skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's all well and good to say that we should use less oil. The trick is to make the alternatives cheaper. That's what a lot of people don't understand. A middle class Californian can afford to spend a little extra to be "green". The majority of the developing world, and even a significant portion of people in the most developed parts of the world, cannot.

All that being said, this index leaves out several vital pieces of information. First, which way are these sources are trending? Alberta's oil sands have come a long way and are driving research in carbon capture. California Midway Sunset, on the other hand, is likely just as dirty now as it was decades ago. Nigeria Obagi may have lower carbon emissions than some on this list, but it is by far the dirtiest in terms of toxic chemical pollution, and is major contributing factor to why life expectancy is so low in Nigeria. There are social costs as well because many sources of oil prop up less than democratically elected leaders.

One cannot measure the impact of oil producers using carbon production alone!
I wouldn't go quite that far, MS touch has been hell with some pseudo states as hovers often require holding a finger down as it treats a mouse hover and touch hover the same in IE10.

Its unexpected when Android and iOS both freeze on the hover state.
The difference between a medicine and a poison is dosage.

"Binging Alcohol Abuse Leads To Loss Of Working Memory In Teens":
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/231267.php
This is curious, because my g/f (who read the book and liked it) posted a good review of a novel I wrote and her review was removed because Amazon figured out she knew me. I have no idea how they did this: we don't live together and I'm not sure I've ever bought her anything off Amazon, certainly not at her present address.

So I have the impression that Amazon is pretty good at weeding out good reviews from people you know, while still being complete rubbish at policing obvious spam reviews, and doing a terrible job of suppressing reviews from obvious trolls (my book has a two-star review from a guy who also gave "A Tale of Two Cities" a two star review, but you wouldn't know that unless you looked at their review history, and who can be bothered to do that?

As both an author and book-buyer, Amazon's review system is a complete loss. Every single book I look at has both good and bad reviews with almost no way to tell if they are based on standards at all relevant to my taste. Any review that doesn't say something along the lines of "My taste runs to X and this was a great example of X" or "My taste runs to Y and while this was kinda-Y-like it failed in these respects" may as well not exist.
The US and North Korea are the only two states that tax citizenship instead of residence.

Not true; I believe New Zealand does as well.
"Just fine" might be overstating it a little. For example, I've often hit path length limits with npm. But definitely better than most people seem to expect.
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Again, it depends on why you are writing the book. I have heard that you make $10k on avg if you use a publisher, vs $50k avg if you self-publish. If you are doing it for the money, self-publishing might be the way to go.

I'm using a publisher because:

- They have the resources to market the book. The book's not done yet and I've already sold ~2000 advance copies. I'm trying to reach as many people with this book as possible, and it would have taken me a lot longer to sell 2k copies on my own.

- I'm trying to learn how to write a tech book. My editor is the rare breed that cares about making a good book, and has 20 years of teaching + writing experience. I have learned a lot from him.
The first two issues are software/technology issues and solving them is a business opportunity.

The third one is a social issue, and one which can only be solved through experience. The problem is not that human beings are destined to struggle with work/life balance in this situation, but that they have no experience to draw upon to learn how to do that.

The major problem here should be pretty obvious when looking at that list - the pros RADICALLY outweigh the cons. That 'no office overhead' thing? Just that alone benefits your organization more than all of the cons combined detract from it.
It will be great when this substance can be officially studied in a clinical setting but so long as its a schedule 1 substance at the federal level, well, its worse than methamphetamine (on paper).
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Personally, if presented the chance to be financially set for life at the risk of going to jail for a decade, I might go for it depending on what I thought my odds were.

Conversely, if there was a risk of going to jail for 40 years then no odds short of 99% could convince me to risk it.
Glad to see you've come round.
Seriously. I don't get how a non violent crime like this gets more jail time then if someone was a heroin selling murderer.
I have to say I'm a little tickled by the suggestion that we should deforest big tracts of land to address an environmental crisis.
That's an absolutely brilliant headline -- it's total clickbait without using any of the typical clickbait patterns.

Shark dick! You won't believe what happens next!
It says in the article that the police were alerted to bracelet tampering: "The filing said the authorities got suspicious that something was awry with the GPS device on March 6. An agent spoke with Ceglia on the phone and "Ceglia reported that the bracelet had been damaged in a fall." But the agent said it subsequently was "functioning properly" until the next day."
You can pirate software and music, but you can't pirate almonds and rice.
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> The US and North Korea are the only two states that tax citizenship instead of residence.

