skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very few people make the argument that climate change isn't happening. The "anti" argument is that it's not due to mankind's activity, but rather a natural cycle, and has changed in the past, will change in the future. The anti position also questions how much the change is happening -- whether it's a 10-20 year spike vs. a 100 year increase, etc. (and, even if you believe in anthropogenic, it's quite reasonable to think there are natural climate cycles going on as well -- just that mankind's involvement is in addition to this and might push outside the normal range)

Humans also almost assuredly can change climate, if they want. It's a lot easier to cool vs. warm -- set off a bunch of nuclear weapons (easy, produces nuclear winter, although maybe less so than fearmongered); or, be sane, and put a bunch of sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere to reflect more sunlight and thus cool the Earth.

I personally think it's probably prudent to try to reduce CO2 emissions, but not drastically. The costs (financial and quality of life) of massive reductions in CO2 now are far higher than the costs to remediate with SO2 or other methods, at least until there's more precise data, the costs of reducing CO2 emissions are reduced, etc. We could probably drop them by a good amount in the developed world, but doing so in China/India/etc. would mean an unreasonable restriction on quality of life for billions of people.
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The propellers site is so similar I halfway wonder if it's a parody of your site. "We handcraft propellers."
Oh calm down. You had a good idea and started a trend. Don't whine about copiers - you're the source of great ideas, so come up with another one. That, or be the best at implementing this idea.
Thousands commute to work unnecessarily says Microsoft Sweden CEO Per Adolfsson
I was wondering about BitCoin and global power price arbitrage just today... The market may not be big enough to make it a very lucrative thing, but I still think it'll be a cool experiment to try. Especially since the computing requirements will only get more rigourous. Longer post here: http://adityaathalye.wordpress.com/2013/02/04/bitcoin-and-gl... [deleted previous comment - mistakenly added reply to comment one level higher]
open to crappy implementations

I think that is the key point. A conventional label is simple and doesn't need all this extra support to be helpful to the user. I've never really liked the "label in the field" trend except in really simple forms where there's almost no chance for ambiguity anyway.
It's _always_ been a common thing. Stuff like Google analytics just makes it way easier to tell that they're actually copying _you_.
Did it occur to you that the facts with which you are acquainted are not the relevant ones?

Indeed, if you're talking about laying the blame for Aaron's suicide on the feet of Carmen Ortiz, isn't it patently ridiculous to consider the intimate facts of his situation relevant? Are we now to charge prosecutors with being sensitive to the details of the personal lives of the people which they prosecute?
We shouldn't allow disfunctional individuals to participate in our communities, but I think at the point where you photoshop nudes to damage someone's reputation, a therapist would be more appropriate than a lynch mob. I think that's why it seems childish to you, you know that shaming wouldn't make anyone change, it would just satiate our thirst for revenge.
Numb3rs was cool, for a while. But they exhausted their good ideas for "solving crimes with math" before the first half of season 1.

The time I gave up was when Charlie announced he could use math to figure out the time the crime took place based on long the block of ice had been melting, which he could calculate based on ambient pressure and temperature and surface area and lots of extra things they made up. Or they could just look it up in a book.
As usual, ChuckMcM steps in as the voice of complete reason.

I have no doubts that we are undergoing climate change, however, since when have we NOT undergone climate change?

We have had catastrophic ice ages and the Medieval Warming Period, when the Earth was warmer than it is now. All without the help of man-made "greenhouse gases". We know that extreme climate changes have occurred in the PAST, and we know that extreme climate changes will occur in the FUTURE. What makes THIS particular climate change so different and more significant from the previous ones? Just because we happen to be alive for this one? A theory that only answers one particular observation but can't explain other observations doesn't feel particularly valuable to me.
I am absolutely enthralled with genuine analysis and numbers. All too often when talking with startup founders, you get this fake show of "everything is great" or them trying to sell you. Makes attempts at genuine discussion hard.

It is interesting where you get some of these genuine reflections and numbers. You see them a lot on post mortems, but every now and then you will hit up a meetup or conference where it happens. Example: Attended the conference of world affairs at CU Boulder last year. It was the end of the day in a relatively empty auditorium. Both Tom Preston-Werner and Eric Wilhelm were giving some great insight into early business operations successes/failures.
I love how so many of them are just saturated with buzzwords and typical empty suit jargon. I guess stupidity and lack of ethics go hand in hand.
You can press <ESC> to see an overview of the whole presentation - which is interactive.
Evad3rs dev team releases “evasi0n” untethered jailbreak for all iOS 6 devices
It's definitely IP theft, down to the minute details like the red underline on links. The way the images uncover the footer on the bottom is really unique too.
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This is really interesting. I would love to see what my Co-Founder Chris would say about this. He was a perennial planner, scores through the roof on conscientiousness.

