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Im not sure that is the case for controversial theories. Just take a look at the differing opinions on quantum theory (especially the argument over light quanta) and atomic structure in the past. That was pretty black/white for many years (by which I mean you had scientists very staunchly on both sides of the theories).

This black/white scenario is ripe for corruption by a (political) third party. They can play the two off against each other and ultimately try to present one as right or wrong.

Going back to the specific quote:

It seems to me that if one were to pick a population to corrupt, one would pick the intellectually lazy majority

As I read it DaniFong is saying that the general populace is being corrupted by denialists (agreed, as it happens). He uses this as a(n abstract) proof that non-denialist climate change science is accurate and scientists are not corrupted by political motives etc.

My argument is that firstly this is a tautology (because both could be true) and actually that both are true.

We've seen some politically motivated science hit the news even over the last month or so. Just as much it is clear that the denialists are trying to sway populists to their opinion through a combination of pseudo-science and (more often) by undermining the science (as you mention). Arguing that only one exists doesn't really work any more.

I think that if you want to hold an opinion on this you, sadly, have to go and do some realistic research of your own into the topics. It's no longer safe to trust politicians, activists (both for/against) or news agencies (and, yes, some scientists).

As an aside: this whole debate amuses me because as I observe it seems incredibly black/white for everyone involved. People are getting so hung up on whether we have an effect on climate or GW that it completely disconnects from the actual main issues. It seems often like there is a minority of people actually trying to do something sensible while the rest bicker of (albeit very important) meta-issues.

(btw I'm not a denialist :))
I think the original commenter was saying that "sign up" and "a video for sign up" are not good options. At least that is the way I understood "There are few business models" vs "there are a few business models."

The site is well done. It takes all of the technical aspects out of making a personal website, and I thought about something similar myself (including .com domains at a premium). However, the comments about it hijacking your twitter account and a complete lack of a privacy statement are a little scary.
American companies contract out factory work so they can wash their hands when improprieties show up. They know this shit goes on and their quest for greater profits is more powerful than their social conscience.

Apple could easily run the factory itself. If this meant a loss in profit then we must ask ourselves why it would mean a loss in profit. It would mean a loss in profit because Apple itself would never run a factory that was unsafe or exploited the workers. And this is the reason Apple and other Western companies share in the blame.
I would say Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. You can make good progress very quickly, it's a lot of fun, can be very demanding physically (but doesn't always have to) and is called "chess on the mat" which should appeal to a programmer's analytical minds.
Plus, there's a ton of BJJ ressources on the net and the community is very active.
It should glad me that everyone seems to discuss this with objective detachment. However, I am shocked that no one cared to touch the moral core of the matter : assassination of civil or political leaders is a crime.

Can you remember the outrage when Rabin was assassinated ? Can you imagine the outrage if Palestine assassinated an Israeli statesman ? What the Mossad did is no different.
doesn't matter as long as there is sparring. martial arts without sparring is a dance class. martial arts with sparring is an unmissable experience.
I don't know. It's always seemed more about point scoring. When we practiced against advanced students, they relied too much on kicks which aren't very practical against anyone who knows to move in. The sparring is too controlled. Plus, in real life you aren't wearing padding.

That's just my take. But then I think some of the mystical "crap" has a physiological basis. How many of us breathe deeply?
assassination of civil or political leaders is a crime

Taking your wording as my guide to the morality of the situation, I'll note that the Hamas person who was assassinated was not an elected political leader, but rather a gun runner and apparent assassin himself. He wasn't traveling under his real name in Dubai, it appears, nor was he traveling with a diplomatic or official (that is, government official's) passport.
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I really enjoyed BJJ for the short time I tried it. The problem is I could easily see overpaying for it, with poor teachers, in the current MMA context. My other concern is that it's more grappling than contact, which seems less practical. I had a strong background in wrestling (4 years)
and Karate (5 years) by that point. I really liked it, but I'm not sure it's right for a beginner.
Just imagine what kind of tow this will be on morale of other operatives.

Inquiries for employment on the Mossad website have reached levels never before seen. Lots of young Israeli people evidently think that now is a great time to become a Mossad operative.
I like to think that hunger and need help drive people to success. If you're making 15K a month, you probably aren't waking up nights struggling with the desperate urge to figure out something profitable.

