skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alternatively with a different slant: Government policies designed to encourage private sector development of technologies in various areas have done just that. Also, Elon Musk is pretty good at utilizing them.

There is a separable issue of whether or not such policies have the long term effect they target.

This stuff is really easy to wrap up in political hyperbole to the point that it evades useful discussion.
National Archives finds same malware that stole gov’t personnel data
They don't sell your information, they sell access to your eyeballs, _based on_ the information they have about you, combined with advertisers saying "We want to show advert X to these types of people".

If they sold that information directly, they'd make a load of money today, but then none tomorrow. User information is the 'goose that lays the golden egg'.
Last I checked, there are a lot of unemployed lawyers, including grads from Ivy League Law schools. So why should someone from another country be employed law job (as opposed to some esoteric field of science where there simply is nobody to do the job) when there are Americans that are searching for jobs?

Instead of choosing a profession like law where there is a surplus of lawyers, he should have chosen a job like nursing where there is a shortage and then he could have been a US citizen.

Simply baffling to me that this guy chooses a career like law where there is a surplus of Americans looking for jobs instead of a career like nursing where there is a shortage and then he complains!
'The renting economy' just doesn't have the same ring.
> plus the premise of "fishing" implies there is no existing evidence.

I'm not sure where you get that from. I would assume you fish where you expect to find something, and my interpretation of the many places "fishing" is used (or even "phishing" to a lesser degree), is that it's done where you expect some payoff. Maybe you're thinking of the phrase "he's just fishing", which while often used by people to describe someone searching for something, often fruitlessly, generally the person searching is doing it with the expectation they will find something.
For what it's worth, if you can show you were proving real value and not primarily getting just entertaintainment/training from Google, you could work this way for a period and sue Google for back wages. The courts in the U.S./California generally take minimum wages very seriously and case law has defined the exceptions quite narrowly. Even non-profits have been successfully sued for wages for "volunteer" labor.

It's also true basically all unpaid internships are illegal and interns can easily sue for back wages, FWIW.
You are seriously arguing against more jobs in an area to protect current employers?!
Depends, overall predictions from the mid 1980's where high and a lot of research has gone into why.

A significant part of the difference disappears if you adjust for CO2 produced vs predicted. Granted, you can argue that the older models needed to account for both, but what we want to validate is predictions of impacts not predictions of fossil fuel use.

It's extremely disingenuous to show a single line as the 'prediction'. There have been plenty of projections that include possible reductions in temperature. As well as a wide range of types of measurements.

PS: You can also do a lot of cherry picking on both sides: http://phys.org/news/2012-04-climate-eerily-accurate.html
2013 had no hurricanes, and 2014 was a very mild season. 2012 was a 'very active' season, but most of the hurricanes stayed out in the atlantic ocean.
Yes, that's what I just said and what the bugtracker sais.
And other records do not show such a hiatus (http://www.skepticalscience.com/global-warming-not-slowing-i...).
Re-submissions of a link are counted as upvotes of the original post, unless theres a certain amount of time between the posts. I'm not sure if it's ever been publicly stated what that amount of time is.

One common hack is to add some meaningless URL parameters at the end of your link, so http://google.com/ becomes http://google.com/?hn

Please don't abuse this, though!
First I think your "problem" is more with the attitude that the actual point of these people. There is nothing wrong with being right, quite the opposite, however it is wrong to hurt somebody feeling or completely ignore them because you happen to be right. We are not robots, if you can't convince people that you are right when it is the case, either the dude/girl in front of you is dumb as fuck or you are the problem.

Personally if the guy in front of me is right I just agree with him and I learn something in the process so it's cool.

If I'm the one being right and the others don't want to listen, I just say my opinion and my arguments and the fuck with it, I won't argue forever we are adults not kids, I couldn't even play this game as a kid, boring as fuck.

Granted I NEVER encounter situations like this, usually people listen to the guy being right, if a compromise has to be made (quality vs. time to release for example) then we do it, I never worked with childish people and probably never will as I would most likely leave (if possible of course).
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I think it's entirely reasonable behavior. It doesn't favor you as much as you might like.

Why should you get to take advantage of their work for free? You don't get to ship other closed-ecosystem software for free, like console games.
Another typo - "Thus, if you're base offer is $100k" - should be "your" :)
... which would support my argument that the article misses the point. If the ratio of carbon isotopes is the damning evidence, then perhaps the article could have graphed it or at least mentioned it.
I've updated my comment to add another chart. The chart was intended to reflect the relative rate of deforestation, but the second one does a better job, and is even more alarming.
I would replace "are causing" for "are going to cause." One of may examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean_acidification
http://www.reddit.com/r/A858DE45F56D9BC9

http://arstechnica.com/security/2014/10/reddit-powered-botne...

