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Not two weeks ago I posted this:
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We were told back in the late 1980s and early 1990s that huge computer models were written, that ran on supercomputers, to model and predict climate change.

The fastest Cray in 1990 could do (I think) 60 GFlops when loaded with 32 processors, which is roughly the sustained GFlops as a high end i7.

So clearly it is not a case of "just need a faster supercomputer and we will have an accurate prediction".

Reality is, from what I can tell, is that we don't have an accurate mathematical model of all the pieces that go into global climate to run on a supercomputer, no matter how powerful.
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No one challenged me and I got several upvotes and follow-on posts in agreement. link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4761364

Did something change in the meantime?
Feel free to post those things...right now we are talking about Republicans.
A GPS chip built into the centre of the Mine Sweeper tracks
the device back to a website to chart a safe course.

From http://australia.icbl.org/index_htm_files/May.pdf
That's a good idea.
Because they hold an effective duopoly, and therefore have an ability to unfairly harm companies.

Would it be fair if an electricity provider decided to stop providing energy to a company because they did something that they didn't like?
Maybe the Higgs Boson? (Ok; jokes belong to Reddit.)

Big news for scientists may end up being unnoticeable small developments to the general public. Earthshaking may be key here, like an organic compound unexpected there.
Just installed the plugin, but it was a bit of a disappointment and I just uninstalled it again. The plugin was able to recognize exactly two brands: Google and Google+. Wut?

I'm sure it takes a lot of time and dedication to developing the plugin, and I enjoyed reading the article, but this is not what I was expecting to see.

What would be useful to me though is a list of the top X e-mail contacts I received e-mail from and sent e-mail to the last Y days. I regularly have contact with several people from the same company/brand, and I always are using the search bar on top like: "John Doe something I remembered from the specific e-mail I'm looking for".

So basically I'm not that interested in mails I received from a brand, but I'm more interested in e-mails I received from a specific person.

Gamification would be awesome candy: statistics and graphs on how fast I'm responding to e-mails I receive, etc.
"if Visa does not want to provide a service for any reason, why anyone should force them to?"

If the government won't want to provide them a licence to operate in a certain way and place, why would anyone have something against it's decision?
Let me put my finance hat on :-)

>> Savings are naturally limited, growth is potentially unlimited

That's in theory - check annual revenue growth rates of most big companies in mature [developed] markets - if you increase it from 3% to 5% you are hero.

>> Let's say your company sells a product and it costs $10 to make it. You can go and maybe make it cost $9 to make it, but not much less. So you improved their profit by $1 (hopefully)

If you reduce cost or expenses by $1, you improved profit by $1. There is no hopefully, this is how things work.

Also, most of the savings are in operating expenses, not in cost of goods sold.

>> Instead, if you can make it sell 10x more product (which could be feasible), hence having a better effect than savings.

Exactly as I said, it depends on the company. Probably, you are using a start-up as an example, which is another Google, which annual revenue is growing 150% month-on-month and which margins are 70-80%.

I highly doubt how anyone can make it sell 10x more product for a traditional multinational company - FMCG, Farma, Financial Services, etc. Let's be kind of realistic ;-)
"Now you are complaining that your hack stopped working."

Just by comparison, Android supports on-device APN editing (see Settings -> More... [under Wireless and Networks] -> Mobile Networks -> Access Point Names).

T-Mobile actually encourages users to edit their own APNs for IPv6 support, and has run an IPv6 custom APN beta trial for a while:
https://sites.google.com/site/tmoipv6/lg-mytouch
Your post makes it seem as though you think that, because a subreddit's top posts do not have high karma/votes, that the idea of subreddits is somehow not working or flawed. I disagree - the whole idea of a subreddit is to take something out of the mainstream and put it in a smaller niche. It's of course going to have lower votes because a smaller audience seeks it out. The positive thing though is that, because the audience sought out that source, they are likely to be much more engaged than if they were reading a 10k+ post. There's a lot to be said for the "noise factor" that large posts get (in terms of comments/replies/snark). Smaller, more engaged audiences are not worse; they are just different.

Besides, the subreddits on reddit are of the "Anyone can create a subreddit" variety which, I would assume, is very different from what OP is asking about/for with respect to HN.
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The reason "climate has always changed" is a spectacularly lame argument is that it totally neglects the actual point.

It's about the rate of that change and the effects of that change. There's a whole lot elided in the excuse that the climate has always changed: after all, the KT event didn't involve an asteroid bouncing around and hitting every dinosaur.
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Hacker News is mostly older white men, which is a demographic associated with Republicanism and Fox News watching in the United States. Understanding global warming is not going to be easy for them.

