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Bjorn Lomborg is a sad case. He titled his book The Skeptical Environmentalist and everyone got the message, without reading the book, that he was a climate-change skeptic -- and for the most part labeled him as an "enemy" and rebuffed him. It was just a public relations disaster.

For what it's worth, he's not a "skeptic" in any of the conventional ways. I also remember looking at the IPCC reports once when I was a young physics student and saying, "hey, it's only a couple degrees Celsius over many years?" I was educated enough to realize that you could predict bad storms etc -- what I like to tell people right now is that it's like having a really huge boulder and, right next to it, digging a little ditch, only to cause the boulder to smack you down: the small change in the height of an equilibrium can still have a huge effect if a big enough system is relaxing to the new equilibrium. Someone came up with a memorable name for it: it's less of a concern about "global warming" and more about "global weirding." It took me a while to appreciate that there is a small (but scary) probability that the slope that the boulder is on might have a net incline one or the other way, so that the boulder might not just hit us but roll over us if it gets disturbed far enough from equilibrium. It makes a lot of sense for there to be a big scientific research program about that, even though no IPCC model predicts runaway climate change because the probability is so low and the possible causes are typically unexpected.

With that said: though hurricanes, floods and tornadoes certainly can have a massive economic impact, Bjorn has a good point of "the weather disasters that we know will happen due to the warming that we know is happening are important, but let's figure out how this compares to other things which we can predict really well, and see where our money is best spent: climate-change relief efforts, or climate-change mitigation, or general alleviation of poverty, or what?"

What I think is most missing from all of this is: we're talking about so little money, especially if we compare to governments' military expenditures, going towards the science. What would be great is if a government said, "hey, we're putting forward this huge grant to climate change research just because we think research is intrinsically good and want to support this huge project of, y'know, knowing more."
3-D Printed Skin Expected to Become $1B Industry
I don't understand. The alternative, as I detailed above, is "you get 1000 options per month for the next four years", which is also time-limited.
Human nature's probably much the same but the systems and their incentives seem pretty different.
Very cool. I'll write a Django package that wraps around this feature.
How is that any worse than gambling with options?
You can produce 100,000v by a common solar panel as well if you want. Voltage is completely irrelevant, what counts is energy.

> Thus we can scale it.

I don't follow. What does voltage have to do with anything?

> Did you and everyone think I was proposing to use gigawatts and electrolyse 1% of ocean water in a few seconds? O_o

Um, yes. Do you have the slightest idea how much energy it would take to electrolyze 1% of the ocean? I did some math for you: you need 1.752×10^26 joules. If you had a gigawatt available to you it would take 5,552,000,000 years.
I can see through most of the political BS that people even here on HN can't seem to grasp. Why is that?

I am a little older and more experienced, that might be it. But I shouldn't really be that surprised from a community that willingly rallies around ideas that continues to subjugate them.

It puts me about 10 steps ahead of the majority of people.

I don't need your acceptance.
I could respond to that with "I'm going to assert my 5th amendment right and not answer that question" or "That was several months ago, I don't recall exactly what I thought" or "Because it was near the end of the month and I believe that officers have quotas to meet" or "Because I'm black".

All of that is moot. Where I live, there's no prosecutor involved for traffic tickets.
Storing excess power generated during the day at night?
Yep, but I couldn't care less about the portfolio, and the founders shouldn't either. You're pointing out why VCs need big exits, and even a profitable one like this one may not be profitable "enough", but that "enough" is their portfolio view.

From a founder view, we shouldn't be carrying the weight of the effective cost of the fact that the VCs can't pick companies worth a damn and want to make it up on us, if we happen to be good.

Nobody is entitled to venture capital, and starting a company without it is a good idea.

And VCs are not entitled to more equity & control than makes economic sense for the founders. That's what I'm opposing, but I don't think you disagree.
This is the gallery from this new research: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9736598 and there's a live Twitch stream of one of these networks dreaming right now: http://www.twitch.tv/317070

Edit: oh and one more image that's not in the gallery: https://imgur.com/6ocuQsZ
What impressed me was being able to distinguish a horse from a cow in rodeo shots and for a bonus extract the human, too. The neural net sometimes balks when the furry quadrupeds overlap but is otherwise eerily accurate.
i think they saw the writing on the wall for the crowdfunding space.
This sounds like more of a case where the money awarded wasn't to compensate the plaintiff for any physical harm, but to punish the doctors. Which, to me, is just fine.
The main difference would be the strike price of the options, which can make a huge difference in both taxes and income at a liquidity event. Assuming the company is growing over time, you absolutely want option 1. The strike price is determined by a 409a evaluations.

Example: assume the valuations each year are 0.10, 0.20, 0.30, 0.40, 0.50 and the sale price is $1 at year 5.

