skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad to see Gates throwing his money and influence in a progressive direction.

> we need to be able to power all sectors of the economy with sources that do not emit any carbon dioxide.

Yes. That said, I think a lot of the optimistic future trajectories for world climate models rely on the assumption of CCS technology permitting negative net carbon emissions later in the century. On the positive side: hypothetically if the technology were to exist we could get away with some emissions; negative side: this technology doesn't actually exist.

> But when it comes to preventing the worst effects of climate change, the investments I make will matter much less than the choices that governments make.

I completely agree. A global price on carbon would help here. It's going to be difficult for clean-energy alternatives to compete with existing energy sources such as coal, that (i) are priced in a way that ignores the negative externalities of greenhouse gas emissions, and (ii) are heavily subsidised. The global economy needs to be appropriately regulated in order to coerce it into doing more useful activities.

> Scientists generally agree that preventing the worst effects of climate change requires limiting the temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius, and that doing so requires the biggest emitters to cut emissions 80 percent by 2050 and all countries to essentially eliminate them by the end of the century.

Indeed!

> These are solvable problems.

Here I disagree. We are not going to limit temperature rise to 2 degrees Celsius. We missed that window by a few decades.

It would still be a VERY good idea to limit temperature rise to +3 degrees Celsius, or something, instead of ending up with a world where it is +4 degrees C and still rising.

I recently finished reading the book "Windfall: The Booming Business of Global Warming" by McKenzie Funk. I am actually more optimistic about the future now: we still have geoengineering options available, such as pumping sulphur into the atmosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight heating the world by a fraction of a percent.

It's worth pointing out, however, that:

* geoengineering gives us a means to partially/completely address one of the symptoms (temperature rise) of the problem, and continue to avoid addressing the causes. other symptoms: nitrogen cycle disruption, species mass extinction, extinction of non-renewable resources, extinction of renewable resources (global fish stocks), ...

* geoengineering options will also cause some climate change, and these changes will not be uniformly or fairly distributed over the world. All things being equal, powerful countries will run geoengineering projects, and as far as it can be predicted and controlled, the climate will be adjusted to preferentially favour the countries running these projects.

* the long-term, large-scale secondary consequences of things we do that seem like a good idea are not always anticipated!

* geoengineering options are akin to patching a highly complex system by adding more complexity to patch a symptom. this requires upkeep and potentially makes the entire thing more fragile.
Why do we need to keep a fig leaf to cover up what everybody already knows is there? We should either accept that Social Security is a form of welfare and rationalize it accordingly (my preference) or we should overhaul it to actually be the mandated savings scheme that it's said to be.
Yeah I don't know what that guy's talking about. My parents and a few friends love Ubuntu (some Debian). Granted they mostly just use Internet Browsers and other basics. I think Linux would work perfectly for around 80 to 90% of current Windows users.
I think AdBlock may help. BTW those ads are added by YouTube (not me)
Damn you autocorrect. "dollar", not "solar".
All of these services seem to take the same approach: AWS US-East, maybe use two availability zones, call it a day.

PagerDuty had to learn this lesson the hard way (circa 2012), as they were entirely in US-East during the catastrophic AWS outage in June. They proceeded to go offline along with a lot of their customers, who subsequently were not alerted.

Multiple region redundancy is not trivial, but it would certainly be a little higher up on my to-do list if it was basically the entire value proposition of my service. I was a little suspicious of PagerDuty's operational chops before, but now I simply don't trust them.
When a company refuses to disclose the fully diluted number of shares, what do you do? Assume it is the number of shares authorized (which you can find for $20 at https://delecorp.delaware.gov/tin/GINameSearch.jsp)?
Yeah, and people don't use .com well either. But "commercial" actually is a reasonable class of site.

Um, strict TLDs like .gov are misused?? What's a .gov site that isn't a government site? That is actually regulated…

.io is a stupid TLD name (except for actual Indian Ocean sites). I think what bugs me is "some technological tie" — wut? It's not anything. Input/Output isn't a nifty technological idea even.

Re: squatters: they could squat on any TLD. The only reason they squat on .com or .net is because you want it. Now, they will start squatting on .io because people want that. I don't see the difference.
He mentioned a lot of things related to hiring - but specifically it was that there are a lot of engineers in the Denver Metro (in fact I think the highest grouping of software engineers in the US), but that many enterprise companies kept them employed. He mentioned that it was difficult to hire younger SW engineers out of school as they were going to startups. Also, that their average age is skewing older, which is driving up their benefits (healthcare, etc) costs.
Wake me up when we start building fast breeder reactors that recycle nuclear waste [1], and start building large scale thermal depolymerization plants to turn our trash into oil. [2] I also want to know how he think we should address this mini-ace age that it appears I'll be spending half my life in.[3]

1. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/186023-russia-bets-its-en...

