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For instance Canada may want the earth warmer, whereas Indian would want it cooler. (Since it benefits their respective latitudes.)
>It's not actually loaded, it's prerendered.

And how exactly does the browser render assets without loading them? Is there some sort of time-traveling HTTP google is hiding under the curtain with this feature?
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If true, the 70-year cold period could turn out to be a grace period that allows us to get carbon emissions under control by the time solar activity returns to normal. Of course, this could lessen the imperative and make the political task of reaching global consensus more difficult.
I personally feel the same way the author does, but I suspect the people who love handing out platitudes and ditzy suggestions might thrive on receiving them, too. Do they suddenly get "real" and "grounded" just because they have a serious illness, or do they remain the same sappy and naive person they were before they got sick?
> if a Maunder minimum does somehow manage to give us a couple extra decades [...] that's a godsend.

Maybe not. Suppose the actual effect is to give those who say climate change isn't real, or doesn't matter, enough extra rhetorical ammunition (THE EARTH IS COOLING!!!11!) to prevent anything actually being done to get our house in order. That would be ... not so good.
yes, this is a big pain in the ass... for me. but it's a pain in the ass that I could handle. Amazon could hire 10 people who are all better than I am to work on this problem full time without causing themselves much by way of pain.

This is why I think it's about them wanting their goods to look cheaper rather than about any actual pain. If it was about the actual pain, they'd support the idea of different sales tax for every little hamlet because it raises the barrier to entry for people like me, e.g. selling my widgets myself rather than going through amazon.
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It depends on who is saying this to whom. Some who are sick will say this about themselves.

Also, you can adjust this saying to "Everything happens for a reason, right?" As to show you are equally as hopeful that there may be something greater at play.

But I agree mostly. Just coming up to someone who is very sick and saying this can be the WRONG thing to say.
Ironically, I chuckled at your statement...
Attempting to exercise control over such a chaotic system with simplistic solutions like giant space mirrors strikes me as a very bad idea indeed. Until we have a complete understanding of how the climate is regulated naturally I really don't see how we can do any good at all.

Not to mention that, as you say, the politics are beyond us at the moment anyway (global consensus? yeah, right...)
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Just called AT&T. It's $325 to break contract initially, and $10 less for every month it's in use. They said they won't unlock your phone after you break contract or it ends since "they don't do that for the iPhones"
Reminds me hugely of what Zingermans does: http://www.amazon.com/Zingermans-Guide-Giving-Great-Service/...
It's helpful for some people to see the same message multiple times in different ways. This particular message (exercise for brain and stamina improvements) is relevant to a crowd of sedentary brain workers.

Not everyone's HN history is as long as yours or others', so it's helpful to newcomers to see relevant posts and ideas that may have appeared before.

Not everyone has analyzed the world as completely as you or others, and could use a little nudge forward in many areas.
> However, it can make life difficult once you start straying from "their way" even if you know exactly what you're doing for even simple things like mapping to a legacy DB with schema intact (not gonna happen).

class Account < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name "tbl_accts"
has_many :posts, :class_name => "Post", :foreign_key => "postid"
end

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
set_table_name "tbl_posts"
belongs_to :account, :class_name => "Account", :foreign_key => "postid"
end

#Account.first.posts.create(:title => "test", :body => "test")

that's almost like child's play(code is not tested, but it looks like that.. and i'm pretty sure it's sitting there quite a while)..

> Conventions over configuration is nice but it requires some stability.

if you were to compare this with an agnostic framework with drop-in, you have to set everything. with rails, you just gonna say "oh, this isn't default so i have to explicitly set this".. or "oh, this is no longer default so i have to set this".. it's just a convention.. if you want to use rails in an unconventional way, by all means do it, you just have to know more about its internals if you intend to do this -- this makes sense when you think about it(you don't want to be hacking hard on a piece of software you don't really understand, you're going to want to know what you're doing so that you have a good idea when some unexpected problem arises).

>Part of the problem is the leadership. They take the stance, "you bastards are doing it wrong" if you want to do things a little different.

if you did that and decided there's really nothing out there that can solve your problem, they you can just implement it however you want, rails is very configurable, but really, you're just limited to what ruby can do..

>So saying dissenters are slow to learn, stubborn or haven't been writing tests really doesn't do anyone a service and doesn't make anything clearer, sorry.

i'm sorry, did the article speak to you this way? are you a girl where you might be giving meaning to what's actually being said?
Another way to look at (b) is "We're only being saved from a mini ice-age by CO2-induced global warming, therefore it's urgent to avoid cutting emissions and plunging into it for real". The Earth has seen warmer and colder than now, but the warm extremes have been better for life than the cold extremes.
I'm genuinely curious to hear why you're so obstinate in your refusal to exercise.
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The key difference between the 'safe' vs 'unsafe' cars was electronic stability control. We talk a little about it in another post. The other difference was size (namely weight and height of a car). Those were the key themes that emerged.
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Yes.