The reality is that every set of global warming predictions so far has understated the actual amount of warning observed. Models are giving too much weight to long-term stable trends over the recent data, plus scientists don't want to be tarred as "kooks" for having the most extreme projections. So if their model says 5C increase, it's probably low to start off with and it will be lowered more before publication, and it will end up underpredicting warming.

When you read about X or Y amount of warming, it's most likely to be a minimum, not a "most likely" and certainly not a maximum.

Current global warming observed has exceeded the absolute maximums predicted in previous generations of warming predictions.
The order of events is more like:

1. Get SIM card.

2. Buy "unlocked" iPhone.

3. Put SIM card into "unlocked" phone.

4. It doesn't work! :sad-face:

5. Google around.

6. Find solution.

7. Implement solution while grumbling to self about truth in advertising.

8. It works! (hooray)

9. Software update breaks solution.

I still say the key word here is "unlocked." If Apple truly meant for the "unlocked" iPhone to only be used with supported carriers (and then what's the point? you think Apple's really only selling "unlocked" phones to international travelers?), then they shouldn't be using that word to describe it.

-- Nathan
Looks like HN traffic hosed their site...
In terms of managing IMAP connections, async is definitely the way to go. For our product, lightermail.com, I ported Python's imaplib to run on Tornado's ioloop (adding a few features like IDLE support and command pipelining). Not only can you manage a lot of connections with little memory, but you can do some really cool things (like the pipelining of commands mentioned above) that are unavailable to regular synchronous IMAP clients. Plan to open source the implementation when I have a bit more time.
Another example would be India,where top-tier colleges are almost always government owned.
Yes. If the custom UI is primarily imaged-based it is easy to make with a storyboard/xib. For example, the brushes in iPhoto for iOS are made with a xib.
Bah, more weev hagiography? He's not a whistle blower, he's a troll.

Look: first off, he didn't tell AT&T about the hack, he told a bunch of news organizations. See http://www.forbes.com/sites/firewall/2010/06/09/atts-ipad-ha... for details. "we did a benefit analysis and decided they could take our story viral the fastest."

One of those organizations presumably told AT&T; all AT&T has ever said is that they learned about the exploit from a business customer.

Second, weev is the same guy who got up on stage at Toorcon and lied about finding an exploit in Firefox. Just flat out lied. One of the ways in which he's a great social manipulator is that he has no qualms about the big lies, and doesn't really care if they're noticed.

Third, at the time, weev said "There is nothing in Apple’s SDK APIs that would allow an application to have this identifier [the ICC-ID] – it is a shared secret that should indicate physical proximity to the iPad." So while it's amusing to see his defenders talk about how unimportant ICC-IDs are, it's an interesting change of tune.

Fourth, even if you believe weev when he says he forced the Amazon delist of gay-themed books (I never have), that goes over the line from activism to exploiting.

Yeah, we do have to protect even unpleasant, obnoxious whistle blowers. I just don't see how weev counts as a whistle blower, and I think that any article on his situation should present the full picture rather than painting him as a misunderstood good guy.
Awesome. I think the format (picture feed) has the potential to work across a bunch of verticals - movie posters (to get movie recommendations), art (to get gallery recommendations), food, etc.

Pixel art is a great choice. The emphasis is on creation and expression - and maybe it hits a sweet spot - it requires more work than instagram (making it more legitimate as an art/craft) but less than creating the mona lisa...

You should get eBoy to use it: http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/
Thanks for a long and detailed response. Really appreciated.

But I want to reiterate, that I only ever claimed "sum (religion benefits) <= 0", which I believe is equivalent to your statement that "religion isn't vital" (or rather, "religion isn't helpful"). At no way did I imply any other cause and effect relation other than the one implicit in this statement.
Giving a company a large amount of money and watching it spent poorly does not make "really good investors".
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Did you make money for his companies or himself?
Looks nice but started too expensive. Why don't you put it free to get user acquisition and then you raise the price ?
I think you forgot to include "trolololo" in your comment.
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I was unaware the Bush tax cuts had any effect on corporate tax rates (excluding things like S corporations that pay individual rates).
> Before the iPhone, it was more or less impossible to get a smartphone that wasn't loaded with non-removable carrier crapware

You've always been able to buy an unlocked phone with no crapware and no restrictions. The problem with the iPhone is that even the unlocked phones are restricted and locked-down, which is a first.
"Two" words.

