skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> highly dogmatic, stubborn and difficult-to-get-along-with people

Not a problem. They have a way of doing things. That is their way. If it is wrong, how do we persuade them?

> They might even shout or yell at other people to get their own way.

Not good. It becomes a personal problem, and people forget their roles as problem solvers, and turn it into becoming winners.

> Such people find it hard to empathise with others and think they they are the smartest and that their opinion is more valuable than everyone else's.

Key word here is 'opinion'. Can it be changed to fact rather than opinion? Opinion is personal. Break it down and go back a/several steps, to get logic out of the opinion. If they're getting personal, as above, this may take hard tactics, but being non-personal is key. Open questions, act as the idiot if you're in a position of authority.

> They value "the right technical decision"

Great. They're committed. They want the best answer, and rationality is the appeal [key - 'from their perspective']

> over human relationships

Bad. Perhaps they're engrained and don't recognize other interests. Take the conversation back and get them to focus on long term interests. This can be interesting, as often you may find the 'suborn, non-team-player' is trying to act in everyone's interests, they've just made it a personal 'win' and others don't recognize they recognize the win-win but are so engrossed they don't express it (or there's a small thing they're afraid of giving up).

> the right outcome might be the one that makes someone else happy, or is the most diplomatic

Negotiation is not win-lost. It is win-win. Often the term 'diplomatic' puts someone in the losing corner "give this one up for the team, we'll win at something else". That is not diplomacy. Diplomacy is recognizing there is a problem for everyone and giving something up is not a good option. Stick to facts, logic, and encourage the exploration of everyone's long term interests. Remember, you're problem solvers. "Technically right" often is right. Information is key here - is someone unaware of a constraint in budget, personnel, timeline, or other? Lacking information makes one feel weak, and emotionally responsive.

> How do these people impact your technical team's work environment?

I try to impact theirs. The above is not wishy-washy. It is not focused on making everyone happy. It is focused on people acting as problem solvers and being tough on each other, while not getting dogged down on specifics to the extent long term interests are ignored.

Source: Experience and reading. Do read 'Getting to Yes', a seminal book (for me) and try some negotiation exercises with the team. Alternate who plays the trainer. Awesome learnings within.
I find that "click to play" works well enough. So it's always off by default, but you still have the option to make exceptions in the very rare cases where it's needed. I always wonder why is this not enabled by default in all majors browsers in fact.
"The period for which reasonably reliable instrumental records of near-surface temperature exist with quasi-global coverage is generally considered to begin around 1850. Earlier records exist, but with sparser coverage and less standardized instrumentation.

The temperature data for the record come from measurements from land stations and ships. On land, temperature sensors are kept in a Stevenson screen or a maximum minimum temperature system (MMTS). The sea record consists of surface ships taking sea temperature measurements from engine inlets or buckets. The land and marine records can be compared.[13] Land and sea measurement and instrument calibration is the responsibility of national meteorological services. Standardization of methods is organized through the World Meteorological Organization and its predecessor, the International Meteorological Organization.[14]"

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_recor...
Well there is historical evidence of glacial periods (ice ages) which the planet moves through cyclically. And of course if you took 1880 to the present (135 years) and plotted the climate changes variation compared to the geologic record, it would not be discernible, so that is either really scary or reassuring depending on your interpretation.
> I'm always looking for something interesting, but there isn't anything new.

Agreed. There's been a shift where the focus isn't on introducing new products. Instead, focus has been on expanding the options within already established items. Eg. more flavors of chips, more types of hummus, different sizes of the same products, gluten free/HMO/low sugar versions, etc. Have you been in the cereal section lately? There are about 10 flavors of frosted mini wheats. Part of this trend could be that consumers are facing severe decision fatigue and end up opting for simpler (and in most cases cheaper) products.
US visa processing is back online (same link).

"The Bureau of Consular Affairs reports that the database responsible for handling biometric clearances has been rebuilt and is being tested. 39 posts, representing more than two-thirds of our normal capacity, are now online and issuing visas. We are working to restore full biometric data processing."
Scientists make mistakes as often as Economist writers do. I don't revere scientists i'm sorry.
Sure there is. Sadly you'll need humans for that part, though. You could get several humans who all get a sample of each supplyers chalk, and then ask them to rate the quality of each on one (or several) scales. The computer can then integrate this rating with the rest of its metrics.
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Do you have any complaints about the article itself, or do you simply stop thinking once you find out that you don't agree with everything somebody says, or everybody somebody gets money from?

