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Industrial farming at scale is much newer than that. This is like claiming that GHG is from "many thousands of years ago" because people made wood fires back then.

Actually most agricultural land clearing did happen many hundred to thousands of years ago. People have proposed that all the carbon released by this activity did have an impact on the planet and this prevented us from re-entering another ice age. I am not too sure how much evidence supports this hypothesis as the amount of carbon released was relatively low until we started burning fossil fuels in the last century.

Yes, and if you asked me for a guess I'd say the scale of the farming "experiment" is much greater. I'm interested to hear reasons you believe the opposite is true, not just an assertion.

The effect of farming has probably had more impact to date on the planet, but it is not as large as what the GHG experiment will have on the planet if we do nothing.

We do? Are you saying that you understand the true future effect of one change to a very complex non-linear system?

Actually the effect of adding GHG is very easy to predict - it increases the amount of energy trapped in a concentration dependent effect. What is hard to model is what the precise effect will be and when it will happen. A nice analogy to use is what will happen if you drive your car at 100 mph into a brick wall without wearing a seat belt or having an airbag. You can’t predict in advance what will happen to you, but none of the likely outcomes will be good.

Similar to the last point, but this should be followed by "according to [Researchers'] model" and not left as a plain assertion.

Under the "do-nothing” model (effectively our current model) we just keep burning all the fossil fuels until they are all gone. We do have a pretty good idea of how much fossil fuels we can extract and so it is easy to calculate how much CO2 will be released if we burn them all. Unfortunately all the changes to the model over the last few years is much of the fossil fuels we thought were uneconomic to extract (and so were not counted as being releasable) have proven extractable (i.e. fracking and shale oil).

Please name the model or whatever logical progression you are using to arrive at this idea, too

My model is our current “do-nothing” model where all the fossil fuels that can be burnt will be burnt. The end outcome of this is a CO2 concentration north of 1200ppm. While we can’t predict exactly what will happen if we reach this level we do have a pretty good idea from the past that it won’t be nice.
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If it is ever in "real combat", something has gone really terribly wrong. The US practice has been to launch massive sneak attacks with standoff weapons against air defense systems and grounded air forces. If the F-35 ever sees a large number of dogfights it would be in the context of that having failed already.
The closest thing to this in finance would be technical analysis (different from quantitative analysis, which has more basis in reality). But as other posters pointed out, this stuff has a fair amount of selection bias clouding how useful it really is.
Most programming workshops would be improved with some flowers (whats this "nature" thing again? sounds scary), cupcake tastings, and yoga.
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Stack overflow I think of more as: "I have this piece of broken code and can't figure out what's wrong".

IRC is great for "how would I go about doing X".
I work remotely and I agree with all this, although I'll add that you don't really need a shed in the back yard. I have four kids aged 6, 4, 2, and 0, and I work fine out of a separate room in the house. I close the door and the kids know not to bother me. You might have to train them a bit at first, but really it hasn't been a problem for me. Right now my office is upstairs, which definitely helps keep things quiet when I'm on a call, but I did this in a downstairs office too for a couple years and didn't have issues. Good luck!
Nope. I don't use it now.
> Uber is best positioned to usher in self-driving cars.

Fleet management is all about buying, parking, filling up, maintaining, cleaning and eventually selling the vehicles once they ran their course. Why would Uber be better at all those things?
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I read some time ago (I think on one of Serenity Caldwell's iMore articles) that Apple Music uses metadata to match on iOS devices, because acoustic fingerprinting is too resource-intensive, but on the desktop it uses acoustic fingerprinting like iTunes Match has always done.

I don't know if this is true, but it does make sense. Although I wonder who actually has music on their iOS device that isn't also in iTunes on their desktop, because the only way you'd hit this is by adding an iOS device to Apple Music that contains music that iTunes did not have.
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I'm using these rods to help my daughter (6 years old) with number sense right now. I've found them to be pretty effective at helping her build the concepts around manipulating numbers for arithmetic. The only pitfall we've run into was in connecting the manipulation of the rods with the manipulation of the more abstract numbers.

They've really helped in the area of modeling the problems. Depending on where you put the unknown, there are several ways to ask the same arithmetic question, eg:

_ + 2 = 5
3 + 2 = _
3 + _ = 5

Using the rods to model the knowns and unknowns has been really helpful for her to connect the abstract ideas of the equations with the reality of what the numbers mean, and how the manipulations work on each side of the equality.

Overall I think they're a pretty powerful tool, but they require some creativity to really get the most value from them, and they definitely require the use of other learning aids in conjunction like number lines, 99-charts, and base-ten blocks. We also use money, marbles, and other things to try to avoid getting too dependent on a particular manipulative.

