skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you have any actual evidence that climate researchers are paid "to confirm AGW"? (I take it that by that you mean that if they published work, of equal quality to what they actually publish, that cast doubt on AGW then they would get paid less or fired.)

What do you think that rigging the peer-review process accomplished?

> it's because evolution is, in fact, correct, and studying enough biology to get paid for doing it usually leads people to realise this. So you'd need to rule out that sort of explanation in the case of climate science.

Are you asserting that AGW is as "settled" as evolution? If not, the analogy doesn't hold and neither does the conclusion that you'd like to impose.

Climate researchers outside of CRU are acknowledging that the thumb was on the scale. Is denying that really the hill that you want to defend?

In science, being a "good person" doesn't count as evidence. Neither does "the folks who disagree are bad people". AGW may turn out to be real (although that's looking unlikely), but it will take us much longer to find that out because "good people" behaved badly and did cargo cult science. Which reminds me - why do we consider them good people?

In addition to rigging peer review and trying to stack grant committees, it's pretty much SOP to add some blather about "consistent with AGW" to almost anything these days, in part because that's how the money flows. Of course, this isn't new. We saw the same thing with AI and "computers".
Ask HN: Should I go with Chromium or Google Chrome?
Much to my chagrin, I just found out that I have both Chromium and Google Chrome installed on my Ubuntu laptop; furthermore, they're different. Does anyone have any advice about which one is better to stick with, and why? Which one will be better kept up-to-date, which has (and will have) better features, etc?
Hmm,

Mackey is kind of nutty and so is his clientèle. What's the problem? (I'm long time customer myself)
I just finished reading "The Snowball" (Buffett bio) and can recommend it highly. You get a real sense of what it takes to follow Buffett's dictums to (taken from the book):

1. not lose money

2. see rule number 1

3. never go into debt

Buffett only uses a computer to play bridge, "helicopter" and read newspapers. Pretty long way from Ehrenberg's #1 - "Machine-driven trading will continue to proliferate, and represent a sustained source of alpha."

I had to look up alpha http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/alpha.asp

I think while it is likely anything new will be computerized, overused, and consequently cause "alpha" it will not be sustained. For anything sustained will be met with a financial instrument to hedge the alpha away (see LTCM). As we saw that hedge went spectacularly wrong.

Instead Buffett tries to find good management running undervalued companies that he thinks he understands to be selling something people need no matter what (and with which his substantial capital can assist). Its amazing how much personal effort Buffett has taken with his various acquisitions even when he was only a shareholder to help them through rocky times and so realize value.

Such a different perspective. Another Buffett rule: "Anything multiplied by zero is zero." Meaning if you constantly accept a small risk of losing it all you eventually will. Buffett prefers a higher margin of safety and look where that got him.

BTW, I bought informationarbitage.net long ago because I thought it was an interesting idea. More intersting still is to just happen across the guy that owns the .com variant posting to my daily feed.
Whole Foods actually has fairly cheap organic produce. As you say, organic is more expensive though.
Yeah totally. Except there's a lot less ad hominem attacks here :-)

Still, I miss reading Chas and Badger and those guys. I used to (mostly) lurk there a lot in the 90's and early naughties.
The shape of the graph should be exactly the same only shifted up or down. That's the good news. The bad news is that this is only true for a single station. The shape of the curve for the global average could be seriously affected by the fact that hundreds of new stations were being open around the world.
Central Market is cheaper, but it doesn't have the same atmosphere. I tend to go to Central Market more often because its closer than Whole Foods and because they have great live music on the weekends.
> That's the main point of a government mandated system. All computers must be sold with one.

What govt would resist the obvious temptation?
Have you got reference for the %2 in the Whole Foods Case? I remember natural food stores doing much better than conventional grocery stores a few years ago.
I'd take a stab that other things will not be as easy (for you) to pick up as a new programming language. You're on the right track with learning better english (if you feel its a weakness), think of other things that you consider hard (sometimes thinking of "boring" things can point out what you're bad at too) and target them.
Submitted 6 days ago. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1011280
That is pretty fascinating. It reminds me of an article I read some months back about one security specialist who got a sample of a bot, hacked into it, figured out how it communicated with the server via an IRC chat link and then created a "fake bot" which allowed him to spy on what the spammers were using the bots for (in this case to launch DDOS attacks). Eventually he made contact with the owner of the bot net and threatened him into shutting it down. It was some 13 year old kid.
There are a few left on google maps though

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
> The only thing I'm arguing is that anyone who has stake in a debate has an obligation to make that stake clear.

That's a nice goal, but it's not going to happen.