2. http://discovermagazine.com/2006/apr/anything-oil

3. http://www.livescience.com/51597-maunder-minimum-mini-ice-ag...
Experiment (YC W13) is hiring Rails engineers
This argument is specious at best. We must hold all parties involved to the same level of standard as any, at all levels because a breach of trust at any size is seriously damaging to the consumer. It doesn't matter about the size of the Corp.
> Firefox doesn't revert you to defaults

You mean besides that time Firefox reverted everyone's search engine to Yahoo?
It's a clever idea when the market is going up, and a really dumb idea when the market drops underneath them. If they are locked into a very high rate, and the market goes down, which is always does at some point, then people will be questioning the decision since they would either need to force their companies to pay a ridiculous rate, or lose money trying to sublease it at market rate.

The last thing VCs need to be is a landlord.
Why do we give out options instead of stock in the first place?
I don't find this to be true in practice. Mac problems turn out to be extremely difficult if not impossible to solve. Your main recourse, if you don't live near Apple "Geniuses", is the support forums where the signal to noise ratio is very low. Problems that are a breeze to solve in Linux are a nightmare in OSX because all you have to go by are big shiny icons. With Linux you can look at log files, enable verbose output, or often even get help from the engineers who designed the software. It's true there is a steep learning curve in Linux. But the absence of a learning curve on OSX gives users a false sense of security that leaves them with nowhere to turn when problems arise.
So instead you use a browser from a company whose goal is to control all your purchasing?

Yesterday one of my friends bought a mac. He needed a credit card before he could install vim... vim needs brew, which needs xcode, which needs the istore, which needs an appleid, which needs (well, wants) a credit card on file.
Escaping a Strategic Cul de Sac: Ethnographic Insights, Organizational Bias
D4l3k/WebSync
Ask HN: Recommend a good antivirus for Windows
I've used Nortons, AVG and more recently Avast in the past. Each antivirus seems to work well for a year or two and then gets compromised.

Do you have an antivirus recommendation for a Windows machine that has worked well for a number of years?
I would never put my client data on a Windows machine.

But how many people will?
No problem! Is there someplace we can go to be alerted when it is ready?
Speaking of Baltimore, as someone who knows almost nothing about it other than what I saw watching "Ace of Cakes" and from what I see when the city comes up in the news, I came across this map today [1], which left me wondering what is going on there.

It's a map of all murders in Baltimore, filterable by time period, race, gender, district, zip code, age, and cause of death. There are also some yearly charts below on the page.

What is going on with murders? 164 in the last six months, and they seem to be spread widely over the city, with just a couple murder-free sections (including one decent sizes one in the north part of the city, between 83 and 139).

Is those SF like art quirky culture areas, and the tech company areas, in the apparently murder-free areas?

For comparison Los Angeles has had 150 murders so far in 2015, even though it has 6 times the population [2]. Los Angeles county, with 16 times the population of Baltimore, has had 332 murders so far in 2015, so just over twice as many as Baltimore in the last 6 months.

(Both of the sites I cite are pretty interesting. Anyone happen to have a list of similar homicide exploration tools for other major cities?)

Note: I'm not trying to rag on Baltimore. Just astonished at the number and the geographic distribution of the murders there.

[1] http://data.baltimoresun.com/bing-maps/homicides/index.php?s...

[2] http://homicide.latimes.com/neighborhood/la-city/year/2015
But getting a .io domain already taken by a .com is also kind of stupid. It's only useful if the .com is being squatted on and you hope some day to make enough money to buy the .com too (see e.g segment).
I have a 2 year cliff (which I would hit 2 June 2016) on 4 year vest. I would not recommend this to anyone on either side of any transaction.
> algorithm which can reasonably be considered "AI, if we ignore resource constraints"

I am not convinced. Also the reward function is assumed to magically be given. I think half of the difficulty in any real world problem would be how to design the reward function.

Also, even when assuming we have the reward function, do we really know that choosing the action that has the best weighted reward over the set on "world model algorithms" (hypothesis), produces actions that actually are intelligent? Yes, it sounds intuitively somewhat plausible, but do we have anything better than this hunch, that it sounds kinda good? Maybe it would actually turn out to produce really silly outcomes, who knows.

I am thinking, maybe the shortest "world model algorithms", which are given the largest weight, are just mostly stupid. And there is the No Free Lunch theorem, which states that averaging over all possibilities, while may sound clever, produces just garbage (i.e. no better than random guess).
You're right. I'm sorry you had to read this twice! I stupidly assumed my post went unnoticed and I didn't want to annoy people like you who are very careful to pay attention to detail and have reason to think I am spamming the board for personal gain. Thank you for your honesty, it's people like you who keep this forum professional and fun for others. I will avoid doing this next time I ask for help as a courtesy to readers like you who prefer using one account and not two.
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> Why does that count employee social security contributions, but not employer contributions? Both ultimately come out of your paycheck.

