skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is worth noting that method for producing the data 1900-2010 data and the 0-1900 data in the top graph is wildly different.

First and foremost: The black line is an actual temperature measurement, while all the other lines are estimates based on proxies. Except of course: Secondly all the proxies appears to be correlated to the black line, because they have been chosen to do so. That is, the correlation to the black line is manufactured, and not a finding.

The rest of the graph is made in a completely different manner, and the proxies are allowed to carry the signal for themselves. I think it is very interesting that you can see a small medieval warming period from the proxy data, but nevertheless one shouldn't be too eager to compare the right part and the left part of the graph, as the methods used are actually not the same.

One can also show that the noise in the proxies will tend to pull the data towards the average and away from the extremes, which is exactly the lower rate of change and lower peaks you see. So that graph is really not very good, at all...
SEC rethinks decimals but has nothing to say on high frequency trading? Somehow increasing the spread is being considered but allowing trades to stay at the markets for 1 second is not? What is going on? Europe is enforcing 1/2 second trades: http://www.tradersmagazine.com/news/hft-high-frequency-tradi...

Do we really need market makers to have trades for less than 1 second anyway? That really contributes to liquidity in the markets?
I would add: if your idea is really unique the product will not be understood. First approachers usually don't succeed and only pave the way for others.
Thanks for the tips!

I've been studying other's .vimrc files in an effort to understand what all vim vanilla is capable of. Once I get that dialed in, I'll look into plugins for my local box; I just want to make sure that I can use it effectively just by firing up any new VM.

Also, I'm being sacrilegious and setting myself up for primarily --INSERT-- mode, since its the most like a GUI text editor. Its making the barrier of entry slightly more endurable!
I have an ergonomic keyboard (maltron) and a standing table. Both are not exactly portable.

In any case, I highly recommend NOT to work on your laptop's keyboard. It's a sure recipe to screw up your hands.
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I gotta hope Samba 4 makes big progress, if nothing than to force Microsoft to be more competitive with their stupid licensing.
Bamboo is also very fast-growing, but we don't use it for desktop application development. We use it for making huts, preparing food and treating infections.

I guess my point is that growth doesn't matter when it's in another sector.
I obviously can't take responsibility for every developer in the world, but most of them I know think in a similar fashion that me. :)

I think you need to consider your advantages and the fact that you are already ahead with your MVP. There is no need to disclose everything. Besides, even if your MVP is working as it is supposed to, there are miles till you actually make in in the market. Been there, done that.

Think about this: if the person has the skills / connections / opportunity to make execute this idea better than you, you should consider him / her a partner in the project.
If you're expecting something potentially embarrassing, then it's not so hard to be at the ready with a camera to take a photo of the screen.
This App promotes itself with 'temporary photo's'. But they're anything but. Combine teens with 'private' photo's that really are not temporary and basically it's an accident waiting to happen. I think we've all heard our share of jealous ex(boy)friend stories dumping loads of pics when the relation crashed. If people feel save because the images are 'temporary' odd are they'll find out things were not so private.

Teens doing teen-things is fine. But the sense of security they think they're getting is false.
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Poland also have it (right tu update and delete your data) since 1997. In practice it wasn't a problem (or at least no big complains). We had our share of social networks.

About this law: http://www.privireal.org/content/dp/poland.php
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Seems like advice for a straw man. Author bases the whole diatribe on people he doesn't know around his college town. He presumes that everyone around him carrying gadgetry and nice clothes must be destroying themselves financially to do so, and can barely afford to eat.

While no doubt these people actually do exist, IMO author is really reaching here. This reads like "I'm starter than all these idiots".
For a while, using OpenJDK was the only way to get proper font smoothing on Linux in IntelliJ. It doesn't display any warnings anymore and works fine with OpenJDK now.
That's why I said Americans instead of citizens. In the extraterritorial context, citizens are the interesting category. Citizenship follows you around when you're in Yemen for decades. US residency doesn't.
Of course we log it and I'm sure godaddy does also. The CSR dealt with simply didn't have access to the info.
Great work! Which Hacker News API do you use?
> For those not familiar with functional analysis, it is basically a generalization of basic linear algebra fact that, in complex finite-dimensional vector spaces, every matrix (or to be more precise, every linear operator) has at least one eigenvector.

Oh, thanks for the clarification.
Perhaps not exactly what you are looking for, but Prof David Mackay (also of Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms) has a cogent quantitative analysis of energy generation, given climate concerns.

I think it's a good read. You can tell he has awareness of the relevant numbers - and doesn't like bull.

Free pdf available.
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Regardless of whether an if statement or a goto is better, why is a goto preferable to a function call?
I'm going to make a couple of assumptions and if I'm wrong just ignore the answer. I'm assuming you are using either PHP, Python, Java, Ruby, or .Net. I'm assuming these are either web servers, worker servers, caching servers, or database servers.

