skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that nobody really "knows" what is going on. Climate science is still very much a work in progress. This is the sad truth of the matter.

Trying to figure out whether or not humans are a direct cause of climate change is like trying to figure out if exposure to a certain household product gives you cancer. People get cancer all the time from various sources, and while certain folk can point directly to said chemical being a carcinogen, even if that agreement exists it starts to open up a whole new debate about whether or not there is enough of a link to matter.

From what I can tell, ignoring the single idiots on either side, we've got:

1. A general consensus that the world is warming;

2. A slightly less strong consensus that humans are contributing to this warming;

3. A majority (but not a consensus, IMO) extending that to humans being the most direct and primary cause of warming;

4. A strong consensus that we should reduce our overall carbon emissions (for obvious reasons), regardless;

5. A small but significant scientific group arguing that we are not the primary cause of warming, even though we may be a contributing factor;

6. A large contingent of non-science laymen that feel that because 5 may be a valid opinion, the entire study of climate science is bunk;

That's basically the best I've found. There are zealots in every camp above. There are also those that feel that each individual point being right means we should either ignore everything else, be it science or consequence.

Given how complex the earth's climate is, and how little we know about things like the sun, earth's climate history, and the long term effects of particular chemical compositions in our atmosphere, I feel we won't progress much past our current stage in enough time to make much a difference overall. IMHO, if we believe that climate change is real, we should be focusing all efforts on dealing with it as best we can.
On Friday I pitched my company to a room of 150 developers, since my company was a hackathon sponsor. I was the only female speaker out of about 15.

Afterwards, a well-known, elite developer asked me if I programmed. When I said yes, he said that made me 50% less attractive. Then he asked me if I cooked and cleaned. To my face.

You don't have to be high profile to deal with this stuff. Just being in a room where you're 1 female out of 15 males is enough to get this kind of attention.
waiting for the sequel - 'Yes, I will rub your damn face in it'
Apple will want to rapidly patch this either way. They still see it as a large security flaw, even if it needs a physical connection, and they hate jailbreaking.
> Also, on other note: username is Not an email address. Do not ask me for my username when you really mean email address.

Are you saying that sites should allow users to use email addresses to log in, rather than usernames? As I understand it, the former is a more recent thing.
This is true. But some people ignore the e-mails and calls, or lie, or both—at which point shame is an excellent strategy. My family runs a grant writing consulting firm, and we've had people rip us off too—now, when they rip us off, we call them out too: http://blog.seliger.com/2009/07/03/fake-grant-writers-spamme...
> In fact the two situations are quite different.

Yup. My point exactly. Congrats on being another careless knee-jerker who applies big-company context as a straw man and doesn't read carefully or think it through.
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I'd be more worried about the horrible loading times. That's what will hurt your conversion rates, not those copycat sites.
Honestly, I'm just here to learn and make a living.

There are many issues in society which I abhor, including all forms of sexism, corruption, violence, the list goes on. I try to live to the best of my ability and without contributing negatively to any of the aforementioned issues, but I have my own crosses to bear, I cannot carry all of yours.
First of all, it takes quite a lot of thought and work to produce a physically small weapon. Weight and physical space are constrained in the warhead compartment of most missiles.

There's also the environmental and serviceability aspects. For example, the initiators of nuclear weapons used to be (more or less) lumps of polonium which decayed rapidly and required frequent total disassembly for replacement. Current weapons use canned neutron generators which are effectively black boxes, inert until needed and long lasting. There's also the idea that weapons components deteriorate over time; tritium decays noticeably over a short interval, high-explosives tend to break down. One needs to be assured that a weapon will detonate only when commanded with the minimum required yield after a significant span in storage.

None of this is especially necessary if Ahmadinejad is riding down on a large weapon from the belly of a clapped out airliner.
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Pointing out that the emperor is naked is often frowned on by the government.
Adding this to your JS could be fun...

if(document.location.hostname !== 'ideaware.co') {alert('Do not trust these thieves. They stole this design from ideaware.co');}
Wow. I don't agree with this response at all. "Allow them to use the design for a small fee"?

The original site design was the product of careful branding, long hours of coding, and probably countless revisions: the point of all this work is to create something that uniquely represents the company.

Responding to piracy by "homogenizing" an original design isn't the answer.

The rest of the business world is definitely not that generous (trust me: if you steal an image from Getty Images, they don't let you get away with paying a "small fee"). Neither should OP.
Points 7,8,9,10,11 are not about web vs. app. They could be applicable to "old website design" vs. "new website design" story also.
Dude, you're being that guy. Don't be that guy.

