skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have not "deforested the planet". What are you running on about?

You can make glass without fossil fuels. If you have energy you can make fossil fuels from air. The key part to replacing fossil fuels is having the energy. Hopefully cheap and in great supply.
It's not the last.
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I found reda4 a forth created by Pablo Reda. He created a whole environment - examples, games, built-in sprite editors, text editors, compiles with FASM to a very small exe for Windows, and although people have criticized the aesthetics, I find them pleasantly retro and quirky. I will be attempting to enter my second Ludum Dare using it.

https://github.com/phreda4/reda4
Right towards the end, it seemed that he was implying that some other non-newtonian stuff was happening with kidney bean and the other one of the 7 sisters. (And that the threat is clearly not over)
If you've hit a salary cap at startups, and care that much about salary, it's time to leave startups.

Generally, startups leverage enthusiasm and equity opportunity in order to pay less for their talent. Meanwhile, big boring multinationals pay ridiculous salaries in order to fulfill all the dull but critical needs of themselves and their clients. And there's a whole continuum in between.

If you do like startups and want to stay around, start negotiating for the perks that won't hurt their burn rate so much: equity, time off, R&D opportunities, etc.
None of the signs I see on the webpage have those conditions, though.
Also, take care to notice how many other medicines have acetaminophen/paracetamol. If you take tylenol for pain and also take cough syrup then you could be doubling up on paracetamol. If you take too much of each, which is common, and maybe take the 2nd dose a little too soon after the 1st, and maybe if you have a habit of chronic drinking you could easily get yourself into severe trouble without even knowing it.
Not equal. Just not insanely skewed. Winner-take-all by salary means that a city where people make 150% as much as another city will get say 95% of the H1-Bs.
If you have to you can run vehicles off of anything that burns. Thus the wood-fired trucks in North Korea.
I think you're misreading the study design. 85 people viewed the same photos, some of whom had taken acetaminophen, and some of whom hadn't. The researchers then compared the emotional intensity experienced by the two groups (and, in the specific study about which you're quoting, the participants' experience of the color blue).
The time it takes to learn and master the language aren't irrelevant either.
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> Compared to placebo.
That looks great. Any thoughts on the dictionary in terms of completeness or omissions? I have the TI watch based upon the MSP430 (TI EZ430-Chronos). Would I be able to somehow use this?
I am teaching myself assembler x64, and I find Forth to be a great next-upper level language. Factor and Retro are fun.
Let me put it another way. If it is comparatively cheap to get to any of the other planets. Couldn't we just go to Neptune and stop our orbital velocity from there where it's only 5kms?

How about exiting planetary orbits retrograde? It seems like larger planets would have escape velocities that are larger than their orbital velocity. Why couldn't our space barge leave Jupiter's orbit on a trajectory that would intersect with the sun?
Another Forth CPU by the Forth creator Chuck Moore and colleagues: http://www.greenarraychips.com/. It's has 144 cores on a square centimeter chip.

Each core is equipped with its own little data and control Forth stacks, making it a fully fledged independent computer (that's why the more precise term is "multi-computer chips" rather than "multi-core").

The cores talk to each other via communication ports. Writing to a port suspends the core until
the peer reads the value. And vice-versa.
(similar to channels in Go language).

Some other interesting properties (quoting the docs):

A computer can read from multiple ports [corresponds to Go's select] and can execute instructions directly from those ports.

FINE GRAINED ENERGY CONTROL: ... The read or write instruction is automatically suspended in mid-operation if the address [one or more of communication ports and I/O pin] is inactive, consuming energy only due to transistor leakage currents, resuming when the address becomes active.

NO CLOCKS: Most computing devices have one or more clocks that synchronize all operations. When a conventional computer is powered up and waiting to respond quickly to stimuli, clock generation and distribution are consuming energy at a huge rate by our standards, yet accomplishing nothing. This is why “starting” and “stopping” the clock is a big deal and takes much time and energy for other architectures. Our architecture explicitly omits a clock, saving energy and time among other benefits.

http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/PB002-100...
I agree with what you're saying, but I also wonder, if not agile, then what do you see as a better alternative?

