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> There is so much knowledge in religious scriptures.

No, there is not. Some guy writing a book 800 years ago, who was not a scientist and who was not even writing on any scientific subject be more accurate that a modern scientist writing on the subject they have spent years studying. It just boggles the mind that an adult in modern times would believe any of that scripture nonsense.
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While I see how discussion can be prevented, but how actually juror can be stopped from nullifying the law? From my understanding this is catch-22 - you should follow law but juror can not be prosecuted for not following it.
Even the interviewer seems confused between whether he's saying Elon Musk has the means to send someone to mars or the ingenuity of Mark Watney to survive there.
Totally agree. I'm not saying we should be sanguine about the current situation just because it isn't as bad as previous extinction events or the like (and in fact, being even fractionally as bad as any of the worst ones would be cause for outright panic).
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just like the nacl binary blob.
It's interesting that Lyft seems to be able to hypermile behind Uber and benefit from the lobbying without having to spend any money. Google and others who eventually deploy self driving car fleets will benefit as well.
Are there any data on water vapor concentrations? I ask that because I have read that the contribution of water vapor to the greenhouse effect is perhaps two to four times greater than CO2.
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Too, pedantry about splitting infinitives is agrammatical and dumb.
Faith explains both why and how. The Bible is full of "how." Almost all of the "how" has been discovered to be wrong, but it's there. Religion has responded to this by retreating from the realm of the "how," and so your statement that faith is just about the "why" is becoming a pretty common view.

However, a lot of people are still around who don't agree with that approach, and still stick with the "how" as described in their holy texts. Exhibit A, above.
I sincerely doubt it, since the companies I've heard of that do it are large multinationals. As I point out below, it's much the same as a signing bonus or moving expenses.
I guess I'd repeat the point: some hiring isn't about being fair to the candidates. Any harm to them (unfairly excluding a good candidate) is mitigated if the process keeps out disastrously inappropriate candidates.

And if the polygraph operator is independent, then abuse would have to be systematic somehow. Which may not be a lot different from any other interview technique.
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Freedom of Panorama is under attack (in the EU)
The French (allegedly) write malware as well. Their group is known as Animal Farm.

https://securelist.com/blog/research/69114/animals-in-the-ap...
Power is also required to mine chalk (giant limestone mines), process it, package it, ship it, etc and its completely non-renewable. It becomes dust and then you place another order.

A PC with a projector can last a decade in use and depending on the region may be powered by mostly or all renewables.
I disagree with your bald assertion that the stock market is either intended to or efficient at socializing wealth.
Yes, the division of concerns is important. I guess I'm more concerned with how we talk about what it is the climate models are predicting rather than how those models are constructed. I wouldn't want anyone to conflate "natural processes without human influence can cause similar effects" with "we aren't causing it therefore we can keep burning oil/coal/etc. and it doesn't matter."
Not at all. I'm saying that we should reduce emissions. What could possibly be bad about that?

Its what I'm not saying that is important. I don't proclaim an answer nor an idealism, merely cautious scientific thought that suggests the methodology needs to be considered. In any other field the lack of rigorous proofs would be laughed off the table.
Of course the one you send me via email.

It's all about acountability.

I'd have someone to beat the shit out of if anything went wrong with that.
The Economist, which I read, unfortunately pushes propaganda about climate change (as they do about some other issues too).

For example, many years ago they published an article[1] saying that a recent conference led by John Bolton[2] came to the same climate-denying conclusion as an earlier conference led by Bjorn Lomborg.[3] The Economist claimed that Bolton's results were independent corroboration for Lomborg's, saying the "conclusions were strikingly similar".

The Economist omitted a few things that made the similarity less striking: 1) The Economist co-sponsored Lomborg's conference; 2) Lomborg co-chaired Bolton's conference; 3) Bolton's conference was in fact marketed as the sequal to Lomborg's (Lomborg's was "Copenhagen Consensus 2004", Bolton's was "Copenhagen Consensus 2006", and a third was planned); 4) Former Economist writer Clive Crook co-chaired Bolton's conference.

I pulled those details from an email I sent to The Economist at the time. The article author responded professionally, but dismissed my concerns.

[1] "How to save the world: Bolton v Gore", June 22nd 2006 http://www.economist.com/node/7086861

[2] Bolton is a prominent US diplomat, whose career included being Ambassador to the United Nations, and a very outspoken neo-conservative.

