skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is laughable that all this is based on imprecise models and simulations and not actual science. There is nothing provable with any of this or for that matter disprovable.

Alter the inputs and weighting in the models by merest fractions, or try take new factors into account and the whole house of cards comes tumbling down, yet on the basis of this Billions, if not Trillions of dollars are being moved around and new laws are being made, among many other side effects.

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?

It is just crazy.
the Greenland ice sheet will almost disappear within approximately 1000 years

Gee, we're making 1000 predictions right now? How are those predictions made 10-30 years ago faring?
Doesn't this article say specifically Stripe is not for sale?

I don't know if there are other investors than Y Combinator though, there might be one that will push for a sale.
Don't think it has been on HN since around the 1.2.0 release, so a lot has changed: https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/releases
> It makes it more difficult for someone else to go buy a SSL certificate in your name

No it doesn't. Just because you wasted money on a joke process, doesn't mean "evil attacker X" has to do it too. They can just go ahead and buy a regular cert for your domain still.
Big Data Hype?
Um, we're talking science and evidence. No need to proselytize here.
I battle with this and one thing that's been helping me a lot is "Letting It Cool". By that I mean that I delay reading "new" things until they've had a chance to lose their "newness".

I've found that newness is a false signal for value. Just because something is new, we tend to errantly assign extra value to it.

You can combat this by removing the new quality from the item by putting it somewhere where it can "cool down".

For me, I save all the articles I want to read for the weekend. I just email the articles to myself and they go in a special folder and that's where they cool off for a few days.

When you first start doing this, it is surprising how much some articles lose their perceived value over a few days. An article that I was really excited about when I first saw it will often induce a "meh" a few days later.

On the other hand, some articles still retain their value and appeal several days later.

I end up spending far fewer hours a week reading articles because of this method. It also helps to keep me focused since I don't let my mind wander to other topics during my work day.

This also works for other things like movies, tv shows, facebook, etc. If you want to see the true value of something, delay enjoying it until the newness has worn off. It helps reduce what you consume and increases the quality of what you do.

If your goal is to produce more and consume less, then this strategy can really help.

http://devopsu.com/blog/productivity-tip-let-it-cool/
Same - been on the fence about the biolite because it's only paying for the weight if you're 100% wood based on your trip.

This kind of makes that decision easy I think. The design seems nice, and the fact that it folds is doubly so. In backpacking your limits are in both weight and volume.

I'd like to see some reviews of ruggedness - the main thing I'm concerned about is what happens to the part of my USB cord that's plugged into the unit - it may be designed for high heat, but an average apple plug probably isn't.
> what event could trigger a reversal to this behavior?

People realising that addiction to stimulus results, over the years, in lower economic power and less overall happiness?

I don't know if today's phone-addicted teens will end up with lower-paying jobs down the line, but it wouldn't surprise me.
You can choose your title insurance
If you're buying a house you don't have to use the title insurance recommended to you. You can pick your own.
This tend to happen when your policy is to stop supporting tested, established protocols for chat clients and introducing your own in beta version to the entire planet at once.
Now a nerve bridge could be used to jump the broken nerve space for quadraplegics, using this same principle. This is awesome!
From the post:

"co-owner of Newtonville Books, an independent bookstore in Boston"
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if true, unconscionable. The FCC should get on this immediately. I, for one, would never ever buy a Samsung product again.if true
I don't think the problem with Paypal are the payment blocks with no notification, the problem is their complete and utter refusal to talk to the customer about it.

They have anti-fraud systems. Fine. Fucking let me talk to someone who can put their fingers on the keyboard and get it sorted out without a front page article on Hacker News, Reddit, and The Consumerist to shame them into action.
Last year there was the PowerPot, which is the same principle on the bottom of a cooking pot http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/david-toledo/the-powerpo...
Google has already fixed it within hours http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=1380265199...
I'm saying there's a curve measuring the time spent writing tests and the time the lifespan of the application. Think of like the rent vs buy debate. Tests are a the big downpayment you make hoping that it will pay off in the future. The kind of project my company does are rentals. Same reason we rarely do major refactors.
I wish geoengineering played a much larger role in the conversations around global warming.

It seems we're never going to wean ourselves off of petroleum, and most efforts to meaningfully curtail its use are politically untenable (outside of Europe that is).

I think if people who believe in global warming are serious about solving the problem and not just hand waving about driving less and turning off our lights, then they'd start devoting some serious attention to geoengineering.