It sounds like you're suggesting that Agile methodologies have flaws that allow projects to be easily sabotaged. While I agree with this, I'm not sure I see an alternative? Is any development methodology going to be immune to this problem?

Human communication is messy, subjective, and open to all the imperfections that come along with the human condition. Unless you're working alone, any development methodology is going to be susceptible to "people problems". I don't see this as something that's unique to agile. I'm sure I could come up with hundreds of ways that idiocy, incompetence, and maliciousness could sabotage waterfall projects as well.
Attaching a small solar panel to the top of the pole would take care of the energy problem. You can draw power from the grid at night (when there's spare capacity), or use a battery (a bit more costly).
came here to say the same thing.

the same ideas apply to frames, if you drop one from a scene you'd have to add it back elsewhere.

it just means comparing two copies would be easier to check for this technique than with a ms-based approach.

i think it also reduces your problem space as cutting a scene by over a few frames would be extremely obvious in most shows with competent editors.
I wish more articles were like this, a general-interest article written by academics, and linked to a published paper.
From the article: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/04/08/1418878112.abst...
Getting initial traction
Hi guys,

I am building a website but launch will be not within the next 4 weeks. However I already try to get some information on how to get initial traction to my website without any marketing budget. What are the best sources to post my website to get some people trying it out and general to draw attention to my website? (except reddit and here)
I completely misunderstood your comment, and then thought:

Why don't planes have urinal-only bathrooms and communal sinks? They could probably fit an extra seat in that way.
You can run a NLS/Augment in the emulator made available by the Computer History Museum, I think. I did. It was fun.
I actually considered that book as good as any ressource for functional programming introduction.
Good question. But I think using reddit is not a bad start. But I would be interested in this question too
>We thought that if we just did twice as well as the pasty hoodie-wearers around us we’d move up through the ranks too.

I get the feeling this isn't meant as a productive discussion.
Internet users send 1.5 lakh e-mail petitions to protect net neutrality
I'd have a job quick. I'd have fun projects to work on quick. I'd be at an advantage over all the hip and cool kids who know JavaScript.
Not that I'm recommending anyone come remotely close to risking an acetaminophen overdose — or that if they do end up overdosing, they try to treat it themselves — but the dietary supplement N-Acetyl Cysteine is a first-line treatment for acetaminophen poisoning. It appears to work equally well whether it's taken orally or intravenously, though the oral course takes longer and prevents the concurrent use of activated charcoal to limit the body's absorption of the drug.
Their github page is here (https://github.com/lowrisc). For example, here's the code to the Rocket processor (https://github.com/lowRISC/rocket), which is a fork from Berkeley's (https://github.com/ucb-bar/rocket).
Analyse Asia Podcast #26: The Nintendo and DeNA Deal with Serkan Toto
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> The article itself notes that not all of these things are problems to/for all women/people...The writer finds these to be problems.

Excellent, looks like we all agree. These are specific problems faced by the writer. Then why on earth is the article titled "Ways Men in Tech are Unintentionally Sexist", rather than "Problem I have Faced in Tech and that Made Me Specifically Uncomfortable"?

> I find it very weird and creepy when an older female co-worker calls me a "girl" in front of my boss,

Yes, and I find it vaguely disquieting that feminists are trying to ban the word "sexy" in the workplace. That doesn't mean I'm going to write a hyperbolic article titled "Why Feminists in Tech are Extreme Puritans".

> (Apparently women her age, on the other hand, find "lady" somewhat... inappropriate....?)

Haha, one place where we agree totally. I have no idea. My quick guess is, being an older lady, it gives her a comfortable sense of youthfulness to say "Us girls", when she is slowly heading towards 60, and being called "Grandma" at home. But I think it's her choice, and I accept it as such.