The most interesting question you ask is: "Are we going about this the right way"

That's a question we asked ourselves...A LOT. We never quite found the answer.
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Looking at Google's keyword tool shows that the search volume is 1.) low (~3600/mo) and 2.) highly competitive. I'm not sure how well this is going to work out. To most shops, coupons are probably more about loyalty than new business. They compete for these keywords just because it's easy for them to do so. But most places give you coupons at check out as an incentive to come back next time.

I'm not saying this is impossible but I don't see a very lucrative angle here. Are you trying to make money or is this a hobby? I saw an ad spot on the site, so I assume this is your current biz plan but with this kind of search volume, even if you got all the traffic, it probably wouldn't be attractive enough to demand good rates from advertisers.

This could possibly work with the small shops but you would have to be able to show them you have high volume locally as they would only care about ads being shows to people close enough to patronize their store.
The author read this:

"My friend who works at a school for autistic children believed he had Asperger’s Syndrome [...] She told me that [Sheldon] was a totally accurate portrayal of someone on the autistic spectrum and had many characteristics of someone with Asperger’s – specifically the inability to recognise sarcasm or understand human emotion as well as the obsession with “his spot” and his distress when routine is changed."

And then wrote this:

"If you think Sheldon is autistic, then you have never met an autistic person. We had an autistic kid who hung out at our shop on Saturdays. It was tough. He would bring boxes of toys in with him to pile up on one of the tables. The slightest thing could set him off into a screaming rage fit. [...] When you argue that Sheldon is a “totally accurate portrayal of someone on the autistic spectrum,” then you have broadened the definition of autism to the point where you have rendered the word meaningless."

The author obviously has no grasp on the Autistic spectrum [1], didn't take five seconds to Google 'Asperger syndrome' or 'high-functioning autism', but that doesn't stop him from ignoring an expert's opinion. Lazy and arrogant, but it gets worse:

"[Claiming Sheldon is a totally accurate portrayal of someone on the autistic spectrum] seriously offends me. It offends me on behalf of the mothers and fathers who are living with autistic children who are now adults and still require constant supervision, are still in diapers, or still have violent humiliating outbursts in public. Go listen to this account of the daily trials of two parents living with an autistic child, and you’ll understand how ignorant and disrespectful it is to compare the quirky physicist on a sitcom to someone with a seriously debilitating mental illness that consumes the lives of those caring for them."

The author is basically saying that there is no such thing as high-functioning autism and that those who pretend it exists are offending sufferers of 'real' autism and the ones with the misfortune of having to deal with them.

Talk about offensive.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_spectrum_disorders
How dare they.

How dare they.
It's not like I've never heard of that.

It's just that it's a false concept that doesn't actually exist.

Take electricity, for example.

First, there are many large companies that could raise the necessary capital to build power plants and electric transmission lines.

Second, people can always get together and form a non-profit power company if the normal market isn't providing stable, competitive prices. (By "people" I mean, say, the people of an entire US state.)

Third, having deregulated electricity systems would open up the field to innovation, such that we'd probably all have small nuclear reactors at our houses, or wireless power transmission, or something.

So, in conclusion, a "natural monopoly" is not a true monopoly. It's a false concept.
+1 on this. Also you will receive a lot inbound links.
Be fast on this because someone else could be doing this right now...
What does your company use for instant messaging?
My company uses Skype, but nobody is happy with it. Does HN have any recommendations? Unless we find something better, we're going to host our own jabber server.
Ok, this popped up on Popular Science (this is the original link) and its intriguing. Clearly drones are hear to stay, and that means a lot of things, but if you're on the receiving end of a hostile drone fleet, how do you protect civilians? What about people who just want some privacy?

I would not be surprised to see celebrity landscape designers who put together various 'privacy enhancing' features around a property that take into account aircraft between 300 - 1000'.

I'm not sure what I expected with the emergence of drones as a force but this hints at the directions we might see.
This would imply that the US Attorney's office made a mistake in charging him for the crimes he committed. In reality, this would have been letting him off the hook because ZOMGAARONSWARTZ.

Aaron died because he forgot that civil disobedience is not about sticking it to The Man, but about getting into the sort of vulnerable position that makes it possible to win people over with dialogue. It's about paying the price, not doing the deed, and he wasn't prepared for that. This is not something he should be martyred for.
Given that they might not have very good CSS skill, you might embed a CSS comment or CSS properties which look like they do something but don't -- a would-be stealer probably wouldn't delete something which they didn't understand.
It does sicken me sometimes, the attitudes towards women of some of the tech folks I've run into. Not usually out and out misogyny, but stupid jokes and inappropriate comments. Most often made/said when there are no women around, they show how some of my fellow developers still think and it honestly feels to me like I'm working with neanderthals.

