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What? In the quote you included, they do spell out the bad things: the complete melting of the Greenland ice sheet, resulting in 7 meters of global sea-level rise. What's unclear about that?

Well, it sure sounds bad. But to most people it will be an abstract concept - what does that mean? It's like saying, "dihydrogen monoxide is the principal ingredient in acid rain". Makes water sound scary, doesn't it?

So what does a 7 meter rise in water over 1,000 years mean? Like I said, it sounds scary but is that:

a) We'll lose 3 miles of coastal land scary

OR

b) We'll be in Kevin Costner Water World scary

I don't know the answer to that. They should spell out what the actual impact will be, not make an abstract statement few people have a point of reference about.
You might as well say "bored teenagers like to light things on fire. Teenagers bored for very long times like to start very large fires. Therefore the fact that the sun is a massive nuclear inferno is evidence that it was created by an incredibly bored teenager."

Of course there is no evidence for this bored teenager, so making guesses as to the circumstances, motivation, and mental functioning of this teenager that could cause him to light up a nuclear inferno is just silly.
Sure, but maybe you only have so much willpower to work with (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ego_depletion). It's really interesting how it really is just as easy as making a decision, or just telling yourself something, but so many of us fail so often to do that kind of thing. This is something that bothers me deeply. This failure to do what we know we ought to demonstrates the tension which comes from this struggle between thinking we're really in control when we might not be. Interesting conflict there. Definitely worth thinking about - or ignoring entirely.

Anyways, that doesn't have any impact on other people doing the phone thing. It's a lot easier to not be nose-deep in your phone when other people are engaging with you. I find that most people settle into the "trance" based on whether other people are on their phones. The people who start the "trance" are often preoccupied or just plain rude.

Another facet to this is that we just don't know where this is going. Is it a step forwards or backwards. Hard to say that it looks like a good thing, but many of us didn't grow up with it - what will the story be like in 50 years? None of us has a clue, to be honest.

Anyways, I think what it comes down to is the "responsible use" cliche. There are so many constructive things you can do with technology. But here we all are, reading these comments which don't matter and are just random people screaming into the void. Shit.
If his publisher didn't want to sell on Amazon, can't they just take it off?
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I think most of us are probably behind several layers of concrete, glass, wood, etc.
In my experience, 0.5A chargers (and PC USB ports) are functionally useless for charging many modern smartphones and tablets, especially after a deep discharge. There has been many times I've put on a device to charge on a 0.5A source and come back to find its battery completely depleted. The charging will fail to keep up with the device's idle energy consumption.
But it's not emergence. Using Gaussian elimination to solve a gigantic system of equations isn't emergence either, even if the numbers are a bit too many to carry in your head at once. (as a matter of fact, solving systems of linear equations is part of the RBM training algo)

And even then, if it was emergence, doesn't automatically imply we don't understand it or that it's "magic". The famous Boids flocking simulation is a classic example of emergence. It's not very mysterious. Yes large-scale behaviour emerges from simple rules, this is amazing that it happens, but it doesn't hold up a barrier for us to understand, analyze and model this large-scale behaviour. Crystallisation is emergence, again we model it with a bunch of very hard combinatorial math.

But in this case, neural networks are not an example of emergence. They are really built in a fairly straight-forward manner from components that we understand, and the whole performs as the sum of the components, like gears in a big machine.
A common version is to have assertEquals(a, b), that will print out both a and b if they are not equal. Then add similar asserts for "not equal", "less than" and other relations.
Why would Google not want such a cool feature?
'Sic' is Latin for 'thus,' the meaning in quotations is "no really, what I just wrote." So here it's "actually billions, that's not a mistake"; in a quote with incorrect spelling it's "this is the way it appears in what I'm quoting, it's not my mistake."
True, but even after travelling along the RCS->VSS->CVS->SVN graph for the past 20 years I still find git baffling sometimes. I like it but the question is whether I want to invest my brain resources, which are a scarce resource at age 47, in learning a revision control system that can drive you into a cul-de-sac when using even the most basic workflow.

I think git!=simple but I applaud the effort.
well tbh I don't have any trouble getting people initially interested. As you say, I do have some filters that should separate me from the "MBA chaff" It's getting the few people that I have felt I could work with to actually decide I am the one for them.

hold on... "of all the bullshit MBA types" - that means you are calling me one of the bullshit MBA types! :( Perhaps you meant "compared to the usual bullshit MBA types"? ;)

The Java point is interesting, and something I have discussed lots with various people - including people who have contacted me today after posting this blogpost. Half the people think I should stick to Java - it's a fine tool for the job, half the people think I will need to switch language. No doubt being in Java reduces my pool of potential co-founders.
"Your own life matters most" - In what sense? More than that of others?

