skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But that's not what this story (or the larger story) is about. It's about scientists who become activists and the politicization of science."

That is one aspect of it. The much much more important aspect - if climate change is a fact and we are to expect much of the globe under water in 100 years or so - is the almost fundamental damage that this story has done to the science behind climate change in the court of public opinion. The first signs of the damage were the failure of the summit which was held just after the story went mainstream.

No longer is climate change accepted as a fact. There is now resistance not only in the court of public opinion, but perhaps at the higher levels where power is concentrated.

For sure the story is also about the politicisation of scientists, but if in 100 years the world is going to suffer irredeemable damage, that is a very minor story. That is why I think it is crucial that this whole process is not a whitewash and is done independently, impartially and with the aim of finding truth without fear or favour so that the trust can be restored and we can struggle with the real problem.
Eh? This reddit co-founder <3s Hacker news. I lurk here as much as I read reddit.
Thanks for the reminder about "If". I had to memorize it way back in... 6th grade I think? It's a marvelous poem.
Good suggestions. Thanks!
I know a lot of people that would use DDG if they actually read this page, but I think the problem is that most of them won't find it or read it. They are not hackers and they don't read blogs or meta/about pages of sites.
This may sound hokey to you, but I quit using an iPhone app called Quit Smoking Now, which is basically just a recorded set of hypnosis tapes. I listened to it one night (~1hr), threw my pack away, and never smoked again. Then there's a second "booster shot" that you listen to over the course of the next couple weeks every night (about 20 mins).

I didn't think it would work, originally, and bought it figuring that for $8, if I just skipped one pack of cigarettes it would've paid for itself. So far, I've gotten a roughly ~400x return on it (1 pack Marlboro Reds/day).
That's a tough road man. Legal field is hurting bad. I know the feeling though.

Can "friend" join a legal software company?
The more genetically distinct your spouse is from your self the better will your kids be.

At the same time you must look out for IQ and Looks which are quite a bit genetically dependant
The front page still works, go there and look around. FWIW, this fancy ginger cat is their CTO:

http://www.defmacro.org/

And I have it on good authority that he knows a thing or two about tweaking a "CMS" ;-)
One of the best intros I've seen:

http://duriansoftware.com/joe/An-intro-to-modern-OpenGL.-Tab...

Also:

http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596804831

And then personally I've found this to be the clearest theory:

http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Graphics-Principles-Practice-...
Any ideas for how to reach them? Somehow incent people like you to spread it to them?
Just one tweet will do it ;-)

https://twitter.com/jonoberheide/status/18009527979
Ok, I was just trying to quickly switch to another app, but thanks for telling me.

Now that you've told me, if I don't want to consume the battery, what do I click?

Or, consuming the battery is fine, and I want to keep Trapster running. What do I click?

// Seems this is a better example of the wrong way to do backgrounding.
Too true man. This is both a blessing and a curse. You have so many resources to choose from to help you, and yet, you have so many resources to weed through to know which one will help you. I always research before I try and reinvent the wheel. Unfortunately this can turn into procrastination and a drain on ones self to get the job done.

Personally I'm trying to get over doing it right the first time, and just getting it done so I can learn to do it right from my mistakes.
Learn to be happy.

"Satisfied with my lot" is probably a better term. Life is excellent except for the 5% of my brain that sees the bleak side of everything.

The main roadblock is the common depression / bipolar type II episodes.
Three month old baby in a daycare? Woah.
It looks like a user could reset an environment variable, resulting in convincing the PAM module ( running as root ) to write a file somewhere the user should not be able to write. I assume since this could allow root access, it can overwrite something that can be executed as root by another process.
I see more than one problem with this approach. First, I cringe at the idea of trying to explain this finger manipulation pattern to my mom. Second, placing three fingers from the same hand on the touch screen would block the place on the screen I am trying to magnify/manipulate from my view. Using two hands to perform this task would be very cumbersome on the larger tablets like an iPad (I just tried without putting my ipad down, didn't go so well). Third, there are already use cases where three fingered swipes are used, increasing the possibility of performing the wrong action.

Hover is a way of hiding complexity in a design. Eliminating that complexity is the best way to hide it.
Publish a book (like on dead trees).

The biggest roadblock for me so far is just having time to execute on it. I have friends who have published books through ORA, so I'm not too concerned about getting proper introductions to people in the tech publishing world; I just don't know if I have the time to sit down and bang out 200 pages of quality material.
>Helmets seem to be all or nothing

I'm not sure about that. The law in Delaware is that you must have a helmet on your motorcycle for each person on it (I guess they don't want there to be a monetary cost to wearing a helmet.), and it seems like the majority (2/3?) of people I see wear them, but definitely not all.

