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My wife and I visited the Tellus Museum in North Georgia yesterday, and the planetarium presentation we watched did a great job of calling out climate change denial for the absurdity that it is. I'd imagine that the moral of the video flew over the heads of most of the children in attendance, but I'd like to think that it smacked their parents right in the head.

Anyone with two neurons to rub together can see that the world's atmospheric and climate patterns are changing rapidly and drastically, and for the worse. I hear so many deniers claiming that "the Earth is a big place, it was here long before us and will be long after" and "it is a self-healing organism, we can't really be harming it!" and I just have to shake my head at their ability to dismiss something that's right in their faces. As the video we watched said, human industrialization pours 100 times as much CO2 into the atmosphere as all the volcanoes on Earth, and the volcano emissions themselves do modify climate patterns in a measurable way. Basically, we're accelerating this planet's transition into something resembling Venus.
I am Norman Finkelstein, I think Netanyahu is a maniac. AMA
You must been living on an island over the last years.
"OpenSSL was the best SSL stack for years?" Best no, only fast.

PolarSSL (now "mbed TLS") is the best, to the best definition of best.

Still better than OpenSSL, which was known to be fast but insecure and poorly managed, are the stacks used the biggest clients:

* NSS used by Chrome, Mozilla, et al
* GnuTLS used by exim, GNOME, et al.

I'm not at all grateful to the OpenSSL team for using horrible software practices and putting their clients into danger.
You only include more stuff in your resignation letter if you think that you need to cover your butt from something going on in the organization. If there is some unethical, illegal or other bad conduct, it's your venue to put on the record your concerns and your disconnect from the situation.

Once you do this, you're setting the bridges on fire when you leave, so only do it to protect yourself.

Otherwise, say something like "Dear Boss, I'm resigning my position, effective xx/yy/zz. Thank you for the opportunity to contribute and I'm happy to assist in the transitioning my work."
The Key Master
I get this reference! Just finished 1984 a few weeks ago!
What is the point of education? Not the point of learning, but the point of schools and degrees and such?

One could argue that it's mostly about learning obedience, how to worship the clock, and how to tolerate doing things that are arbitrary and stupid. School isn't to make us good people. It's to make us good employees.
Oh great, egos is programming leading to worse security situations for everybody.

Yeah Theo they made a fork of your code because it was insecure - that doesn't mean you should hope for them to fail just so you can say "they had a bug too".
I would invest in Campbell soup all day long. And I would gamble on Snapchat.
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You seem to be correct - the area number you get by googling does include water. My mistake. I guess the ultimate limit of SF might indeed be only 2x or 3x Manhattan (Manhattan could be considerably more dense than it is).

Nevertheless, I do stand by the claim that Pune has handled population and economic growth well by building more housing, and is likely to continue doing so.
An industry consultant does not equal a competitor. It is 100% source and is 100% not verified nor can it be verified. Except if the banks came out and said it. This is standard journalism practice when there is a problem with something that can't be normally verified.

To Quote the blog that first reported the story and linke din the NYT article, "No one, is bold enough to call the emperor naked." http://www.droplabs.co/?p=1231

This is the whole bases and point of the article.
Data science done well looks easy and that is a big problem for data scientists
I think the fear of using the word 'bubble' is reaching a bubble.
On the other hand, I personally think the chances that Snapchat (or its technology) will be acquired down the road are a lot higher than either Campbell or Chlorox.
I tried to give notice at AOL once. HR rejected the letter due to some expletives, and asked for a revised version. I then submitted a 1-sentence notice.

Lesson learned; don't swear in notices, but also keep it simple. Even if you tried to offer them your honest view of how things were, chances are they'd get filed in a drawer and stuck away.

