skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Literally millions of people are being killed by coal, without any choice in the matter[1]. What analogy would you prefer to use for something as devastating as that?

Coal only seems affordable if the significant health and environmental costs are (incorrectly) assumed to be zero.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/dec/12/china-coa... >Emissions from coal plants in China were responsible for a quarter of a million premature deaths in 2011 and are damaging the health of hundreds of thousands of Chinese children, according to a new study.
The prevailing wage necessarily goes down when the labor supply is increased. This is literally learned on Day 1 of Introduction to Microeconomics.
I'm actually struggling to recall the last time I followed a link to a StackOverflow question where the question wasn't closed for some reason or another. It's gotten to the point where it feels like the only goal of the site is curate old content.
The Future is Containerized
You can clean houses for twice that, and the shit you have to deal with is far easier to handle.
This is great! We need more soft totalitarianism in our faces to encourage replacing legacy centralized protocols like HTTP(S).

And hopefully the concrete price will raise the issue in people's minds too. If ATT is willing to give you $30/mo for your privacy, how much is it really worth?! Just buy this special router and pay $5 a month to this other company, and get better protection than for the $30.
That was completely devoid of any useful numbers. Here's a nice, well researched chart that actually puts coal in a useful context compared to other ways of generating electricity.

http://www.withouthotair.com/c24/page_168.shtml

The rest of that is well worth reading, too.
And even in big corps, 95% of all IT is usually plumbing and hectically applying band-aids for past issues that should not have been there in the first place.

To me, the fact that IT is currently seen as rapidly progressing is laughable. It is rapidly changing, true, but for the most part we're solving old problems with new tools that work only marginally better than the old tools (because, like the article says, the underlying mentality is the same). Very often they change fast enough to keep everyone always "learning" at the expense of the users, so the marginal benefits are cancelled out.

(Seriously, I know people who made the same excuse for bad quality for the last decade. "Oh, I'm just learning [over-hyped tool]. Everyone makes mistakes at first." Learning tools is a fake kind of learning. Real advances happen when your conceptual basis is improved, so you get better at doing something with whatever tool. That's real learning. )

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Also, sometimes we're using new tools that work significantly worse than some old tools.... because at some point conceptual development branched and "our" branch is at the same level of development as another branch was in, say, 60s or 70s. Sometimes I read about old tech and it just blows my mind. "What? They've been doing this three decades ago? How come this is marketed as awesome new thing right now?"
Now, I'm definitely not saying that anyone should do this, because I don't advocate any illegal actions. But, if they happened to get DDOS attacked, I would laugh heartily.
Ruins what? That question is the kind of thing that helps only you. SO tries to be a site where one person gets an answer, and the same answer can later be found by a thousand people who google.

Your question asks people to help you, with no attempt at making this useful for others. I can see why people downvote such questions.
Thanks, good point about telcos.
Screenshotted for the eventual CL takedown: http://i.imgur.com/CsathsU.png
It's obvious in hindsight that the hobbyist market moved, and Radio Shack moved in a different direction. The hobbyists went to Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and quadcopters. Sales of electronics components, wired phones, and Radio Shack PCs dried up almost overnight. Radio Shack went with their remaining big sellers: Cell phones, sound systems, and other consumer electronics that dropped in price and appeared in Walmart, Best Buy, Staples, etc. In the past few years, there was not much to be found in Radio Shack that you couldn't find at Walmart.
So what was the total value of the "loss"? And could that not have been made up in creating some goodwill around the incident or avoiding bad will?
No. Why would it?
The user can still grant full access to the machine to applications they trust (like they do now).
In fact, the traditional Unix security model (root vs. regular users) was about "not trusting the user" and securing the machine from the user. This "new" kind of sandbox is about the user being able to apply different levels of trust to different applications.
It is absolutely sufficient for the vast majority of users. Most people use Excel for lists, and for simple spreadsheets.