Which reminds me - it's not clear that "a stake" has a useful definition. One would like it to correlate with bias, but most biases have nothing to do with money. In fact, it's the true believers who are the most dangerous in this respect.
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and that's when you switch to your backup with 1,000 videos, while all those users, you woudln't have had otherwise, go and restore the site's content using something like Vimeo.
We have a government mandated military. Most governments do. What keeps them from using it to enforce it's will?
Maybe I'm being pedantic, but you need a better explanation than you have offered olegk. Google wrote their quick link feature with the intent of applying it to all URLs they index. Torrent index sites categorise their content with the intent of applying it to all torrents they index.

If the vast majority of URLs on the internet were infringing copyright, would you still support Google's right to index them?

I wonder what percentage of an index needs to refer to infringing content before allowing users to search the index is considered facilitating infringement. This percentage seems to be (a large part of) what judges use as evidence of intent.
As an aside, the USA doesn't have anything like free market healthcare. Tax laws have given such an upper hand to health insurance companies, patent laws have given a huge upper hand to big pharma (particularly 'use patents', e.g. patenting a pink Prozac for PMS), and malpractice lawyers have doctors on the defensive.

Now, doctors are likely to do something just to keep from being sued, pharma companies are free to charge whatever they want to certain classes of patients relying upon or otherwise using a particular drug (their preferred patient is one who will depend for life on a drug that they have the sole treatment for,) all of them have a huge information asymmetry advantage giving them even more monopolistic pricing power, and patients are often left in the dark, with close to no ability to reason about crucial and extremely expensive decisions (do you know what will be covered in your health insurance plan? Do you know what something will cost before you get the medical bill?)

Plastic surgery might be one of the sectors most akin to a free market, since it's typically elective (save for reconstructive surgery) and hence insurance companies have less of a say. But still.

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The existence of a free market is an astonishing myth to be held so commonly. I exhort you to take a close look at a few business sectors, to see where the wealth and power is distributed. How many cities have more than one daily newspaper? In many sectors the advantages of scale are so great that it leads incontrovertibly to a few big players. The power of scale in certain industries is so great that in GE under Jack Welch, they were #1 or #2 in their sector, or they were out. And as soon as there's a monopoly, or an oligopoly, the tendency is to build this huge moat around their business, using whatever means available, and that freezes this supposedly free market even more.
The PDF was created by 'CrowdPub.com' which isn't an active domain. Anyone know who they are and what they do?
I counted them, there's about 59 of them in that shot.
Local news nbc news international news television
yes it's a demo. And this UKIjs is 0.0.1 as per their site. But nevertheless, the demo on their homepage (hwlloworld button) impressed me. It souunds way simpler than Cappuccino or Sproutcore. Because Capp and sproutcore need config. But this sounds like, just embed the js directly in the page and it generates the page elements. Anyway, what it actually becomes/transforms into in the next few months will be interesting. I'm looking for an alternative to Sproutcore/Cappuccino that's not complex and needs little config and files (like one file jquery includes) :)
Awww, what a shame! The sea lions were the only genuinely nice thing about that whole miserable tourist strip. I loved watching them just lie there, completely chilled out, with no cares in the world except whether they wanted more fish yet.
It's not that part of the comment that's getting it downvoted, it's the first bit.
If I want to get myself up to speed on an issue, idea, or problem I examine the issue from as many angles as possible, then start narrowing my focus. Some of my "first round" selections taken out of context might look pretty bad but give me the necessary feedback that I am on track and what is reality and what is not. It's really the money that I find bothersome.
I second that. I'm on vacation.
Not really the same ground. Hilarious and insightful though.
Every business takes risks.

If you build a business that relies on a single other player's API, you risk having them encroach on you when you become successful.

If you insist on never putting yourself at anyone's mercy (either by writing your tools from scratch or waiting until you have a cross-platform solution), you risk being trounced by someone else who does, or spreading yourself too thin and delivering a mediocre product.

The former concerns me; the latter terrifies me.

Countless people have become rich by building products that depend on one company's platform (think iPhone, Windows, Office, .NET, Facebook, etc). This post is just a reminder that it's not a panacea.
Someone probably sold their place and invalidated its rent controlled status...
I think it was Joey Hess:

- http://kitenet.net/~joey/cvshome/ (CVS)

- http://onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/06/svn_homedir.html (SVN)
I never did see the arrow in the FedEx logo... until now!
What if you're also contributing to other projects that don't use git(hub)?
5 ways to prevent clickjacking on your website (and why they suck)
It could for instance be more durable because it doesn't fade due to ultra-violet light breaking down the pigment.
Please, fix the wording "would a fundamental conflict". A missing verb perhaps.

