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"The earth had dramatic warm and cool periods long before humans, and will continue to despite us."

Ok, what you're trying to do here, in the context of my first post, is make a case for one of those 'unknown processes' that I talked about. Now, I'm all for that, I'm not closing any doors, but if you want me to accept that there is some other, natural, process going on, you're going to have to show some evidence for it. Show me that the sun's output has changed and is causing the rise in temperature, or that the real culprit is volcano emissions, or amoeba farts, or whatever.

"If the case for anthropogenic global warming is so strong, why are scientists falsifying data like in ClimateGate?"

There have been I don't know how many independant investigations (about 5 or so at last count) into "ClimateGate", and they have all cleared scientists of lying or falsifying data. So I throw your question back to you - if this is all a big put on by scientists, why can we never catch them lying/falsifying the data? I mean, we should be able to if this is a coverup, right?

"Much evidences suggests that we are headed into another "Little Ice Age" like in the 1700s. But few people talk about this for some reason."
Well, the reason that we don't talk about it is because there isn't any evidence that we're heading back into a mini Ice Age. But again, apply the scientific process to this. Your hypothesis is that we are heading back into a mini Ice Age. Well, the last time that happened, we saw a drop in CO2 levels, which is what you would expect to see according to modern climate models. This time round, CO2 is rising and temperatures are rising. Bearing in mind the facts from my first post, I don't see how you can possibly expect that we are about to head into another mini Ice Age, unless you are once again proposing some mysterious cause that we haven't yet detected that is going to force the climate into a colder state. Once again, I'm willing to listen, but you're going to have to back your position up with some evidence if you want me to accept the hypothesis.
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Remember the hockey stick graph? The graph that the entire AGW community rallied around for years? Yeah, it was wrong:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11646-climate-myths-th...

I can give you more examples if you wish, but I think that alone speaks pretty strongly about how inconclusive/false some research is.
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Well happy PD to everybody.

Today just happened to be an unexpectedly productive programming day... I guess I was "celebrating" without realizing it :)
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It's just not possible to get it via the means you've described.

Why not? it might harder to implement than coffeescript, but ooc is proof that it's possible. Remove GC and dependent libs, and you still have a substancially higher level language than C (or C++).

As for ooc and garbage collection: How would you write a compiler for a high level garbage collected language without including a garbage collector?

I didn't say it should be garbage collected: Obviously it would have to come with some lower level semantics, like memory management. The coffeescript approach is it shouldn't have dependencies. By high level, I meant higher level than c++. it will always be lower level than a language like python, without dependencies we can't escape all the semantics underlying in the target language. That said like I mentioned before, memory management could possibly be handled by something similar to Apple's ARC (and to answer your last question, I don't think it's that black and white, look at how Apple is investing on ARC instead of GC; also GC's unpredictability make it a no-go for low level routines in videogames).
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1. Read a chapter from The Mythical Man-month each day before going to bed. ^_^

2. Assumption that when a large project with lots of coders involved grows (and matures) the number of bugs (per line of code) decreases, is very naive one. (see pp 1)

3. Of course, all those useless layers and piles of poorly-designed abstractions we used to see in a typical Java projects are the results of automated memory management and Moore's law. ^_^

If one neglects what is under the hood one will eventually run into a trouble. Memory and its management are still here, like another processes, flows of data and other dynamics. Not thinking about them does not eliminate them from existence. JVM is a user-level process, one of many.

So, it is not a risk homeostasis it is a mere ignorance. ^_^
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2) if you're chasing the next big thing, you won't get anything. Solve a problem to a significant degree (which means truly understanding the problem). Page didn't do Page Rank because he wanted to be rich; he did it to try to solve the search problem.
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>why are scientists falsifying data like in ClimateGate?

You've repeated this accusation several times in this thread. Can you back this up? I've asked people many times, nobody ever produces anything. They just assume that it was proved, without ever actually checking their hypotheses.

