skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I read the post you are replying to as a jab at those who believe change leads to death and destruction. We could move the cities inland. We could optimize buildings to keep people cooler. We could find more efficient forms of energy to enable more indoor climate control.

The current stress right now is to stop climate control. We humans believe we can stop climate control, but what if we can't? What if it actually is due to sun spots and beyond our control? It seems like it would make sense to adapt to the change rather than try to stop the change.
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You place no value on someone explaining their methods?
Clojure's stack trace _is_ Java's strack trace.

Because of this it's not as big of a problem as one would think. For real debugging you would attach a debugger, jdb to Emacs, jSwat to any REPL, or the one built into Netbeans (if you're using the Enclojure plugin). These already work well, will only continue to improve, and others will emerge.
I see - I thought just the opposite, that their technique might require less GPU power, making it viable to run on the server. The other way round makes more sense, although I wonder how much they would have to charge for the games.
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I've never tried GWT. I'll be sure to check it out, thanks for the recommendation.

The most "fun" Java web development framework, IMHO, is Stripes. I think what sets it apart is the lack of enterprisey crap - it's simplicity is refreshing, but it's still powerful enough to be useful.
import thing is something you have to learn. It's well thought out and fine grained.

the config bullshit - yes. There are various community efforts in progress to help on this front.

that said, once you've built your first web app in Clojure (and Compojure) and debugged/updated it via a remote REPL à la Paul Graham, the pain points become less ... painful.
You'd naively calculate per-player requirements at 720p to be 1,000,000 pixels/frame x 30 frames/sec x 10x rays/pixel == per-player you need 3 giga-rays / sec (+ video compression hardware). Maybe the video compression blurs stuff enough that you get pseudo-aa for free, letting you chop some of that 10x off.

Either way, their 'fusion render cloud' is supposed to be targeting the petaflop range, and @ an extremely generous 1ray = 1flop calculation (bear with me) you'd be able to handle ~333,333 simultaneous players (720p frames) @ 1 petaflop (and with more-realistic flops-per-ray you're looking @ a lot fewer).

You'd definitely need a breakthrough.
Of course All Pepsi beat Coke in taste tests ;) It's far sweeter.
This product would be nice if it was free, and if it used the css trick to detect that I use Google Reader, and offered me one click to import my Reader preferences and see what the Fever system would recommend to me.
The British Isles (as long as you don't stray too far north in Scotland, at least) aren't all that cold in terms of minimum temperatures (my guess is that it doesn't get that much colder than it does here in northern Italy). They're just damp. And don't get that hot in summer. And once you get any sort of trade happening, you're far better off with Italian wine anyway, so why bother.

Global warming is off topic for HN anyway. Few people here that I know of are climate scientists, and most people seem to make up their mind along political lines rather than scientific ones anyway, so discussions are unproductive at best.
This site broke the story a day earlier than Bloomberg.

http://seekingalpha.com/article/143462-strange-inconsistenci...

"The larger story at hand is, who are the players (nations) involved, and what was the intention of this likely counterfeiting operation? Maybe the future will reveal the answers to these questions. But maybe not."

(via http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/027593.html)
Benford's law applies to probability distributions which are (roughly) uniform on a logarithmic scale, and which span over several orders of magnitude.

If a manipulated process generated such a distribution then it would satisfy Benford's law.

However, it isn't clear to me apriori why election returns should satisfy Benford's law, so I'm unsure why this test is meaningful to begin with.
What you are describing would be closer to Sass vs Less, not Compass vs Less. Compass is a meta-framework built on Sass to make working with CSS frameworks much simpler, easier, cleaner and more flexible.

In your case, you don't use CSS frameworks at all, but you just want a few features that aren't in CSS, so Compass isn't what you'd be considering, Less or Sass would be.
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Fakes or not, this isn't a good development for the U.S. I could easily see a country creating fake bonds and getting 'caught' with the purpose of casting doubt on the legitimacy of the real bonds held by other investors.

