skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/04/oxburgh-re...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-22/climate-change-scie...

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/61233/uk-climategate-inq...

Those are just 3 of the 8 organizations that determined that their findings were not the result of data tampering.

"The individuals concerned had no idea that their work would ever be of such high public profile, and as a result their record keeping wasn't very good," [Ron Oxburgh, formerly of Shell] said. "If I was asked to produce records of all of the research that I did 10 or 12 years ago, I would be hard pushed to do so."

Obviously they could have been more public with their data sets, algorithms, etc. but they're nowhere near alone in that regard.
Without the torque-speed curves for these motors, you just can't tell.

The actual graphs are at http://www.go-ev.com/images/003_09_01_WarP_9A_Graph.jpg and http://www.go-ev.com/images/003_09_02_WarP_9_SpreadSheet.jpg

My guess is that the motor is actually incapable of producing its full torque at higher RPM.

Correct. At 100 ft/lbs the speed drops to just over 2000 rpm.

I would guess these motors have a thermal fuse wound into the stator coil (source: spent a summer in a rewinding shop), and if he tries to drive them much outside the design limits, they'll simply cut out, perhaps permanently.

EDIT: the datasheet mentions a temperature snap switch, so it sounds like they have a non-permanent cut-out on thermal overload.
>Eventually they will upgrade to a nice Android phone

Anecdotally I know people who had cheap Android phones and then upgraded to an iPhone because their experience with Android was terrible.

That being said I don't really think it's Google's job to protect Samsung's future profits from being eaten into by people's poor experience with a crappy LG phone. It's just one more case where Apple's total control model is beneficial to them.
And how big an influence should it have?
Hardware development is hard, but if it's doable. Even on a budget.

A Ten years ago I started a hardware company that developed an advertising sign based on LED's. It was basically a motor with a stick of RGB LED's attached like a propeller. When you spun the stick and modulated the LED's just right you could paint full color disc shaped picture seemingly in free air. An FPGA would control and modulate the LED's (at the time it was the only affordable thing that could modulate a LED 400.000 times a second) The whole thing was online via an OEM phone module and would automatically update with ads, weather, etc. from a server where customers could buy campaigns online. Campaigns could of course be customised wo that you could get your ad only on the displays you wanted. I was in charge of getting this whole bandoogle from an idea to a product, and while it was hard I managed develop and bring it to market for around $200.000. Remember this was ten years ago where you had to tap directly into the a carriers network and hack around just to get an IP address, and five years before the iphone.

The point of the story is that sometimes small nimble companies that are set on doing something actually succeed. I'm not saying that these guys have solved all the problems, indeed it sounds from the article that there are some huge obstacles. I'm just saying that you should never underestimate the power of a small team whose only goal in life is to make something happen.
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Old school camera's required the photographer to focus in on the image manually to create a good, sharp photo. The viewfinder was inside the lens to help you do this by two halves of a circle that needed to create a good circle. When they did the image was sharp. My logo features the viewfinder. (As I help photographers find the right people).
My question would be, how would they know you don't have a TV if you don't tell them? Calling it hate mail and taking the time to return to sender like the OP is just making life hateful for yourself.
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My elevation dock is finally shipping. I'll have it just in time to use it for a day, maybe, before I get my iPhone 5 on Friday. I had to send a nastygram email just to elicit a response from them about why my order was taking so long. All-in-all I'm pretty upset about it.

I love the Kickstarter model. I think it's an awesome way for the average Joe to fulfill his dreams of bringing something to the market. I don't think too many people are expecting to become millionaires on there. They just want to see their dream come true and the product they designed on screen sit on people's desks. That's what I love about it.

I have heard two arguments that I think need squashed quickly.

The first is the "You're not a customer... you're a backer" argument. It suggests that because I've contributed money to a project that I'm not due anything. I'm not due a response from the Project Starter, I'm not due sufficient updates on progress or delays and most of all I'm not allowed to complain about the project.

My Elevation Dock is 5 months delayed. I'm pissed about that. I understand that stuff happens. But when you release something that was supposed to be enjoyed for months before a new product comes out (iPhone 5) and makes it obsolete, you deserve to give everyone an apology. Or at the very least, a heavily discounted or free adapter. Something.

I understand that scaling isn't easy and that leads me into my second argument. The whole, "Scaling from 75,000 to 1,000,000 isn't easy." No kidding. Nor is going from running 1 mile a day to 26.2. BUT he could have seen these issues on the horizon. He could have capped his project to a reasonable amount. He didn't. The Pebble guys did. They realized they were hitting the threshold of not being able to make everyone happy in the timeframe they said they could. So they capped their project and sold out. Elevation Lab should have done the same. And BTW, the developer watches are already shipping to those backers for Pebble.