Sorry.
No: if your registrar goes offline for months you have not lost anything but your ability to update your DNS entries and renew your domain. Your registrar is NOT a mission critical service: it is the only way for you to recover if your DNS infrastructure needs to be replaced.
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> So I think they handled it correctly, and got the right kind o f attention.

I also think they handled it correctly, but I believe the head of that org was relieved of command.

Not cool. He was very explicit about the how's and why's of what they were publishing, but many media outlets took it far away from context.
Investors in startups are making bets. If they deserve the huge payouts they get when they bet correctly, then they don't deserve pity when their bets go wrong.

In this particular case, Bill Nguyen had a whole bunch of red flags, including exiting shortly before his previous companies failed. I, for one, am not happy that investors continue to give such large amounts of money to such obvious carpetbaggers. The Bill Nguyen's of the world thrive because they are allowed to.
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Depends on your audience, the HN crowd definitely would.
Doing weird stuff like <IMG /> instead of submit buttons will hurt people who use keyboard shortcuts so this is an area where having a less tech savvy audience can be an advantage since they will use the mouse for everything.
How exciting! Can't wait to find out what it is.

On a side note, what are y'all's thoughts on the finding that radiation levels are livable? I'd love to live on Mars.
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I think pixel art appeals sufficiently enough to a niche audience that it can demand the fee.
Looks like a nice trick. I suspect that they might get a similar effect if they made Oreos appear a sickly green in the field of vision.

While the sizing hack is neat, I think there are a lot of other ways to process images of food to make people eat less of it. I'll leave that to everyone's imagination.
I of course don't remember the details so I looked them up. Here's an interesting document that doesn't actually go into the fundamental question of why the engines were built in one place, partially assembled in another, then snapped together in a third:

http://www.cedengineering.com/upload/Ethics%20Challenger%20D...

The point being that if the rockets were welded and fueled near the launch pad there would have been no need for o-rings. The reason for o-rings was that cylinders full of fuel needed to be shipped around and welding them together would have meant too big a lump of explosives. Casting a big engine had nothing to do with it.
Also note that all of their business units except one are down or flat year over year.
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How do you track where it has been?

Does it matter if you blow some mines, if you don't make a single square feet of guarantee mine-free soil?
NPR are probably just being sensationalist. Give a reporter a line like that about anything from earthquakes to organics in the soil and you'll find the reporter files about Martians.

I'll wait for an actual announcement before getting excited...
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Thanks for the feedback. I will definately look into building a single page personal site.
is that the same world bank that wants infinite growth to sustain itself?
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Yes. My iPhone is such a phone. It matters not: iOS enforces official carrier profiles on the phone regardless of whether it is an official Apple unlocked phone or not.
Autonomy is more of a household name in Europe -- when I lived in London I remember seeing billboards, etc., like you do with Oracle in the bay area. That said, enterprise software is never particularly "famous"; you would be surprised at the number of $10bn-valued companies you've never heard of.

(Of course, that doesn't preclude them being super-shady; Enron was a household name)
Off the cuff, I'd suggest something like #2

Charging per client will probably lead to people getting clever, and simply giving multiple clients the same login, that they themselves own and consider as the cost of the service.

Also, it seems like a per-client pricing directly "punishes" people who work on larger, multi client projects, whereas a flat rate for a tiered product encourages them to make the most of what they've been given.

Just my 2 cents, take it for what it's worth.
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There is a link provided to the whole thing as a PDF:

http://academic.udayton.edu/tobyrush/theorypages/complete.pd...
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More generally, that the chance of each dog X failing to detect each mine Y is independent. If it is independent, then you get the (1-P)^3 chance of failure, meaning 0.1% for all three failures if each dog has a 90% chance of succeeding.

But of course that isn't true in reality. There will be properties of the mines (burial depth, ground cover, degree of leakage of sniffable explosive material) that affect its chance of being found by all dogs searching for a mine.

If you wanted the parent poster's statistical chance, you'd want three 90% ways of detecting mines that are truly independent. Perhaps a dog, and infrared imaging sensitive enough to detect the explosive material (I have no idea if that's possible), and this article's mechanism.
>it would suggest they believe they have a valid case and this isn't just pomp and bluster for the benefit of shareholders

Or trying to save face.
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The fact that models are constantly refined doesn't mean they're "scrapped." The core model, of CO2 being a greenhouse gas that drives feedbacks--particularly water vapor feedbacks, but others as well--is very well attested to.