To some extent it comes down to culture/how aware people are. I think in America, at least half of people would wear them regardless (and in a lot of states, there's either no law requiring them, or the law only applies to new riders).
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IANAL, but I didn't think there really was a plaintiff in criminal court. Isn't it e.g. "The United States Government" or "The State of New York" (not just whoever has beef with the defendant)?
Something like this is quite dangerous outside the question of sight I think. Someone with these implants will now have eyes that simply don't look right to others. Many people might either consciously or unconsciously look at these people as somewhat other than human, as some type of machine in some ways. The eyes are likely the most important physical feature a person has toward developing a sense of social communication. Perhaps implant recipients will end up wearing sunglasses at most times like the blind.
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This is very much the wrong thing to do. When I push the home button, I expect the app to go away so I can get on with the next thing. I certainly don't expect it to desperately attempt to preempt my attention one last time.
I went to Law School at Illinois Institute of Technology (Chicago-Kent School of Law) there were many, many students who had backgrounds in IT, engineering, etc..

As far as making the world a better place -- I am all for ya trying, but the legal profession is pretty set in its ways.

Constructively, one way to improve the legal system is to get rid of legalese and replace with clear and concise language.
The teachers unions hate school choice. They managed to kill the program in DC even though parents were really happy with the results.
Antigravity boots. Funding. Gravity.
Yes, this should reduce our confidence in the fact that the "scientific consensus" is sound. Many arguments are made that "the science is settled".

Such arguments are sound, the logic behind them is the following: intuitively, we start out believing that if there were evidence against our hypothesis (in this case, unprecedented warming), with a high probability the scientific process would have discovered/published it. Since evidence against this hypothesis has not been published, we conclude with high probability it does not exist. The lack of evidence against it increases our confidence that the hypothesis is true.

Climategate has reduced our estimate of the probability that the scientific process would have discovered/published evidence against the unprecedented warming hypothesis if it existed. Therefore, such evidence may exist, but may not have been discovered due to bad behavior by Mann/Jones/etc.

I'll geek out a little. Let H be a hypothesis and let E be evidence against it. I.e., P(H | !E ) < P(H), and conversely P(H | !E) > P(H). Now let O be the fact of E being observed/published/becoming known to us. We can compute:

P(H | !O) = P(H | E) P(E | !O) + P(H | !E) P(!E | !O)

Bayes rule turns this into:

P(H | !O) = [P(H | E) P(!O | E) P(E) + P(H | !E)P(!O | !E) P(!E) ] / P(!O).

Before climategate, we believed that P(!O | E) is close to zero, so therefore P(H | !O) is approximately P(H | !E) > P(H). After climategate, we must increase our estimate of P(!O | E), which in turn reduces our estimate of P(H | !O).
I will send you mail once I reach home.
Directly Stanford PhD would be difficult
maybe you can get an MS from a second tier college and then go for a PhD.
Anyway it would be interesting to talk
The Rubik’s Cube of IT
So... how awesome is it that the founders of this money-handling system are "Rich" and "Bill"?
I was with my wife for 14 years before we got married. No need to rush it ;^).
Before they canned it, I think it got pretty close to free with a new contract. It may well have been the best phone there in that price range.
And for whatever reason, rising wealth seems to correlate with a decline in birthrates.

Killing people isn't the only thing that keeps a population in check.
It's about time they started innovating in this sector.

The banking industry as of late seems like nothing but fraud and arcane outmoded banking policies (i.e. Why the hell do banks still close on Sundays???)

I hope WePay branches out into other services. It'd be a miracle if I could manage my bank account like I manage my other web 2.0 services.. It'd also be nice if the bank I was with gave a shit about having me as a customer.

Banking hasn't fundamentally changed for over a century and as the article points out, Paypal has been pretty lackluster in terms of innovation as well..

Banking is screaming for innovation and I can't wait to hear about more startups innovating in this space..
I'm pretty sure the only legal connection is Peter Sunde himself. Flattr's UK ops are based out of our (shared) office, White Bear Yard.
Node's scales linearly if you add a process per additional core (see my original link). That does allow for a certain extrapolation from a single process/cpu benchmark.

Anyway, you are correct - a real benchmark between node / clojure would be needed to proof my argument. But I think reasoning about the underlaying machinery is a better use of my time in this case. Bugs aside, there is no reason to believe Clojure could perform faster if it ends up doing more work under the hood. And from what I can tell, there are many more layers of abstraction in between clojure's http implementation and the native system calls, than there are for node.
> Roadblock: balls keep falling.