You know what? This is a sloppy formulation. But see the point immediately below, because I think it deals with most of the trouble you're having with what I'm saying.

"What's good for you does not come at the expense of other people." - Do you have evidence for this? Does stealing, which might in some moment be good for a person, not come at the expense of another?

Was stealing good for Bernie Madoff? Look at the evidence. He ended up in jail, penniless, and what's left of his family will not speak to him. His son committed suicide. Even before he was caught, his life was a living hell - he admitted as much in an interview.

"How can you make your mark on the world" - Doesn't this presuppose that 'making a mark in the world' is a more 'important' cause than changing diapers?

Things are important or unimportant only in relation to particular lives, and everyone has unique, specific goals. For example, if my goal is to become a world-class concert pianist, fathering children before I was thirty would definitely make the more important (again, to me) goal impossible to achieve.

"If the ideas people held were simply a matter of economic conditions, no one would ever rise out of poverty." - Id be interested to see some statistics of the frequency with which people escape poverty. I have a feeling the numbers are fairly low.

Statistics are only useful when you are ignorant of a specific phenomenon, and have no way to make the necessary observations yourself. What matters is specific, actual people, not some aggregate average that describes nothing in particular and no one specifically.

The fact that some people rise from poverty is all that is needed to prove that it is possible.

One last point occurred to me. People rose out of incredible poverty en masse over the last 150 years, following the industrial revolution. in the 1860s, even the wealthiest businessman could not fly across the country in a few hours, call people around the world, get treatment for serious illnesses (e.g., valve replacement heart surgery), use computers, etc. A lot of people look at poverty from the perspective of relative differences, but I'm just happy to be alive in a time and in a place where there is so much available, in absolute terms (because that's the thing that actually makes a difference in my standard of living).
Irrelevant political rabble rousing about Al Gore's personal finances is not a productive debate from somebody 'sympathetic'. It's just text book concern trolling.

For full disclosure, I voted for Al Gore in 2000. Tell me again how I'm politically rabble rousing against him.

Is it at all possible I'm just calling out hypocrisy when I see it?
So why don't presses offer a widget for people to buy directly from the author's site, such as this?
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You explained how much it costs, which is a lot, but not why it's a bad investment. We get quite a lot of tech and science out of the space statio + the experience to go further.
A script for doing this was posted to HN several months ago:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5740959
Where? Changing the color of the lock? That's the whole point, users have absolutely no idea that means anything, they can not differentiate between certs.
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It's hard to really quantify scientific returns as a per-dollar measure. The space station has provided a place to do countless experiments that could only be done by people in space. Of course, the results of these experiments rarely make it into pop science articles so they're not often publicized. But they do happen and it's important not to just brush them aside as not worth the cost of the station itself.
They sell surplus area on their wafers to those making small runs, and the yields are not that great as these are the less desirable parts of the wafer. Still, it's actually quite cheap all things considered, especially if you only want a few hundred units.
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I was referring to winning in terms of being a business. Yes we all hate seeing them swallowed by PayPal but at the end of the day it was a business, not some organization trying to do social good.
Considering that the hard drives are likely to be made in China who is to say they dont already have a copy!
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Gitolite (where this is hosted) is actually pretty cool too. For those who don't know what gitolite is, it is software to works in tandem with git-daemon, that basically allows you to run a centralized git sever with access rules.

I created a screencast about it @ http://sysadmincasts.com/episodes/11-internal-git-server-wit...
Personally I think it's more likely that we'll adapt over the next few generations to cope with it, than it is that a conscious effort on our part will reverse the trend.

People underestimate the rate at which social behaviours change. I'm 27 and have younger cousins who have completely different social conventions and understandings in and out of school than what I experienced. Much of that is due to pervasiveness of the net and mobile. It's really bizarre.
Wondering how google's angle (GLES through D3D) fares in this respect? https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/
#2 is a link from September 2012. You mean this is still not fixed (as in >99% can update to a version that is fixed)?

Edit: "UPDATED 26 September: Samsung has told SlashGear that Galaxy S III users should ensure their phone is running the latest software as this resolves any issues:

'We would like to assure our customers that the recent security issue concerning the GALAXY S III
has already been resolved through a software update. We recommend all GALAXY S III customers to download the latest software update, which can be done quickly and easily via the Over-The-Air (OTA) service.'

Question: Is this OTA Update depending on whether providers let those updates through?
If there's another Amazon-efficient middleman that offers superior rates to publishers/manufacturers at equal price/service to consumers, Amazon is as dead as Books-A-Million.