> making things better for women makes things better for all users. Glad you seem to have noticed that.

Nope, I said quite the opposite. All users face these problems.

> For instance, direct messages on Twitter are different experiences for women and men: http://blog.ameliagreenhall.com/post/the-hand-on-the-knee

That post in itself opens a can of hornets, so I'd like not to go too deep into it. Twitter has an option to stop DMs from people you don't follow, and that article does nothing to educate people about that option. Instead, it makes the sexist, ageist, Puritanical statement that "older men DM'ing younger women on Twitter is 'creepy'" with quasi-religious fervour.
Synopsis: Serkan Toto of Kantan Games is back on the podcast to discuss the mega deal between Nintendo and DeNA which created a dent in the gaming space for 2015. We discussed the pre and post press conference, speculated the motivation in what pushed Nintendo to break its sacred code of not venturing into mobile games, and how their competitors will respond as a result of this deal. We also broke down the mechanics of this deal and Serkan offered his bullish perspective on Nintendo’s future as a gaming company. While dissecting the news, Serkan helped to close the understanding on how LINE’s curated games platform is not working against Kakao Talk from Korea which adopted the opposite model, and also discussed how SoftBank is a “Berkshire Hathaway” for technology investments with successful forays in gaming space with SuperCell and GungHo, not to mention their past investments from marketplaces to taxi apps all over the world.
You got me there, good comments. Thanks.
Of course there is! There's also good quality bread for $4/loaf, but there's still a market for higher quality specialty bread at $9/loaf.
Solar energy is simply a nuclear power system with a sensible waste disposal strategy.
some people don't even know LA has a subway, or a light rail system, but it's been slowly built over the last 20 years and is already pretty extensive. LA is so huge millions of people take the train that nobody has ever heard of!! when i was younger, i took it every day for nearly 2 years from hollywood to pasadena, red line -> union station -> gold line.

when the expo line opens here in santa monica next year, it's going to raise some eyebrows. it's a major, major corridor (10 freeway from downtown to the beach) and combined with uber (or not) is basically going to open up the entire west side to public transit.

the wilshire subway will complete the system, but that's not for a while. maybe something that parallels the 405.

fwiw, the bus system in LA and sm is excellent, just slow because of traffic. it serves a huge customer base, but unfortunately it's only for people with more time than money, which in LA means the blue collar working class. however, it is extremely clean and efficient and air conditioned and comfortable and is used by normal, sane working people, it's basically the polar opposite of the SF MUNI. i lived in SF for 2 years and MUNI was so fucking awful i usually just took a cab for longer rides. if uber had existed back then i probably would have used it exclusively.
> Entertainment, in such a busy world, should be available at the leisure of the viewer, not some game rigged to keep interest over a time.

Well, it can't be. It has to be made first. No matter what, there will always be some kind of a delay in when you can watch the next X of Y, simply because we haven't invented time travel yet.

And I absolutely agree that the broadcast model -- where you see the thing only if you're at your TV at the right time -- is a thing of the past, but there's no reason that means serialization (which is what I think you mean by linear) should go away.

> I think because of binging, better quality content is being created that is more complete and movie like.

I won't argue, by any stretch, that scripted serialized storytelling (non-film) hasn't gotten markedly better over the last few years, but this kicked off long before Netflix dumped an entire season of HoC into your lap and can largely be credited to the shows that really raised the bar, like The Wire, The Sopranos, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, etc. All of those were serialized. Netflix is a johnny come lately to this trend.

And there is actually value in having time to digest what you just watched. You're more likely to think critically about it and less likely to just swallow it as some giant mass of stuff. The social aspect of being in sync with other people -- even people you just met -- can mean finding new ways to think about the story that you didn't have before.