More than likely this will be resolved in some smoky backroom someplace and we won't ever hear the real conclusion of the matter.
You've just offered what may be the ultimate gripe.

"It would be really nice if I didn't have to pay Shaun for the two (three?) years he spent developing. And also, it would be cool if it used a completely arbitrary and somewhat lame browser hack rather than using the feed import standard that every RSS program has used for years."

Do you think feed importing is new? Or that solutions don't exist that aren't complete gimmicks?
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> Water vapor is responsible for 95% of the greenhouse effect

"For clear skies, water vapor is the most important greenhouse gas, accounting for 60% of the total. The second most important greenhouse gas is CO2, which contributes 32 W m−2"

See "Earth’s Annual Global Mean Energy Budget", page 203 (7th page of PDF): http://www.atmo.arizona.edu/students/courselinks/spring04/at...
They don't really get into how this craft functionally goes about acting upon the 'dark energy' surrounding it. Is that part theoretically possible?
How many of you are starting companies with this sort of approach? How do you manage feature creep and just put something up? Is there a downside to not "getting it right" the first time?
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SeekingAlpha "broke" the story? Doesn't that mean they reported it first? It was on HN last week:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=653680

It's also odd that this story is being upvoted so much, given that the previous link 1) was reporting it when it was still actual news, and 2) has the same information and a fraction of the innuendo.
Why even post a link to the blog? Why not just the headline? I get the gist. I don't really need an entire anecdotal blog post to loosely explain a piece of advice.
This is a great hack. The company received a message claiming details proving an XSS vulnerability, but the details did not in fact exist until they followed the instructions in the message with the vulnerable interface meaning that in effect the email acted like a call to a function returning a promise[1] which was fulfilled when the message was read.

1- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futures_and_promises
Kind of like a crystal radio, but on a much larger scale.

(A crystal radio apparently harvests something on the order of tens of microwatts while in operation)
Aw, I wish branching snapshots were among the new features[1].

[1] http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=18818&...

Edit: URL. I seem to have managed to pick up my Aquamacs' kill ring during cmd-tab switching. Interesting.
That was my take as well. This is slightly less alarming, especially considering that looking at it from the other side of the coin, the court upheld the freedom of the press to report what it finds.
You can only do this if the trader agrees to stay at the firm over the long term, or perhaps if he is a daytrader.

Using your scheme, a trader simply will not enter into a contract with a great chance of long term gain and short term fluctuations. Short term fluctuations may eat up his pay, even if the long term gain is guaranteed.
"But in fact, we know that grapes were grown at more northerly areas in the British Isles in warmer historical times. If it has been done, it's too late to suggest it's impossible."

That's vitis labrusca, I was talking about vitis vinifera. I have no doubt it can be done to some extent, but there's a large difference between being able to do something in theory and having large quantities of good wine for relatively cheap.
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This kind of ambient RF pickup was described in a 1970s Scientific American "Amateur Scientist" column. It required an antenna the size of a frying pan, however, for approximately the same net wattage. I am curious what Nokia's trick was (assuming the achievement was carried out in real life, rather than only on paper.)
I still haven't heard convincing arguments for global warming as fact. Climate change, yes, but warming as a result of human activity on a global scale no. Chief among my concerns is the fact that Mars seems to be warming as well. http://www.dakotavoice.com/2009/06/nasa-study-shows-sun-resp...
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I'm not a git developer, but I remember from linus's google tech talk that it would be pretty trivial, and you can already use your favorite hashes. I don't know anything about repo compatibility. But this wont break git, your source files will still have the same likely hood of producing a collision as they always have, nil. This just means that git could possibly be subject to attack, and that gpg signing sha1 hashes may not be 100% the best method of saying the following code is trusted. But I seriously doubt any sort of injection would compile.