There are some niche industries, like finance, where there are legacy spreadsheets (where, scarily, much of the business is run. Wall Street runs on Excel spreadsheets) that don't run, and with users who have a very unique knowledge and can't easily accommodate the change, but that is a small minority.

For new and growing companies that just need this sort of functionality, these apps are fantastic.
I learned web programming by building an e-commerce site from scratch in Perl the late 90s. When all was said and done, my partner and I split $2k, which brought my hourly rate to $1-$2/hour. But for 10 years I made $55-$75/hour maintaining that thing - which I hadn't really foreseen I just wanted to learn web programming. The point is it can be worthwhile.
Looks like they might finish the Gigafactory by 2016: http://www.hybridcars.com/gigafactory-could-open-ahead-of-sc...
Maybe they don’t want people like you on the site. I wouldn’t.
"The government has tabled Bill C-51, which provides greater power to the security agencies to collect information on and disrupt the activities of suspected terrorist groups."

FYI for any Americans reading this, when a bill is tabled in Canada, it means the opposite of what you think it does, the bill is put forward for discussion rather than suspending discussion indefinitely.
Wow.
I'm sad to admit we see a LOT of this kind of job posts in my city (Mexico city, Mexico). And they get plenty of answers too.
I think you're conflating consolidator/unpublished fares with published fares. These were all published fares. Even OTAs have the plating carrier collect the money on published fares. Either way, point of sale doesn't matter for DOT to apply, just that you're flying to or from the US.
The issue is well described in The Innovators Dilema. Failure to recognize a fork in the road and realign the enterprise. Having 7,000 stores is insane in the contest of a transition to an internet centric landscape.
You may not have the time to do this, but I credit a lot of what social grace I have to working a retail job during and after college. I wasn't much of a partier in my teenage years either, but I can talk to a pretty broad range of people, because for years my boss was whoever walked in the front door. Maybe you could spend some time in a similar setting, even just an hour or two of volunteering at some public-facing event. Registration booth for a marathon, anything really. In that kind of scenario, it's like training wheels for empathy: you already know, roughly, what the other party wants (to register for the marathon), so it'll take that burden off and give you a chance to study the minor details of body language, small talk, all that sort of fun schmoozy stuff. And you can't really fail, as long as the runner gets her number and cheap t-shirt.

In contrast, in a social setting, those sorts of hard-to-quantify details are basically all that's going on, which I think makes it harder to focus. After all why does anyone go to a party? Those motivations are really vague, and maybe the people at the party don't even know what they are. Trying to understand how that works is building on quicksand.

To try to answer some specifics: Bill Gates has a weird life, unlike most of us. I've worked with other people who started successful companies straight out of school, and they were unapproachable too, perhaps because they'd never had a boss. They weren't good at math either. As far as enunciation, volume, thinking of the next sentence: I think the suggestions to try Toastmasters could be a great answer there.

So I guess my suggestion is: empathy is what makes people approachable, so find an environment like sales or service, where empathy is tightly tied to the goal, as a place to practice it. The books like Dale Carnegie definitely help, but practice makes perfect.

Good luck!
I'd assume that the logic is that Canadas' economic survival depends on its petroleum-product industries and anyone interfering with that is going to cause major harm to Canadas' survival as an oil-addled state. It is probably true that revenues generated by the oil industry are propping up the state, but then the RCMP should be doing a danger report on that, and not its own citizens. Probably easier for the gun-totin' types to deal with dirty stoned hippies than high-falutin' government economics-terrorists though, I'd imagine ..
Why would you want to sandbox an open source program like VLC? This sort of thing is mostly useful to allow the running of proprietary binaries that could be hostile in some way. You are not going to care that much if you can trust a program not to attack other programs.
(1) Surely culture and technology stack are reasonably independent of the dimensions considered here
(2) Wouldn't you agree that this asks an important question which is currently absent from the hiring conversation?
(3) Even if the spider plot is an imperfect representation, isn't it a helpful starting point for a conversation between a potential employer and employee?
(4) I'm not sure what your concern is about toy models and management. All models are toy models, the only thing which matters is whether they lead you to ask the right questions.
I have no doubt that 19th century London was better off with coal despite the horrific air pollution it caused. But the question before us is whether to continue using coal now that we are much richer and have many more options in terms of what technologies we have.
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According to wikitionary [1] "four score and seven" was a commonplace way of saying "eighty seven" in 19th c. English.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/four_score_and_seven_years_ag...
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A Traveling Introvert’s Struggle with Drinking and Socializing
Apparently this is because FreeBSD has nothing like Linux’s inotify.