I know a lawyer who was probably the most driven person I'd ever known, until she graduated law school. Hasn't taken an upwardly-mobile action since she got the job 16 years ago.
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Growing up we watched tons of martial art related shows because they "looked cool", but while my brothers took some courses I never did (I was teaching myself BASIC). Being older and seeing life a bit differently I see martial arts differently as well. I stumbled across a new show where I was surprised to see childhood action-hero Steven Seagal as a real sheriff. It's a good example to me of the real, rather than tv side, of martial arts, and I'd probably study Aikido if I got into something. Check this out: http://www.aetv.com/steven-seagal-lawman/video/?bcpid=468810...
Liveness analysis - the motivating example - is typically in the form of a set with one element per local variable. Most practical routines will have less than 32 or 64 variables, however, so even in practice a 32-bit or 64-bit word will be better. Also, you often have to compute other set operations, such as union, intersection and difference, rather than just membership and iteration.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu is very appealing to me because it's very "realist." In a real-world fight or confrontation between 2 people, most of the time (above 90%, I think) the combatants wind up on the ground. BJJ really teaches the student how to deal with fights on the ground. If you're in a ground fight, you need to know how to control the centre of gravity as well as the numerous holds and limb locks.
.24 seconds isn't fast at all.
The substance of the article is a lot more reasonable than the headline. Clearly there are people who honestly believe that global warming is real and argue it in good faith. Calling all climate change skeptics liars is simply wrong, and weakens climate position.

That said, calling out specific distortions/lies is totally fine. Take away the headline and that's what this post does.
How could US (or British for that matter) HUMINT operate in places such as PR-China

By taking advantage of the pervasive corruption in China to bribe Chinese nationals ("agents") who are cross-checked for their ability to provide the U.S. or British citizens ("operatives") with information. That's how the C.I.A. has long gathered a lot of its human intelligence in a lot of countries. It doesn't always work, but neither do any other country's attempts to gather intelligence always work against the United States or Britain.
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"Let's call the product Revipedia. The purpose of Revipedia is to be like Wikipedia, except that it serves as a reliable source on all topics, no matter how technical or controversial, and no matter how detached from reality the centrist mainstream may be."

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I agree completely, especially free sparring with few rules. Getting punched (or kicked) is an important experience to have and understand. The parasympathetic response is so powerful, the only way to truly understand it is to go through it.
Writing 0 to a register is, and that is what this is trying to compete with in practice. It's an approach that scales beyond 32 or 64 members for certain kinds of operations.
My other concern is that it's more grappling than contact

Grappling isn't contact?
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The problem is if you're a beginner, you think those locks are easy in the real-world. Meanwhile, you're getting punched and kicked in the head. Staying on your feet and knowing when to run like hell is just as important a skill, as is avoiding getting hit. BJJ works well in a cage and between two people. Keep in mind that's a very controlled environment.
The reality is that most people don't need or have much use for practical fighting skills, they need practical running skills.

Modern Taekwondo is a sport and it can be great fun. If you can find a good school that isn't just a belt factory, it's well worth doing. Particularly if they teach a little Hapkido on the side.
That's why PZ (author of the post) didn't do that. He said that climate change deniers lie. There are skeptics who argue in good faith, and they get drowned out by the sheer level of noise from the denialists who aren't interested in the truth.

I admit, though, that the headline is somewhat inflammatory. I didn't want to change it for my submission, though, as I felt it would be best to let the author choose the headline.
Poor choice of words. At that distance, you don't know what happens, and how to respond, when your bell gets rung.
Yes but think of the actual, trained operatives out there and not a boatload of wannabes who will for the most part turn out to be unsuitable.
I'm still waiting for the app that makes other household members shut up... now that would be distraction-free writing. :-)
Ask HN: Rebranding decision 
Hello,

I'm an avid reader of HN so I think this is the right place to get some advice on what to do next, as I'm facing a little problem with a rebranding decision.

I operate a web development agency and want to move our current portofolio and services under a new brand.

Which one do you think I should use:
ten.tld
or
digitalmedia.tld

I thought digitalmedia would be the best and most obvious choice for this business sector. This until I polled some of my current customers and quite a bunch told me that they like more the ten brand.

So please give me your opinion - what would you do?

Thank you, I really appreciate it.
Have a look at Wing Chun Kung Fu. Amazingly complicated and deep. Every move is defence and attack at the same time using minimum energy, quite relevant nowadays.
Sure, if you see it as an Olympic sport, I've got no complaint. But with all the colors, I have trouble seeing it as anything other than a belt factory.
It's a matter of debunking and dismissing, publicly, the misinformation that obscures this fact.

I'd be interested in analyses of the sources and purposes of this misinformation.

(As a man,) the first time I met a women who was very direct and frank about her experience of attraction and motivation, it was eye opening. Not entirely easy to take, but very elucidating.

So much of the "common", "public" information in (U.S.) society about attraction and mating is just plain bunk. Yet it persists.
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This is the part of the article I most like:

“You don’t really have much choice,” said Dr. Azza Elemam, an infectious-disease specialist in Louisville, Ky. “If a person has a life-threatening infection, you have to take a risk of causing damage to the kidney.”

