skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Musk or not, our future in space is based on progress in nuclear propulsion.

Luckily some labs are working on it: https://www.quora.com/Is-research-on-nuclear-propulsion-syst...
$1 billion for Instagram.. that was cheap I think :)
I have it but I don't use it much.. if at all.. I use Atom..
If the license was around half of what is it or if I can find an license on a discount I probably would and start using it regularly.
It is not part of my daily routine..
For example I have IntelliJ license because this is what I use
Commits like this make me realize, "oh, they're just developers like me"

https://github.com/erlang/otp/commit/37f143e9e16e89d753b0e5e...
It's Japan though. Faxes in Japan aren't antiquated like in the USA.
This article only serves to stroke the ego of people who already believe that CO2 emissions cause global warming. It does nothing for people who already deny it.

Evidence, no matter how strong doesn't serve to change the nature of a man. People would rather bend the logic and the evidence to fit their convenient perception of reality.

Which brings me to the question: "What can change a nature of a man?" Imminent danger? If an assailant had a gun pointed at your head, it'd be impossible to deny. How can this evidence about global warming be presented so that it can't be denied?
I think in the context of convincing people that we urgently need to address the current climate problem (for economic, ecological, and security reasons), that might be distracting.

Assuming there are probably other interglacial periods in Earth's long history that were a lot warmer than the current one[0], or maybe had lots more greenhouse gasses from some non-human source (if such a thing is geologically possible), that doesn't make the implications of global temperature rise on current human society any less disastrous, or absolve the fact that the current warming period is from gasses released by burning fossil fuels.

The fact is, that the Earth has had worse ecological disasters than the human species (although not many, and most of them were caused by big asteroid impacts[1]). So I'm less afraid of how this stacks up against the entire climatalogical history of the planet than I am of armed conflicts breaking out over water rights, or the loss of huge swaths of agricultural land.

[0]: And it looks like there are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interglacial
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction_event#Major_extinct...
I didn't mean to say that it wasn't possible, you probably don't need a subjective measure of quality. I think you could empirically discover some objective characteristics of good chalk that would do the trick. You could at least quickly reject the worst chalk which is too brittle and too hard. I meant to say that there was and is no way that is recognized sufficiently universally that enables one to specify a chalk with the desirable properties to a gov't purchasing agent such that s/he can buy the right stuff.
I even looked at the blame for that file, to see if it was added by saniv. It was, and it's stayed that way since initial commit in late 2013.
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Which scriptures? And why are human-authored documents so trustworthy in that one scenario?
"As part of UK Visa procedures, I had to provide my biometric details."
You don't have to trust your maintainer, just go to chrome://voicesearch and check the status (but read up on it, it's badly labeled) or search for "hotword-x86-64.nexe" inside your chromium extensions folder and delete the extension containing it.
> Release only open source products?

Google open sources far more than most companies. They've also contributed greatly to building new open source projects, and they actually keep them open and are a generally benevolent maintainer. They're probably one of the best corporate citizens of the open source community.

> Not sell our information to advertisers?

It's their entire business model; if you don't like it, don't use their products.

> Not collaborate with the government to spy on us?

Google never willingly collaborated with the government. They were either hacked by the NSA (this isn't a mark of shame -- just read up on the Equation Group virus that went undetected for the better part of a decade) or they cooperated under a sealed court order. Corporations don't have the agency that individuals do in refusing to cooperate with a court order -- it's literally not possible for a company to refuse to comply with a court order because the feds can just keep arresting people until someone complies. Most companies refuse to put their employees in this position, so they comply under protest (which is exactly what Google did).

> Not use their monopoly money to buy all of the smart people in the world?

So they shouldn't hire under capitalist principles? Also note that this is beneficial for the smart people of the world, because it forces other companies to pay more as well.
If he had time to consistently rewrite all of the code to a better standard that the entire team produced while also covering what he himself was responsible for, he was probably working in hell. That shouldn't be possible unless the code was generally pretty bad.

> Also, during planning and architecture discussions he wouldn't say a word, just go and rewrite everything we discussed.

Wild-assed speculation here, but if he didn't think that the rest of the team would listen to his expertise (which you admit was strictly dominant over the rest of the team) and didn't think they were qualified to argue with them about it or teachable enough to learn from him - that could lead to a strategy of silence and just fixing it after everybody else was done.

There are some things that one just can't argue about with some people without it being a complete waste of time.

If he was basically running the show and ultimately responsible for the high quality of the product, IMO he probably should have been tested as the manager of the team. Being able to dictate the standards of the final product would remove the need to argue, and require the team to learn what he wanted them to learn.

