skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is all science required to be "provable" now, then? Most science doesn't really work on proof, unfortunately; it's levels of certainty, not stamping something "proven" and being done with it. It's building models of reality and testing their accuracy as far as possible.

Public policy decisions cannot be based on "proof". There is never going to be proof positive of what the climate will do in the next 100 years until we arrive at 2113, and even then there will be aspects of the picture that will be unclear; not everything is easily measurable, and not everything you might like to know will be measured.

Actual science covers more ground than schoolwork where you have one variable and everything else is controlled. Climate change is a global-scale issues with innumerable variables that can not be controlled.

That's not the same as saying we can know nothing about it, or that we must make no decisions about what we can figure out with some reasonable level of certainty.

> Who decided exactly what inputs are needed for calculations and which should be left out? Who decided their relative weightings? Who decided the exact nature of the interactions inside the models?

Are you saying that because you don't know how to do this stuff, no one can make predictions with a reasonable margin of error?
> I don't know if there are other investors than Y Combinator though, there might be one that will push for a sale.

We do have other investors, but (luckily) they're as uninterested in selling as we are. We've always been clear with them that we want to build this for the long-term.
A space station is a bad investment for any country.

The annual cost of the ISS is $3-billion-year. It will cost an additional 24-billion for the next 6-years to keep it up

The total budget cost of the Kepler Spacecraft was $0.6-billion and discovered something like 2,740 planets outside our solar system.

The Mars Science Laboratory cost was $2.5-billion and as of last month revealed that Mars once was a habitable planet.

The Hubble space telescope in all cost $9.6-billion over the decades (plural) and sincerely over-delivered by refining the predicted age of the universe and validating that the universe is indeed expanding faster and faster.

I would rather they launch more probes, telescopes, and comet samplers than a space station that costs more than it delivers.
He is referring to an HTTP 503 error which is shown when a service is unavailable.
Agreed. Too sweeping of a statement.

I should have said "in the long run, it isn't good for anyone". I used to camp alot in the Adirondacks in upstate NY. There was one grocery store that was basically the only store in a 50 mile radius. Guess what? The store hours sucked, and milk was $4/half gallon.

Even now, it's difficult to resolve situations with Amazon -- good luck figuring out how to contact a human to resolve a complex problem.
Introducing the NPM Maven Plugin
Fetching NPM modules from Maven.
Free Dynamic DNS
Ally Bank also makes your account next to useless until you go through a very tedious verification process from the get go. In my case, they mailed me some documents that unsurprisingly I never ended up bothering with.

On the other hand you can sign up and begin using paypal in minutes.
Posted the guy on the blog with the RSS, twitter, email links prominently at top right.

There is an assumption that those things he laments are functional parts of today's and tomorrow's world. Maybe he's just really boring and people would rather watch a stream of bullshit tweets than discuss the weather with him... because he seems a bit of a malcontent or judgmental.

One person's distraction is another's attention and purpose. It's the outsider watching the 'distracted' trivializing the value of the benefits that the actor is receiving. How smug.

Context is everything. Opinions are nothing. Smartphones only fail at optimizing the bandwidth of purposeful living in so much as those information flows have not been built out.

If people are anxious about the next packet that comes to them, it might be that they feel unsatisfied with the company and activities before them. People aren't being distracted by the devices. They are hunting for higher purpose.
What do you mean by "its predictions have an ever-longer history of not coming true"? Which predictions in particular have disappointed you?
But it makes for a bit of heart warming and noble PR on the writers part...
>How do you do the dithering if it is not during the YUV->RGB conversions, aka the matrix?

I thought you were referring solely to the fact that in the comparison I posted, the video was incorrectly converted with BT.601 instead of BT.709 on VLC's end.

Anyway, I'm home now, which means I can properly compare stuff (at last). Dithering certainly seems to have improved since the last version and BT.709 is used as well. There's something weird going on, however - the colors in VLC appear slightly off for some reason (and it's clearly not the usual suspects of TV/PC levels or BT.601/BT.709): http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/42453

Still, a notable improvement for sure.
As far as I can tell from the parent post 300bps does not reject the science of AGW. He/she just thinks the public debate is being lost for the reasons cited. So I wouldn't say I was on the 'other side'.

I'm often frustrated by media coverage as well. What I once heard a professor describe as 'climate porn'; photos of polar bears on ice bergs along with cataclysmic predictions of 20 meter sea level rise. It's not productive because it makes the problems seem totally intractable and causes many people to just give up because they feel hopeless. Often the articles like that are based on a single more pessimistic paper/scientist[1] when really we should be looking at all the available models not cherry picking the most extreme (which of course is the purpose of the IPCC reports).

