skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason I'm skeptical about the hypothesis "burning fossil fuels is likely to cause significant and disastrous climate change in the future" is that it's all based on simulations which can't be tested against experiment.

There are also empirical observations - such as the facts that burning fossil fuels release measurable amounts of CO2, that CO2 behaves as a greenhouse gas, that CO2 content of the atmosphere observed over many years has been rising steadily, and that this correlates with the historical record of fuel consumption.

Frankly I'm sick to the back teeth of 'let me explain what skepticism means' arguments. I've been interested in climate change for something like 15 years now, although I am not an activist of any kind. And all I ever hear from the 'skeptic' lobby is that they 'need more data,' but never any willingness to state what sort of confidence intervals they would find acceptable or why their models are any more reliable, or even any predictions of their own. About the climate that is. For some reason, almost all skeptics feel qualified to declare that climate mitigation efforts of any kind will be a huge economic disaster without presenting even the most rudimentary economic argument for why this should be so.

This is how we end up with would-be presidential candidates who intone platitudes very similar to yours about falsifiability and standards of proof in between holding prayer meetings asking god to send more rain and revive the national spirit.

And if the hypothesis of significant anthropogenic climate change turns out to be false, then this makes very little difference to our ability to explain existing experimental data.

Fine, with so many alternatives it should be no trouble to make some clear and testable predictions that will blow the anthropogenic theory out of the water and settle the debate. We have plenty of satellites and observation platforms measuring solar output, cosmic rays and so on.
Strang has another great book, Linear Algebra and its Applications: http://www.amazon.com/Linear-Algebra-Applications-Gilbert-St... Everything I know about linear algebra I learned from this book.
It would be cool if I could see my existing plan on there and be able to compare apples to apples. They keep raising my premium, it would be nice to know if there was something else out there that had a lower premium.
Why isn't Engadget mentioning the chip it's running. That's very strange. Because if it does run Intel's chip as rumored, then this is the version to run on the desktop, but not the one to run on ARM, so it probably has lower battery life.
If you don't have any bugs, how do you know your code is working correctly? I personally never trust code that works on the first try. :)
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There's no suddenly about it. Did you read the article? Hotfile created the tool WB is using to remove content. Hotfile is not responsible for their users. They are a hoster and under relevant law, DMCA, have specific responsibilities, which they seemed to have complied with.
Chomp To Begin Powering App Search For Android Phones Via Verizon Apps
At its core, the CO2 argument is an energy balance argument and many of the details are unnecessary. To determine long-term, global temperature rise, you just need to know the energy in and energy out, which can be done in principle without knowing anything about climate.

The problem is that some things that affect the radiation balance, chiefly changes in water vapor and clouds, are products of the local conditions, and it is to estimate the effects of those that you need simulations.

The problem is that people seem to transfer their skepticism of the global climate simulations to the basic energy balance argument. Humans ARE affecting the climate, it's just that we may be affecting it in such a way that the net warming is hard to estimate because there are fairly large forcing terms that cancel.
Bitcasa beta sign-up leaves nasty taste
Close Enough Good Enough:Approx Positional Indexes for Efficient RankedRetrieval
Poverty rate rises in America
By profit margin, Apple is a lot closer to the purely software companies than it is to the likes of the (nearly identical) Walmart and Amazon.

http://ycharts.com/companies/AAPL/profit_margin#compCos=AMZN...
Submit Form without Refreshing Page with Jquery
Cool site, needs some visual work but the idea is there.

I have the same question as other people - how are you pulling this data?

One thing you definitely need on the front page is gender selection. Gender instantly changes the price of insurance significantly and is a simple binary question.

I hate dealing with health insurance so much so I very much hope this site evolves and becomes a success for you. Well done.

Edit: Now you need to monetize this. The obvious way to do that is to do lead gen if they offer it.
Agreed. Since there are more Americans than ever, having more in poverty than ever isn't a surprise. There's probably also more -not- in poverty than ever, too. Also not a surprise.
Have you used an agent before? Their whole business is about helping individuals and businesses pick plans. My agent has shown me some good data sheets that get close to giving you apples to apples comparisons. I bet you could borrow a lot from their business models.
Thanks, I didn't know about this website.

http://www.zone-h.org/archive/ip=174.121.79.144

They have a list showing 26 hosts on that IP that were defaced. Randomly checked four of them (which are fixed now), all WordPress. But then #5 looked like a static HTML site (http://outrightoriginal.com/), so I'm going to go with server compromise, not CMS compromise.
http://thisismynext.com/2011/09/13/windows-8-tablet-photos-v... gruber linked to that one. chip is mentioned, it's a 1.6GHz Core i5-2467M.
I hope this is your full time gig. Picking a health insurance is one of the hardest problems ever. I do not know the business and I fear I am going to get screwed.

