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Not really. This article is pretty poor.

TLDR: "Something melted, therefore global warming is the cause and mass extinction is the inevitable result" is such absurd logic its not worth wasting time debating it.

Have you ever seen fossilized sea creatures buried in rocks thousands of feet above and thousands of miles away from the sea? The planet has undergone massive climate and geological upheavals, and mass extinction events.

Human life is not really so important. Wether or not even we survive as a species is like a drop in the bucket of nothingness. Remenber there were fire-making, tool-making, upright walking species besides us that survived long enough to leave traces of their civilization.

No body owed them anything, survival least of all, and as a result they perished.
Why would they be even more mad about the ads? Injecting ads is sleazy and deceptive, enabling MITM attacks is actually dangerous. You're right though, the ad injection by itself is still pretty sleazy even if it were perfectly safe. I think it just got overshadowed by the security concerns.

Heck, it's insane to me that most PC manufacturers slap a bunch of big ugly stickers on most of their laptops so they can make some absurdly small amount of extra revenue on a product that costs hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Willfully endangering users for a similarly marginal profit boost is so much worse. I have no idea why anyone would buy stuff from such a company.
I'm sure if you ask the guy, he can put the bedbugs and semen you want on his couch before you sleep on it if that helps with your transition.
If ISPs lose, consumers cannot win.
Any definition of digital art that doesn't include the demoscene (and related) or the ascii/ansi scene is not one that matters.
I searched for my name and none of the first ten results was about me, or about any of the other people called "Dan Beale". But nicely it didn't return a bunch of filth based on my other surname, "Cocks", so that was nice.

It's a shame that a couple of replies or so harshly negative. Perhaps this submission would have been better received if it had been a blog post about how you created you engine; how it works; problems you have with it; and so on.

Search is not --despite the Google behemoth-- a solved problem so there's still space for creative thinking.

EG the search on a manufacturer's website is often hopeless. You emd up with a list of 8,000 widgets and need to iust scroll through them page by page. Amazon search is bafflingly poor. Ebay search has some sub-optimalities. (People can list "case for mp3 player £1.99" and "mp3 player £35" in the same listing, so a search and sort by price will sort by the cheaper case price.
The drop at the end is because official website of the Department of Homeland Security has data only till 2013, and it is only four years of data versus ten for all the other points.
What is the problem with smooth curves?
Being friendly with a few full-time computational and bench geneticists, I can tell you that none of them say things like "Epigentics has shown us that..." with great confidence, much less make sweeping claims about multi-generational heritable traits and clear cut environmental determinants.
Ask HN: Can you help me understand why I am so tired?
I have been working the same job as a Linux systems admin for about 5 years now. It's time for a move due to company politics and to move I need to study and get in gear.

The problem is even if I sleep 8-9 hours a night I find that I get very drowsy at work. I usually drink coffee in the morning and tea in the evening. Maybe 600-900mg of caffeine a day.

I didn't always feel so tired at work but I do now.

After work I tend to come home and go back on the computer to catch up on non work things. I'm a hobbyist and the computer is what I like. But even here I still get quite tired. I do tend to feel pretty drained when I get home. Such as now after my day my eyes are droopy and stuff and I didn't even do all that much since it was a Friday.

I usually tend to not sleep a lot but have tried to sleep more on a few nights to see if it helps. I feel better in the morning and for most of the day but the tiredness comes.

On the weekend when I get on the computer after some time I again get pretty tired. It's so cold out I can't do much outside.

I don't know if I really now just no longer like computers or I am literally exhausted of computers and never give myself a break. I am almost always interacting with one. Even my away from computer time before bed is sent reading on a kindle which is a computer.

Does anybody have any ideas?

I have some great opportunities coming up that I need to study for but I am just so shot.
In your experience, besides efficiency, speed, stability, scalability, robustness and the like, what is the effect on true innovation or doing something groundbreaking?
"Recent" is the key word, here. The PT event was 250 million years ago, and the Earth was a very different place then, including being significantly warmer.

The Holocene climatic optimum, on the other hand, was something like ten thousand years ago, and it explored temperatures that we're not close to (yet). If there were a life-ending loaded clathrate gun out there, the Earth would have hit it and triggered it then, not when we're experiencing relatively cooler temperatures now or in the near future. Unless it somehow got loaded in the ten thousand years since then, but no one thinks that.

ETA: To be clear, I'm not saying that climate change is fake, or that it's harmless because temperatures have been higher in the past. Those are orthogonal arguments to this (and they're bad arguments). This is just a statement about whether we're going to accidentally shock the globe into a radically different climate by triggering a methane clathrate gun.
I like how it takes an incremental, step-by-step approach. One of my favourite papers is Ghuloum's "An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction" [1], which shows how to build not a mere interpreter, but a _compiler_ to actual machine code, in twenty-four steps, starting from simple integers and proceeding through more and more advanced topics.