In option 1 your strike price will be $0.10 for all 100 options so should you choose to exercise you have to pay $10, netting you $90. You can choose to exercise these as they vest, paying $2.50 each year. If you choose to exercise on vest, your cost is the same, although you potentially will owe AMT.

This means that if you make enough money you essentially have to declare the difference between strike price and current value as income. This means you will have to potentially pay taxes on an extra $25 over the four years.

In option 2, exercising the options will require $5.00, $7.50, $10, $12.50 for a total of $35. This means you only make $65 in the sale.
In some situations startups just don't have enough money to offer and the only thing that they could give is stocks. In those cases it is a matter of negotiating bigger cut of options to compensate for small salary.
Because state is data. You operate on data, not depend on it.
My repository depends on a database connection (be it mock or real). It does not depend on what state the tables may be in.

If your function operates on data, it's "passing in data" and not "dependency injection". Hell, otherwise, every function call would involve dependency injection!
IIRC, despite the criticsim, the 'hockey stick' study and its author were proven right. Lots of criticism doesn't make it wrong, especially in politicized debates.
Awesome, thanks for the links sp332!
Let me remind everyone that downloading and running unknown executables is borderline insane.

@OP Where is the source?, if you want to share, distribute the source not the exe.
Let's say that you get paid $100k for 5 years, then $150k for 5 years, and then $200k for 5 years. Nominal. So you take home $80k, $120k, $150k.

You invest half of your take-home salary, so $40k, $60k, $75k.

You invest everything at 4% real return.

That about $1 million after those fifteen years.

It's....... pretty rich, sure. It's also a LOT of savings. I'd say it's possible to get rich on salary if your salary gets high early and fast, or by the time you retire, maybe less so in fifteen years.
Sure, but that's not Android's fault. It would be like blaming Microsoft if developers released 'Windows 17" screen' and 'Windows 24" screen' versions of applications instead of just putting both UI layouts in the app and switching. Although I guess on Windows you have the 32bit and 64bit versions of applications available for download half the time...

Android actually makes it easier to do that (define custom UIs for different device settings) than any other platform I know of, so it's definitely the developers fault if you see that.
I believe this an amazing move by Telegram. I firmly believe that open platforms tend to win in the long run.

Whatsapp should take the hint and open up their platform for developers... Curiously I was thinking about building bot-based services on their platform (largest user base in my country), but basically gave up after seing how closed they are to any initiative like this. Felt even worse after reading things like this: https://twitter.com/gcmartinelli/status/605776036358291456
There shouldn't be a situation where reading the data + creating the index would be less intensive than just reading the data.

This is from the SQL server perspective so I apologize if all this doesn't translate 100%. Let's say the column you're filtering on is currently not in any index. That field then needs to be pulled out of the clustered index's leaf pages. Since it's unsorted, we'd need to read the entire table- a full scan.

To build the temporary index we'd also need to read in all of the data, so the same amount of work from that perspective, but then we'd have to sort it all, which is very intensive.

If there's a situation where we're doing something analogous to a inner loop join in SQL Server, but it's doing full scans for each iteration, that's a problem with the query optimizer.
There's been a couple of stories here in the past where employee stocks have literally been worth $0 when they vested, due to financial shennanigans pulled by the founders.

options should be seen in the same vein as bonus money - they don't exist until the money is in your hands. Some people work at places where bonuses can be relied on like bedrock, but usually I see people struggle to get their promised bonuses.
OK, in that case 1% of the ocean weighs 1.33×10^19 kilograms, the atmosphere weighs 5.1441×10^18 kilograms.

If you actually did this you would increase the atmosphere to 10 times it's current size - and most of that would be oxygen, unlike the current mostly nitrogen. Most of which would probably escape to space.

You'd have to find something to do with the hydrogen though, if you released it it would just recombine with the oxygen and make water again.
> I am not sure if the concept of working class and proletariat as the revolutionary subject is useful anymore, specially when many of the new members of the so called working class may not be able to get a job in their whole lives

Which leaves them plenty of time for revolution...
Sarcasm? Yes it was; I was just testing a social hypotheses I had.
Carbon Chauvinism
Haha, Pizzzaz!

I think there's a spectrum when it comes to recruiting -- some recruiters are good at their job, no doubt, but the majority of people get left behind by the industry. Helping people become better versions of themselves simply isn't a value recruiting firms hold dear.

The best recruiters, as you said, take already ideal candidates and figure out how to sell them on their companies in an authentic way.

We flip the model around and start with the candidate, no matter where they're at. That's not just a "snap fingers pizzazz" - that's changing the core process.

