skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey bill - looks like you've been hellbanned. Something that you said on http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4213223 ticked someone off. Maybe talk to info@ycombinator.com and get it sorted out.

PHP still sucks though ;)
You don't have to release it via their distribution platform - you're free to distribute it as you like. They only take the 30% cut if you distribute it via them, which I'd say is pretty reasonable. FYI I'm not in any way associated with Turbulenz - I'm just at a conference where they demoed it.
Why do you keep replying to yourself?
Err...even if temperatures were higher in the past, that doesn't affect whether humans are contributing to recent warming (i.e. whether it is natural).

Everyone agrees that humans are warming the climate. It's referred to as a "forcing" in the quoted study.

The disagreement is on how much of an impact we're having.

edit: sorry, just noticed the study didn't mention human forcings. But, if you read most skeptic scientists, they're just disagreeing about impact.

You can replicate CO2's warming effect in a lab.
It's also true.
This. Is what I am currently dealing with. And it sucks...
I was expecting a "Learn anything the hard way", including advice like "Practice often," and "Learn from people who are good at X."
The guy also obviously think of himself as intelligent but can't think of a better mate finding strategy than blind dating once a week.
That chapter in superfreakonomics is terrible. I only have a superficial knowledge of common claims and counter-claims in climate science, but I put down the book in disgust halfway through that chapter.

Read more at [The Economist](http://www.economist.com/node/14738383) or Eric Pooley for [Bloomberg](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2009-10-19/freakonomics-guys-f...). If you do a google-search, you'll probably find point-for-point rebuttals at the normal climate science blogs, too.
Just a heads up: the page doesn't scroll on android, so its impossible to read the whole article.
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Hmm, I guess those statistics are from the SR forums, a separate site. The actual SR web site doesn't give out such statistics. You could perhaps estimate the usage by listings & reviews.
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I haven't had any issues without a degree in terms of salary. It's "degree or relevant experience" everywhere. If this is your first or second job after dropping out of college, expect to get paid slightly less because you're a higher risk but once your proven a bit you shouldn't have this issue.
I wonder if his figure is simply mistaken, then. Because 100 kilobytes is a heck of a lot of code for a hello world. The compiled representations in your blog post seem far more reasonable.
This is about open bugs. Closed bugs are easy to ignore.

Ubuntu has 98614 open bugs:

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs

(Though I expect that would also include feature requests / wishlist items, so the actual bug count would be slightly lower).
Error correction is part of the spec (along with a reference algorithm for decoding a real-world image), so by keeping enough margin in the right places it's possible to embed a logo safely.
IMO, deforestation is one of the worse global problems. Also those giant rafts of trash in the oceans.
Sorry. For some reason, the reply link was unavailable on come comments. (workaround is to use "link" and open single comment with a reply field)

see http://imgur.com/yYOBm
The Register are very biased concerning climate change. For example, take http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/29/science_and_maths_kn... and compare and contrast it with the original paper at http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nc....

Things you might notice include the absence of any horrible backfire; that they didn't just find a slight decrease in perceived risk over climate change with increasing scientific literacy, but also a polarisation of opinions between the left and the right, where increased in scientific literacy strengthens one's beliefs about climate change whatever they are (see also: the title of the paper); and the way the quotes used by The Register don't say what the author wants them to.

This isn't just a case of differing opinions over complicated ideas, this is blatantly dishonest twisting of words.

(For even worse reporting, The Telegraph picked up The Register's article and made it even worse: http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/jamesdelingpole/100161868/...)

I don't yet have anything in particular to say about the present article, but being by The Register doesn't inspire confidence in me...
Regarding screwing up the direct environment- I only want to say that I believe a historical survey, and economics, would support the perception that as societies advance in standard of living, they tend to clean up their local environments.

People start having higher standards for everything, including the quality of their local environment, when mere survival is no longer the primary concern.

So, it could be said that this environmental damage is more a sign of poverty than a result of success. And that if/when the world economy is unleashed and allowed to grow for a couple decades, as a side effect of eliminating poverty we'd likely see massive improvements to the direct environment.

This is also consistent with the evolution of business- when its more competitive you want to minimize waste because its cheaper to use more efficient methods, which has a positive environmental side effect.
I hear google has whiteboard bathrooms. I mean who hasn't come up with an idea they need to write down right away while on the throne?
Straight out of an Ayn Rand novel... :)
RIM CEO lawsuit: BlackBerry 10 optimism has Heins in hot water
> The CSS compilers really dont make much sense to me.