With those assumptions made I'm going to suggest some services to use. I don't work for ANY of these companies. I run a small startup that uses most of these companies.

For web servers I would recommend using AWS' Elastic Beanstalk. You don't pay anything extra to use this service in addition to the EC2 servers you are using now. If you use reserved instances it is also cheaper than pretty much any other PaaS out there (Google App Engine gives it a good run for the money). Recently I did a spreadsheet outlining the savings http://goo.gl/AL5Cj. The spreadsheet was done before the most recent AWS price reductions so the m1.small prices aren't right.

For worker servers I recommend using PiCloud. You can install anything you want and they only charge you for the time your jobs use. Granted you have to use Python to interface with jobs but does that really matter in the grand scheme. I personally use Python anyways so its a bonus. Depending on the job it might be more appropriate to use AWS' Elastic MapReduce offering.

For database servers I recommend using either RDS or Xeround (http://www.xeround.com) a MySQL provider if you have to use a relational database. If you have the luxury of using a NoSQL option then use Cloudant (http://www.cloudant.com) a CouchDB DBaaS company or AWS' DynamoDB server.

For caching servers use AWS' Elasticache service or Garantia Data's (http://www.garantiadata.com) Memcached or Redis cloud.
Dell will go private in a $24.4 billion deal 
Reuters) - Computer maker Dell Inc will go private in a $24.4 billion deal that also involves Microsoft Corp and private equity firm Silver Lake, the parties said on Tuesday.
From the article: "it might be great to try it for one or two days every month". The author seems to have thought of the ergonomics concern.
I'm certainly not one to think TC is awesome but I only recognized one name on the list (PushBullet) and that's strictly b/c they posted something here on HN yesterday (that I didn't even read). I'm hardly representative of "the world" but I'd guess that I'm probably fairly indicative of your average 35-45yo male in the US. So did TC miss these or is the author just trying to make a sensational headline? I'm going with the latter.

Calling some of these "startups" is just silly also. Name Mesh - it's a combo of a domain name generator/finder and a coupon finding site. Is anyone surprised that NameMesh wasn't picked by TC for a spotlight/piece?
It's supposed to sell Windows licenses.
If Mark Zuckerberg invented Twitter you couldn't read tweets if you didn't log in.

I am just lurking around on Twitter and Facebook (no user for both of them).
Twitter works fine for me (e.g. when Peter King has written Monday Morning Quarterback the link is up on Twitter), but Facebook is very hard if you are not a user and want to know how a band sounds like. I've used Myspace for this before, but the new player and the fact, that most of the bands are nearly on Facebook exclusively, makes me use Facebook for this. Facebook really sucks for me.
Indeed, and they're distinctly aware of it, in their tongue-in-cheek way. Check out their price list! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/22/register_tariff/

It would be nice if they had a full-time web designer or two on staff, though. Site's a bit horrible.
Nice point
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> What is going on?

Regulatory capture is my bet.
I'm not entirely sure I believe this claim. Ergonomically poor surroundings typically force you to change your stance often, because you get uncomfortable quickly. And in the long term, moving around a lot is generally better than standing still.

I suppose if you always sat in the same café in exactly the same position and got used to it, you might eventully develop problems.
This is great. My 1.274 pence: have the "unread" icons below the list numbers so the alignment doesn't go all out of whack.
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1. You are exposing your source code to anyone who might be interested.

I think that exposing your CSS source code with comments etc is more beneficial than detrimental. It helps us have a more open web and fosters an environment for new developers to learn from what's already great.

However, the overhead of always sending down the full CSS probably isn't worth it since so few people are actually interested. http://daneden.me/max-css/ suggests including a .max version of your css alongside the .min for this very purpose, which I think is a great idea.
I like the model too and you got me thinking. Is there any standard licence model where you allow people to have and use the source but not to redistribute it "as is"?
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I love working from the cafe at the local Barnes & Noble. We don't have office space yet anyway, so I have to work from either my home, or a coffee shop / bar / cafe / library / whatever... but even when we do eventually get proper offices, I'd still want to come work somewhere like that fairly often. I just enjoy being around people, having convenient access to tasty coffee beverages, and the overall vibe and bustle and activity.

That said, the downside is when you need to work as a group and actually need privacy. Or sometimes when you're doing something that requires deep concentration and extreme focus, then the noise and bustle can be distracting. But, by and large, I do like the "working from a coffee shop / cafe" thing.
It contributes to liquidity in that it allows market makers to quote tighter prices, since they have less risk of adverse selection.
One of the things I do is be a speaker in game development, targeting newbies.

Another is game design consulting.

I hear a lot stuff related to ideas.

