skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Taking your argument in the opposite direction, is it reasonable to assume consumers will give up their gas guzzling cars? Or install power charging stations in their garage? Those two inconveniences pale in comparison to the devastation of losing all our coastal cities.

I'm not sure what you're getting it. I don't think consumers will adopt those practices, which is why we're in trouble.

>> Again, though... Cities would "submerge" as part of a gradual process, and not all simultaneously. It doesn't happen overnight. There are technological measures to delay it, and even to manage it. Levies, stilts, barges are all increasingly economical options. Humans have adjusted to major changes throughout millennia, and it seems naive to assume they would be incapable of applying breakthrough civil engineering technologies to the problem of mitigating global warming's effect on coastal cities.

I made the wrong argument in my last post: I framed the debate over humanity's response to Global Warming in the language of the phenomenon's impact on humanity. On the damage and possible mitigation of that damage to human life and property.

But far greater a threat is compromising entire biomes themselves (raising the acidity of the sea via carbon dioxide, for example, to the point where it becomes toxic to certain kinds of flora and fauna vital to the larger food chain and ecosystem)

The reason I react so strongly to the argument you're putting forward as part of your discussion, as it's the one often used to justify current apathy towards the subject.

It doesn't matter if the coastal cities are given a respite from rising seawater, or if the Artic straights are opened up for international trade, or if new land is made arable - if the underlying problem is left unsolved, it will eventually compromise the planet's ability to support human civilization as we have come to know it. Anything that doesn't address the root problem of our massive and continued dumping of greenhouse gases is just a temporary patch - and one that won't matter in the end.
40,320 isn't very many people at all.

;)
After reading the article, I guess I don't really have an opinion on the tax.. but is it really reasonable to tax endowments over $1B, if the school has $4.2B in operating expenses? Seems like they should be able to keep a larger buffer than 3 months.

If the problem is "hoarding," then why have a fixed amount at all. Why not 1 year of operating expenses? That would encourage all educational institutions to spend more every year on ongoing expenses (like research).
My pet change is making an "uncaught " panic turn into an abort. Rust has the default behavior of silently discarding panics, for whatever reason.
Pshaw. That was last year :)

(The presenter in the video)
I'm not sure those other avenues (like blocking the sun) would have less possibility of side effects. Light & IR energy reaching the earth is just another variable that would change, again perturbing a very complex system.
Muslims use the lunar calendar for religious occasions (Ramada, Hajj, Eid) but use the Christian, solar calendar (like the rest of the world) for everyday life.
I like how the author is acting like they are coming from the moral high ground which is just irony at it's finest. You are no better then the racists responding. Of course with a massive platform like twitter if you say something racist you are going to bring out all the crazies. You could literally change the "white" to any other "group" and get the exact same sort of responses.
Not only can you have multiple tags, you can have icons which are conditionally displayed based on tags. Tags are stored in a single metadata file, one directory per ebook, so can be parsed with a script when performing bulk operations.

You can then customize search engine like recoll to display ebook metadata as contextual snippets in full-text search results. Best of both worlds.
The Lurker: How a Virus Hid in Our Genome for Six Million Years (2013)
> I've gone literally years of my working life without touching a single pointer in production code.

But you did use references, right?

What baffles me is how many young developers code without caring about the underlying infrastructure. Not caring to understand what makes their coding possible.

I have met many that deal with programming like car owners that just want to drive down to the supermarket, so to speak.

> You can make them feel crappy by signalling that they are damaged or deficient,

I explicitly stated I wasn't targeting the OP with my comment.

> or your attitude can be positive and inviting.

That is why I pointed out a few, quite good, books where the subject of reference vs pointers happen to be described quite well in a programming language that isn't as intimidating as C or C++, while allowing for the same type of coding.

One of them even shows how to build an entire computer.
Should if you are going into a CE or CS course not have learnt to code at school before going to university English lit or classics students are expected to be able to read.

I learnt to program when I was 13 and that was in the middle stream at my upper school
The author notes (a) ways Harvard could spend its money that might have more public benefit and (b) that other non-profits are more deserving of donations. Even if all true, that doesn't mean it should be stripped of its non-profit status. Perfect management to optimize public benefit isn't the standard for whether an organization gets non-profit status.

The more interesting argument is about what organizational traits our government should require in order to be blessed with special treatment.
We aren't really sure of all the effects of global warming but you did cover the gist of it. There's going the be significant global change.

No one can really say what all is going to change but don't expect "what always has been" == "what always will be".

Resources will shift, priorities will change, ecology will adapt and so we will need to as well. Like the ancient civilizations some places will be abandoned for better climes. Those who stay steadfast on not changing may have problems, just voting that it doesn’t happen won't stop change.
I think this is a horrible idea. Cut bait and leave all this country's wealth and might in the hands of a slightly more concentrated group of fascists?

