skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The grandparent offered specific criticisms against said reconstruction, and you countered with, essentially, "others got the same result". Scientific questions are not decided by a majority vote. Do you have more concrete arguments?

By the way, are you a climate scientist?
If only there were a way to demo this sort of functionality through some kind of a short universal id that points to a content server then we could just share that id and have the actual technology act as "proof" instead of relying on a pre-rendered YouTube video.
People questioned and attacked his intelligence because of his actions, not because of his race and/or gender. I'd suggest that people who want to attack someone for whatever reason will go after low-hanging fruit (being some sort of statistical outlier), and should that not exist they'll have to go after something of actual substance. When your goal is belittling someone, an attack that requires people to actually think tends not to be terribly effective.

And contrary to your suggestion, I've certainly received plenty of harassment based on my body as a white male. Less these days as I refuse to work with people who can't act like adults, but I've taken plenty of crap about my height and physical appearance (I'm 25; lots of "oh, when do you finish high school?" kind of stuff)
I haven't really been keeping up on WebRTC, so forgive this fairly ignorant question.

Will the framework allow me to create a one to many connection? ie. presentation mode where one person could broadcast their audio / video to many viewers? Or is it simple a 1:1 connection?
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Anhembi Morumbi (don't EVER go there, if they could they would charge you even for looking at their buildings).

Also I got loan from CEBRADE.

It works by you paying 30% of your current tuition, and then paying the other 70% later, but at the current tuition rates.

When I started, my tuition was 960, I paid 30% of that.

Now I pay 1100 monthly (yes, it means that current students have a tuition that is around 1500)
This is pretty cool. I'd be interested in reading a blog post about how you did this, pitfalls you encountered, etc.
You're right. OP should make this clear in the post which complains about people stealing the design. I didn't read the copy.
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I think the difference is that they're making a direct profit from copying, rather than just sharing knowledge.
Wanted to clarify this isn't officially from SubltePatterns. I reached out to Atle (the creator) and got his permission to create this.

He deserves 100% of the credit for the patterns, I just created the bookmarklet. And I agree, SubtlePatterns does rock :)
An interesting question is if Google itself would consider "google skills" an advantage!
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Feedback would be awesome. The voice data is obtained via Flash for now.
> People who successfully graduate are almost never going to have that problem.

And yet many people who successfully drop out of college to (say) pursue a business (through their blood, sweat, and tears, arguably sometimes even more so than their college-student counterparts), however, do end up regretting it.

("Fake" dropouts like Bill Gates notwithstanding; see my comment above if you're not sure what I mean.)

The idea that the first group "almost never" going to have that problem, whereas the second group is likely to, should make you wonder why that might be the case.
(It's not a tautology.)
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This is great! Any chance of a random button to join next/previous?
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If you offered a license for web hosts to use this, I think I know a whole bunch of coders and designers who would gladly pay for a hackable IMAP client. Kickstarter isn't a bad idea, but you should also try polling people to find out if you could set up SaaS at the same time or some other scheme. There are many possibilities...
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I've been knee deep in imap for the last month or two. As a curiosity, which imap library are you using? I've had to contribute a few patches to ruby's net/imap already to get it to successfully parse all the mail I've accumulated over the last 10 years :)
Maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_opinion_on_climate_c... is a good starting point?
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Don't coders use Mutt ? :]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutt_(email_client)
Create and track separately "saved stories" and "upvoted stories" and also allow unsaving and de-upvoting (sometimes we make mistakes).
You're asking two questions here. First, about the quote. I'd say it's a mistake. The author hasn't been completely clear (and I think is possibly a little confused) over the difference between s-expressions in general, which are simply a tree-structured representation, and Lisp code, which is written as s-expressions but is subject to additional rules.

In this case, it's pretty clear from the surrounding discussion that these s-expressions are not intended to be executable code. That being the case, there's no reason to use the quote. This line should have been

> (keywords (list useless microframework academic swag))

Secondly, as others have mentioned, there is an important difference between symbols and strings that is not necessarily easy to explain -- indeed, it took the Lisp community a few decades to get clear on it. Fundamentally: strings are data; symbols are names. Notice, in this example, that all of the keys in the dict, as well as "dict" itself, are represented by symbols. That is because each of these names something in the domain of the program that manipulates the representation: an object type, an attribute of an object type, or, in the case you are asking about, a member of a set of keywords.