I don't know if this one is specifically but there are other subs like this one, some of which might be used for purposes other than malware but as you can see with the ars article it certainly has been done.
vim + tmux
A lot of this is answered in the IPCC reports, which have readable, short summaries:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772353
I've noticed, at least here in Canada, there's been this real push with avacado over the last two years. Subway seems to be the biggest pusher, but I've seen all kinds of other advertising about avacado, which previously had been this sort of weird fruit they'd stock in small quantities at the grocery store, and which I'd never seen anyone eat.
Ok, well I guess I was underwhelmed by the activity I did see:

* If I want to increase performance, my option is basically a c module. Except, this doesn't have e.g. the Cython tooling the python community has.
* Tooling is miserable. There are few ways to restrict the way people abuse the language, and as a result, style is often highly inconsistent and subjectively-based. Say you want to find all the places people have parse CSVs in an ad-hoc manner: you're pretty much screwed because there are a dozen ways to do it, so a code search only likely to return a subset of your intended code. This may sound like a critique of dynamic languages, but I have not experienced this nearly as much with either scheme or python.
* unicode support was still sub-optimal; I personally don't like mixing string/locale operations with encoding operations. I haven't played with this in a while, however, so it may have changed.
* Integrating Rubygems was the dependency hell I was talking about. It's as bad as NPM—dependency bounds are often impossible to resolve because there have been breaking changes since the gem last updated. Warnings or conflicts are often ignored until someone offers a pull request, and sometimes (the nightmare scenario) they only appear during runtime. Vendor repositories (or a list of pinned versions) become critical, and security patches can sometimes can all-nighter patches to third-party modules you desperately depend on. This may speak more to the community, but I would have expected better ability to at least provide a (semantic) guarantee a minor point change would not break the api interface. This might not be possible with a dynamic language, but even trivial tooling would help here.
* co-routines and generators do exist now, my apologies. The syntax is, again, awkward, but this is a subjective note that I've learned is not universal.

I guess I'm just surprised ruby hasn't doubled down on making the platform attractive to agile enterprise teams, and right now it seems like a money sink compared to e.g. scala/go/python, all of which offer comparable productivity (IMHO) with greatly increased guarantees for maintainability, performance, profiling/tooling/backend options. It makes the prospect of having a technology pivot of some sort nauseous.
They use so-called "proxy data". You measure something else that has been accumulated and preserved over time and that somehow correlates. You have to create a model, fit it so it correlates with recent measures and you are done.

Level of oxygen for example can be estimated from layers of ice. Mann used tree slice(s) for temperature estimation.

There's a lot of problems with proxy data and their models and there is a lot of space for scientific misdemeanor. Some journals recently started to require a full disclosure of all data and models on which they base their claims, which - surprisingly - isn't always the case.

As more data is gathered over time some models need to be adjusted. How much they need to be adjusted reflects quality of the model.
Damned if you do (Tesla), damned if you don't (Solyndra).

The reaction is either because no one understands how gradually a business is built, or he isn't participating in cronyism as more established incumbents are (oil & gas, auto dealers).
As someone who's not familiar with this controversy—I can understand why "Polish death camp" is an undesireable term, but that doesn't seem to be the one that's used here. Are you saying that "Nazi death camp" is an evasive term to which "German death camp" would be preferable? It seems to me (based on knowing some Germans, not any personal experience) that an appreciation of their rôle in, and guilt regarding, the Holocaust is a prominent part of German children's historical education; would replacing 'Nazi' by 'German' really accomplish anything? In addition, I can't help thinking that it might go the other way, encouraging people of other countries (like the US) to think "that was a German action, it could never happen here."
A billion here, a billion there, it adds up and soon you're talking real money.

Really, talking about a billion dollar subsidy is probably not worth debating in Congress, since its a trivial part of the national budget. A billion is the kind of small change we SHOULD be tossing around to encourage innovation, support an embattled industry or sustain a hard-hit segment of our population.
Wi-Fi Sense Is a Wakeup Call for PSK Networks
Why the solar-plus-battery revolution may be closer than you think
My primary Ubuntu virtual machine with vmware fusion is quite frustrating when tabbing between it and other applications on the native OS. Hitting cmd+tab to go from Ubuntu to chrome opens up a search menu on Ubuntu that requires you to hit esc before getting back to work. Very annoying, anyone also run into this issue?
I'm pretty sure your concerns have been addressed. Is it reasonable to 'lose confidence' because you haven't read the research?
The Difference Between a Payment Processor and a Bank
I'm all for subsidizing new ventures. Maybe the government shouldnt give away the subsidy for free, but in exchange for some % of the company. At least that way, we could repay some of the debts when things like spacex/tesla/solarcity succeed.
No the bug tracker doesn't say that
pray tell, enumerate my concerns and show me how they've been addressed. Is it reasonable to assume they've been addressed just 'because scientists'?
Cool visualization.