Why shouldn't a prosecutor consider the personal circumstance of the accused? Certainly this is done in a variety of ways in the law, the decision as to whether a crime has been committed, the decision as to whether to charge an individual, what charges are brought against that individual.

Particularly in the case where prosecutors have wide discretion, such as in the case of computer crimes, the question really should be, on what basis are prosecutors making decisions?

And in the event that prosecutors are making capricious or unjust, or disproportionate decisions, then shouldn't they be faced with the consequences of their actions? Shouldn't they consider that they can both ruin and in some cases contribute to the end of someone's life?

Even if you don't think this is part of jurisprudence per se, do we not have an obligation to our fellow man?
Do people need to be told this? If copyright still made sense, why would anyone bother with DRM?
So you guys use a closed source program from 'hackers' to be able to fully use your phone? So you have all the disavantages of paying for something and all the disadvantages of using some keygen binary to use as it was pirated.

and i'm worried about what lies in the binary blob of my phone's boot1 and radio driver....
They're not really comparable.

Real Climate is written by academic climatologists. Its last five non-open thread posts were:

1) The Greenland melt
2) What to study?
3) Sea-level rise: Where we stand at the start of 2013 — Part 2
4) Sea-level rise: Where we stand at the start of 2013
5) On Sensitivity Part II: Constraining Cloud Feedback without Cloud Observations

Climate Audit is written by a retired mathematician/mining prospector. Last 5 posts:

1) More on Acton’s “Investigation”
2) Acton and “Natural Person Powers”
3) Acton and Muir Russell at Tribunal
4) Duke C Punctures More Attempted UEA Obtuseness
5) More Tricks from East Anglia

Watts Up With That, written by a former television meteorologist/newscaster:

1) The Revkin-Gavin debate on lower climate sensitivity
2) NPR finally gets it – does this signal an end to the polar bear as poster bear for global warming?
3) The yearly lukewarm report
4) Here there be Dragons
5) New paper by Richard Tol – Targets for global climate policy: An Overview

I think that speaks for itself.
Another thread of broken-record HN comments!
I thought the same...

http://www.spotify.com/uk/

It's a really nice scrolling concept, and I've seen quite a few sites using it. I think OP is referring to very specific elements of their design.
I wouldn't link directly to their sites. Only makes them rank higher in SEO
I think I read that differently. I read it that they gathered the data, put together the spreadsheet and hosted on a .gov address. Is there an article that is more clear about that?
It may reflect my own biases, but, seeing things from Europe, I have the impression that the issue is only politicized in the US.

Human-made global warming is taken as fact here.

The only ones denying it are (with a few exceptions) oil producers, guzzlers, and those who protect their interests, none of which are active in local media.
The owner of the .gov address wasn't hosting the file until Anonymous put it there.
Here's one: Instead of engaging them as a standup comic, willing to cross swords with a heckler (which likely encourages them), make up a three line response about how "this is a tech talk at a conference, please don't heckle, it just wrecks things for everyone." In other words, deflate the situation by being bland in your reply, and only bland.
seriously the original website takes forever to load
Thank you Faruk! Keep up the good work.
In my admittedly limited experience, I haven't seen anything to speak out about. I appreciate when others report their experiences and don't want to invalidate them, but if I'm "silent" it's because I simply have nothing to add to the conversation.

Outrage propagates itself perfectly well without my help. The fact is, I've seen more outrage over sexism in the developer community than I've seen sexism in the developer community.
This isn't true.

For example:

3.13 Do not program "defensively" suggests that the programmer should allow functions to crash if given unhandled input types. This does not work in most other programming languages to create a fault tolerant application.

A number of advice points about process/module organization also do not apply to most languages.

Tagging messages? Makes sense in lisp (and a few others), but again, not in most languages

Not to trap exits, again Erlang specific.

I could go on and on. Did you even read this?
That's alarming- it can be the other way around. Spotify copying Ideaware? Or Ideaware copying Spotify.
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Why not program defensively?
I think the goal is general awareness about sexism & harassment present in the industry.

Even she doesn't make the specific offender more accountable by speaking up, she raises awareness and hopefully makes everyone less tolerant of this kind of outrageous stupidity.
> I'll defend.

I wasn't attacking anything.

Numbers 1, 3, and 4 have nothing to do with what I wrote. Number 2 sort of does, and, if you think we don't live in a text-based world anymore, look at blogs, essays, this site, code as text, etc. There is a large portion of the population is aliterate, but that's a loss.
Copying has been going on for centuries. If someone copied you, you're clearly a leader. Take it in stride!
No, at least the one I looked at didn't. But if they're just copy-pasting, he could add a domain check (or IP address check) and make it behave differently.