Amazon's retail key is its unmatched distribution network. If someone can duplicate it, they'll eventually have half of the market.
Like with most Google features, I don't see it yet. Recently, a tip was posted to HN that showed Google having a timer that could be activated by a search command; another feature that simply doesn't work for me. I've tried both google.co.uk and google.com in Safari and Chrome.

I also see the UI switching occasionally from the black bar at the top to the cleaner UI that's in the picture.

Are they A/B testing or something? It makes Google feel very unreliable as almost nothing works consistently for me.
Key quote (for me)

> Portability and reducing lock-in have been core OpenShift values since we first announced. The truth of the matter is many of our users don't want to be locked in to OpenShift or any PaaS. We don't want them to be locked in either.

Not being tied to infrastructure is a pretty amazing feeling. Being able to switch from my VPS to OpenShift, some other Docker-enabled PaaS, bare metal, EC2, or my internal OpenStack cluster seamlessly offers a tremendous amount of choice.
Regarding #2, that bug was fixed a year ago to the day, according to the very source you linked. I feel it's unfair to include what was clearly a mistake in the same category as deliberate malicious activity (#1 and the linked article)
I can imagine the reverse. It's called Women's Studies.

Boom! Roasted.
There's something to this for sure. I went from not riding a bike in 10 years to doing a 111 mile ride this summer. One of the main things I noticed was a noticeable drop in negative thoughts/anxiety in my daily life. When you're pushing your body to its limits, combating fatigue and pain, your thought process seems to really change. In the moment it's kind of like meditation, and afterwards it adds some perspective to things.
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The link has an update at the bottom stating that it has been fixed.
I am sure he doesn't have complete and total trust or confidence in evolution; evolution is after all, falsifiable. A rabbit in the Pre-Cambrian would surely rock his boat. The boat has already been rocked many times before, and course adjustments were made based on the new information conveyed by that rocking.

It just so happens however that none of the things that would kill the theory have ever actually been shown.
Sounds like your company should create it then :)
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Does anyone bother to create something similar that would help 3rd world electricity problems? oh, I forgot... they don't have smartphones.
As a customer of DO, I'm glad they turned you off. Your ignorance was negatively affecting my service.
I think it's Latin for "I'm not making this quote up!"
Yeah, it's being A/B tested. Some of my browsers have it and some don't, even after clearing caches.
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Short answer: yes.

Long answer: You haven't defined your wants and requirements so I couldn't possibly answer this question effectively at this time.
If that's how it seems to you, you are not paying enough attention. Scientists are providing full data sets, and denialists are cherry-picking. I can't convince you just by saying so, but seriously, this is an important issue. Set aside some time (a day or two) and read some if the key papers characterising climate change. You will come away with a very different idea on where the truth lies in this "debate".
Testing is only simple if you work on simple code, does not work nearly as well for real time, embedded or low level code.

However, the beneficial side effects of TDD are much greater than just the verification aspects so I think more foundational work needs to be done on test frameworks for hard problems.
This is also the direction I think computing is taking. In the case of Apple, you might still have the Mac Pro, and perhaps MacBooks, but the iMac and Mac Mini will be replaced by iPad, which can connect to a monitor, keyboard, and mouse. On the iPad itself you will have the iOS experience, and in desktop mode you will have the current OS X experience. This is the inevitable outcome of the convergence between the two.
As the current generation replaces boomers, and hopefully comes to their senses, maybe we'll see a shift from "butt-in-chair-time" to actual output as the primary metric for productivity.
Which is bullshit. Anyone making such an argument doesn't know much about evolution or science or just ignores it.
sure! they'll be able to use their fire charged phones, with google's internet to see what the world is eating across the ocean on instagram.
On the order of $4,000, though in my circumstances it was less risky than that number would suggest, since I already had covered-the-day-job cash flow from Bingo Card Creator and strong odds of successfully filling a consulting pipeline by that point. (I'm not counting my retirement account, which was in the low five figures, since I wasn't planning on touching it for any reason short of "I'm dying in the snow.")
True scientific research is not meant to 'prove' a hypothesis, but disprove the null hypothesis 'that there is no relationship between two measured phenomena'. It is next to impossible to 'prove' a hypothesis under all conditions and circumstances. This isn't a mathematical proof.
Do you plan to have batch 2 by early next year? I would absolutely love to attend! I'm a grad student in Singapore, focussing on machine learning and signal processing. I've long wanted to attend the NYC version, but american visas are a biatch!:p.
That's not it. Following any reasonable workflow still requires a set of arcane commands and flags that only make the slightest bit of sense if you know how git is implemented. I was able to use SVN successfully without ever knowing a thing about the implementation. I've generally had the same experience with HG and even CVS and VSS back in the day. Git adds sophistication over a prodcut like SVN, but adds vastly more complexity.
And now everybody wants to be on the blackberry network
Using gtalk for SMS was so much more convenient, because you could just press the contact icon, and get gtalk as an option.

