skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The solution is simple: just stop reading anything on the Daily Mail related to climate change. Or any conservative tabloid, since AGW is nowadays not a matter of science, but of left vs. right... and the right is getting more and more fanatical and wrong as years pass by: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T4UF_Rmlio
Seems to be a open source clone of WriteRoom (http://www.hogbaysoftware.com/products/writeroom) - pretty much identical
Agreed with all of the above. You could make something out of ten.tld, but digitalmedia.tld is so utterly bland, generic and overused it would automatically mark you in my mind as being not very imaginative.
When I was in school I was lucky enough to find a place that offered a mix of wing chun, kali, muay thai, and moves from arts like silat. This was before the MMA/BJJ craze so there was not much "grappling" at the time. I could not find a similar school in the Bay Area so I went to Fairtex. I don't think it developed any skills directly related to programming, but it was a lot of fun.
For a more recent example of this technique, see Batman: Arkham Asylum

http://www.neowin.net/news/deliberate-glitch-foils-batman-ar...

"It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code."
Maybe product != service, or something.
C-x 1.
what about using vim with your terminal set to full-screen mode?

Edit: or in-terminal emacs ;) iTerm for Mac OS X has a nice full-screen mode
Impressive: Asphalt 5 3D Game by Gameloft on Bada OS powered Samsung Wave phone
All martial artists know from extensive research on internet forums, that 99% of street fights go to the ground.
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Possibly.

But if you're going to predict the End Of The World, you need to be careful about how you do it. Because you're competing with a long history of crazy people making the exact same sort of prediction, all of whom were wrong.

So if you want to distinguish Climate Change from Asteroid Impacts, Africanized Killer Bees, Antibiotic-resistant Bacteria, Russian Nukes, Mayan Calendars, and the dozens of other things that we've forgotten about in the last few decades, all of which were set to End The World in the next few years, you'll need to tread lightly.

I'd suggest being the reasonable side of the debate. The one with the facts, research and data. And the one that never resorts to name calling.
I don't like deontological ethics, I especially don't like this sloppy kind. It seems extremely implausible that the moral benefits of a crime could never outweigh its cost. The US has assassinated A LOT of al Qaeda and Taliban members in the "war on terror", is it more permissible if they do it with a drone (even if it does cause more collateral damage) because it just "seems more like war" than the James Bond stuff Mossad has been up to?
Greater Boston is kind of a special case, because although public transportation is terrible, the historical preservation groups have a lot of pull. Historical preservation groups don't like parking lots anyway.
They should have made it a pirate level where pirates with eyepatches steal your points.
Agreed. But in this case, neither the file server provider nor the backend storage provider can see your data - speaking to Jesse quickly at PyCon this seems to have been a very deliberate design decision.
What an amazing video introduction. I think more websites should do something like that. I'm really tired of watching video presentations of programmers clicking through a bunch of menus to show me how easy the product it.

Excellent approach good job.

I also love the idea. It's like Dropbox, but for enterprise users!
That's not how I read it all. Here is the closing statement from this piece:

They were afraid that any data they allowed to be characterised by non-climate scientists would be vulnerable to propagandistic distortion. And they were right.

Most people seem to routinely ascribe evil intentions to whomever they view as "antagonists" for some reason. I don't find that is typically true. This article pretty clearly takes that same position (and you seem to agree with it). I really don't think that is what most people do at all. But taking the position that someone else is being intentionally misleading is a great way to deepen the rift, if that is your goal. If your real goal is to get better information out there, it's a terribly counterproductive thing to do.
Honestly, I'd like to do this but have a margin on the sides but haven't figured out how.

I would forever be your e-servant if you know how to do that. I'm sure I could figure out some hack, but it's just something I'd rather not work on.
Sales figures are a closely guarded secret. Today, rough (monthly) console sales figures in the US are published, but not PC games, digital downloads etc.

I don't think that there should be any obligation for the publisher to release sales figures. However, without some hard figures it's really difficult to make any sort of judgement about whether DRM (and a crack) actually affects sales or not.
Parking is also one of the lowest-overhead ways to generate income from a property. Low cost to get started, and very little in the way of operating expenses and maintenance.
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hmmm sorry don't know how to do that. one semi-gross hack is to simply open up 3 vertical buffers in vim/emacs and have two of them be empty :)
How replaceable is a founder?
I think Aikido is a very good option, not only to programmers, but to all the people. It's a martial art which is meant to preserve the integrity of both players. Both mental and body health are the main concerns of this martial art.
The ironic thing about all this is that your application probably drove more business to HARO than the other way around.

