skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The evidence concerning climate change is interesting from an intellectual point of view, but a huge distraction in a practical sense. There are numerous reasons for closing a coal fired power station that are more immediately provable than global warming. The polarized debate is no alternative to a mature and nuanced understanding of the environment. You will never get that from one book.

"Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility"[1] is an excellent discussion on the politics of these questions.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Break-Through-Environmentalism-Politic...
But it is a matter of hindsight. Microsoft was indeed very late to the game with Silverlight, but back then nobody knew that Flash was on it's way out. We knew that we hated full Flash websites but that's about it. Take a look at the following timeline.

2005 - Youtube was created. Adobe purchases Macromedia.

2006 - Kongregate was released. (Semi random example of a popular Flash gaming website.)

2007 - Microsoft releases Silverlight. Netflix starts streaming video online.

2008 - Hulu launches publicly

2010 - Apple releases the iPad, pushing Flash to the side. (Yes, the iPad was released just 3 years ago.)

And if we take into account the fact that Silverlight wasn't built in a day we could probably say that Microsoft started working on Silverlight before Youtube was born, during Flash's heyday, before HTML5 video was even an option, and half a decade before mobile devices started making Flash obsolete.

And let's not forget the fact that Silverlight is an extension of .NET and as a result it was a great competitor to technologies like Java Web Start.

Silverlight was dead on arrival because of the market penetration of Flash and it was killed a little later by tablets and by HTML5 and JS. But back then, for a short period of time, Silverlight made all of the sense in the world.
BBT has a UCLA processor on staff as a fact-checker who fills in the realistic science parts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Saltzberg -- when interviewed he said his fellow scientists were at first wary of the show but then wildly enthusiastic after actually seeing the first season.

Mayiam Bialik (a minor but recurring character) holds a PhD in neuroscience (taken after playing Blossom so many years ago) and there's been quite a show of renowned scientists as guest stars (at last two Nobel prize recipients, Hawkings and George Smoot). I think they'd disagree with with your dismissal of the scientists portrayed as "new samba blacks".

On the 5-season Bluray set they show how the show is taped -- I think it took 4 hours to get the 25ish minutes done, all in front of a live studio audience, and an incredibly engaged one. In the breaks the interview some of the audience -- one was a female rocket scientist from Texas.

I personally found "Community" rather dull, and far less engaging than other in the new wave of non-laughtrack comedies/mockumentaries a la CYE, Modern Family, Veep, Parks & Recreation and Arrested Development.
Same argument can be used to provide plausibility for the existence of the flying spaghetti monster, celestial teapot, and God.
Yeah... "Rolled Up."

You mean Scooter and Sam? Cause that's the only thing I can think of that made the transition from magazine to 1up. I worked there too... They kept Scooter and Sam. Sam eventually left anyway.
Did you make any money at all?
"Shaming them is a bad idea, at least as a first move.
Seek-out and contact the owners of these businesses. Point out what you have discovered. There's an outside possibility that they have no clue that their web designers have done this. They might actually feel rather embarrassed to learn so."

You're just suggesting a different form of shaming :)

Being passively shamed as the OP suggests might be taken better than direct shaming, I imagine. Granted, either attempt might be less satisfying than one expects, but passive attempts at least let one go on with their day with less expectations for interaction and follow-up.
Uptime Is A Big Deal
Stallman: Fixing ‘too-big-to-fail’
'(foo bar baz)

is sugar for

(quote (foo bar baz))

list function unlike quote will evaluate it's arguments, i.e.

user=> (quote (a b c))
(a b c)
user=> '(a b c)
(a b c)
user=> (list a b c)
CompilerException java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resolve symbol: a in this context, compiling:(NO_SOURCE_PATH:1)

user=> (list 'a 'b 'c)
(a b c)
A balanced approach is use trial work as a level 2 filter and pay the applicant contract rates for a day / week.

If the person turns out to be a no hire, you managed to avoid an expensive false positive.
I would not recommend reading realclimate.org without also reading climate audit and watts up with that:

http://climateaudit.org/

http://wattsupwiththat.com/
Ask HN: Our old LaunchRock page was terrible, is this one any better?
It should be stated that Taren knew Aaron really, really well. Perhaps better than anyone.

That can be good or bad in terms of how she's interpreting everything, but it's not like she's randomly bloviating on the Internet.
I'm generally against all forms of intentional defamation, but I must admit that this option is very tempting...

Are there any lawyers here that could weigh in on the legality of this?
> Try and animate the placeholder to a safe location rather than removing it.

There is no try.

If you cannot move it to a reasonable location, do not use this method.

Also, on other note: username is Not an email address. Do not ask me for my username when you really mean email address.