I agree, but I have to say their imagination on what other things might be causing warming is not very robust.
For just one example, there are at least two major effects of burning:

1. Release of chemicals into the atmosphere (ex: carbon dioxide)

2. Directly heating the atmosphere

There are literally billions of air conditioners, heaters, cars, factories, etc that all generate heat. The effect of these billions of heaters throughout the world definitely increases global temperatures. After all, this effect is a reason why cities are warmer than their surrounding rural areas (1). This is relevant because direct heating should be temporary while greenhouse gas increases are cumulative.

Honest question - has anyone calculated the effect of the direct heating on the atmosphere from the billions of heaters we use vs greenhouse gas increase?

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(1) http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/city-hotter-cou...
> If you're advanced enough you feel the need for more, you can get the compiler then - they're still available, just not bundled.

I don't believe you can acquire a C compiler for the iPad without buying an actual computer. At which point, why get the iPad again?

With just JS, it's a toy. A powerful toy, yes, but it's a small subset of what's possible with a computer, and one that leaves a very bitter taste in my mouth.
Ask HN: What are the features you would like in a HN android app?
Hi everyone,

These are the top(highest total installs) HN apps on google play.

* Hacker News (YC) :https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

* HN - Hacker News Reader : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly.hn

* Hacker News : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.dwak.holohackernews.app

* Yarn for Hacker News : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.timmutton.yarn

* Hacker News 2 : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksoftware.hackernews

* Hacker News Android : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rickylaishram.hackernews

My question is what are the apps you use to read HN(if you ever use an app)? And what are the features you like(to be) in it? I'm asking because I'm building an app myself and would like to know what are features you would like in a HN android app. Thank you.

PS : Below is a link to my app (would love any feedback too)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kasungamlath.hackernews
Oracle Wants to Battle AWS on Price
Yes, its progress based on the state it was in a couple days ago.
Depends how much you value the other features - if my professional time is worth $100k/year and sublime makes me more than 0.07% more efficient compared to using another editor than spending $70 yearly or less might make sense.
Explaining Your Highly Technical Job to Recruiters
What exactly are they measuring for the sun's data? Observed temperature? Is the frequency/intensity of CME's included?
If you read some of the more nationalistic UK press, you would have expected the UK to be a much deeper red. Even the major connurbations don't seem to have seen as much change as I was expecting.
Not awkward, the sentence you call out. Beautiful, rather, and whether it is an artifact of translation or not, no matter. You didn't mean awkward in a pejorative sense; this is just an affirmation.
It sounds like you worry that this might be sort of crankish, but Marcus du Sautoy is a respected expositor, and a professor of mathematics at Oxford. In fact, according to Wikipedia, his title is "Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science", so it's hard to think of a person who, in title at least, is better qualified to offer this sort of exposition.
Yeah, when I realized that Ravel accepted other answers it was like discovering Santa Clause wasn't real. "Regret" was the answer that made by far the most sense given TNO's narrative. Anyone who played and didn't choose "regret" was wrong.
I encourage people here on HN to take a look at your footnote [2] and consider it. We talk a lot about how programming has "low barriers to entry", but this is very misleading. It really just means that there are no legal barriers to entry.

I recently interviewed at google, and while I can't talk specifically about questions, I would say that medium to difficult level questions from "Cracking the Coding Interview" are representative of what you must be able to do to a startling (in my opinion) level of efficiency and accuracy. A question like "find the sub matrix with the largest sum in an NxN matrix" is absolutely fair game, at a whiteboard, on the spot.

Think about what it takes to get to this level of competence, where you can pass an exam like this. Granted, google is notoriously tough, but it's pretty common in the industry. And as you point out in your comment, we have to do this over and over.

I read about a guy who passed the bar with 100 hours of study

http://blakemasters.com/post/37113468298/pass-the-ca-bar-exa...

The bar exam (in California) is considered one of those brutally difficult, high barriers to entry that at least you only have to do once (there are training requirements to remain active in the bar).

Now, think about how much time it takes to get up to speed with data structures and algorithms, operating systems, and combinatorics, to the level where you can solve tough problems in 45 minutes to a high level of accuracy with a dry market at a white board, under the additional pressure of an in-person interview. It's hard to even think under those conditions, in my opinion.

I really don't think it's too far off to say that if you do three interviews, at difficult tech companies, you've done something approaching passing the bar.

