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Because Hacker News is about computer science and entrepreneurship. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

Race relations as a subject then, is only relevant as it applies to entrepreneurship. Because computer science has absolutely nothing to so with skin color at all.

Except perhaps in computer vision, image segmentation, that sort of thing.

For social justice content, Tumblr is probably chock full of content that would appeal to you. Or maybe reddit.

Nobody talks about religious topics here either.

Why?

Because Hacker News is about computer science and entrepreneurship. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity".

And religion too, has absolutely nothing to do with computer science.

Unless God will let file a bug report on the impossibility of dividing by zero.
Working with Swift on this project was a really great experience. If anyone is on the fence about making the jump or has questions about Swift in production, get in touch.
India seems like a very poor example.

Instead look at Chad. It's had exponential population growth for decades without slowing. It's mostly young people. It's already flooding Italy with refugees.

I'm not convinced that "The Population Bomb" was wrong.
Wasn't the start of this timeline the end of the little ice age?
I was looking into this. Sadly it requires that I provide a LinkedIn profile which I don't have.
I think http://judithcurry.com/2013/10/30/implications-for-climate-m... is a reasonably representative informed article on this.
"What composition algorithms lack is not the ability to compose like humans but a life that will give them angels and a story."

Quote of the month for me. Bravo =]
Yeah, soon we should expect articles decrying professionals who took out student loans to get thru college!!

The nerve of people to use the resources they are given access to --and succeed!

Now, if we took that money and instead spent it on an ill managed social program which had little in the way of measured outcome, well, the intentions were right, so let's try spending some more, maybe we'll be successful next time.

I think people are just jealous of his success and can't see the benefit this brings all people, even indirectly. These are the things which further progress.
Relevant commentary[1] on his Solar City venture in Buffalo NY

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The problem I have with Musk's use of government money is that his companies most reliant on the money are still reporting net losses after being in business for a decade. Maybe in the "start-up" world of hoping to make a big exit he is successful, still, I don't know how anyone can call this Musk being successful. Maybe he will be down the road, but I don't see it that way.

I'm originally from Reno NV, which will be directly impacted by the gigafactory. I think NV took a huge gamble on the tax incentives there, including cutting huge amounts of funding for other, much more diverse industries. As NV has seen, focusing on one or two extremely unstable industries (gambling and mining) can quickly put you in a bind when things go south, the economy, price of rare metals, etc. They are simply banking on Tesla as a third pillar of industry, one without a track record of returning on its investment in the form of profits. If things continue on the same track they have been with Tesla, I don't see NV getting a very good return on investment in the long run.

Also, no one is taking into account the skilled manufacturing workforce (or lack thereof) in Reno, the existing manufacturing going on there, and the fact that either people will need to either come from out of state, or be poached from just about every manufacturing company in the area to supply Tesla's workforce requirements. If manufacturing in Reno is brought to its knees to support Tesla how is that any better than not having Tesla there in the first place?

Finally, the location of the gigafactory is going to lead people to live in Reno, but the factory is in a different county. Therefore the burden of all of the extra children, traffic, government services, etc., will be focused in an area not receiving any money from the overall package for those services.

While I hope someone besides Musk and his shareholders can take part in the upside of all of this investment, I personally don't see it coming to fruition anytime soon.
Well, Google here obviously put the same design onto all platforms when it comes to Google Play Music (Web,iPhone , Android). So the app on the iPhone reminds me very much of Lollipop (which I had right before I got my iPhone 6).
If it's Libre (which i suspect RH isn't — but i am no expert) then all the source code should be available, and presumably you could hack the drivers (or whatever) to work with whatever new-and-improved hardware/software you want to run. That's kind of the point of Libre.

But perhaps i'm missing your point about RH?
What information does Google sell?
They don't for aerosols/ozone past the 50s I dont think.

But carbon/methane/NO/etc... they get from ice samples that have trapped air bubbles from quite a long time ago. They also take a ton of samples from ice cores and the data is reproducible both in the north and south poles. I believe temperature is also learned from the ice samples.
Not trying to argue against manmade climate change here, but the conclusion is inconsistent with the stated point/headline.

The main question is whether or not humans are the primary driving factor in the changes observed. Graphs show lack of correlation with various manmade causes and some natural causes, but then the conclusion is reached with the graph of "the influence of greenhouse gas emissions." In other words, the "nail in the coffin" evidence is simply showing the effects of the problem graphed against the problem itself; it doesn't prove one way or another whether the cause of the rise in greenhouse gasses is manmade.