Shameless plug: I've been trying to follow along, but making it entirely self-contained and avoiding any additional tools. The result (in very early stages, currently dormant but not quite dead yet) is called Lithium [2].

[1]: http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf

[2]: https://github.com/nathell/lithium
Others have explained it in more detail but these valuations are distorted because the newly issued securities usually have higher seniority and liquidation preference compared to those previously issued.
Needs some work to improve both relevance and ranking algorithms. For example:

I'm watching the movie JFK, so I tried a search for Jack Ruby.

I found a teacher named Jack Ruby's videos, the Ruby Fortune online casino, the bar Ruby Tuesday, and a lot of other irrelevant results.

Nothing about the famous Jack Ruby in the first four pages.
I'm actually fairly disappointed since I was hoping this would be helpful.
TechCrunch doesn't even make money and what they produce is shoddy journalism at best. How are they going to go around criticizing others who try to do something?

Douchebag journalists are WAY worse because they believe the bullshit they spew. At least startup douchebags get a whiff of their own shit.
> Our new awareness of epigenetics challenges genetic determinism and throws a new wrench into nature-nurture debates.

It does?

> Epigenetic studies show that genes alone do not determine form and function,

Of course genes alone do not do that - that's the whole point of the nature-nurture debate, and the fact that most things are a mix of nature and nurture. We already knew a long time ago that genes alone do not determine form and function.

> but that the cellular environment matters in making people who they are as biological and social beings.

That also isn't new. Of course the cellular environment matters in making people (for example, fetal alcohol syndrome is a clear example of that, way before epigenetics).

The fascinating thing about epigenetics is something else entirely. It is that there is inheritance of traits via a path that is not DNA. This is incredibly important and interesting, but was not what showed us that genes do not determine everything about organisms, we knew that long before. In other words, we already knew non-genetic factors determined how organisms are formed and behave, but epigenetics showed us that those non-genetic factors can be inherited.
When I was a kid we would say someone with big eyes had "googly eyes". So, when Google came around I thought it was a reference to something like that (eyes, looking, seeing).
Please, die PHP.
Google to Host Developer Day Including Code Labs at GDC 2015
The other two projects that leap to mind for open source CAD are FreeCAD and BRL-CAD, but I'm not sure either would meet your particular requirements. I'm pretty sure BRL-CAD doesn't offer the sort of parametrics you'd want (the closest thing would probably be writing a procedural generator, which usually means C/C++ or a scripting language). I'm less sure about FreeCAD - they use the OpenCASCADE engine - but if the other commercial systems didn't offer what you want I'd be surprised if FreeCAD had it (not impossible though - it might be worth asking the dev team if your workflow could be realized in FreeCAD.)

Providing the STEP and STL files should cover pretty much what the open source CAD world is prepared to handle - FreeCAD can import STEP and BRL-CAD is working on it, and most 3D printing applications I know of can work with STL just fine. Thank you for taking the trouble to make the extra formats available.
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Again, I refer you back to the original scenario: The inconsistency is presented as accidental or unintentional, not as the first step in a cohesive long-range plan to refactor the codebase.
Uber is already hamstrung by their inexperienced drivers's reliance on Google Maps for navigation. It is in no way equivalent to actually knowing your way around.

The difficulty of making an urban self-driving car aside, Google would have to achieve a quantum leap forward in the quality of their navigation platform. Otherwise every auto-taxi in San Francisco will proceed single file down Van Ness, with turns onto Market or Mission only. All other streets will be empty and filled with pigeons.
Pascal! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while.

You should write a blog post about how you write a search engine in Pascal. That would at least reach top spot on HN!
Advertising free means it would not be able to support itself if it does not show value instantaneously. No value proposition here.
Home owners have the perverse incentive to stop all new construction to the detriment of their community. Their net worth continually increases so long as the price of real estate increases. There is no downside!

Furthermore, property taxes normally force some people out of their homes; this isn't as bad as it sounds - in SF at least, they would get a hefty windfall. On average, the property would be used more efficiently by the new owner.

NIMBYism is the biggest problem in SF. Every year, 20K people or so move into the city while we only build enough housing for roughly one tenth of them. Housing has increased by ~10-15% a year for the past decade or so.
<< Since when is it a thing that some laptop brands would put advertisements on your softwares? How come people still buy Lenovo if they do that? >>

For more than a decade, and almost all OEMs do this. Norton anti virus was the most widely distributed software in the late 00s, paying close to a dollar per install to OEM partners, and then aggressively advertising paid upgrades to users.
If I recall correctly, a few PC games used irc code as the basis of there networking stack.

irc2 script was what really got me into programming all those years ago. At one point I had VT100 codes spammed to the status line in order to draw blocks on the screen for an in chat tetris game drawn in ascii. I also managed to hack out of the sandbox the client was running in by setting the ENCRYPT_PROGRAM feature to /bin/sh. Good times.
Sounds like you should find some way to get some exercise.