Personally, I'd never heard of HARO until you mentioned it. Since your site was pretty much empty and I wanted to network with reporters, I went over and signed up for HARO. In the end, they gained a user and you did not.
If those are the only two options on the table, I would go with ten.tld and do a promotional campaign around the idea of it being "A perfect ten" (on a scale of one to ten) kind of thing. Of course, you haven't said what you are doing currently, why you are wanting to rebrand...etc. So please realize that answer is probably only as good as the data it is based on, which is not much.
i have no idea how martial arts would help my programming other than some kind of meditation-centric art (shaolin?). i do arnis/eskrima, which are philipino martial arts. the hand to hand is similar to muay thai but a little more focus on defense like locks. the stick fighting is neat because your reflexes improve and you learn how to move (good for sparring). i imagine most weapons classes would be good to sharpen your hand-eye coordination.
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I second Aikido for a software developer martial art. It requires no physical force to apply techniques and control opponents (if you're a big burly guy your learning of Aikido will actually be hampered because the technique will work even if you don't do it properly), which is probably what you want if you're of average programmer build.

If you like attacking, Aikido is not for you though. The movements are strictly defensive.
Aquamacs: SHIFT-ALT-ENTER full-screens a frame. For side margins you can look at "fringe" settings.
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Your phrase a mildly interesting discussion to be had, about a little-understood phenomenon that might have some minor repercussions over the next few hundred years makes it clear that you have failed to understand what the mainstream of science is saying.

Even with small temperature changes there are large projected impacts from changing weather patterns causing drought in some areas and flooding in others. Think of the regular El Niño/La Niña oscillation to see how much small temperature changes change weather patterns. This is on top of ocean acidification which is already damaging coral reefs and could widely threaten all kinds of shellfish (and ecosystems dependent on shellfish) in our lifetimes. And there are small changes in ocean level projected, which have a disproportionately large economic effect because we have so much important commercial activity at the ocean/land boundary.

In truth there is a fascinating discussion to be had about how much and when. There are a lot of open questions and that discussion is hardly one-sided. For instance look at http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100127134721.ht... to see scientists projecting that the projected rate of increase of CO2 due to global warming (yes, increasing temperature releases natural CO2 which increases warming some more) is much less than had been projected. This will push us towards the lower end of what has been projected. Which, contrary to the yelling you hear from climate deniers, is far from nothing, and is not economically unimportant.

In short there is a fascinating scientific discussion going on about significant impacts that are likely within the coming decades. And if you subtract out the yelling on both sides, you might be able to hear it.
"I think it is also obvious that people who got the game from these DRM-crackers, and actually did want to play it, would not have ever paid for it."

You expect sales figures yet you say it's "obvious" that people that got the game from DRM crackers would never pay for it? Where are your facts to back this up? Do you really have any proof beyond a blanket statement?

"The developers would have been better off not spending any money whatsoever developing this copy protection. Unless they can provide evidence of a large increase in sales, I call BS. All they did was spend money developing a free game of "crack the DRM" to a bunch of nerds."

Right. We see how well that works. You seem to forget that DRM was created only recently, in response to mass piracy.

You would think that people would take the hint and stop pirating games. If this happened, schemes like DRM would start to disappear because companies would not want to waste the effort or the money.

The next step for game developers is software as a service, which has already started to happen.
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That's an odd list of catastrophes there. A couple of those, such as antibiotic-resistant bacteria and nuclear annihilation, turned out not to be catastrophes because efforts were taken to stop them from becoming catastrophes, not because scientists were wrong. In fact, the threat of antibiotic-resistant strains will never go away, but demands constant efforts to keep the problem in check.

Let me add one to your list: Y2K. As we approached the year 2000, a lot of intelligent people noticed a problem, documented how it could adversely affect society and advocated fixing the problem. Millions of dollars were spent, and thanks to those efforts, the problems were almost entirely mitigated (at least, insofar as the general public was concerned-- many annoyances, inefficiencies and strange bugs remain due to the manner in which problems were dealt with). While some people took a religious bent on the problem and started stockpiling food and batteries, we were fortunate in that cooler heads prevailed and dealt with a major problem.

Admittedly, Y2K never even threatened to be as large a problem as climate change is, but my point is that one can list examples all day long of times that society has faced a crisis and overcome it with lots of effort. That doesn't, however, mean that those who originally warned of the crises were wrong.
what about the local cache + write infinitely? howzat work? lifo?
JSON sniffing with UTF-7 injections
It will only work in browsers that support UTF-7, which as far as I know is only Firefox. The decoded UTF-7 injected code is as follows:

"}].sniff=[stealData,{"__IGNORE__":"
It will only work in browsers that support UTF-7, which as far as I know is only Firefox. The decoded UTF-7 injected code is as follows:

"}].sniff=[stealData,{"__IGNORE__":"
I believe that there are quite some parallels between world of "spycraft" and high technology.

