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hiouon Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change

> The Northeast corridor is completely owned by Amtrak.

To quote the Boston Globe "Under an agreement signed in 2003, Amtrak has used, maintained, and dispatched trains on the Attleboro line — the MBTA tracks between Boston and the Rhode Island line — for free."[0]

[0] https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/04/18/mbta-seek-penal...

Seriously, stop it. You are just making stuff up. Why are you doing that?

hiouon Bringing ChakraCore to Linux and OS X

Why was this down voted?

Edit: Seriously, with all the down voting of normal comments like this one. If you have an issue with something someone wrote enough to down vote it at least be enough of an adult to own up to it and explain why instead of being sneaky.

hiouon Twitter's Fucked

And you honestly don't think machine learning will be able to detect that as a gun sale?

hiouon Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change

A solo ride in a car could be worse than a full plane on a cross country trip. But a train or bus is typically(there may be some edge cases) going to be much better than an airplane.

Also, long distance passenger trains absolutely do not reduce freight transport. They lease the the use of the tracks which provides additional income to the freight carriers and the freight carriers have right of way at all times on the tracks. On top of that the Northeast Coast(Washington, DC and north) lines in the US are electric.

Did you just randomly make this stuff up? It is completely false information.

hiouon Scientists caught off-guard by record temperatures linked to climate change

Stop or significantly reduce animal consumption.

Stop or significantly reduce driving.

Stop or reduce flying.

That's all there is to it. A quarter of the US does that and we meet all our targets. Stop being a wimp and suck it up and do what's right. It's very obvious and doable.

hiouon Show HN: Web Design in 4 minutes

I have my brightness as low as it can go on every device and #000 on #fff is definitely not fun for my eyes.

hiouon Book Piracy as Peer Preservation

So if I start a pizza place across the street from another pizza place I'm a thief? Or even worse gave away free pizza!? The horror. Didn't realize it was a basic human right for a business to make a profit. Nor did I realize it was the governments responsibility to ensure a business makes a profit. Enlightening stuff I'm learning today.

hiouon Time Management at Khan Academy

Some highlights you may want to relay to them if you know them.

> Given my couple-year goals, am I focusing on the right spheres in my life?

> my professed purpose is "expand the reach of human knowledge and ability"; my current vision is "do that by making powerful ideas more learnable and by helping more people become life-long learners"

> which I create based on what I and my team are accountable for delivering to the company.

> I can't ignore my email, but I also can't let it dominate me. <- dominate? wtf?

That's just a few examples but this stuff is pretty cringey and detached from basic humanity.

hiouon Time Management at Khan Academy

Those first two sound like pompous self important over achievers in the worst way. The other two sound very straightforward and down to earth. I'm guessing the latter are the ones that do the work and the former are managers.

hiouon Nexus phones now identify suspected spam callers

Probably because it's possibly liable.

hiouon Introduction to Zipline: A Trading Library for Python

You would probably have as much luck correlating features like whether your neighbors kid was at the bus stop or had to run to catch it each day and the amount of times your neighbor complained about someone not cleaning up their dog's poop that week. Bullshit random edge case features don't get any better or worse if they come from the internet.

In regular trading(algorithmic or not) you really need some non-trivial insight that for some reason no one else will have.

hiouon Fare Hacking on BART

When you are some kid in their parents basement and figure out ways to scam money from public transit you are rebelling as a natural part of childhood.

When you are a well skilled and very well payed employee of a high profile tech company you are essentially having fun at the expense of the public servants who work(for a lot less money) to provide essential services to the public.

Maybe those reading this can take this as a lesson in tone and tact.

hiouon Hard Forks

This is my concern. There will forever be a giant asretisk after all crytocurrency rules now.

* Unless a significantly bad event happens to anyone with enough power to fork it.

hiouon Verizon nears deal to acquire Yahoo

Seriously? Someone needed to down vote that comment? Take it easy, not everyone knows everything. Yikes.

hiouon Ask HN: Interview tomorrow – How to learn whether an org is “healthy”?

Communication problem is the biggest red flag there is in my personal opinion. I have never had a communication problem and no skilled manager or executive ever will. Because it only takes one side to have effective communication.

hiouon Why I’m Suing the US Government

I didn't down vote you because I don't agree with anonymously down voting people when I disagree with a comment like a sneaky coward, but maybe I can shine a little light on a possible disagreement.

