skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, never. It's always an acceptable hypothesis, because maybe you haven't considered all the evidence yet. What if CO2 causes global warming exactly as scientists predict, but the Sun is going out?

However, if your question is, would several years of falling temperatures make it more likely that global warming due to CO2 doesn't exist, then here is the answer:

It depends. There are several other major factors in play determining the temperature of the planet beyond CO2. For example, if average sunlight received dropped for 10 years in a row, a rise in CO2 might not be sufficient to counteract that. However, if you didn't find anything else in play, it would be strong evidence that CO2 does not cause warming, at least not on the time scale you're looking at.

This would be an very surprising result though, since we know that CO2 is a "greenhouse gas" - it traps heat. If higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere did not cause increases in temperature, it would be weird and shocking.
Avoid tranched deals. It is an abusive practice.
I think these guys are jerks with a simplistic approach to success, but they're a good foil to current educational orthodoxy. Loopy liberal fuzzy-mindedness really does dominate in the public schools. In fact, as a liberal, I would say that public schoolteachers bear a lot of responsibility for the worst stereotypes of liberals in the US. Teachers have no appreciation for practice and the value of rote learning. If basketball were taught the way most public school subjects are taught, the kids would sit on the sidelines all day discussing "issues" like zone versus man-to-man defense. They'd spend ten minutes on the court every week, and nobody would have to touch the ball unless they volunteered, because you wouldn't want to embarrass anybody.

Best case scenario: the keepers of orthodoxy are so embarrassed at getting whipped by conservative troglodytes that they adopt a few practices from them. More likely scenario: they just stigmatize the effective practices as intrinsically immoral and demand that they be banned.
"And later, since New Girl had no place to stay, she let her stay on her couch. They grew closer and became lovers. Lovers?!"

Who skews that as a negative??
"Correct" English is a different matter - it serves no higher purpose than to keep you in your place.

Using incorrect language, however, makes whatever you are writing about seem less thought-out or even just plain wrong.

Have you ever read 4chan? You can argue that that's English, since it's English speakers using the English language... but you will surely agree that their version of English makes them look like uneducated morons, even without considering what they are trying to say.

Anyway, the style guide here suggests that authors use the clearest word to describe a given situation or quality. I don't see anything wrong with this -- clarity is always good. (Your writing could still be understandable without using the words correctly, but why use incorrect words just because some other people are also wrong?)
Well, in a complete tangent to the article, currencies are whatever you make them to be. Most online communities have "currencies" in that there is a specific numeric marker of value attached to each user - HN has "karma".

Of course, the currency has no spendable value (since everyone has the right of issue in HN - although not to themselves). Instead, it is used only for the indicator of the wealth-creators (since they accrue high karma). This of course relies on altruistic awarding - and the lack of quid-pro-quos that break that system.

The old Java forums used to have "Duke Dollars" which you could offer along with your question on the forum, and award the dollars to the answerers. While a good system, it broke down due to
a) Inflation - each new user was given 10 dollars.
b) Lack of value to the accruers - most of the "value" was created by a core group who would answer everyone's questions, so they would get all these Duke Dollars - so it ended up for them as a marker of wealth, and they seldom spent it. Of course, this mirrors real life currency where a few people have most of the money (with or without reason, depending on your point of view) and have no realistic method of spending it all except as an indicator of their bling.

It is hard to introduce methods of spending karma points - as they are so cheap to accumulate anyway - the spending thus can't be a system of real value. The Duke Dollars could have been (as giving a point lost you a point, so it wasn't created but merely transferred), but then you'd have to stop giving them out for free to new users. (User creation is extremely high, and users vs activity is a power law distribution.)

Paul Graham's idea of spending karma to downmod is brilliant because it allows the wealthy to spend their currency performing what on the surface appears as a complete waste of their money - punishing "bad" members of the community. But this actually makes perfect sense (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v415/n6868/abs/415137a....) as altruistic punishment is fantastic to preserve a community setting. What the wealthy get in return is some sort of preservation of their position - since they get to control the discourse - but not completely, and so they cannot be tyrants.

Finally, you don't need the currency to be convertible to real currency - in fact, if you don't allow it, you force its spending to remain within the community - and can control the channels of dispersion into externally recognizable value. If you do want the value to be externally recognizable, you need to introduce deflationary tendencies as well, and can't give new users free money... So it becomes a lot harder to manage (you're then trying to mimic a central bank, which is hard - ask Trichet or Geithner.)
I don't think it is but I think there's a bigger problem here. I get a funny feeling in my stomach whenever I see this story surface. It has to do with the lack of communication between the accordion guy and "new girl", the juvenile way he dealt with the trust issues and finally the part people seem to most cheer the "gotcha" Columbo moment. I just can't see how that should be a point of satisfaction. In any relationship, enjoy yourself, but don't overreach what it means to you, build trust slowly. And if you feel played you probably are. People like "new girl" like to rush things, slow it down and they'll become quite obvious.