If I had launched such a nice service I would try to charge the end user. I would be willing to pay money to an independent third party.
Why would anyone use you over GitHub ?
Interview on the Go To Market Show about the Kansas City Technology Community
Ikea's U.S. factory churns out unhappy workers
I hear you, but that's way outside of the scope of this post. Every single bullet point here could almost be a post in and of itself. The logic is pretty straightforward. With subscription apps, the likelihood of seeing money from that customer next month is pretty high. With a native app, the likelihood of seeing money from that customer next month is almost zero.

Keeping churn low has way too many potential variables. The quality of the product, the benefits or usefulness, the cost, customer support, and dozens of other things all ultimately play a role. Even the type of product could affect churn. Is it something that people only need occasionally or something that they'd use daily?

I honestly couldn't tell you how our churn manages to stay so low. If I had to guess, I'd say that it's focusing on making a high quality product and taking extremely good care of customers. We've never had someone tell us that they were canceling because of the quality of the product or support.
IIRC, it was something like 20 suicides in the last year, with Foxconn employing 300,000-400,000 people at the facility.

According to wikipedia(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_ra...), the average total number of suicides per 100,000 in China is around 6.6.

So you get, depending on the actual number of workers, either the national average for China, or slightly below it.
https://twitter.com/#!/whatgoodisaroad/status/26337970149

The link the above minimized link goes to.
This is a crowded market with some well established fast-growing leaders. Why do you want to compete with them? Have you thought of building on top of the existing players and creating value-added services?
"The big difference is that the Europeans enjoy a minimum wage of about $19 an hour and a government-mandated five weeks of paid vacation. Full-time employees in Danville start at $8 an hour with 12 vacation days — eight of them on dates determined by the company."

"It's ironic that Ikea looks on the U.S. and Danville the way that most people in the U.S. look at Mexico,"
This is timely - we were just looking for this an hour ago and wondering why it didn't exist! Thanks HN.
How big are solar flares? Using Earth as perspective
This is the post "Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8" in windows blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fas...
You can see that the video(in Silverlight) at bottom loads without you having to click on it. It eats up bandwidth.This is the latest Microsoft webpage that I remember in which the video gets loaded automatically.
Correct. Though in my case I have to re-do Strang or the equivalent anyway. Been a long time.
If you don’t have pet projects, I don’t think I want you
Your problem with the book seems to be that it is general, rather than applicable to your particular field.

Why on earth would expect that it would be? I took and enjoyed linear algebra using that text-- it didn't specifically address the QM I deal with as a physicist, but since the author can't predict each student's future, I'd hardly characterise that as a problem with the text!

If it was used as a course on portfolios, ok, bad choice -- but directed against a general linear algebra text, your criticism doesn't seem very valid.
Made at Hackday.tv in NYC this past weekend? Great job guys! Some very interesting hacks came out of this event.
As the focus of the submitted article is on numerical methods, I'd recommend Hubbard's textbook

http://matrixeditions.com/UnifiedApproach4th.html

which is theoretical and linked to other subjects of higher math, but by no means slights practical problems or numerical methods.
1) No clue what the interface looks like aside from the poor-looking screenshot above the signup button.

2) No "About Us" section other than the link to moocode.com.

3) Not sure if I can do public repositories too.

4) I already use github for $7/month.
What is your take on the Twitter Bootstrap (assuming you are not involved in its development) in terms of productivity?
Can you provide numbers on visitors? There's more to the conversion funnel than just signups; i.e. could it be that you have no signups because there are no new visitors?
New Speech Synthesis Could Make Roger Ebert Sound More Like Himself
Considering I'm currently without health insurance, this is extremely helpful. Love how simple the interface is and how it gives you an easy to understand list of providers. Excellent work.
I would say WebOS actually had outsized development support given its anemic support from its parents.
CSS3 Google+ styled UI buttons & icons
Very interesting article. I am currently working on a project called opentimetable.net, providing tools for the community to collect timetable raw data, something similar to openstreetmap (osm), but for timetable data. Actually, the project is tighly connected to osm as I am pulling static infrastructure data from osm which is already available or is becoming available sooner or later (stops, lines, etc...). Within opentimetable.net, the user can then enrich that data with timetable information. Of course, data will be available to the public. I already cooperating with some german transit agencies.. I hope to get other agencies involved in the future. I have also implemented a route planner for public transit data which I will put online once a minimum of data is available...
Controversy over Cantor's theory.
How often you get recent software updates for your smartphone does not depend on Android or iOS, but the quality of your service provider.

Apple sells one new device each year and supports it well with updates. Google sells one new device each year and supports it well with updates.

The Nexus devices even have an advantage here, in that Google is not the only party that makes android-based operating systems for the series.
What about the purchasing power of an hour at median wage? These things matter when assessing progress
Hands On with Windows 8 Developer Preview
Hey, thanks for submitting this to HN :)

There's some discussion going on in the Haskell subreddit[1] for anyone who's interested.