[1] although I will say that the more conservative IPCC 2007 predictions for arctic ice sheet loss are looking pretty unlikely and the more pessimistic ones have been much closer to what has happened over the last 5 years. I've no idea if those dates have been revised downwards in the new report.
Braintree is more developed as a business
> Google stuff as you go.

Are you implying git man pages are useless to newcomer?
Students gleefully teach admins that mobile device management is hard
Debugging with Ember Inspector
How would this stay quiet? All it takes is for one blogger to go traveling for it to blow up.
>the fact that its predictions have an ever-longer history of not coming true.

Which predictions in particular?
Blank screen on an iPad. Oh wait, I have to scroll down to the bottom to see anything.
I have been looking for something like this for a while.
> "What you shouldn't do is transmitting sensitive information without controlling the end-to-end encryption chain."

Actually, this is what I meant and I should have been clearer. Thanks for pointing it out.
it is the way you've explained it that presents his effort as making no sense.

Yes, if they don't sell on Amazon they will loose huge amount of sales because the Amazon exposure will be lost.

But in this case he's trying to avoid selling on Amazon while simultaneously making effort that he maintains the exposure by using other avenues (like how he got it on top of HN frontpage).
That is not the same as someone who decides he wouldn't sell on Amazon and miraculously expects to get some exposure somehow.
I don't get this. Are you saying someone who is a hypocrite 1% of the time is equal to someone who is a hypocrite 99% of the time?
The reason that small hard/paperback publishers are dying isn't Amazon. The reason is that physical book sales are dying, ebooks have overtaken both hardbacks and paperbacks in both total sales and revenues. Next year they'll probably be the majority of the market, within a decade physical books will be quaint.

Starting a physical book publisher in this day and age is like trying to start a radio rental business in the 80s. Your business is going to be screwed by market trends whatever you do.
Yeah, I guess it seems obvious to me that the right way to "shuffle a playlist" is to shuffle a playlist. Literally just take a list of songs, and Fisher-Yates shuffle the bugger; give the user exactly what the button claimed.
That guy sounds like an incredibly whiny douchebag.
Looting the Pension Funds
This is my site! Nothing better than waking up to the front page of HN. And thanks for all the hilarious 503 error jokes. ;) Thanks for the submission.

Couple side notes:

+For those asking about using our data, go for it! We've got a json file you can tap into:
http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/space.json

+We are currently churning along on an iOS app that we are VERY excited about. Think: Notifications every time the number changes plus some cool social content integration.

Anyway, I'm a daily HN reader and honestly this has made my week. Thanks for all the posi vibes!
Monopoly is just a description of a market situation. You're using it as a pejorative term without actually explaining why, in this particular case, it's a bad thing.
I'm guessing this an attempt at Price Discrimination:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
Yep, the button is inside a form for some reason. Changing the form to a div fixes the problem.

Oddly enough, clicking the button placed in the right pane doesn't do this because it isn't inside a form. Strange that there's a form on the left but not on the right.
Some of the least convincing arguments I've read for not buying from Amazon, most of those could apply to any large corporate.

End of the day, mass consumers look at the bottom line, in this case cheap prices and good service.
You worry too much about nothing.

Simply use the Logitech Wireless Gamepad F710 for all Steam boxes, problem solved.

It's to me, better than all controllers you mention. It supports BOTH DirectInput and XInput APIs.
Someone at Samsung apparently still lives in the past century.

Time to grab bag of popcorn and watch Samsung trying to save it's face ...
> So what they're saying is they are not confident that some degree of warming may occur within a huge band which may do something that sounds really bad (but they don't actually spell out the bad things) in the next 1,000 years.

No, what they are saying is that in addition to all the other effects of global warming, melting of a particular chunk of ice will be absolutely irreversible past a particular cutoff point, but the cutoff point is difficult to determine with precision. We are interested in the cutoff point because it will drown billions (sic) of human beings, but any lack of precision about that doesn't mean that the rest of global warming is somehow a mirage.

Most likely we have already passed the cutoff point and melting of the Greenland ice sheet is irreversible.

Just because you're too dim to understand the science here doesn't give you an excuse to mock it.
I own a Samsung Galaxy S4 - and had a similar message on my box - "This product is only compatible with a SIM-card issue from a mobile operator within the Americas (The North, South and Central Americas and the Caribbean)". However it works perfectly well with European SIM Cards (tested with both Spanish and UK SIMs).
"Maybe it's more valuable than the option of actually connecting with whoever happens to be physically present."

That's where you and I disagree. Given the choice of minimal connections with those you know and fuller connections with those you don't know, I tend to prefer the latter.

Perhaps it helps to think about it like this. Everyone has something interesting about them, and whilst you might not like everyone you meet, you can at least learn something from them. Openness to meeting new people is a very positive thing (in my opinion).
Being the only person means more freedom and less bureaucracy.
I agree. This is the tragic commons of the human beings.
I'm confused- you stuck with Bespoke, right? It looks cool, but what recommends it over reveal.js? Did you try reveal or just look at it? I'm a reveal.js user but I'm not married to it.
>The fact is that the current warming is well below projected temperatures.