It took a number of people handing notices day-by-day at AOL before HR clicked that something was wrong, so at that point they invited the Sales team to the NY office (the sales team hadn't been on an overseas trip before). It was a nice gesture of the company; shame that the people got food poisoning on the first night.
RIP IE: Microsoft is finally killing off Internet Explorer
At least in Bulgaria, people go for whatever the word sounds like. Rough rule of thumb is, words that end in -a tend to sound feminine, words with -o tend to sound neuter.

So I'd say едно Ардуино or one neuter Arduino.
How I hack PR (6 lessons)
Show HN: Tamper-proof web-apps using Data URLs
Nice! First, but hopefully not last. Good hack!
Many languages have more difficult gender systems than Dutch. Dutch grammar is easier than German; our orthography is a little less regular than German, but still orders of magnitude more regular than French, Danish or English.

The main difficulty is that you cannot practice speaking Dutch until you are already quite advanced, because if you speak broken Dutch, you will in all cases get an answer in pretty good English (heck; our broken German or French is probably still better than a learner's broken Dutch).
To quote someone that the article links to: http://www.droplabs.co/?p=1231

"Isn’t this a Bank problem? And don’t that absolve Apple and Networks of their responsibility in this?

"It is unconscionable that Apple did not, and was not strongly advised by its partners – to make the Yellow Path implementation (by an issuer) mandatory sooner than it did – which was 4 weeks before AP launch. "
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I get that incentives are misaligned between involved parties (VC's, founders, employees), but it seems very disingenuous to knowingly withhold this information.
Why would you need to know these things to work for an electrical/technological company?

Scientific or technological questions would be more appropriate. Sure, there are a few, but knowing the name of who invented something doesn't mean you understand it...
80/20 Practitioners Make Better Communicators
Mr. Tanenbaum has retired from the Vrije Universiteit recently, see here: http://www.few.vu.nl/~ast/afscheid
> I'm not sure "consciousness" really exists.

If so, then the work of anesthesiologists is quackery. :)

> Why point to things like "consciousness" when our brains being biological automatons is a perfect explanation already?

Because reductionism doesn't provide a satisfying explanation for higher level emergent phenomena.

For example, x86 disassembly isn't particularly informative about what is happening in a theorem-prover written in Lisp.

> I think most people would agree if a human is conscious a dog is. Is a squirrel? I think most people would agree. Is a lizard? Maybe. Is a spider? eh... Is a worm?

Probably, there is a continuum. A squirrel is conscious in a less "rich" way than a dog, and so on.
After Kirtsaeng [1], I don't think so... (at least as far as US law is concerned)

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirtsaeng_v._John_Wiley_%26_Son....
because the apartments are nowhere near sufficient to meet the demands of Facebook employees

That's all you needed to say. Supply and demand works.
> If they can do it then a university can definitely do it.

I'm not sure how comparable the two situations are, although there are certainly measures in the article you linked to that could be applied anywhere. The two populations in question (Detroit mental health services patients vs. MIT students) are very different, as are the environments.

> better access controls to rooftops

This was done while I was at MIT, but I think the controls were relaxed again some years after I left. One of the issues with any institution over time is that different administrations have different priorities, and often change things for no good reason. MIT, unfortunately, is not immune to this problem.
Well, to be fair, modern studies seem to indicate that neither fat nor cholesterol consumption lead to heart disease. So it's quite possible that study is perfectly valid.

The sugars, on the other hand...
You're confusing education with schooling. They are not the same, as much as their equivalence has been deeply ingrained as a public axiom.

I do agree, otherwise. Schooling has an orthogonal purpose to education at large, even though individual schooling systems might have higher educational value than others.
The internet will never be down again (barring the Apocalypse). Human life changed in the nineties in ways that we have not even begun to grasp.
This isn't just simple price-setting. It's advertising a very different price than the actual valuation, mostly because of the downside protection.
You and me both. I was prepared for an upper crusty profile making fun of his mannerisms or idealism. Instead I got a clear, concise summary of Stallman and the landscape of software licencing. This will be an excellent introduction for the average person.
To back this up with an anecdote:

I had one experience where I submitted a resignation (two weeks' notice) the same day as someone else in the company.