I feel like I'm reliving saved by the bell.
I have been Binged!! Bada Bing!
yeah, noone has ever made "release early, update often" work on the web...
> These kids are essentially the victims of a crime

I would argue that the kids attending (almost) any American public school are the victims of a far greater crime.
He's a political campaign staffer with no business experience whatsoever.
NYT's registration wall is infuriating.

Here is a working link:

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://www.nytimes.c...
eh do we really need to keep re-inventing the wheel so that there can be yet another [insert language] interpreter?

As an exercise, yes! If you've tinkered with the insides of something, it often makes you a better user of it. If you've written a compiler for a language with arrays, you'll understand what's going on with things like a[5] and 5[a] in C. You'll understand calling conventions and have a good feel for what it costs for language X to call language Y. You'll see how stacks are used to implement things like lexical scoping.

Maybe I'm preaching to the choir. But if I am, then let other people have the fun too! They should be congratulated.
He's saying that consumers are less likely to pay you for web product features than he thinks you think they are. He's also saying that he thinks the way to get money from small business customers is to have a quantifiable value proposition: he thinks you need to be making them money in a way that you can clearly spell out in terms a company controller would believe.
Again as a poster mentioned above, this has also been available from atleast 4 years. It seems that they have done a good job bringing it all together and people are atleast exposed to these now.
hehe, It makes me laugh when they say they expect a "secure format" from google. Once in screen format, it takes a minute to copy automatically a book to a bitmap, and then do whatever you want with it(OCR).

About the same price for a book than an ebook, I suspect they are drunk. People is not going to pay the same price for something that has been manufactured, transported, and stored, for something that cost pennies to sell.Period.
Obama's press operation is flawless. Every single junior official who is leading anything of import gets a profile article in a major leading newspaper full of quotes from senior officials praising him.

I supported Obama, but I'll wait till I see some results before buying into all the hoopla about his oh-so-smart group of govt. officials.
I knew that if I read long enough I'd find some error and I surely did: "Thus a dilemma offers the choice between two alternatives, each with equally nasty consequences." The department of redundancy department seems to have written about the two alternatives.
Wikipedia integration is slow to update (granted this example is with a rapidly evolving topic).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)

http://www.bing.com/reference/semhtml/Kumo_(search_engine)?q...

(looks like the May 27 version)
War 2.0 - Rise of the Robots
Neat idea! Does anyone know where he gets the college basketball stats from, and how much it costs? I would imagine the data feeds are like stocks, and not necessarily free.
I essentially do the same thing as the author, but use a shell script on the server.

Locally I do this 'git push repo master' then on the remote machine I run 'update.sh' which is here: http://pastie.org/496681

I tend to think that if you are going to bother with Capistrano you should go all the way..
Looser.
Surprised that Vimperator (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4891) has not been mentioned yet. Vim for the web !
think back to when you were starting woobius... weren't you just itching to take that risk no matter what the consequences?

Absolutely not. I was very keen to start it, but very worried about all the different risks involved, and what would be the best ways to reduce them.

In the end, I had to choose to tolerate some of those risks - but that's not the same thing as saying that I had an "appetite" for them!...
China, porn and unintended consequences
However, it was the people with decades of business experience that got us where we are today. So, exactly what good is this experience that everyone needs it.
I agree. As (the genius) Richard Feynmann stated, "What I cannot create, I do not understand". Reinventing the wheel can be a very illuminating thing,if you choose carefully what wheels to reinvent.
Definitely not free ;-) I used STATS Inc early on, but have switched recently to TSN for my current season stats.
"Anarchy means the complete absence of law or government. It may be harmonious or chaotic."
I was glad to read that. I'm so tired of people who believe that anarchy implies chaos.
Got it. FWIW, I don't particularly care for Ruby; for that style of programming I usually use Lua, whose syntax and semantics are quite simple.

The existence of LuaJIT (http://luajit.org/luajit.html) supports your argument, I think.
I submitted this once. It's really good and much better than most of the things on the front page most of the time.

If you haven't read it before you should read it now.
It's a shame that "loading screen minigames" were patented; probably one reason they aren't more common.

According to Wikipedia, Namco has a patent on the concept. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading_screen#Minigames

It looks like there is some prior art, but going up against Namco wouldn't be very fun. It'd be nice to see this patent overturned, so that more developers could implement loading screen minigames without fearing legal trouble.
Is HN just a slightly-more-programmer-oriented version of Reddit?