We'll build tools internally to rank candidates and companies eventually, but right now it's goodm old-fashioned human power! (We have a couple tools already built, but nothing game changing is live)
Because it depends on the valuation of the company, and nobody can see the future.
Netflix: http://data.jobsintech.io/companies/netflix-inc/2015

I know Google, Facebook, etc. also do but those salaries are probably reserved for the van Rossum's (Google/Dropbox) and the Lerdorf's (Etsy) of the world.
> most people who work at startups aren't interested in money.

That's a bold assertion, bolder than "most people who work at startups usually don't get to have competing offers for $250k to pass up"
I have to reply because I can't edit.

To the down voters:

Function(numberOfStates) is a function call with data being passed in.

Function(stateMachineFactory) is dependency injection.
Aren't Android apps written in Java?
Which is why I will only work with unicorn chasers at this point. I can't stomach working for large, established companies any more, but there needs to be enough cheese to go around.
Here's what 20 years of experience working for startups has taught me:

-- Either be a founder if you want to be there in the early days.

-- Or join a "sure thing". EG: Google, Twitter, Facebook about a couple years before they went public were already household names and really well known.

I don't know how much upside you get joining a sure thing like that, but that's how you make sure your options will come into money.

Being employee number 5-100 of the average Silicon Valley startups is a losing proposition because the risk adjusted value of your options will never compensate you for your lost salary. (especially if you have to live in California- you're better off working for a startup in Austin than California due to the cost of living and tax situation. The higher salaries in California don't cover the difference.)

And yes, blame me, I turned down being employee number 13 at what became a $6B enterprise software company. Would have been CTO or way up in the executive team because they were a bunch of biz guys who needed a hacker. Instead I worked for just a year for a small business (not really a startup this was before "startups")

But it's damn hard to tell the difference at those early stages.

And when questions like "what's the total number of shares outstanding on a fully diluted basis?" (back when companies would say "You'll get 10,000 shares!!!!111!!") are met with "sorry that's confidential" during the hiring process, it is a bit difficult to do proper due diligence.
You very much do care about the economics of VC if you need their money to build your company. No professional investor will give you terms that will lead to them losing money; that's irrational.

People don't sell equity to VCs because they've been snake-charmed by them. They do it because if you need 2MM+ for your company, they're the only realistic option. Ever talk to a bank about a line of credit against receivables? That's a fun conversation.
I think github was the ideal company. They were profitable from day one, grew like crazy.

But they weren't chasing a unicorn.

There's a lot of delusion among "unicorn chasers" that I've seen-- but that may not be the same group you're referring to.
That might well be true, the point I was trying to make was that as an employee its dangerous to make decisions based on the belief that you are great at picking winning teams / companies. Sure VC's are bad it too, but theyre sensible enough to do it with other peoples money.
Yeah, we've got to expect the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics to come in and ruin the party.

You could power the electrolysis from solar, but then you've got transmission loss on the wires. You're right the gases are too lightweight to push more than the lightest fan turbine.

Even having the gases get separated, turn a turbine while floating up, get recombined into water, then be pulled down past another turbine by gravity, we might not get the full 1.5v back.
Here's my sealion of a question. What parts of climate change research are actually backed up by the scientific method (experiments with falsifiable hypotheses and all that) and what parts are more akin to natural history or something else? To clarify, I believe humans caused the problem (it appears that stating this makes people like you more, which is weird, but ok) but I cringe every time I hear the word science attached to the debate. Is it like a social science? I think someone told me that we know for sure that greenhouse gas emissions cause ozone depletion but I can't remember anymore. What is the actual hard science here?
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Very true. That said, there are almost always situations where reading the data + creating the index + using it N times would be less intensive than just reading the data N times, for very small N.

I'd love to see Postgres or MongoDB with an index-suggesting logger - I'd pay the cost of the logging to have it run on every query, then a background thread would figure out what the "hot spot" types of queries are, figure out what indices to create concurrently, and show it to me in a web interface where I can click a button and create the indices I need concurrently during a low-traffic period of time.

Does anything out there like this exist?
>remember the 'best of previous generations

In nature, immortality doesn't seem to lead to much evolution. remember that immortal jellyfish some japanese scientist discovered a while ago that went back to its polyp phase once it got mature? Besides, sometimes species devolve too in nature. I just accept mortality and obsolescence as they are.
To say that LibreOffice was anything more than a very marginal part of Microsoft's decision to refocus is laughable. The real threat to Microsoft is the movement towards BYOD for corporate customers. If users are bringing their own devices, then Office has to work on whatever devices those users have. Corporate customers aren't switching from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice. They're switching from Microsoft Office to Google Apps, or other hosted systems. Bringing (a better) Office experience to Android is Microsoft building a bulwark against Google Docs, not LibreOffice.
Toward open source email previewing
Whatsapp bot
I wonder how the packing process works.
How does it find pairs of objects that compress well with delta encoding?
> Why is that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
Github was wildly successful, very well established, and profitable when they took the money; they're effectively a bootstrapped company.