Edit: apparently some of them are! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5165238
That’s the point of the article though: you don’t need to be an activist, but silence itself is a negative contribution. Simply the act of tweeting links to such articles and saying you agree with it, is enough to let people know you’ve got their backs in this matter.
I do like having OpenVPN and better wireless scanning/details.
I didn't do more than read the first page or two, but there appears to be a Supreme Court. Presumably, it's their job. That's generally how these things work.
The collected historical temperature data series are messy. You plot them and it looks like noise. A simple average will tell you nothing. The regression analysis that goes on in these reconstructions tends to follow something like this algorithm:

1) Compare your collected data series to each other to determine a "reliability" index for each data series.

2) Construct a series as a weighted average on this reliability index.

3) Iterate, using your new series to calculate the reliability index.

There are substantial issues with the above approach, having to do with sensitivity to particular kinds of signals. For a while, the Climate Audit folks got a lot of mileage over a data set that was put in "upside down" in one of the reconstructions. Rather than claiming "data error," the author defended it based on the idea that the above process would just give it a negative weighting!

Regardless, you should see why the above could easily be susceptible to issues. Further, the disagreement between these reconstructions and what our limited historical sources tell us about the MWP, etc., makes them further suspect.

This is a problem for the global warming model because it means that we don't know what the historical standard deviation for temperature is. So we can't say whether the last 3 decades warming is "within normal deviations" or "unprecedented."
Why did subsidy catch on for describing contract phones?

I'm pretty sure the carrier is making a nice big profit on the loan, making subsidy a terrible word choice.

I suppose many of the cheap prepaid phones actually are subsidized though.
Inspiration exists and it will often only come when I am am not working. The catch, is that I have to have already done my work. There is a point at which I know that I need to stop working and give my mind a break. During that break, all of those thoughts are marinating in the back of my mind. A change of environment and activity will often make that inspired idea "click". For me, inspiration is allowing outside stimulus to act on the preparative work that you have already done. Inspiration is not lazy. Inspiration is patience and determination.

There are countless stories of people finding their best ideas while in the bath/shower, on a walk, on the toilet, etc. There is a reason for that.
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Interesting. And beyond network position, do you think it's possible to measure these micro timing differences effectively against a server that experiences the type of load patterns Google's servers do?

(And yeah, I have little faith in DTLS generally).
The .edu blog comment spamming isn't going to help. I just did a quick look on Open Site Explorer, and your link profile looks super shady. You're setting yourself up to get Penguined if you aren't already.
This is a basic tenet of erlang. The philosophy is that if the inputs are bad, don't try to handle it. Crash the process to isolate the issue from the rest of the system (and god forbid, your database). Erlang's supervisor trees will restart the process for you.
Hey Greg,

Thanks for replying. The use case which I am considering requires instant like search which google offers. I would like to speak to you 1-on-1 and see if you could help me get such an access through blekko. I know its a huge technical challenge to implement something like instant search and if blekko does not already have it, but may be I could share my idea with you and see if there is a possibility. My email id is in my profile. Please send me an email if you are open to discuss further.
Being able to have f.lux on my iPhone. http://stereopsis.com/flux/
Could you use something like AWS or EC2 to reduce the overhead?
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I think that's the total load time. The page actually shows up and is usable nearly instantly for me. Also, possibly the Slashdot effect.
I know some people use it to do a proper replacement of Apple Maps.
Even better: the `_files` part in directory name indicates that they simply used "Save website to file" option in IE, which puts the dependent assets in directory named using this pattern. I imagine they just edited the HTML markup afterwards, without even bothering to check what's inside that directory.
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While I'm sure it's fine for some simple applications, I found the 512 model far more useful. They should have waited to release it until they could get the cost down with 512MB of RAM.

Having used both the 256 and 512 Model B, I found that no amount of tweaking could make the 256 model run a web browser acceptably on a Linux desktop. Modern Linux desktops and browsers have gotten too bloated. LXDE starts to thrash with a few heavy pages, while KDE and gnome desktops are just downright unable. The 512 model runs the heavyweight desktops just fine.
The main issue with any "Hockey Stick" as presented is the length of the shaft.

The stick all but vanishes when you look at a long term climate projection, rather than the last 500 years or so.
Your post is unsupported by evidence, and seems to be just lazily taking the middle road in an attempted to appear enlightened. The two sides of the "debate" are not equal. There is not substantial disagreement that the climate is changing and that humans are directly responsible.

See the consensus report here for the net effects of different factors on the climate. The net effect from human activity is the largest component.
http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/ar4/wg1/en/spmsspm-...
Am I the only one getting a stream of NetDB errors (with the occasional HTTP 500 or 502)? I guess I'll just have to wait until... whatever server it's trying to connect to is up and running. I haven't had a chance to install a single package yet.

