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Uber built this large lobbying effort because they were getting killed by the taxi lobbies: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2014/07/31/t...
Would a DA take you to trial based on a single fingerprint on a phonebook? Even in the article at issue, an example of justice system at its worst, the prosecution was based on an eye-witness identification in addition to the tenuous forensic evidence.
Thanks! And alarming indeed.
I searched on the words "vapor" and "vapour" and found nothing. I also search on the word "water" and found nothing relevant to my question.
Are you hiring? While I'm hunting for tech work in NY even now, but have had a frustrating enough experience that I'm open to just tackling the problem directly.
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I'm really not familiar with any specific scripture that indicates humans cannot affect climate change, in any faith I've heard of.

Indeed, the scripture I'm familiar with from a Christian heritage seems to imply the opposite.

Genesis 1:26 (ESV):
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

Isaiah 24:5 (ESV):
The earth lies defiled under its inhabitants; for they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Jeremiah 2:7 (ESV):
And I brought you into a plentiful land to enjoy its fruits and its good things. But when you came in, you defiled my land and made my heritage an abomination.

It would seem that even if one reasons from religious scriptures, "Man can defile that which God creates" is a pretty clear theme.
The title was previously the title of the article, not sure why someone changed it.
Still smaller than the US's largest battery.

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

3-Gigawatt turbines for 10-hours == roughly 30 Gigawatt-hours of storage potential. IIRC, the project only cost $1.6 Billion in 70s money, so after some inflation... it's still a pretty cheap storage mechanism.
>dismantling the medallion mafia

Is that really a thing outside of NYC? Pretty sure it isn't.
Taxi drivers were already exempt from most of those labour laws - they were already considered contractors and didn't have overtime nor benefits.
You're correct that the article failed to point out that the increase in CO2 was unambiguously man made.

Now, is the temperature increase caused by the increase in CO2 - likely so since the correlation is so close. Have they exhaustively excluded other possible causes -- maybe, maybe not...?
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Email me -> zach@jobstart.co and we'll talk.
Currently the upload size max is 50MB.

There were no plans to password protect images, but that's a good idea! For now, the post key itself (after the # in the URL) somewhat acts as a password.
> Though IMO the author should just be explicit about what he wants; playing mind games with people is never a good idea, and it just self-selects for people who have used GitHub professionally.

I was thinking this exactly. Perhaps the interviewee should have asked what format - but I would argue just be professional and don't try to trip them or play mind games. Put your expectations up front in simple writing (just say "submit in github gist").

There are so many formats and mediums - if you allow the interviewee to guess what you are expecting they will most likely guess wrong.
There's always a conflict of interest in everything; this one is dubious.
Before you disparagingly call it a "clone" and "not their main project", consider that free products often go on to crush their expensive first-to-market predecessors.

The strategy of first seeking to monopolize the user-base, and then afterward heavily monetizing it is a very well proven long term strategy by now. The overnight success of Slack and some other SAAS companies may give some people the impression that this strategy is suddenly irrelevant. It may not be.
This is spot on. Companies want to have you rent everything from them. Sharing is owned by the community without middle-men deriving rent. Uber and AirBnB just want to avoid regulation and taxes to undercut incumbents and take a bigger cut for themselves.

They have nothing to do with the local community, in fact a global taxi firm degrading workers rights couldn't be further from this.
Let's compare this with oil subsidies, and ask american if they want to see some kind of alternative.

Oh and let's not even ask americans, democracy and science don't really go together...
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Which one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenhouse_gas#Greenhouse_gase...
Basic Income won't come naturally, look at how difficult a 40 hour week / 8hr day was to bring into existence. Basically, widespread strikes were required. The baseline productivity of the world is already sufficient for basic income, and/or increased leisure vs work weeks - the only thing that advanced automation might to in the future is make the disconnect between historical economic assumptions and modern productivity unavoidable from a political standpoint.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-hour_day
> "I can only name a handful of important women in science, and they are all dinosaurs in Jurassic Park"

Ok, I burst out laughing, this phrase is priceless... clever girl.

But... women, seriously, you are doing wrong. Just ask yourselves... and what if?

Let suposse that there is an imaginary country with different types of labs, some labs open to anybody anytime, other that is just for women mondays and tuesdays, only for men the thursdays and fridays, and available for anyone the wednesdays, saturdays and sundays.

Many women, and men also, seem to be laughing loud about this idea. I don't know why.

Maybe they should be talking about it (instead to spending the narrow window of time opened, making selfies and funny jokes about men and sexism).

Advantages of unisex labs: You can do your work.

