skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His scheme seems to be, "We can pay for sucking CO2 out of the atmosphere by selling the CO2." Okay, reasonable enough, but just a quick question: doesn't the sold CO2 just get dumped back in the atmosphere?

He suggests that industrial CO2 is used to rejuvenate oil wells, carbonate beverages, and juice up commercial greenhouses. Of those, carbonated beverages CERTAINLY release all their CO2 back into the atmosphere in a time-frame of at most years and probably weeks. I assume that some percentage of the CO2 used in commercial greenhouses is turned into, well, plants (though most plants pretty quickly decay and release their CO2 back into the atmosphere, with the exception perhaps of some woods), but I'd guess that 90%+ of it goes back into the atmosphere. I'm not sure how much of the gas stays underground for decades in the case of pumping CO2 into an oil well.
If you also use libevent, I win! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8532192

Congratulations for this btw. I'm not an MS fan, but I hope this works for you guys!
In addition to practice (which many here have suggested - and they're good suggestions!), it would probably be helpful to get some feedback on your writing as well. I find in coding at least (the closest comparison I can make since I'm a typical American and only speak 1 language), the absolute best and most "rich" learning is done when someone corrects/improves work I've already thought about and tried.

Not in an insulting way of course - just in an improving way. And on that note, I'd be more than happy to give you feedback on your posts & comments here if it would be helpful and not offensive. In public or in private. Just let me know!
Ubuntu Software Center won't install correctly on my Windows box.
Have you considered using PyScaffold http://pyscaffold.readthedocs.org/ ? It is tuned for ease of use and comes with a lot of features.
The walls are painted to make it the enclosed space feel open. Soon we will want to be enclosed once our conditioning takes hold :)
In my opinion that's what taxes are supposed to be, not just for carrying the "burden" of children but ALL the "burdens" and "advantages" of being together in a society.
the jesus fish is always the one i get a small smirk when i see.

quick google:
http://www.albatrus.org/english/religions/pagan/origin_fish_...
Thanks! Will take that feedback on board.

If you scroll down under the "Fair" tab, there's actually a "Calculate" button that links you to a hash calculator, with the inputs being the client seed + seq. Although I would agree that this is difficult to communicate to your normal user.
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As far as I can see from the console, you can both change the DNS servers (if you don't like Google's ones) and edit the zone file. So, I guess, you could support DKIM via another SMTP, e.g. Amazon SES. (please note that I have no affiliation with G domains, I'm just trying to reply to the original question to the best of my knowledge)
No one in the company was subscribed to their mailings?

Hope they're monitoring their backups.
If You Brag About Hits You Don’t Know What You Are Talking About
> - Shall I put coffee in the rum?

FTFY
A mongo-based cache for Scala Play apps
ESR noted this way back when [1]:

"4. If you don't have functional English, learn it.

As an American and native English-speaker myself, I have previously been reluctant to suggest this, lest it be taken as a sort of cultural imperialism. But several native speakers of other languages have urged me to point out that English is the working language of the hacker culture and the Internet, and that you will need to know it to function in the hacker community.

Back around 1991 I learned that many hackers who have English as a second language use it in technical discussions even when they share a birth tongue; it was reported to me at the time that English has a richer technical vocabulary than any other language and is therefore simply a better tool for the job. For similar reasons, translations of technical books written in English are often unsatisfactory (when they get done at all).

Linus Torvalds, a Finn, comments his code in English (it apparently never occurred to him to do otherwise). His fluency in English has been an important factor in his ability to recruit a worldwide community of developers for Linux. It's an example worth following.

Being a native English-speaker does not guarantee that you have language skills good enough to function as a hacker. If your writing is semi-literate, ungrammatical, and riddled with misspellings, many hackers (including myself) will tend to ignore you. While sloppy writing does not invariably mean sloppy thinking, we've generally found the correlation to be strong — and we have no use for sloppy thinkers. If you can't yet write competently, learn to."

There is a lot in common between good argumentative skills and good coding.

http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/hacker-howto.html#skills4
Not necessarily. You could put a Python (with psutil module) server on machines and connect from a single Postgres/FDW server.
The output of snmptable is already hierarchal and there is already well-defined MIB for thousands of data sources.

I guess using SQL instead of regex is the benefit you mean? Certainly more readable.

Not that it really matters much to conversation at hand but standard SQL is not really that much older than SNMP. Both were late 80s if memory serves.
H1-B visas are easy for academics to get (there isn't a cap on the number issued, unlike industry). While these H1-B visas cannot be transferred between academia and industry, they do allow you to start applying for residency.

The advantage of going to CA, and then leaving academia, would be better access to local employers, who often don't recruit abroad. You still face the visa problem, though.