(Note I'm not poking at a straw man in the paragraph above. Check out the NRDC page on global warming solutions [http://www.nrdc.org/globalwarming/solutions/]. I see a lot about restricting pollution and remaking our lifestyles, but NOTHING at all about geoengineering.)
The problem with this argument is that you don't need to be the NSA to compromise an unauthenticated encrypted channel; that's a task well within the capabilities of online criminals.
This is a people problem as much as a test problem.

1. Write your code so that independent units of functionality (algorithms) can be tested.
2. Make sure people understand, when changing code, either a) change the tests first, or b) recognize what tests should be failing because of the change and which shouldn't.

For good, testable code combined with good tests, it should be rare that the tests start failing when you change the implementation. Admittedly, that's true in theory and can vary widely in practice.
If you like whipping up quick, simple slideshows without any effort - I've been hacking away at Cleaver [0] for the past few weeks. You write a single markdown document and it parses into a single HTML document. I built it primarily for quick presentations at my Open Source club.

[0]: http://jdan.github.io/cleaver/
You must know how Whitman changed American innovation
I am not sure if everybody aware, but Amazon is actually losing money and bleeding cash.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/1712392-how-ugly-will-amazon...
Musta been a very quick look. They are radically different products.

FlameStower is a folding unit which extends a thermocouple panel over a fire (gas stove illustrated), with a water holder for cooling.

BioLite is a cylinder which you build a wood fire in, has a thermocouple rod extending into, is air-cooled, and includes a fan (improving fire efficiency) and battery for running the fan until the thermocouple kicks in.

If by "same product" you meant the two BioLite products...

The BioLite CampStove is a small unit suitable (barely, considering size & weight) for backpacking; fuel is inserted in the top. The HomeStove is MUCH larger, and fuel is inserted in a gaping hole in the side; it is also designed (moreso than the CampStove) to minimize smoke production (very efficient burn using the fan) to reduce the large number of people (millions?) who die of cumulative smoke inhalation from cooking fires.
So blame the picture itself then. The last number is colored nearly black on a dark background.

Also the number is a bit misleading. Most of the China's debris were probably generated by the ASAT test in 2007, which is not a common case.
Im happy for them, but you have to admit a lot has changed since this one was published:

https://37signals.com/svn/posts/2800-bootstrapped-profitable...
Totally, I forgot that. Having to go all in into an activity is pretty awesome. Physical ones are very challenging for the mind, be aware, react, control your body. It's kind of faking pressure on your brain to cleanse it. In a smaller scale, playing drums or music does that too.
I am insulting Europe's tech business culture, yes, if that's what it takes for us to begin to discuss this topic. Coming from me, that's saying a lot, because I usually never find culture similarities that span the whole of Europe. Please don't take this as a personal insult towards anyone.

The obsession with PHDs and higher level education.. great, another Euro-obsession.

Look, I'm not saying that he can't be a great startup founder. I'm just offering a different perspective for how to present one's self to potential tech cofounders. Emphasizing "business skills" and higher level education is definitely not the best way.
But testing doesn't eliminate 2 and 3. Testing only checks for bugs you've thought of. You still need to do manual tests of new features to catch bugs you didn't think of.
Amateur dev/designer here.

Agreed that CSS transitions are neat and easy to use but you are right about the hyperlinks being a bad place to use them. If the link in the page wasn't the URL and instead just a word in the paragraphs I wouldn't have noticed it either. When I use transitions for links or to open sub menus I usually pick a color that really stands out so they can understand they should click there. Usually 100ms will do fine, I think the transitions have their place but some people including my Manager do not like them for links or menus.
We love foreigner-started startups as part of #estonianmafia. That's the joy of the broad term, it can include both Estonians abroad, foreigners in Estonia as well as anyone with any relation to Estonia. You're definitely part of it as well :)
You seem to have a severe emotional response to data reports about global warming. The thing to remember is that how that data is reported doesn't actually matter. Reserve your angst for actual errors. The dramatic flashy wrappers people use is to try and reach people who would otherwise be watching ice truck drivers on the "History Channel".
Rust one is here: https://github.com/huonw/card-trace/blob/master/mini.rs

The Go one is indeed not minified.
As I'm sure you know, VAT is paid by the customer and you're simply collecting it, it's never your money to begin with. And if you are selling to businesses, they can rebate all or part of it.
I think many of them are stuck with how they can get their message out.