Did Krugman claim that nominal interest rates couldn't go below 0%? Did Krugman claim that austerity would lead to a double dip recession? Did Krugman claim high unemployment would go hand in hand with spiraling deflation? Did Krugman claim that anybody who disagreed with him was evil or stupid? Has Krugman now decided that, even though interest rates went below 0%, austerity did not cause a double dip recession, and high unemployment did not accompany spiraling deflation that he was "right about everything"?

Did the New York Times ombudsman say that Krugman has a "disturbing habit of shaping, slicing and selectively citing numbers in a fashion that pleases his acolytes but leaves him open to substantive assaults"?
Desperate Times or Desperate FSBO?
Indeed.

Didn't Feynman say that the real measure of science is experiment?

Show me the experiments otherwise we have merely observations and conjecture.

They might be right, but at the moment we've established hypothesis and nothing more.
Gaining high speed for a small website is easier than keeping that speed as your site grows. There are numerous reasons for this e.g.:

- Giving non-technical people a CMS (where they'll upload unoptimised images).

- Feature creep.

- More complicated infrastructure (geo-distributed, load balanced infrastructure, etc). Tuning is definitely still possible but harder.

- Politics (e.g. trying to remove some pointless JS or CSS could take months and require several meetings).

- The absolute cost of doing anything grows.

Google and others have shown that large web-sites can keep things fast, but they've also shown it takes the entire organisation prioritising that for it to happen. I'm sure big media sites would benefit from being faster, in a measurable way, but the key is: Can you get other (non-technical) departments to agree to make real-world cuts to make that happen? Maybe.
I think that precedent has already been set.
90% of those are legal issues, whether it be in the US or in the country they are expanding to, especially in the case of copyrighted media.
An infinitive verb is a to verb. There's no to above, thus no split infinitive.
> Negative equity doesn't trigger a distressed mortgage, or force an owner to abandon the property.

Disagree. As soon as a property has negative equity, a homeowner begins to contemplate strategic default. As their property tips ever more into negative equity territory, the benefits of default rise dramatically, whether the mortgage is recourse or not.

Don't take my word for it; the Federal Reserve did a study on it:

"Our results suggest that while strategic default is fairly common among deeply underwater
borrowers, borrowers do not ruthlessly exercise the default option at relatively low
levels of negative equity. About half of defaults occurring when equity is below -50 percent
are strategic but when negative equity is above -10 percent, we find that the combination of
negative equity and liquidity shocks or life events drives default. Our results therefore lend
support to both the “double-trigger” theory of default and the view that mortgage borrowers
exercise the implicit put option when it is in their interest."

http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/feds/2010/201035/201035pa...
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Not saying that it excuses any of the actions, nor am I trying to be inflammatory, but I have a serious question.

Does anything really think that France, or Germany, or any other nations is not doing the exact same thing to the US? All governments spy on each other, even allies. That is how its been for probably the entirety of human history, and probably will be for foreseeable future.
You mean XMPP federation?

Nobody wants to implement that because companies like Slack, Atlassian, Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, etc are interested in lock-in primarily.
Not even a nod to Hendo, who already had Tony Hawk try out their board.
Is there a scorecard for which models have performed well?
CO2 is not strictly human emissions and to imply so is so dishonest is ridiculous. of course any gross simplification of the environment as done in this presentation is explicitly to deliver a message decided before the numbers were assembled.

the primary co2 process is ocean to atmosphere exchange, the earth to atmosphere, and then to mammals respiratory activity. So then you get down to how much CO2 is man pumping into the atmosphere beyond that point and which sources are direct versus indirect.

finally since their numbers only are observable to 1880, how accurate can we assume them to be? If were are extrapolating we could do it further back than 1880 to periods where man was present in significant numbers and thew world was warmer

There is climate change, never has been a period of time where it hasn't, but junk presentations are just that. Take numbers out of context, put in easily to dismiss arguments along side, and it appears to make your point beyond reproach (its like say, the sky is blue and you agree, don't you? the going off to explain why something indirectly related is bad or good)
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Is there a tool like this for email? I'd instantly use that!
http://www.fortefoundation.org/site/DocServer/gendered_wordi...

Pretty interesting study that proves that gendered wording of applications actually makes a significant difference in the gender ratio of folks who apply. The gender biases we've been socialized with might be false assumptions many times, but it's still the programming many people operate on.
In addition, you can't gift things. There's been several occasions I've wanted to gift apps and games to people I know.
On my MacBook Pro using Chrome, it was even worse. Impossible to read at least tells me that something is wrong, but using the trackpad to scroll through the options in a natural flicking way actually skips over multiple entries at a time with only the barest flicker to indicate that it happened. I got almost to the end before I realized I had only seen about one third of the information they were trying to present.