CSS doesn't have variables. I can change my site's color scheme by changing just a few variables. (And I need to, too, because I'm not exactly great at picking them out in the first place...)
Cape Breton technology concept GoInstant sold to Salesforce.com
They aren't in debt. They sold something like one seventh of their company. That's not enough to lose control of the company in any meaningful sense.
On the other hand, those languages do not have a pretension of being fast.
> If it is the case that actually the climate has often been warmer without any significant CO2 emissions having taken place - suggesting that CO2 emissions simply aren't that important...

How does one follow the other? Just because it's been that hot "naturally" doesn't in itself imply that CO2 isn't causing the warming now, nor that CO2 won't cause warming to rise over Roman levels.
As the cameras rolled the other day, Ben and Hermione Way, a photogenic brother-and-sister team from England, discussed the $500,000 they got to develop a fitness app.

They received money before writing an app?
Haha just reminded me of that old video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrontojPWEE ...
Last year it went up to over $30 before hitting $3 over the course of a few months--no one knows what goes up just come down more than bitcoin.

It's steadily risen back to $7 on a much more stable trajectory. The interesting thing this time is the relative stability over the last 6 months.
I really thought we all knew this, already, and the only reason our current situation was an issue is because of the slope of the current temperature graph, the extrapolated temperatures that would be disastrous.
Your comment makes HN a worse place to be, in two articles you know enough to hate them?

What should actually be happening is constructive criticism and lessons for all of us to learn from. At least they tried, at least they put it out there for others to see. So they got it wrong, that's no reason to hate.

You know a better way to do what they did? Good, tell them, and us.
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As someone who knows neither SoMa nor Mission, could you elaborate please?
Retina MacBook Pro: maximizing battery life with gfxCardStatus
Half of the RIM appworld is just useless crap, and that's on the BlackBerry and the PlayBook. They should invest in developers — but in house. Come on, there isn't a single beautiful and stable Twitter client for the PlayBook (and the OS isn't, either). It's awkward to use a PlayBook.

Shameless plug: http://adrian.re/why-suits-are-killing-rim (I still believe that if it's just the big guys writing checks instead of working towards a change, money will never come back)
How is this not incredibly terrifying? They use security and safety as justification for continually reducing our civil liberties and privacy. They act as if the whole of the nation is criminal.
There is no divinely ordained "natural" temperature for the planet, either in the past, the future, or the present. That's pretty much all you really need to know.
At the Rosenbrg Castle in Copenhagen, they use QR Codes to provide information about rooms, items of interest etc. Alas, the free wifi is quickly overwhelmed so I gave up fairly quickly - but I tried, for the first time in a long time.
See what "modern" looks like in 10 years.
Futuristic Laptop Design
A super cool concept of what may happen to future laptop technology.
Before anyone mentions G+ and how difficult it is to replace an existing social network, it's important to consider how lower the barrier of entry is for Twitter. Leaving FB means leaving your pictures and friendships. That said, leaving Twitter means leaving your posts and followers. The question is - is the price of switching platforms low enough?
I believe you was talking about OS X.
Why we are happy to be caught in a web of movie remakes
This is a fair point and one I agree with, however the issue at the moment at least is that as standard of living grows, problems are pushed to other places. This is because they are truly uneconomical to solve locally due to people wanting to protect their standard of living.

The lowest rung of the ladder always gets to solve the problem at the end of the day.
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Why We Need More Generalist User Groups
What would be wrong with OCR plus a marker or two to indicate a scannable area (and maybe content type) - human readable, phone scannable.

My biggest issue with QR codes is there is no indication of what they are before scanning. That, and I dislike most forms of advertising.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
Yes, "to share the media's/state's opinion", forgive my bad english.
Licencing - you've misspelled 'patented'
Readability - "its", not "it's"

There's a bunch of other grammar/style issues - get someone to proofread it.
How role of IT is changing in Business
Interestingly, Amazon bypasses the problem by just using the serial number as part of the name: "Apple iPad MD328LL/A (16GB, Wi-Fi, White) NEWEST MODEL by Apple"

So, regardless of intent, people will find a way to use precise labels, especially on secondary markets.
We can't predict tomorrow's temperatures with any reasonable accuracy, but somehow know the whole earth is going to turn into waterworld?

Hold on a moment. I can't predict tomorrow's lottery numbers with any reasonable accuracy, but I can make an accurate long-term prediction about how often a given number is going to appear over the next decade of lotteries.
I'm not clear what your complaint actually is. Are you upset because the dialog exists at all? Would you rather that you get no convenient way to know when the copy is complete? Or are you annoyed by the extra visualizations and such? It seems like you could simply not expand the additional info.

As for the recycle dialog, I'm pretty sure that's gone in Windows 8.
Ouya: A New Kind of Video Game Console
Don't know why you are getting voted down, you're exactly correct. The iPod Touch and iPhone are basically 3.5" tablets.
Glue: Python framework to link visualizations of multiple related datasets
DC is a cesspool. I can't imagine why anyone would want to live there.
I can just feel the hope and change.
Sounds like someone is too young to have kids in school.