[1] - http://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/kd2ky/categorized_w...
Mobile web developer, front end and back end.

Going rate is roughly 1000€ a day, charge less and you won't be taken seriously.
I remember seeing the Palm Pre 3 at the HP WebOS event and thinking it was going to be huge. A lot of people were comparing it the Droid Bionic at the time.

I think the OS has a lot of potential in the right hands - but I can't think of any company who would want it. HTC has already had great success in running Android on their handsets, and really has no need to spend a ton of money to get it tested and implemented on some future handset.

Maybe they'd pick it for a tablet line??
I always suspect these people are actually looking for developers who will work long hours with little pay, because they are so driven. They aren't looking for the best and brightest, just the most driven.

I think it's actually quite easy to 'care' without having a driving passion that forces you to give your life over to programming. In fact, I did it for a number of years. I did all my programming at work, and all my relaxing at home. And I was happy, and loved both.

Testing for 1 thing because you want something related is a big mistake. You can easily have both false positives and false negatives. And since you're testing for the wrong thing, you won't know until it's too late. If you ever do.
Sorting by price sorts alphabetically, not numerically.

I put in some details from when I was living in the US and I'm shocked—I can't find a plan that isn't 50% copay on brand name drugs?
Can't you claim a commission much like how brokers work?
..and if so, I wonder how you would do that.

or,

just become broker yourself and keep the leads, then pass them off to the Insurance company with leveraged commissions.

Very cool site.
Proper type completion for Scala IDE for Eclipse
I don't really get the service. You should explain it in the homepage.

My questions:
- Is this a replacement for GitHub?
- Or is this like a cloud host for Git repositories?
- I already have a private Git repository.. so your service is just a backup?
- This sounds like a lot of hidden work. Be more transparent on what I'd need to do.. Show some command lines like Heroku does to show me how easy it is to use it.
They should have expanded on this: "In most other applications, a customer-facing ID is usually a long jumble of numbers and/or letters. There are lots of small, subtle drawbacks to representing a number to a human this way."
The Java Logging Mess
Very nice. I just went through the process of picking a health insurance plan using ehealthinsurance.com, and it was a bit of a pain.

The one thing that would have made things a lot easier for me is being able to sort by out-of-pocket maximum. I wanted a high-deductible, HSA-compatible plan, and so having a low out of pocket maximum was my number one criteria.

I wonder how many people actually know what they want in a health insurance plan? There are a huge number of options, and it's hard to know what's important. The guidance I found on the web tended to be generic, rather than targeted at the type of plan I wanted (major medical).

Perhaps you could outline a few broad plan types, explain the advantages, and allow users to pick one?

For example, I would have picked a "major medical plan", and it would have shown me plans that have solid out-of-pocket maximums that aren't much higher than the deductible. The data displayed for each plan would highlight differences between those plans (e.g. HSA-eligible) that might not be so important to a another plan type (e.g. full service plans).
11 mins after this, 404ing here
Gizmodo mentions that this device isn't intended to run Windows 8 but is actually a Windows 7 Slate device that is being used as a prototype.
Windows 8 hands-on
But not anymore? :(
How do your retainers work? My thought was to charge them some minimum number of hours a month that they'd pay regardless of use, but in exchange, I'd put their stuff on my pager, and make time to deal with it if they had an emergency.

I think it makes a lot of sense for SysAdmin type work; there are times when you really need me /right now/ - waiting for me to clear my schedule some time next week is not going to work.

I think maximum value would be achieved if I put your stuff on my pager. when something breaks, I go fix it and let you know what happened when you wake up; This is a lot of value for you, but for me to be effective at this, I need to know a lot about your systems, and as such, I'd want some sort of monthly money to pay to hold your system in my brain and my notes (and to answer my pager when it goes off at 6am.)

It seems to me like this sort of relationship would work best if it was very long term; you'd keep paying me the retainer until you can afford to hire your own SysAdmin.
Pivot or Persevere? The Key to Startup Success
I love the explanation of terms. Highly useful.

It also highlights the near complete lack of correlation between how much a plan costs and how much benefits you get.
Thanks for all the feedback. I guess i posted op in a hurry and my points were not clear.
1) Know for sure that they are misleading their clients. We know how this industry works very well and we collected all evidence.
2) Scam is like this. They are saying to clients that they will get bananas and charge charge them for bananas. Market price for bananas in this industry is 20-30 cents. In fact they are shipping them peanuts with price of 7 cents at most. In fact they are selling them very bad peanuts that cost even less and noone really wants them.
Instead of downvoting me, I suggest you take your complaint up with the writer of the Wall Street Journal article. I quoted that extract to demonstrate that there were contradictory points of view about the reason for the recent uptick in renunciation of US citizenship besides the one offered in the grandparent post.