Downvote as you will, but that doesn't seem like science to me; it feels like proving a point by simply restating the point.
That's just plain old FFI, at least as a start. A library that did some of the type conversions for you might be good though.
there are more classes of exploits than simply memory management errors. For instance look at the laundry list of issues surrounding verification of x.509 certificates. Deciding a forged certificate is valid is catastrophic, and invokes no sort of memory related exploit at all.
Except you still see it if you block the analytics ... :(
It was internet, TV and phone. The unused phone service made it a package, netting out -$10 from the bill if it had been just TV and internet. Since moving I've replaced it with 50mbit internet for $35/month.
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There's still a very active community of Supcom Forged Alliance Forever players. If you want to watch some great gameplay check out Gyle's channel on Youtube.
The term 'sharing' is being abused for most 'sharing economy' companies. If you stretch the meaning of sharing to include cash-based transactions, I'm 'sharing' whenever I buy something from a store.

It's an abuse of language just to make these companies sound kinder.
Actually not a requirement -- that's why we asked for email first. :)

We don't message it, but the last two fields are optional. Truth is we won't be able to handle every candidate that comes through yet so we're working in batches. The more information we have on people, the more we can prioritize them.

That being said, I'd love to chat -> zach@jobstart.co. I'll make sure you don't fall through the cracks.
Ice cores. Google it.
It's not a logical extension because most of these "sharing economy" companies are a) subverting the rules and sovereignty of the communities in which they operate, b) introducing parasitic drag in the deployment of capital in those places, and c) creating a disconnect between local owners and local consumers--in effect, you do business with Uber, not Francine the cabby.

Orthogonal to all that, of course, is the generally scummy practice of reducing these folks to serfdom.
Very cool - small thing, there's a spello in the footer "We have helped place candidates at top technoogy companies and startups." Bigger thing, software jobs are pretty much all jobs, or do you mean tech jobs? Either way I like it, nice one!
Cool thing about the article is that it already contains a link to Musk's response: 'If I cared about subsidies, I would have entered the oil and gas industry' http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidie...

Encouraging the kind of things he does, is a much better use of government subsidies than all the subsidies for oil and gas, or for big corporations in general.
I seriously don't know: Is that somewhat out of proportion? I could imagine the aggregated Taxi lobby being represented somewhere close to that. It's after all a highly regulated market.
Where do you think Google gets $60 billion in revenue, if not from selling information? What do you think is the content of that information?
Could the module use your microphone without asking?
We have experts in other cities, but are admittedly going to take an SF-first approach for the next couple months.

Solid question.
If everyone on the planet having a computer isn't "a revolution in marketing" I don't know what is.

Maybe we should stop and consider whether we are actually improving peoples' lives with these objects....
So, where would you think the greenhouse gases came from?
I'm sure many police are not like this, but they also want the power trip. I was once pulled over by a cop who was driving incredibly recklessly on icy roads to get behind me fast (when I saw him swerving in my mirror I actually thought he must be on his way to an active shooter situation or something). He yelled at me to give him my license, and then ordered me to get out of the car and sit on the curb because he thought it was a fake. When it turned out to be authentic, he politely informed me that one of the lights illuminating my license plate were out and that my registration was expired. He wrote me a ticket. My registration was not expired, and I fixed the light the next day. The judge was laughing his head off at the ticket and called people in from the hallway to see how silly it was. But my complaint about the officer was just "noted".
It is easy to cheer for Uber because they are not running over puppies or snow bunnies, they are dismantling the medallion mafia, unworthy of legal protections. So Yes, I cheer for Uber and its Ayn Randian CEO.
And now they're some of the FDA's biggest employers!
Exactly, it's all just political games to scheme money. They shill the side that brings in the most lobbyist advert cash, fame and book deals. Most of the "journalists" on cable TV newstainment are ivy school educated and know they are peddling nonsense, unlikely any of them outside the studio believe their own climate science denial.
Here's the full citation. Turns out I misremembered the year (2005).

Franssen M (2005) Arrow’s theorem, multi-criteria decision problems and multi-attribute preferences in engineering design. Research in Engineering Design 16(1):42–56
I know he wasn't referring specifically to CVs and resumes, but one problem with using .docx for those is that it won't look the same on all computers. For example, if you format something in Word on Windows, it may look slightly different when pulled up on a mac or vice versa. So you spend 30 minutes getting your resume to fit on one page, only for someone to open up your Word file on the other OS and the resume spills over by one line onto the next page. PDF is much safer to use if you need to make sure that it looks the same no matter who is opening the file.
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Its either directly measured or inferred. Ice cores, lake bottom cores, old wood cores. The error bars are wider for some, I'm sure, but that's accounted for in the models, to degrees of course.
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Excellent comment, thanks!