Incidentally, there are good excuses and bad excuses. Bad excuses are essentially lies. A good excuse, or really, an excuse, excuses. If one has an excuse, one is excused and rightfully escapes criticism or blame.
Yes, I've found the same thing. Once you start wearing a watch, you start using it. I find having to get my phone out of my pocket and then waking it up a pain when my watch is right there.
$4,000/day at current exchange rates, it should pay for itself in less than 8 days. Of course the rate of BTC generation will go down over time, but it looks like these rigs would easily pay for themselves for several years yet.
There is certainly plenty of "here's a probability distribution, subject to caveats". There is also some radical uncertainty (unknown unknowns).

However, I understand that the balance of evidence is that it is certainly worth doing significantly more than we are right now to mitigate climate change.

This is particularly so since there are currently still some win-win options -- i.e., options where we gain however bad climate change is or isn't (e.g. energy efficiency, cutting fossil fuel subsidies).

If you like, you can see this (in the non-win-win case) as a kind of insurance. I am not certain that my house is going to burn down -- in fact, I hope and trust that it's very unlikely. But I'm still more than happy to insure my house for a few hundred pounds a year to hedge against it.
I'm one of the most conservative folks you're likely to meet... One of those "Right Wing Nutjobs"... but this really feels like FUD to me.

In a state of emergency the US Gov will need to ensure that it has the ability to communicate. Agreed. Hell, they'll need to ensure that I have the ability to communicate.
The linked paper is worth reading, and an interesting extension to inductive logic programming (ILP), a symbolic-logic-based approach to generalizing from examples.

The more general idea of learning from watching someone play isn't that new, but it's usually in more restricted contexts. For example, the system may be preprogrammed with the rules of chess, and then learns how to play chess well from logs of expert play. The work here has some pretty clever representations to allow it to start with a general hypothesis of any board-like game and then narrow down the rules of a particular game by observation.
No ill will here, but I may have some insight for you. HN is a community of "hackers". Hackers are builders. Hackers take things apart and understand how they work, whether that be a physical thing, or a conceptual thing. Given the parent poster's example, I think they're bothered by your incorrect statement regarding the TokyoFlash watches. A small point, yes, but many hackers have a penchant for accuracy.
I use 2checkout.com shoping cart, but didn't try the API, you can give it a try

You can also check this blog post

http://karim-ouda.blogspot.com/2012/06/how-to-accept-payment...
This article is being pushed down as people flag it, and given how popular pro-AGW hypothesis articles are on HN, it is, to me, a clear cut example of AGW proponents trying to bury scientific data that disagrees with their belief.

I'd rather none of these political stories were on HN at all, but I'm sad to see this rejection of rationality at work.
So you're saying that people loved their polycarbonate bubbling base Macbooks because Apple refused to print a model id on the bottom? I'm pretty sure that's factually incorrect.

You think InspironXE users hate it because when they want more an fru or to access model specifid support they just look on the back and type in the code rather than having to have in depth knowledge of a companies development cycle??

Do you think car drivers hate that tyre makers print the id on the tyre enabling buying a replacement or that auction/sale sites can refer to specifc model numbers that act as a primary key on all the cars features?

In your world presumably all coffee drinks in Starbucks would just be called 'coffee' because having names like latté and cappuccino is too confusing?
The Turbulenz Engine is also equivalent to Thomas the Tank Engine, for some sense of equivalence.
Does anyone not think the Bitcoin game is rigged?

There are significant reasons why having a deflationary, digital currency (or commodity) would be quite useful, at least for certain people and use cases.

If there were no use case for Bitcoin, calling it a scam without presenting evidence would be much more reasonable. Given that there are use cases, calling Bitcoin a scam without presenting evidence is completely arbitrary.

To make an analogy - if I ask you to invest in my company that makes a brand new food item with no nutritional value or flavor, it's probably a scam. However, if I ask you to invest in my company that makes a tasty and nutritional food item, regardless of whether you think my food will do well in the market in the long run, it requires evidence to claim that it is a scam.
Ask HN: Is anyone looking for a better desktop email client?
Ah so this time it's different! The battle cry of every bubble.
That's true, but it's not just that. Their assumption is that for the continued operation of our country, the most important thing -- in extreme, the only critical thing -- is the operation of the government.

I believe this is absolutely false. It's not our government that has made America great. It's our people, our culture, our industry. Thanks to all of this, we thrive in spite of the government.
Why showing your face at work shouldn't matter
DC Uber user here. A fact that's commonly lost on people: the District itself is actually very small, just 68 square miles. Before a recent fare hike, there was a maximum intra-district cab fare of $19, so a $15 minimum Uber fare is a big deal.