It has kqueue, which is a generic event mechanism that can take the place of inotify, signalfd, eventfd, timerfd and others on Linux systems. It has a bit of a learning curve, but it's actually neat.

Concerning platform support, that has always been NetBSD's shining ground.
Their site is hosted on Volusion, a hosted ecommerce platform. Probably what they're really hiring for is someone to maintain the template and product SKUs, but figured they'd throw in a bunch of other bullet points related to "web development" thinking it'd get a better employee.
Meth.
An addendum of sorts to my last point. A friend I forwarded this to took umbridge at blaming the smoke-pot explosion on the supervisor(s). So I looked at it more closely and here's an edited version of the reply:

Actually, if you go to the official document, pg. 13-4, it's not that bad:

http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/19...

Especially since I have high school experience with potassium chlorate, a dangerous oxidizer. E.g. I used classic chlorate and sugar plus nichrome igniter wire plus my second generation rocket launcher device (both versions having a physical key lockout, didn't trust my younger brothers) to do some neat 4th of July fireworks stuff. E.g. add a small "bomb" of chlorate and sugar to the igniter packet taped to the inside of one half of a cinderblock, then arrange a gross of bottle rockets in that, and you can get an amazing display due to the significant variations in their fuzing. Oh, BTW, this was done in the middle of our lakes ^_^. In all this I somehow never managed to burn myself.

Anyway, they mixed up their own witches brew to make the smudge pots, and looking at the ingredients it's no surprise it exploded, and now looking up smoke screen making on Wikipedia, you use either potassium chlorate or if using phosphorous, atmospheric oxygen or much tamer aluminum as oxidizers (the latter for IR proof smoke), not both. Magnesium turnings are right out.

I.e. I had a better knowledge of chemistry and safety in high school than these guys did. Reading between the lines they were clearly doing it this way to have some fun as opposed getting the job done, in an area where you almost certainly want to avoid random fires.

So, yeah, they should have been better supervised, access to these chemicals should have been better controlled (i.e. a good clerk would have raised an eyebrow if they tried to withdraw any single one of these chemicals except of course the sugar, and any of the combinations...), and critically "no disciplinary action could be taken." I agree with every one of the recommendations.

And disciplinary action was almost certainly not needed, those who were held at a degree of fault realized they'd let these "kids" kill or blind themselves.
Ask HN: How do I stop obsessing about taking care of my hardware (laptop)?
It seems to get in the way of productivity, and it has become an obsession for me to extremely take care of it.

How do I beat this obsesssion? I have OCD.

It's also my only laptop.
Then the media player can read every DVD you put into your drive as long as its running. So you always have to close the media player before inserting a DVD containing private files.
That probably isn't that important for DVDs, but for other devices (e.g. microphone, webcam) it certainly is.
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The profit margin on your soldering iron isn't high enough to keep Radio Shack afloat. That stuff never kept them going.

There's a Radio Shack in West Seattle where I live. There's another a few miles south near White Center, and another downtown, and another near Beacon Hill, and two more near UW, and one in Ballard, and one at Northgate Mall, and still two more a bit further north.