The media won't give them any coverage unless they throw out some disaster quotes, but the public has become tired of the same disaster scenarios that have been possible since 1995.
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I wish folks would just make links look like links - blue underlined text that turns purple if visited, just like the good old days - instead of making me scan through the text with my mouse just in case I miss something.
Tape rescues big data
That's pretty short-sighted. If a 1960s era government with limited computer technology can put people on the moon, I think a modern business with adequate funding can send people to Mars.
For a cool example of using Reveal.js, check out my Haskell Lectures http://shuklan.com/haskell/lec01.html
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It doesn't matter how good a job your vendor does, if there is a vendor that does a bad job, then the attacker can get a cert from them. The presence of a single bad cert authority renders all certificates useless.
In the large, 8 year olds will vote the way their parents want them to, and the demographics of the voting bloc you'd have just massively enhanced does not favor your particular political positions.
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What does mountain climbing have to do with building startups?
The sprinkles are for people buying certs, not the customers of the people buying certs. End users don't even know he got a different cert, or what that means.
What is it you are selling? We are an accommodation booking site and only have to pay VAT (we have it in writing from the tax office) on Irish sales, not EU wide.
The cost now in such infrastructure expansion isn't "only" the human expense of civil/personal liberties in China, it's increasingly the planet itself. The sooner China, the US, and other industralizing countries start taking that seriously, the better.
> Islam isn't a system of laws, it's a religion.

That's a very secular western view of religion. The distinction between law and religion is one seems important to people familiar with Christianity, because that religion has historically existed alongside a state with a separate system of laws (either English common law or some derivative of Roman civil law). It's a distinction that makes a lot less sense in Islam, which has historically not existed alongside a separate state, but has been an integral foundation for the state.
When you are a resource, you're supposed to be available.

Would you not expect your website to be available all the time? Or running water? Or electricity?
If you worry that your interests will not match machine learning/functional, ... Ed, one of us, is a kick-ass all-rounder (back-end and front-end). He also designs. The entire site design is his idea. Berlin has huge JS and front-end communities, too.
The TaoBao version of nginx has a patch to send the private key through the network to the server. IIRC. In that case, it won't be lying around in plaintext on your server's disk.

I will edit this post with a link if I can find it again.

I run a small number of servers, so I've password-protected my private keys.
a) Well, if you setup your startcom SSL cert with the browser, that means you've been forced to add StartCOM to your truststores.

b) I simply don't trust them, particularly since they use a keybased auth system -- any compromised computer that was used to setup a startcom cert can download the private keys
Your redesign also needs walls around the scrum zone. Specify a high-density soundproofing insulation in those walls, and you'll be cut noise transmission all through the office.
It's only a bit hypocritical. There are actual degrees of hypocrisy!

I don't get this. Did you mean there are 50% hypocrites and 90% hypocrites? And the 50% hypocrites can always laugh it out at the 90% hypocrites, because he/she may think he/she has a moral high ground due to less hypocrisy. Heck, that's mouthful.
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>there are many more people that you are turning away from believing you because of the things above

The 'things above' being two insignificant newspaper articles over the last 13 years? Get real. People reject AGW[1] because of a very well funded propaganda campaign that spreads disinformation and because the existence of AGW is incompatible with the conservative, capitalist political philosophies held by most people in the anglosphere. There are studies demonstrating the latter effect:

Why does public conflict over societal risks persist in the face of compelling and widely accessible scientific evidence? We conducted an experiment to probe two alternative answers: the “Science Comprehension Thesis” (SCT), which identifies defects in the public’s knowledge and reasoning capacities as the source of such controversies; and the “Identity-protective Cognition Thesis” (ICT) which treats cultural conflict as disabling the faculties that members of the public use to make sense of decision-relevant science. In our experiment, we presented subjects with a difficult problem that turned on their ability to draw valid causal inferences from empirical data. As expected, subjects highest in Numeracy — a measure of the ability and disposition to make use of quantitative information — did substantially better than less numerate ones when the data were presented as results from a study of a new skin-rash treatment. Also as expected, subjects’ responses became politically polarized — and even less accurate — when the same data were presented as results from the study of a gun-control ban. But contrary to the prediction of SCT, such polarization did not abate among subjects highest in Numeracy; instead, it increased. This outcome supported ICT, which predicted that more Numerate subjects would use their quantitative-reasoning capacity selectively to conform their interpretation of the data to the result most consistent with their political outlooks.

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2319992

A few misguided newpaper articles that over excitedly exaggerated uncertain predictions didn't make any difference to anything. Neither did Al Gore's personal finances. People ranting about Al Gore were never going to be won over by scientific arguments, their position is based on emotion and politics, not logical reasoning.

[1] people in the aglosphere that is, it's a much less prevalent phenomenon elsewhere
Pure speculation here, but my guess is that this has to do with different models being certified by different bodies. IE, perhaps the model sold in Europe is subtly different and hasn't passed FCC or some other certification for use in the states, ergo, they lock them to where they HAVE been certified.

Doesn't change the fact that I wouldn't buy it, but I don't think it is something that is done for some evil reason as some will jump to.
Today on HN: posts about missing links in evolution and rants about global warming reports.

