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One thing I do know is this:

There are uncounted[1] numbers of glaciers in alaska alone. I mean that literally.

There are so many glaciers on the planet that nobody has ever even counted them, let alone done a study on whether they are, on average, advancing or declining. They do both, advance and decline as a natural part of changes in weather not climate...they'll do one for a very long time and then change as weather patterns change. This is certainly an indicator of changes in local weather patterns, but to draw global conclusions requires a global survey of some sort.

I don't see evidence that we are screwing up our environment. I see that as taken as an article of faith, and when I attempt to discuss the issue with people, as soon as they detect that I'm not a believer, they decide I'm a denier. And once they decide you're a denier, they seem to think that the rules of science no longer apply, because by being a "denier" you're somehow irrational by definition.

I think the Glaciers example you bring up is one of the best... because it is purely unscientific. (If someone's got an example of a holistic study of glaciers, let me know. I have never seen one.)

Another unscientific claim is that all scientists agree with global warming, therefor it is scientifically "true" that it is happening. This simply isn't right. I've never seen evidence that even a majority agree, and even if a majority do agree, that itself is not an actual argument. What percentage of them are experts on the area? Certainly most scientists are not climatologists (and even this "specialty" seems to be brand spanking new, and basically seems to include acceptance of the AGW hypothesis in its definition of what a "climatologist" is.)

The argument that a majority believing makes it true is like saying that science is based on consensus or democracy, and it is not.

Most people in the USA are christians (according to demographics.) While scientists may be more likely to be atheists, I believe that most of them are going to be christians as well.

Since a majority of scientists are christians, and thus believe in god, does that translate into proof of gods existence, scientifically? (If not, why does this same mechanism work for the AGW hypothesis?)

At the same time I've seen many examples of prominent scientists coming out against the theory, or parts of it, and read about a petition with, I think, 45,000 signatures from scientists.

The reason that this issue is so prominent is not that it is a scientific controversy, but a political one. The IPCC and the UN at large sees it as an opportunity to get the UN some control, some global governmental powers, and politicians in individual countries see it as a political opportunity.

If you make carbon a pollutant, then you have the power to regulate every industry, even eventually, people themselves (as carbon emitters). That's significant power!

[1] If you want to disagree with me on this, please first give me a link to some exhaustive survey that shows how many glaciers there are, then we can have a basis for any question not whether a statistical number of them are growing or declining.
Do user groups count as a non profit or would that need to be more formal (as in a 501(c))?
Yes, Clojure 1.4 defaults to static. However, a Var still needs to do an extra lookup at runtime. A Var does not directly point to the object that I want. And Vars have to be that way, this is their core feature. Clojure is a dynamic language, so they need to stay dynamic too.

All code constantly assumes that the objects behind Vars will change. Let’s say we have `(defn foo [] 1)`. The caller of (foo) will first lookup the address in RAM of the compiled function, and then jump to it.
Because of this dynamicy we can redefine foo at runtime: `(defn foo [] 2)`.
All callers still function, and will now get the result `2`. In statically compiled languages this would not happen, because `foo` is translated to the direct address of the first function. The concept of replacing functions at runtime doesn’t exist in that way.

But I would like to see an optional “static” programming feature: I want to be able to mark functions as final. This would be nice after major development has happened. A function object that Clojure created could then not be changed any longer, without restarting the JVM. But such functions can be called directly, without any overhead.
> vested interest in climate change denial
> (or 'scepticism')

Just one more example. How about skepticism without quotes?
Calling something solid science does not necessarily make it so. To me looks like climate is still much like nutrition: there is more guessing than science.
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pretty easy to date the materials under them
Saying that Github's switching costs are zero ignores the vibrant community that is in place. It is in effect like saying that Facebook's users have zero switching costs to jump over to Diaspora.
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99.7% for Obama in March, and 82.6% now?

According to you, the odds of Obama losing are now higher by a factor of 58. That is huge. What has happened in the last four months that justifies such an overwhelming shift?
I'm the original creator of this site. The initial version had no market rate chart (the one in the middle). It was purely a live version of the bids/asks (see bottom graph http://bitcoincharts.com/markets/mtgoxUSD.html). After making that it didn't take much creativity to realize a price chart would fit nicely in the middle.
Airplay mirroring was the first "gotta have" feature for me, but my videocard is too old to support it, regardless of whether I can hack ML to run on my system.
Hadn't thought of that, thanks. My friend compiled and installed AOSP Jelly Bean and you are indeed correct; global search works without limitation.
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Some are growing: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/9...
This doesn't make sense to me.