Anecdote: I live on the far eastern side of downtown, near Penn Quarter, and am able to get from my apartment to damned near anywhere in town for Uber's minimum charge (the major exception being the far reaches of NW, in the Friendship Heights/Van Ness area). Looking back at my history, only 4 of my 23 fares have been more than $15—three to the airport (in Virginia) and one to Tenleytown.

You can certainly blow this argument up if you want to leave the District, but let's be real...who would want to go to Virginia? ;)
“Eventually Tim came around, and gave me credit for making RSS happen. Thanks.” [1]

“a long-standing issue I have with Wikipedia, that I don’t get any mention in articles on [...] RSS [...] people who want to know about blogging or RSS get the idea that other people did the work and took the risks that I did.” [2]

[1] http://scripting.com/2006/12/21.html#aTaleOfCorporateAtrocit...

[2] http://techcrunch.com/2008/03/02/when-will-we-have-our-first...
I also thought that might be the case, before I read this part: "In explaining the order, the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) writes that the president has authorized the DHS "the authority to seize private facilities when necessary, effectively shutting down or limiting civilian communications.""
The normal bookmarklets work with mobile Safari. The trick is getting the JS on your phone. If you make a new bookmark (for any page) and then change the URL to the right JS, it should work. Originally I had to email the JS to myself, but now I have it up on pastebin.

http://pastebin.com/mwSYY8mu
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Sounds like the textbook symptoms.
"JVM's start-up time and inability to allocate memory when needed (as compared to up-front way it's done now).."

Care to elaborate? Are you saying that the JVM can't malloc()? :)
False analogy. You can indeed predict tomorrow's lottery numbers, or at least their probabilities, with extreme accuracy; the odds are defined and exact. This is why long-term predictions of lottery numbers are extremely accurate, because the day-to-day probabilities are known and exact.

Temperatures, however, are not random and probabilistic; they are the explicit result of many factors. These same factors are used to predict long-term climate change. If the climate models that use these factors work so well for the future, why do they not work well for the next week? It's the same model, the same factors. In the analogy of the lottery numbers, if you mess up the near-term probabilities, you can rest assured the error is magnified over a long term.
I always suggest Spencer Weart's 2008 history of climate change, published by the Center for History of Physics of the American Institute of Physics at http://www.aip.org/history/climate/index.htm (also available as a book). It provides a lot of technical detail and shows how, for example, climate models were improved over time. Reading it resolved the question for me: global warming's theory and observations developed over time, much like any other scientific field.
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> Why and how is it cumbersome for you?

I don't mean to pick on you, but this is a totally unfair question. Some guys wear boxers while others prefer briefs. They find aspects of one or the other uncomfortable.

Some people find the weight/size of the iPad cumbersome. It's a matter of personal experience, not some objective metric. What you really want to know (if you're Apple) is how many people aren't buying iPads because they find them cumbersome.
Just hit a similar situation at work and realised why I had to use it. Had a django app called taxonomy in a project, couldn't use the same name in another django project. Now I definitely have to use it!
Then they release two models at the same time and your key is not looking so primary any more.
No, the issue is you are a Republican voter who watches Fox News, and you've been told by your team that climate change is made up, and therefore when forced to choose between the worldwide scientific consensus and your team, you're choosing your team.

This is a very human thing to do, but it has nothing to do with science or facts. The science is, of course, 100% in favor of climate change:

http://leisureguy.wordpress.com/2007/09/04/the-scientific-co...
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This isn't the place, and I'm also not the person, to summarise the whole of climate science for you. That's why I provided a link to more information. Here's another: http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/climate-change/guide

"You're going to die" -- or "you or your descendants stand a decent chance of living less happily and/or less long" -- is indeed pretty emotional. I'm afraid that's inevitable, and was part of the point I was making.
Is Cloud Computing The Key For Small Businesses Long-term Survival?
This is an interesting article, but I don't think it's saying what the register writer or climate change deniers think.

Casting my mind back to primary school, we all learned that Earth's axis wobbles -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axial_precession -- and that today the north has hotter summers than the south because the northern hemisphere's summer is mainly driven by the axial tilt, but reinforced by orbital eccentricity (i.e. the Earth is closer to the sun during Summer, further during Summer).

The degree to which tilt varies and coincides with distance from the sun will drive the intensity of Summer (in a given hemisphere), and this article argues (with evidence) that this effect has been stronger than the effect of greenhouse gases over the last 2000 years.

I.e. that Summer in Europe has been getting cooler over the last 2000 years owing to axial precession.

Not that Summer has gotten cooler on average over the entire Earth, or that the Earth has gotten cooler on average, or anything else.

I am neither a physicist nor a climate scientist.