I said the bare minimum in my letter. When questioned by the CEO, division lead, and co-workers, I also said the bare minimum and kept it very neutral. The other person, on the other hand, decided this was their opportunity to express their anger and frustration.

As a result, their last two weeks were full of tense meetings, shouting matches, threats of lawsuit from both sides, and dirty things being said behind their back.

Meanwhile, my last two weeks were easy, stress-free, and nobody gave me a hard time. The CEO made me an offer to stay (which I declined), people were spreading positive things about me (I heard this through several trusted sources), and I generally left on a positive note.

The thing is, I felt the same anger and frustration as the other person. But as the parent said, I knew there was absolutely nothing to be gained by releasing any of it.
In a sort of masochistic way, I'm looking forward to the end of Moore's Law, because it might mean that we get better at programming to get more power out of limited hardware, rather than the sort of "rising tide lifts all boats" approach that we have now.
It's good to hear the core team say they want to focus on simplifying the language. I've always felt scalas reputation as a hyper-complex language was not deserved, but it sure isn't a simple language either.
That's a good professional resignation letter - keep those bridges unburnt and leave on a positive note.
I didn't use Google as an example, I used that particular effort as an example. It involves dozens of transit providers opening their data, with no intermediate reliance on Google.

As far as the spending, the public entity already has to have some sort of record of their scheduling. The justification for sharing it is simply that making things easier to use increases use of them. Perhaps that isn't the case, but it shouldn't take months of time to set up a system to dump an existing database, so for systems with thousands of users it should not be a significant expense.
Well, in many cases banning language or words is considered quite the right thing to do. Different ends of the political spectrum just want to do away with different words or phrases.

Just consider how embarrassed Benedict Cumberbatch was when he accidentally used two words in wrong order ("colored people" is insulting, "people of color" is okay).
Acquisition isn't necessarily a good thing for normal investors.
The worst of the sexism comes from other girls.

Nerdy boys largely get ignored by their non-nerdy peers. There's an attitude of "I don't know why anybody would like that, but whatever".

On the other hand, nerdy girls are treated like absolute shit by other girls. Instead of "not my cup of tea", it's more like "eww, that's disgusting, and you're disgusting for liking it". The movie Mean Girls could have been a documentary.

And adults can influence this too. Even well-meaning feminists are more likely to steer young girls towards careers in more "acceptable" professions like business, law, or medicine rather than something down-and-dirty like engineering. And if science is involved, it's likely to be either medicine or a research career in natural sciences (e.g. physics, chemistry).
Actually, in modern Dutch the actual sex of the animal determines the gender to use, not the grammatical gender. If unknown, use the male form. (This may be different in Flanders.)

The difference between "het" and "de" is actually also eroding at the moment.
> Anyone with two neurons to rub together can see that the world's atmospheric and climate patterns are changing rapidly and drastically, and for the worse.

I don't know that I can actually agree with this. I see a lot of snow, and a lot of cold, and a winter that started really late. But I've only lived in this part of the states for a few years. Who am I to know whether these weather patterns are normal or not? This isn't the Little Ice Age[1] - our crops aren't dying.

I do believe that our climate is changing, but I believe that because there is a scientific consensus that this is so, not from any personal observations which wouldn't be rigorous anyway, and would (and should) hold about as much sway as an idiot in Congress bringing a snowball for his show-and-tell.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age
Is the compiler faster these days?
Comparison with Manhattan is unhelpful. I think better comparisons are Singapore and Tokyo. Bay area residents bristle st the idea of tall towers --specially given the geological faults running beneath. Given that, Tokyo's approach of midrises interspersed with highrises would probably be the best hope. We could at least double or triple the population in SF proper. It would help tremendously if surrounding cities also went on a construction binge to relieve pent up demand.
Are you sure about that?