Advantages of separated labs: You can do your work. Is just that you do not have the boys around trying to teach you the right way to do it. With no testosterone at sight, could be easier for women to be more creative and take some risks probably. Some problems can be solved in different ways. Some people only really flourish when lef alone in a quiet environment that they can control.

Of course I'm not saying that this should be implemented or even necessary in most of the labs, but in some cases maybe could help to do better science and will be more dificult for dominant people to just monopolize the resource all week, so... why all the fuss?. You can choose between different available environments to do your work, and everybody goes crazy about this possibility? Extroverted people like noisy labs, introverted sometimes prefer a quiet environment to think.

Young scientists also need to develop a tougher skin. This is an excelent advice. They will be criticized and questioned throughout his life, it goes with the job. Not, is not always because you are a girl and boys are really nasty. Maybe your idea was stupid, so learn how to deal with this. Everybody have stupid ideas sometimes. Sarcasm will make you feel much better but often is a lost opportunity. People will not risk to put again this question over the table in a lot of years.
Do you happen to have this one to five pages of QM equations somewhere as reference? I would be very interested in reading that.
> Lets reverse your example

I was specifically replying to this, quite frankly terrifying part of the OP:

> They value "the right technical decision" over human relationships and it doesn't seem to occur to them that the right outcome might be the one that makes someone else happy, or is the most diplomatic, even if it isn't "technically right".
Interesting idea!

Some UI feedback - the 'I agree/disagree' buttons on your mission component are kind of weird. I clicked on both just to see what would happen.

I think the CTA to sign up as an expert was a bit hard to find - perhaps due to the colors?

I'm also not sure why I would want to become an 'expert'. What's in it for me?
You're basically saying anything funded by government that might impact economics, and thus revenues, is biased. Right..

You do realize that you can be against taxing say, income and profits, but be for taxing carbon? I think quite a few economists would agree that you tax things that you want less of. A simplified carbon tax could be a boon to business.
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We're not against it, but by the looks of it we're going to prioritize people who are either 1) citizens or 2) can get work visas already.
This is far too pragmatic.

We all need babysitter "scrum masters" updating poorly written "user stories" and doing "bug grooming."

Can we have a retro, please? Now it's time for planning poker!

Are we still in junior high? I gotta laugh. Why do people put up with this bull?
> hypocritical leftist double-speak

It has nothing to do with the left. The left, such as it is, views the "sharing economy" as the newest innovation in neoliberal capitalist divide-and-rule subjugation.
Correct. This also goes for everyone asking "Why does AirBNB require such a large investment at this point?!" on a recent post...
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It looks very interesting although there are different vendor options. Does it work with any API? I'm going to test it on our own API this week and will give you some feedback.
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Really great to see people actually thinking about big business not being your friend on a US web-site.

Now the US has become a finance/rentier economy it's great to see young people questioning business propaganda.

I'm not sure however why you say "leftist double-speak" though. Bloomberg, last time I checked, wasn't left-wing. This is all neo-liberal "free market" / "let's financialise everything" crowd.
Don't know what you're referring to about crazy predictions, the 1990 models actually did pretty well, http://www.skepticalscience.com/lessons-from-past-climate-pr...
> Commendable passion to a bigger cause, but sometimes that isn't enough.

How is it "not enough"? He ran a successful business that brought joy and utility to millions for 50 years. Sure, it ends on a sad note - but such is life. That is success if I ever saw it.
I'm in Europe - are you US-only?
We don't know what other explanations there might be. Trotting out a limited number of counter-explanations like solar activity or volcanoes, and showing they don't explain the phenomenon, and therefore your pet explanation is true because it matches the data more closely, is logically specious.

We don't know the dynamics of the system. All we know is that for the data we have so far, the models work pretty well. We have no idea whether, in 200 years, these trends would lead to a 20 degree average temperature increase, a 0 degree increase or a 20 degree decrease by activating some unanticipated alternate environmental dynamic that plunges us into an ice age.

CO2 emissions as the cause of the recent temperature trend is plausible, and the results could be catastrophic, so I'm all for reducing emissions and taking every other practical measure we can to avoid the risk[1]. That's not the same as, "Anthropogenic global warming is settled science, deniers are morons, and if we don't do something now Earth in 100 years will be hell."