Oh, and one more thing. Let me know (or make it easy to find out) what special rules you require for passwords on your login page. Your site is annoying because you probably require some special combinate of letters and numbers and possibly something else, which means I have to figure out which password pattern I should be trying.
Or a Houston-based "web designer" ripping off a single design for local clientele?
You have to love the intellectual dishonesty of that site you linked to: they quote Paul Graham whose not just a big Lisp dialects advocate but also probably partly responsible for the regain of interest in Lisp dialects...

Yet they quote pg as if he ever said that Lisp source code were ugly.

Regarding the "noisyness", I really think that the one and only place that you can really criticize is the closing of the outermost method.

And any text editor worth its grain of salt can be programmed to automagically collapse these closing parentheses. Hence preserving the eyes of non-lispers.

Also, when you're using something like paredit or subpar you hardly ever have any issue of non-matching parentheses.

I'm really surprised that people are still whining about that instead of trying to focus on the bigger picture: the benefits that homoiconicity brings to the table.
Etherpad 2013 roadmap pad
Yes!!! Congratulations! Let's take Tetuan Valley and Spain to the Next Level.
The last time I jailbroke my devices they slowed to a crawl and crashed frequently. Felt like I had installed Windows on my iOS device. I'd much rather have my walled garden of reliable bliss.

I'll still donate to the cause however. Keep up the fine work gents! :)
"MonoGame has you covered"

I don't really know if I agree with this. It's just about the worst-documented thing I've ever worked with. Their example code for porting things to MacOS doesn't even work. It's a major headache for anything but iOS/Android.

I'd rather use Unity.
If you have any suggestions for how to solve this problem in a different way I'd love to hear them. I'm struggling with it myself, so if there's an easier way of doing it I'm very interested.
The problem won't be solved by legislation or taxes. It will only be solved by "desirable" tech. The Tesla Model S is but one example, it's as stylish as a BMW and faster than most other cars in it's class. The majority of the people in the same market segment would love a Tesla.

Bring something similar to the low-end market. Bring it at a competitive price. Make it more desirable than the existing stuff and people will switch because they desire it. Not because some law says they have to.

Do the same for everything else. Invent better cheaper and more eco friendly housing, energy, food production, transportation. Like the Tesla it must be more desirable and better in nearly every way then its competition.

IMO that's the only way forward. As you pointed out there's no way to get the entire world to follow some eco laws. Especially when most of the world is wants a better quality of life. If we give them that quality of life or better but with affordable and better eco-tech / eco-design we'll solve the problems.
Ship Ahoy: Inside Blueseed's 'Googleplex Of The Sea'
> "a straw that broke the camel's back"

I think you're asking people to oscillate between two poles of a continuum.

The indictment of Aaron Swartz was very clearly, and i think uncontroversially, a life altering experience for Swartz. So I think that Taren, the OP and Aaron's GF, are probably correct on the substance. I think that even if you want to say that the prosecution wasn't the only factor, it is something that moved the needle in Swartz's life, and pushed everything not just a little bit closer (e.g. this was not a straw), but a lot closer to a suicidal event.
There are always winners, losers and progress. It's fair to be skeptical about MS's future but it's only habitual because they've been at it 3 decades.
That's an nice idea, using #<datastructure> as a straight-up constructor. I've always found hash-tables to be a colossal pain to create in Common Lisp. I tried to create a special JSON-esque syntax in CL for them, but it wasn't a smooth semantic drop-in.
Google Code-in 2012
If you're looking for more of a narrative, "Thin Ice" by Mark Bowen is an excellent read. While it's not comprehensive, it does a good job of laying out the science. It's a third biography, a third climbing novel, and a third popular science writing, but it's very well done.
This has always been one of my primary reasons to avoid putting time in Microsoft technologies. Luckily with MS becoming increasingly more irrelevant over the years it is easier than ever to ignore them.
If it makes you feel any better, I wouldn't copy that design ever.
Ybot supports HipChat now
Are you writing this for yourself or to share? If the latter, optimize readability for people who don't understand regexes.

As for commenting the end of loops - that too just improves readability, especially in long functions. If your editor doesn't show invisible characters, it can be easy to lose track if some indent is part of the 'i' loop or the 'j' loop, for example (yes, that can indicate a bigger problem, but that's not the point. I'm talking about real-world code, not idealistic academic nonsense)
It's more about determination and wit than money, IMO.
Awesome! Does anyone know if SMS GV/Phone GV extension is working or not? I tried the tethered jailbreak on the 3GS and it wasn't working then. Only the Phone GV was working but it was slow.