I have nothing against clever visualizations like this, but god damn it web designers, stop co-opting standard UI interactions to make it happen. There is no reason to hijack window scrolling here. None. All you accomplished by doing this was make it harder to figure out how to read the thing, and break it badly for a lot of people. What's wrong with buttons? You can even look for swipes on touchscreen devices. That's pretty standard! But quit stealing the scrollers!
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/science/indicators/ghg/ghg-...

http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/last_400k_yrs.html

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6124/1198.abstract
Release only open source products? Not sell our information to advertisers? Not collaborate with the government to spy on us? Not use their monopoly money to buy all of the smart people in the world? The list of how they could improve is endless.
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You don't need to revere them. However, you should expect that an expert in a given field has almost certainly considered and answered any question a non-expert can think up within 10 minutes of contemplation on the said field. If you can come up with a question that starts with, "Have they considered the possibility that .....?" the answer is almost certainly going to be yes. This is more so when talking about a large collection of experts. For instance, with the collections of all experts in climate science.
So what they are saying is that we should be pumping large amounts of Aerosols into the atmosphere?

I think we need less confirmations that there is a problem and more solutions to the problem.
No one is convinced by an "interactive colourful plot" it's the underlining data that it represents.

If data doesn't educate your actions you may find tech to be a hard industry to navigate.
When he said that people sent a flood of faxes, it made me totally cool with no more chalk.

When your customers are still sending faxes, that pretty much sums up your dire situation.
Note that if you do this, you don't really need to whitelist specifically youtube, since their player is html5 by default for some time now.
Uber accounts for nearly half of the entire U.S. market of low-cost personal rides. They are not the little guy fighting the power, they are the power.
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I'm a non-secular person that's why. I certainly don't have the numbers, i read them here and there. But i base it on knowledge coming from scriptures. Scientists are hardworking people, but i don't take their numbers as faith.
Nobody is asking you to revere scientists, merely not to revere Economist writers.
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I think things that government agencies do don't happen in a vacuum.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/diet/themes/py...
Yaya, the march of progress.

Seriously, the idea of open source projects downloading close sourced code "on your behalf" is bad in and of itself, regardless of the purpose.
Chromium ≠ Chrome
http://www.howtogeek.com/202825/what%E2%80%99s-the-differenc...
I find it amusing that you are opposing on one side a population and on another a country.

So let me rephrase it for you : France will pretend to be upset ... It's part of the game.

As a french, I just don't give a s US spying our officials, I'm much more worried any foreign secret service achieving it. It just shows how much our defense and digital security is weak. If I'm angry, it's towards our own services which can't prevent this kind of stuff.
> i really doubt we humans can affect climate changes in any way

On what basis, exactly? Would you be convinced if climate scientists critiqued your unit testing approach?
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/globalwarming/temperature-cha...

There you can see a strong correlation between CO2 levels and temperature going back nearly half a million years. Teasing out cause and effect is the interesting task.
It was a lot of fun developing UptimeButler and we learned a lot. For the actual web app we decided to give Meteor a try. The hardest part there was, that some packages contain a lot of "magic" :) But in the end, we had a pretty good feeling what we could use out of the box and what had to be done by hand.

For the workers which perform the availability checks, we use C# applications running on Linux with Mono. Fortunately we got into the BizSpark program from Microsoft, which allows us to launch our public beta with very little private equity.
They don't owe you anything.
With even the same argument of them building a HipChat or Flowdock clone.
> No. We can take arbitrarily spaced "snapshots" of a closed system, and determine which was taken earlier by measuring entropy.

That is not correct. A closed system may by convention still exchange energy with the outside (just not any matter). What you're really talking about is called an isolated system, which is a theoretical construct that does not occur in nature.

Fundamentally, time, causality, and entropy are related, especially considering the idea of entropy as seen through a probabilistic lens with information causality in mind (see Pawlowski et al arXiv:0905.2292).

However, I think causality overall has a stronger, more basic link to the direction of time, and here is why: Entropy can always be reduced locally in an open system without affecting the flow of time at all. Causality, on the other hand, is not subject to reversal under any known circumstances, as long as a reasonable amount of information and time is involved. If, by some yet unknown mechanism, causality were reversed then so would be the direction of time, which in turn means the whole thing could not possibly be measured - not even in principle. Hence the argument that this reversal may not be possible since it's literally something that cannot exist in our universe. No such link exists between entropy and time, respectively.
Public bug trackers tend to be less on the silent side
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This happens because the police aren't intelligent people.