I just checked my wireless controller to verify my thought process, and each time I switched wireless profiles (all of which are saved on my device) the 802.1x auth(EAPOL) process is used. I'm a little rusty on my wireless security, but wouldn't this same process occur for the rogue network?

Like you said though, if you sit in an area with existing open wireless, none of that will come into play.
Loved the distributed systems book. It is just sad that field has not left academia yet. We should be in a world where every programmer should know the contents of that book, instead of reinventing the wheel as we are doing now.
Glad to hear you love GitLab. If you want to use the Omnibus packages with Apache please see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/blob/master/doc... Edit: I tried to make this easier to find with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/omnibus-gitlab/commit/e2f9d17d...
I have always hated embargoes for things like that because they end up benefitting the worst companies - the big ones - over the people who actually need the help.
Why one Ivy League grad turned down Amazon for a job in China
2^n I think.
FWIW (and for my situation, which is mostly smaller custom-designed ecommerce sites built on top of CMS's), I actually prefer this pricing model. 5% per sale is tough to swallow (this is a big reason I've avoided SnipCart). But basing it on site traffic (which is effectively what the per-API-call pricing is) is an easier sell to clients.

That being said, I agree that it's a little confusing to understand (or rather to guess how much one will be paying)... might be helpful to clarify if I need to guess ahead of time, or if per-month pricing automatically just happens based on the resulting number of API calls. (And if a rate limit could be set that would help too).

One more thought about this... what happens if my site gets DDOS'ed... what's the policy on avoiding (or not paying for) massive amounts of API calls that are accidental or bot-induced?
Knowledge of the factoids Edison regarded as important is not the same as breadth of knowledge. There is far too much to know to capture it in a short test like this.
An amazing product! Super excited to see support for more vendors.
How so? Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, Andorra, and Monaco bound France and have all done so since before 1921.
True, but there is a disclaimer:

> No, I don't distribute my résumé like this.
Seems to me, that if you take a rational perspective, then if a company like SnapChat has a high valuation then it must have some competitive advantage and effective market plan. Of course, this might just be confirmation bias because I want to believe that such a high valuation could not be the effect of just poor estimation. A different situation could also be true. One might not want to believe that a four year old messaging app might be worth more than some of the most well known names in household products. It's confirmation bias all the way down.
Can't say I've experienced that. It always seems to decline into the size of a celebrity's arse. Even one of my friends, an ex-physicist and current private jet pilot has nothing to say past the size of an arse.

I just go and read a book now.
How's that ironic? They identify themselves as women and they're notable scientists/engineers.
Climate change denial reminds me of Lysenkoism. The facts must serve the ideology, and if they don't then it is the facts that are in error. The obvious solution, then, is to ban talking about the facts.
Knowing a little about everything is helpful. But being interested in what you can learn from others is even more helpful! Get other people talking, and just encourage and steer them so you get value from it.

When people complain about uninteresting conversations, they often mean, "I wish that other dude would shut up so I could talk about the stuff I like!" They're not listening. If they were listening and interacting with what the other person has to say, they wouldn't be bored and frustrated.
It's interesting that the great limiter of conversation may be the fear of being objectively labeled "uninteresting" by your counterpart in the conversation.

There was an aid in a lab at my school who would routinely berate students when he was programming or playing a video game on his laptop:

Student: "Is that C#?"

Aid: "What the hell is wrong with you? Why would you ask questions you already know the answer to?"

The aid was rejecting a universal ice-breaker because, in his mind, it was beneath him.

I would imagine he didn't have very diverse conversations.
> They would roll their eyes a bit, then hasten to add, as more than one did, “But he’s right about most things.”

:)
Completely different. MINIX was 100% overhauled.
Ionic and Angular Superpowers for Mobile App Development
MindBody's market penetration, and saturation?
There is always a crash coming ...

Are you sure the next crash that knocks N% off the market won't come after the market has risen a further N+x% while your money is on the sidelines?