Here's an example of what scientific misconduct looks like, from my field:

http://www.economist.com/node/21528593

The researchers screwed up through basic sloppiness, then refused to correct their errors after they were pointed out. Has there been anything this bad in the the leaked climate emails? BTW, as a scientist I know that "trick" has more than one meaning, particularly when it comes to problem solving, so if you think that the use of the word "trick" is rock-solid proof, please explain how deception was perpetrated rather than clever problem solving.
Working on drivers should be put to one side (if indeed they are spending time on that) and they should work on the emulated hardware only until they reach XP-level. This would be a massive achievement that millions of Linux users etc. could benefit from in terms of running their Windows-only apps inside VirtualBox or the like, allowing them to dump their dual-boot setups just to run Quicken or what have you.
Anyone in climate science who does not understand why their work is controversial is living in a cave or willfully ignorant at this point.

1. Many climate scientists claim authority to make policy recommendations, something which is outside the realm of science. (Science ideally informs policy, but policy is about tradeoffs which climate scientists have no privileged insight into.)

2. The public face of climate science is akin to a political attack ad. Anyone who questions the policy recommendations of climate scientists is painted with the same brush as creationists or conspiracy theorists.

3. Climate scientists have mislead the public about their own science. When we have a cold winter, then "weather isn't climate", but when we have heat wave, then "we can't rule out the possibility that this is related to global warming".

Of course, some climate scientists are careful to outline the limits of their knowledge. It's just a few bad apples spoiling it for the honest 2%.
I feel very uneasy about this. JavaScript is great because it is so simple. All the things mentioned sound as if they add unnecessary complexity.

Why not just leave JavaScript alone, and push for a more universal way for browsers to run code? Then different languages could be used, and those who want it could program with more advanced languages (or whatever they deem to be advanced).
JavaScript is hardly to blame for that. You could create your HTML & CSS in any language you like, yet I don't think any solutions that are really pleasant to use exist.
Shedskin compiles python to C++. It's getting quite good too. You can compile up to 10,000 lines within an acceptable time now. It is a subset of python though, so more dynamic things do not work.

You can also get it to compile as a CPython module. The latest release supports the mmap module, so it is possible to quickly share large array data without copying. Shedskin 1.0 is coming out maybe within a number of months after years of development.
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I very much agree with your skepticism when it comes to believing the results of large scale simulations of complex systems. I personally think many people incorrectly transfer the certainty that we have of the underlying phenomena to the results of these complex simulations. No rational person disputes the direct effects that CO2 has on the absorption and re-emission of IR but once this is included into hugely complex simulations, I believe a very large degree of skepticism is warranted.

However for almost exactly the same reasons I maintain some skepticism over the simulation results, I am personally very strongly in favor of minimizing man's impact on the environment. Precisely because it is a hugely complex system and I don't believe we can predict the effects of any changes we make to the environment.

Depressingly, it seems that the chances of persuading America to really embrace a serious reduction in its CO2 emissions (especially if the Republicans get any more power) is extremely small. And even if America were on-board getting world-wide consensus would still be difficult in the extreme.

It may very well be that the only option we have is deal with consequences of climate change as they arise. This will likely be more expensive than if we were investing in reducing our impact now but the way politics works the world over means that people are very reluctant to take short-term pain for long-term gain. And it should be remembered that even if the climate changes even faster than has been predicted, it will still be a gradual process, and countries will adapt to it the best way they can as and when it is required. By this I merely mean to dispel the idea that some people seem to have of utter catastrophe if action is not taken.
I've made no effort to ensure that the frameworks available on the site are iOS-specific. The main point is that they're available for iOS.
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That's incorrect, the author's argument goes way further than that, claiming that Apple's "sloppy implementation" is due to it being bolted on as an afterthought, having not thought of the concept of multitasking until after Android.