> I, the Undersigned, use MySQL professionally and believe that Oracle, if it acquired Sun's MySQL, would a fundamental conflict of interests between MySQL...
Inventables, Material and Technology Marketplace
Any list of traditional stylists in MMA is incomplete without mentioning the san shou artist Cung Le. Akiyama doesn't belong there because Judo is an ancestor of Jiu Jitsu and squarely in the MMA mainstream. Pat Barry isn't that good, although his weakness stems primarily from having the grappling game of a quadraplegic - his striking is okay.

The only fighter at the top levels that uses a traditional style as his main art is, again, the ever-notable karateka Lyoto Machida. But at first his point-fighting karate style meant that he seldom ever finished his opponent, having a high rate of fights go to decision. Over the years he has managed to adapt it to a more heterodox and more dangerous style. The outcome of the immediate rematch against Mauricio "Shogun" Rua will have a lot to say about whether or not karate can hold its own in a sport dominated by Thai boxers. While Machida won a close and disputed decision in the first fight, he will likely be the odds-makers' underdog going into the second.

In some sense, you are fighting for your life in MMA. The ref stops the fight and declares a TKO when one combatant is no longer intelligently defending himself, i.e. when his life is effectively in his opponent's hands. Suffering real damage and having the mercy of the referee as the only obstacle to departing for the next realm motivates fighters to stick to what is effective.
The Big Ten (college sports conference) logo has an eleven in negative space, on either side of the "T". (There are now 11 teams.)

http://www.bigten.org/
Twilio is one of the best startups I've seen or used- they have a brilliantly simple and useful product. You can do a ton with it, it's cheap, and it's all done using dead simple XML.

Look through the rest of their blog- there's a ton of great uses for their service.

(And yes, I know I sound like head of their marketing department- but their product really is that great.)
There are these projects which seem to be utterly pointless and nonsensical, but are nonetheless cool. This is one of them.

In other words, I cannot stop screaming "why?" while admiring his work.
Chromium will give you the latest builds. You will also need to use it if you want to use plugins on Linux or Mac.
Fern Frost-Geometry in nature
Sure. Among interviewed subjects - Bertrand Russel, Jawaharlal Nehru, Albert Schweitzer, Nabokov, Dali, Martin Luther King, Jean-Paul Sartre, Frederico Fellini, Fidel Castro, Arnold Toynbee, John Kenneth Galbraith, Ralph Nader, William Buckley, Jr., Albert Speer, George McGovern, R. Buckminster Fuller, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Milton Freedman, Tennessee Williams, Walter Cronkite, Jimmy Carter, Edward Teller, William Shockley, Lech Walesa, Ansel Adams, Yasser Arafat, Carl Sagan, William Safire, Bill Gates, Salman Rushdie, Pope John Paul II.

Ok, I made one of those up. But just one.
Duplicate entry:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1018454

The submitter added the known "#' at the end of the linked URL to resubmit again.
Taking your request literally, 2 terabytes is equivalent to (roughly) one-37th of the currently-digitized items in the printed collection in the Library of Congress. Good day. :)

( citation: http://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2009/02/how-big-is-the-library-of-c... -- an interesting read on its own, as estimates of "libraries of congress" seem to wildly differ.)
You've never seen a security mirror (http://www.howstuffworks.com/question421.htm) before? They're what the parent posters are refering to...
Antibody finds, wipes out prostate cancer in mice
Isn't the simpler explanation just that the people communicating with totlol weren't the same ones responsible for the TOS change and that no one thought to connect the dots? It's not like google is a hive mind.

Why invoke conspiracy when mere inaction is a better explanation?
I think they have been reading Alex Payne's (al3x) Blog too much. ;-)

http://al3x.net/2009/12/16/in-which-im-not-alone.html
The same is true of ionic pigments, though. Only the organics fade in sunlight. Again, hardly an earth-shattering innovation. Might make it useful in toys where toxic pigments can't be used...
Among all the mistakes the US govt made due to post-9/11 paranoia (Iraq, Patriot Act...), this is comparatively a tiny one. Unsurprising.
YouTube has a big problem of third-party sites that blindly index their content for the sole purpose of selling ads on traffic derived from organic search results. From personal experience in working with google legal, I can tell you that the timing is likely coincidental. Regardless, they include such verbage for leverage in protecting brand identity and trademark. I suggest two things before jumping to conclusions: 1. Consult a lawyer, and 2. Work with your contacts at YouTube to get the right person to review your situation.