All the netflix model does is make it so our episodes of TV are impossibly long, and their impact on popular culture much much less. People absolutely talk more about shows they're actively watching during a season.
I am new to FPGAs. I have a Terasic DE0 Nano. Would I be able to get the J1 running on it with the Verilog code, or do I need to translate it? Does the DE0 Nano have what it takes? I appreciate if you could answer my beginner questions. Thanks.
The idea that there are only 18 scenes or that you are free to add or remove a few frames between transitions is simply hilarious IMO.

Plus there are plenty of least significant bits or even non-significant bits everywhere in a file to implement solid watermarks.

There are even watermarks technologies that are said to be re-encoding resistant.
I've used firespotting.com throw out ideas and see what others thought of them. not sure if people still use it, but you might want to give that try.
GTA V for PC, recommended GPUs for 1080p and 4K resolutions
> That said, we don't appreciate the exponential rate of improvement in the low end of spirits and wine.

Really makes you wonder what actual navy rum or frontier whiskey tasted like 200 years ago.
A person can perpetuate sexism without meaning to. It is just a matter of getting people aware and encouraging them to actively think about whether any things they do might be making women uncomfortable, and to try to be considerate.
> "Under a financial overhaul passed by Congress in 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission was supposed to require all publicly held companies to disclose the ratio of C.E.O. pay to the median pay of all other employees, but it has so far failed to put it in effect. Corporate executives have vigorously opposed the idea, complaining it would be cumbersome and costly to implement."

-- Why would a ratio be costly to implement?
To compare, smaller train stations in Italy also have squat plates. (Though the restrooms are satisfactorily clean.)
Clearly they're using the wrong pain reliever. ;)
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I commend the spirit of what this CEO is trying to do, but if I am an investor, director, or just even regular employee I would have serious reservations about this business strategy.

> pay for the wage increases by cutting his own salary from nearly $1 million to $70,000 and using 75 to 80 percent of the company’s anticipated $2.2 million in profit this year.

I don't know what the financials for Gravity look like, but this really only makes sense from a financial standpoint if (1) the company can't re-invest the profits with a better ROI (rate of return) and (2) they aren't worried about competition - i.e. have a serious business moat. In addition, the company will have a higher payroll tax burden because of the higher salaries. (1) is somewhat justifiable as investing in your employees may garner loyalty/harder work which may raise the top-line, but (2) seems unlikely. There are a lot of credit card processing companies.

What happens if profits aren't as good next year? Are they going to slash wages to previous levels (or lower)? Or, if he's intent on sticking to the $70k minimum wage, this means he'll have to let go more people if the time comes. Did they look at alternatives - issuing more equity, special dividend, more generous bonuses??

I wonder how the conversation with finance went on this one.
If what you say is true, where has the community gone?

I have been involved UNIX system administration and development for 20+ years. It has never been this lonely in the Solaris community. All of the Open Source packaging projects are effectively dead, due to lack of volunteer. While there used to frequently be Solaris instructions for most Open Source stuff, none of it those docs have been updated in 5-10 years, and nothing new has supported Solaris in a similar time span.

It may just be that Solaris is a wasteland in the space that I care about (web service, primarily). Maybe there are niche markets where Solaris doesn't look like a completely ridiculous choice compared to Linux.
Planet Labs is doing a great job of raising the profile of NewSpace [1]. I met Will Marshall when I was interning at NASA Ames in 2007. He was setting up their Mission Design Center. I remember they were working on PhoneSat at the time [2]. There was generally a mood of change at Ames, backed by a great administrator, Pete Worden.

I was at the 1st Startup Weekend dedicated to Space this weekend in Bremen, Germany [3]. It was a fascinating weekend and a great opportunity to explore many NewSpace ideas. Chris Boshuizen gave a remote talk on the Friday. They’re differentiating themselves from the competition through their high repeat rate and I think they have a lot of interesting avenues for growth ahead.

It’s good to see institutional investors getting involved in NewSpace. Nikunj is a family friend; I’m looking forward to picking his brain about this deal and his view of the market. Space Angels Network [4] is also doing a great job of raising the profile of this new industry. Hopefully, we see a lot more investment in basic products and services that will open up a tremendous number of space-based applications in the coming decade.