The US taxes income of both citizens (regardless of residence) and residents (regardless of citizenship), it doesn't tax "citizenship", and it doesn't tax citizens instead of taxing residents.
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What performance problems are the hardest to solve? Do you have some performance data?
Thanks. It still seems a lot considering most people don't view those topics, but I guess visitors coming from long tail search results are desperately determined.
I can't imagine how you'd do pair-programming remotely, certainly. Some kind of shared-screen skype-call? Two sessions into a remote-desktop?

Collaboration over the wire is slower than collaboration in person and less enthusing, but it's also more considered, more precise.

We each have different styles I guess. Introverts likely prefer the considered precise way, extroverts the enthusiastic fast-paced way.

People who remote-work need to have a good social life outside work, certainly. I'm glad I've got that, coz remote work suits me so damned well.
The pitch is presumably "to hide your traffic from CoffeeShopSSIDThatMightBeMITMingYou, route it through a Google-VPN-that's-logging-everything-but-at-least-not-injecting-malware".

Technical users like you and I can already set up our own VPN-server-that-logs-nothing. This would serve the needs of others, who currently have the options of (a) be MITM'ed or (b) get scammed by some shady offshore company because it was the first search result for "vpn service".
Although I disagree with the overall sentiment of the article (remote working doesn't work for generalists). I commend the author for at least trying remote work (especially as a YC company, an organization that openly discourages remote work).

Full disclosure, I work remotely and it's by far the best decision I've ever made in my entire life.

So to address a few points. Collaboration to me is when a group of people, at least two, are working on a project together. As a designer this is one of the core aspects of my job. I'm constantly working on things with engineers, founders and marketing people. Therefore I feel that I have a solid idea of what it takes to collaborate efficiently.

At my previous job, that was location dictated, collaboration typically took place over chat. We did have meetings to go over larger ideas and aspects of the project, but typically critiques, pair programming, decision making all took place over chat. Even though we were in the same room we made it a point to communicate over chat because one: you need to respect my space and not interrupt me just because we're in the same room and two: we have a transcript so we can reference it later.

When I decided to leave that job as a developer and pursue a career in design I decided that I would look for remote work only. I firmly believed that everything I did on a daily basis in a single location could be done remotely.

The biggest point I want to make in this post is that tools are essentially irrelevant. What matters most is the management of people on remote teams. When you hire remote employees they need to be both self managing and self motivating. You need to make them aware that collaboration on a remote team is what each individual member puts into it. If they aren't documenting their work each day, if they aren't participating in daily scrums, if they aren't contributing to chats, if they aren't volunteering to review PRs, etc. it's just not going to work out.

For me, and many of the folks I work with, remote work is about freedom. The freedom to build your own schedule. The freedom to work on something early in the morning or late at night, in the comfort of your own home. The freedom to walk to a coffee shop and work from there. The freedom to forgo that commute. The freedom to be more productive. The freedom to spend more time with your family and loved ones. The freedom to just build great products without the hassle of office politics.
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This is a bit of a tangent, but I find this policy to be truly baffling:
http://pigeonsnest.co.uk/access.html

Is it some misunderstanding of the concept of linking? Or just someone with particularly strong copyleft feelings?
HuRandom crowd sources the collection of human generated random numbers to study trends in how people perceive 'random' data. Contribute for science!
For me, it's the paradoxical idea that not only do some dirty hippies have enough money to shop there, but also that there are enough of them to actually keep the company in business. Nationwide.
There may be some good here.

My vpn is often blocked at airports and the like. I doubt the would dare block a google server.
Define "reliable". California DOES have a reliable source of water. There's a reason the crops are grown here in the first place! The problem is, it's not a reliable source of water for the demands being placed on it. Which is something you'll find, oh, anywhere you start trying to move this agriculture project. It'll work great, and there will be enough for everyone, right up until there isn't.
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Not really. He could have just ripped a huge bong only minutes ago, for all you know.
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Interesting...

http://www.futuristspeaker.com/2011/10/the-coming-food-print... Please We should call it as a cooking machine..i can't digest food when they say it as a 3D printer..
One of the major problems that is that Wikipedia is not just an encyclopedia, but is also used as a news archive. These two different products have different audiences and should have different features. For example, an encyclopedia usually is a fact-checked summary of events, whereas a news archive is a stream of all news events, that doesn't require factchecking. Much of the complaints above arise from powerful groups in Wikipedia trying to control the fact-checking aspect of the site, when all most people need is the news archive part.