I believe that personality traits and skill set for a successful spy are very similar to those of a top-notch hacker.

Both require an excellent all rounder with a creative spirit and strong sense for duty and loyalty. These are the kind of people, that can be relied upon to carry out their job without micromanagement.

People like that are few and far in between. And more significantly, when you start to displace them with mass produced "drones", they are the first who get the cue and they start leaving (Elves have left middle earth).

So for a final parallel - there have never been more people sought after in high-tech and the good ones have never been treated with more disrespect. Incidentally there has never been a bigger supply of crappy code/tech than today.

The difference is that business world can take such failures more easily - companies turn over and that's it.

In world of Intelligence - like the assassination attempt on Khaled Mashal - this is a failure of such magnitude that it will cost waaaay more than what was gained. Both in money and in credibility and prestige.
The sad thing is that people are willing to pay for WriteRoom.
For a large business, this looks like a great product. Way too expensive for an individual or very small company. Jungle Disk is a lot cheaper, and I am going to set my wife's MacBook up to use it since she is not so good about backing up frequently to Time Machine. Personally, I use a remote git server, and frequently back up the remote git directories to S3. The only problem is this is not secure if remote servers get hacked so there is quite a bit of proprietary work (mostly for customers) that only gets backed up by zip/gnupg copied manually to S3. I would like to use some form of encrypted git but that is not (I am fairly sure) practical.
While the eyebrow example is wrong, let's assume that the gist was correct.

In general, folks tend to produce things that other people are willing to pay for. Why should pharma be any different? And why is this wrong?

You want more drugs that save peoples lives? Great! So do I. Here's how we do it.

Make it possible for folks to get rich on drugs that save people's lives. Note - cost controls won't do it (unless we're talking about controlling regulatory costs).
Given that there is an immense amount of money involved in the fossil fuel industries, it's hard (and even, in my opinion, unwise) to not ascribe ill motives to those who start such lies. When it comes to climate change, the denialists have spent so much time, effort and money on propagating patent falsehoods that I think we are completely justified in saying that we have applied Hanlon's razor [1], but that the falsehoods we are now seeing take root cannot be ascribed to stupidity alone.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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If that is true then it is indeed dismaying.

I will mention that college level English departments should not need to teach basic English grammar. I would expect that anyone requiring help in that area would be directed towards remedial courses (or a different discipline).

My (small) experience with the English department , was that it did indeed teach English literature... (although really you should be getting an education in not just English literature, but literature in general). Of the few classes that I took, I found it to be very multidisciplinary. It bridges philosophy, sociology, history and art (at the very least).

In reality, very few people who graduate from college actually end up publishing a book, let alone a one that is really worth reading.

I think it will be very hard for you to pull together specific data about what major will write a well evidenced book in some subject, but it seems to be begging the question to say that a computer science major is more likely to write a book on public policy than English or Business majors. It is kind of a speculative claim.

I personally consider college education to be a process of learning how to learn.

Yes you are forced to focus in a specific discipline, but the end result of an English undergraduate degree is not to be an expert able to discuss the western literary cannon (that is the point of a PHD). I would expect an English undergraduate to spend his or her time reading books mindfully and learning how to recognize the themes, ideas and relevant social commentary from the book.

That sort of meta-cognition is what makes you good at learning in general. Being good at generalized learning is much more useful that having abstruse knowledge of Chaucer...
This article is scary.

To me it seems that we are just creating more powerful strains of various bacteria with our use of anti-biotics.

May be it is time we need to look at alternate ways to enhance our immunity so that we are not that much susceptible to bacterial (or virus) infection.

May be alternative medicine or Michael Pollan way of eating.

Any ideas?
Ask HN: Psychology research on value perception of different pricing models?
I asked this over at ask.metafilter, but I thought it'd be at least as valuable to ask here too:

I'm developing a service that I'm going to sell as a subscription with additional top-up payments as required. The idea of a subscription is really nice, as it provides a guaranteed base income per customer. However, the total value of a customer is dependent on the length of time they remain a customer (I know, obvious).

For this product, the subscription payment is a credit towards the use of the service. Commonly (such as in the cellphone subscription model), these credits are "use it or lose it" on a periodic basis. From a business perspective, I understand how the subscription designer would like to be able to "capture" the revenue as quickly as possible and have a handle on the profit level per customer. Also, the customer often has to "hit a hole in one" to maximize their value from the subscription pricing.