If you've used enumeration types in a language that has them (C/C++, Java, C#, etc.), there's an analogy: symbols are like literals of a single, pre-existing enumeration type containing all possible names.
Hi Hajo, this looks great! I'm an Emacs addict though, and the main reason I'm not using Gnus anymore is that I haven't found a IMAP syncing solution that "just works" (last time I've checked). Since it sounds like you've solved this problem, is there any chance the syncing module can be run standalone? If so I'll most definitely chip in on your Kickstarter.
Thanks for the feedback! And yup, we're being up front with it all (re: name, etc.). Seems like charity path might be the best way to try something like this (and do some good in the world).
> It's baffling to me that a first-world country like the USA doesn't want to invest in education.

The US invests quite a lot of money in education. Some of it is hidden in grants. People often only look at Dept of Ed funding, but miss such funding sources as Dept of Energy grants and USDA (Land Grant Colleges). Even if the grant is for some specific research, a portion of the grant (called indirect) becomes part of the general fund of the college.

There are studies[1] that suggest that The Federal Government role in tuition relief (e.g. Pell Grant) has lead to the increase in tuitions.

This ignores the spending of local and state governments on education.

1) http://chronicle.com/article/Study-Backs-View-That-Colleges/...
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> I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free

Why is that obvious?
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When I was in school I paid $3,500 a year, nearly the highest rate at the time. Today I hear people paying $14,000 for the same thing, growing at a rate that's vastly outstripping inflation. Wages have maybe doubled in that time-frame, but costs have quintupled? Even $3,500 could be scraped together over the source of a summer job, but $14,000? It's basically impossible to go it alone, leaving you dependent on student aid and all the headache that comes with that.

$40+K is just unbelievably expensive. Why do people subject themselves to such abuse? Basically you're saying you could either A) get a university education or B) buy a house.
> I obviously can't afford to give my work away for free, but for you to get maximum benefit out of it, it needs to be open source.

Who is it obvious to? This is the first time I've heard of you. For all I know you could afford to give it away for free. And often in the case of open source, you reap the benefits later.

Sounds like a great project, and the screenshots are promising.
Wow - imagine scaling to 60 million on AWS/someone else. Doable, but would be a non-trivial engineering challenge.
In the US, domestic spending is the basis of the economy

And the basis of every financial crisis, it seems...
Wikipedia says[1], IBM experienced a growth spurt towards the end of the war. If they had any sort of hiring quota to reach, it would make sense to relax eligibility rules.

Additionally, the presidency of the company changed hands from Thomas Watson Sr to Thomas Watson Jr around that time, and he may have been more progressive. He drafted the "company's first equal opportunity policy letter" in 1953.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM#1946.E2.80.93196...
I've also been writing an imap client for the past few months with exactly the same goal as this, in go. This looks great.

I'd like to keep my front-end as absolutely light as possible, so I'm foregoing gwt/bootstrap and going with mostly just handwritten jquery.
I was really looking forward to this! Would it be possible to have more than one person connected in a html5 mmo game?
A design company that rips off the design of another design company! That's a new one.

/sarcasm off

Ok, it really is shameless. Especially the one that even hosts the javascript on your server (that opens up some interesting possibilities). But it really is flattery, the good bit is that you can now show them in your portfolio.

On another note, this design, while nice isn't all that original. I've seen it in other places too and maybe they ripped you off as well but for sure it's been around for a while.

Fun anecdote: I once sued company that had ripped off our script for doing plug-in-free video streaming. In court their defence to the claim they ripped us off was they had not ripped it from us but from one of our licensees.

It was a very short session.
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Wired for Story: The Writer's Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence:

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> whereas the second group is likely to, should make you wonder why that might be the case.

Not really. I've already explained it. To be in college in the first place means that you have some reason to want to graduate. Often life gets in the way, such as that great businesses opportunity you cannot pass up, but that doesn't make your reasons for wanting to go to college magically disappear.