Perhaps a powerful fan pointed upward could slow them down a bit.
Thank You. All help/advice appreciated. It is the middle of the night here (India). So I'll probably reply when I wake up.
And tennis.
IANAL, but I would hazard that you are wrong on nearly all points. There are very specific rules on the form of a patent application. It used to be/may still be that you had to include stylized drawings of a machine that accomplished the function. Ten thousand pages of code wouldn't cut it. Generally the patent is abstracted from the actual machine. A couple of the problems with software patents is that the abstraction is too great and the claims are too broad. It's the claims that trip up future developers.

The musician example is pretty much bogus, because method patents have been pretty much disallowed, though there is a movement to get them accepted. Method/process patents would bring all innovation to its knees.

Also a misconception about copyright. You can have a copyright without publishing the code, although if you publish it without a copyright, it may be in the public domain. Code copyright is used as a defense against duplication, not innovation.

> Similarly..
Yes indeed.
To write a novel.

Bottleneck: Lack of discipline, perhaps also lack of life experience to make it truly meaningful and classic and maybe also lack of other softer skills such as how to convey in writing different accents or manners of speaking of different people.
A great Idea, but there is no secret sauce here. I wonder how difficult it might be for someone like Facebook or Google to rip this.
You aren't a luddite if you identify potential risks that we should be aware of. You are a luddite if you insist that any potential risk means we should reject the plan, even when it's a clear improvement over the status quo and you have no better alternative.
Agreed it's a hard way to go. The industry totally needs competition though and I hope they succeed.
Try joining NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month): http://nanowrimo.org

It's a world-wide one-month novel writing sprint, meant to solve the "one day" novel problem ("One day, I'll write a novel"). Though the focus is on novel writing, there's nothing to stop you from working on a non-fiction book.

The in-person write-ins, online community available for short word-count sprints, and other community-momentum / encouragement benefits can be a huge help to anyone who "wants" to find the time to write, but somehow hasn't yet been able to. Single moms with a job succeed at this. You can too!
Huh? The entire war-production system was a socialist scheme. Who was buying all the goods?
Sorry, I had gone to bed by the time you asked. The government says an employer shouldn't be able to hire a H-1B and then 'rent' the person out to different companies, because then the immigrant is skipping around from company to company, whereas the original idea was that they'd be working in more or less the same place, as long as they were working for the same company.

The suit is over whether a government agency can just change the rules without going through a proper public consultation, or if they should be allowed to change the rules at all (as opposed to Congress).
Make it functional and ugly, your audience will follow if the idea and code is good. Having it be pretty should be a secondary goal. Once you get real numbers, hire a UI designer.
Re: most of these comments:

I'd be okay with it as long as it only popped this up the first time it went to background mode. Arguably it'd even be a good feature since a lot of users might not know about the tradeoff involved in backgrounding.
I also think a big part is how forthright a scientist is. Most scientists claim way more than can be supported by their evidence, and it's not always clear what assumptions are being made. There's a great talk, I can try to find it if there is interest, that discuss the hubris that most climate scientists have. Observing a system for a tiny portion of a cycle can in no way tell you the entire cycle. If you then admit that "hey we don't know, but here's our best guess, and here's why we think it" then you've got something. Once something is established like like copper conducts electricity or the speed of light then you can say "hey we're pretty sure about this". It has a lot to do with the maturity of the science and the tools and techniques available to the scientists. Complex systems that cannot be decomposed and upon which experiments can not be made have should have a much lower confidence value than repeatable tried and true experiments. To conflate them is to cause confusion and to weaken the trust in more established science. Peer review is more about how to position your work in relation to others for ease of understanding than to verify the results independently.
Well maybe it is our responsibility to awaken the average Joe to the possible dangers of information collection and privacy breaches?
We should also be granting Amazon the benefit of the doubt unless/until they do something objectionable. Neither of these expecting-the-worst scenarios -- that these employees are facing legal troubles from former employer, nor that their former employer is likely to give them legal troubles -- should be assumed without evidence.

That some other 'big company' once before did something similar isn't enough to suggest there's trouble lurking here. Maybe it's enough to ask the earnest question -- "do they have Amazon's blessing?" But not predict problems -- "can't see how Amazon will be happily quiet with this situation".
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Take full and complete responsibility for the fuck-ups and people will give you a break. No hedging, no explanations... nothing that can possibly be interpreted as rationalization.

Express only pure remorse and gratitude and the mood will change immediately.
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Create an account, wait for email, click unsubscribe.
It's about scientists who become activists and the politicization of science.

I agree this is a bad thing, but it's not like they did that in a vacuum. It was quite clearly in reaction to activists who were already operating in the opposite direction (e.g. American politically-right-leaning Christians, for reasons I really don't understand, suddenly became very interested in climate change of all things).
not exactly a life goal , but my next personal goal is to get my padi divemasters certification.
More of this please. Business made sexy with quantitative measurement and analysis.