I came down with chronic fatigue syndrome / chronic mono after a second mono flareup in late 2009. It's not cancer, but it's nasty and it doesn't go away, and I have good days where I seem and feel normal, and bad days where I don't even have the brainpower to watch stupid TV. It blows.

To this list, I'd add: Be willing to be the one doing all the work necessary to keep the relationship alive when the other person is too weak and tired.

So many of my "friends" here in Vienna just disappeared when I got sick, because they weren't willing to put in the effort when I couldn't. There's nothing quite like being too sick to leave the apartment, and ALSO having nobody who cares enough to visit you.

I'm sure if I told them this, they'd be absolutely aghast at their own behavior and try to make amends -- they are not bad people or even bad friends -- but now, knowing what I know, I wonder if it would be worth it for me to say something.

Yet another big reason I'm moving back to the US.
Our capacity to study the Earth's climate has improved dramatically since the '70s. We barely had an idea of what the weather on other planets looked like.

And I was under the impression that the global cooling folks were a fringe minority of the scientific community (like the AGW people today).
I really don't like it when the government passes laws meant to protect me from myself.

Obviously out of about 6+ billion people on the planet some are gullible and some make bad decisions, but I think we should have the freedom to be stupid, dangerously stupid too as long as its only dangerous to ourselves.

Robin Hanson recently wrote about bicycle helmets versus climbing Everest. It turns out that the death rate for attempts to climb Everest is higher then the death rate from not wearing a bicycle helmet. But we have strong laws for helmets, yet anyone can attempt to climb Everest.

Not only is the government protecting people from themselves, but it hypocritically seems to prefer to regulate average folk over well of adventurers. Think about other highly dangerous fun that is expensive and perfectly legal.

This is mostly silly and a bit sad, but it has a very serious side when it comes to medical technology.

The way any technology advances is by trial and error. By taking longer to put some new treatment on the market and get large scale feedback, we accomplish two things.

1. In the short term we may well save some lives.
2. In the long term we certainly slow down progress and this costs a lot of lives.

We save a few in the short therm, to kill many in the long term.

This would be quite rational IF someone else was forcing medial experiments on us!

But when WE are willing to take the risk, the government is restricting our current freedoms, and killing our future children/grandchildren.

You think I'm overstating the case? Image if modern regulatory approval was applied to penicillin? I guarantee a lot of lives with severe penicillin allergy would have been saved. I also guarantee A LOT more people would have died before penicillin finally made it to market. Image your ancestors died due to a simple bacterial infection while penicillin was being approved.

But wait! That was just the delay in penicillin, now image that all other antibiotic progress was equally delayed, as it would be. Actually the delays compound so everything is delayed a little bit longer.

Now can you see why taking longer to approve new treatments has a such a terrible long term cost?
Yup. And sending reset passwords link is just as insecure. Just because it is the accepted practice does not mean it's a good idea.

Introducing some sort of security questions helps a bit, depending on implementation. Another idea would be to ask the user to create a temporary PIN, that is then used to sign the token, and is asked for again, when the user actually clicks the emailed link.

Lastly, users are more or less trained not to forward password reset emails. However, getting an email that says "Your stock is burning, click here to sell all." might cause the panic-stricken user to forward this email to his/her broker.
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In what browser? For Chrome, it appears to resize the outer window, not the viewport.
Meh. Still centralized.
I've had mine for close to 3 years now and I can't recall any instance where I felt like this. I'm curious where you live, or at least where you did most of your driving where you felt invisible in it? I had it for the first year in a small town in Ohio (thought it was garaged for the winter as it's impossible to keep the tires planted in the snow) and I've been down in Florida's Space Coast for the last 2 years with no real issues revolving around not being seen.
To be honest I'm not an expert. In my opinion Netflix feels overvalued to me. Maybe not based on the P/E but it certainly doesn't seem like a 15 billion dollar company to me.
You did the right thing and that's all that matters. There's no reason to hold this above their heads, because it will hover up there anyway without you ever having to say or do anything. If I were you, I'd just keep it to myself forever and let everyone know within themselves that I did the right thing because you can be pretty certain that they already know they didn't.
Ned was right, winter is coming.
I wondered about this too. The other part is -- how much is a car driven. Even if you look at behavior, is a 350z that much safer than a Porsche 911? Or is it just that 350z are driven [X] number of times more often, in the same manner, and thus result in a much higher death rate.
I really hope you have the VentureRocket domain....
We originally discussed this on HN about a year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1416891
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> 2011-01-09 First commit.