No. Read the guidelines:

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Who Comes Up With This Shit?
Twitter Seeks Web Partners, Hiring New BizDev Exec
Great blog post. Especially for those interested in scala and the future of Java.

The comments below, in my view, are just as interesting as the post.
http://pypants.org/projects/pypants/ There ya go :)
You criticise 4chan speakers as sounding uneducated. That's a judgment about class, not content. Do you really think the purpose of education is class mobility, rather than, say, argumentative, expositional, philosophical and technical knowledge and skills? A criticism that their writing as uninformed, uninteresting and pointless would have more substance (which you imply with "morons".)

I agree that if one wants to impress others, perhaps seeking preferential favour, one had best take care to sound "educated" (for that specific aim, it doesn't matter whether one actually has the knowledge and skills of education, since it's just about appearance). If one seek to communicate with others, to relate, to collaborate, to share information, clarity is more important than sounding educated.

Of course, arbitrarily humpty-dumpty incorrect usage will confuse listeners, but the style guide fusses about what "acronym" and "alternative" mean, strictly and technically. Can you give an example where the specific incorrect use they mention is less clear?
BTW: I probably should have replied to the top comment about "acronyms".

Where does it say to "use the clearest word"? The word "clear" doesn't come up when I search for it on that page...

You're probably already read Orwell's piece at some point - if not, have a look, it's great.
and anybody who has written non-toy assembly knows GAS is a toy and a royal pain. GAS was designed to be fed the output of GCC, not handwritten. Support for opcodes has been lacking for ages, until NASM came along and put pressure on them. Let's not even compare the macros in intel-type assemblers to GASP, gasp!

Inline asm looks hideous with AT&T syntax; they had 20 years to copy Turbo C and they haven't yet.

P.S. I hope to god you're not calling your gas sources .S, as gcc will gobble it up or overwrite it if you have .c file with the same file name and you accidently -S.
Building boundaries from bits: class and distinctions in this digital age
I think you may have missed the service plans page: http://www.afterthedeadline.com/commercial.slp

The top plan is for an estimated 500 writers, with 50,000 requests/month, and costs $200.00. That's significantly lower than $1500/month.

Beyond that, seems like you can work out a licensing deal to host your own server. Problem solved.

It doesn't seem like a huge price to pay for a startup that relies of well-written material.
Bing seems to really like a few sites (Wikipedia, Amazon), but it's not quite up to Google search results.

PS: Some of the differences are just funny. Retric in Google = Hacker News profile, Retric in Bing = Slashdot Profile.
Maybe building a charitable startup is better than giving to charity.
I am with sprint and eligible for an upgrade as well. I am running out on Saturday and buying one to replace my palm centro. I have and love the everything plan so I don't even need to change plans.

So I am extremely excited to have a webkit based phone that can multitask.

The price doesn't bother me, if I could get it for sure on Saturday I would pay an extra $100.
Thanks.

If that's what he meant, then I have to agree with a few of the others -- it's a terribly written article even if the points are good. I appreciate the explanation!
High finance is different from business experience. Yes the two worlds cross-pollinate, but by and large they are not the same. In some ways, it is like software development and IT. I contend that it is the people who did not learn the lessons of the past that were more likely to decide to become over-leveraged (let alone the massive pressure to do so as it seemed to be working for everyone else.) I presume (baselessly) that the appreciation for experience and history is something that is cultivated and evolves over the length of a person's career.

That being said, adaptable and intelligent people should be able to pick up on business decisions relatively quickly if they are given adequate support staff.
Quite impressed of bing.

+ Nice to see MS actually start to working with open source.

+ They've learned from Google.

+ The representation of image search results is good.

+ Video search is also good.

- The name doesn't really rock.

- MS still has to learn a bit about simplicity.

- Search results are still same as bad old live?
Just as in any other field, there are those with experience that are good at their jobs and those that are bad at them. This does not mean that someone with no experience should be hired to do the job.
The obvious: auto industry needs revamping.
The not so obvious: How do we get there, in what time line and with how much pain?

I don't care if you are 31 or 61. Hope these NYT profiles are not just resume builders for these people. I truly hope these people make wise choices when there are so many lives depending on the industry.
I'm quite willing to believe that greenhouse gases warm the atmosphere, but I've always wondered how large the effect is compared to the other things that change the climate. Since the earth has been both hotter and colder than it is now, before we even existed, it seems possible that the increase of CO2 from people might not be all that big of a factor. Does anyone have any information along these lines?
As good or better, generally. For entry-level hires (which many of my coworkers were - like many big companies, Google likes to hire straight out of college), Google usually hires for smarts, and once you've been there a year or two, you can pick up all the solid engineering practices and company-specific knowledge. They have nothing to unlearn, which is unfortunately often the case with people who've come from more spaghetti-like codebases.

