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No, there is no clear evidence for that, unless you count models. It is all extrapolation founded in data - we have the temperature curve for the last few hundred thousand years (basically this: [1]), as well as information about the composition of the atmosphere. It is not even clear why and how ice ages happen exactly [2].

I'd not even be sure how to show evidence for that unless we waited a few hundred thousand years to make sure the temperature curve does not behave as before. I can, however, give some links to the discussions (e.g.[3][4]). The people in [4] ran a model, here's the paper: [5], and found a small effect (contact me if you can't access it). It's hard to say how good model evidence is, however. A lot of influences are missing, and we'd need to validate the model with more data, which isn't there. (So yeah, I wouldn't count that as evidence, just a hint.)

At this point, this is just an idea discussed by people with domain knowledge and experience, nothing more. It doesn't change the fact that we have a problem, it just influences how people look at details of climate models, and which questions to ask the models.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature_record#mediaviewer...

or even longer for all of the planet's existence:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Five_Myr_Climate_Change.s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age#Causes_of_ice_ages

[3]http://www.technologyreview.com/article/416786/global-warmin...

[4]http://www.news.wisc.edu/16083

[5] http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379104...
"If you're poor, stop being poor."

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> Reduces operational overhead up to 95%

And 40% more hip. Gotta love those numbers. Also, don't forget about the new WiredTiger storage engine - sounds way cooler than, say, InnoDB! Hype is strong with this one.
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How inactivity affected it's performace? It was same. Did you started encountering many bugs? Or badly looking for some feature?
but... millions of people still got screwed with the healthcare plan... so they are part of the problem... not the solution. Traitors.
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Up to a point; often the module boundaries are wrong (I've worked in a company that failed mostly for this reason - team A worked hard on module A, team B worked hard on module B, but neither was able to challenge the insanity of calls that had to ping-pong back and forth between A and B several times over to get a result). And you can't touch the genetic programming structure itself; the program can optimize itself, but it can't optimize its optimizer, and ultimately it may be outcompeted by programs with better optimizers.

In traditional capitalism the buck stops with the board, and the shareholders will fire them if they're losing too much money (something that's become more important in recent years, even as more and more day-to-day stock trading is algorithmic). Who takes that role in the case of an autonomous algorithm - would the algorithm itself be a director?
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We could and did do something. We opened up trade. That improved and continues to improve their situation immensely.

You're advocating we now do the opposite.
> If two companies have automatic cars, the one who knows where they want to go wins.

Kind of a good explanation why Google brought Waze.
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Pretty awesome idea
Honestly I would imagine those 3 Millennials having an issue with most hard work.

I live in Asia, I look though a different lens,

- Imagine being loaded on to a truck and brought to factory everyday -- You mean a free ride to work?

- Imagine your kids roaming the factory floor -- No child care costs?

- Imagine having to working 12 hours a day -- I can pay for my kids to go to school ?

- Imagine being stuck in a factory all day -- not under the sun planting rice/corn etc..

Obviously there are a lot of macro and micro-economic factors at work, I just saw a truck delivering a automated t-shirt embroidering machine, so that economic switch has tilted, but do you think the talk will be, "we are free!" or "where did the work go?"
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Oh, yay, in 2046. I guess I should start answering a few questions again.
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"If the work came back to first-world factories, they'd have to pay at least 10X the wages"

And they might have 100x the living expenses.
Sorry, I was just being sarcastic about how Google doesn't allow broad Windows usage, allegedly because they're afraid of Chinese hackers. I just always thought it was a bullshit reason that was trumped up to make Microsoft look bad.

(edited for clarity)
Remember, y'all: this is the government that brought you PRISM and XKEYSCORE and TAO. This is the government with the department who tortured Manning and is pressuring the UK to illegally interfere with Assange's right to asylum.

Think twice before you provide material aid to the enemy.
I would vote for him as the most decent & helpful guy on Stackoverflow. I've always found his tone humble, which isn't very common these days. Really glad to have people like him around.
At least in my discipline, getting a tenure-track position is the hard part; afterwards, it's very typical to get tenure. (The only consistent exceptions that I know of are at absolutely top schools; and tenure-track faculty there often end up moving to slightly less good schools and getting tenured there.)

>your case is exceptional and not the average.

My case is not exceptional; it is merely above average. Certainly I got lucky, but not wildly so. I continue to pay attention to the job market, and it strikes me that people who have done work comparable to mine are, on average, getting positions comparable to mine.

(It is in the humanities that the situation is really dire, and that even the most brilliant people are getting screwed over.)
The alternative is to fairly share profits with the people that make goods. This could be enforced by the legal system, as it was successfully done when slavery was banned.
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D'oh! Thanks.