On the minor-but-still-horrible end of the scale, female colleagues have complained in the past that their ideas are often not taken seriously until repeated by a man. I hope I'm not guilty of this one (being the repeater or the listener) but I'm not entirely sure.

There have also been incidents where female friends and colleagues have been verbally and physically harassed in the workplace or in learning establishments, and they face an uphill struggle to get anyone to take their claims in the least bit seriously, with witnesses dropping out and the accused making all sorts of bizarre claims.

So no, sat here in the enlightened 21st century, amongst the people at the cutting edge of technology, the people who like to think themselves the vanguard of the new knowledge and tech based society... we're not the vanguard of social enlightenment, we don't operate as the fabled meritocracy, and we need to watch out for this behaviour and encourage women to speak up about it as much as possible.

If nothing else I have no desire to spend my days around sexist arseholes.
not bad... I like kdevelop on linux tbh... NetBeans is kinda cool though.
There is for $hundreds, but not for $tens. The Syma helicopters and quadrocopters mentioned are less than $40.
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I wholeheartedly enjoyed the presentation (which makes me a weirdo I guess). The content was also really good. I have been wanting to fool around with D3, but it seemed too daunting.
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No offence, but that seems really useless. Your not going to get good data from a smartphone in someones pocket or worse there apartment. You could take a cellphone out wait 15 minutes for a good temperature reading and then send that, but that's way to much effort relative to the value of the data which is basically nonexistent.

Edit: Ahh, pressure sensor. I had no idea most smartphones had anything like that.
I made making games incredibly simple. If an idiot like myself could make a simple game on XNA, anybody could.
"Be careful"

I'm fairly certain that assuming we are influencing and that we (society, not necessarily the individual) can do something, anything about climate change would be considered the more careful path.
He mentions that he found the sites due to getting odd values from google analytics, which makes me suspect that they copied the (copyrightable) page markup. That said, I agree with the comment that just selling a WordPress layout is probably going to provide him with the best outcome.
It's all fun and games until the National Federation of the Blind sues you...
Using dict and list here preserves the dynamic nature of JSON. If you have some sort of schema - which in reality you probably would have, even using JSON - that implies dict and list you wouldn't need to use those.
Maybe I have been watching too much 'Newsroom', but

'Isn't it a journalists Job to make relavant News, Relavant to the Public.'
One actually gives birth to the other...
I think you miss the point of the jokes. In all honesty... there is a large component of "nerd behavior" which is captured well in it. There is a tendency amongst us, which I have as much as anyone else, to ignore the practical, common sense aspects of every day life, in the favor of theoretically perfect. The joke isn't about being logically or internally consistent, the joke isn't about slapstick schadenfreude, the joke is that in worrying about the energy optimization he forgets or fails to just accomplish the actual task, and undoes any possible gains (it doesn't need to be stated, because everyone gets it).

And it isn't unrealistic - I've watched teams get into debates over how to perfectly optimize some corner of code, and ignore the fact that it doesn't matter for the use case, because that bit is rarely run or happens fast enough that it isn't a bottleneck anyway. At my makerspace I've seen people go down crazy design rabbit holes and come up with overly-complex designs to do a task when there is a simple practical solution that they are over-looking (e.g lets figure out how to 3d print this internal piece to snap in and stay fixed permanently, and spend hours on it, instead of just using the super-glue we need for other parts anyway to hold it in place).

It is fun to go down these rabbit holes sometimes. It is also annoying and humorous when we do it and waste a bunch of effort on it, and there is a simple, common sense solution staring us in the face.
I started getting warnings from Crome on weeatherunderground today.
Given that the average sitcom writer's conception of a nerdy character is more like "Screech" or Steve Urkel, the complex, neurotic, and really quite well-researched characters on Big Bang Theory are like a bolt of awesome from the blue.
Such a good article!
We had a similar problem with a talentless rogue designer at my old agency.

It only became clear he had blatantly copied other sites after he left, unfortunately (he was also sacked from future jobs for the same thing, I suspect).

He even had the audacity to claim an award for one of his rip-offs, including attending the vegas ceremony (IIRC). I really don't know how he slept at night.