> I left for another team after about 3 months of this.

If you were consistently wrong in your disagreements with the best member of the team and instead of using that as motivation to improve, it simply resulted in (traditional anti-egghead/smartypants) rage at the person who had the nerve to be better than you at everything, it was probably better for everyone.
It turns out there is a faster way to fix the issue. There is a program called Adobe Flash Player Uninstaller that does the trick, and as an added benefit, it also prevents any future zero-day exploit.

Seriously, I've been Flash-free for many months, and I haven't missed a thing. I highly recommend it. Other than some really old websites, everything works as expected (YouTube, news websites with video, etc.).
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Eccch. This is the second Bloomberg article in as many days (the first was on Paul Krugman) to co-opt scrolling. I read a BBC article yesterday that did the same thing.

Jesus, webdevs. Stop this shit now.
I remember doing this stuff in my computer architecture classes, Xilinx is incredibly powerful but also incredibly painful to use.
That Social Network App ‘Backed’ by Anonymous Uses Weak Encryption
More specifically, can we stop saying "War on X" or "War against X" when X is a common noun? e.g. when it's not a nation-state, an organization, nor a person?
Not all companies track sprints by the hour. :) Dev times for AAA video games are in years, not months. After working for both web and game companies, I find the development mindset for each to be remarkably incompatible.
surface-type screens, computers attached to projectors, etc

These have their place, certainly, but I'd find it hard to believe that power-consuming electronic replacements (also considering the environmental impact from raw materials and waste products, and energy used to manufacture them) are a "better" choice than a chalkboard in many cases.
None of the models have performed very well. You probably won't find a scorecard because it's embarrassing.
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Why would they need this? LEGOs last forever and can be resold and passed down through generations...

...Oh, they just want to lower product quality so people have to buy new LEGOs. :)
Auth0 secures $6.9M to help app developers simplify user logins
There's Crystal[1], which got some attention on AngelList, but it honestly looks like vaporware to me.

[1] https://www.crystalknows.com/
Once a month an “insert something tech-related here” company releases an open source slack clone.

While I am grateful to all you guys, how much free time do you have to work on these clones instead of your main product?

I've tried so far let's chat and rocketchat and I liked them. I will give a spin to mattermost and I am sure I will like it too.
I think the one that matures first, will be a big hit because we need a slack clone —as evidently shown. But also as with any other open source / free software project it will need commitment.
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Wiki summary:

In 1981, Boudin and several former members of the Weather Underground and the Black Liberation Army robbed a Brink's armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York.

After Boudin dropped her infant son off at a babysitter's, she took the wheel of the getaway vehicle, a U-Haul truck.

She waited in a nearby parking lot as her heavily armed accomplices took another vehicle to a local mall where the Brink's truck was making a pick-up. They confronted the guards and gunfire immediately broke out, severely wounding guard Joe Trombino and killing his partner, Peter Paige. The four then took $1.6 million in cash and rejoined Boudin.

An alert college student called the police after spotting the gang abandoning their vehicle and entering the U-Haul. Two policeman spotted and pulled over the U-Haul, but they were expecting black males, and could only see Boudin - a white female - in the driver's seat. She got out of the cab, and raised her hands. Another police car with two officers quickly arrived on the scene.

The police officers who caught them testified that Boudin, feigning innocence, pleaded with them to put down their guns and got them to drop their guard; Boudin said she remained silent, that the officers relaxed spontaneously.

After the police lowered their guns, six men armed with automatic weapons emerged from the back of the truck, and began firing upon the four police officers, one of whom, Waverly Brown, was killed instantly. Officer Edward O'Grady lived long enough to empty his revolver, but as he reloaded, he was shot several times with an M16 rifle. Ninety minutes later, he died in the hospital.
Seconded. On my new Mac I never installed any Adobe software. Several months later and I haven't needed flash even once.
With a thermometer, I guess.. the oldest record is this one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_England_temperature

Ocean temperatures were also measured during the research voyages around that time.

However, it is also possible to deduce temperatures from closed-off water bodies such as ground water or water inclusions in rock (such as stalagmites).
While radioactive decay can give you the time since last exposure to open air (different elements have to be used depending on the expected age range), ratios of other things such as noble gases can give you the temperature at that exposure. (Different gases have different solubility curves in dependence of temperature.)
Ground water bodies can be over 1000 years old, so 1880 is definitely within the timeframe. At the same time, the techniques are also used on ice cores. The time resolution can be quite different between the techniques, though.
Similar techniques can also be used for ocean temperature, I presume.