I count ten on the map. TEN. These are all in Seattle proper, not even looking at the surrounding areas. How many hobbyists does Seattle have? No way hobbyists are keeping this going, no matter what Radio Shack puts on the shelves.
Nope, I'm saying in a normally functioning human being caloric surplus period is what causes gaining weight. The insulin response is something that has gained a lot of popularity recently because people like complex explanations, but the truth is, as I said, it's pretty inconsequential outside of behavioral impact. It's not that it's not involved, it's that you don't need to understand or manipulate it to gain/lose weight.

It gets tricky in a few places: calories are labeled as the number of calories a food has in it, not the number of calories you net when you factor in the cost to the body of extracting those calories. 200 calories of chicken breasts costs your body more calories than 200 calories of sugar to extract. Especially if you don't end up using the protein to build muscle and convert it to energy. This isn't a massive difference, but it's significant. Regardless, calorie counting is about establishing a baseline and trending downward, not being 100% accurate in your calorie estimations.

As you mentioned, people with specific needs, like diabetics, are going to have different experiences with carbs, but that's a completely different discussion, and not one I know a ton about.

The body builders thing is interesting. I'm a power lifter and I lift with a lot of body builders so I am familiar. Insulin use like this can help the body absorb nutrients more quickly after a workout (specifically carbs, which can help restore glycogen to the muscles which helps with amino acid absorption) but it's not being used without an increase in overall calories (or it shouldn't be). In short, it's helping body builders eat more (especially post workout), not absorb the same amount differently. In my opinion it's a really stupid idea, though when you consider the trash many body builders put in their bodies it's probably less scary than a lot of the supplements and prohormones out there.
Not just the (totally indelible) beat, though, but also the vocal delivery. Just to name one example, it's the hook in Nicki Minaj's "Beez In The Trap".
So if I hire someone to play Princess Elsa at my daughter's birthday party, requiring her to wear a certain uniform on a certain day during certain hours and setting a price, then she is therefore an employee?

Aren't setting prices and terms of contract a standard part of any contract?

If you are providing a marketplace for people to find contracts between parties, and you are in any way filtering what you will or will not allow on that marketplace, aren't you setting terms of that contract?
Github hosts code, Github also hosts websites. It's not too outrageous.
>> kind of file selector service that runs in the session (outside the sandbox) that grants some kind of access to files the user chose.
>This is not enough, as explained above.

Well, its hard to say that as this kind of stuff is not designed yet. Better to say that the requirements of VLC on the design of this are more complex than just the "allow access to single-picked-file" semantics. Hopefully we can take this into account when we look into the details here.

> Well, this is a deal breaker so far. Are you going to do a pulsedvd, a pulsecd, a pulsedvb, a pulsesdi for all the access modules? Playing encrypted DVD requires direct access, as far as I know.

Some of these need not necessarily be as complex as you imagine though. They could very well be some kind of thin service that enumerates the real devices and hands over the opened FD to your app after having verified that it is allowed.

> libpulse requires X, as far as I know.

Libpulse can optionally be built with X, but this is really only used to read back the pulse socket name from the x root property. It works just fine without X (witness the non-X, but pulseaudio using demo in the blog post for instance).

OpenGL access is via DRI, but yeah, output to the screen will have to happen via wayland. That could use subsurfaces with YUV surfaces, and it is then up to the compositor to use overlays if possible (i know weston does this for instance).

For VDPAU etc, i don't really know.
I looked back at version one to see what people would have downvoted/closed for:

'I have tried to do that (by overloading operator[], operator=) but it doesn't seem like I'm going somewhere. Can anyone suggest me a way to achieve this behavior?'

You said you have tried, but you didn't post what you tried, or how it didn't work. This makes your question hard to answer, and essentially means anyone answering is going to have to write your code for you.

You then finished it up with a passive-aggressive FAQ section which was entirely unnecessary, and included 'I want to do it this way, even if there is a better way' - which is just a terrible way to go in asking a question.