I have an iPhone 5 now and hopefully the day ends early today so I can go home and jailbreak. Can't wait to get NCsettings and Google voice integration!
Representative money is a particularly vague term, which usually means money backed by a physical commodity, but can also encompass fiat money as well.

There's nothing inherently magical about something being legal tender. The only difference between a $1 cheque and a $1 note is risk. The probability of a cheque bouncing is more likely than the USA economy collapsing into hyperinflation.
I don't think so, it's pretty different. There are going to be certain commonalities between design sites.
> "There's an outside possibility that they have no clue that their web designers have done this."

I thought that too but of all the sites listed, only one is not some kind of digital/creative/design/etc agency. I'm more forgiving of the one company that may have contracted out their website but not really for the others who should know better.

Edit: I doubt shaming would really achieve anything (other than catharsis for the OP).
I think in this day and age, people who take the high road often get squashed. The "nice guys finish last" adage has never been more applicable.
Daily, the group is no more than 3 or 4 other engineers and designers (and there's plenty of time to code w/ headphones on), but the core skill I'm talking about is being able to think critically on your feet. We pair code a lot, and I feel like that's one of the places where experience thinking out loud is helpful.
Wait, they've not merely copied his js, they're having him host it too? Oh exploitable. Figure out to make it benefit you. I'd have a hard time resisting the urge to play some mischief though.
Looking forward to see the results!
Towards a Market for Intelligence
Pinned memory doesn't help a whole lot. It's a page-aligned memory buffer for DMA transfer, it can only avoid doing one memcpy on the CPU. It does not improve the latency over the PCI-e bus, which is a lot bigger factor than the memcpy that can be avoided with pinned memory.
Thanks for posting this, I had read part of those tutorials a few weeks back and they were really great at explaining the logic, but I couldn't find them again when I wanted to show them to a colleague.
Should it be illegal? They shared a public link to a spreadsheet exposed on a .gov address. If anything, it's the owner of that .gov address that needs to get in trouble for placing sensitive documents in a publicly accessible location.
This is what I was thinking, going all stuxnet on them and just subtly moving the advantage your way. The outlier is the propeller guys, they look like a site that hired a 3rd party team to build them a website, and that team ripped of this one and made it theirs. Screwing with it isn't going to send the right signal.
There's something to be said for the automatic recognition that something like "tar zxvf foo.tar.gz" has, versus the verbose "tar --gzip --extract --verbose --file foo.tar.gz." It feels terribly ponderous to do the latter. That said, when I see a command I don't recognize immediately ('sed -n' comes to mind for some reason) I would benefit from seeing the long option. The other side of the coin is that once I go look up 'sed -n' I'll probably remember it for next time.
No, I'm not going to buy your damn book
It teaches you how to recognize bias.
Context Driven Testing - The Insapience of Anti-Automationism
What's your critique of the hockey stick graph? In what sense was it an error, let alone a "monumental" one?
Yeah the classy thing to do is to pay lawyers money, rather than communicating with other human beings. Never mind the fact that lawyers will accomplish precisely nothing in most cases like this.
The 445M is a mobile GPU and quite low end at that. In fact the Teslas are consistently slower than the GTX cards for single precision (until their k20 line that is). So something like a 480 would be ok. 580 would be ideal.
Curious, does it work with the iPad Mini? [EDIT: Yes. https://twitter.com/tomle12/status/298496235894095873]

Also, how soon could Apple push out an update to kill this one?
with so many near identical knockoffs, is it possible someone has already made a theme/template and is selling it?
> The hardest part of developing a nuclear weapon(as i understand, correct if wrong) is actually getting the fissile material.

No, not for a plutonium-triggered fusion weapon (or a plutonium fission weapon). Getting some plutonium involves setting up a breeder reactor (as Iran is now doing). That's hard, but not really hard.

The hard part of a plutonium weapon design is setting it off. Plutonium has a natural decay rate that's high enough that the core must be assembled very quickly to avoid a "fizzle", an event where a chance natural disintegration triggers a non-optimal chain reaction, before the core is fully assembled and at maximum density.

The single most difficult part of the Manhattan Project was solving this problem, not acquiring the plutonium used in the devices. The core must be assembled very, very fast, then an abrupt pulse of neutrons must be generated at the precise moment of maximum core density.

The Manhattan Project U-235 weapon "Little Boy" was a very simple design that resembles a gun barrel, because the natural decay rate in U-235 is low enough that there is little chance of an inadvertent chain reaction. In fact, that design wasn't even tested in advance -- the prototype was just dropped on Hiroshima with full expectation that it would work.

The "Fat Man" design was the plutonium device, and the prototype was tested -- on July 16, 1945 -- at great effort and cost, because the team was sufficiently doubtful that it would work as designed.