Wow, that's a lot of effort in a small amount of time. Nice work!
All the frameworks "are growing up", this is nothing to be proud about. The real question is: is the framework becoming mature?

Because RoR has this tendency to reinvent itself every 18 months or so, the answer to the question is a resounding no. It's being used mostly to explore new ways to create web sites, but RoR is more and more becoming a framework you really want to avoid if you need to create a production site that you are planning to work on for years to come.
I'm in Phoenix, AZ. We have terrible drivers in general, and I spend a lot of time on I-10.

The problem was usually someone with a cellphone planted on their left ear during rush-hour, occluding the view of their rear-view mirror.
Caja / Secure EcmaScript should fix the JS-too-dynamic problem. I haven't tried it out yet.
The digital footprint does not worry me as much as I believe it worries others. What this new exposure to social media and to internet tracking itself has made us basically minor celebrities. With that in mind you can learn a lot from the way current celebrities and powerful people in business have carried out their own lives. People who have had their situations ruined by social media or the internet were, for the most part, doing things that if they were found doing offline would get them in trouble too. The thing people have to realize is that the internet can only harm you to a certain extent but the way it harms you is only by bringing to light the actions you've already committed. If you take a look at the way certain scandals through social media and internet break down, anything that you have the ability to whole heartedly apologize for and is for the most part understandable to the public will not affect you that greatly. You will go through a small period of judgement and that is it. Then there are the Weiner's of the world, no pun intended, that do things beyond the scope of apology and they are punished. If you can learn anything from social media its content control. You can control what you do on facebook through your privacy settings and you can control what you do in your life through your own actions. If you really want to stay off the radar then disconnect from technology. Besides that the fear of the internet is pretty much overhyped.
I tried it, (ten kilometer commute on a bicycle) and a month after I stopped it I was back to what I had been previously. Nothing gained.

Whereas if I learn a new technique, read an interesting article or write some code it is still there half a year later.
Seems like you need a heatmap for the variance as well as the mean.
Fun fact: holding the shift key will slow down the animations.
True. But if lucky happenstance lets us be where we are now in 2060 instead of current predictions, that's still a net win--we'll be a significantly richer world then with more resources and technology to adapt to climate change.

On the other side of things, the ability of CO2 to contribute to the greenhouse effect may well be saturated by then, just counteracted by the solar cycle. Which would leave us in the place where we're at the mercy of sunspots (which have no control over) and our ability to actively remove CO2 from the atmosphere (which we may or may not have control over). Not so good.
I beg to differ. My time tracking app is revolutionary.
Same here, running Chrome 12.0.742.91
Quick note:

1. I'm not affiliated with either these guys or HAProxy.

2. The HAProxy guy(s) posted this too - see the site (http://haproxy.1wt.eu/).
I have no doubt that VC money is the lowest in Europe of those three. I wonder though how significant this metric really is, especially if the large developping countries of eastern Europe are included. Wouldn't a VC money per startup/founder be more interesting?
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I keep seeing this advice that you can find market by looking at adwords tool. I love the idea, but I've never seen a real example that end up as a real product, only the general tip and I tried but never got interesting results ?
Does someone has a real credible example ?
I feel like this discussion wouldn't be getting so much traction if it was easier to learn the differences between specific versions. Today there's enough resources out there to learn about rails and/or the differences between versions and/or 'the right way' of doing things, but it's scavenger hunt meets jigsaw puzzle. Currently, if you don't follow the Rails evolution regularly, going out there and catch up with it can be intimidating for some.

There's a need for a central Rails reference that makes this task trivial. Maybe a document with some sort of interactive diff functionality that allows to see specific version differences side by side in a friendly manner. Some system that doesn't force the writers to re-think a full document for every version, that can evolve without erasing older information, and that assists the reader by showing specific chunks of information that she should read in order to catch up to the specific version she is aiming for. Getting this started is a non-trivial task, but it seems like there's enough energy, innovation and attention to detail surrounding Rails to solve this problem.
Maybe this? http://www.boulder.swri.edu/~deforest/SPD-sunspot-release/SP...
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great way to see typical user behavior!
Real-time clickstreams are one of Clicky's most popular features. This is definitely an attempt to win over customers that might otherwise choose the competition.