Such a tradeoff confronted Kimberly Dozier, a CBS News correspondent who developed an Acinetobacter infection after being injured by a car bomb in 2006 while on assignment in Iraq. After two weeks on colistin, Ms. Dozier’s kidneys began to fail, she recounted in her book, “Breathing the Fire.”

Rejecting one doctor’s advice to go on dialysis and seek a kidney transplant, Ms. Dozier stopped taking the antibiotic to save her kidneys. She eventually recovered from the infection.

Of course, I'm highly biased in that regard. :-)
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Depends on what kind of programmer you are. If you do a lot of concurrent programming in C++ then chainsaw fencing should be right for you. An advanced Lisp programmer can practice blasting opponents with pure Chi energy.
At least the pharmaceutical companies are hard at work finding new drugs to make your eyelashes grow longer.
I kept the original title, but the pedant in me can't help but point out that there are very few people who are skeptical that climate exists. There are many more who are skeptical that global warming is caused by humans, which is what the guide is about.
I have a humanities degree myself (as my profile makes clear). It has been my dismaying observation that students in various colleges (sampled through parents I know trying out distance learning programs for their children) can't count on English departments to teach English grammar or English literature anymore. Perhaps it reinforces my point to mention that both of my paternal grandparents had degrees in English, so we have a family tradition of expecting achievement and learning to happen in English departments.

Frederick Crews is a good example of an English professor who is an intellectual, but he is a rare example.

provide some evidence that Literature degrees are useless

The submitted article already provided the example of the revealed preference of college students. But I suppose to that the objection is that college students are gauging usefulness along a dimension of expediency in getting a job after college graduation. That's a good criterion of usefulness, but to turn to "intellectual achievement or learning," I'll point out that business majors probably write quite as many thoughtful, evidenced books about public policy per year per 100,000 graduates as English majors do. Computer science majors very likely write considerably more thoughtful, evidenced books about public policy per year per 100,000 graduates than English majors do. I consider writing a book that provides good information value to readers to be a good criterion of intellectual achievement.
I always wanted to ask this to someone who makes the games/protections: do you take into consideration the sales lost because of the protection? I know about games from friends mostly - if I can see it, I may be inclined to buy it. That's the only reason for me to buy the game really, as I don't follow the gaming news at all. Naturally they have illegal copies sometimes - that means if the protection is good, they cannot show me the game, or show me only something that suddenly breaks down (because of protection). That means I'm not going to be impressed by the game and will never want to have it myself.

Example: I never bought Settlers (2? 3? - the one that exchanged production of pigs and gold when you were playing a copy) - I've seen it and thought it's just so buggy it's not worth getting. Learnt about the copy protection a lot later.

I know many people who buy games this way - mostly grownups who want to have some fun once in a while but aren't interested in gaming every day. They also earn and spend their own money, so usually they're more ok with buying a good game than teens who need to request it from parents / buy for allowance / ....

I've always seen advanced copy protection as games producers shooting themselves in the foot. But maybe I'm just not part of the market that makes a difference for producers. Do you remember if this was an issue at all?
Then also do MMA ground-and-pound drills if that concerns you. I find my BJJ base (purple belt) helps immensely when I have someone in my guard trying to punch me in the face.
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Having read it, I think the author gives the "liars" too much credit. The "lie" he refers to looks to me like it may well be simple ignorance/stupidity. In my book, lying requires one to actually understand the data and intentionally mis-represent it. If one just doesn't understand statistics and what terms like "statistically significant" and "confidence level" actually mean, I can easily see someone reading the remark he quoted and just misunderstanding it to mean the exact opposite of what was really said.

Not that it would be any less inflammatory to post these remarks under a headline like "Climate change denialists = climate change idiots".

(FWIW: Count me as someone who is something of a "climate change skeptic". I don't deny that the climate is changing. I just like the comment one of my professors once made: "We are like fleas on the butt of a dog trying to figure out which way the dog is going." :-D )
Why you should not use the cloud: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjfaCoA2sQk

Yes, it's funny, but also very true. Many of us have to actually deal with all of these buzzwords. You can't outsource responsibility.
For me personally martial arts helps to build a character which in turn may help you grow as a programmer, but that's an effect of growing as a person. I practice sanda which is similar to muai thai but there are many other arts which focus more on the inner side, and you can gain a lot of concentration and peace by practicing them, which in turns could help you as a programmer when you have to deal with difficult tasks.
But there's the thing. The only part of the debate that most people see is the crazy people shouting from both sides. Each camp has Big Loud Liars trying to defame the other side. Unfortunately, that's the part of the discussion that does the least amount of good.