Indeed, the more irrational you believe Intrade's users to be, the more incentive you have to use it. Same for the stock market, or any other market.
What specific models are you talking about? Can you give me links with the lists of the sources of data, the adjustment factors applied, and also the predictive results of the model (forward in time, not backward)?[1]

Regarding the chart you link to, it is at least 11 years old, and we don't know what factors were applied to it. It seems to confirm the claims of this article, showing a clear, slow, decline in temperatures up to the point where a different source of data is introduced. At the more resent end, what it could be showing is simply incorrect correction of the differences in results from the new sources of data.

[1] Totally sincere question. I am always hearing about these "models" but have never gotten a link to a specific model with an explanation of these relevant issues.
I am a bit disappointed, they promised a lag free network stack, but they just use websockets, so that's an empty promise. You can't have realtime multiplayer without UDP.
@feronull @jarek-foksa. Ok thanks for the info. I agree with jarek-foksa it is still a bit tricksy and I would prefer to access the file i/o with native code. What does it means ?
Do I need to build my own "file i/o" lib in c to interface with it ? Does it exist somewhere ? Would you have an example ? Many thanks
You look like pro-Putin "Nashi" youth organisation member trashing the Internet with their prepaid comments.
What about the security of the shared files? How is it ensured that the files you share cannot be seen by others?
If the hacks progress to the point where I can upgrade to a card that supports display mirroring via Airplay, I may look into it. The video card on this system is its only weak spot in terms of reliability. Too much WoW burned out two prior cards, and replacement cards are outrageous.

EDIT: Now I see that it's a CPU issue, not GPU, so I'm screwed. Maybe I'll end up getting a new Mini to replace my old one for HTPC.
And about twice as fast as Erlang, 5x faster than Ruby, Python or PHP and 10x faster than Perl.[1]

It's all relative.

[1] http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u64q/which-programming-lan...
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Oh here we go. Go and re-read my comments, then attempt to understand them again.

The word fabricated is wrong.

The issue is that we are fed assumptions and conclusions without the supporting facts or evidence and expected to consider them as facts.

I choose not to take the conclusions as gospel unless the facts are presented to me. In neither case facts are present which are independent and not politically biased.

If you believe something without having done the research or finding any facts, it's called faith. I do not support faith of any kind. It's illogical.

The verdict on both is open. That is my view.

Please try to understand this.

Thank you for listening.
> Climate doom and gloom is a political thing, not a scientific thing.

No, it sure isn't. It's been made into a political thing because one group of businesses and their wholly-owned political party have decided to deny reality.
Trying to work out why this is on HN. What next, "Google's Bathrooms"?
I think that part of the issue is the old school title of 'global warming' - as a whole it may well be that the planet earth is warming - but many (may) see their areas get cooler, or nothing happen at all.

I prefer to refer to it as 'climate change' - you can add 'man made' to the front of that if you wish, but just slightly changing the term of reference stops at least a few of the standard comments in the UK; "well the last few summers have been rubbish, so there is no global warming!".

Just a thought.
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Thats a stretch..
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You know, there are tons of other handwriting style fonts other than Comic Sans ...
> We're screwing up our direct environment for certain as that is directly observable...

Is it really? I guess it depends on what you mean by "we", but I was under the impression that major "tangible" environmental statistics in the U.S. have been on a positive trend for decades. Smog, acid rain, toxic metals etc.

http://blogs.reuters.com/gregg-easterbrook/2011/09/01/the-fi...
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"it is a central plank of climate policy worldwide that the current temperatures are the highest ever seen for many millennia, and that this results from rising levels of atmospheric CO2 emitted by human activities"

No, it's not. It's known (see edit) that the earth was warmer about 1,000 years ago - it was part of why I resisted climate science for so long (the Roman part is new to me, though of course no Romans were growing trees in Scandinavia).