[1] I think the problem is, we can't agree as a society, or globally, how much we should do to mitigate it. We could spend lots of money directly, on solar power, nuclear power, electric car subsidies, etc. We could impose tremendous costs on CO2 emitting industries through regulation. But we can only speculate, based on a simplified economic model and assuming long-term accuracy of some environmental model, what the ultimate cost/benefit would be.
Wow, you did spend a lot of time on these exams. 160 hrs a month, 3 months, 2 developers, that's 960 hours, easily. For 100 candidates, that would mean you spent almost 10 hours on average per candidate. In this case, I think you may have been spending more time on many of them than they are spending on you. However I may feel about take home exams in general, I will certainly say that clearly you are not using take-home exams externalize the inefficiencies of the interview process.

Unfortunately, I don't have any much evidence for my next statement, other than bits and pieces, but I think you are not a common case here. I don't think that most companies do anything close to what you're doing with these take home exams. My defense for this statement without much data is that companies are deliberately secretive about this - I understand it is for legal reasons, but I have no idea, none, if anyone even looked at my project.

Remember, McDowell said that this approach allows the company to burn a lot of a candidate's time, but not the other way around", but it doesn't say that they necessarily do. It's just that the equivalence (a 1 hour interview necessarily involves one hour of the company's time) isn't built into the process, it leaves the door for this kind of time wasting and abuse open, and I'm pretty sure lots of companies do abuse it this way.

BTW, if an employer promised to spend 10 hours reviewing my 6-7 hour homework project, with feedback, I'd try to find a way to make the time available, because it would be beneficial to me regardless of whether I got the job. But if they brush me off with a one liner from a recruiter a full month later, and ask people not to post the project to github (even if it might lead to interesting and novel solutions), I'm going to guess that they aren't doing what you're doing with these projects.
I would characterize it as "skepticism".
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Could you be more specific? How is it really annoying to define new types in Java?
Alternate useful title: Chromium is open source again.

The source code was not previously available. The portion that listened to the microphone for a phrase was closed source while the rest was open source.
There are a couple of shortcomings in the current approach. I'd welcome suggestions for how to improve this. The problems I see are:

1. The alert tells me the IP address of the offending computer or device, but not the domain name that was requested. I have Snort configured to store each packet that triggered an alert, and can use tcpdump to analyse the packets - but that's a bit of a pain. Do any readers know of a way to include payload fields from a DNS packet in the alert message?

2. I've identified 4 specific "warning page" DNS responses, but OpenDNS owns far more addresses that they may use for other conditions now or in the future. At a minimum, OpenDNS owns the ranges 67.215.64.0/19 and 204.194.232.0/21 -- all told, about 10,000 addresses. Snort supports matching IP ranges in CIDR notation for the source and destination, but my approach currently does a binary match in the payload. Do any readers have an example of a Snort rule that parses DNS packets into their component fields?
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This is the official announcement of the Analytics [1] offering by Mashape, decoupled from the marketplace with a SaaS pricing scheme. It's been work in progress for a while and I know everyone in the team is super pumped to finally opening it up to the whole world

[1] https://www.apianalytics.com/
Thanks for the feedback, Rick!

The "what's in it for me" question is a good one. While very unintuitive, we've had no problem signing people up who are simply helpful types. There's a large population out there of talented people who enjoy helping others and this is the most impactful, time efficient way to do it.

At first we were thinking about offering money, but the economics of the model don't really work out. No matter what we do, since we're not guaranteed money, we can't guarantee experts money. Under that situation, we could offer them on average less than $60 an hour... at which point 1) it feels like work and 2) the people who become experts usually make 3x that.

After we worked on this for months, it turned out the best system was simply a volunteer system. Strange, eh?
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> the United Nations would be funded by such taxes

The UN does not tax anyone. They are funded by governments, which are funded by taxes.

1) By your theory, there is a confict of interest for the UN as long as anyone involved pays taxes, which covers every issue on the planet (and some in orbit, on Mars, etc.).

2) One major tax-paying industry, which has exceptional influence in government, is oil and gas. If the UN has a conflict of interest in favor of an industry, one with a long track record, I don't think I can find a better example.
It's also amazing how many (presumably unpaid) cheerleaders the entrenched, corrupt, consumer-harming incumbents have to flood the comments of every discussion about Uber.

Maybe some Uber supporters take "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" to heart. Uber does a lot wrong, and there are a lot of reasons to dislike them, but there are also reasons to cheer their success -- if not some of their methods.
It should never have been flipped to opt-out in the first place. Google cares about open source only as long as it benefits them, and I wasn't surprised to see one of their flagship projects take a trip to the dark side for a few days.

To paraphrase a Jurassic Park character, they are testing the waters, checking for weaknesses. They remember...
You sound pretty knowledgable about intersectionality. Do you have any material on it? I'm only familiar with it from one blog post, so I wouldn't mind learning some more. It sounds like there are more nuances to it than I first understood.
At this point, any rational person understands the problem. Ok. We get it.