Twitter is made up of it's shareholders and workers. The workers have been receiving a salary(profit essentially). Twitter shareholders make money when the market cap goes up(profit essentially). It's likely a semantics discussion about what "profit" specifically means to each person more than anything.

hiouon 99 Bottles of OOP

Does anyone know how ruby specific this gets? Is it more about general software development while simply using ruby as the vehicle or is it something only ruby specialists would get something from?

hiouon Why California is so expensive: It’s not just the weather, it’s the regulation

Nope. Brexit style armchair quarterbacks all the way down.

hiouon John Carmack on Inlined Code (2014)

I think this is a great example of something that is different for an exceptional developer as opposed to an average one.

A developer like Carmack and likely the teams he works with are able to keep a much larger system in their head at one time than an average developer.

And this is typically why they can write larger functions like that and get away with it.

A less talented developer will be much more likely to introduce bugs near the top of that function over time as they struggle to maintain the entire function in there head.

Sometimes choosing the correct tool has more to do with the craftsman than the craft.

hiouon Millennials 'set to earn less than Generation X'

Young people in developed nations are the next wave to get hammered by globalization. The capital markets aggressive search for efficiency will leave no developed world worker unscathed until they are all at parity with developing nations. But if it's any consolation they aren't the only ones. The only difference is that most of the baby boomers made it into the asset class before globalization was in full swing.

hiouon India’s Reusable Launch Vehicle Demonstrator Successfully Flight Tested

> The vehicle’s Navigation, Guidance and Control system accurately steered the vehicle during this phase for safe descent

Fortunately, that isn't directly applicable to ballistic missiles and certainly couldn't have anything to do with this project. /s

hiouon Couchdrop – Secure cloud upload server

When you use an OS that is well known for rendering html/css issues I can't see why you would be surprised and not direct that to Apple.

hiouon Couchdrop – Secure cloud upload server

Curious why you don't direct that at the company responsible for iOS?

hiouon Blaze CSS – Open Source Modular CSS Framework

BEM basically gets rid of combination of classes because some people feel as though it is very difficult to locate every location of a class in css. So if you typically only define styles for any element once(or once for every font, color etc section) you are less likely to have unexpected changes. A lot of times it happens in reverse.

  <section class="frogs">
    <h1 class="headline frogs__headline">Frogs</h1>
  </section>

  <section class="frogs">
    <h1 class="headline">Frogs</h1>
  </section>

So in the second one some sadness happening possibilities of a developer being a jerk:

1. Removes the "frogs" class from section. Now the baseline headline applies to the h1

2. Buries this joy somewhere

  .frogs h1 { sadness: here; }

3. Wraps the h1 in a div or something clever for some effect or whatever

  <section class="frogs">
    <div class="sweet-slider-plugin">
      <h1 class="headline">Frogs</h1>
      ...
    </div>
  </section>

and someone wrote the rule as

  .frogs > .headline

because further down in the section someone else used the .headline class nested in a "frog of the day" sub section.

I'm definitely not trying to say BEM is what you have to use. Or if it is good or bad. Just trying to explain that there is an actual point to it.

hiouon Google deletes artist’s blog, a decade of his work

Thanks Dad.

hiouon Unity raises $181M round at a reported $1.5B valuation

"It" not "they". This is like saying Google moved to Ireland.

hiouon Pokémon Go is everything that is wrong with late capitalism

But in "late capitalism" all that money going to those large corporations has to go somewhere else. And that record low interest on government debt definitely has something to do with this. So when all these corporations are flush with cash they are actually flush with stuff like 10 year treasury notes and US real estate purchased in US dollars. Which means the entire world economy is essentially feeding the US extremely cheap money. How someone can reason that is bad for a US resident is bizarre.

hiouon Pokémon Go shows that Nintendo's franchises are way bigger than its hardware

Judging by the stock of late I would say the wealth of their shareholders. Which is the actual goal of a corporation as opposed to improving products after acquisition which is just one of many possible means to that goal.

hiouon Announcing TypeScript 2.0 Beta

undefined typically means it has yet to be defined whereas null means it does not have a proper value set. For example I use null where there is an exception an cannot set a variable to a sane value.

When I see null it means a value could not be set or that it was intentionally unset. undefined means it was never set in the first place.

hiouon Yoshi (YC S16) launches “set it and forget it” vehicle re-fueling service in SF

> You could imagine what could happen if a fueling truck went into a parking garage under a commercial or residential building, it would not be a good outcome.[0]

[0] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-02/gas-delive...