Actually the biggest breakthrough we had was making up a card game to learn complements of ten. If you've played "set" you know the basic idea - we lay down 12 cards numbered 0-10, and we compete to see who can make pairs or triples that sum to ten the fastest. She loves it, and she's gotten to where I really have to work to keep up.
If your library is written in pure Clojure (no reliance on Java) it's fairly trivial with Clojure 1.7's Conditional Readers.

Here's an example of a repository that I've repurposed to compile both Clojure + Clojurescript.

https://github.com/rymndhng/clj-diff/commits/add-cljc-redo
I like the argument and Django Girls, but the article seems to act like some things are inherently feminine. Pink has only been considered feminine relatively recently, for instance, previously the blue/pink thing was reversed.

I have no problem with them using cupcakes and yoga if it appeals to their chosen demographic, but acting like such things are inherently feminine seems wrong to me.

Things are only feminine because we(society) choose them to be.
IRC is central to my development as a companion to searching the web. In IRC you can have real time discussion and get good, immediate leads on problems too arcane for Stack Overflow et al.
> An option would be to write a super-set of Go with generics that would compile to Go code. what it would do basically is use interface{} everywhere the variable type T is required and insert type assertions for the user. Been thinking about that.

I think that's pretty much how you'd want to do it, it's type erasure just like generics in Java - sure, some people complain about not having reified generics, but I'm more concerned about type-safety, Go already has some runtime reflection capabilities anyway.
This article also only has one comment. UNTIL NOW.
What poor integration? My entire library operates like it always has, except that viewing by Artists now has extra information about each artist in the list of albums, and also has a segmented control that lets me see all of that artist's music instead of just what's in My Music. And if I find a song I like, I can add it to my library pretty easily, at which point it shows up with the rest of my music just like all my existing owned music does.

Overall, it's actually working pretty amazingly.
Compulsory femininity, where girls and women are expected to act and look a certain way, is bad, yes. But femininity itself is not inherently weak, or silly, or frivolous, or bad.

The thing about this is, you have a situation where some resources are offered along with the expectation that a group of girls will want a certain aesthetic. There's nothing wrong with just choosing that aesthetic but giving something with the strong expectation that you will like a given aesthetic seems to be actively pushing a person in a given direction.

It's not that I have an objection to someone freely choosing this aesthetic as such but that you can't be certain that target audience is going to like being pushed towards this aesthetic. And as the author essentially acknowledges, girls are frequently pushed in this direction normally.
When will the module support be released? Soon I hope! Thanks for the great work on all this.
a confusion matrix would help a lot here for a better idea of classification performance
I would hope so. The government paid 1.5 trillion for it.
It is the first time I've heard someone mention they got something completely unexpected, in a followup in the article the author mentions trying it again and being unable to reproduce it.
Since when did the switch to Yahoo! override user search engine preferences? I don't recall ever having to reconfigure DuckDuckGo as my default search engine during the switch.
Kind of - it wasn't booming when I first started, that was later on.

I had a friend who made the decision to do the same thing, but arrived in October 2001. After three months of job searching and finding nothing, he spent all of his cash and then some, and had to return broke and dejected.
My iTunes library is apparently 95.96GB (for music) and it's been working pretty awesomely. There's the occasional bug with iTunes itself, but Apple Music has been pretty solid.

> it can be easy to fool the system and gain free songs

I'm not sure what you mean by this. If you have Apple Music, you already have access to the entire catalog, so there's no trickery to gain "free songs", because they're already available. And if you don't have Apple Music, you can't do this either, because iTunes Match exclusively uses acoustic fingerprinting[1] to ensure you can never download a song you didn't already have.

[1] For non-purchased content. For purchased content they obviously already know you own it.
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Are you on the RTM 10240 build? History has been in Spartan for over a month now publicly.
Netflix turned people's brain waves into the 'Sense8' theme music
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Yes, use them by all means - it's very difficult to get started unless you do. But don't trust them. Don't take their word for anything.
Except you can't shut down everything - it's impossible to disable the sending of "Diagnostic and usage data" in anything but Win 10 Enterprise, for example.
monitoring of manufacturing processes.
If you look at it from the perspective of the typical deployed application, say, with 4 or 5 VMs working together, it probably doesn't amount to much.

But if you are Google or Amazon, who have to build massive data centers to host thousands and thousands of those apps, along side much larger-scale applications, you could achieve much more significant density (and therefore reduced costs) if you were running unikernels as opposed to VMs. Perhaps passing some of that cost difference on to the customer for both competitive reasons and as an incentive for them to upgrade.

That said, even for a small-time app, consider the weight of trying to run a complicated micro-service-based system on a developer laptop. Having to orchestrate a bunch of VMs is an unmitigated disaster. Having to orchestrate a bunch of containers in one or more VMs is an improvement, but not much.