[3] Lomborg is a leading climate denier, trotted out as a academic expert. His PhD is in political science and, at least at one point, he taught statistics at a business school. (My anecdotal observation is that few climate deniers have expertise in climate science.)
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I strongly believe in universal basic income and that being forced to work is a form of slavery. I also believe that if you let people do whatever they want, sure you'll have 90% or more just doing nothing all day, but you'll have those 10% doing something great. Also, capitalism is really not that great! Builds societies that nurture exclusion, self-interest and survival of the fittest. In 100 years, when robotics has automated pretty much everything (this is inevitable), we'll look back at these days and laugh about how we used to build societies where people worked most of the day, rather than just lived most of the day.
A single storm isn't, but if it's part of a trend, something might be up.
"Nobody" is an exageration, since Gitter, RocketChat, Mattermost, Friends, and Let's chat DO want to implement that.
We're less dicky in the UK and don't have masses of county specific bylaws so this is merely blackmail by threatening to punish.
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Is it possible to resubmit a Show HN ? I tried to do a new Show HN (since there was an update), but it seems to get redirected to my old post.
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There are some really interesting things on that map. The apparent huge influx of people into France and the UK is one. Another amazing thing is that after what I think is around $1 trillion dollars spent in former east German states post reunification, the outflow of people still looks to be strong.
high heels mate... out of cork
Right now we're offering the service for free.

We make deals (recruiting contracts) with companies who really want first dibs on top talent. When a candidate comes through, we'll discuss all their options, but mention that we also work with some companies and talk about those companies as well. If they'd like an intro, awesome! If not, totally cool.

We're sacrificing potential revenue to build the most trustworthy brand. The economics of recruiting let us do that... just an insane market right now.
You are not kidding. The user experience of most media sites is appalling, mostly down to performance.

Here's a great example I saw recently when I hit the Daily Mash without Ghostery enabled: https://www.dropbox.com/s/seu0run7pn4tbc6/Screenshot%202015-... - in excess of fifty(!!) third-party scripts and trackers, rendering the browser unusable for multiple seconds. It's a frustrating, miserable experience.
It's bad in many cases. If you do mobile games with IAPs for instance, 20% retention during the first 7 days, with the ever rising user acquisition costs we have today, pretty much means you can't be profitable unless you explode virally. And since in 99% of the cases this does not happen, this effectively means the vast majority of developers doing mobile games now will be out of business in maybe a year or two. Which is a pretty depressing thought.
That's our website.

We're a cloud storage provider. There's not much for you to do on our website.
Japan has a huge economy and market, much like the US, which also exhibits similar insularity.
Try uploading images and things to https://up1.ca/

Also be sure to check out ShareX at https://github.com/Upload/ShareX , a popular screen-shot tool adapted to work with Up1.

Contributions to the code are always welcome, and we hope you enjoy!
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Because I already got burned once paying for TextMate and having the development basically die. The same pattern seems to be happening with Sublime Text.

So I finally just started using Emacs instead. Setup my keybindings so they're Mac/Sublime Text like and wrote a little custom frame/window manager in elisp to make the application behave the way I want, and I'm free from having to worry about one of my core tools turning into abandonware.
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People of all stripes have the tendency to weight the believability of the evidence based on how well it matches their beliefs instead of weighing their beliefs based on how well they match the evidence.
So even if I'm born a slave, I haven't lost my freedom. Stop being ridiculous.
>Wasn't that Regret?

I think the canon answer was 'belief', or more accurately, "Whatever you believe can change the nature of a man, can." Ravel actually accepted any answer.
I agree.

Running in the browser console:

document.lastModified
"05/01/2011 20:22:58"

It looks like the site has not been maintained in a long time.
Which is allowed to use your microphone at any time without asking. In contrast to javascript executed on a website.

Edit: To clarify, I'm only talking about the sandbox here, I'm aware that there is opt-in stuff and that there is open source code guarding the activation of that specific module, i'd argue that this isn't part of the sandbox though.
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I use Slack everyday, and I disagree.
Embarassingly, Super Storm Sandy wasn't even a hurricane (at the time that it struck New York).
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So you agree with the conclusion that we should cut emissions, but you object to... what? The wording?
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Hi HN,

A recent roundtable conversation within our company involved some interesting discussion about our internal company software tools. We are a small development company of 10. 6 of which are full time developers with 3 of these full time developers working remotely over a VPN. We are primarily mac users.

We all tend to agree that we have too many tools to that are used to manage the various aspects of the business. We are an open book company so we all have a stake in the game and interact with all these tools in some manner.We have been brainstorming ways to consolidate some of these tools or replace them with better tools.