However, another model is possible - where the customer's unused credit accrues over each subscription period (this is the "rollover minutes" thing on steroids). This will result with the customer seeing that they have, say, $150 in "potential value" associated with the subscription - an amount many times more than the subscription amount, and something they will lose if they decide to cancel the service.

I'm interested in research into how people react to these kinds of situations, and whether there is a "breaking point" at which the customer decides that the potential value has become a liability rather than a positive thing.

NB: I don't see the pricing model as being a substitute for a great product, but everything matters.
Another vote for Wing Chun for being great. I trained several martial arts in my youth and here are my thoughts on some of them that I have at least some experience with.

- Taekwondo (and karate styles) - do them if you're in it for sport factor. They are mostly based on "hard style" which means physical training, repetition, power and endurance.

- Wing Chun - Excellent kung fu MA and probably the easiest to get into (Wushu being the oposite and acrobatic). Great ROI on time invested and no need for hard training.

- Jiu Jitsu - excellent complementary MA for kung fu styles (like wing chun or wushu) since they are considered "weak" on the floor.

- Shorinji Kempo - probably the most balanced MA out of them all I've seen (I'll explain later)

- Kenjutsu - if you'd like to train with the sword :)

What you have to realize though is that you're not in it to be a ninja or whatever, you'll not fight anyone on the streets flying all over and shooting power orbs (right?), so you have to ask yourself what you'd like to train for.

As a fellow that sits around computers for long times I recommend one of these:

a)
- Qigong - this is the base for everything, you will feel health benefits from it and geenrally feel more power flowing through you. If you can pick only one do this. Wing Chun is 99% accompanied with Qigong (also sometimes called Chi gung, kung) practice.

you can accompany Qigong with either Wing Chun (and Jiu Jitsu) if you want to train to be a competent defensive fighter or you can substitute Wing Chun with Tai Chi (Chuan) which is basically a battle version of Qigong so you can train only Tai Chi.

or b)

- train Shorinji Kempo and accompany it with Qigong

I also hear rather good things about Aikido and Hapkido, but I have no exposure to them.
Oh, come on. Yes, it is a nice gesture and yes, people should know that being nice goes around but this is really not worth a submission. Just add a comment on the original post.
Very true. Martial arts have different beneficial aspects, but if your only concern is winning street fights, from my understanding all you really have to do is become an accomplished boxer and wrestler.
I agree wholeheartedly, modulo your very last sentence. I think that "yelling," as you put it, is a valid, defensible and necessary response to the yelling of the denialists, provided that one only yells things which are true. The other side has not been playing nice for quite some time, and that scientists have done themselves a disservice (along with the rest of society) by being unwilling to respond to denialist canards repeatedly and loudly. It's a tiresome and thankless job (just as the biologists), and one that I find myself poorly cut out for, but I do think it's needed.
"Of course, I'm highly biased in that regard."

This prompted me to look at your info and now reading your website (http://www.healthgazelle.com/) and I am pleased, to say the least.

I added my comment above (or below where ever it appears) without reading your website.
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Good point, my bad for submitting it.
I'm not sure how to remove it

An echo of good things isn't necessary in here (but is useful outside HN)
I'm currently using ten.tld as my company name and domain. Recently I've secured digitalmedia.tld and thought that its straight-forward self-explanatory nature would give a boost to my business. Thank you for your input, it's a valuable lesson.
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I haven't read that one, but I read Garrett's earlier one, "The Coming Plague" - it was an hysterical, anti-Western, fear-mongering eco-nut screed. In the decade and a half since she wrote it, not a single one of the "plagues" she claimed were about to break out across the world has shown any signs of getting worse, much less becoming the sort of widespread "disaster" she claimed was imminent.
I'm sorry, I don't see it that way, even given "conflict of interest" or whatever else you might want to call it. It looks to me like the immense amount of money involved in the fossil fuel industries is basically a survival/self-preservation issue. And so is trying to clean up the environment so the species as a whole can survive. It generally does not help to disregard the short-term survival needs of the people you are arguing with and leap straight to an assumption of "malice", which assumes they actively want to hurt people. Willingness to disregard the welfare of others (or downplay long-term negative consequences out of fear of the short-term consequences) because one has a compelling survival issue is not the same thing as malice. I also believe firmly that in many cases they really just don't see a problem, at least not one compelling enough to embrace/justify the kind of "radical" positions that the opposition takes.

I live without a car. In online forums where I talk about my choice to live without a car, it sometimes gets very freaked out reactions from people. People who are in no position to give up their car find my views and my choices very personally threatening. I see no reason to vilify them for such feelings and every reason to do all in my power to not vilify them. In most conflicts, both sides feel the other side "started it". In many cases, no one intentionally started anything. The friction that exists is very often inherent to the circumstance and not indicative of human evil.