As far as the creepiness goes... unless you think request logging should be totally disabled, anyone can simply tail their web server's logfile to see real time click data. How is it more of a privacy violation, just because it's easier to read? In fact, the anonymization Mixpanel is doing does more to protect privacy than a simple tail would do.
I'm sorry but the writer comes off as being bitter. I'm pretty sure he doesn't come off in the same complaining tone when he speaks to people (or he wouldn't have as many people who'd care to bug him).

If people say or do awkward things, appreciate the fact that they made the effort at all. If they're sending you "miracle cure" suggestions, it's probably because they care enough to do so. These times are times in which you see how your life affects others. If there are a lot of people calling, checking in or being a little annoying, take solace in knowing your life has had an effect on all these people, who care enough to be kind/awkward. I'd much rather have that than not have it.

These Do's and Don'ts aren't for everyone, it may be for the writer, but it's presumptuous to think this really applies to all people.

Simply put, "Do" show up. Knowing that you're there when you could be elsewhere says a lot. Be a friend in times of need.
I've always been a big supporter of a fit body = a fit mind either entrepreneurial or otherwise. I've solved many software issues running around a lake in the evenings.
I think the benefits of exercising a few times a week on your productivity, health and happiness massively outweigh the time loss of several hours + the discomfort of being sweaty.
I know and not only that but the oceans could rise 6 whole inches. That's like half a foot.
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It seems like a tough line, and I sympathize with both sides.

Either you can go the Microsoft route and be backwards compatible til the end of time (which is great for devs, but causes baggage) or you can embrace change while the community is still young(ish).

It seems like at a minimum, everything in a major version should be backwards compatible (ie a 3.0 project will work in 3.1 without changes) though.
"It is all just chemicals."

No, it's not. Your body has evolved with a set of chemical requirements managed by physical processes. Until the day comes when we can be just brains floating in jars, we must attend to the entire set of physical processes that manage our chemical requirements. The uptake, management and production of chemicals depends on an efficient and healthy physical body. No pill will change that.

Even if such a pill is invented one day, that day is not today. You're dragging your body around behind your brain all day long, it may as well be healthy (which means more than not sick) and not a burden.

Besides, there's joy to be found in fitness. I was a slug my whole life, did almost nothing. I started CrossFit a couple years ago, and it was really hard, but it got easier and my health and capability grew. I knew my enjoyment of the world had changed for the better the day I outlasted my thirteen year old son playing frisbee.

That pill you're holding out for probably won't be invented before you die. It may never be invented, because it's more profitable for Big Pharma to treat problems than cure or prevent them. Do you want to be the 70 year old that's rolling through the super market in a motorized wheel chair, or the one that you see in your neighborhood every day taking a brisk walk?
It's probably easier to just colonize other planets than it is to go farting around with something as delicate as Earth's climate.
They claim that increased views/user is a good sign for Facebook because people tend to slowly ramp down rather than just cutting it off.

I'm not so sure of that. The biggest complaint that I've seen about Facebook is burnout. In light of that, increased views/user is a sign that they are encouraging people to do things that will lead to more burnout in the future.
I seriously doubt that after 175 years of industrial CO₂ that suddenly we're going to see this drastic change out of nowhere. It's much more likely to occur gradually over time. That said, I welcome the ice age. I'm in Vegas and it'd make the climate here perfect.
"This could overturn decades of received wisdom on such things as CO2 emissions, and lead to radical shifts in government policy worldwide." - What exactly is the article implying? Are they somehow saying that CO2 emissions aren't a bad thing? Or that we should increase them so we can prevent the 'mini ice age' by increasing our negative effect on the climate?

Seems to be an extremely uninformed and misleading bit of 'reporting'...
Wouldn't this then require us to "fart around" with the climate of the planets we colonize to make them more like Earth's?
I think part of this problem comes from the number of blog posts that don't reference versions when explaining something. This adds to confusion if the topic has changed and the post is not updated/marked out of date.
I don't usually do these challenges, but this one was pretty fun. It's three problems long. Took me about 30 minutes.
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>I tried it, (ten kilometer commute on a bicycle) and a month after I stopped it I was back to what I had been previously. Nothing gained.

You might've pushed too hard then, or perhaps you hate biking, which is fine. Did you commute to work and back as part of it? If so, I'd hazard a guess that that's why you might've hated it.. if I had to run to work I wouldn't feel rewarded. My opinion is that you should find something that you like. Try running, swimming, yoga, anything.

With respect to your second point... your whole body is not your mind, and it is prone to atrophy; it's biology and that's how it is. If you stop coding for a long period of time(or stop learning, for that matter), your abilities there will diminish too.
What the article misses is that London with roughly 1% of Europe's population get's 30-40% of the VC financing in Europe.

So based on those figures London's VC per capita is in the region of $200-$300 (London has a similar population size to Israel).