I've heard a few people here on HN say that while they aren't in favor of a formal barrier to entry like the bar exam, they would happily take an exam like this if it meant that they didn't have to keep doing it over and over. Where they could properly prepare for it, and take it, and pass it for once and for all[1], with a proper study path, under conditions that would be consistent and fair, and get the results back (rather than a mysterious "we don't see a match at this time").

[1] As with many formal credentials, I have no problem with further education requirements to stay up to speed. The problem here is the capriciousness of it all.
The problem is that he's stealing hard-earned taxpayer money to create a new economy of reusable rockets, solar energy and clean cars when he should be stealing hard-earned taxpayer money to mod his diesel engine for rolling coal sessions on the highway.

Musk must really be pissing off the old guard to get such bad press, jeez.
Yes, but Slack is slick, plaid, and even gorgeous.

Seriously, these days it seems most software like this is judged purely on its external styling and aesthetic beauty. You're right, Slack has no new features over IRC or any other decent chat clients in the past. But read any article that praises slack and if the slick UI (or whatever adjective is in style these days) isn't mentioned up front and center, I'd be surprised.

Of course the UI's 'slickness' and 'modernity' would be top discussion points for people writing such articles as they're usually not technical enough to argue the merits of tabs vs. spaces or braces vs. non-braces which the creators of such software usually argue about to the detriment of real issues.
Good services are verbs, bad services are nouns
Part of the point, I think, is that there isn't a single correct answer. The answer the Nameless One chooses is the answer which is capable of changing him.
> But as Portland would learn, a city of 600,000 can play tough with a $40 billion company, particularly one that is used to getting its way, for only so long.

Terrifying ...
Indeed - and as we speak antirez is busily refactoring, merging, testing and extending it in Redis... happy-meter is off the scales here.
Thanks. Can it play a 720p H.265 video?
the grandfather from 1981 seems to hold up pretty well. simple linear models, very readable paper.

http://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2012/04/evalua...
Yeair – Quadcopter with Combustion and Electric Engine
I think that's fine - argue hard, but politely. However, once the agreement is made you have suck it up and do your hardest to make it work. Not bitch and moan after the fact.
Specs : http://yeair.de/specs

Kickstarter : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1600545869/yeair-the-qu...
Caesar Undressing: Ancient Romans Wore Leather Panties and Loincloths
They've not performed well based on criteria chosen by global warming denialists.

For example, you'd be hard pressed to find a climate scientist making any solid predictions about annual global temperature averages. You will, however, see predictions about decadal averages, and those have borne out.
This visualization is a multivariate linear regression with time trending variables...lol the entire thing is garbage, I could get a better R^2 than the 7 or so variables they used if instead I used variables to explain climate change like: number of gay marriages in the world, murders, abortions, etc...I don't recommend this, I'm just saying trended data can "say" anything
I'm not a lobbyist, though my wife used to be. She lobbied on behalf of a construction trade organization. 98% of her work involved telling legislators about the benefits of integrating design and build phases of construction (instead of hiring a separate architect and contractor and doing design and build in separate phases).

Lobbying is a way of structuring administration of regulation that shifts responsibility from unelected bureaucrats to people. Do you think politicians should be sitting around reading papers about the reputation economy and thinking about where those ideas can be applied? It would be intractable and a huge waste of time considering the vast universe of concerns involved. And it's not like ordinary citizens are clamoring writing letters about how the reputation economy enabled by smart phones makes certain taxi regulations obsolete. It's far better for lobbyists to do the relevant work and tell politicians what they should fix and why.
The title should be changed. Elon Musk was not interviewed. A sci-fi author was interviewed about his opinions of Elon Musk re: Mars. Title is very misleading.
What's always been puzzling me is why the relationship between man-produced emissions and climate is considered important in the fossil fuel debate.

As if it's not enough that the air in major cities and vast parts of entire countries is literally toxic.
Many hacker news readers would prefer sources such as peer reviewed science journal articles where the authors claim proof one way or the other.

The best way to evaluate science is to look at the raw data and the scientist's original paper.
Show HN: Stephen Hawking's Text to Speech Voice Clone
As a guy who wore out the Back to the Future II vhs growing up, the negativity is a little frustrating.

Technical limitations? Gasp! Not practical? Such hacks! Even the movie board didn't work on water.

It's a marketing stunt. But it's also an homage to something inspirational.
Great points. To add a little more detail, predicting the results of greenhouse gasses in the atmosephere is science. Predicting the amount of gasses in the atmosephere requires predicting human economic activity in detail (how much, in what form, etc.), which is impossible, especially on longer timescales (imagine how many investors would love to know how to do that!)

The predictions I've seen, at least in the IPCC reports,[1] show not lines but confidence intervals that widen over time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9772353
Like getting a job?