So how do we fix it? It seems like everyone is focusing on proving that it is caused by humans, but where is the solution?
While cool looking, the production site uses a bunch of .js file that are neither combined nor minified. Some, like shims.js, are only 24 lines long.
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What about remote jobs? Do any companies in your pool do that?
I don't think it would be better off without the gigafactory, I think it would be better off without such a steep investment in one company.

Sure, there will be tax and other money spent where the people live and work, but I'm not seeing how that will be enough of a boost to the economy to justify $1.3B in incentives given to Tesla, especially when their ask was for less than half of that amount.
X is a windowing server and that shuts down all the time.
It's easier to trust that the maintainer compiled upstream properly instead of backported/mismerged because of a stupid OS policy preventing you from incrementing version numbers
I have absolutely no knowledge about this field, but from what I understand people who study the Sun wouldn't agree as much with the numbers about the suns temperature.

I will see if I can find the numbers.
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Well, the ``license.txt``available at the GitHub repository states that any enhancement made to the server must shared back with the community. So, even if you are using an enhanced version internally, you must redistribute it publicly.
The primary yearly energy consumption is about 155,000 TWh and the volume of the ocean is around 1.33e9 km^3, so back of the envelop, the heat dissipated by energy consumption yearly is enough to raise the temperature of the ocean by 0.0001 C. Doesn't seem very substantial.
And got replaced by kids without disposable income ;-)
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It was a thing in almost every developed city around the world.
We will not have to wait long until Uber lobbies for "Uber medaillons", the equivalent of the (once) powerful taxi lobby shutting down other competitors.
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Yeah, the title is way overblown ("war"... come on).

Big Corps are already shifting... my favorite personal example is Heinz ketchup... they make a simple ketchup called Simply Heinz. Awesome.
I agree!

An app developer needs to be mindful of if their app is a daily/weekly/monthly/annual use case.

I have plenty of apps on my phone that I purposefully keep around but will probably only use when I do that big trip once year:
TripAdvisor, AirBnb, WhatsApp, GoPro, EpicMix etc.

Other apps: Amazon, Shazam, Bank(to cash checks) I also keep around but use rarely.

Under a conventional definition I've probably been marked as a "churned" user many times over for Shazam. It keeps sending me notifications for random things (Click here to find out the trending new hot single from Shakira!) so I've turned them off.

I also hate when companies force you to download their app to do something. United wouldn't let me check-in and print my boarding pass from my computer. I had to download an app and scan my passport with my camera.
> 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.

That's pretty much the epitome of "Kumbaya PM". Just because a manager decided (or listened to an engineer who said) an SSL certificate isn't necessary doesn't make him right, and doesn't mean you should stop trying to explain why they're wrong.
While forests represent a sizable reservoir of fixed carbon, the amount of carbon they fix in any given year is actually not huge (trees grow slowly). It would not nearly be enough to offset our current rate of burning of fossil fuels, for instance.
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This is a summary of research in those peer-reviewed journals, the summary being far better reviewed (by hundreds and thousands, as described) than the individual articles.

I don't know about other HN readers, but I don't have time or expertise to keep up on individual articles. I doubt many climate scientists have the expertise in all those different fields.
Yes, exactly, clicking a link. An action taken by the user. Before the bit of code in question was reverted back to its normal behavior, just the act of launching the Chromium browser for the first time would silently download and activate the binary blob, the user was completely out of the picture and had no control over it. There's a huge difference.
> It doesn't even bring up the possibility of albedo playing a role in climate change?

Isn't that exactly what the "So If It's Not Nature, Is It Deforestation?" slide is about?
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This isn't too surprising. Our nuclear ICBMs are managed by systems old enough to use 8" floppies.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2014/04/60-min....
In the absence of any other context, saying "X has a conflict of interest because Y" implies "and therefore X is unlikely to be believed." Yes, presumably the UN does have a conflict of interest here. However, as Cholantesh points out, the size of the IPCC makes it unlikely that conflict is a major factor in affecting the interpretation of data (I am agnostic as to how likely the CoI is to affect the actual policy recommendations). Just pointing out the conflict, without any additional interpretation, is dodgy enough that it's reasonable to assume it's motivated by a conspiracy theory.
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I am not negating the global warming issue here, but what I see is just a correlation of two time series, much like the correlation between "US Spending on science, space and technology" and "Suicides by hanging, strangulation or suffocation" [1]

[1] http://www.tylervigen.com/spurious-correlations
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