I agree, then. :) It would be helpful to have the address of each instruction visible, since it makes jumps more easy to figure out (among other things).
If you put it like that, it does sound pretentious, haha.
I see why you might think it feels imposed. At this point it's probably more a problem of (loaded) word choice than ideas behind it. Thanks for clarifying.

Adding your point of view to mine, and taking into account the memes concerning planetary settlements I've aquired, ownership might be a bad word choice indeed.
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We had de facto net neutrality until Verizon successfully gutted it a year ago. The FCC is trying to maintain the free market that has existed. Verizon is trying to turn the internet into cable TV.
I don't either, but my method of countering it is to round the price to the nearest dollar in general.
You mean like one of the increasing number of places without middle management?
How else do you allow someone to use a password to login? I suppose you could run the hash locally if they have JavaScript-- but if they don't, then what? (Edit: Good point, all the hash achieves is that the user's entry isn't sent in clear text -- of course, the hash itself then becomes the password for the purposes of authorization.)
This is irrational. If self-driving cars are overall safer than their human counterparts, why wouldn't we allow a mix? I mean, we don't ban human drivers because of all the accidents and deaths caused of human errors, so why would be not allow self-driving cars, even with some failures?
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It's funny that when people here actually look at the salaries being paid to government employees they find them low yet articles here discussing government spending as it relates to how much public servants get paid is typically met with derision at how "over paid" government employees are.

Anyone seriously considering this should also look at living in Baltimore and taking the commuter train into DC cost of living is much lower.
Yes, I have seen the film and it is quite good. The story itself and the cinematic execution are definitely above par, I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars for entertainment and quality.

Also, I'm reluctant to call it an underdog story. It's more a "coming of age" story, which is a different thing. There are many, many emotional aspects to the film (family dynamics - multiple generations in a home, absent father or a deported mother) which serve to enhance the overall themes of what happened.

Lastly, it's one of the few films I've seen recently that doesn't rely on CGI to show off important parts of the story. As the credits indicated, there were teams of robotics professionals who built the units used in the film.

I recommend the film and will buy it to have in my house to put on in the background when the mood strikes me. Others that fit that bill for me are Rush, Shawshank Redemption, The Crow, and The Big Lebowski. YMMV.
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My feeling is that your point about vim and emacs applies more to vim than emacs. The caveat here is that I had ~15 years of vi/vim usage going on before switching to emacs ~5 years ago. I can plainly see where modal editing is foreign to new users from the start. However, I'm not sure emacs, which ships with "normal" keyboard shortcuts by default in most packagings, is the same. Emacs has a relatively smooth path from, "I'm going to use this like Notepad++" to "Emacs is my god / lover / email client now."

At least that's my impression, and perhaps the warped impression of someone incapable of recognizing weirdness.
Economy is an engine of progress, but some people raise it to the level of a God. It's a tool, not a justification. We shouldn't limit our actions only to those that turn profit, 'lest we turn into mindless drones generating entropy without much purpose.
What TV series?
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Is it "legal"? It very much depends on jurisdiction, but the answer is broadly "yes". The issue (as illustrated by other blacklist cases like Spamhaus v. e360) is that you can be sued under various guises for setting up a blacklist (esp one that could impact revenue generation), and while you are likely to succeed you'll need to be able to fund the litigation long enough for a judgement.
And black people benefited from the privilege of being slaves to white, civilized people. amirite?

WARNING: The following is going to cause cognitive dissonance in many people, even among the rather intelligent people here.

Don't fool yourselves, the conditions in Asia under which people make "stuff" for you, which you don't even value, for $0.50 per hour is nothing more or less than slavery. It is the same kind of slavery that you all supposedly despise in American history, the legacy and ripple effects of which are still rather present today. Just because the "company" pays a nominal amount that serves more for accounting purposes than anything else, doesn't make it less than slavery. Just because slavery changed location and a couple of its business processes and clients and logistical systems, does not mean that it is not slavery.

Would it not have been slavery in the south if "workers" had been paid $0.000001 per hour, which is about what $0.50 per hour amounts to in 1855 value?

Realize this, you are supporting and benefiting from slavery, for the same reasons that the south looooooved slavery; because it meant they didn't have to earn their income, benefits, and advantages of a privileged life built on exploitation.
Ouch... this is, uhm, Cambodia not China.

Industrial revolution is a term coined by developments in Europe, based on the ability to industrialize domestic production. Living in a third world country in today's globalized world is not the same thing as living during European-style industrialization. The wealth difference between first and third world citizens is kind of like the wealth difference between a farmer and a prince in the 17th century.