As for why US citizens living abroad pay US income taxes, that has been around since the time of the civil war, when a temporary income tax was imposed for reasons that I hope are obvious. It seems to have escaped your attention that I said I don't support it, and even linked to a paper in a tax law journal arguing that it makes poor economic sense. On this topic, you should take your complaint up with the US government.
I don't know what your talking about, pie charts provide plenty of useful information. source: http://graphjam.memebase.com/
Skynet seeks to crowdsource the stars
I suppose some states may have different regulations effecting the system, but every plan I've ever seen doesn't differentiate based on the number of dependents you have. Rates are effectively tiered to single, married, or family.
yeah: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/foremski/media-gets-its-facts-wron...
Legal action on college book plan
Just out of curiosity, what kind of car hacking? I used to do a bit of Honda ECU hacking. It was a lot of fun.
Link broken... looks like it's been pulled
I don't know, I heard it in an old interview with Aza Raskin, who doesn't even work there anymore. They might still do it :)
Reference counting? Except for some basic types, like the string, you have to manually manage memory.

And the other point you are trying to make, I still don't get it. You imply that the guy is doing it wrong for using Delphi where speed is important, and you come here and say that Delphi is, indeed, a fast language.

What if speed is not what the language is intended for? If the language is intended for other purpose, and speed comes as a bonus, I don't know how that could be a bad thing.
Pretty nice but could really use another search option for a single parent with children.
This is incredibly helpful. I run a small OSS/music nonprofit and as you'd imagine there's not a lot of money in that. Having just gone through the process of looking around for insurance for my family I can say that is was an amazing contrast to the overwhelming and unpleasant experience of using insurance provider sites.

I'm notoriously cheap, but would happily shell out a commission or even a one time fee for the service — keep it this simple and straightforward and you'll not only have a compelling business but a tool that really helps people.
It doesn't load automatically for me.

Win 7 using Chrome 13
CBC is forcing me to remove my app from the Mac App Store
This is such a useless factoid without any context, as is the tacked-on bit about women's income. Does this hypothetical median male work as much? Does he work at a cushier job today? Does he have as many financial responsibilities? Has some unprofitable sector seen a disproportionate influx that would bias our selection of median male? (Ditto for the median female compared to the median male.)

It seems to me that salaries are simply less flat than they used to be.
The responsive design of The Boston Globe
Leila Lopes Miss Universe Profile and Photos
Leila Lopes Miss Universe Profile and Photos, Contestants from Angola, Leila Lopes, seemed surprised when announced as the winner of Miss Universe 2011. He won over 88 other contestants are not less beautiful and talented. So, who actually Leila Lopes? Leila Luliana da Costa Vieira Lopes (born February 26, 1986) is an Angolan beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned Miss Angola 2011 and Miss Universe 2011.
Upcoming talk: "Debugging of Multithreaded and Multiprocess Programs on Linux"
We will discuss the connection between Linux kernel scheduler behavior and non-deterministic nature of multithreaded and multiprocessed programs. We will look at the issues faced by a multicore programmer, and look at Maze, a new concurrent development tool. We will discuss Maze architecture and look at the tool in operation. The target audience is software engineers, CS students and researchers, and anybody else who is interested in parallel programming, software testing, and debugging. Participants are expected to be familiar with the concept of a Linux process. The examples will be in C with the use of POSIX threads API.

When: Saturday, October 8th, 2011, 5PM - 6:15PM

Where: Silicon Valley Code Camp
Code Camp Venue: Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road,Los Altos Hills, CA 94022

Link: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com
The cheapest rate I see is more than three times what I'm paying for COBRA insurance. It's a better plan than the plan I'm on, but I know a lot of people make less than that much a month. Yikes!
Actually, you are probably right, he is the sort who doesn't like to talk about things in terms of money.

I'm not trying to be offensive or objectifying, but yeah, re-reading it, I can see how a person might take it that way. Sorry. The actual plan is to split the portion of what the customer pays that is over and above his salary between him and the company, so it would be a way for me to pay him the higher rate his new skill level deserves.

From my point of view? I'm happy to be rented out; I mean, for work I find interesting, as long as the rates keep going up. It's not something I find offensive. but yeah, I need to watch the intonation of my language, as some people do find speaking of things in that way offensive.
"12 old crickets buzz happily"

Are they happy because they made the program crash?
The Shrine Line
How home prices helped kill the first tech boom
15 minutes later, still 404'd
It all depends how often you solve linear problems. If you are occasional user any package for any language will do.

If, however, you process tons of sparse, dense, categorical, or continuous data BE WARY: "lapack", "eispack", "linpack", "scalapack", and "lis" will give you different solutions. Occasionally, crash on some machines. Compilers, linkers, precision, and missing values matter here, too.