To give a quick breakdown of what tools we are using along with their primary purpose:

QuickBooks - Accounting

Autotask - Time Tracking, Support Tickets, Contact Management

Basecamp Classic - Internal and External communication/collaboration

WebEx - Meetings planned in advance

Join.me - Ad hoc meetings

Docuwiki - Internal Wiki for company info

Google Docs - Shared spreadsheets

Rumpus FTP Server - Transferring of large files

Subversion - Version control for (primarily) binary files

Slack (Recently adopted to replace AIM/Messages) - internal chat

Internally developed Project Management solution - project estimating and progress tracking

Internally developed Planning solution - planning and scheduling

Italic items indicate services we are subscribed to.

So HN: Do you have any recommendations about these tools or how we can leverage their features better? Any recommendations on alternatives to these tools that could cut costs? More importantly: What tools are everyone using?
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I recall hearing of a library that can be linked into a C/C++ program that allows you to register variables. When your application is launched, the library would start a webserver, which you can then connect to. The displayed webpage would then show you all the variables you have registered and allow you to adjust them.

In terms of games development, this would be very useful, but after spending 90 minutes searching Google, I can't find the library. Either it no longer exists, my search terms are bad, or perhaps I made up this whole idea in my head.

Can anyone help?
If you don't have the time, skillset or inclination to review the source you're compiling yourself, trusting a third party who you have reason to put faith in beats compiling from source yourself.
> Also, if you have to bend their skills and experience in different ways for different jobs, you're probably applying for positions that you're a marginal fit for, instead of waiting for finding a job that you're a better, obvious fit for on the basis of your generic, undoctored resume.

Or you have a title, like "systems engineer", that means different things to different industries and causes confusion.

Or you deviated from your original path for personal reasons and need to explain why you are trying to get back on it.

Or you have had roles that do not easily translate to the specific domains of the companies you are applying to.

Or you have roles where your ability to provide clear, detailed information about your contributions is limited by law or legal agreements.

Yes, all of the above apply to me. I don't think I'm very unique in this regard.
It should be the device owner, not the device manufacture who decides what can and cannot be put into the system. If the owner, my employee in your example, decides to lock down the device, that is their right. For the manufacture to tell me as the owner that I cannot use an otherwise compatible part is plainly and simply wrong.
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Scroll-to-page for this vis is horribly broken on Firefox - there's a very narrow gap in the scrolling where the header paragraphs are visible.
Please don't take this as a denial of climate change, it is an honest question. How do scientists learn the levels of ozone, aerosols, green house gases, and the other data points going so far back at a global scale? Is the data from before the latter half of the 20th century spotty? If so, why is it considered good enough to use in a context of scientific research where quality and correctness of data is paramount?
Yeah it is noteworthy when the majority of companies still schedule big launch deploys and the company I'm at is deploying once every 2 weeks and a coworker just tried pushing for deploying once every 3 weeks.
There might be a certain amount of 'flag-planting' going on too. Especially with a new social network, people can register, grab their favourite username, then ignore the network for a while; only coming back when it has gained enough traction for others to join. Ok, a small set of people, but a set nevertheless.
So CO2 it is. Can we use nuclear power now? Surely its problems are easier to solve.
Do you have women on your panel of experts, and if not do you have plans to add women to your panel of experts? Asking not because "OMG MORE WOMEN IN TECH" but because the experience of being a woman trying to navigate a tech job is going to be different than a man's experience, so I would have more confidence in signing up for/recommending your service if I knew it catered more towards my specific demographic.

Also, what's your geographical range of companies you're working with? Companies all over the US? Only SV? Only West Coast? Worldwide?
I'll just copy-paste my comment from the last article with this premise, about three weeks ago:

News flash: Policies meant to encourage growth in high-tech clean energy are encouraging growth in high-tech clean energy!
This isn't the first time this has been trotted out as an indictment of Musk, and it certainly won't be the last, but it's really goddamned stupid.
Of course I would bitch and moan if I were the one in jail. That's a respected part of our judicial process - advocacy. Everybody pitches for their team; a judge makes the best decision they have with the info available.

Its a terrible process, only a little better than everything else that's been tried.
You also have to understand, with everything there is a spectrum. There are people no matter what you tell them, won't believe climate change exists, other simply say it's a cycle, just like we've had cooling and heating cycles since the dawn of time.

Also, it's hard for a lot of people to take climate change arguments seriously when you basically tell them, "Well, based on this model. . " So how do you take into effect climate cycles that go beyond recorded weather which started sometime in the 1700's? Real statistical data about the Earth just isn't available to make models very compelling. it doesn't help either when you have conflicting models. Some say we're actually in a cooling cycle, not a warming cycle:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GISSTemperature/gi...

http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-cooling-is-here/10783

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterferrara/2013/05/26/to-the-h...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/climatecha...