That is pretty misleading. We don't claim to be able to model temperature over periods of time that short. You can easily pick other 15 year spans where the rate of warming was well above 'projected temperatures'. For example 1992 - 2006 was 0.28 deg.C/decade[1]. Were you going around in 2006 talking about how badly climate scientists had screwed up because warming was so much faster than they predicted? If not why are you doing it now?

[1] http://tamino.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/double-standard/
Let's hope Paypal adopts more of Braintree's practices than vice-versa.
You folks are in an odd situation: you always see the costs of testing, but you never experience much of the benefits. Your intuition of the right amount of coverage is guaranteed to be off.

For me the right amount of automated testing is all about exploring the cost vs benefit boundary, which shifts with tooling and circumstance. But my firm rule now is: code must either have a firm expiration date or full test coverage. Nothing between is allowed.

So if you're going to cut back on testing, make sure your customers have agreed in writing on a date after which they should throw the code away.
My guess is that this isn't a matter of common - but one of knowledge. 2 of the 4 big US carrier sell GSM phones with sim chips, but as the phones are almost all locked down, only tech folk know this.

To everyone else an AT&T phone is an AT&T phone, not a GSM phone, and no-one ever opens them up to pull out the SIM cards.

Whenever I've purchased a SIM card, I've gone to an AT&T store, and convinced the employee to look around for them. They always have them both pre and post-pay, but even AT&T employees don't necessarily know that till they look them up on the computer.
Adreno used to be part of ATI/AMD. Perhaps Qualcomm purchased a poorly functioning software group and made it worse...
I have been looking for years. I have been applying to Ycombinator by myself. I live in El Paso Texas, which apparently, is the equivalent of the moon when it comes to finding like minded tech driven partners. This is a really frustrating topic for me. I hope to move to San Francisco soon so I can be around other developers.
Yeah, this is really confusing. Small bookstores would typically get this book through a distributor like Ingram, which might take a similar or higher percentage than Amazon. This is just a misguided publicity stunt based on misinformation.
I can't help but think that a future -- where those in power are not replaced -- is going to present huge negative effects for society.

It's my belief that we've dramatically slowed natural human evolution through the development of medical science, increased community populations, altruism, etc., for better or worse. I'm absolutely no social darwinist, but this has the potential to completely halt our evolution. Will the only option be genetic engineering (like this) and/or transhumanism?
How do I get an office in an open-plane? Although, wouldn't TSA be more of a problem than phones?
What's what with Amazon's Fire OS 3.x
The 'things above' being two insignificant newspaper articles over the last 13 years? Get real

Another piece of advice - stop verbally attacking people that are sympathetic to your cause.
> So what they're saying is they are not confident that some degree of warming may occur within a huge band which may do something that sounds really bad (but they don't actually spell out the bad things) in the next 1,000 years.

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?

A bit more subtle is what that 1-4 degrees warming means. That's not how much they think the earth will get warmer, that's what they think the threshold for the complete melting of Greenland's ice sheet is. So if we manage to limit the temperature rise to 2 degrees C, there's a good chance it won't melt completely, but if the threshold turns out to be on the low end of the range, it might still melt.

There's also nothing excessively alarmist about this. It's up-front about the 1000 year time scale.

Also, don't blame the scientists for what less-informed alarmists are shouting. Though I agree that it would be easier to inform people if there weren't a ton of people shouting nonsense.
Yay .stretch! I was resizing & using negative top margin to fit big elems onscreen- it really didn't work very well :p
http://sequoia.github.io/composer-talk/#/5/2
No doubt there have been horror stories coming from PayPal and I wouldn't use them as a payment platform. You also have to realize though that people of all demographics use PayPal and their fraud detection/handling reflects that, I think.

People use PayPal for receiving small illicit drug shipment payments to paying their contractors to recurring payments for their service.

You cannot expect to have a great time on a service that is catering to everyone because the lowest common denominator will always ensure the organization has to be on-top of fraud and illicit activity.

I've been waiting for PayPal to do something to show that they are thinking about their long-term health and position in the market and this acquisition is exactly that. It will be interesting to see how competitors (like Stripe and Balanced) end up for this too!
Can There Be a Non-US Internet?
My Logitech controllers work with Big Picture mode as well.

Even my steering wheel, while not practical to use with that application, is recognized.
I backed this guy's Xprotolab mini oscilloscope, and it's a really handy piece of gear. Bigger than a watch, but not by much, a case with the scope, probes, and everything else fits comfortable in my toolbag. I've used it a couple of times and it seems to work pretty well for the price.
But it would be such a huge positive political asset that can feed so many people for years.
I'm not convinced, for a couple of reasons. I haven't found unit testing to help in any way with the complexity of business objects, which are often more-or-less dumb beans. When you are handling complex problems, you are going to end up with complex data structures. Unit testing can help with modularizing services, though.