In reality, Apple's implementation consciously limits what apps can do in the background to stop apps from draining battery life or generally doing things that the user is unaware of.
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That's pretty funny. That article is about climate myths. The article is saying the opposite of what you think it says. The hockey stick graph has not been proven wrong.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/14/ice_age/

Here you go :)

I would emphasize that there is no more proof that we are headed into an Ice Age than there is that we are headed into a particularly warm period, I only mention the Ice Age because so few people talk about it. Weather is very difficult to model - we can barely model next month's weather accurately, let alone the next hundred years.

In particular, here is the major fallacy: Even if weather did sharply rise over a century, there is no telling what that might mean for the following century. In fact, if you look at most temperature spikes, they are usually followed by cool periods. It is like saying that because tomorrow is hot, and the next day hotter, that we must be headed into a really hot period. It simply does not work like this.

As for ClimateGate, I'm not really into conspiracies, but it would not surprise me if some scientists had their asses covered. Imagine the people who would look stupid for handing a Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore. Not that hard to pull strings on these so called "investigations" - everyone has a price.
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Yeah, it is pretty plausible that the more cars in a country, there more investments will be done in traffic safety. Also because more cars typically mean richer country, which means more developed infrastructure and perhaps better education.

I have a hunch that the number of iPads per citizen also correlates with fewer traffic deaths per car.
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One of the advantages to implementing these types of problems in C++ is you can use compile-time optimizations, often resulting in 2-3x speed-up.

The results may be a lot different when compiling with just -O2 -ffast-math.
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With posts like these censored from HN, no wonder pro-Apple bias stays the way it is here. The Apple proponents on this site probably have no idea what's going on outside their Apple-coloured windows and the first time they hear about anything is when Apple announces it on a keynote.

Because painting Apple as the one doing copying will get you flagged the hell out of forums like this one.

So yeah. This gets flagged, but Gruber's trollbait and Apple-praise goes? Facts are bad, but reinforced, artificially rosed up Apple-gardens are good? WTH.

Can we please have an "unflag"-button to save articles from the censorship of Apple fanatics? Pretty please? iPlease?
Heh, whoops. I always transpose those two letters. I can't get that acronym right regardless of which one I'm trying to type!

But yeah, I wouldn't be surprised if there was someone somewhere who had a pile of CSV-based shell scripts that outperformed TFS.
I had to do a double take this wasn't an Onion article. How on earth can the body "know" whether one has become a father? Turns out the term "fatherhood" is misleading or at least ambiguous. As the Hadza vs the Datoga example shows, it's not the act of inseminating a female that causes testosterone depletion but the lifestyle changes often (but not always) associated with fatherhood.
Marco has actually stated that he has 4.0 pretty much ready to ship as soon as iOS 5 comes out. However due to being built against the 5.0 SDK he can't release it any earlier than that.
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Most people on HN. Or at least so it seems when reading this site. Heck, even this article was flagged and removed, while Gruber's trollbait about Apple innovation is always gold here. Go figure.

And San Fransisco bloggers writing in a coffee-shop on leached wifi on their Macbook Airs. These people have never heard about anything at all until Apple announces it at a keynote.

The people who didn't consider "Folders. Reinvented" a joke, they say so.

You know... These kind of people. The say that.
So if we want to make roads safer, we should make people think driving is more dangerous than it really is.

It's counterintuitive - changes in perception of reality are more useful than changes in reality.
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Not much (as any other professional day - reclamation expert's day, railwayman's day, etc), but we're working on it!
so what you are saying they copied from RIM then realized its better to copy from Apple? ;)
Certainly more inspired :)
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I agree. The local newspaper here recently redesigned its website[1] with "social" rubbish baked right in, to the point where the paper's own news feed is now interspersed with the random ramblings of website users, Tweets, rants and ads disguised as articles. I particularly love the way reporters now have their Twitter names instead of actual bylines under their articles (hello, "moontunes1", "lexis1234" and "elksie"!)

It's a pointlessly "social" horror--they seem to have been reading too much trendy babble on TechCrunch or Mashable and too little UX literature. Who told them any of this was a good idea? We visit the local newspaper website to read the stories published by the professional journalists at that paper. If I want to read a stream of tweets and rants, I'll visit Twitter or a forum. What a mess.