Perhaps I'm jaded by the Elevation experience. But I've backed other campaigns that have been very honest and open about their progress.
Just my take but when I think of spaghetti code, I think of code that has side effects. An accessor that also performs some update. A global variable that is updated by many different points in the code. Code that needs to be run in a certain order and only a set number of times OR ELSE. You pull a noodle out and you really just have to wait to see where the effect is felt.

Code that jumps around via gotos and functions in various modules can be mapped out and you can gain an understanding of what the code does, but it is less than ideal. Code that changes its behavior depending on the time and order in which it is run is way more dangerous.
True for the html layout, but not the content (the projects/code). For a code site layout in the end is very secondary.

Besides github is doing its best to compete on the "largest number of useless buttons/toolbars on the webpage" front with sf. I also found that finding something based on keywords works better on sf than on guthub.
Check out Ross-Whitney Corp. v. Smith Kline & French Labs, 207 F.2d 190, 99 USPQ 1 (1953). Might provide some support for your position if you have to argue with the lawyers ;)
As a musician and owner of a record label, I closed out immediately once I saw the generic site design. Not saying it has to be super hip or whatever, but, trivial as it is, I'd like to see some semblance of taste or creative spirit for lack of anything else to go on.
I can't speak for the USA or anywhere else but in Canada TM means something. Common law trademarks do come with some rights to protect your brand, Registered trademarks come with more. It's been a long time since my IP Law class but I beleive TM allows protection against business in the same industry from using your trademark in such a way that it could be reasonably confused for yours.
Haven't thought this through very much, but it'd address some frustrations I've been having lately. If someone can come up with a means of getting around domain squatters, that'd be amazing. Kind of like a redirect service for legitimate businesses.
The new UI is even more like Instagram than the icon is.

Intentionally confusing
GOTO can be quite reasonable when dealing with a language that lacks exceptions. The Linux kernel CodingStyle document says:

"The goto statement comes in handy when a function exits from multiple locations and some common work such as cleanup has to be done."

http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/CodingStyle
I could see myself eating pizza way too much with that button. I hate cooking and the press of a button for food would be just too tempting... Just what our society needs.
The danger in "trying" is you'll get something lots of other people might also have (with perhaps a little tweaking). Twitter did this as well back in the day and ended up realy regretting it. You can not protect your corporate identity if it's based upon unorigional work.
To stay on culinary metaphors, I would call lasagna code any properly architected code base where a few layers neatly face each other with evenly spread meat in between.
Thank you! It's hard and costly to find a full-time and suitable designer. So a contract or part-time designer is a good idea.
Sure, lambdas are not new, but there's still some interesting (maybe not worth calling them novel) ideas in Ruby's blocks:

First of all the observation that most method only care about a single block. By having custom syntax for "method that takes a single block" you get a certain simplicity that makes methods look like built-in keywords:

loop { puts "Nuts" }

It does make multi-block methods look ugly, but frankly, I think they look ugly in any language.

Lisp has macros (which has both it's advantages and disadvantages), but I find that Ruby's blocks make the lack of macros more tolerable.

Compared to JavaScript/Perl/Python-lambas, Ruby's blocks don't introduce another scope. "self" and "return" still refer to the method's scope (I'm not sure what this type of scope is called; it's not the variable scope I'm talking about here). By introducing another set of keywords that work on the block ("next" and "break") you can easily wrap code in blocks without changing the semantics. See http://yehudakatz.com/2012/01/10/javascript-needs-blocks/ for more information about the difference between blocks and lambdas in object-oriented languages.
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SassMe: Visualize SASS color functions in real-time without compiling
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If you ask me to pay for your research, how can you claim that I'm not entitled to see the communications you've done in the process of that research?

I paid for the email server (or for its usage), for your computer and its software, and for your time. I've got every right to see how it's used.

In particular, with publicly-funded research, where we've got an extra step (or several) between the voters and those working on their behalf, the public has a right to know in order to tell their representatives whether they want the government to continue spending their money this way.

UPDATE:

I do not believe that those writing the emails had any legitimate expectation of privacy to begin with. It seems that employees don't generally have a right to privacy in their work emails. For example:

Courts have found that employers are generally free to read employee email messages, as long as there's a valid business purpose for doing so. -- http://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/email-monitoring-can-...

It seems to me that support of FOIA laws is a valid "business" purpose.
If you look at all Instagram apps in the store, you'll find there are many Instagram apps designed with a 'camera' icon. We're definitely not the first one.