Wonderful.
Maybe your family should try what the person in the video has, a weekly "non-screen" day where everyone turns off their cellphones, computers, and TVs. Your kids might object at first, but it will be good for them in the long run.
Spoken like a true Islamic Extremist. Find the teachings that support your argument and then use them to brand everyone who disagrees with you as not being a true believer.

It's a peculiar mind that can ignore the fundamental values of morality and kindness, and go straight for the edge cases that justify your warped sense of righteousness.
There is a relevant piece over at Techcrunch this morning; it argues that it was Borders/B&N that hurt indie bookstores, not Amazon:

"Indie Bookstores Aren’t Dead Yet"

http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/26/indie-bookstores-arent-dead...
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Jersey (Channel Islands) is working on becoming a focus point for technology investment and startups. While technically it's not part of the EU, it is part of Europe. There's very low taxes and gigabit fibre is being rolled out too.
In addition, it would be nice if these people (I'm looking at you, Popular Science) would stop pretending that the opposition is not qualified to challenge their doctrine.

This kind of behavior does not help the pursuit of scientific knowledge in any way.
First off, Elon Musk has more than a "profit incentive" to go to Mars. He just wants to do it for himself and for human kind. As soon as his SpaceX profits and technology will allow him to do that, he will do it.

Neil deGrasse Tyson is lumping him together with all the other corporations that only follow their profit incentive. I get that, but I don't think it's a fair characterization of SpaceX and Elon Musk, too.

Second, I do think there will be a profit incentive for companies to do that eventually, anyway. I don't know how or why exactly, and it may not happen during the first few flights, but it will happen eventually, even if the only money they could make is from the government, by doing the government's missions.
Unit tests serve a number of different purposes (for me, YMMV):

1. When writing tests before the code, the tests can help you wrap your head around what the code should and should not do.

2. Forces distinct functionality/algorithms to be broken out into their own functions for easier testing.

3. Forces algorithms to be broken away from other, less testable, code (ie, read from data base, algorithm, write to database... the piece in the middle there should be in it's own function for testing)

4. When refactoring, gives (more) confidence that the changes being made aren't breaking anything. The corollary to this is it makes refactoring more common because you can feel braver about doing so.

5. Proves the code is doing what you say it's doing (with the tests). Note that this doesn't mean the code is right, just that it isn't wrong in the ways you're testing. Learning to write tests with good coverage and how to partition input data for that is a skill learned by experience.

6. Documents exactly what the code does for someone that comes along later. For much code, this can be determined by looking at the code... but in many cases the tests can say it cleaner.

7. Documents what the code DOESN'T do, and this is an important one that can't really be understood by just looking at the code. If the tests don't say the code does something, it could change later. If the tests only exercise negative number inputs but the code happens to do something useful with positive numbers... user's shouldn't rely on the positive number behavior.

8. Confirm that, when a bug is found, the fix actually fixes it. When finding a bug... a) find a way to reproduce is, b) write a test that does so and fails, c) fix the code and see the test pass... d) the bug never returns without being caught by the test.
Yeah, I won't argue that it's heavy.

I haven't done any backpacking with it yet -- though if I did, I probably wouldn't be taking anything I could charge via USB anyway. (The aforementioned USB lantern isn't exactly light either.)
I wasn't aware of any violations. Regardless, PotPlayer just seems much better than VLC. And this is coming from someone who used VLC exclusively for many years.

In any case, this bit can be found in the Copyrights Tab of the About section:

"- This program contains the video decoder FFmpeg (http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu) was used, FFmpeg subject to the LGPL license. LGPL license, refer to the installation directory LGPL.TXT. The modified FFmpeg sources can be downloaded from the http://potplayer.daum.net/devel/ffmpeg.zip."

I don't know if that resolves the situation though.
Imgur is now seeing 100 million monthly unique users
I stopped reading at "As a bookstore owner"
From what I know, you've freenlanced even before you've opened your own company. So this step up probably wasn't as hard as maybe for someone who hasn't done as much freelancing before. Any advice for anyone that just realized "gee I feel like I should be a freelancer" and doesn't have much exposure or contacts to start with.
For those of you wondering what we've changed in reveal.js since it was last on HN, have a look at https://github.com/hakimel/reveal.js/releases (everything since 1.2.0 is new). Changes include support for RTL, MathJax, Multiplexing, Leap Motion and much more.

I'm also working on making reveal.js available to folks who don't know HTML. Give it a go at http://slid.es/
Yes, it is. Your back and/or hands will explain why soon enough.
One side effect of anthropogenic global warming is exponential increases in straw and herring.