That it was hotter then does not mean recent warming is natural - it just means needing other evidence for claims of human contribution. Which I believe exists.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medieval_Warm_Period
This sort of article is Lewis Page's stock in trade. (Have a look at his article history to get an idea of the bees in his bonnet.) I wouldn't bother agreeing or disagreeing with it, if I were you, because there will be another one along next week.
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"When using the ClojureScript compiler on a hello word example with advanced optimisation, we end up with some 100kb of Javascript. [...] The Google Closure compiler certainly helps here by removing lots of unused code, and the resulting Javascript file is indeed free from all docstrings etc."

So does the ClojureScript compiler basically just embed a Clojure interpreter in every file? I'd be interested to see the code prior to optimization.
Nothing to do with Hacker News, therefore flagged.

Here is a very simple, short, 15-minute guide to climate change:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7ktYbVwr90
I think you haven't been around long enough to remember the climate scandals of the 1970s. You know when we had an impending ice age. My grandfather also reminded me of the heatwaves in the 1950s and the associated "science" which came out then.

In climatology, the hypothesis has become the theory. The scientific method is therefore invalid ergo it is not science.
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Give free 3G prepaid sims to any speakers that ask for it.

For attendees, when selling the ticket for the conference, offer the option of buying a sim/microsim. Currently most of them will buy it on a store anyway.

Easy, right?
Actually it would break on the space character.
With all the honesty, we haven't decided yet.

Moqups will continue to be free in its simplest form, so feel free to enjoy it. After launching the premium features, we'll provide an application form and carefully analyze each application in order to determine if it's eligible for free use or not. Also, we'll make sure to provide more details about what is needed for qualifying in this program.
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Well, that was unnecessarily nasty.

I'm not sure what motivated this blog post; it's a comment on the original, rehashing much of what the rest of us (me included) already said, but with a few cusses added in.

It's disappointing to see this kind of content; especially to see it upvoted. There is no value here. Loren, maybe next time post this as a comment, that seems a more appropriate form factor.
What goes up could also go down. I've seen it happen in my adult life to gold (in the 1980s), to housing (twice, once mostly in Texas, completely killing off the savings and loan industry nationally, and more recently all over the world), and to petroleum multiple times. As I have posted before here on Hacker News, perhaps the greatest contribution the Bitcoin experiment will make to humankind is to teach you and me and our neighbors more about the realities of economics. Many of the ideas about how to mine Bitcoins, store Bitcoins, and trade with Bitcoins as a medium of exchange illustrate both the strengths and weaknesses of any other medium of exchange in a world full of human beings. Seeing the discussion of Bitcoins here on Hacker News reminds me of the last time that the price of gold (in United States dollars) crashed, and the arguments beforehand that such an occurrence was impossible, for instance. "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent" is still an important principle of investment.
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No, ClojureScript does not interpret ClojureScript at runtime. The Clojure forms are compiled down to JavaScript directly. More info at http://blog.fogus.me/2011/07/21/compiling-clojure-to-javascr...
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It's a fair observation, but that is the US. There's a big rug in the far east with lots of toxic crap under it. There's also a lot of stuff we buried in various places and cross fingers it'll never escape.
An upcoming part of the series discusses determining what work is necessary, at a very fine level, and working to remove all else. This may seem like a needlesly simplistic exercise, but consider the example you gave: the processes need to communicate with one another. The method by which they do so is an implementation detail. Even if they eventually use the files for another purpose, those are two separate requirements (the first to communicate with other processes and the second to journal that communication). Replacing file based communication with something like a simple TCP based message protocol would likely yield great dividends. For processes on the same machine, an IPC mechanism like domain sockets or shared memory would surely be faster.

Of course, the first thing to do is determine if increased performance is actually required. No sense in making something fast if no one benefits.
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Read between the lines. It's a lesson about avoiding fluff and getting into the nitty gritty details of solving problems.
Thanks for the feedback. We're actually using Chalkboard, a close cousin of Comic Sans MS.

There is no need to stick to the default setting. Feel free to pick your favorite font style when you create a new project! Also, more advanced typography settings are also coming soon.
> GitHub is essentially a social/collaboration app for people who spin code.

I'll admit that I'm unenthusiastic about social media in general, so this aspect of GitHub is the one I use the least. I've always found their slogan of "Social Coding" to be a bit of an oxymoron as programming for me is primarily a solitary activity.