It's funny how people tell Mexicans "stand and fight for your country, dammit" and yet others are so ready to cut and run when the going gets a little rough at home. Get out in the streets. Start educating people. We can make this country something worth believing in.
There were some open source software players back then [1].

VA Linux (now Geeknet) was near a $10 billion market cap [2] in trading immediately following its IPO. After several pivots and renames, it's market cap now is just $50 million.

RedHat went public at about a $1 billion valuation (raising $100 million), hit about $3 billion in trading after the IPO open, and has steadily grown to about a $10 billion cap over the last 15 years.

Meanwhile, today Hortonworks ends the day with a cap over $1 billion, and a couple of competitors in the wings that may also be doing IPOs at some point.

It's not that Hadoop and Linux are even comparable, but it's really hard to see from a 2014 vantage point that the Hadoop market will be as disruptive over the next 15 years as it would have been to see Linux disrupting in 1999. So Hortonworks and its ilk fall more in the space of advanced enterprise software--a more comparable relative temporary winner from that era was BEA Systems (which also had a spectacular rise and dramatic fall--amplified because they were a company that was disrupted by free software, and suffered due to unsustainable expectations). [3]

[1] http://www.cnet.com/news/10-years-gone-the-va-linux-systems-...

[2] http://www.theregister.co.uk/1999/12/10/ipo_makes_va_linux_i...

[3] http://online.barrons.com/articles/SB998410322172345858?tesl...
I use Finder and Alfred about equally. If you don't have Alfred, get it (http://alfredapp.com). Just type ~ or / to switch the file mode. It's really useful for just finding a file quickly, when you only need something fast and transient (it closes when you press enter).
Wow, thanks! I just used Sublime Text 2 (which I admittedly haven't bought so the prompt to buy it pops up every now and then when I save, gulp!). I have a ruler set at 80 chars and try not to surpass it.

Also, I have a JSHint plugin installed on Sublime which scans the document every time I save it and checks for missing semicolons, implicitly declared variables, etc.
Some things do accumulate. That is in fact the point of Firefox Reset[1].

The support page lists "Extensions and themes, website-specific preferences, search engines, download history, DOM storage, security settings, download actions, plugin settings, toolbar customizations, user styles and social features will be removed."

[1]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reset-firefox-easily-fi...
Firefox won't have a process per tab. Even in the multiprocess versions, it has one process for the UI and one for all the tabs' content. That way it doesn't take tons of RAM for overhead if you have lots of tabs, but heavy tab content can't freeze the UI. You can change the number of tab-processes in about:config under dom.ipc.processCount.
Not all torrents are created equal. There are certain (private) communities within the torrent world which have amazing release groups who are dedicated to producing the highest quality versions possible.

There are also groups who focus purely on release time and quality is at most a secondary concern. What I'm getting at is that using torrents (or rather piracy) allows to obtain content that matches your needs (in this case quality vs release time). You can get music/movies/tv shows etc in higher quality than any commercially available streaming source allows for.
> The $15,300 in payroll tax is over and above your 100k.

Actually, only half (the employer share) is.
In New England (and likely elsewhere) you can see gravestones from the sixteen and seventeen hundreds that have two death dates on them, as different parts of the world converted to the Gregorian calendar at different times, and both Gregorian and Julian dates were in use in the area for a while (parts of Europe converted as early as the late 1500's).
4 Questions to ask before developing anything
You can also use !sp to get Google results without Google tracking.
Now that I've gotten used to them, I really like the !bang operators. They're incredibly convenient.

A few of the ones I abuse constantly:

!g - google

!bi - bing image

!yt - youtube

!so - stackoverflow

!w - wikipedia

!py - python docs

The exhaustive list is here: https://duckduckgo.com/bang.html
Are you proposing preventing people from having children below 25? That seems incredibly draconian and intrusive.

Are you also proposing preventing people from joining the military below 25? In terms of a male physical's peak, 25 is pretty late on in the game to start trying to train him to be a soldier.
Congrats! I actually didn't know they weren't already part of the core team. What exactly does this change entail, then?

The rust community is lucky to have these two. I recently went through the rust guide and it's terrific! And as a happy rubygems user, I'm glad to see crates following a similar path.
It depends on what you want.

If you're primarily interested in speedy javascript, process isolation across tabs (so busy tabs don't lock out the UI), or debugging web apps, I think Chrome is better. Chrome in particular seems to have a much smoother JS execution profile; it may be down to GC, or something else, but Chrome generally has fewer frames dropped for any given demo.

On the other hand, Firefox is way more featureful, and has a better library of extensions. I find it very difficult to configure Chrome to be how I like it - with a bookmarks menu, zero history, and tree style tabs - whereas Firefox is much easier to shape to my purposes. The combination of tree-style tabs and tab panorama means I can - and do - keep in excess of a hundred tabs open without any difficulty in management.