First, there are a handful of paranoids, that want to know if they can patent their cool game idea ( no, you can't, especially ideas that are a story, not a game system ).

Then I have those wanting advice. Of those about 80% are in two fields: some want my help, but fearing that I will steal their idea they will request me to sign some crazy NDA or they will keep giving vague explanations.

Others want me to do their idea, some just want to see their idea done so they can play, others think their idea is so good that I would buy it, or code for free and give them later 80% of the revenue.

All of those people don't understand that ideas are cheap, making a game is crazy hard, and even I already have lots of my own ideas, I will only make your idea if you give me craploads of money.
Wasn't Mozilla the one pushing for ES4?
>> It's a sure recipe to screw up your hands.

I learnt that the hard way and the only thing that helped afterwards was an ergonomic keyboard. For those who don't know, the wrist injury (RSI) is excruciatingly painful and will most likely offset any productivity gains you might have made earlier.
Back to the article, I don't quite understand that how "fewer distractions" can immediately be followed by "socializing and meeting new people".

Edit : typo
I think you're making the mistake of critiquing the beards thing in isolation. The point is that it's a drop in a bucket. You can look at any individual marketing campaign and come up with perfectly valid reasons it's not really sexist, but in aggregate it's problematic.

The key word in mwetzler's comment is "microaggressions". It's the small things which are probably defensible in isolation but when viewed together exhibit some pretty obvious patterns.
People who are actually concerned about exposing their amazing Javascript and CSS to the world probably don't have very amazing code to begin with.
Is it just me, or is this image solution overkill? I'm curious, how is introducing this complexity to the build process better than just using a sprite? SASS + Compass automatic sprite generation kind of solves the problem for you (not a SASS vs LESS flame, just an example).

I took a peak at your website's source, and it's strange that you micro-optimize the image while at the same time you have 6 separate uncompressed js files and you didn't bother to serve your assets from a separate cookie-less domain. What's the reasoning here?

btw since when is exposing CSS a problem? I don't get what OP means in that point.
The actual reason for this is web advertising took off like wildfire, using 3rd party scripts. It was too late to reverse by the time people got concerned about the security model.

Content Security Policy makes all this much more robust in modern browsers.
Ask HN: Best way to hire a CTO in Silicon Valley?
My development firm, based in NYC, has a client in Silicon Valley. They are seeking a CTO to work with us before the site launches and to grow an internal team thereafter.

We're in a niche where this is pretty common, and the development idiom of the industry is such that a transfer of knowledge should not be a burden if we do our jobs right. Also, the best list of jobs that I know of in this niche is a Google Spreadsheet.

Normally, my answer for them would be to plumb their network, post on StackExchange and LinkedIn, etc., etc., but they have fairly specific needs around experience and prior knowledge. Also, they need to keep some details of their enterprise confidential before they launch, since they're fine on funding and would not benefit from pre-launch publicity.

Is using a recruiter unavoidable in this case? If so, who are the best? Are there alternatives? What's the best way to advertise a great job while withholding some details?
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While you're correct about not generalizing, the number of students who are in debt is enormous[1]. Everyone wants to be amazingly educated with all the latest awesome gadgets, and unfortunately, it really is causing a lot of problems for society. The author really is doing a good job for himself if he is saving up some money and getting out of debt.

We'll see how it goes...

[1] http://www.asa.org/policy/resources/stats/default.aspx
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I jailbreak only because it was the easiest way to get data and MMS working on my _unlocked_ AT&T iPhone using Straight Talk. It was a choice of spending $5 for TetherMe or spending hours swapping SIMs or editing backup files.

Now that iPhones are more or less officially on Straight Talk (vie Walmart), there might be a better solution.
But if people stop buying crap won't the crap making and marketing companies stop hiring so many of these college grads and instead of buying iphones they can't afford they now have to buy food they can't afford?
GIMPS "why" page is an interesting read as well: http://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/why.html
It freaked me out for a second as I went to check the HN website and back to your screenshot.
It's a story which gets pushed pretty hard by the more old-fashioned market makers, who are now getting out-competed by HFT/automated trading. Higher minimum tick is good for them as they earn money from the bid/ask spread, which necessarily has to be wider.
Wish it had Readability. HackerNode for iPhone finally came full circle -for me at least- with Readability support in their latest update.

Although, I'm not sure how much I'd use this since I mainly read HN in the browser. Beautiful app though.
Please point me to where I can buy non-public data about potential backpack purchasers (or any person for that matter) from Apple/Google/Microsoft.

