and used it for a while. I'd like to try your app before I buy.

Also what is your privacy policy? When I installed Little Snitch I found that MenuTab was making all sorts of calls to ad sites. Do you do any of the same?
Compared to Allin? Yes.
yes! i just have a milk-crate, but it makes all the difference.

yes also to OP on the "bicycling to work wakes me up super well" - i did in a northern US city for 6 years, and the icy/cold months when i had to rely on transit instead were remarkably more challenging, especially the mornings, even if i kept up other indoor exercise.
Yikes. :)

OP, you might want to check out HTML Purifier (if you're using PHP) and htmlentities().
Big up to Tim Cook for making this move. So many people struggle with issues of identity and live with or in fear of discrimination. Equal rights and justice for all.
Obama changed his mind and became an outspoken proponent of equality.
Specifically on AppEngine vs Elastic Beanstalk, Google released Managed VMs, which is the ability to run IaaS on PaaS. Essentially the best of both worlds:

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/managed-vms/

(disclosure: work at GCP)
Have you tried to use huge page to reduce the time of fork()?

There also a similar problem for master of MFS, it will be great if you have some experience in it.

EDIT: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt
I've generally been happy with my use of Common Lisp in the web environment - it's had a long-standing presence there. I've personally not found deployment the most happy story, but I expect that with the rise of Docker, shipping a Common Lisp image in a Docker image will be a very popular method of deployment.
I work for an employer with generous benefit policies and am male, but even still ran into enough HR nonsense that it felt as if I was the first human working for an organization with over 150k employees who had ever had a child.

In short, I was:

- Warned that I could potentially be charged with fraud for enrolling my wife in family health coverage before the baby's birth.

- Told that I would "void my FMLA rights" if I performed any work activity while off. (Although I had 10 weeks of paid accruals and supervisory approval to take off!) The overzealous HR person tried to have my accounts disabled as well. Stopping this required that I walk into the HR Director's office and complain -- not an option for people lower down in the hierarchy.

- Charged $750 because my son had the temerity to be born after the new year, and hospitalization pre-approvals expire with the calendar year.

My wife had a whole litany of wacky things happen. It is a nightmare.