My site, Newslines, is an attempt to build a new archive without Wikipedia's biases. You may be interested in this analysis: http://newslines.org/blog/wikipedias-13-deadly-sins/
From the way you phrased this, I think You may have missed the context link a couple comments above. Everyone is aware of what hubris means and that it's not a virtue per se. The point of the linked page is that it's (somewhat tongue-in-cheek) taking three vices and positioning them as virtues in a narrow context. It's just semantics; the saying could easily have used synonyms that have positive connotations, but using negative words instead is part of the joke.
>Literally caused me nausea

This is off topic but seriously? You actually felt like you were going to vomit due to a business tactic?
I find it really interesting that this jumps to the top of Hacker News. I wonder if it's because:

- This study is self-serving for people who are anti-marijuana or

- Hacker News users tend to be interested in or users of marijuana and find this study concerning

I'd guess a bit of both but more the latter since the Hacker News community tends to be quite liberal.
Then someone should write a meta-driving-service app. I tell it where I want to go, and it picks which of the commodities is cheapest. Or I go out driving and it automatically shuffles through the apps to tell me where I can make the most profit.
Check out Floobits.
You're a fool if you honestly believe that you can't be put into a situation that would cause you to at least consider offing someone. Especially someone who was trying to extort/blackmail you.

The most drastic realization we'll have in the future (relative to now) is that situations determine behavior far more than any notion of free will, so avoidong creation of the situations that cause people to consider crime will become the priority.

Here is but one of MANY examples of outstanding-seeming people who were undone by their situations:

http://m.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Nowak-recalled-...
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On Wikipedia, unless an article has been locked in some way which changes things, anyone can watch an article, and anyone can revert any changes (and is encouraged to do so if the changes don't meet Wikipedia guidelines.) There is nothing special about being the original article creator. The original article creator is perhaps particularly likely to be especially interested in the subject and the article, but has no special authority or power.
Ng-Fx (brings animate.css like animations to Angular)
You can eliminate bad programmers by eliminating those that would use global variables.
Not true. This initial ruling establishes the precedent that the FCC has regulatory authority over the Internet.
It's fascinating to see the many reservoirs we were supposed to have built by now. The engineers of the 1950s and 1960s had a lot of big plans that were all supposed to be in place decades ago (look at the gray squares on the map):

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

A lot of people will say "the environmentalists" stopped them, but really it was that lawmakers gave environmental concerns only one effective tool -- enforcing standards via litigation.

The task of resolving environmental concerns was pushed out of the political and economic arena into an adversarial process that takes a huge amount of paperwork, lawyer time and calendar time to resolve.

Exactly like the Republicans with Proposition 13 (a California initiative which required supermajority voter approval for taxes), once you take fundamental powers away from the legislative and executive branches, you really limit the potential effectiveness of the government. And now California's infrastructure is a mess.
They've been writing an awful lot of decent content. That'll end eventually, though.
This was the same with Superfish. If you look at the Lenovo forums and other websites (Google search Superfish and set the time to before 2015) you'd find tons of complaints from users.

In these instances it was only when somebody recognized these issues as being real security issues and repackaged them that they got the attention they deserved.

It is a strange reverse problem in the security world - issues only get treated seriously when they are reported by security people through a formal vulnerability reporting and disclosure program (or informally via full-disclosure and other lists/forums).

While Google and other companies take security reports through these formal channels very seriously, I doubt they have anybody dedicated to trawling through user feedback and forums and spotting anything that might be infosec related.
It's about 99% of "people who have no idea how to install a new browser", so that kind of skews those numbers.
> A better question would be why the prosecutor didn't conduct this interview during the week the stayed in Sweden after the accusations were officially in the media?

He was interviewed during this period, and the transcript of the police interview was leaked onto the internet: http://pastebin.com/HAc6HjVn

After the interview the allegations were dropped, but then the prosecutor reopened them. And he didn't stay there just for a week after that. He stayed there over a month, and only left after having been given permission to leave by the prosecutor.

It's all in this court document: http://www.scribd.com/doc/80912442/Agreed-Facts-Assange-Case
And that includes the author of the article. The blogpost does not render correctly on IE 11: part of the content is obscured by an overlay with links and social buttons.
I love playing around in bash. Most of the scripts I have right now are just for setting up project templates, adding common packages etc.