Generally I find the design of GitHub to be more refined than Bitbucket (e.g., the README's look better) but it's not something I'd pay for.

I'd argue that the real action for "social collaboration" on open source projects is where it's always been: on mailing lists. The project I've followed most actively the past couple of years has been Go, which is hosted on Google Code, but I very rarely need to go there since I'm on the mailing list.
Surely usefulness from a consumer standpoint is a GOOD thing?! Just what else is the economy there for?
You can always match the speed of java in critical areas by disabling number boxing, adding type hints, and using the mutable versions of data structures. This is what prismatic did for their ML computation code: http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Why-Prismatic-Goes-Faster...
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Let me make it clear upfront: I'm responding to the issue of emotional talk about this issue, not trying to debate the science with you.

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The IR absorption of CO2 is less than that of water vapor, is it not? CO2 is rising while the planet is getting colder. The models have never shown to be predictive. Shouldn't a "solid science" be able to make even short term predictions?

You say it is "essentially solid science" you do this instead of making an argument, or citing evidence to indicate that it is settled. I gave three quick ones above to indicate it isn't. But right after you say it is solid, you talk about the "wellbeing of humanity (not to mention other species) is put at serious risk". Is this not an appeal to emotionalism? ("You're going to die" is pretty emotional, isn't it?) You spent more words on that than you did even referencing a scientific argument.

The thing I find perplexing-- and I'm not trying to argue the science here, merely pointing out the issue of emotionalism-- is that the first, and often, only, defense for AGW that I see from proponents is the claim that the science was settled (or "essentially solid" as you put it.)

This was the claim 6 years ago. This was the claim 12 years ago. This was the claim the first time I'd ever heard the phrase "global warming".

When did the debate happen that settled it, so that proponents of this scientific theory never seem to feel that they need to justify their belief in it, and can move right onto the "we're all in trouble" claims?
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Isn't a philosophy like 37signals the answer to this? Simplify the software, reduce the number of "features", resist adding and adding and adding to the application?

Simplifying the software will allow you to simplify the architecture, no?

The stand still and dilemma for Developer A and B stems from a failure to plan and having a road map. I, of course, am assuming both devs work internally at the company.
Now I hope they can at least make the watch button work in Opera, maybe even the rest of the BASIC functionality.
> That's pretty freaking slow.

I suppose in a vacuum it is indeed (assuming the measurements are general), but in my actual use the speed of Clojure has been more than sufficient. People like to view programming language speed as a black and white issue in the context of blog and HN posting, but in many uses runtime and startup speed considerations are only part of the puzzle.
I'm with the parent on this one. The politics really make it difficult for a normal person to see the wood for the trees, let alone the science.

There are interest groups on all sides, and I have a couple of research scientist friends who've told me that they've been able to find funding for research that otherwise wouldn't be available as long as they can relate that research in terms of climate science, which also makes me feel as though the whole thing is politicised.

I think I can definitely agree that the climate is changing, so the term climate change would (at least as far as I can tell as a layman, not a climate scientist) be accurate. Historical records in either direction show that the climate has changed, and that continuation makes a lot of sense. It would also make sense to me that changes in one area in one direction may be different to others, making it more difficult to measure in a simplified manner.
Let's pretend for a moment that the entire Republican party has a miraculous change of heart, and agrees to everything the "scientists" are asking for. Cap and trade, emissions taxes, unshackled EPA emissions limits, huge subsidies for renewables... you name it. A cost in trillions, I'm quite sure.

What will we have accomplished? China's still going to keep right on industrializing. They'll probably industrialize even faster because we'll have pushed all our "dirty" energy consuming industries their way, where they'll be run at less efficiency and with even greater overall emissions.

The Chinese are the "deniers" you should be worried about: They've never promised to do anything but potentially reduce their emissions "intensity", which means emissions/GDP. That was always bound to happen anyway as their industries become more mechanically efficient. In absolute terms their emissions are going to keep on growing and growing. Even if they go as "green" as the nuclear French, they'll be emitting more than the U.S. in a decade or so. They are smart folks and they've decided that giving their people a Western standard of living is more important to them than a few potential degrees of warming. And there's nothing you or I can do about it.

EDIT: Oops, they're already emitting 50% more than the U.S.: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_carbon_dio...
You are saying COBOL software tends to be over-engineered? Compared to what?