What do you call this field of study? Any book recommendations on analytic business like this?

I want more!
Today is my first time trying it out (although I've heard of it before), but I feel a little tricked with the image, map, and news searches. They are google links, but don't use the google logos.

Some people will use DDG specifically for the privacy, and those links will forward the search query without asking any questions.

At least use the standard logos, or say google. Or proxy the search (not sure if that's practical).

If it's simply a better search then fine, but if the draw is the privacy then you need to be much more strict about the external searches.
Solution: Two mothers.
It seems a bit ridiculous that they set the date for capping the well based on the date that they release their corporate earnings. I find it offensive that corporate earnings dates have any input whatsoever on the scheduling of remediating a disaster of this proportion.
Practise standing over a bed or a couch. This greatly speeds up the ball recovery process, allowing you to iterate faster with far less frustration!
I wrote Aleph this weekend, so yes, it's very new. However, right now it's just a few hundred lines around Netty, which is anything but immature.

I'm certainly not claiming it's flawless, or that there won't be any breaking changes in the future. However, I think this is a great example of one of Clojure's strengths: even brand new projects tend to have solid, well-tested foundations.
There is a very big difference between "We should share generously" and "All data should be public." The Pirate Bay doesn't advocate leaking credit card numbers or anything.
Just recommended NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in another thread.: http://nanowrimo.org

It's a world-wide one-month novel writing sprint, meant to solve the "one day" novel problem ("One day, I'll write a novel"). The in-person write-ins, online community available for short word-count sprints, and other community-momentum / encouragement benefits can be a huge help to anyone who "wants" to find the time to write, but somehow hasn't yet been able to.

Their forums are filled with great advice on how to improve dialogue, convey more realistic characters, etc.
Solution: move to NYC. You won't be able to afford them anymore, so you'll have to quit.
That article is wrong. 25 cent micro transactions? Right. The reason MP's failed is not because MP are a bad idea, but because the implementation wasn't realistic. Flattr solves several problems, and does it realistically, and elegantly.
Thank you for posting this... I often ignore doing updates because they're just not as interesting as other things I'm doing. This kicked my butt into gear to install the updates.
As a roadblock helper:

Have you heard of Nanowrimo? http://www.nanowrimo.org/ People get together and write an entire novel over November (50,000 words). I have actually done it twice.

You're probably thinking of saying something like "how can you ever write a good novel in just a month?" The point of Nanowrimo, though, is to get you to ignore your internal critic.

The reason that everyone wants to write a novel, but people rarely get too far (and I can see this in your comment) is because people are too concerned with writing the best possible novel they can write, and let down when it doesn't come out that way. This is why people run into writer's block: they endlessly self-criticize, and they can't sneak out a word past their highly critical self.

Do Nanowrimo. Write the worst novel in the world, if that's what it takes. But you need to get rid of your internal critic. Or at least silence him until the editing stage. Then he can come out and go on a rampage. But he is useless when you are trying to brainstorm. You'll never get anywhere if you set out to make a meaningful, classic book.
I want to design and launch a improbably large space-mirror. If it were properly focused on earth (curvature adapting to distance from the planet), and given light-speed delay, we could direct a telescope upon it and see the state of earth 6.52x years ago, where the mirror is x parsecs away from earth.

Roadblock: probably not a scientifically viable proposition, given space debris and lack of ability to build something that large/durable.
Solution: write a sci-fi short story with this as a plot element, and call it good.
As a sibling of 5: muwhahahahaaaa!
"The metal connectors that hold the eraser to the pencil [...]"

That'd be the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferrule. An awesome word.
To be honest, in martial arts, the basics is really all there is. You don't tell a novice from an expert by which katas they know, or even their belt.

You tell them apart by their attitude toward training (patient, calm, focused) and their mastery of the basics (accurate targeting, completely relaxed body, powerful delivery).

One thing I've enjoyed in martial arts training is that taste grows faster than ability - which means that subjectively you get worse the more you practice. To compensate, training teaches you to be more patient with yourself - when we screw something up, we just do it again, there's no need to say anything or get annoyed.

Attitude is the biggest thing to focus on in the early grades (the technical stuff can only be learnt by repetition, so it's not that hard - just repeat). I don't think it's a drag at all.
However, there's a difference between style (different process) and impediment (broken process). The giant, flashing warning sign that the hotel is ignoring: "Ah, sorry. We get that question every time."
Helmets were made a requirement on Christmas '07; it was strange, one day nobody had helmets on, the next day everyone had them on.

Sorry about your friend.
Heh, seems like we both recommended nanowrimo at the same time :)
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"web2.0" is really a revolution! ;)
There are some cool things being done in virtual cooperation/teamwork explorations. Make a robot in virtual space and see how it interacts with other robots!