One observation though - and this is a gross generalization, and obviously doesn't apply to everyone. The people who never studied CS before college and never worked on outside projects tend to be less innovative, less willing to think outside the box. So they're more dependable engineers and often write cleaner code, but they're less likely to come up with a crazy idea or go beyond their established job description.

There are exceptions, of course. Wonder Wheel was done by someone who didn't program until he was a couple years into college, and was initially interested in being a filmmaker (and he's only a year or so out of college, so that's only 3-4 years total experience).
freesound.org is the fourth result for me on Bing. I'm in California.
Morale, Motivation and Startups
Getting pulled out of school in 3rd grade with mom who had mental illness, driving down to florida, living in car for 1 month, utilizing hotel showers because workers felt sorry for u, moving into an all womans homeless shelter for 3 months. -- Starving for a week after my dad went on a hooker/crack binge.
How to deal with bad bosses, problem supervisors and difficult managers
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>this is a word,

Did you miss that part? Radar is said ray-dar, not r-a-d-a-r. Same goes with NATO, Scuba, etc etc.

BBC on the other hand, is not pronounced bibibc. It's said b-b-c.

Basically, most dictionaries require an acronym be a word itself, otherwise it's an abbreviation. You're correct though that this is not universal.
I started college at 20 too - when I was 18, I was absolutely certain that I would never go to college. (Strangely, at 15 I was absolutely certain I would never work for anyone else, which is exactly what I did in my gap year between 19 and 20. And all through college, I was absolutely certain I'd never work for a big company, which I'm doing now.)
I'm so tired of people who insist that it doesn't.
As VCs look for liquidity, private-company stock exchanges are emerging
Ah, my apologies. RTFM I guess. Also, I'm a disgruntled Redditor.
Humans and chimps both taste the same to me.
Mur Lafferty's WAR launches today
The fifth podiobook novella in her Heaven series. WAR episode #1 dropped today on her website.
Perch: A Really Little Content Management System
Did you look at the part at the top, where it says "Best match"? It's easy to miss because it's kind of positioned where an ad would be on Google.
Finding the right business partner.
I remember when you showed us this on the #startups channel. I was impressed then and now I'm even more. Great work!!
Bing logo reminds me http://blinkx.com logo. The favicons look lot alike.
I didn't like the search results. It tries to guess on what you want, and as a techie i guess i'm more used to specifying myself what i want to search.
There will be inevitable negatives comparisons to Google, and perhaps some of them are right. I'm just pleased it's working well enough for me and that there is finally now a viable competitor to Google.
Also, I'm a disgruntled Redditor.

I think we all are, to some extent :-)
I may be seeing an imaginary distinction, but it would be great if you'd put down your thoughts

menloparkbum said (emphasis mine) "What you should really do is make a complete system and put it out there for people to use. A web service, an iPhone application, a desktop application, whatever. "

pg replied "Yes. Making stuff is the way to learn, the way to meet smart people, and the way to increase your morale."

If the OP were to build a significant library or subsystem for an existing language/ecosystem, say a natural language processing library in Erlang (I know some people who need something like this today), or create a version of Django with SQLAlchemy, that also worked well with django-admin (I know people who need this too) that would count (I think) as "making stuff" (pg) but not necessarily "make a complete system" (menloparkbum).

So is it necessary to build a complete system (a webapp that uses the NLP library), or is significantly enhancing an existing system (just writing an NLP library, with just enough usecases to drive the library design) enough (to make progress)?
"The obvious: auto industry needs revamping."

What's obvious about that? Many auto companies are doing just fine. Why would Toyota need revamping?
Actually, that just redirected me to the "log in" page.

This is a better solution: http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com
Tips For Managing Multiple Social Media Accounts
Yeah, but it's about a horribly run startup. It's only a lesson of what not to do.
Why aren't you curing cancer right now?

If we must take everything in order of most important to least important, then doing anything that doesn't affect this most important thing is a colossal waste of time.

If we are affecting the temperature of the planet in a way that will make it uninhabitable to us, it behooves us to do anything and everything we can to make our impact less. Whether or not it is the biggest contribution to the problem. Plus, solving the smaller problem may give us insights to the larger problem.
Ask HN: Good web-based icon editor?
Can anyone recommend a web-based pixel-level image editor? There seem to be favicon editors, but they're all hard-wired to make 16x16 images. Is there anything more flexible? (If not, someone should make one.)
"Anarchy" (the word) isn't a political argument, it just means "an-" without, "-arkhos" leader.