A visit to a doctor may also be in order. What you describe sounds to me (IANAD) outside the range of normal tiredness.
Isn't it possible to do hardware decoding of certain video streams as of iOS8? Will you be able to do hardware decoding of MKV-wrapped H.264 files in later releases?
No comments? Was there another discussion about this that I missed?

Seems to me this is a perfect use for Bitcoin. As long as there exist services that will convert physical currency <==> bitcoin, it doesn't really matter what Mastercard, Visa, or Paypal allow.
I always use .local and it's really frustrating that Chrome leaks these addresses to Google when I forget to type a trailing slash. Instead of hitting my local dnsmasq server, it does a search for the address that I typed in.
I had the exact opposite reaction to Wordpress - I found it an excellent reference for studying how to build a great CMS. For me its code is concise and easy to follow. The time I spent with Wordpress was a great adventure in someone else's code... I think debugging WP is pretty fun!
Those older than 55 can also apply their previous tax to any home they buy of equal or lesser value when they move.
It should be noted that I'm not Joe Moore (though I'm working with him at the moment). I've edited quotes into the title to avoid confusion.
Methane is actually odorless, but it is non toxic (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane#Safety ). The main risk is combustion.
|||->Options->Advanced->View Certificates

SSL works by verifying a certificate against an authority, so if there is anyone you don't trust on your list, you can't trust site you are visiting. Superfish distributed their private signing key everywhere, protected only by the simple 'komodia' password. Now anyone can pretend to be them. Operating systems install their own list of authorities, but Firefox maintains its own. Other Komodia products are also vulnerable.
It's called stop eating fructose and stop drinking ethanol.
I guess it's really hard to be idiomatic in 23 languages.
Have you considered joining the YaCy community? It is another open source search engine.

http://www.yacy.net/
That example of aliasing - is it possible to write such thing in Go? Will Go compiler eat it or will not compile? Just interesting, how Go behaves in comparison to Rust, as another modern language.
It isn't that simple. Fructose plays a much different role in lipogenesis than other foods.
Given that I'm in the process of rewriting it in JavaScript I'm not sure about that... On the other hand it's probably worth a try. Thanks for the suggestion.
Yes, companies grow exponentially indefinitely regardless of addressable market size.

I must work for an Airbnb competitor, or a large hotel chain. Because everybody knows that astroturfing on HN is the best way to stop a company dead in its tracks.
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I don't know who your "we" includes but people in the know have been complaining about this for years.
I liked the structure of the guide. However pairing the memory tables while mentally executing the code line-by-line got confusing for me. (Especially because the code was offscreen because the tables take up vertical space)

I'd love to see this kind of explanation done in a non-text medium. For example, a slideshow or interactive webpage (ex: http://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction....)
Landing a contract gig can have lots of hoops, verifying past experience, background checks, etc.

For starters you could use your dated sites as portfolio pieces and try to get approval to obtain private beta credentials from your recent MVP work to show off your work. This would probably represent your experience more than making portfolio pieces just for your portfolio. Most companies aren't really picky about what your older work looks like as far as being dated. All projects looks dated after a few years. So I'd give it a go with your existing work and see if that opens doors. You can also work on adding in some portfolio pieces too while you're going through the process with what you have.

Typically on interviews some of the conversation will center on code, but a big part will be experience working remotely, what would you do in this situation (project is getting behind schedule, you aren't getting data/information you need, etc). So focus on working as a team, bringing value to a project, tackling/learning new things, recommend frameworks/services that can help the project. Related experience with similar apps/websites.

Good luck landing your first remote gig.
> We had three main ways we would get news (aside from person to person). There was television. There was radio. And there were newspapers and news magazines.

As I recall, in those golden days of the media past, there were numerous studies that showed, both for TV and radio, news consumption was negatively correlated with knowledge of current events.

> Comparing my recollection of those days to what I see now in others, and to how well I feel I am personally informed on the current events of our times, the impression I get as that we were better informed back then.

The impression I get is that people probably felt better informed back then. But probably weren't.