I have to strongly disagree with this Yaron guy, between breeding efficiency and survivability there is still a need for a species-appropriate life. Yup that's right, you don't keep a tiger in a cement floor cage and you're not supposed to keep humans in factories either.

Consider Greece's state motto: "Freedom or Death". E.g. the anti-thesis to this Yaron guy, implying that survival by itself is not freedom.

As a counterpoint, Brazil's state motto: "Order and Progress". That one could suit Yaron I guess.

So, without wanting to debate if history as it is was yielding benefits or heading in the wrong direction, I have to express that there is a humanitarian baseline that a modern human being might want to keep in mind. And it's not about GDP or child survival rate. There is no point in breeding children who will become shallow hulls, so depraved from their rightful habitat that they can not be recognized as actual humans.

A human sings songs, dances, paints, crafts, thinks, dreams and loves.
It might well be that it was a target price but there is actually a fair chance that the company may have achieved it by tightening their margins rather than expanding them.

Source working for a TV manufacturer and knowing how desperate the sales teams were to get prices to hit certain magic "price points".

I'm not saying that it always works this way though.
Interesting, indeed.
I agree that this is an issue. However saying that 'everybody wins' in the scenario you just pointed out, glosses over the fact that many of theses people will lose their jobs. Considering that the vast majority of these workers work voluntarily, you have consider why they do and what they will be returning to when they've lost these jobs. For many people it will be destitution or starvation. There aren't any magic wands to be waved here.
I fail to see the point of this whole discussion.

The code reflects exactly what the program is doing, and there's no undefined behaviour anywhere. There's no way to access anything outside the very delimited scope of "buffer" memory area, like stack variables or any other part of the program.

What's the point of using a high-level language for re-defining basic low-level operations on buffers and recreating everything using those low-level constructs without the proper boundary checks?

Of course, you can simply define a huge "unsafe" block and program everything inside it, but what's the point? That you have a language powerful enough to shoot yourself?

Compare that to C or C++: the unsafe block is always on. Any code block can have unsafe properties anywhere. Not only that, but you have ZERO guarantees on memory safety and other general operations. Summarizing, high-level and low-level totally mixed and no way to isolate them.

Sorry, but if you can't see how Rust avoids a "Heartbleed" or any other kind of similar issue, you have no understanding of programming or no experience debugging anything.

And yes: security != safety, but please note you are the one mixing both concepts.
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There's a two-year fellowship with renewable terms through the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. I hear that they and their workers are always interested in talking to good developers and designers, and that a large majority of their tech folks work from around the country. http://www.consumerfinance.gov/jobs/technology-innovation-fe...

Source/disclaimer: I'm a UX designer with the CFPB who just started said fellowship, who lives and works remotely from Chicago.
>However, combining that with an economic system which sets your ability to feed yourself and your families based on the effort you put in is a bad thing.

This would be great. The problem is, reward has little to do with effort. Lots of effort can still leave someone broke and little effort (with a lot of capital) can make someone millions. Imagine a system where hard workers were always rewarded appropriately regardless of what they worked in, regardless of the capital they previously possessed.
>I am totally fine if he does not release something new for half a year, but at least he could've written a short blog post that he will take some time off.

He did write a short post of that effect.

>Even a short "Hey guys, I am still working on it but things are very slow right now" every 8 weeks would've been totally fine.

The TextMate guy posted frequent updates just like that -- and it got nowhere.
For those interested in rolling their own RPi rootfs builds:

- Spindle is a collection of scripts that's used to build the 'official' Raspbian images. It's hardly stripped-down as-is, and far from my favorite rootfs building strategy, but is a starting point: https://github.com/asb/spindle

- Yocto / OpenEmbedded recipes are available for truly stripped-down build possibilities. Here's a random blog post specific to RPi: https://delog.wordpress.com/2014/09/16/embedded-linux-system...

- The resin.io folks are trying to do "docker for embedded devices", with RPi as one of the initial targets. They have a pre-built rootfs that pulls your docker images via their (proprietary) cloud service. https://resin.io/
I worked on this comic for four years–why I'm giving it away free
The short answer, to not stall the chance of helping someone.

I started on a pre algebra math comic for kids some years back. I got it published and launched it just recently, sales have been bleak.

I guess that's what happens with no relevant personal connections, and no familiarity with marketing and distribution.

But that doesn't change my desire to aid a child in learning math or a parent or teacher in trying to teach it.

So, I decided for the month of February, I'd make an eBook version and give it away. Downloads, on the other hand, have been plenty.