Congrats to the Planet Labs guys!

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NewSpace

[2] http://www.phonesat.org/

[3] http://www.up.co/communities/germany/bremen/startup-weekend/...

[4] http://spaceangelsnetwork.com/
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> Mr. Price, who started the Seattle-based credit-card payment processing firm in 2004 at the age of 19, said he would pay for the wage increases by cutting his own salary from nearly $1 million to $70,000 and using 75 to 80 percent of the company’s anticipated $2.2 million in profit this year.

What a crazy world we live in where people can start companies and pay themselves a salary of $1 million. Wouldn't that money be better off being reinvested into the company? Sure, they are doing it now, but didn't it cross their minds when they (he?) first decided his contributions were worth $1m per year?
Two acres of sunflower seeds will produce enough oil to run a tractor for one season.
Is this information already publicly available? Can we calculate it ourselves?
We could also cultivate algae. There is the "open-pond" system and the "vertical growth" system where water is cycled into an installation made of transparent bags. Algae take nutrients from the water (and light from the sun) to develop and are then filtered out as they grow. They turn the algae into biofuel (algal oil).

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/green-science...

and

http://www.biofuelsdigest.com/bdigest/2014/10/13/where-are-w...
A lot of people tend to change between the age of 19 and 30.

PS: I didn't down vote you.
I understand your point. But I think you are overestimating the power of artists to control content over business interests.

Syndicated shows on cable like "Friends" on TBS are already being sped up massively in order to fit more ads into a show.

I think we can pause on a Tyrion stare for 1/2 second more without ruining the show. And EVEN IF IT DOES RUIN THE SHOW, it is still very possible that HBO could use this strategy.

http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/cable-tv-is-speeding...
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Why?! Why are you doing this? You're just making it worse. Please stop. Please.
U.S. has record number of applications for H-1B tech visas
Sure, just outlaw inflation.
I moved on! Called it a learning experience. Now I'm more picky. If I get a bad feeling about a potential engagement, I listen to it, and do not engage.

I have a policy now that if a client is dissatisfied and asks for a refund, I refund the money and never work with them again.
I'm not sure why he would not phase this in gradually.

Also, I've read somewhere that paying someone significantly above market rate can lead to more stress due to increased fear of job-loss. $70,000 is great, but only if you're able to convince your employees that they're worth $70,000.

(edit: I missed the part about 3 year phase in. I still wonder about the effects of paying someone 60% above market rate.)
This seems like a worrisome idea. For example, in the event of an acquisition, is the company legally obligated to destroy all customer records, because they will not "sell it to anybody"?
Latest feature on Planet Labs http://news.sciencemag.org/space/2015/04/feature-how-tiny-sa...
This is a solid list.

Would you add or change anything if the goal wasn't necessarily an exit strategy but a lifestyle business?

(8 years as a developer if that affects your response)
Perhaps not costly, but definitely cumbersome.

What's more, it will have the opposite consequence. In his book "Influence", Robert Cialdini wrote that making CEO pay public had the effect of raising exec pay across the board rather than check it, as the lawmakers had hoped.
Taiwan Government Root CA site has no HTTPS enabled
Hi,

Recently I've been checking the status of HTTPS support for Taiwanese financial institutions and government websites, and it's pretty terrifying how bad it is. Today's find seems to take the cake!

The Taiwan Government Root CA (found here: http://grca.nat.gov.tw/GRCAeng/htdocs/index.html ) has no HTTPS enabled whatsoever. As I've checked, the Root Certificate issued by them is in Chrome, so they are obviously doing something, just it might not be something described as "a good job".

Here's the current SSL Labs testing result: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=grca.nat.gov.tw If interested in the status of of the project, continuous HTTPS monitoring results are up here: https://gergely.imreh.net/twbankssl/
Spoken like a true republican.