I also find the attempt to make it a binary issue for graduates interesting. A successful business owner who regrets dropping out doesn't have to regret starting that successful business, but a college graduate has to regret dropping out if he wants to regret not starting a business, or whatever. Why can't a college graduate be happy with his accomplishments and regret not starting a successful business during those years?
Hmm, that would be quite ingenuous. Someone should do this...
I'm all for open source and all for you having a roof over your head. I think its a great model. I wish you the best of luck.
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omfg. I know Anhembi Morumbi, it`s not that good from what I heard. This is fairly an overrated price. So you still have years to pay back? That's awful =/

Even now, where we can get a worldclass education with coursera, Udacity and a nice programming skill with code Academy.
Thanks! There's a barebones colophon in the HTML source, and I've published the source code [1], but I do intend to write up sometime soon.

[1]: https://github.com/thirteen23/2013-holiday-poster
I feel like the milliondollarhomepage.com thing can only work once. There were a million knockoffs (exaggeration and pun intended) that didn't work out at the time. Even the original creator's next attempt failed if I remember correctly.

I would say it's possible for it to work again but you would need a lot of luck
Yes, men are discriminated too. I'm sorry about your situation. I encourage you to write about your experience and we can talk about how to help you.

Your experience doesn't mean we shouldn't work together to support women who are being discriminated.

The survey questions used in the study certainly don't reflect what we normally think of as "rape". But even if the statistic were 1 in 10, it is still a huge problem faced by women, and it's indicative of a society that doesn't treat women very well.

I don't understand why the "inspiration" behind the harassment matters. It doesn't even matter if the perpetrator was male or female. A woman was demeaned in a sexual way in front of a mostly male audience of her peers. Does the person have to tweet "I hate women" in order for this to be considered sexist?
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Ah I see, I couldn't understand the relation between his situation and his job.
> Stealing is usually a function of reward/effort.

Except that for digital media it's a Smart Cow Problem[1], the effort is only there for the first person who wants to circumvent it, then it becomes trivial for everyone.

However, I'd suggest that the reason some on HN react strongly to these suggestions is that they rely upon security through obscurity, which can be dangerous by providing a false sense of security when none exists. While this probably isn't as big a deal when it comes to your HTML and CSS, security is a case of err'ing on the side of caution.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_cow_problem
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I agree that the buying of political influence is the root problem here, but are there any proposals to deal with it? What are the models that are used in investigating it?
He seems to be confused seeing as he also built it with FOSS like bootstrap and GWT.
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this calls for better password policies.
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BSD userlands have jot(1) instead of seq(1). Annoying that the arguments differ, but no need for a new script.

http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Darwin...
Or, even better:

# Get my IP address by checking ifconfig.me
curl -s ifconfig.me

The less work you have to do, the better :)

NOTE: If you visit ifconfig.me with your browser you get an html page full of text, but with the curl useragent it just returns the ip-address
First off, great article! If you can get away with it, using Gearman is definitely a more robust solution. We'll try and see if we can write adapters for dedicated job queues like it in the future.

We're mainly trying to make the setup process really simple - no need to start up extra job servers or worker computers. Ideally they can add in our small bits of code and then start tracking analytics data without much configuration.
I applaud the work and appreciate what you and the Subtlepatterns guys are doing. Thank you!

I do have a plea to users of some of these backgrounds. Perhaps I am a tinge obsessive compulsive, but the backgrounds that include uneven specks always make me think I have dust on my monitor that I need to wipe off. So when making a selection, might I ask you to choose a regular pattern rather than ones that are intended to look like spotty paper fiber? That is, of course, unless you are a paper products company. :)
I think this is ultimately my confusion. I'm at the point now where I'm actually usually advising family members on devices that rely less on browsers. Why not show a chat from gmail/whatever in a browser to a regular app on an android/ipad device? Even better, include another app in there. Just to really drive home how "open" this is.

Also, why is this stuff better than SIP related technology from a while back?
Just the built-in Google Chat (we use Gmail to power our email).
To be fair this was after the initial screener interview and I did have a couple of hours to get it done. And we're not talking all the features (certainly not of phpBB) or anything.

3 Tables "posts", "replies", "users" (replies was a closure table), topics index, topic view page, a form page for registration and one for the profile page. JS form validation and a simple layout via CSS and HTML5.