I'm not going to name names as this was a long time ago and I'm hoping he's changed his ways.
There's a difference between taking influence from a site and downright stealing and even hot-linking assets.
I don't think you looked hard enough, there was plenty of code taken vertabim if you look at the source.
>"They took the exact opposite course during the financial crisis"

They are a tiny country who nationalized their banks, stiffed creditors, implemented unnecessary austerity measures and devalued their currency. I'm not sure they're a model for US economic policy.
smacontech and smipropellers seem to be from India where you can't win a legal case without bribing the authorities heaviliy, unless your father himself is the head of cops or something.

And anyway, law enforcement depts there wouldn't understand what "copying the layout of a website" means.
It's only clear for people who don't really understand regexes. For people with knowledge of them, it's more ambiguous as to whether a slash is being matched or used to escape. It reminds me of commenting the end of your for loops, } //end for ... it's clear for people who come from Python and don't know Java but that's not who we should be helping.
It seems that statement wasn't a hard and fast rule. ba dum tish
I think everyone should do what they want, including telling others what to do, hypocritically.

I prefer not to escape dots in char classes, because escapes make it less readable for me. I know this involves a more complex rule, for where one need not escape, but somehow my mind easily treats character classes as a special case region.
I wish you guys the best of luck for what you have in store for the next time. And I do seriously mean that.

I'm still looking for something like what you had in mind, and also what your users seem to be requesting the most. It's an interesting idea and one day, if you do become successful, please be the anti-Facebook that we're all hoping for.
A few existing themes follow the parallax scrolling trend:
http://themeforest.net/search?term=parallax
Try shipping it with your product in about 5 years...
> you said "There isn't and shouldn't be any hard fast rule for this"

No I did not. You're confused as that was someone else. :-)

Do not needlessly escape. Only escape what that flavour of syntax needs you to do. What you may think is a needless escape may actually give different behaviour.

$ sed 's/[x\.]/y/g' <<<'x.\z'
yyyz
The link title's more than a little misleading: the material is supposedly "breathable," "human," and "skin-like". (Adding a hyphen to make it "human-skin-like," which I assume is what was intended, isn't much better). From that description, I was imagining something kind of disgusting, not strips of metal.
I think you fail on two software engineering principles:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

* you should adapt the way you think about programming to the language you are using. This is shell, not Ada.
I think they actually copy-pasted code straight out of ideaware's source... Hence
> line 173: <script src="./smacontech_files/ideaware.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
Took me a second cup of coffee to detect the sarcasm. I like you.
Follow up question: Could it be the exact opposite of what you're saying that did us in? Could it be that we spent TOO much time planning, and not enough time actually DOING (which leads to learning?)

I'll leave this here:
http://marshmallowchallenge.com/TED_Talk.html
That's blatant!
Philip - well done for retaining a sense of humour in the face of such outstandingly helpful feedback from the HN armchair critic brigade.

Stay foolish :)
As one of the commenters on the linked article points out: this still breaks if you try to drag and drop text into the textbox unless you've been very diligent with the events to move the label out of the way.

I never really thought why they were called 'placeholder' before but it makes sense; they are not labels, they are examples.
Job offer, red flags?
Would you consider these as red flags when deciding to work for a company?
- not using continuous integration
- developers use Windows (and that is compulsory)
- not possible to work remotely
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Of course people are going to come on here and say this crap without ever looking at the source code for the websites. They didn't just steal the idea, which is fair game, they stole the code.
No offence taken. Most people think it will be useless. But you are very, very incorrect when you say I'm not going to get good data. I've already got tens of millions of measurements of excellent data. Check out http://pressurenet.cumulonimbus.ca and play around with your local area. Live data goes back about a week, but there's an archive that covers most of 2012. Check out New York City, in late October / early November: Hurricane Sandy.

I'm livestreaming the data to Cliff Mass, a professor of atmospheric science at the University of Washington. He's got a small team analyzing it to calibrate the sensors and as we grow the network, he'll be using the data to improve weather models and try out new systems of forecasting.
Since prioritising RC4 is the mitigation for the BEAST attack as well (IMHO a rather impractical attack on SSL, but that's another story) it's going to be the default on a lot of servers already.

You'll find that Google, Facebook and Microsoft servers all prefer RC4 during SSL negotiation.

See: https://www.ssllabs.com/

TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_MD5 - www.microsoft.com
TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA - www.facebook.com
TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA - www.google.com

In most circumstances I would consider AES a "better" cipher than RC4, but it's interesting there are now multiple attacks where block boundaries matter.
I'm the author of this post and would love to discuss refunding the difference for customers who purchased within 30 days of a promotion with the HN community. Might it increase your sales?
Any hints that give you an idea that a new tech is destined to die quickly?