In addition to the financial considerations mentioned above, most US employers don't make very large contributions to funding pensions (~5% "matching 401K" is considered generous), whereas the total contribution at UK universities is about 16% of salary.

If you do go abroad, don't forget to continue paying minimal national insurance contributions in the UK. This will help if you suddenly need expensive medical care, become unemployed, etc.

https://www.gov.uk/voluntary-national-insurance-contribution...
>I got a little sad because perhaps I am doomed to never be such a great speaker.

There is no better way to doom yourself to something than to say you're doomed to that fate. If you want to be a better speaker, practice. Some people pop out of the womb with great oratory ability. Most people have to learn it through hard work and practice and failure.
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For the record, it is definitely possible to only sync the files you want to on your phone - it's what I do. And as an anecdotal data point (FWIW), I've been using it since the Dropbox debacle, with a pretty large data set on weak machines and it's been solid.

Having said that, I completely agree with the open source thing, and am waiting for a good enough OSS one to jump ship.

But for anyone wanting to leave Dropbox, I can say at least my experience was a pleasant one (it's really nice to not have to worry about usage limits, or war criminals).
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I've never come across a poll that asks, "Which of these do you consider worst: being gay, black, female, or atheist?" but I doubt the answer to a question like that would be useful anyway.

I'm a little amused by you guys trying to work out all the "PR" angles Cook could be trying to exploit by mentioning his faith without even considering that it's is a genuinely important part of who he is.
its distinguishing feature is that it starts with idiomatic javascript and carefully adds lisp features to that, rather than porting an existing lisp to javascript. the readme calls it a "javascript-first approach" and notes that it was heavily inspired by coffeescript.
Massive Ocean Discovered Towards the Earths Core
>On my wishlist: Hosted plans for folks who need the always-on aspect of cloud storage and can’t roll their own

What do you mean, can't roll their own? You can just leave an old PC with BTSync on all the time. Problem solved.
Docker Security Advisory [30 Oct 2014]
For historical reasons, every language that wanted one built their own SIMD API instead of building a language-independent API first: C++, C#, Dart, OpenCL, and so on, and it's not easy to go back and change that. However, there is a lot of commonality between the SIMD APIs in those languages, so we are following de-facto standards here.

And, we certainly do have real-world use cases in mind. See [0] for one example. We're also interested in using SIMD for video codec development which can't always be done on GPUs.

[0] http://blogs.unity3d.com/2014/10/07/benchmarking-unity-perfo...

And if, in the future, Apple can show that auto-vectorization in this domain is more successful than their attempts so far have shown it to be, then JS engines can always just go back to implementing SIMD.js via a simple polyfill which the engine can auto-vectorize, leaving very little baggage in the language or implementations.
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The oceans are the largest carbon sinks currently: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sink. My professor in college predicted that at some point we'll start building highly efficient CO2 sinks out of specific types of plankton and dumping them into the oceans to float around and offset our bad CO2 behavior.
AWS vs. Google Cloud: a comparison
Some people aren't going to understand your statement, because they are locked into ideas like 'feminism' == 'desire for equal rights'.

Too many people who call themselves feminists actually do not believe in equal rights, and present feminism as a justification for bad behaviors.

If this is how you experience feminism, this is going to influence your notion of what the word feminism actually means, in practice.
> In the US the only legal guarantee you get is that you can leave for 12 weeks unpaid and you'll probably still have a job when you get back.

(1) Most companies provide better benefits than what is legally required
(2) The US has a robust and very expensive welfare system
(3) Unlike something like cancer pregnancy is not an accident. If you can't afford to pay for children, don't have them.

FWIW most tech companies provide very generous benefits, though I'm pretty sure it's only possible because a lot of employees never take advantage of them. (Most programmers aren't having a dozen kids)
I think you're making a good point that governments followed rather than led in the case of marriage equality, however it's interesting to reflect on just how recent majority support has been in the gay community itself. Some early proponents such as Andrew Sullivan faced apathy and criticism from gay rights advocacy groups such as Human Rights Campaign in the 1980s and 1990s for even broaching the subject. It's always surprised me how so many of the strongest opponents to recognition of gay marriage were openly gay themselves.