If you could instead run unikernels, there's considerably less overhead. Especially since the unikernels are typically able to run hosted inside a standard host-OS process.

Don't get me wrong, the world isn't really there. But when you consider a kubernetes cluster of docker containers that you never SSH into ... why bother with all those added layers of OS and runtime cruft?
I guess parent is talking about VirtualBox SVN.
Module support is already in 1.7.28 however it requires a corresponding release of the Google Closure Compiler.
Reading the comments is rather irritating... so many people asking to see the Sim card (not the SD Card), which was apparently taken away by the shooter.

Two hobbyists in the comment section are constantly explaining drones and wide-lens cameras and the lack of detail at close distances (even as close as 20 yards).

It's astounding to me that the same people who are saying it's within their rights as an American citizen to shoot down the drone and blah blah blah are also acting completely contrary to the idea of innocent until proven guilty by automatically assuming the drone pilot was spying/snooping. Many of them show ignorance over drones and how drones work.

Many in the comments are also touting gun knowledge ("Shotguns don't have an effective range of 200 feet to shoot down the drone, as the drone owner claims.") - Well guess what? The effective range is for penetration/killing/before the bullet hits the ground when shot horizontally. If shot vertically and it so much as hits a propeller, the Phantom drone goes down. It doesn't need to be at it's effective range nor does it need to penetrate the drone.

My opinion?

Drone owner is innocent (until proven guilty, which is how our law system is supposed to work), was shooting video for friend as claimed, and the "all drones are ban and used for spying" gun owner figured it was spying on his daughter and shot it down.

20 seconds in the video on this page a photo from the gun owner is shared. The drone is hovering well over 10 feet. [0]

The question is if a drone is an aircraft under the law: 18 USC 32 ; although I'm sure the court might just dismiss the case and require reparation payments at most, in news-fear-mongering-speak "he could be looking at up to 20 years in jail and a felony on his record".

[0] http://www.wdrb.com/story/29650818/hillview-man-arrested-for...
I like this advice. You hit it right on the head. I am asking about programing design, not interface design. We will start to flip a coin.
https://blogs.gentoo.org/lu_zero/2015/02/20/demotivation-fud...

For the another batch of links and some more background.
Github is a network. Network through shared engineering interests, mutual admiration and meritocracy. Pull requests can be surprisingly social.

Are you looking for a geographically relevant network? Or will distributed and virtual suffice?
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A friend of mine was one of the primary researcher working on the vaccine in the Winnipeg lab. I remember going out to dinners past few years and keep hearing about him his work on this vaccine. One thing that really bothered me was how the government handled it at the end and how the vaccine was handed to NewLink (Which latter licensed it to Merc) for pretty much nothing.

From what I remember, a year or so before the outbreak and just after the development of the vaccine was pretty much done Health Canada decides that there will be no money in an ebola vaccine since they didn't foresee an outbreak and even if it did happen it would be in a third world country with not much money to go around.

So they put a warp on it and hand it to NewLink for $200,000. Apparently there were emails going around between the lab and the government trying to convince them that this is a shitty deal, but the end response was 200K is the most we'll ever get out of this.

a year later, the biggest outbreak in the history and NewLink licenses the Vaccine to Merck for $50M USD.

My main issue with it isn't that the vaccine was gone for $200K vs $50M, if you have spent god know how many millions and how many years developing a vaccine as part of government program, don't let it go for 200K, are we as a nation really hurting that much to have to recover that 200K? I just can't make any sense of it. and if you were thinking they sold it so it could be mass produced and developed then you are mistaken since NewLink did exactly nothing with it until they licensed it to Merck.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/canadian-ebola-vaccine-develop...
Are you writing this from the year 1979?

I have terrible news for you: John Lennon will be dead next year, and Altair BASIC author Bill Gates III is on track to become the richest man in the world.
We have yet to launch. I was talking about system design, not so much user design but I will keep this in mind as we start to get more and more into user design.
I'm getting a not supported error about upgrading to Windows 10 when inside 8.1 in VirtualBox. Apparently the VirtualBox display driver isn't supported.
If you're going to intentionally commit copyright infringement, it's probably easier[1] to just pirate the music than it is to download it from Apple and strip the DRM, especially because downloading it from Apple requires having a paid Apple Music subscription.

[1] Note: I do not in any way condone music piracy. I'm just pointing out that it's more practical than stripping DRM. But really the best thing to do here is to just pay for your music.
I took some time a while back to look into why insider trading is considered bad. The situation turned out to be messy and undecided but interesting. Here's some links I came across in that search if you're curious.