Now, we also use thermometers. There are distributed networks of weather stations. You could argue that newer thermometers have a higher accuracy, but at the same time it is very hard to create an environment where you measure air temperature only, and are not influenced by parameters such as irradiation. Thus, as the page mentions, normally only deviations are given.

Plus, of course, satellites give a much better spatial resolution. (Have fun with atmospheric layers then.. with of course different temperatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Satellite_temperature_measur...)

Here is a very detailed publication on the topic of isotopes in water, just in case you are bored:

http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/ih/IHS_resources_publication_...
you can choose your render target. thats why there is so much abstraction.
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Woah -- wasn't expecting the quick upvotes! :)

Creator here (shamefully submitted myself, haha). Happy to answer any/all questions or ramble on and on about the problem.

We basically think there needs to be a legitimately trustworthy service out there. Something that acts more like a a career coach instead of a position spammer. Something that understands your needs and specific situation.

Along the lines of "doing things that don't scale", we're completely human powered but technology assisted. There are a lot of things that are involved with career coaching or recruiting that are simply tedious -- we automate them away so we can better focus on relationships.
I built it for myself to monitor my rails apps. I am aware several tools already exist, but not the one I was looking for.

I wanted a simple tool to pinpoint the slow SQL queries in my code. A tool that helps me taking care of my cron jobs and background jobs. A tool that does not send emails for errors I am already aware of.

If you have some time to give it a try, I would really appreciate your feedback. Thanks!
Yes, that precedent has been set since.....the beginning of time.
Same here. Though I use extensions like ClickToFlash, which prevent plugin loading by default, but allow me to selectively activate plugins in the DOM by clicking on them.
I was using a slightly more encompassing definition of prostitution, though. Basically people whose primary job is to kiss ass for money, whether metaphorically, literally or both.

Greeters, for example, can't be replaced by machines. The economy has been shifting in this direction for decades.
This whole issue got raised by the package maintainers from debian[1], so yeah, there are sources and people you could consider to trust.

But of course nothing beats compiling from source.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9724409
She's over it now, but my wife's biggest complaint when I unilaterally cut the cord 5 years ago was that she couldn't be a passive consumer: she had to actively choose what to watch at any moment. Hulu Plus's automatic next show thing was a help with that, but I eventually ditched that too (money for ads - no thanks).

The net out is that she reads a lot more.

(No particular lesson, just another piece of anecdata to join the growing pile that always ends up on threads on this subject.)
My problem with click to play — which I used for a few years on Safari, Chrome, and Firefox, with extensions before it was built-in — is that your browser still reports to the website that you have Flash installed. At this point, most sites work without Flash, but only if the site thinks you don't have it. (Or, like Youtube, by requesting the HTML5 player in a setting.)
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Please stop saying Java sucks
That's the human contribution to atmospheric CO2 compared to geological time scales.
Clicking this link will make your browser silently download and execute a binary blob

http://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/pooka/rump.js/
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My doubt is based on divine scriptures, and there are experiments (as per the article i mentioned) that agree with it. What's wrong with that? You can still experiment and prove divine wisdom, it doesn't have to be forced knowledge.
Could be more ridiculous. Keith Brown (a UK citizen) was arrested in Dubai on allegations that the authorities had found 0.003 grams of marijuana on the sole of his shoe, and threatened with four years of jail. (Eventually they just shipped him back, though.)
Fair enough. Humor isn't always easy in text anyway.

The polygraph is a confidence game. It is 100% psychological. If you're honest and you try hard, you'll still harm some people arbitrarily. It has immense potential for abuse though, and I would reject its use for that reason; even if it didn't suffer from the other problem.
> "No, it really is greenhouse gasses." .. "See for yourself."

Being patronising has such a great track record in turning hearts and minds, I'm glad they didn't stoop to such decadent clap track as "engaging with opposing arguments".
As I posted elsewhere in this thread, with click to play your browser still reports to the website that you have Flash installed. Sites still often don't send non-Flash content unless they thinks you don't have it installed.
Uber is a great example of why lobbying can be a good thing. Taxi regulations date back to the days of horse-drawn carriages. That does not by itself make them obsolete, but at the time taxi regulations took their modern form, cities (especially on the east coast) were more densely populated, cars were much more polluting, and there was little that would allow disseminating information about the quality of taxi service among consumers. In short: the externalities and information asymmetries that justified taxi regulation in the first place have declined substantially.

Lobbyists are well-positioned to inform legislators about how the market is different today, and why the animating purposes of taxi regulations may no longer be applicable, or at least may not have the same force they used to.
>Its highly likely crony capitalism as we know it will never end and income wealth inequality will increase until almost no one owns everything,

Anything that can't continue indefinitely, won't.
Precisely.