And honestly, I'm happy just knowing there are people out there who find my creation useful.

Maybe youre a parent with preteens, or you know of someone who could use this comic.

Here's your invite.

It can be found at https://payhip.com/b/74lz. If you enjoy it, let me know.
Ask HN: Would You Play This Mobile Game?
I've been kicking around an idea for a mobile game but am getting outside feedback before digging in too much.

Here is the gist:
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An immersive, story-driven mobile game where you are the main character and the real world is the game world. The game will bring together media such as video and voice with the technology on the smart phone to bring the story to life and make you feel as if it is really occurring. The game will be somewhat localized, requiring you to visit areas of your city (for example, if in Denver: Union Station but if in SF: Chinatown).

Throughout the game the you will make choices that will impact how the rest of the game will play out. Choose X and you are all of a sudden working with the bad guys but choose Y and you save the world. It is like a choose-your-own-adventure book but plays out in the world you live in and facilitated by your phone, not just in the pages of a book.
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Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
I'd be worried if a major product release that is the major product for a company didn't have at least as much hype as that sentence.
Well, as a principle, anybody may try to claim rights/ownership over anything. The question that follows is how could that (no mater how far-fetched) given claim be further supported. Also, one way of securing good relations with others is to just recognize their claims.
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It shows how effective the huge marketing push has been: not just the ads which are showing up everywhere but the concern-troll op-eds and faux-libertarian blog posts sprouting up all over the place from ideologically-negotiable writers who are coincidentally all suddenly very concerned about the possibility of prices going up and lauding the hyper-competitive free market we currently enjoy.

A lot of tech people think they're too smart to fall for propaganda but there are other people making a lot of money proving you just have to find the right spin.
Nice interview, I always enjoy reading his contributions on StackOverflow. I don't always understand what even the problem at hand is, but it's just a fascinating exercise to read some of his responses and the obscure facts behind them.

Science Fact: Jon Skeet cannot parse HTML using regular expressions [0]

0: http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454/537093
The issue was that it wasent a funny enough joke for it to even be clear that it was a joke.
We would both agree that it's an attempt to alter the _perception_ of the price, but I would find it a struggle to call it a deception.
> This is just not true. Android manufacturers sell huge numbers of high end phones that cost the same amount as iPhones.

But not in India, a third world country, as OP makes the point. Majority of Android budget range here is ₹5000 ($90) to ₹15000 (~$300). Where as an iPhone costs ₹53,500.
I would really like to hear Richard Stallman's take on this.
> I will add one point that is often glossed over: use it or lose it. Once you stop using a skill at a high level, it starts to slowly deteriorate.

I found this point interesting (and the whole article worth reading, even if you're already familiar with the ideas), and I think it's true, however, speaking from experiencing, while peak skill deteriorates quickly, it also comes back much more quickly once you've had it. Two examples, first, I'm currently learning a lot of probability, which requires calculus that I've forgotten, but it is much easier to relearn calculus than to learn it the first time. (Really, I'm just recalling some formulas and techniques, the main ideas of calculus I doubt you can forget.) Second, I used to lift weights a lot, then I took a while off. Now, I'm lifting them again. While I'm not up to my previous bests, I've regained a lot of strength quickly, certainly much more quickly than it took me to get there in the first place.
Just curious, what's wrong with this?
Am I supposed to be surprised that a vapid chick continues being vapid?

Most people, especially in the USA, think that we are all unique people that make the world what we want; but they don't have the capacity to realize (usually for reflexive reasons) that they are far more a product of systemic forces than anything else.

It's kind of like swimming against a stream, sure, you are swimming and we are all very fascinated by your swimming prowess, but, ultimately, you are still going wherever the stream wants to take you, you're just looking the wrong direction and fooling yourself.
They're being exploited, and their governments are doing nothing to stop it. You want change? It starts with those who are allowing it. Modern muckraking only goes so far.
The "living wage" is an ill-defined term, because the majority of the population will always be earning just at or above the living wage - and when the general wages rise, so will the costs (of food, rent, transport, ...).

The only way of breaking this cycle is by creating a society of abundance, but even the West isn't there yet, yet alone India/China. The only other thing you can do is earn more, but that only counts if you're earning more than other people, so that you can outbid them (e.g. when buying/renting a flat) while still having enough money to spend/save.
This is a really tricky problem though, because what happens when factory jobs bring in more money than those that require further education and training? What you get is people dropping out of school to go and work in those factories, which then only goes on to perpetuate the poverty cycle.

I don't have any good solutions, but I do know the answer isn't as simple as just doubling factory workers' wages.
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