[0] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=132529
[1] http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/whats-wrong-abou...
[2] http://dealbreaker.com/2012/07/everything-bad-is-insider-tra...
[3] http://www.forbes.com/columnists/free_forbes/2003/0512/050.h...
I've used IRC a handful of times and the greatest benefit is having instant answers to a problem that may be very specific to my environment. I try not to use IRC unless I'm stuck on something I can't find in SO first. The only times I'll try IRC is when I feel I've tried hard to solve the issue without success. Most of my issues have been solved by SO. I could be missing out on a great way to learn but I feel if I was on IRC I'd be asking too many questions and not digging for the answers myself.
This made me think that believing in a self is evolutionarily advantageous, but perhaps illusory. Those who don't associate their body and life as their "own" in some metaphysical sense will be substantially more prone to dying before reproducing.
The Nazi narrative was all about reclaiming what was rightfully the German people's land and resources after they were depressed by the reparations from WWI. It was created to get people behind the party and it worked.

We got involved with Europe's affairs because we made a killing selling them military equipment to blow each other up. Then it started to seem as if the Nazis might take over the continent. To drive this point home, we sold weapons to the Nazis until 1941.

Pearl Harbor happened because we started an oil embargo with Japan.

Vietnam was a proxy war, it's inherently about not letting the enemy gain land or an ally in a certain territory.

There is something to gain behind every aggression and it is usually material and for personal profit to the those initiating it.
They've been solved for many other languages but not for Go.

The lessons learned don't necessarily translate well between languages, because different problems need to be solved. Each language is a bag of features that need to work well with all the other features included in the language.
Economies of scale that it can drive from its platform given that it will have the largest base of customers as well as suppliers. It is very close to what Amazon did to bookstores and eventually to ecommerce business.
Airlines don't own planes (generally). They lease them
Yeah I would actually pay for it!

I'm a freelancer consultant and I get decent clients reaching out to me from Reddit.

I read about CompSci and Machine Learning almost on daily basis and the subreddits that I visit help me on that stand point a lot.

But here is the deal! People Love freaking drama and some thrive on it. So whenever there is a 0.1% of drama it gets amplified.

Also one other thing! I respect the HN community, but I've seen harsher feedback & more harassment here than Reddit.

PS: I'm a 5 years club member on Reddit.
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The government paid 1.5 trillion for an employment program for upper income engineers and managers that happened to produce a fighter jet as a side effect.
If cupcake tasting is girly, then call me girly. And pass me a cupcake please.
How about "interning" strings [1]? This is also useful for storing larger strings.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_interning
This is why defense in depth is important. Even without anticipating a 9.0 earthquake, they could have anticipated that their floodwalls would fail for an unspecified reason, and desighned the plant to be resiliant to flooding in the event of flood wall failure.
We used them in my education too.

Do you have the track?[1] It can help with the concrete/abstract correlation.

[1] http://marcialmiller.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/0...
Please stop repeating this misconception. To date, less than $100 billion (that's one hundred thousand millions) USD has been spent on the program. Total cost of research and development is $54.9 billion, the rest is the cost of acquiring the aircraft that have been purchased thus far.

The cost to acquire 2,443 aircraft (the currently planned production run) is $257.2 billion in 2012 USD. Operations costs for the next 55 years are projected to be either $597.8 billion USD (if you believe CAPE) or $535.8 billion USD (if you believe the JSF Program Office).

Both of those organizations have projected the total cost of the program and have said either $1016.5 billion (CAPE) or $859.0 billion (JPO).

All data taken from this document http://defense-update.com/files/member/JPO-SAR-14.PDF, which is an official extraction from a much longer and more involved report, which you can view here: http://breakingdefense.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2014/0...
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May I ask, where do you generally go to get clients' interest on reddit?
Okay, okay, you are right of course, the light efficiency is very different, although the heat may not be an altogether unwanted by-product in many cases. There are also more efficient ways of getting light from petroleum than sticking a wick in it. But if you do want the benefits of LEDs, there are better ways of getting the energy than lifting sacks to the ceiling. It's still 180 meters for a pair of AA rechargeables.

I genuinely don't think the hazards are at all contrived, and range from the grave if unlikely to the mild but virtually certain. You are surely going to knock your head on this massive hovering, albeit reasonably well lit, object on a regular basis, and it might not be as soft and rounded as the illustration. On the floor, in dark mode, you'll be tripping over it, which doesn't always end comically. Reasonable precautions not withstanding it's not impossible that it could crush or smother something beneath it even at its snail's pace, but more likely it could come down hard through overloading, wear or misuse. It's really not something I'd want in a family home.

It is a nice idea and obviously of the very best intentions but I'm afraid it's simply misguided and efforts would be far better directed towards battery plus solar. Sorry.