So Firefox is my primary browser, and Chrome is strictly for testing and pseudonymous browsing.
it's ok-- amazon is a level3 customer and comcast refuses to upgrade the interconnect between their two networks* (even if level3 foots the bill), so it would choke no worse than it's already choking.

* technically level3 doesn't name them by name, but i wouldn't really consider it reading between the lines...
Are you saying that if the word problem was "2 consecutive numbers and a third number that was five higher than the second number" you'd be unable to solve it?

"Tricks" work for simple cases. Algebra works for all cases.
Does Rust have anything like a usable GUI toolkit yet to support client-side native app development?
Who owns the student loans of Americans? It's not the free market.
Minnesota used Scheme when my son studied there. MIT did until about that year too.
I don't think there's much popular understanding how non-charitable an organization can be and still qualify as a non-profit.

Essentially, to be a non-profit all you need is have a purpose other than profits and use your income to further that purpose. The purpose made to increase the profits of businesses in a certain industry and you still qualify. There's nothing in the definition that say "you must be good, benevolent and not greedy", all you need is purpose.

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonprofit_organization etc.
I wear both glasses and contacts, I regularly upgrade from one to the other because I am annoyed by a particular aspect of each. Much the same with browsers I regularly switch between Safari, Chrome, and Firefox because the upgrades/site/support/whatever become troublesome or advantageous.
The Julian calendar typically started the year on the 25th of March (Lady Day) at noon (prior to clocks it was much easier to reckon mid-day than mid-night... navies kept this practice at least into the 1800's). This was true into the 1600's in parts of Europe and North America.
This is a bad idea. Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and other well endowed schools spend more money per student than they receive from tuition. If they were for-profit institutions, they would be further incentivized to raise tuition.
There is a difference between not qualifying someone as guilty until it is proven and asking for it's liberation.
Agree in principle, but 1 year seems low. Isn't the purpose of an endowment primarily to generate ongoing income?

I think somewhere in the neighbor hood of 20 years worth of expenses would be more reasonable. (Assuming a conservative 5% return on investment, the endowment would not be taxed on capital required to generate 1 year of operating expenses in income each year.)

Alternatively, perhaps a tax could be levied only on any income to the endowment beyond 1 year's worth of operating expenses.
The earth has warmed and cooled many times in its history. Isn't it reasonable to expect there is a natural negative feedback mechanism, and that this negative feedback mechanism will manifest itself and return the earth to equilibrium?
Put more abstractly, "we should take money from successful nonprofit A even though A has done nothing improper because I disagree with A's goals and/or methods and think it's wrong that people continue to give A money."

That's ludicrous. The hubristic desire to control others is extreme progressivism's worst attribute.
I switched back to Firefox recently as well after using Chrome for years. Mostly it was due to problems on Linux, like Flash not working. I also love the work Mozilla has been doing -- Rust, Servo, and asm.js in particular -- which seem to be very promising vis-à-vis future versions of their browser.
USA latvia on russian border,ww3,
UCL?
That and they would feel bad to ask the mother of a 40 year old to liquefy her assets to pay for her son's overpriced degree.
Hey Dave, really appreciate your work. Skeleton was just what I needed when I first started getting to grips with web design - it's been an invaluable tool to me while learning the trade. To see you've released an update is a joy, can't wait to dig in and start using it. Thanks a lot!
I expect a raise everytime I threaten my employer.
He's worried they might not be the same as him.
To give it some credit, Firefox is pretty damn good in the past few months after the multi-process updates they've been making.
A commenter, richcon, on the linked story makes a good point:

"
The open source HEVC software decoder requires a four-core Intel Core i7 running at 2.3 Ghz to play 30p 4k video, and I'd guess it'd be running so hot you could fry an egg on it. The Retina iMac only has an i7 chip in the maxed-out upgrade configuration. So maybe it is about the hardware performance.

If Amazon paid for it they could license a commercial software decoder with lower CPU requirements, but that'd cost them a lot of money and still likely run with fans blazing.

Those new embedded TV chips you deem to be weak compared to desktop CPUs have dedicated hardware designed specifically for decoding this new video format, and dedicated chips beat software performance any day. When most desktop PCs ship with hardware 4k HEVC decoders too, then I'd expect Amazon and Netflix to come on board."

(I think he would be fine with my copying it with the same attribution he posted with - it's just a story comment.)
Show HN: Particle Clicker – new release
>I'm still not going to use Yahoo search as it's really just Google search

Yahoo is a Bing frontend now. Same as DuckDuckGo.
However, mmap and the functions which rely on it will return MAP_FAILED/NULL if no gap large enough is found in the virtual address space or if you've used MAP_FIXED and the area isn't free. If you don't check for errors, the application could potentially end up trying to dereference a NULL pointer.
Benchmarking HTTP servers
> I don't think there's much popular understanding how non-charitable an organization can be and still qualify as a non-profit.