Do you know 'Pinstagram'? They just changed the name to "Pictacular", and it's based in the US. I dont want to say you're making discrimination over non US-based companies. And I don't think it's right to infringe Instagram brand. If i am not doing right, i am happy to change immediately.
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Or 2 pages per visit is an absurdly low number.
Want to buy it? Just 50 bucks ;-) Or 39 euro's for 5 images if you sign up for shitterstock yourselve.
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How did you watch the Olympics?
Here's a query: suppose you keep notes on your cellphone. Perhaps you use a piece of software to jot things down so you won't forget them, especially all those things that pop into your mind and will distract you the entire lecture, only to be forgotten later. Can you tell the difference between someone texting and someone jotting something down on their cellphone?
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My dad is one of those 3 million dial-up subscribers - but not by choice. He doesn't use dial-up, hasn't had a PC with a modem in it for several years, but every time he calls AOL to cancel they give him six months to a year of free service.
Looks like the price of diamonds is about to head sharply south:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204566/Russia-diamo...
A system that lest me maintain my contact details in one place, that other services can subscribe to for up-to-date info. Should also let me maintain who can see which details. When I change job, or lose my phone, or whatever, I can update my details, and my vCard in all my friends' address books gets updated accordingly.
We're actually working on that, but the desktop notifications are pretty good if you use the desktop app. On chrome you can get notifications as well, if you give your authorization.
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It sounds good but I wonder how it would work in practice? What if you have a lot of guests over and use more dishes than usual?

What about items that you don't use fast enough? They'd stay left in the clean machine and you'd have to manually put them away before it turns into a "dirty" machine.

Maybe you really need more than 2 machines?
I don't work in TV business, I hope they won't be serving me this new profile page.
> My question would be, how would they know you don't have a TV if you don't tell them?

You may find this hard to believe, but they drive around in a high-tech van and monitor the kinds of signals that emanate from a TV set. If they detect the electronic signature of a TV set emanating from a house paying no license fee, or if they see an off-air antenna, they begin legal proceedings.

What I said above was easier in the old days of television, where a vacuum picture tube require 50 watts of power just to sweep an electronic beam across the face of the tube (and produced its own telltale electromagnetic field). But it's still quite feasible from a technical standpoint -- a picture and explanation of one of the vans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Uni...
Yes, it does seem a rather one-sided article. Notice how they give a quote as to how the scientists are being "attacked" by people "abusing" public records and FOIA laws. No real indication of why these people are using public records and FOIA laws nor what it is they wish to find.
First off, their goals are possible in the fact they are not hoping to build an energy efficient LED bulb but a wifi controllable one.

Also it is a little too early to be calling this VaporWare. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
Meeeahhh....(#)

I still say its ownerships problem - Someone cuts my pay and still keeps me in post - its clear I am polishing up the CV. I have been under someone (C*O not CEO) in similar situation, they put brave face on it but by second day everyone had called them a lame duck (behind their back) and routed around them for 3 months.

Hard to route around a CEO, but I suspect that the company was not setup to be the kind that could do dynamic routing. So Schumpter is just round the corner. Was not best of times and I suspect much worse in your case.

(#) I am sure there are actual words I could use but caffeine / blood ratio is dipping.

Edit: tidying up
Trade your dead tree versions of books in for ebook versions + credit for more ebooks when value of book exceeds ebook wholesale cost.
No that's mikado code, touch one little part and everything moves.

Spaghetti code is simply very long functions without structure stuffed with long nested branching. I have seen 3000 lines functions, in PHP, and that's even worse, maybe like those "crossing bridge noodle" you can eat in China.
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The big blocker for Virgin Mobile is that the phones only talk to Sprint owned towers. Sprint's Sprint branded phones have a pretty good network because they roam on Verizon. Virgin, not so much.

Still a good deal if the Sprint network is enough coverage.
A service which allows me to upload a document (PDF, .doc, whatever), input an address and then pay for it to be printed and sent to that address via mail (courier optional).

I'd use this service so much:

1. Printers are fast becoming a thing of the past. How often will people need to use printers in five years time?

2. Lots of government functions still require printed documents (heck, even Twitter insisted that I fax them something a few years back).

3. Post boxes, stamps and envelopes are a pain to get individually.
A quick explanation of the mouse-over text in today's XKCD:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Stevin#Geometry.2C_physic...
I've been learning about the domain squatting business recently, by basically becoming a domain squatter. It's something I've been fascinated by for years, I always wondered how profitable or easy it was.

I've learnt quite a bit, and will get round to blogging things sometime, but the main lesson is - most domains earn
nothing from adverts while on sedo or other marketplaces, and a decent offer of $500+ should get you almost any domain you want.

If it's a domain that's worth much more than that (e.g. insure.com sold for $16 million), then it would have been bought long ago regardless of domain squatters. It would just have been used by some other business, so you didn't really lose out.
Blocks, and the way they make it very easy to add new control structures "seamlessly", are indeed cool—but aren't ruby's blocks taken pretty much verbatim from smalltalk (which of course is also many decades old, if not quite as old as lisp)?