Are you sure you can time the bottom of the crash well enough to know when to jump back in?

If the answers to those questions are 'yes' then great, otherwise a steady investment strategy for the long haul can just ignore the short term fluctations.
The reason why this isn't a Go compiler in Go is probably the same reason why it's a C compiler - the complexity of the language. C seems to be the sweet spot for a language that is relatively easy to write a basic compiler for, but also powerful enough to be used for writing nontrivial software (including compilers.)
Logging in means granting access to all kinds of private data, including deploy keys. This doesn't seem right.
Happy to see Dan's company doing well. I was CTO at a HyperDrive startup and Dan helped me on a number of occasions with our process. Very talented and intelligent guy.
Can you buy kindle books in the app on iOS? I thought Amazon didn't want Apple taking a bite out of their (already low) ebook profits?
haha, downvoted due to lack of a sense of humor in the crowd.
I agree, really it's Grace Hopper that we should be celebrating as "the woman who founded modern computing", because we're still feeling her influence every day!
Tell HN: Mildly Interesting Fact, HN Works on My ISP Post-FUP (BSNL, India)
I use 'broadband'* from BSNL ISP in India. The plan I have currently comes with FUP (Fair Usage Policy). So I get 6GB (per month) at speed of 1Mbps and after 'fair' usage of 6GB, speed reduces to 512Kbps. Now once I reach the 6GB cap, my internet stops working temporarily and I get redirected to this [0] page everytime if I try to open any website and my downloads, torrents etc will be stopped. Any page will be directed to that page till I reboot my modem. Except HN. I don't really know why and how and certainly I cannot explain it. HN works even if I don't reboot my modem. I can make GET(loading HN), POST(comments, submissions) requests without any issues. I actually noticed this last month and I have tried to open many sites, but none of them would work, except, of course HN. I have confirmed with this my friend also, who uses services from same ISP.

Is there anyway I can find out why other sites are blocked and why not HN? Can tools like Wireshark help me?

*yes, 1Mbps is also broadband in my country.

[0] - http://i.imgur.com/um8bTHz.png
Thanks, you're one of the reasons I like hackernews.
I learn something new every day!
What is Cricket? I googled "apple cricket" and nothing interesting came up. I'm not sure what point you're trying to make.
Climate doom is as silly a dogma as climate denial. Hyperbole has poisoned the debate on both fringes, the center is much more reasonable but not as exciting as indignant outrage.
I find the people who interest me the most are those whose view differs from others but is well thought out.
If everyone listened but did not talk, the world would be a boring place.
I'm a fringe dweller at HN. Someone mentioned relevant conversation and that's very true. I find some great things on HN that make me think. I used to frequent Ars Technica, but it became too sexist, so I now frequent a variety of non-mainstream sites for varying views of the world.
I'm lucky enough to have very interesting and diverse friends off the Internet.
Actually, I was trying to de-confuse them. Formal education and learning are often conflated, which leads to cognitive dissonance when education doesn't equate to effective learning.
tell that to users of Comcast
The Ellen Pao Trial and Silicon Valley
> Having to get rid of a house you maintained for years because you can't afford the property taxes is criminal.

What? This only happens if you've made astronomical capital gains on it. Big deal, you're set for life -- just not in SF.
Apparently there is a faster incremental complier in sbt these days, but I can't seem to find any info online about how the compiler performance has changed over time.

I get the impression that compiler preformance is being worked on, and is improving over time.
This comes up every few months. ContentID is a system for ensuring that the major labels get paid, and people who don't have enough money for legal representation lose out either way.
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Maybe a poor expression on my part, I think it's the cause of IMAP IDLE. I tested marking an email as read with putting all three mobile, web and desktop client side by side and change was practically instant in a second. Too bad iOS doesn't support IDLE and goes as low as 15 min only.
It is really hard to measure developers productivity and nobody knows how to do that with a good precision. But in general I agree that top developers should be paid good money, like 2 times less then CEO.