If you can bootstrap, you virtually always should.
Sure, that's one definition. Your definition would get you kicked off many service providers and is illegal in some jurisdictions.
Interesting that it's a guy from Groupon that will take over. Even more interesting is that he wants to have an office in SF with the market this crazy...
The term is older than this article.

http://martinfowler.com/articles/collection-pipeline/

I also don't think he invented the term. A quick google search shows it's connected with LINQ.
http://www.whatshash.com/
Someone built whatsapp bot! I dont know if they used some official api or what.
I'm sorry for this man having so many health problems. But I can understand otherwise how to make chalk in the pacific japanese coast burning tons and tons of japanese oyster shells could be less profitable and much more dangerous since 2011. I wish him well.
The point made was that options and salary are not fungible. Which is true, they're not. Working for a very constrained kind of investment asset is not the same as working for a salary.
Which school was it?

My school is in the 151-200 ranking on the Shanghai list, I don't know if that's from the bottom or what.
What reading have you done of http://redis.io/ ? What search terms have you used on your favourite search engine?

People here are generous with their time, skills, and knowledge, but your initial question and your followup makes it sound like you've not even tried to educate yourself.
I had the same experience. I am using CyanogenMod as well and as much as I dislike Google I did install the Play services. I can't even remember why but I think I needed it to use the google voice app.

Anyway, google play apparently tried to auto-update and bricked itself; now it just says "no connection" when I launch the play store.

Last week I tried to install TestSecure but it would not run. It just gave an error message about needing to update play services.

I ended up installing the Telegram app in F-Droid.
I can't believe they are still storing my Acompli username after cancelling my account months ago. Accompli is a joke, and was developed in China. I wonder if my user info is still stored there. Sigh.
On Circa News, algorithms, and business models
Huh, so instead of adding recurring boards to the app itself, they enabled an external API that connects a clock to the board-creation interface. I don't know if this is horrifying or brilliant.
This converts electricity to hydrogen. There are very few situations where that is desirable - electricity is almost always more useful.

So this has value only in that you can store the hydrogen or use it somehow. You can also store electricity, so they question boils down to: Which is easier to store: Hydrogen or Electricity?

Water simply never enters into the question.

Storing hydrogen is hard enough that it's pointless to even talk about. Storing electricity can only be done in small quantities.

That's why I said methane: The best thing to do is grab some carbon and make methane with your hydrogen, methane you can store.

This is not really a solution for anything though, round trip efficiency of solar cell->electricity->hydrogen->methane->electricity would be quite low.

Much better is heat+coal+water = methane (you can thermalize water with heat). You can use a solar collector or nuclear power.
No doubt the mobile app bubble will pop very soon. There are way too many apps released that no one is using. I personally tie much of my activity to my mobile web browser, unless I'm using Email/Twitter or Geo.

It's becoming a terrible idea to build a startup entirely on a mobile app.
Factor in taxes and that would be way less. More like six months salary. Factor in inflation on top of it and that would be more like four months salary.

Its all about luck. Things can go either way.
I think of pre-IPO options as worth just more than zero. (I'd rather have them than not have them, but not by enough to give up significant salary). The possibility of dilution in most option agreements, combined with the time until vesting and the possibility of the company failing, means that it's impossible to put a solid floor under their value. I've made 5 figures from pre-IPO stock options twice. Nice, but hardly worth taking a pay cut for.

Options in already-public companies are quite a bit less risky. I consider employee stock grants in a healthy public company to be worth about 75% of the current value of the stock. (The discount is because of the vesting period. If I change jobs, I lose some of the stock. If I stay at the job just to get the stock, when there's a better opportunity elsewhere, I lose that opportunity.)
This water problem is everywhere. Not just California.

What's happening to all of the Earth's water? Is it going into flooding in other parts of the world that don't come to mind? Are sea levels rising? Is our air getting more humid? Is it going into under the Earth's crust or under the sea floor? Did the single-catalyst water splitter get dropped into the ocean? Are we storing more of it in our food plants and food animals? Are we storing it in something else like concrete for buildings?
TextSecure SMS is getting phased out.

https://whispersystems.org/blog/goodbye-encrypted-sms/
This is quite excellent for those of us doing research in physical schema design. As far as I know, this is the first "what-if" analysis tool integrated into an open source database. Although if there are others, I'd love to know about them :)
I'm pretty sure printf warnings were there in djgpp for DOS, which would put it to at least 1996. It must have taken actual effort to ignore this feature for so long :)

On the other hand, gcc's equivalent of pragma optimize is a comparatively recent addition! - and I know which one has caused me more heartache over the years (hint: not format strings).