skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You don't have to model the solar contribution to temperature, you can measure it.

We have in fact been measuring total solar irradiance (TSI) for a few decades now. See http://acrim.jpl.nasa.gov/ for the newest version of the instrument.

It's hard to paste the time series together from multiple instruments; not all of them work the same way, and there are discontinuities (TSI has to be measured from space, and you have to schedule launches to obtain overlap between the time series of successive instruments).

Someone wrote a long article about it, citing most of the experts in the area (http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/VariableSun/variab...). (Confession: I have not read the article carefully; it seems about right.)

The current thinking is that there's no way that TSI increases can explain the warming we have measured of the Earth. The TSI changes are just not large enough.

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In fact, here's a nice recent summary of the big picture regarding remote sensing of climate variables:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/GlobalWarming/

It's no exaggeration to say this contains infinitely more usable information than the OP.
To everyone who thinks DHH and 37signals overreacted to this, keep in mind that the IA/UI paradigm introduced in Basecamp has been aped by many startups in their web apps with nary a whiff of public complaint.

It's one thing to copy the design of a marketing page (which is pretty weak), but to serve assets from that company's servers? Such an action is so idiotic and pathetic, that it's absurd. It's completely inexcusable and deserves to be called out whenever it happens.
This makes no sense. We've been assured now for years AGW is true because it's the scientific consensus. Isn't that how it became "settled science", after all? And now you say it doesn't matter how many scientists are skeptical. Is this some kind of one-way street, this settled science?

I mean, clearly the models are wrong, so it wasn't that. They've utterly failed to predict the lack of temperature rise in the last decade or so. Come to think of it, besides the models, what makes anyone think it's real? Oh yeah, settled science. So... it's like phrenology, then?
So how does this fit in with a job at a corporation that would not appreciate public broadcasts of the details of what (or heck, even what) you are working on?
In your TOS: You may not create a link to this website from another website or document without trickedouttimeline.com’s prior written consent.

Why would you want this?
I dont understand the g+ button... no reason at all for the rainbow above it. I want consistency in my buttons and this needlessly breaks that.
I really appreciate that this site uses interesting quotes rather than lorem ipsum. It makes it less boring to trawl through different fonts.
Ignore the downvotes. You started a good conversation.
You can get official Windows source, under restrictive conditions. Mainly used by governments, and some other large organizations.

The rest of your question is somewhat confusing.
> I'm curious what would it take to overturn "settled science,"

Evidence to the contrary. Or, failing that, a lack of the traditional continual build-up of supporting evidence is often enough to cast a theory into doubt.

I feel like I should note: I know next to nothing about climate science, and this comment is meant neither in support or in denial of any related theory. I'm merely defending science as a whole. (Remediating the sad state of my knowledge about climate science is high on my todo list.)
Neither of which I have. ;) And because you asked for information on size/weight and battery life without specifying a specific model, this was the best I could do.
Gapminder has some good data on this, and it doesn't support your claim. It shows that population growth decreases slightly as income per person increases.

Gapminder link: www.bit.ly/AiTWsG
Or you can have protests but not use force against them. Or more specifically do not use force against the journalists. Of course one goes with the other, if you want to beat up some peaceful protesters you have to beat up the journalists covering your original beating too.

The occupy protests were peaceful and they generally did not break shops and vandalize things. There was no reason to treat them that way.
Anthropogenic

Reasonable doubt

I agree that seeing it as a conservative versus liberal issue is unhelpful.
Why is Australia ranked low for press freedomthen? The only controversial thing I can thing of in Australia is the mining industry. Do you all have protesters against the mining industry...thinking of Midnight Oil's "Blue Sky Mine"
Then perhaps they shouldn't have consumed something they won't pay for?
The cost difference between Windows Azure Tables and DynamoDB really depends upon the size of the entities being operated over and the amount of data stored. If an application can benefit from batch transactions or query operations, the savings can be a lot per entity using Windows Azure Tables.

For the cost of storage. The base price for Windows Azure Tables is $0.14/GB/month, and the base price for DynamoDB is $1.00/GB/month.

For transactions, there is the following tradeoff

• DynamoDB is cheaper if the application performs operations mainly on small items (couple KBs in size), and the application can’t benefit from batch or query operations that Windows Azure Tables provide

• Windows Azure Tables is cheaper for larger sized entities, when batch transactions are used, or when range queries are used

The following shows the cost of writing or reading 1 million entities per hour (277.78 per second) for different sized entities (1KB vs 64KB). It also includes the cost difference between strong and eventually consistent reads for DynamoDB. Note, Windows Azure Tables allows batch operations and queries for many entities at once, at a discounted price. The cost shown below is the cost per hour for writing or reading 1,000,000 entities per hour (277.78 per second).