They've removed this integration in Android, and now you have to go re-find that contact in a separate hangouts app. It's a terrible UI regression.
I think you posted to the wrong thread. (What thread were you trying to post to?)
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I also always wondered why testing frameworks need all that stuff besides assert()?

In fact, in browser js you can even wire onerror to send error server to a server (eg google analytics) in production.

What's the point of all the fancy .isEqualTo etc!
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Evolution has nothing to do with the origin of life. It's what happened to life after it originated.
don't confuse revenue/turnover with gross margin.

gross margin is turnover minus cost of goods sold.
Not realizing profits and bleeding cash are two completely separate concepts.
THIS is what I don't understand. Why do people call it "subsidized" when you're locked in to a 2 year contract with an early termination fee.

IT IS NOT SUBSIDIZED, PEOPLE.

You may say, well I'm paying the same per month whether I take a new phone or not from the carrier, so... it's subsidized right? Nope, they're just gouging you when you're on an old phone. Taking the new phone just slightly reduces your disadvantage. Let's put it this way, if MVNOs can offer you piggybacked network rates at $X while traditional operators rates are $3X aren't you a bit surprised? It's not that the operators are going to sell to MVNOs for a loss, and not that MVNOs are going to sell to you for a loss.
This reminds me of one of Russell's essays, "In Praise of Idleness". Despite the fact that collectively, we would be extremely comfortable working very little if we all worked the same amount, in reality some of us work extremely hard while others work not at all. So an innovation that makes work less necessary is seen as an evil (reduces the number of jobs), where it could instead reduce work for everyone uniformly in principle (assuming massive job training and education opportunities). I think it's an interesting argument.

http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
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Strictly speaking it's not the Peltier effect, but the Seebeck effect. One is the inverse of the other; Peltier junctions produce a temperature gradient when current is passed through, and Seebeck ones generate a current when exposed to a temperature gradient.

I think for the most part you can actually run either type in either mode, but the design and materials differ for optimal efficiency across the 2 modes.
What metric are you using for third biggest? The national figures I've seen put the Guardian in a pretty lowly 10th place in terms of circulation. Even if you exclude most of the popular papers (i.e. tabloids) and look only at broadsheets then the Guardian is still only 4th (of 5).

The Guardian certainly punches above it's weight through its internet site the paper itself is nowhere near as big as the other papers.

Source: http://www.theguardian.com/media/table/2013/jul/15/abcs-nati...
You need a temperature delta to generate the electricity. Where is the cool sink in your proposal?
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The Samsung Galaxy S4 has the same sticker and works with every SIM.

It's just that Samsung lacks focus and is incompetent at communicating with its customers and non Korean employees.

Probably some idiot manager in Europe decided to put this sticker on the case and they don't know about it (or didn't understand this) in their headquarter.
Agreed, book publishers need to work on their marketing and sales. If they were able to target their audience more directly and efficiently, they wouldn't need to rely on Amazon. No Starch Press (nostarchpress.com) did a fine job selling "Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!" (and their other programming titles) without Amazon.com
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Yes, there is a 2nd batch planned for starting in early 2014, so stay in touch!

Also, as a foreigner, I've found the German bureaucracy reasonable to deal with: just read the rules twice and follow them to the letter. They generally don't treat people as suspects/criminals. Advanced education/degrees also brings additional respect and ease of visas/permits.
I sure could eat a chocolate Kit-Kat right about now... who's with me, open source brethren?

(Kinda Suprise banned in the US)
I think the combination of Docker style LXC containers and kernel level MAC (i.e. SELinux) is a great approach and helps build upon the "high security" goals of OpenShift.

I was also happy to hear about the resources you're providing to help Docker run on more distros with a better approach to filesystem layering (dm thin). Red Hat is again demonstrating its commitment to and alignment with the larger open source community -- so thank you for that.

The team here at http://deis.io/ welcomes these efforts and looks forward to the development of a healthy Docker PaaS ecosystem.
Would like to be able to edit the labels without messing with the HTML.
This, to me, isn't very novel. Why can't you just wait for the sun to come up and carry a 140g solar panel? I suppose this may be useful in a very rare emergency situation, but otherwise, nahhh.

$ don't lie, though, and it looks like they have almost reached their goal.