OTOH, because there were fewer, more standard vehicles, and they were very much integrated into peoples daily lives, the false impression of being informed that people had was probably strongly reinforced because what was being delivered (whether actually informative or not) was a lot more consistent person to person.
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What does Airbnb's revenues look like?
Looking up .museum also used to work, but it looks like something has changed.
Same here, although I was 11. 7 is damn impressive given access means back then (I SLIP'd my Slackware box into Rutgers Camden). My IRC story linking in Finland -- I sought out Purple Motion and Skaven on an IRC server in .fi in 94 to be a fanboy and tell them how much I loved their music. Little did I know they were only a few years older than me. I dreamt of convincing my parents I needed to go to Assembly.. :)
I know of YaCy. It's written in Java which I'm almost completely unfamiliar with.

But I know and follow the YaCy-community. Like myself the lead person of YaCy is located in Germany. We even share the same first name. :)
> I'm not on any high horse

> people dismiss it out of cognitive dissonance

Ok then.

You are making a few claims:

1) Thermodynamics imposes a finite limit on the energy consumption on Earth;

Sure, it might be necessary to build a fleet of titanic cooling towers to cool the atmosphere, I don't think we will ever need to do that; but thermodynamics doesn't forbid cooling Earth, hence your claim is false.

That out of the way

2) The direct thermal output of power sources/uses is going to be a problem in the near future

I claim that's also false. In fact, the burden of the proof should be yours when you make such a claim, but let me show why I believe otherwise: (approximate figure from wiki [1])

142 PWh of energy was used worldwide. Solar irradiance is 340000 PWh. It would take almost 200 years of steady 3% growth (or a 240x increase in consumption) to even reach 1% of solar irradiance as internal heat. Even then, the impact of greenhouse gases massively overshadows that.

On top of that, there's no activity requiring exponentially more energy, or evidence that we may continue expanding energy demand for hundreds or years. In fact, if you look at per capita energy consumption vs GDP [2], you can clearly see a saturation of energy needs. Once the developing nations reach this, it seems demand growth is going to slow down. Nothing physical ever maintains an exponential growth for too long.

[1] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bb/The-NASA-...

[2] http://www.withouthotair.com/c30/figure242.png
What about two intros? One for the low levelers, one for the high levelers? It's extra work, but it allows to treat more appropriately what each side needs to learn.

As [1] says: "Rust for C programmers != Rust for functional programmers."

[1] http://science.raphael.poss.name/rust-for-functional-program...
>existential threat to Marriott

People renting out their homes and apartments, in many cases unlawfully, is an existential threat to hotels?

How many rooms does Marriott have in, say, SF, versus how many rooms AirBNB is currently floating?

And if hotels start closing down, then people start complaining about problems when staying at strangers houses, leading to regulation of offering places for short-term stays (wait, that already exists, AirBNBers just ignore it)... don't we end up in the same place?

Eventually someone will buy an old Marriott hotel (after they cease to exist) and put all that inventory on Marriott.
Since at least Book X of Plato's Republic no one has come up with a better definition of Art than "derivative mimetic representations" of ideal forms. But, is "digital art" any different?

How will "interactivity", "virtuality", "ephemerality", "networks", "presence", "artificiality" and "trans-humanism" alter the traditional notion of a single author of a work attempting to achieve immortality? And does it truly matter? Or are we just prejudiced by the fact we have not yet seen digital Picasso's or Dali's?

Perhaps the pace of technology has outstripped the ability of artists to be the vanguard? Maybe we should begin looking to the neuroscientists to find a diagnosis for the symptoms we call Art?
It's not just a linkbait title, it's a linkbait article. It's called "burying the lede"[1]

Here's what a well written lead paragraph should have:

Most standard news ledes include brief answers
to the questions of who, what, why, when, where,
and how the key event in the story took place.

Instead, here's what we got as the first paragraph of this article:

Somewhere in the high desert of eastern Nevada,
a few turns off Route 50 — "the loneliest road
in America" — a station wagon sat parked by the
side of the highway. Before it lounged a young
couple on red lawn chairs. A crudely painted
wooden sign on the vehicle's roof advertised:
"Snow Globes $20."

I skimmed the story to find out exactly why the tree was cut down, but that information was elusive. It might be somewhere in the article, but I have no desire to read the LA Times edition of War and Peace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_paragraph
Wow, kudos. I can't tell you how much time I spent using XDCC. Important part of my childhood right there :)
How large is the market for short term housing, and how close is airbnb to saturating it?

I didn't say you were astroturfing, but I am curious what motivates you to create an account for the purpose of commenting on this story.
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Another meaningless and overused adjective that could be added to this list is "curated".

Curated means that the company chose to sell certain things, and not sell other things. How novel. Walmart curates its product offerings.

There are some days where every third listing on ProductHunt is "A curated collection of ______".
I spent two days replacing WordPress with custom PHP that does exactly what we need for our blog (read a bunch of static text from files), and then I never had to care about the horrors of WordPress (or worse, the plugins) again!