Employer contributions don't come out of your paycheck though; for the business, its a cost of doing business.
Changed the title to "The Advanced Rust Programming Language Book Draft". Better :-)?
Honestly, 4 year vesting schedules give me almost zero incentive to work harder.

The reason is this: These days, founders are more likely to try to make their companies look attractive as acquisition targets than try to grow their businesses long-term. Therefore, except for rare companies with exceptional growth potential, an employee can expect the company to either fail quickly or get acquired. So, rarely do typical startups last 4 years.

Further, since it's up to the board and the acquiring company to trigger full vesting on acquisition, and since boards and acquiring companies have no incentive to do so, most employees are left with much less than 4 years of vested options.
I smell another Docker pivot
Tax reasons and complications with having >500 shareholders (and shareholder information, etc. rights in general), plus administrative costs.

Early on, you issue founder grants if you want, at common stock price, paid in cash. A company is worth $100 in total, so you can buy 10% of it for $10.

Common and preferred can run separately in terms of price (although there's some relationship between the two; more enforced now than in the past.)

After Series A, 1% of the company would be a real amount of money -- maybe a $10mm valuation, so 1% would cost your engineer $100k at hiring. That's a lot of cash for an employee to invest.
I did YC back in S11 and people were telling us "Winter is coming" even then. Markets are cyclical but it doesn't make so much sense to stress out about it.
Taxes. Stock is a capital gain, an option is only potential.
BitDEfender
Your resume does not focus on the technical things you have actually done. There the keyword section at the front, and a few more things later on, but they get lost. Also, listing a project that you have not completed isn't that useful - it also feels like padding.

The book stacking and library work don't seem to sell your programming abilities.

Your english (here) isn't perfect. That's not a huge problem, if you are smart, but it is something people pick up on quickly.
How much opportunity is there for this level of datacenter design to reduce power consumption? What are the trade-offs?
It requires human effort to maintain any emotional memory. If you don't contact your relatives with a card or a call to remind them you exist, you don't enjoy a good relationship with them. And if the government doesn't periodically run campaigns like "don't waste water", people forget to conserve it. These are commons goods that the market doesn't ascribe any value to unless it is directly related to current product and service. Hence, we are flooded with advertising. There is advertising everywhere. But there is no such thing for "remember the last boom and bust."
Because internet.org's proxy server gives Facebook monopsonic control over the internet.

Even ignoring the massive man-in-the-middle attack problems from running old phones on a proxy, Facebook is positioning themselves to control exclusive access to large number of users for websites.

You could argue that Google already does this - but Google has competitors that users could switch to in a heartbeat. Internet.org users don't have options, and websites need to pander to Facebook to be in that walled garden. It also makes it easier for third world countries to censor the internet.

In the end, this is damaging to the open internet ecosystem. Facebook could have just implemented a rate-limited or data capped system like other ISPs, but they opted to create a more restrictive system that gives them more power.
So it's in nightly today, so barring a tragedy it will land in stable in ~8 weeks I think. I'll probably repost it everywhere when that happens.

This and The Book are living documents anyway -- they'll never be done. This just literally landed last night, though.
Rent control and outrageous zoning laws are _not_ a free market. It's funny, and sad, that the two cities who have the most laws in relation to accomodation, NY and SF, are both of the cities who have the highest prices.
I apologize if you may have seen this post yesterday as another user pointed out. Thank you for your thought out reply. This is exactly what I was looking for. I knew someone would have valuable information to share. HN simply never disappoints.
littlebits?
Because welfare isn't popular, it makes it more subject to the political climate, and because as a mandated savings scheme, social security isn't terribly performant.
Why the Damage From Climate Change Is Hard to Quantify
Yup. Cant wait for the Youtube, Amazon and Pornhub planes next.
Income. Money people make is being stolen by gunpoint.
Irrespective of the proposed uses of the money is, stealing is stealing.
I can put a gun to Bill Gate's head and demand 50% of his wealth and spend it only for 'good' things. But, doesn't mean I didn't steal.
I'm really impressed not only at Gates' actions post-Microsoft, but that he makes the effort to explain them in such an accessible and public way. I think that's a really positive step and others in a similar position could learn from him.
I assume the housing market is the majority of this wealth disparity. The nations northern cities have seen huge increases in property values. For those who bought cheaply before the run up, the benefits are clear. You buy a house for 150k in Palo Alto, CA in 1981. And in 2015 it's worth 1.5 mil.

For millenials, we are stuck in a market where you got to pony up 1.5 mil to buy a family sized house.

Maybe the market will just keep going and going. But I don't think our economy can support that sort of thing. At least not the extremes that happened since the 70s.
What do you mean by "(here)"?
If I were you I'd look at what "standard" tech resumes look like for entry level people. Here's a good example: http://www.careercup.com/resume

Keep your resume one page. Don't add stuff that's not related to tech.