Until then, your statements are nothing more than FUD.
This reminds me of that guy lamenting over staying with Yahoo as a domain registrar. Since the writer was a techie in Silicon Valley, I don't pity him. GoDaddy being a crappy domain registrar has been known for years now. It's not some new secret, nor is it super expensive just to transfer your domains before they expire (if you really value them that much - I've transferred domains where I still had five years left). Since he mentions trying to transfer his domain to namecheap, I feel that the writer is really just a victim of a combination of both laziness and being too cheap. Still, I'm glad someone is still relaying the warning about GoDaddy.

> I cannot believe that this day and age, someone could be so cheap with their own long term customers.

There's a reason GoDaddy offers the cheapest deals.
While not huge in the grand scheme of things, Dell has probably been the biggest vendor of Ubuntu machines, mostly in India and other poor countries. For $2 billion Microsoft gets to tell them to kill any such Ubuntu or Android product line-ups, and any research involving them. How is this good for Dell itself as a company, especially with the Windows/PC market going down? Is Dell really letting Microsoft turn them into another Nokia?
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There would be huge hardware costs for such a migration, which is key here.
I have/had an idea from 99/00 that I developed while in R&D at my work that they signed the rights over to me because the technology wasn't there yet...technically still isn't.

A few years back, I was talking to my mechanic/friend who was telling me about his son and this idea he and some of his buddies were working on in their off-time at 3M...it was like a Roberta Flack song it hit me so hard. My idea, from another person's mouth who had no knowledge that I had thought of the same thing.

Flash forward to Super Bowl Sunday. For kicks and giggles I was on Twitter because a room with the lights off is absolutely not interesting television. A particular thread sparked my interest when one person accused a news reporter of RT'ing his joke without attribution.

After that, I started watching the #blackout stream and sure enough, everyone on Twitter who thought they were witty also thought they were original. People were spouting off the same jokes simultaneously that it would have been impossible many of the lame jokes to have spread that fast.

Whereas many people thought they were purely genius for coming up with a joke about the lights being killed and Ray Lewis, many others in the mass of 7 billion people were thinking the same thing.

TL;DR: The idea is a small piece of the Success Pie. Execution is everything. Also, I like slashes.
The absurd amount of time that takes just to verify the thing, shows how much we have yet to improve our computing power to be able to do more and more precise and groundbreaking science.
That's essentially what happened when XChat (IRC program) started to charge for windows builds.
A lot of people say they believe in "karma" I have one simple question "why?".

I mean it stands to reason that if you go around being an asshole to people they might eventually start being an asshole back.

But I mean in the cosmic justice sense.
It's awesome. May I suggest a 'read more' button, which would elaborate more and more on the conspiracy.
Sources should probably be click-able and also function as a 'read more' button.
Would be great if I could sign up for conspiracy-of-the-day to have it emailed to me.
(I own a registrar)

"As far as this particular incident, I can also confirm that if you have auto-renewal turned off, when the domain expires there's a cost to GoDaddy to get that domain back."

Specifically "when a domain expires".

A deletion and an expiration are two different things.

A domain name (with respect to .com .net .org .info) is automatically renewed at the registry level (Verisign/Afilias/PIR) upon "expiration". The registrar (godaddy) then has to issue an explicit "delete" command in order to get the money that they automatically pay (and have to have in an account at the registries) to credit their account. And they have 45 days to do so. After that they are out the money that it costs them for the domain.

Consequently the following is true:

1) When a domain expires there is no cost to godaddy to get the domain back.

2) When a domain is deleted (and goes into "redemption") there is a cost to godaddy to get the domain back.

3) Godaddy doesn't need to delete the domain (and save the reg fee ) until 45 days past "expiration". As a matter of course most registrars (including us) don't wait until the last minute (system glitch might cause not deleting domains that customer didn't pay for).

4) If "auto renewal" is "turned off" I don't see what that has to do with the time/date the domain is deleted at all. That's just a method of payment.
since my thesis is that your apparent principled derision for centralized solutions is misplaced and self-defeating -- I'm interested in the case where there is a catastrophe looming, and there are things that humanity collectively can do about it

Saying that there are things humanity could collectively do in theory is not the same as saying that centralized "solutions" will actually achieve those things. To do that, we have to actually know the right solution; we have to have enough understanding of the problem domain to be able to make accurate predictions of the effects of our actions. We don't have that knowledge in the case of climate change; indeed, we don't have it in most areas in which we currently force collective action on people.

Take the recent mortgage bubble as an example. This was the result of a centralized "solution" to the "problem" of not enough people owning their homes. The result was to create a new way for people to game the system that ended up tanking the entire economy, and now all those additional people who were supposed to own their homes are being foreclosed on and evicted.

In short, you appear to have a lot more faith in centralized solutions than I do. I would have thought that the twentieth century, if it showed anything, would have showed that centralized control doesn't work--after all, the Soviet Union was a 70-plus year experiment demonstrating that.
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A good discussion of what tragomaskhalos is talking about here: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html