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/cl...

Lastly, the thing which frustrates me to no end is most countries have been reducing their C02 emissions for years now. The real danger is not countries like the US who continue to try and reduce emissions and enforce strict EPA standards, it's countries like China and India who are doing little if anything to curb their emissions.

What can we do? Prepare for the worst and hope for the best.
Yes. QuickCheck the original property-based test library, initially for Haskell then commercially ported by the original author to Erlang (as Quviq QuickCheck)

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/QuickCheck/

http://www.quviq.com/products/erlang-quickcheck/
Anything that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle glorified (Sherlock) is guaranteed to be soft-headed thinking—the man was infamous for it. Houdini had a long-standing "feud" with his good friend Doyle, because Doyle would popularize all of these crank theories & practices.
jeez man, I hate to ruin your day, but I just designed a program that designs programs to share photos with a time limit. better find a new niche, quick quick.
The interesting point here, I think is that statistical evidence aka a trend, didn't serve to convince them. I don't know their exact circumstance surrounding the storm but I would venture a guess that "great loss" was the motivating factor in this case.
Google doesn't sell your data:

http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/#nosharing

Rather, its business model is using this data on behalf of advertisers. That is a highly significant distinction, in my personal opinion.
Sure --- there's a neat paper by Franssen (2006) that demonstrates the formal equivalence between optimization problems and the social policy problems Arrow was concerned with. Basically, Arrow says that some constituents will always lose out under any social policy. Franssen showed that you can swap out "composite cost metric" for social policy and "components of the cost metric" for constituents, and the same arguments apply.
Spoken like a lobbyist.

Government administers regulations on behalf of the people. If they're failing to do so then the political process is broken. Lobbyists do not fix broken political processes.

> Uber had been working on the council members for months. “They kinda run this,” Alpert said in February. “I keep feeling they will just wear you down. If we end up in court, we will have to lose just based on resources.”

This doesn't sound like they're simply informing legislators of new information nor does it sound like the legislators had the resources or the time to do anything but roll over.
Microsoft should start some kind of initiative to make building your own laptop more like Google's Project ARA. No manufacturer is doing a thing to advance the Windows platform but there's actually a competitive, vibrant market in a lot of aftermarket part categories (on desktop) - look at the shootouts for CPU fans, keyboards, cases, monitors. I'd gladly pay a little bit more and sacrifice some mobility to be able select a high quality frame, top-notch keyboard, silent/high quality PSU and lack of crapware.

I built a fast but near-silent Windows PC for music a few years back and I'm still impressed by what a great system it is.
It's a result of two things: The company is big, and the company is legacy.

The fact that the company is big means that there are siloed areas where, for example, the analytics team doesn't talk to the content team. Or the local station management doesn't talk to the CMS developers. These disconnects are present all over such organizations. This means that any changes are likely to be both overdesigned (because everyone has to have their input) and very slow to implement (because everyone has to approve).

The fact that the company is legacy means that they simply view the web as another outlet for their content. They don't believe in optimizing for the web because they have many surfaces for their content, and it's historically more important for, say, the paper newspaper to be laid out correctly than the web version of the same article. These sorts of people don't change their views easily, and they still don't see the web as the primary outlet for the content (they see that as the paper newspaper, or the terrestrial radio broadcast, or the terrestrial TV broadcast). The web is always secondary at best. Overcoming these attitudes is quite difficult.
Any particular reason why you were put off by mongo?
This is my team's first iOS app. We ended up building it with Swift after a prototype using PhoneGap. We hope you like it and can learn something every day!
Consent even over consensus.
I'm surprised they didn't even mention Musk's response, The House Always Wins http://www.teslamotors.com/blog/house-always-wins Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8643529
People make jokes about the Libertarian practice of repeating "Am I being detained? Am I free to go?" when questioned by a police officer but it would have done this man a lot of good.

I see this as being just as much about the power of police officers to steer an investigation, regardless of where the evidence points as it is about the reliance on pseudoscience and the CSI effect.
The IPCC, probably the best source overall for climate info, has in their reports visualizations showing predictions, and I think historical results, of multiple climate models. (Sorry but I don't have time now to find links and page numbers. Try the Summaries for Policy Makers.)

http://www.ipcc.ch/

Just reading their summaries, which are meticulously prepared and reviewed by hundreds of scientists, will make you more informed than 99.9% of the population, and more than most reading this thread.
Im a casual coder and love the built in features, but never paid because I never identified as a full time developer. I always thought I would pay for it once I needed all the time, but that never happened.

Now I use Atom, not the same hot keys but good enough for a few docs a month.