Good luck, and as a father-to-be I hope everything works out.
So long and thanks for all the fish!
In addition to a "flag" link on submissions, add a "spam" link so that we can start differentiating flags for inappropriate content and outright spam. I would imagine the algorithm could trust spam flags by users a little more since it's almost universally understood when a submission is spam versus just controversial.
That figures. The rapture comes, and in San Francisco, yes, I'd expect the sea lions would be the only ones to go.
I haven't heard this and it sounds interesting. Can you provide a link?
good job communicating your story, and good luck finding a day job.

and don't give up on a plan b for your site. think.......
It's definitely too big to be a wolf. The size would be appropriate for a bear, and bears are probably more likely than wolves anyway. It's not quite the right shape for a bear, but that's just my opinion.
Yanglei
Yeah, TV is almost there, next few years I figure.

Liquidity w/ print might be an issue, but a larger one is transparency: what's the available inventory? In principle that should be knowable across all media types, for a particular geography, demographic, etc, with some measure of cost and effectiveness. But for now, pulling together the right buy is a real bitch.
I'm currently using Chromium on Ubuntu. I find the dev builds to be buggy. It is not very stable and it has some really annoying display bugs.

I haven't tried Chrome yet, but if you are looking for stability I would trust it over Chromium.
It depends what you are using the index for.

If you investing in a mutual fund that is replicating the S&P 500, for example, it doesn't really matter except for transaction costs.

If you are using the S&P 500 as your baseline (e.g. to decide if an investment strategy is worth the effort) it doesn't matter at all.

If you are using the S&P 500 as a metric about the economy... it might matter. If there is frequent turnover in the composition it might indicate that the market is very volatile... (someone with more knowledge can probably tell me if this is true or not).
Spying on your citizens and enforcing martial law are two very different things. The US already (illegally) spies on its citizens. Giving it more ways of doing so is not a good idea.
Most of the youtube videos are pirated, unauthorized uploads. And people flocked to youtube to see a free version of latest * MTVs, without having to pay a single dime for it.
After his success with bay area humpback whales, James T. Kirk brought SF's sea lions to the future to repopulate.
I've definitely been too early in the past: "You're caller #6, please hang up and try again. <click>"
Ex-Employee Says Seagate Violated Law
I find logos like the following somewhat confusing:

http://weburbanist.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/brand-unio...

http://www.businesspundit.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/eat...
Any bio-nerds want to express opinions about this? Sounded super intriguing to me.
I don't understand why using gold makes any sense. For people saving for education, I can see why adjusting for tuition makes sense. For people in Europe, I can see why adjusting to the Euro makes sense. But gold isn't something anyone uses on a large scale basis (in the US anyway...). Unless someone is in the jewelery business, I can't see the purpose. In general, you would want to adjust to whatever you are using money for, which is what inflation attempts to do.
I like the guy who pretends to be a bush and scares tourists myself. How much does he make a year?
SICP distilled
As head of their marketing department, thanks for all the positive comments. I was pleasantly surprised to find this on Hacker News tonight, I hope it helps some folks set up inexpensive international calling

Danielle @ Twilio
Wow, great. Dead simple idea, yet clever.

More of these startups please, and less of the social-network / ad-eyeball dead horses.
District 9 is a movie about refugees made by a refugee.
Harm, as the law defines it, must be physical injury, monetary loss, severe emotional distress, or a substantial interference with recognized contractual rights.

Denying access to a manual is not a cognizable harm, since the customer is not contractually entitled to a manual. (Unless the box says, "Contents:...manual..."

Hence, no extortion, legally, or otherwise.

Furthermore, the manufacturer does not get to set return policies -- the STORE sets return policies. (Also, if the product was purchased with a credit card, the CC company should be more than happy to handle the billing dispute for you.)
A Tribute to Alan Turing (2006)
Well then the US does not have to do that then. They could just pay for our free McAfee or Norton... A credit perhaps even to allow us to buy it for free with a new computer.

Then the guys at McAfee or Norton can use this to curtail infections because they now have access to more computers, whereas right now they only have access to those willing to pay for their stuff.

My point was that if we can keep in checks and balances from the military from being abused, we can do the same for national computer security.
Would it be possible to reuse an existing HTTP caching solution like squid or nginx for the caching since s3 exposes a REST api?
Stop producing mediocre work
$60K, apparently.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_Famous_Bushman
Visuwords: Online Graphical Dictionary
Some other features I think would be good to add:
* a pin code, so that no just anyone who calls into the number can use it
* a way to add new people to the calling list from the IVR menu
* a way to check rates and spending from the IVR menu
* a way to gift other people with custom calling cards (a viral feature)
* a web based dashboard of minutes/spend

and how do make a bullet list on HN?
Agreed. I don't think he understands what extortion is. The threat of harm isn't just any harm, it must be actual harm to a recognized interest.

A product manual is not a recognized interest, especially where there is no contractual obligation to supply a product manual.