I feel that even something much smaller (esp. in the US), like allowing labor shortages to be filled would make a huge difference. Simplifying the process so that a farmer in need of workers doesn't have to hire a lawyer to do complicated paperwork that takes 6 months would be a first step. Granting these workers green cards on entry (instead of the restrictive H-2 visa) would ensure their freedom. The same goes for skilled workers. Even just allowing all workers in fields where there is a huge variation in skill (e.g. STEM, journalism, culinary arts, etc) to immigrate on the basis of well-paying job offer would make a huge difference.
Not only themselves but drivers and customers too. Uber, their drivers and their customers benefit from not being covered by those labor laws you're talking about.

It's bad for politics and the traditional taxi industry because they get less from the cake.
I believe it's called confirmation bias, and no one is immune to it.

As long as I'm commenting, I'll note that I'm a climate change skeptic, but only because the reasonable scientist among us is ALWAYS an informed skeptic. The human condition revolves around balancing our beliefs with our observations of reality.

I am not skeptical of the impact of CO2 on the environment. I know there are better understood and more imminent ecological disasters that accompany burning coal and oil (tailing ponds, mountaintop removal, air pollution and associated chronic illness). I refuse to be badgered and guilted into choosing a side on guessing what impact CO2 and warming will have on our Spaceship Earth over the next few decades or centuries.

Reduce waste for concrete, observable reasons. Individually wrapped dounts in plastic are shitty because it's a waste of energy and resources, not because abstractly plastic is made from oil and oil production is warming our earth.

Reduce your usage of electricity so you can invest in novel, more efficient industrial practices, not because Sandy flooded lower Manhattan and you feel guilty about it.

If you understand anything about human nature, you must appreciate that it's a fool's errand to try to get everyone to agree, acknowledge, or even understand a single truth, regardless of how "right" that truth is. And it's even worse when your inconvenient truth impacts billions of people who didn't have the luxury of destroying their ecology in ignorance for a few centuries with no one to call them out in the process (Europe/US vs. China/South America).

In the meantime, we can make meaningful change NOW by working to clean up the ecological messes that today, this week, or this month will cause someone to develop a chronic illness or destroy their ability to earn a living wage.
> it doesn't prove one way or another whether the cause of the rise in greenhouse gasses is manmade.

Does anyone seriously doubt that rises in CO2 are not principally driven by human activity? I have never even seen that as a talking point.
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The chart at http://d1vn86fw4xmcz1.cloudfront.net/content/royptb/363/1501... (put together by The Royal Society) shows that most deforestation in Eastern Canada occurred over 400 years ago. This one http://mongabay-images.s3.amazonaws.com/12/1203all-time-defo... shows a shift starting about 300 years ago from temperate forest removal to tropical forest removal. Together, they start to paint a picture of massive deforestation, hundreds of years ago.

It's important to note that history didn't begin in 1880, and that some effects lag their cause. Forests, along with oceanic flora, normally sequester Carbon from CO2 and return O2 to the atmosphere. However, this effect only takes place when the forests are actually there.

I don't have any religion, one way or another, about climate change and its causes, but I think we won't learn anything from media propaganda like this. It doesn't even bring up the possibility of albedo playing a role in climate change?
The Alexa listens for a keyword (Alexa, or it can be changed to Amazon) locally, and then once triggered sends your query to Amazon for processing. That's the same way that "Hey Siri" and "OK Google" work.

Samsung seems to have skipped the 'trigger phrase' part and just sent EVERYTHING and tried to see if it needed to be listened to.

Big difference.
I also question how we know the difference between nature/cycles and man-made pollution.

Here is a good example:

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

"Several causes have been proposed: cyclical lows in solar radiation, heightened volcanic activity, changes in the ocean circulation, an inherent variability in global climate, or decreases in the human population."

It seems we don't even know how the little ice age happened. How do we know these same forces aren't changing our environment now?

We've been having all these strange temperatures lately and also this:

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new...

The problem is that it's too political now. When claimed scientists are coming out and saying the science is "settled", I know we have a problem. Science is never really settled.
The first graph on that second link is a bit confusing and seems pretty disingenuous. It has the "observations" region stretching to 2050. The rest of the article seems much more factual and interesting, but why start with something so misleading if your supposed goal is to debunk misleading projections?
They're probably one of the best corporate citizens of the open source community.

Alternately, they're giving things away for free to discourage non-Google innovation and generally devalue the labor of other companies and developers.