Fortunately, I am paid a salary. If I get jury duty, I still get paid. I wouldn't try to avoid it for financial reasons.

The state has the power to take someone's freedom, their assets and their life. The only mitigation of this is the jury. Never cede that power to anyone for any reason.
>> Train internal talent up to it, dumbass.

Train an X programmer on Y, and you'll most likely get Y written as X for quiet some time, until they gain experience, if ever.

The disconnect I've always had with using Haskell for anything is; you never get a result until the entire computation is complete. Oh but monads they say. Well, monads seem an aweful lot like procedural code (to me, the uninitated, unpracticed) so what's the point again? That's not meant as a criticism of Haskell, but just one persons thought process on the issue. I'd use SML if I could.
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I'm incredibly optimistic about the disruption Elon Musk is bringing to the automotive and battery industries and the commercialization of space transport. Amazing guy.

That said, I'm starting to think that Mars is going to be his Spruce Goose (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes_H-4_Hercules). It's crazy, it's expensive, and at this point, it's an unnecessary moonshot that makes literal moonshots seem reasonable.

While I agree with the principle that humanity needs to be a multi-planet species if we're going to make it past all the Great Filters, I honestly don't think we're ready as a species. Technologically or organizationally. We can't even get half our population to admit that the climate is warming, but somehow we're supposed to get our shit together enough to colonize an entire planet?

And from a technological perspective, I'm continually amazed that the same people that fret and wring their hands about climate change seriously believe colonization of Mars is not going to be the most painful thing humanity has ever done. It will be fraught with death, expense, and replete with economic and social chaos. Ending all wars, enacting global healthcare and welfare policies, and rolling back climate change on Earth would be a cakewalk compared to building self-sufficient colonies on a planet that:

* Has no breathable atmosphere

* Has little usable water

* Is bombarded with deadly radiation

* Has no economic justification for colonization

The only reason to be going to Mars is that, statistically, in the next couple dozen million years the Earth might get a flat tire. I don't know - from what I've seen so far, I'm not sure humanity deserves to be the species that settles the Milky Way...
Isn't that sort of like poking a finger in the lion's eye without being able to run away? You're absolutely right, but while that's logical, it's also the sort of thing that a detective already fixated on you might think of as gloating. Insert new theory of the crime: you weren't helping your mother out of the goodness of your heart, but so you could scope out potential victims. And maybe you did touch the phone book during the crime for the adrenaline rush, content in the belief that it's the last place the police would think to dust for prints. All theories made less crazy because the detective thinks you were a smug SOB.

You mentioned that you felt lucky; sad to say, I think you're probably right. What a nightmare of an experience.
Because keeping the current people we have alive and happy is also important.

The trick is finding the balance, science and math are probably more important than growing food, until you don't have any food to eat.
I didn't say that it's not appropriate :) Just that as originally defined, a Controller object intercepts all user input. From the article, "The controller's job is to take the user's input and figure out what to do with it."

Unfortunately, I haven't had a chance to look at AngularJS in depth. But it would be great to compare the various SPA frameworks and see which parts of the classic patterns they adhere to.
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Also Germany was spying on France: https://euobserver.com/defence/128524

It's pretty much a bunch of people spying on each other.
JavaScript is securely sandboxed, however.
> FYI: Chris Taylor now works for Wargaming. There has been no word yet on what project he may be doing there.

Wargaming bought Gas Powered Games in 2013, thus Chris Taylor works for them. Within months, Wargaming additionally bought the Total Annihilation rights from the THQ bankruptcy auction. Taylor is likely working on a TA sequel.

http://www.pcgamer.com/total-annihilation-franchise-bought-b...
What's the problem? Why the vitriol about Musk using "taxpayer money"? (Interesting it's phrased as "taxpayer money" when trying to dis someone receiving it, but it's "government money" when approving of the redistribution of exactly the same money.)

Those government-supplied tax credits, loans, and grants are the direct result of legislation designed to encourage R&D in solar, space, and other industries. To encourage growth in the electric car industry, the federal (and many state) government gives credits etc to individuals who buy/lease EVs and businesses who build them ... so why the surprise when individuals buy/lease EVs and businesses (like Tesla) build them, leveraging the handouts designed precisely to encourage such activity?

It's like supporters of such credits don't actually want anyone to use them.
"...the Earth has had worse ecological disasters than the human species..."

True, but they were a long time ago and the human species wasn't around to experience them. The rate of change of present warming, and its likely effects, are going to cause very severe difficulties for our (and many other) species.
Here are some images that you could review.

https://www.google.com/search?q=1990s+climate+models+versus+...