In a Sherlock Holmes story, the protagonist uses forensic evidence but he thinks about what the evidence means.

The police, on the other hand, want a magic oracle device that spits out names and current addresses, and they treat forensics like it was such.

In the United States, having a valid explanation for why your fingerprints were on some object wouldn't necessarily get you freed, it wouldn't necessarily prevent prosecution. Some asshole DAs here would take that to trial (or extort you into a plea bargain, at least).
We humans are right now conducting the experiment. Despite empirical evidence, data, modeling, and application of our knowledge the effects of green house gases we continue to pump them into the atmosphere on a massive scale. In another 30 - 40 years the experiment will yield conclusive results. Then I suppose global warming deniers like Rush Limbaugh will shrug their shoulders and say, "Well, we now have our experimental evidence."
The experiment isn't controlled, but it's being performed. The experiment is, "Let's dump gigatons of excess CO2 into the atmosphere and see what happens!" So far, what happens is that global temperatures go up noticeably.

What are you proposing we should do? Should we just ignore the whole thing until it's proven?
No, they don't owe me. You also don't have to thank people who hold the door for you.
It was a disappointment for myself. The 3d planets was interesting, but not in a big way during actual gameplay. It actually made the UI a little more annoying and just didn't reach the level of the professional UI of Supreme Commander.

Supreme Commander is still the best I've played and it is still going strong under the Forged Alliance Forever community.
http://www.faforever.com/

FYI: Chris Taylor now works for Wargaming. There has been no word yet on what project he may be doing there.
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How did they have your fingerprints to cross reference in the first place?
Sorry, it must be humorless Wednesday for me.

If a polygraph is misused, that's sad and wrong. But it can also be used as an interview technique, to put folks under pressure and get more authentic answers to important questions. Maybe its all psychological, but that's fine. As long as it helps screen, and does more good than harm.
Can't you turn the tables by sending a permanent redirect to your own domain, thereby stealing whatever SEO ranking they built up?
At some point I just stopped buying anything that isn't fresh or obviously a food I recognize. I live in a modern first-world country with a decent salary, I enjoy walking to the shop a couple to a few times per week, I'm not slaving away on my job so much that I don't have time to sit down and prepare a proper meal throughout the day.

The realization seems to be that there's really no reason for me to buy these kind of sugar/salt-packed opaque possibly-dangerous glorified ration packs that we call food in our supermarkets.

The irony is that the ambiguity/confusion of nutrition has been a good way for the industry to sell its garbage for generations, but now people are so cognizant of the complexity of diet that they want to narrow down the possibilities to the simplest thing possible, and that's not good for the complex food industry. This also makes sense:

> Confectioneries have held up in part because there was never any confusion over whether they’re an indulgence.

It's the rest of the food that people eat when they're "being good" that they care about.
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I see the error...
Juror nullification not permitted in many states. In California, you will be found in contempt of court for doing so, or at best be removed from the jury for misconduct. Also, essentially zero federal judges will permit any open discussion of law nullification.
Yeah, I totally agree that leaders of state must expect to be spied upon - much as they must expect media attention. What I'm less enthusiastic about is the spying on people who are unlikely to ever have any strategic significance.
And, since we are allowed to use graphs rhetorically rather than discuss complicated topics like adults... what's really causing the murder rate to decline?

http://gizmodo.com/5977989/internet-explorer-vs-murder-rate-...
Desktop:

-OSX (gestures and spaces work well, with a few niggles like OSX not showing the window when tabbing to a minimised window)

-TotalFinder (OSX finder enhancement, the visor lets you get a finder window with alt+`)

-TotalTerminal (OSX quake-style dropdown console terminal)

-Alfred (OSX fast-spotlight replacement with plugins)

Dev:
-Gulp - great for frontend build once you know how everything works
What about "support diplomatic negotiations"?

The NSA is pretty straightforward about spying on foreign governments it seems
I do not understand the reference to Arrow's Paradox in a discussion of procurement policy (almost certainly related to my lack of knowledge). Can you elaborate?
OK, so you think humans can't possibly affect the climate because the all-powerful creator of the universe said it couldn't happen?

Why are you even trying to put a factual basis on your doubt, then? Why talk about natural cycles and all that, if your actual source for doubt is divine?
the hotword flag existed for ages,
it got changed from opt-in to opt-out about a week ago[1]
and just has been reverted.

Less evolution than things back to normal.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409
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The chromium-browser package is also a binary blob.
as i answered before, merely on a non-secular basis. Not all knowledge comes from science and experiments. There is so much knowledge in religious scriptures.
Well yes of course they are. But what you're not supposed to do is get caught at it.