Edit: Popping over to r/jailbreak confirms it, I guess it'll be a while before things calm down. I just hope I can get f.lux before I have to go to work.
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Chattanooga Startups
I'd like to see an A/B test. Clearly- if the features don't contribute to higher revenue, why stick to it?
Probably not. This town is full of hacks and thieves. (just like all the other towns I guess).
I still wouldn't. Usability studies have shown that forms which have the labels right above the input field get filled out the most and filled out correctly the most.

Everything else (like putting the labels to the left of the field or in the field) and you start seeing errors increase in form submissions. So it is to be avoided.
Iran might have faked its monkeys space mission
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I'm a 4th year student in a well-respected CS program, I have used linux off and on for over three years now, and I would consider myself perfectly capable of maintaining a shell script using any of the utilities you mention. However, without checking the man pages I could not tell you the behavior of the -n flag for sed, the -dc flags for tr, the -f flag for awk, or the -tr flags for ls, and I only have a guess as to what comm -23 does.

This is not the bread and butter of programming, where everyone worth a damn should be able to decipher "int i = 10;" even if it's not their brand of syntax. There are people who are perfectly capable of understanding and maintaining a piece of software that uses "tr --delete --complement" but would be dumbfounded when confronted with "tr -dc" until they looked it up.
And this is a great contribution to the discussion
There are lots of sites that lifted their copy from ideaware.co too. What kind of design/development/branding shop can't come up with their own "About Us" or "Process" page? Frankly I think this is even lazier than lifting the markup/script to make the design work.

At least copying the HTML and JS saves a lot of work.
3 out of the 5 sites are Indian, http://smacontech.com/ is a company run by 3 kids. If you give a look on the start up web design firms like this, you will find a lot of copy cats.
This may very well be the case!
Correctly used labels improve conversions.
Silence is a non-contribution. You put too much stock in the leftist notion "if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem", an interesting euphemism for the old slogan "if you're not with us, you're against us."
There was plenty of coverage of Iceland during the financial crisis - despite its small population - because they had a disproportionate effect on the EU economy. It feels strange that such coverage should die off after real reform and recovery should take place.
they might be just hosted in huston. Three of the sites are owned by companies located in India
It's incredibly depressing to me that this vague and uninformative comment is now rated higher than actual links to actual scientific resources on the topic.
There are no examples of a bank crisis in a country of the size of the US economy other than the one in 1929, and I guess nobody want to repeat that receipt. That is probably what a purer capitalist/liberalist would prescribe still.

Of larger nation than Iceland Norway and Sweden handled the bank crisis around 1990 by nationalizing the banks and adding to their capital reserve. The shareholders lost their money, but the banks were able to recover in not too many years.

The worst thing that can be done is a bailout. In that case the people that took unnecessary risks for their own short-term gain are rewarded, and everyone else have to pay.
Ask HN: Do you know whats happening in Chattanooga, Tennessee?
I just moved to Chattanooga last month & there are seriously some amazing things happening here. The community (check out here: http://tgemayel.github.com/Nooga-Startups/) Reminds me of Austin, Tx pre 2006.

Chattanooga has a lot of really awesome things about it, here are a few:

- Booming startup scene with dozens of startups all close together & growing quickly.

- Low cost of living. I pay about 1/4th of what the average cost of an apartment in the valley is, for a beautiful loft located right in Downtown ( I ride my longboard to work everyday)

- Chattanooga was the first city in the northern hemisphere with gigabit internet http://www.thegigcity.com/

- Amazing outdoor scene for rock climbing, kayaking, hiking and more

- The local government & the state of tennessee are investing heavily in the tech scene (see gigcity)

- Big & active angel investment scene. We raised money here & in the valley with no problems. The quality & integrity of investors here is also very high.

- A very high quality of designers. Chattanooga is a hip & art inspired place

- Just an hour and a half from Atlanta (Georgia Tech), Nashville, & other larger cities

- High quality engineers at a low cost w/ great cultural fits for us ( they like whiskey & working hard)
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> I'm a little surprised that an addition 256MB of RAM, another USB port, and an ethernet port can triple the power use though...

That's because you're used to desktops, where Intel/AMD CPUs and screens take the vast majority of power.

But the RasPi has no screen, and the CPU is a small, slow ARM. It's not surprising that it takes so little power compared to peripherals.

Of note, there are low frequency (kilohz to low mhz range) 32-bit arms that can runs for months to years on an AA battery; They're starting to become the microcontroller of choice.
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