It was more of a Twitter-lite (a very poor man's Twitter-lite)
If gmail makes you sick, I'm afraid I don't have much faith that you know what I might like in a mail editor.
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Considering Mutt supports PGP, and this doesn't seem to, yes.
Being from Europe but living in the US this is pretty much how I see it too. It's a "controversy" in the US because of the mess the political system is in, and because there's such a strong religious movement which funds and propagates any attacks on science that bubble up to the surface.

If there were a scientific consensus that an asteroid was flying at us and with all likelihood, in a decade or two, would wipe out all life on the planet - the only solution being all governments working together and raising huge amounts of $$ to head off disaster - the same faces would crop up attacking the science, and reminding us that if God wanted us to die he'd have sent a plague of locusts.
I'm not against your general point. But take this website:

http://dapaticalglobal.com/

This is a case of a design company that basically ripped off the design of another design company. They used almost exactly the same sub-title on the first page. As for the bottom page, it is the same, word for word. I mean, they didn't even bother changing it. What do you think the OP should do? Call it's competitors and tell them that they should pay a small fee for ripping them off?

Again, I agree with your general statement, but I think that all of the companies involved in design, marketing (or any other creative business) that copied this design deserve being called on.
Looks great! But, here is the problem.

Medium to large companies, they need some sort of calendaring and meeting room booking system. This is where outlook (more importantly exchange) comes into the picture. I don't think it's the best solution out there, but it's a solution that works reasonably well.

I also don't really like that email and calendaring are tied together, I'd love to see a robust solution that works across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS. Yishan Wong wrote about this a few years ago.[1]

So, this would work great for personal email and small companies, but I don't see it replacing the email client of the larger ones. I'd love to see gmail and microsoft give some of these search/indexing features.

[1] http://algeri-wong.com/yishan/great-unsolved-problems-in-com...
Well, we do support for payments as well (part of payments goes through Fortumo, and it is their requirement that we handle support), so I guess this counts as "payment processing"?
To be honest, what I find depressing is that you figure my neutral assessment of the overall state of climate science should somehow also include a rebuke of that minority in the way a religious person talks about how other religions are "misguided".

Scientific opinion should always - always be encouraged. This is part of what is supposed to separate science from religion. No major leap forward in our understanding has every been provided by the consensus.
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If I read your argument correctly, it seems you think this argument weakens the case for climate change. I think there's a danger in this method of trying to second guess science. I see a lot of the same form of argument from evolution deniers, too, and I always find it hard to understand. The point seems to be: here is a surprising fact that suddenly makes science less sure than you might have been led to think.

The problem with it is that scientists see the exact same evidence as you do, and of course have already taken it into account. The whole point of science is to rake in as much evidence as possible and include it in the calculations.

Those figures mentioned upthread, for scientist consensus on climate change? That's including facts like this, not ignoring them.
ceteris paribus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_opposing_the...

I personally believe both in anthropic global warming and that we should do something about it, but have no problem with the grandparent post's observation about the existence of some scientific opposition to this point of view. You'll note that the contrarian scientists listed at the link above tend to be relatively qualified to have an opinion by virtue of their academic specialty (as opposed to the opinions of scientists with no particular insight into such matters like, say, metallurgists or linguists). I find such counter-arguments interesting and worthy of consideration even when I don't agree with the conclusions drawn.
This shouldn't be a problem––at the very least I can add it as a keyboard shortcut.
> Yet the "witch hunt" that seems to permeate through society seems to suggest that they should.

Huh, it's almost as if people realize that the legal system is not in line with our ethical system.
Except that this was the second suicide of someone under prosecution by this office.
You can eat very healthily on the cheap. Lots of different beans and grains, particularly rice.

Meat is very expensive so generally people eating frugally avoid it nearly entirely, but depending on where you live it may be cheap and practical to raise some chickens if you really feel you need it.
Obviously those tools aren't given away for free! oh.
Not a bad idea. Although, in my case, support also involves support regarding user payments, so it's a little bit sensitive issue to allow users to even access this data for other players. I'll have to think about this. Maybe just provide support for payments myself, and leave rest to most engaged users. Thanks.