StackOverflow gets incredible numbers of questions every day, and the reality is people are not willing to help people who actively make their questions harder to answer. That's not people being assholes, it's people getting burnt out trying to help the 20,000th help vampire (http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/).

Everyone who complains about StackOverflow, in my experience, tends to be someone who wants others to do work for them. Yes, SO doesn't do that. That's by design.
More Scientists Who Deserve Their Own Biopics
There's an election coming up. The terrorism boogeyman has been so expedient in America that the Conservative Party is trying to invent a similar threat.
If they pay by the hour, then I don't care if they want me implement odd requests.

I need some money. Not much. $3 per hour is more than enough—since I have another source of passive income.

I've done a little web design freelancing in the past, so know what to expect. The worst part about freelancing is feature creep, IMO. Which isn't an issue, if I get paid per hour.

I've thought it through. I'm in the UK and could get a minimum wage job with way higher pay. But that wouldn't be coding or making products.
Sorry messed that up, you're right that the '74 builder catalog was very inclusive/generic but somehow the '76 one overshadowed this already in my memory (similiar models, strictly for lads).

http://www.bricklink.com/catalogItem.asp?C=c76uk

http://worldbricks.com/en/my-instructions/download/file.html... [PDF]

Yet the '74 homemaker one is clearly aimed at girls, and only mentions boys in the foreword.
http://helpemptymyattic.co.uk/vintage-lego-little-girls-thin...

My point is LEGO had quite the on/off approach with gender in their advertising for decades already, and yes I like the 1981 one.
Ribbon-era Excel had massive take up for a number of reasons, but there was certainly reluctance to switch (from what I saw at the time).

One of the biggest reasons the company I was working with at the time made the switch was sheet size, we came up against the 65536 rows limit at least once. Formula calculation speed was another big one. In many ways the ribbon does feel like a step forward, perhaps the only thing 2003 still does better is keyboard shortcuts, but luckily you can still use Excel 2003 keyboard shortcuts in newer versions if you can remember them (Alt,d,f,f and Alt,d,f,s are probably the ones I use most frequently).
Yes, job titles an CVs/resumes are out of date. People talk about the future of work but for a lot of us it's already here.

This is great, although I have a different approach, namely https://www.somewhere.com and specifically https://www.somewhere.com/what-is-somewhere
Latitude and Longitude remind me of the tiny app I made using Google Maps API to find out what's on the exact opposite end of some place - it's called Other Side: http://lalwanivikas.github.io/other-side/
Editorial Misbehaviour in Autism Journals?
Yep, that's the fashion industry for you.
Pivotal and Hortonworks Join Forces on Hadoop
"Lego sets are so uncreative nowadays, I buy a set and then only build what was intended. I'm obviously not the problem." Seriously, those sets and the cool pieces just add many more dimensions to what you can creatively build.
Bingo. What all of these supposed "gig" economy jobs have in common is the parent company's tendency to shift all the risk to non-employees / ICs while reaping most of the economic value of the reward -- taking a heftier cut than it should from the business transaction.

The value derived from being an IC that's truly independent is being able to charge more for the "temporary" nature of the work and the risk of end-client fickleness. But this chunk of value is getting eaten by the middlemen (marketplace and escrow).

As such, this is especially evident in companies that have integrated a "marketplace payments platform" directly into their systems -- AirBnB, Uber, Kitchit, Instacart (any one of the companies whose payment processor is a member of the cartel: http://ink.hackeress.com/2014/12/crowdfunding-is-too-expensi...).
You got the downvotes for editing your question to complain, including vulgarity in a few instances. People bitching in questions is a lot of peoples pet peeves (because it is frustrating to moderate correctly).

I would agree that "off-topic" is completely incorrect and I can't think of a valid reason to close it.
A Year with the Finnish Maternity Box
I find the true value of SO to be "populating google with good answers to questions", but that is just me :).