[1]: http://www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/home
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[1] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD03xx/EWD340....
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The C++ code it generates depends on a Python runtime, doesn't it? That means you can't use it to write - for example - C++ libraries.
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Yes, IF there is water on the planet. So far we're not sure how Earth came to have so much water and it is thought that our water was a relatively recent addition in our planetary formation. The method HARPS uses, which discovered this planet among 50 others announced today, is spectrography on the host star to detect the wiggle as the planet orbits.

This method doesn't give us the density or composition of the planets, which are the other two values of primary concern in evaluating it for whether it could host life or not.

As always Bad Astronomy provides a no BS rundown of this all this news: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2011/09/12/50...
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OK then, let's solve that compile issue today then.
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Really, ClimateGate is the least of my concerns as far as "bad science" goes - most of the bad science is not being hidden behind conspiracies, it is in our face.

To be honest - I do not know if the researchers really hid or falsified data, and I do not know what attempts were made (if any) to further cover this up. But I do know that it did come into public light, and that raises my suspicions a little bit. But regardless if they did hide anything or not, I am more concerned with the fact that scientists are so eager to prove that AGW has a major impact and seemingly hesitant to try and prove the opposite.
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"When we have a cold winter, then "weather isn't climate", but when we have heat wave, then "we can't rule out the possibility that this is related to global warming"."

Are you sure that is the scientists talking, and not just the "common folks"? I never had the impression that climate science is terribly interested in singular spots of measurements. The public of course reacts immediately. If there is a warm winter, they all become believers in climate change, if there is a cold winter, they become convinced it is all bunk.

Never mind that the climate change could indeed lead to some regions of the world to actually become colder.

Maybe the problem is that everybody thinks they are experts on the weather, too, after all, they can sense it with their own senses - not.
You're saying their lack of feature was a feature. It's like saying my Nokia 5100 is so power efficient than your smartphone that it's better. Different intentions.
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"why are scientists falsifying data like in ClimateGate?"

Um, they didn't. There wasn't really a ClimateGate, either, only some people wanted to fabricate one.
Cython is pretty excellent for this sort of thing. The article contains a link to a Cython solution written by Travis Oliphant showing how concise (and fast) it is.

I just used Cython to speed up a non-vectorisable bit of code in a Gibbs sampling algorithm and I was impressed by the performance increase and ease of use.
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I am joining a [YC] startup as employee #2, and am being offered a near-market salary. So what's the problem? Well, the options package amounts to about 0.4% of the company (pre-series A and thus, probably pre-mass dilution).

Obviously the near-market salary is great and all, and some of you will probably say that I should take that and be happy... but I feel like I am taking on some risk by moving from "stable" work to a startup that may or may not survive the next 2 years. Obviously the equity question is not a question at all if it doesn't survive, but I would like to think that such an early [engineering] hire who will be working probably-ridiculous hours deserves more than 0.4%.

Am I just greedy? I think I generally have a good work ethic, and I will work hard in any case, but I am not very incentivized to work the usual 'crazy startup hours' if I get an almost ridiculously-small sized portion of "the pie." I guess I should add that this company does not have a very high valuation or anything, between 5-10 mil.

I've read most of the options/equity articles online, but feel free to post them again. Should I ask for more? If so, how can I ask without seeming like a total jerk? Am I just a greedy bastard? I'll accept any answers for all of these questions. Thank you for reading.
That comparison isn't even apples and oranges, that's apples and spaceships.

They deliberately limited functionality to provide a feature. They then provided more functionality which removed some of those original limitations.

Power efficiency has nothing to do with it in the slightest.
What would the users prefer? The developer having saved some effort isn't much comfort while having a subpar experience.

(See also Java/GTK/... cross-platform desktop apps)
No, more like creating a VM. JavaScript is essentially the VM now, but I suppose something more universal could be created (more suitable for accommodating all sorts of languages).