The second problem is that whenever you're faced with a large, older codebase, it's often difficult or impossible to refactor away complexity in core components.
still searching for a "pedestrians-safety-range-extender" for my kids, something about in a 100feet range slowing the car to step speed...
It is surprising you are having a tough time finding a tech co-founder; of all the bullshit MBA types, you have traction, a site that seems fairly developed, and a decent idea. In theory, I for one, after a cold intro, would be interested in what you have to say, as opposed to my typical "I am too busy to build your idea for you" default. Honestly, I think your biggest problem is Java, it's just not going to hit a large enough cross section of 20/30 year olds, that want to take a risk, that are into tech.
Not a big fan of "killing the competition".
Any idea if this is happening over Jabber clients as well?
Don't worry, you're paying that entire $650 (and usually then some). It's just hidden in your contract price.
Several times, this article mentions the notion - without really explaining it - that we have "anxiety of being understimulated."

I think I understand what the author means, but I'm not sure that's quite right. I agree with the main points that the author is making, but I wonder if this "culture of distraction" is really a symptom of an even larger problem. Consider the possibility that many of us are simply highly anxious just about all of the time, and that the distractions presented by wired life are things we seek out for relief on purpose. That is, that the distractions aren't the cause of the anxiety, but a symptom.

Maybe checking in with Twitter over and over again isn't "stimulation," maybe it's more like a narcotic. It helps us block out genuine, serious anxieties about money, jobs, work, family, and the future in general with easily-digested, glittery trivia.

One possible reason to think about the problem this way - although it may sound like a big change in subject at first - is antidepressant sales, which have been climbing for years and now stand at record levels. Clearly, for whatever reason, we've built a way of life for ourselves that leaves a huge percentage of us desperately unhappy and stressed out for an awful lot of the time.

Perhaps the explosion of smartphones and tablets, of portable, pocketable "brain stimulation" is, for many people, a form of self-medication. When you have a moment of downtime, and you have a chance to think about just how screwed you and your family are if your name comes up in this next round of layoffs, you can instead reach in your pocket and check out the latest celebrity scandal. When a free moment strikes and you find yourself wondering what sort of fascist nightmare future-US your children are going to be stuck with, you can instead check out the latest shiny aspirational gadgets.

Regardless of the cause, the "culture of distraction" is still a real phenomenon worth fighting, I think. But maybe we can fight it more successfully if we understand the causes more completely.
If you remember Google Checkout has been scrapped and merchants won’t be able to accept payments after the 20th of November 2013. One of the three companies Google recommended as a replacement payment gateway was in fact Braintree.

http://tamebay.com/2013/09/paypal-to-acquire-braintree-googl...
Every phone of mine has had a Sim card for at least 10 years. But the plans are so expensive I imagine it's not very common for tourists to pick up sim card while they are visiting Canada.
Useless? No. Overwhelming at times? Absolutely.

I think that Google is probably the best way to go, because not only will you get the man pages as high ranking hits, but you'll also get great hits from sites like StackOverflow and blogs that can explain things better.
They must squash any dissent!
Hmm.. Is that really a responsibility of a device manufacturer? If I build a weird radio here and get approval to use it, I can certainly take it to the US and operate there (unlicensed).

Heck, I can use just about every wifi device in 'EU' mode and operate outside of the limits of the US regulation, right?

I believe this is a dick move, nothing more.
Come on! Winters are harsh, particularly the last one...
The other thing you want to investigate before making the move is taxes! Income Taxes are high, the marginal rate is 45 pct.
I think they got the idea right, but designed it around the wrong source first. Using fuel to power my devices means I need to carry more fuel with me. Why do that when I can just carry cell phone backup batteries like this one: http://mylimeade.com/

Instead this should have been designed around something I can throw in a campfire with some sort of protective spiral metal cabling to snake out of the fire to a box with a USB connector. The metal cabling could be similar to those used on high temperature oven thermometers.
> "Wait, you mean I have to buy an XBox 360 controller to use my Steam Machine?"

Why wouldn't Valve include a controller with their Steam Machines?

Your argument makes no sense.
From when I was in to building PCs and overclocking, I remember all the horrible value-add tools that came on CDs with motherboards etc. They were sure fond of their homemade UI widgets and non-rectangular masked windows.
>> Is all science required to be "provable" now, then?

This is the whole basis of Science. It is required to be provable, or it is just someone's opinion, and my opinion might be different to yours.

Perhaps you should research the Spanish Inquisition and the many atrocities committed by various religions for further insight into why this matters.

EDIT: Strictly speaking Science must be falsifiable