• 1KB single entity writes -- Azure=$1 and DynamoDB=$0.28

• 64KB single entity writes -- Azure=$1 and DynamoDB=$17.78

• 1KB batch writes (with batch size of 100 entities) -- Azure=$0.01 and DynamoDB=$0.28

• 64KB batch writes (with batch size of 100 entities) -- Azure=$0.01 and DynamoDB=$17.78

• 1KB strong consistency reads -- Azure=$1 and DynamoDB=$0.05

• 64KB strong consistency reads -- Azure=$1 and DynamoDB=$3.54

• 1KB strong consistency reads via query/scan (assuming 50 entities returned on each request) – Azure=$0.02, DynamoDB=$0.05

• 64KB strong consistency reads via query/scan (assuming 50 entities returned on each request) – Azure=$0.02, DynamoDB=$3.54

• 1KB eventual consistency reads – DynamoDB=$0.028

• 64KB eventual consistency reads – DynamoDB=$1.77
Minimum Viable Values
> The fact is that CO2 is not a pollutant. CO2 is a colorless and odorless gas, exhaled at high concentrations by each of us, and a key component of the biosphere's life cycle. Plants do so much better with more CO2 that greenhouse operators often increase the CO2 concentrations by factors of three or four to get better growth.

Yes, and ozone is a poison, but in the high atmosphere it still protects you from skin cancer. This arguments seems calculated to appeal to the most scientifically ignorant of audiences.

> This is no surprise since plants and animals evolved when CO2 concentrations were about 10 times larger than they are today.

Yes, because evolution happened at a single point in the past, and no evolution at all happened in the many millions of years since CO2 concentrations dropped below that level.
I'm not disagreeing with your other points, but Stallman did not wish anyone dead. He actually said nobody deserves to die, but we sometimes deserve the end of their bad influence.
One of my favorite, unexpected benefits of blogging is it's like a time-machine/memory dump for your brain.

I've had this experience too, albeit not in a coding sense. I will say, however, that I use Devonthink Pro according to Steven Berlin Johnson's scheme: http://www.stevenberlinjohnson.com/movabletype/archives/0002... to archive my own posts, as well as other quotes, writing, and so forth, and DTP's "see also" algorithms often find material I wrote years ago but that's relevant to what I'm doing now. It helps me get to this: "Over time, you develop some deep insights which are the result of several "me"s collaborating on the problem."
I've never seen a grown man act the way DHH did. Call it out, but do it with some professionalism.
That's not true at all. They are appropriate when you are actually trying to deflate the opposing side's character. For example, if someone has a history of making poor choices, it's likely that any further choice they make is also likely poor. That's why judges often take into consideration whether an offense is someone's first, or someone's third.

With that being said, both sides definitely should have reconsidered their PR strategy. Both being techies, it's reasonable to assume that they should be fully aware of how things like this propagate on the internet.
No. A scientist most be known to say the truth and only the truth otherwise the public wont believe them when they tell them something that they cant possibly tell is true or not.
Nitpick: Open Source is defined by the Open Source Initiative[1] (OSI), not by the FSF, which defines "Free Software".

In fact, "Open Source" was defined specifically as a way to drop the philosophical and ethical approach of "Free Software".

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source_software
Not acceptable to who? If the course of action you've outlined (notify people of their mistakes etc..) is what you feel is right then doing so would be maintaining your integrity. If DHH feels like they're contemptible for doing what they did tweeting that they are 'fucking scumbags' is maintaining cohesiveness and integrity between his words and feelings. If you choose to think less of DHH as a result of the way he behaved then that is your prerogative, but based on the things he's said publicly about not caring much about seeming 'unprofessional' I don't think he will care much, if at all.
I wonder how the community reconciles so many posters being up in arms about this event while frequently promoting stories from torrent freak and generally dismissing the belief that much harm comes from copyright infringement. Is it different when someone you know or respect is the injured party?
I like this analogy, and it applies to a number of projects I've been involved with. On the other hand, at work I also encounter change requests that are basically repeats of existing projects with slight modifications, and/or changes to well understood subsystems such that I can pretty much nail the estimate. Not surprisingly, these are also relatively simple changes.

It's the whole "known unknowns" vs. "unknown unknowns" thing, and I think it's useful to distinguish between the two.
Great Idea! So how does it count time? time spent on a tab? What if you have multiple windows open?

In any case, I expect more threads tomorrow with optimal web time management strategies.
One solution that is employed by some sites (SBNation, for instance) is to have a period of time (a day or a few days) after signing up before a person is able to comment. That way genuine new users are forced to lurk a bit and learn the ways of the community and it could also prevent things like the people creating burners just to come say stuff they aren't willing to associate with their real name. You'd also largely prevent stuff like the Reddit invasion on SOPA day, etc.
I don't get it. Are you saying that 37Signals should be proud that someone made unauthorized use of their work for profit?
Firefox3 Theme for Firefox4+ and status-4-evar extension solve a great deal of the modern firefox problems and actually make it functional again.