Indeed, smalltalk seems a better example, as it uses methods and blocks to implement all control structures, even the "built-in" ones.
Why everyone is so obsessed by "growth"? Who in their right mind would ride a horse down because it can't be grown into an elephant?
Fox News: iPhone 5 to feature Laser Keyboard, Holographic Display
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Do you think you have to add value that YOU believe in? Or, is it enough to add value that the customer believes in?
As far as I can tell, the current tech/startup rankings are SF > The Bay Area > Seattle > NY.

SF/The Bay Area win because everybody you meet will likely be another startup/tech person. The constant influence drives creativity, spontaneous idea generation, acquisitions, pr, hr, etc. Also, acceptable weather.

Seattle's tech scene is 90% Amazon employees. You have other smaller companies and startups out there, but Amazon dominates. To start a company, you'll be fighting Amazon for employees. If you hire an ex-Amazon employee, you have to spend six months deprogramming them from broken Amazon processes and lifestyles. Bonus for Seattle: no personal or corporate income tax (just a 9.5% sales tax).

NY's tech scene is almost hidden. You won't run into it day to day. You'll run into actors, models, fashion designers, lawyers, quants, tourists, and people trying to find their place in the world. You won't hear someone talking about json or rails or functional programing in coffee shops or on the subway.

Summary conclusion: If you're a high strung aspie nerd who wants to win win win -- SF or The Bay Area. If you don't need tons of employees or can import employees from around the country, Seattle beats SF to avoid taxhell and dirtyhell and smellyhell and homelesshell. If you want to date, have a life, have culture, and cross pollinate your company with The Real World, NY wins.

Transit conclusion: In The Bay Area or Seattle, you'll want to have a car. If you never leave SF, you can get by without a car. In NYC, only crazy people have cars (just wait until you can afford a door-to-office helicopter).

Place-to-live conclusion: SF's housing/rental market is broken. Seattle has more sane rents and places to live, but nothing is connected by transit. NY has adjustable rent depending how far out you want to live, and everything connected by transit.

Starting a company conclusion: Seattle wins because of no income tax, still having a relatively high techie population, and young we-can-do-this atmosphere. California rips almost 10% out of your paycheck for personal taxes and more with corporate taxes, but you're surrounded by the best startup people in the world. NY has a more sane personal income tax level around 6%, but you'll be importing startup people or herding them yourself (just convince some actors to act as programmers until they can actually program).

Actual conclusion: If you want the easy build-to-flip or fail-by-acquihire approach, be in SF. If you want to be around good people and not be taken advantage of by your local governments, use Seattle to start/grow your company. If your company deals with real people having real problems and you want to live an adventure, use New York City.

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IPhone 5 Will Have Laser Keyboard and Holographic Images
No, I read about it somewhere years ago. Don't know the origin of the term, but googling for the term gives several links.

The wikipedia page for spaghetti code actually has several pasta examples: spaghetti, ravioli, lasagna and spaghetti with meatballs!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code
thanks. I know plupload. I just don't always want a huge do-it-all beast with garbage like flash, silverlight, etc.. And feel like experimenting myself. My code works in chrome/safari/firefox. in IE the upload will just go the old way (no resizing will happen).
Definitely the customer. In my opinion.
"It's [2012], and programming languages have almost caught up with 1958." -- paraphrased from, oh, you know, some guy :)
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How about a GPS car navigation unit that detects if you're going too fast for an upcoming curve and warns you?

It seems like it already has all the data.
Just open the database file and do a select...
hi @JohnCastle, for the top Instagram apps, the names are:
- InstaPad
- InstaBrowser
- InstaMap

And web services:
- Webstagram

I think the problem is in nature in what we're doing. It's an Instagram app, how can user recognize you without a perceptive name?

And see what's happening on Twitter is more persuasive. Almost all Twitter apps' icon is a bird, but people still love Tweetbot to death.

I am open to constructive suggestions.
Windows hater hates... I'm getting fed up of reading crap like this. It's literally a click battle of the attention whores. Devoid of content.
My bad, it's not actually Fox News who recorded that, it was a segment they were featuring.
Apple still requires developers from outside US to fax them form with their credit card number on it. (!)

On the other hand, there are services that will fax PDF for you, even for free.
But the App.Net profile page actually shows the interesting information. I've never found that banner as intrusive as it's now the Twitter one.
...and then? Fit it in an email or something? What about images, binaries etc?
Good thinking's, definitely worth trying...
Well, your car comparison started at electricity production. At the very least, your gasoline example should start at the refinery.

Does anyone know the efficiency of the average refinery? Or distribution costs? My suspicion is that they are actually just as bad as the overhead of burning coal.