TL;DR marginalized group ideology is strange
Yeah sorry I wasn't clear, I meant stupid policies in general, like fixed working hours, set time for lunch breaks, not using printers for "personal use". Normal people wouldn't abuse thigs like these. Oh crap I need to print out a proof of payment. Shit I can't use the work printer because it's against policy. Fuck I have to waste my lunch break going to the post office. Another guy is printing out pages and pages of lecture notes for his kid. How do we solve this? Create a draconian policy like "NO printing for personal use". That's the typical knee jerk corporate reaction to managing the 10% of people that abuse things instead of having to deal with abusers on a case by case basis.
Designing Windows software: Windows calculator and the little details that matter
The thing that make the Fulcrum stuff so cool at the time was the chips being asynchronous, which is very very strange. Fulcurm had to built their own tools to validate the layout etc. Amazingly complex. Most people do not realize how amazingly complex this ASIC stuff is and how hard it is to get right without major bugs.

One very interesting bug, but one that did not really matter, was handing 1G at line rate. For those that do not know a bit of a background.

So you have a 10G chip that connects to a PHY chip.

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

There are 4 x 3.25G lanes to the PHY. Now lets say you want to put a 1G SFP in that port. Well the path uses only one of the 3.25G lanes, not all 4. All the of logic and timing is really built around the packets going over the 4 links.

So anyway, if you ran a test at 100% line rate with a 1G optic there would be drops if your packet size was not divisible by 4. The stand packets sizes that are commonly used for RFC2544 testing are 64,128,256,512,1024,1280,1518. So all the sizes work expect for 1518. You could do 10G at line rate @ 1518 packet size but not 1G! It is very important for everyone to understand that this only matters in lab testing and has ZERO impact in a real world environment. If you changed the IFG on the link it would run at line rate.

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

The Fulcurm chips were amazing. I very much enjoyed using them.
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When a person's entire exposure to a group consists wholly of a few bad members, they are likely to figure that sample representative. They are not likely to keep re-sampling until they find a desirable sample. It's irrational to expect otherwise.

Why do you expect otherwise? Why do you feel compelled to couple it with insults?
In CA leave is vested, it has to be paid out. Not all states have this policy.
>That Cotton-Polyester blend you're wearing? You might as well be having gay sex, as far as The LORD is concerned.

That's a pretty intense bastardization of biblical theology. It's fun to snicker and say things like that but your logical gymnastics are quite embarrassing to those who understand the correlation between Christ, the Old Testament, and covenant theology.
There must be more intelligent ways to gain acceptance for being gay than a gay pride, sorry but it's so lame, ever seen the pictures? The gay friends I have are nothing like that, most of them are very intelligent, sensible, and nothing like those idiot on those parades.
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Articles like these make me sympathize with Bond-style supervillains. :(
Sounds like Fastmail does most/all of that.

https://www.fastmail.com/help/receive/domains.html
Geekwire story on the launch here: www.geekwire.com/2014/movingworlds-opens-platform-help/
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Lots of people get ostracized for supporting and pushing things that were once popular but became massively unpopular, all throughout history. McCarthy advocated and pushed a very, very popular agenda for it's time, but history isn't written in the perspective of it's time, it's written in the perspective of today. It was also never "quite popular", it was essentially a split decision, and has been a very contentious issue for quite a while. It also doesn't take a genius to realize the trajectory of any social rights issue in this country, so I have a hard time feeling any empathy for what happened to Eich. Believe what you want, but if you want to be a popular leader, you've gotta have the intelligence and foresight to realize what kinds of things are bound to get you into trouble one day. And if he realized that and still believed in the cause so much, then there are no real victims, just choices and ramifications.
There's a lot that is counter-intuitive about starting your first venture. This song captures the essence of it.
Is Tizen going to be able to compete with Android?
I'm curious about the logistics behind this. Do you have an issues carrying items to work? Spare clothes, laptop, lunch, etc. Also, do you shower and change once you get to work?
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That's a really good example of impostor syndrome on a grand scale.

Also see http://alistapart.com/column/seeing-past-the-highlight-reel : "we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel".

People also tend to sound far better in writing, precisely because they have the opportunity to compose and edit; you don't necessarily see the volume of composition and editing that goes into the average post. Anecdotally, I'd suggest that it takes far longer to write a quality post than you'd guess. Short content can take all the longer to write, precisely because of its brevity. ("I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short." -- Blaise Pascal)

(I also like this image: http://open.bufferapp.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/0-VtB9_... )

And that's just on an individual level, comparing yourself to one specific other person. When you compare yourself to an entire community of people and their highlights, you run into exactly the issue mixmax noted: the most knowledgeable and confident people will post, and a subset of those will get upvoted.

Comparing yourself individually to the best of what a large community can offer is like asking why you're not an Olympic athlete.

If you want to build up your skills in writing specifically, consider focusing your writing on areas you already have expertise in, or on areas that you're actively learning about to provide an "experiences" type of writeup. And compare yourself primarily to your past self.
He didn't walk out. He played all six games in the match and lost the match in the last game after he played a opening that was know as losing by everyone after a piece sacrifice (it was speculated that Kasparov was gambling that deep blue wouldn't make the sacrifice and then he will have the upper hand).