Somewhere in the middle, there's a mildly interesting discussion to be had, about a little-understood phenomenon that might have some minor repercussions over the next few hundred years, some of which might be possible to mitigate by changing human behavior.

This post doesn't help things at all. It just makes one side (the author's) look a little more crazy and thus a little bit less believable.
The problem is if you're a beginner, you think those locks are easy in the real-world.

That's going to be true of any discipline one starts training in. For example, I think boxing is a great way to learn stand-up self-defense, but a beginner is still going to be susceptible to someone who wants to clinch or go to the ground. Everyone has to start somewhere.

Also, if you're a beginner in BJJ, you should learn very quickly that those locks aren't even easy when live rolling.
I went looking for the same thing and found it hard to separate the philosophy (and, with certain martial arts like wing chun, the internal politicizing) and history of the art from the practice of it. I found I wanted something deeper to be there, and there wasn't.

I occasionally row, and instead I did boxing for a while, and with both my focus was on form and mechanics over physical conditioning (yes, there's lots of form in boxing). The "exercise" is a natural outgrown of the deliberate practice.

I didn't work up enough physical conditioning that they let me spar, but I intend to go back for it.
There's also pyroom -- http://pyroom.org/

It looks like it's Linux only at the moment (where I use it fairly often) but they say they're working on a windows install.
I'm just waiting for people to start reporting ghastly unexpected side effects.

(My eyelashes seem to be getting longer as a consequence of getting myself healthier. But I can't imagine anyone wanting me to say "Just spend 10 years working on your basic health instead of using this stuff". It's really not hip to be square.)
Per gig. How long will it take to do the rest of the processing to fill a 1G hashtable?
BJJ works well in a cage and between two people

BJJ works well between two people. There, fixed that for you. Please don't confuse UFC matches with applied BJJ, just because Gracie won the first few.
I do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, some boxing and MMA. It's my main hobby and time sink after work. Our gym focuses a lot on conditioning and just good ol' grit. Being mentally broken from conditioning drills makes everything else not as bad.
Some desktops apps should not be in the cloud. Letting the cloud generate your passwords is a bad idea. Complexity kills and the cloud ain't simple. Who has outsourced what to where?
First, an important question: why do you want to change your brand? What's not communicated properly?

A three-letter domain is quite rare these days, and that could give you some distinction. Also, digital media is quite bland, and that puts some pressure on the execution to make you stand out. On the other hand, you'll need some kind of story to put behind "ten" to make it memorable, IMHO.

In conclusion, it's all about execution :)
That's one hell of a false equivalency. Because the author chose to put a valid and rational argument under a valid but slightly inflammatory headline, you equate him with those intentionally misrepresenting the science? PZ is many things, but he is not a "Big Loud Liar trying to defame the other side." What he is doing here is showing the actual behavior of the other side and exposing it for what it is: a baldfaced lie, repeated by uncritical followers.

Moreover, it is certainly not the case that climate change is "a little-understood phenomenon that might have some minor repercussions over the next few hundred years, some of which might be possible to mitigate by changing human behavior." While one can debate the magnitude of the probable consequences until the cows come home, there is near universal agreement within the scientific community that those consequences will likely be anything but minor.
That's actually a drug originally developed for glaucoma. The eyelash-growing part was a side-effect.
In practical circumstances, I don't know why I'd willingly go to the ground, especially against someone bigger (and usually that's what bullies are). And I say that as a former wrestler.
Give it 20 years and we'll know for certain.
This is a disaster in slow motion. It is a few years old, but Betrayal of Trust is still an excellent overview of the problem: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786884401?ie=UTF8&tag=...
Not a martial art exactly but I would say fencing without a doubt. It's like physical chess
At my company, we continually are looking for new providers for shared storage. Right now, we're on Dropbox, but I'm evaluating just throwing them all into Google Docs since they give us free storage and we can copy/paste direct URLs for files into IMs and e-mails.

Can you compare Nasuni's offerings to Dropbox and GDocs? The "choose your cloud" is nice, I suppose, but that's way too complicated for me as a business person who can barely write SQL.
I think the point being made is that many of the ones who started pushing this misleading quote did understand, even if not everyone who has since repeated also understood. Quote mining is something that scientists are seldom trained to defend against (I'm very quote-minable, I'm sure), and so if you put a microphone in front of any of us for long enough, and we'll say something true but that when taken out of context would seem to imply something false. When you take Jones' comment out of its context, it can be very misleading, even to intelligent people, and so I don't doubt that intelligent and honest people have repeated this lie without intending to be dishonest.