Modern browsers are going to raise a bunch of idiots who aren't even curious about how the page actually works - even "view source" is now buried.
W/r/t computing gnarly integrals, interested parties might appreciate pymc, a python package that implements markov chain monte carlo methods to estimate them
On Internet Explorer 9.0.8112.16421 64-bit, on Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit: http://cl.ly/DhzK

And icons: http://cl.ly/Dhua
Let's be rational.

Lets say that it is instantaneous and free to copy 37Signal's design, whereas to recreate it from scratch it costs the labor of a designer X units of dollar-time.

For the sake of simplicity lets say that Curebit and 37Signals are competing for customers in a zero sum game.

True, by copying 37Signals, Curebit has taken away some unknown X dollar-time worth of customers away from 37Signals during that 1 hour.

However, even though the customer space of 37Signal's and Curebit's enterprise may be zero-sum, the dollar-time measure of work is non-negative (and not zero-sum). It would make more sense for the industry as a whole to allow the copying of design, because overall it saves on design work time.

What Curebit did appears to be wrong because it appears as though they are outright cheating. However, if you understand that designers gain their chops by reverse-engineering the productions of others, and that this happens routinely in the real world, perhaps it's time to accept copying as a legitimate part of the equation.

In this case, 37Signals was given free rein to track Curebit's customers. Sounds like a good deal to me.
Parent is using the OSI's definition of open source.

[1]: http://www.opensource.org/
The Sharebooster logo is actually stock art: https://twitter.com/#!/launchbit/status/163328570364669952
I am not sure that is a meaningful position -- it would require that there is an alternative to coal and fossil fuels (other than neuclear).

Certainly you can use wind or solar but they are not realistic because they are too limited and too costly for our current and future needs. There are bunch of other technologies that might one day make the cut, but what will you change to until they (may) become available?
I was at this event and it was quite an interesting way to see what kinds of ideas people are working on and what kind of help they need. There were 50 or so elevator pitches and a chance to speak with the presenters afterwards (which was useful since some of the ideas seemed a bit useless until you actually spoke with the founders face to face)
this is the kind of confused reasoning that has people thinking that if they "just do a little" then "it will add up to a lot". the basic problem is that you forget to shift frames when evaluating the significance of the sum.

for example, you might have heard that if everyone would "just" unplug their phone chargers (when not in use) then we'd save millions (or whatever it works out as) of watt-hours a year and so help avert global warming. and it is indeed true that if everyone does something tiny and trivial (relative to a household's total consumption) like that it will add up to an amount that is much more than one household's consumption. yay! but to estimate the significance you need to compare it to the total energy consumption of the entire country. and then it becomes tiny and trivial again, and will clearly make no significant difference to global warming.

similarly here - the total is way more than $20. gosh. but if you compare it to total turnover then it is a tiny percentage, which makes no real difference to the company.

in short: big changes on a global scale require big changes on a local scale.
Four paragraphs of annoyed text and yet you didn't answer the question!
How about we just not try to offset things in units of pixels on web pages?
How an AT&T smartphone comes to life: behind the scenes
I'll take that pony ride.

Someone who's happy to steal from someone else just because that person is richer than them and they're only stealing little things still, IMO, lacks morally. With proviso's which aren't I don't think pertinent to this current situation (eg immediate life-preservation).

Your argument is basically the shoplifter's manifesto - the store is rich, I only took some of their stuff, it's barely a drop compared to their profits, etc..
Seriously, it isn't close. Startup volume here is insane, there's a large number of big-scale successes (Tumblr, Etsy, Foursquare, Kickstarter), a mature group of companies (Google, AOL, Facebook by the end of the year), and a robust small startup community focused in Union Square and Dumbo.

Besides, I'd take Boston or Chicago before those cities.
Back before DHH was a millionaire, he was creating Rails instead of copy-pasting other people's landing pages.
I actually find the discussion on Slashdot of much higher quality than this one.
It's not acceptable if you want to present yourself as the spokesperson for a friendly business. If you use your Twitter account as a platform for expressing both your personal and corporate thoughts I think it's best to keep the wording civil. Roasting Curebit over Twitter like this seems childish to me at best.
And probably 50x the size of the original version.

Actually it's closer to 120x ;)
I must admit that the next time a Google recruiter contacts me, chances are good I'll bring up this case.
I'm sorry, the Occupy protests have NOT been peaceful. Just last week in SF, a couple police officers ended up in the hospital. Nevermind the amount of property they managed to trash. They were also lucky they didn't kill anyone, they were throwing bricks and objects off an abandoned hotel near where I live.
Since 1997, he was paid $1/year in salary. But he certainly wasn't living in the poor house.