During the project, a great deal of effort went into designing lenses of high explosive, meant to symmetrically compress the plutonium core and assure correct functioning, but with very, very fast assembly.

So core assembly is by far the most difficult part, and remains so today.
(And here I go into down-vote territory... :D)

The name of the fallacy this demonstrates is "poisoning the well", as in implying that anyone who downvotes you is just afraid to hear the truth, man........

sexism like it is the norm

As we keep discovering, sexism is the norm for women in general and specifically in our industry. Your blindness to this fact is not evidence to the contrary.

I know several females in the industry who are not afraid of anything, and have never been attacked on the basis of their sex (or even been attacked otherwise).

I suspect that if you asked them whether or not this was true, and they trusted you enough to answer honestly (and after reading your blythe dismissal above, I wouldn't), you'd find this is not the case.

Sometimes people attack just because they don't like the cut of your jib.

Can you point to a straight, white male who's suffered the kind of attention Sarah relates, for no other reason than that someone didn't like the cut of his jib?

the majority of men are "good guys"

The majority of men can be good guys generally, and still be guilty of sexist behaviour that's hostile to women, that drives them out of our industry, and that creates a pervasive atmosphere that no one should have to tolerate. Calling out behaviour like this is not a blanket condemnation of us as irredeemably bad guys, and suggesting that it is, is a way of deflecting information that makes us uncomfortable.
The direct rip is still bad form.
Bang With Professionals
How Facebook Can Totally Undermine Apple and Google in the Platform Games
Interesting, can you cite references for this?
Make the Switch
Let me clarify the reason for this.

Many people asked for yaml support in composer, and it was shot down. Here's why: Once you start supporting many formats you lose interoperability, as any tooling now needs to support all formats. That is the main reason why composer will not support sexpr.
Generally it is getting less useful but there are till a few tweaks i couldn't live without:
zephyr - task switching via a 2 finger swipe. A great way to switch back and forth between 2 apps
Swipeshiftcaret - move the cursor around by swiping rather than having to hold and then position it, which I always find fiddly. Great to make quick corrections.
AndroidlockXT - unlock my phone via a swipe pattern rather than a number code. Looks much cooler and is quicker I feel.
Sbsettings/ncsettings - easier access to things like wifi and Airplane mode which I use more often than you think

There some other ones like 5 icon dock and double decker switcher which are cool but not really essential. And zeppelin to change my carrier name to any logo I like.
Everybody that reads hackernews is loading it at the same time?
Here are how the rejected applicants can improve:

1. Stop lying on the CV, about past experience, and about skills.

2. Stop being a jerk, learn some social skills.

3. Stop being incompetent, learn to actually build quality products.

No one that has a problem with any of those is interested in fixing it though, and in general being a liar, a jerk and incompetent isn't something that can be fixed anyway, so feedback won't do any good.

If you are competent, truthful and not a jerk, you'll be getting job offers. If you aren't, you know what the problem is and how to fix it.
Malware: The Next Generation
Near the front of the main article is "(sexpr lexer reader eval forms special-forms macros walker)". Each word in the above parenthesized expression links to another article in the series.
very slick and simple tool!
The most telling thing for me when I was reading this post is that I was just looking at the words and assumed the author was a woman, because they were writing about sexism and poor treatment of women in the tech industry. It wasn't until I scrolled back up and looked at the image in the sidebar that I realized the author of the post was actually male.

Not that men don't ever write about such issues, but I guess I'm so used to seeing such articles penned by women that I assumed that this one was also written by a woman. That mental bias I experienced alone is demonstrative of how rarely men speak out.
Most people have already replied why but I just want to touch on the point of updating the OS: I just do not do it. What's the point anyway?

I only upgrade when too many apps stop working or when I brick my phone. I think I have upgraded my 3GS two times now.
Furthermore, it seems clear that the way she was attacked was specifically designed to exploit at least the following :

- the fact that she is a woman adressing a predominantly male audience (the fake porno)

- the ambient objectification of women in society

How can that not count as sexist?
The scrolling concept is the same, but the design isn't so much. Not any more than the Spotify site anyhow: http://www.spotify.com/uk/
That's odd. Which device and which jailbreak was it, if you can remember? From my experience, it was almost certainly a piece of software (e.g. from Cydia) that caused the instability, not the jailbreak itself.
Its completely unnecessary. If you sign up for a 1 year contract, you still have to pay out the rest of the contract, regardless of whether your phone is unlocked or not. The only reasons to lock the phone are to force users to pay roaming charges, and to stop people from switching carriers after the contract has expired.
Nice little hr app I see. I hope it's everything it's cracked up to be