Actually, I think most people who use computers at work, be they writers, designers, whatever, not just programmers, would benefit from learning some bash (or batch). You can automate a lot of useful processes with a few simple scripts.
There was a brief moment in time where IE 5 for Mac had the best CSS support of any browser on any platform (IE on Windows was a completely different engine). However part of being on the bleeding edge was that when development stagnated it had the weirdest bugs that we had to deal with for years.
I'm curious if extending this would be helpful to anyone. I'm currently considering doing just that.
>mostly due to being actually quite good

While I wouldn't generally praise (any of) the browsers of that time, Macs really didn't have much competition at that time when it came to web browsers.
we have the perfect excuse to avoid all of that - "we're a startup, and we just can't afford it."

And if you're a qualified tech worker, you can say "no thank you" and go to a company that does provide all those things. Startups are not the only employer.
It sounds to me like you expected managing remotely to be exactly the same as managing locally. You expected to be able to gauge the morale of the team, to know what people though of the groups future, etc without having to actually DO anything. When working with people locally, you at least get the impression that you understand these things from general interactions. You are wrong, of course, as your intuition is just as terrible as everyone elses, but you at least get the feeling that you know the situation.

Of course managing remotely is different from managing locally. Coding, and actually being a productive knowledge worker, however, really isn't. Luckily, managers already make a large multiple more than most others in the organization, so asking them to adapt and work harder to accomplish their responsibilities should be less of a big deal than dumping that kind of thing on lower level employees who area already generating far more value for the company than they're being paid for.

edit: Oh, and brainstorming is a terrible waste of everyones time and is worse than a total lack of it. Multiple studies have been done and show that brainstorming results in groups taking far worse actions than if they use other methods of coming up with solutions.
You can use my site (posted on hacker news back in January):
www.fakespot.com

It basically analyzes reviews to detect if they are fake or not.
40 years is the maximum prison term. The prison term he would get if he were convicted would likely be a fraction of that.
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Medicine dosage is critically important, but do you mean to imply any poison can be good for you in small enough amounts?

No safe blood lead level has been identified.

-- http://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/Lead_FactSheet.html

Which, tangentially, reminds me of "Unsafe at any Speed"
Off topic question: What kind of nutrients does a spoonful of tardigrades provide? Would water bear farming be useful or just silly?
They definitely do! I get follow up e-mails for most of my Amazon purchases which direct me to just such a form.
Now because of this article I will always have shark dick in the back of my mind when dealing with these materials.
The success story mentions the dev had to learn OCaml to fix bugs in Haxe, other comments here by jdk and reallyRaoul refer to inconveniences too. Elsassph mentions some of the issues are specific to OpenFL not haxe, that's true both ways. I think you can reasonably expect to encounter issues.

Do you expect to encounter any bugs at all - outside your own code - in Java, Objective C etc when you do your native UIs?
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"Some guy who is wrong is threatening to beat me up unless I hit you or you change your tweet"

It's not like the employer said "you wrote an unfriendly tweet now you are fired!" The bank was threatening the employer with legal action unless action was taken.
They didn't say it figuratively caused them nausea, so...
One of my favorite headlines was about a library closing in the city of Ongar, Essex, England.

The headline?

"Book Lack in Ongar"

Absolutely genius
> It's not like that would have any impact on the salt concentration of the ocean.

Ocean-wide, no. Where it's dumped, definitely.
If you're subsidizing food costs "later on", the money is still going to the large corporations.
Use SSH as a SOCKS proxy on port 80 / 443.

If you want a Google Server, use Google Compute Engine :)
Exactly why it should be illegal for ADOLESCENTS. Not for adults over the age of 18.
An excellent book on the topic of drug abuse is Gabor Mate's, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts. He makes a convincing argument that the majority of drug users are struggling with severe early trauma. Given this study and Mate's book, it may just be that traumatized people are looking for ways to forget. They could be seeking the forgetfulness as exactly what they want. This is different from saying that memory loss is necessarily a bad, unintended consequence.
Water use is often seen as something negative. When the crops come from a wet place anyway, it shouldn't be a problem I think.
Although we don't have many posts about Garner, my site, Newslines, attempts to build up a news archive about people, companies and news events that is free from the many biases that cause trouble in Wikipedia.

http://newslines.org/eric-garner/
> This initial ruling establishes the precedent that the FCC has regulatory authority over the Internet.

No, it doesn't, its not the first FCC regulation directed at the internet. Its one of several assertions of FCC regulatory authority over aspects of the internet.

Further, even if it did establish that precedent, it still wouldn't do anything to affect the capacity for future bad regulation, because any future regulation could do everything this did plus any bad things all at once, there is no need for separate and preceding "precedent" creating action by a regulatory body to enable future regulations.
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Seife) is a terrific book. Highly recommended!

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/329336.Zero