Tomato, tomato.
Can you name that billionaire made the internet with taxpayer money?
Snap -- will be in the next push.

We can help people understand the skills for all ranges of software jobs, but prioritize people looking in tech.
> If we become a Spring/Hibernate/POJO/VibratorVisitorFactory hellhole, there is no place for me. Over time, that means that I don't have a job. So, damn right, I am personally invested in fighting that garbage before it gets in.

Not saying that Spring/Hibernate/etc. are good, but since you haven't proven that they are bad, you sound like someone who is fighting over his interests first before the companies. An enterprise java programmer could give you the same argument, replacing "Spring/Hibernate/POJO/VibratorVisitorFactory" by "Haskell/Clojure/Functional Programming/Hipster stuff". Disclaimer: I myself prefer programming in a functional style and tend to despise (maybe due to ignorance) design patterns.
You mean that slick, plaid UI with neutral, low key colors doesn't enhance your productivity? That's the whole reason I moved from HipChat to Slack.
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Does the popularity of a doubt or idea even matter here when we're supposed to be discussing science?
Are you willing to coach remotely, or only people you can meet face-to-face in SF?
> my whitelist of sites I allow cookies from is wiped each time Firefox upgrades

weird, I don't have that problem? (Firefox 38 Linux)
It's cheaper/easier than doing it 'correctly', and no one is applying enough pressure (such as declining sales) to make them change.

This isn't "Hey lets see if we can screw over our users", it's "This shortcut is easy (and I never even considered how it would effect our users)".
I imagine NV sees this as a kind of loss leader. If they bring in Musk this, it is expected, could kick off more innovative industries which would diversify the NV economy.

The hope is, that like zappos, this could kick off more technology oriented industries to consider NV as a possible location for their business. You don't want your state to become the Rhode island --the one which does little to diversify and attract new industry.
It's like we're going to fault this guy to working his ass off to bring things into the world that the government agrees we should bring into the world.
My recommendation for anyone starting CPU design is to not use the vendor FPGA tools for simulation. The simulators they bundle are often crippleware, and the vendor IDEs are painful. You're going to spend the majority of your time debugging your design in simulation, so setting up a good environment is important. There are a lot of great open source simulation tools now:

- Verilator (Verilog) -- http://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilator
- Icarus Verilog -- http://iverilog.icarus.com/
- GHDL (VHDL) -- http://home.gna.org/ghdl/
- GTKWave (waveform viewer) -- http://gtkwave.sourceforge.net/
- For people who want to be a bit more cutting edge, there's also Chisel: https://chisel.eecs.berkeley.edu/

If you're an emacs person and using Verilog, I'd also recommend Verilog Mode: http://www.veripool.org/wiki/verilog-mode

I invoke the vendor FPGA synthesis tools from the command line with my makefiles, which saves me the hassle of using their GUIs

The one case where I think the GUI is useful is is the netlist viewer, which can help you understand what the synthesis tools are producing. This is especially helpful when starting out.
You seems to think that high degrees of collective action are are a particularly good marker for judging whether human beings can accomplish space colonization. But this doesn't make sense because it's the technology and economics, not coordination, that prevents self-sustaining martian colonies. Likewise, ship technology and economic uses for overseas resources sparked European colonization, not a particularly well coordinated European monarchy.
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I wrote an HTTP server (https://github.com/tom-seddon/yhs) with pretty much exactly this use case in mind. (This influenced the main unusual thing about it: it doesn't use threads, the idea being that when your function is called in response to an HTTP request, you're less likely to have to do anything special before modifying values as requested.)

The code is mostly complete, and should be usable as-is, but I never ended up using it in anger. My quick and dirty stopgap solution at the time was some on-screen (on the iPhone) widgets, and people seemed to prefer that in the end, because it meant they didn't need a computer/second iPhone/etc. So I never rolled out an HTTP-based equivalent.

If I were doing it again, I probably wouldn't bother with a full(ish) HTTP implementation - I'd support only WebSockets. Then write the Javascript client code separately from the game, and store it separately in SVN or whatever. Faster iteration on the client code, and you can update the UI stuff separately from the game.

Though of course, if people preferred on-screen widgets once, they might then still prefer it a second time ;)

(As an example, a project that's on my must-take-a-closer-look list, that I believe but works in the way I suggest: https://github.com/Celtoys/Remotery)
Is this service useful for students seeking summer internships?
why would i pay $70 when i can get 75% of the features for free (textmate, textwrangler)
"Founders have a duty to think about the way the things they build will change society"

Fair enough. The primary focus though, is still the things they build.

It's always about the things.

The things.

And how those specific things impact people.
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