I think putting projects that are in progress/incomplete are fine as long as you have dug into it enough to talk about some technical/issues you've faced.

I can help you construct at least a decent resume...
I'd have to agree that having a minimalistic browser that prevents users from getting into too much trouble is a good thing.

If Microsoft decided to make Edge a purely minimal browser then expected you to get more sophisticated ones later if you needed more features, I'd actually be in favor of it.

They're not going to do that. I think we all know that.
Serious question: what's left to model? They're already big enough to kill everyone, and we have heaps of them.
Use Mac OSX
Entering the jet age
Some internet > no internet
http://sci-hub.org/downloads/4ac7/10.1126@science.aab0689.pd...
> Mozilla is rather clear that they don't want to spec on a specific version of SQLite

Not entirely true either. From the link:

> Hixie has said before he’s willing to fully spec the SQL dialect used by [WebSQL]. But since Mozilla categorically refuses to implement the
spec (apparently regardless of whether the SQL dialect is specified), he doesn’t want to put in the work since it would be a comparatively
poor use of time.
Er... no. Just as homes and business that can should be moving to solar and wind, so too cities should be moving to next generation nuclear. Interconnected grids to provide redundancy is good, but a global super grid is unnecessary.
I can't comment on the information/experience side, but the design isn't great in my opinion.

I know a lot of people say it should be plain but you can still make it look nicer while staying simple. Maybe a bit of colour or a better font.

You also have some weird lines in your work experience section.

Check out Represent.io, you don't have to use their templates but they are a nice reference point.
Thank you Jon and I apologize if you may have had to read my post twice as I posted the same one yesterday under a different account. One reason I use this website for questions like this is because of the users unique approach to those questions. I had no idea that there were red hat meetups. This is a very interesting approach, one that I never would have considered without first asking HN. Thanks again.
In Canada it's very similar, LOTS of people are millionaires simply from massive real estate appreciation. Vancouver is particularly shocking, but all of Canada in general has seen huge appreciation. Basically, we had the same bubble as the US did, but ours didn't burst in 2008, it just paused and then kept on going. It's kind of funny reading how after the fact, everyone knew the US bubble had to burst, yet the affordability ratios in Canada are far beyond those of the US at its peak and almost no one bats an eye.

I really feel sorry for people who are merely middle class or not in a marriage where both people have professional level incomes, I just don't know how they can afford anything reasonable in this market. And personally, I thought I'd do the smart thing, rent and live modestly and invest the difference - after all, minimizing your housing expenses by living in 700 sq ft instead of 2500 sq feet should be the financially wise thing to do, right? As it turns out, no, that was EXACTLY the wrong thing to do....the right thing to do was borrow absolutely as much money as possible, and buy as much house as you could afford - anyone who did that is laughing all the way to the bank.

As for retirement for me, I am slowly coming to the realization that I will never be able to retire, ever, whereas my parents retired in their mid 50's.
Whatsapp? Instagram? Headcount != success.
It depends on who you are.

Consider someone who likes walking to work, groceries, and everything they need; hates driving and owning a car; loves having top caliber arts and entertainment; feels more alive living in a place where people are on the street; and enjoy an evening walking bar to bar drinking with friends and not having to worry about a DUI on the way home, cities offer a lot.

That is Boston, Manhattan, and SF in this country.

(Oh, and I can hold my husband's hand in the city without getting weird stares. That's not possible in many parts of the country.)
> don't log all of my keystrokes across my entire operating system

Microsoft isn't doing this either, they are monitoring your usage of Cortana/System Search and your selection of its suggestions (just like Google does for Google Now,) to improve their algorithms. This is really being blown of proportion. Reminds me of people freaking out about Palladium with Project Longhorn.
Try to pay attention. I'm saying that the specific regulation you cite had nothing whatsoever to do with the crisis since the main culprits in 2008 were already obeying GS. I.e., telling Bear not to issue mortgages and telling WaMu not to do IPOs would not have changed anything since they already didn't do those things.

I'm also saying that your magic culture theory of regulation, if true, should have prevented the S&L crisis (since GS was in force then). But I guess you were wrong, and GS isn't actually the magic regulatory pixie dust that causes regulators to solve all the problems? If so, what is?

(Yes, that's a dangerous question, because the minute you mention a law I'll just find a financial crisis from before that law was repealed.)
Comboboxes are accessible by default with all modern screen readers on the web. Dropdowns are a bit tricky, I hit enter on the link and if when I arrow down I don't see new options I skip to the bottom of the page since that's where a lot of the options appear. For auto complete I type as much of the value as I know ina nd hit tab. I then look to see if the correct value was filled in and if it wasn't look at the options that appear and hit enter on the proper one.