In 2001, the company gifted him a $90 million Gulfstream jet, and paid for all related expenses.

According to Apple’s proxy statement from February 2011, Jobs owned about 5.5-million shares of Apple stock. In addition, he owned about $5 Billion of Disney stock, which gave him an annual dividend of about $50 Million.
Startup Metrics for Pirates: AARRR! and steal peoples shit lol
But the longer we wait the more certain we are of the exact changes, if any, and we will have better tech to deal with it.

And dealing with it does not mean cutting down on CO2 -- just because the environmental groups contains a vocal minority that feels guilty by not being a hunter/gatherer -- it means building dikes, transport water, etc, etc.
You get pity upvotes, but I do disagree.

Law enforcement in this country has become increasingly uncomfortable with the spread of information concerning it - whether that information is propagated by twitter, "bona-fide" journalists, or folks testing out their new camera[phone]. Every group of people has the right to do PR, without interference from the government - period. The gov't doesn't get to say "oh, but they were /really/ crazy". Don't care. They were within their rights, and you beat them.

Worse still, we have a promulgation of non-police "law enforcement" agencies acting more like a branch of the military operating within the borders as a national police force. I do not want to see the DHS's logo on a copyright take-down notice. I do not want the TSA searching people. The FBI is properly regulated - that's /why/ they're less efficient. It's not a flaw, it's by design. Creating the DHS and the TSA because the FBI has its hands tied by Congress was just despicable.

(My apologies if this is something of a rant - I'm getting frustrated with people piking at technicalities and ignoring the basic fact that civil liberties are being rapidly destroyed.)
I don't think you can define "copying" clearly for this purpose. Is it still copying if a person is wedged in the replication loop? I think you're going to try to divide my hypothetical into two scenarios, and it's not going to be clear cut what the distinction is.
For me, the really objectionable part isn't the "thievery", it's the sloppiness of it.

Anyone with half a clue knows that if you're copying HTML:(a) you'd better redact any references to the original source, (b) you ought to change the class names, and (c) you sure as shit better not link to resources on the owner's servers. After all, most HTML/CSS is borderline protectable under copyright in the first place.

P.S. If you're copy/pasting HTML/CSS, you're pretty terrible at web design. Anyone with even the slightest facility in web design could whip up a clone of the 37Signals landing page in an evening without doing more than sneaking a peek at the source.
Except that it is now a conservative issue. There used to be bipartisan consensus among politicians and the public that global warming was a real phenomenon. Then Kyoto asked people to do something about it, and denial became an article of faith among conservatives. You just have to look at the polling: ten years ago, conservatives and liberals had the same views on global warming, but since Kyoto support for denialism has skyrocketed among conservatives. It is almost impossible now to be a conservative politician in America without denying global warming.

I think it's a false equivalence to claim that it isn't a conservative vs. liberal issue when denial is almost entirely confined to one side, and that side is massively biased.
The Cost of Laundry
I think most people with experience and maturity understood what was said by Stallman and interpreted it correctly, including the timing of his remarks.

Neither you, nor I, know what Stallman wished for or against.
The latest version of the book can be found at the author's page:-
[1] http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/pmwiki/pmwiki.php?n=...
[2] Direct link: http://web4.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/D.Barber/textbook/211111.pdf
As I said in my response to your other post, you're still not answering the question I posed. Sure, you're answering other (unasked) questions, but those answers I already understand.

So long ago that it seems almost like someone else's life, my constant lonely trips to the beach just to stare at the sea and wonder what lay over the horizon made me realize that I had to cross oceans. So I went to school to become a Merchant ships officer. In an earlier century I would have been one of those idiots hanging around the docks trying to get on a ship sailing into the regions "where there be dragons." In future centuries that version of me would be hanging around spaceports dreaming of venturing into the unknown regions where riches would be found.

I said the above to illustrate that I understand wanderlust and the joy of exploration for its own sake perfectly well. What I don't get is this need to "preserve the species."
you are assuming that Sergei and Larry were not aware of this pact. if the firm's VP is aware of this pact and fired an employee over this, i would say Sergei amd Larry are guilty as well. eithet of collusion or gross neglect.
I think the heading is wrong. Should be "Sixteen Concerned Physicists, Administrators, Politicians and a Couple of Ex-Climatologists: No Need to Blame Us For Obama Getting Re-Elected"
Thanks! It counts time by looking at the URL on the active tab every three seconds. Even if you have multiple windows open, it only counts time for the active tab. And if there is no active tab (i.e. Chrome does not have focus), then it doesn't count time at all.
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