OTOH, most people when they talk about "non-profit status" and, particularly, taking it away, are actually talking about "status as a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity to whom donations are tax deductible as well as the charity's own income being untaxed". Either because the equate "non-profit" with the more specific type of non-profit, or because they are talking about the specific non-profit status of a named institution that happens to be a 501(c)(3), so that referring to that particular institution's non-profit status (rather than non-profit status in general) is a reference to status as a 501(c)(3) specifically.

As Harvard University is a 501(c)(3), this clearly applies in this specific case. Context matters.
"earlier diurnal rhythms ... display lower unemployment rates" is presumably just a fancy way of saying that unemployed people get out of bed later :)
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day
Thanks! (especially re: the guide, which is my baby)

> What exactly does this change entail, then?

The core team is listed at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/wiki/Note-core-team . Basically, like most projects, it just adds weight to our opinions in decisions that are made, and that we're sure to be involved in making those decisions. In general, we try to get rough consensus for major decisions from the team + community.
>The views of the novice are not worth as much as those of the initiate.

But the views of a single "initiate" (What do you mean by that? It seems a strange word to use in this context.) don't trump the entirety of science and logic.

>Respect the limits of your models and of the modeling process.

I do; the limits of our models are substantially more impressive than the limits of a single (fallible) person, no matter how impressive they may be.
Didn't know you could just use '!g'. Very cool!
Those historical adjustments are on the scale of hundreds or thousands of years. Also, there has never been as rapid a rise in CO2 as there is right now. That might mean that the rise is too fast for the feedback mechanism to work. We just plain don't know, because I don't think anyone has identified the actual feedback mechanism chain.
Why don't developers in the Bay Area use Mathematica?
Is it because it's not marketed to developers? Is it because of price? Is there a need for a general purpose data analysis platform?
Very awesome idea and execution!
It sounds like intentional marketing-language to me. It's not uncommon for physical products to be referred to as "The New *" whenever they get some sort of change. In this case, it's a newer version of Firefox, and people viewing this ad on other browsers might not have tried Firefox since its last couple of upgrades.
IBM open-sources Spark Kernel
In Europe, our situation is very similar to the US -- we are just some years behind. So whatever happens to the US, is also happening to middle Europe. The reason is, that our governments are happening to copy all the trends from the US and sell it to the citizen as great "blessing" from the US, even when the US long has found that it was a mistake.

And yes, the middle class is also in decline in Europe very fast. Germany once had one of the best social security system in the world. Today it is in decline very fast and some thing is happening, that nobody would have found possible in 1990 ... we speak today of "poverty among the elderly" and not for some percent, but of vast numbers of them. And those things that where invented to prevent it, happens today to be the reason for it.

The dreams of "unlimited money and profit" from the 80s, 90s and 00s where found to be false dreams that came only true for <1% of the people.
>I think you underestimate the sheer power of propaganda, when it's well organized and all-penetrating.

you're telling this to a person who was born and raised in USSR :) Yes, man, i was accepting what i was told and didn't ask questions, didn't seek the truth. This not asking, not seeking, is a matter of personal failure, it can't be blamed on propaganda. And such failure is what the Russians are guilty off because this is what enables the propaganda in the first place.

>Moreover, how many Russians can read anything but Russian?

You can find all the sides of any issue presented in Russian language today. The major news like BBC have Russian version. Ukraine, with all its anti-Russian fervor, is still talks and writes a lot in Russian so Russians can easy read the Ukrainian side - that of course if they were interested in it. Again, this is their personal choice.
Can you elaborate? A panic is a panic, and it will either unwind or abort if unwinding is interrupted with a second panic. There's nothing silent about that.
I don't see any such notice if I try going to Yahoo in Chrome. Perhaps because I'm in Europe where Yahoo doesn't have the search deal with Mozilla. Or perhaps it's just confused with the Linux user agent or something.

Happy Firefox user here though. Glad they aren't so reliant on Google funding now, I expect the Yahoo/Baidu/Yandex deal with get them more money than Google alone, without being too reliant on any one party.
Mobile surveillance equipment detected near the Norwegian parliament
All I've been seeing lately are posts very critical of systemd. I really don't know much about it, and I would love to hear the other side of the story. Why is it so popular lately?
The only meme is that old UIs are the /bad/ ones. Those points are all very minor. A major problem would be having an inoperable half-assed mobile version that you were redirected to on mobile.
If I'm trying to pick years with global warming and all I know is the pirate population, I can do pretty well.