Deep blue played pretty much "like a machine" except for a few moves that where considered very human because they hold very long term advantages.

After the match Kasparov hinted that IBM must have cheated, of course now a days a machine running in a off the shell desktop machine will surely beat the current world champion in a match, so Kasparov was just being a sore loser at the time.
How do you use ANSI C on bare hardware without help from Assembly (thus a mini-runtime) or language extensions?

For the purposes of interrupt handling, IO ports (not all systems have memory mapped IO) and register access.
First look at Ex Machina
This seems like another way to discriminate against and hurt women.
What we really need is to spread WebCL - https://www.khronos.org/registry/webcl/specs/1.0.0/

1. It is already standardized language and API. There exist a lot of code for WebCL.

2. WebCL engines can run on CPU, they can use all CPU cores, SIMD etc., while still being a part of web browser (no special drivers required). It will give us much better performance, than asm.js, SIMD.js, Google's Native Client or any other "unstandardizible" things.
While it was an interesting article, the main website page looks like the author is a complete crackpot.
Layer 1 and switch are mutually exclusive. A hub or patch panel are layer 1 devices. Switching, by using the mac address, is fundamentally a layer 2 technology.

Am I missing something here? This thing is fast when used as a patch panel, but that is cheating and isn't really switching.
W3C Frame Timing
That's very neat, and also a surprisingly concise bit of code!
Dollars per year.
You're being overly dismissive. There's quite clearly a substantial amount of research here, and in a cursory reading I detected no explicitly bombastic claims, which are usually indicative of crankwork.

Sure, it's not peer-reviewed, and his other articles might look quite loony, but he does highlight some anthropological discrepancies in this piece. Not everyone can have their articles peer-reviewed.
Where does cuBLAS get that DP performance from? It's disproportionate.
Autodesk's CEO says most people won't do real 3D modeling starting with a blank screen, but they'll color and rescale existing 3D models, then print them. His daughter makes dollhouse furniture that way. So they're building low-end tools that are much simpler, like 123 Design. 123Design is really the Autodesk Inventor engine with a dumbed-down UI, a different file format, and built for 32 bits and one CPU. There are even mobile versions.

Autodesk did this to get more people thinking about how to design in 3D. The idea is to teach the mindset and workflow needed to get work done in a constructive solid geometry system. A lot of people don't "get it" at first, but after a while it makes sense to build up an object through a series of operations.

They're still struggling with how much to dumb it down. In beta, 123Design was more powerful than it is now, but more complex. It's been dumbed down; you don't get to see or manipulate the tree of CSG operations that created the object any more. Now there's 123Design at the bottom, Fusion 360 (which does a lot of work on Autodesk's servers rather than locally), and Inventor, for serious engineering.

So the "cruder sculpting tools" are here. For real sculpting, there's Autodesk Mudbox, which tries to simulate clay modeling. (I haven't used that; I don't have the sculpting skill.)
This was pretty well known ever since Tim Cook took reins as CEO. I think Felix Salmon "outed" him at the time, although I don't think Tim Cook ever hid it, or was ashamed in any respect. He, however, never addressed it publicly until now.

It's great that he has gone on record to officially address this. I'm curious though if there will be any repercussions from much less tolerant countries around the world. Hopefully not, and hopefully this opens up a new era of acceptance, although some countries that outlaw homosexuality might do stupid things. Thank goodness they are small and insignificant for the most part, although the reaction from countries like China and Indonesia worry me.
Drawing pictures of things god has made and especially using them religiously is spelled out very clearly as wrong, repeatedly and at length, but the Christians often represent themselves with drawings of a fish and keep drawing pictures of Jesus simply everywhere:

"You shall not make for yourself an image in the form of anything in heaven above or on the earth beneath or in the waters below."

However you can rape the wives of your defeated enemies after battle, which the vast majority of Christians would find horrifying:

"When you go to war against your enemies and the LORD your God delivers them into your hands and you take captives,

if you notice among the captives a beautiful woman and are attracted to her, you may take her as your wife.

Bring her into your home and have her shave her head, trim her nails

and put aside the clothes she was wearing when captured. After she has lived in your house and mourned her father and mother for a full month, then you may go to her and be her husband and she shall be your wife.

If you are not pleased with her, let her go wherever she wishes. You must not sell her or treat her as a slave, since you have dishonored her."

There's a lot of basic tenets of the bible that Christians ignore. Wearing mixed fibers, eating shellfish, donkeys and oxen co-working in agriculture.

If you go by basic tenets of the bible, most Christians don't seem to even know what they all are, let alone follow them.