It's true that climate is complicated and there are significant uncertainties in how they might interact. Most of those uncertainties, however, lie in the positive direction. That's part of the reason why the expected mean warming is much closer to the lower bound than the upper one.
I'm not much for pricing knowledge but I do have some little design tips.

1. I would avoid the current color scheme you're using. I'd pick something with a bit more color, but keep it muted. Right now, the first thing I notice is the color scheme and not what the product is/does.(Also, as it stands, your button colors do not match the overall scheme of the project right now.)

For this, use kuler.adobe.com to pick a color scheme and run with it on all your pages.

2. The layout leaves a bit to be desired. I'd start with a big picture of your main app screen, the title of the project, and then a 1-2 sentence summary of what your product does/solves and keep it all above the fold. Have a nice big sign up/pricing button. Some examples to get you started can be kippt.com and jumpstartui.com.

I hope these help you a bit! As always, you have no obligation to listen to me. :)
The missed a trick here they should have said that they were closing down on 21 December 2012. Then no one would be sure....
>>you do his effort to help no favors by upvoting it to the moon

I think you're vastly overestimating this board's power & influence.
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Apple's locked-down APN settings affect me as well, except for me it's only an annoyance. I use a travel SIM card with cheap data called abroadband. They have their own APN settings, but since the SIM card is issued by Telekom Austria, the iPhone will lock in TA's APN settings, which don't work.

Now abroadband have a settings profile you can download and install, but since it overrides any settings you have, I have to find wifi and re-download/install this profile every single time I swap SIM cards.

It's a huge pain and no other phones have this issue. I really have no idea why Apple feel the need to hide the APN settings - it's like hiding the network settings on your computer since DHCP works "almost all the time" and all those numbers are confusing..
I'm still holding out for tiny 1 millimeter tall people who run on photosynthesis.
jorgen - we identify brands for the past 30 days, so if you're an inbox zero person, then you won't have many brands to identify

our first product allowed you to create personal and brand icons - we're not there yet with this one. we hacked it together after going down the stand-alone client path for almost a year

I could write about that experience for days (for all you folks dead set on building a new client)

You can actually use Gmail's native features to hack our product to make it more powerful - i'll be posting about that next week...we also plan to gamify. So much to do, so little time.

Stick with us...
If not knowing what movie to spend your disposable income and leisure time on is an incredibly painful problem for you, you desperately need a bit of perspective.
We have that as well, and ranked very highly for some long tails all relating to live sports events.

However, it is our opinion that the traffic these links generate is fake (and we have some evidence for it as well). I think it's aim is to trick Google into thinking it's a good quality result, or alternatively the links often are very heavy in adverts so the fake traffic routed via Google, your website and finally the spammers website could be used to generate lots of fake ad clicks in a semi realistic way. That's our conspiracy theory anyway, I very rarely see real world examples of content on the web being ranked so well so quickly and driving so much traffic in such a short space of time.

As a small unscientific test when a seemingly popular spam sports event thread was posted, I deleted it and created a duplicate under my account. It didn't get any traffic at all. This in some way helps validate my suspicions that the traffic being driven is not a result of Google's process, but is artificial.

I was going to write a blog post about it but never got round to it!
I could be wrong, but I don't believe you were able to buy unlocked phones with no crapware, as part of the normal subsidized phone regime most carriers have. Yes, you could always pay full retail for virgin phones, but most phone sales occur through channels that are structured around seriously reducing the cost of the phone in exchange for signing a contract. Apple was, IIRC, the first phone vendor to participate in those high-volume channels without locking or crapware.
I've found that the best jobs I've had, I've gone to in "off" seasons (just after summer as a college student; Jan after graduating in Dec; etc).
Yes, possible solution, but not really practical, for the following reason:

The iOS downgrade prevention mechanism also forces you to upgrade to the latest version, even if you do not want to do so willingly, if you ever need to restore (reload) the OS on your device. If iOS gets corrupted somehow and you need to reinstall, the only version you are authorized to install is the latest version for your particular device.

Even if I had not gone to the slaughter willingly, if the OS had ever spazzed out on me and required a reinstall, I'd have still been screwed. You aren't allowed to reinstall the exact same version that's already on the phone if what you have on it isn't the latest version.

So if I trade phones with someone, I still run the risk that at some point, I'm going to be forced to upgrade.
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It's time for more encryption, at least for anything we store in "the cloud".
>>> I'm sorry, I think due to our lacking description of how the technology exactly works you're confusing it with existing technologies.

Well, please, then already describe how it works. And don't forget technical details as we're quite technical 'round here..