EDIT: Thinking about it, you could have a commented area somewhere where you put in garbage characters to try to generate a collision, not unlike producing two word documents that read slightly different (different clauses in a contract for example) but have a ton of random metadata that causes the collision. But this isn't an attack on SHA1 just on hashes in general.
Lingering
Guessing game: How much money is YouTube losing?
The web keeps moving forward

Unstoppable
It should not take a week to determine the certificates' authenticity. So something weird is going on.
god this is dumb, and dumb looking.

"surfs the spacetime bubble by manipulating dark energy"

what the hell is this nonsense speak?
Shaun marketed Mint that way (same price point if I remember). It probably worked well enough for him to continue with that model.

I'm sure he also enjoys sleeping without having to worry about server downtime :-)
Do they summarize anywhere what's improved between this and b4? The "What's New" section just lists the major new features of 3.5.
It doesn't matter if 99.9% of greenhouse effect is not caused by humans, if the extra 0.1% is. The gross heat fluxes in and out are enormous, but because they precisely balance they're not noticeable. An extra 0.1%, while very small compared to the total heat flux, is a purely net flux because it's not canceled out (until the Earth has warmed). It's simple conservation of energy.

Think of it this way: If you have a gallon of water and you pour it back and forth between two containers, you will eventually run out of water even if you lose only a few drops each time.

Another example: If you trade your assets back and forth between different stocks (and they don't change value), it doesn't matter how much money you start with, if you do it for long enough you will eventually run out of money due to the transaction cost.

A small effect can have a big impact if it's allowed to accumulate over time, and that's precisely what's happening with the greenhouse effect.
"won't move faster than the speed of light-which is not possible under Einstein's relativity theory"

What if Einstein was wrong?
Btw, the fact that the major greenhouse gas is water vapor does not make things better, it makes them worse. It means there's a feedback loop that amplifies the effect of increased CO2, because as the world warms, the atmospheric concentrations of H2O will increase, further increasing the warming.
Did you mean to post a different link?
Is https://developer.mozilla.org/En/Firefox_3.5_for_developers what you had in mind?
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Let Carl Zimmer sort it out for you: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2009/02/27/unchecked-...
Wrong sort of attack. My bad.
Sure. I believe that global warming has the potential to be a big net positive because it will shake things up and create new markets and opportunities. I think the syrup thing is just an example of the straws that the "no changes anywhere ever" people have to grasp at to show how bad global warming will be.

Since artificial syrup > Canadian syrup > Vermont syrup, we're talking about economic damage to a small fraction of one product. But those workers have their very own senator or two.
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I found this spreadsheet from the Iranian ministry of the interior with county-level breakdowns of the official election totals: http://www.moi.ir/ostan.xls

It seems legit, and obviously of interest to the HN crowd to slice and dice, regardless of politics.

The labels are all in Farsi but it's pretty easy to transliterate. From what I can tell:
The final sheet (داخل و خارج از كشور ) provides the summary.
Amedinejad is احمدی نژاد
Mousavi is موسوی

I'm not a farsi speaker, so if I've messed anything up, or they take it down let me know and i'll post a copy with updates. Thanks to the original from http://www.jgc.org/blog/2009/06/benfords-law-and-iranian-election.html
Respecting confidentiality is not exactly high on my list of ethical priorities. If the information is not dangerous or likely to be misconstrued, and the other party has not earned the respect, I don't think it's morally wrong.

(did not vote on post)
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Einstein was wrong -- about the seemingly nonlocal implications of quantum mechanics, about which he had grave doubts but which were nevertheless shown to be true.

Einstein's relativistic theories have been put to the empirical test many times, and in the words of Einstein's Theory of Relativity in Words of Four Letters or Less[0], "each time old Al hit the gold".

[0] http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/txt/al.html
Techcrunch seems to have this gleeful hate of the palm pre.

No shock that they are not going to support it but I don't read that as they are going to block it.
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Good source, thanks for sharing.

From the DOE...

"Given the present composition of the atmosphere, the contribution to the total heating rate in the troposphere is around 5 percent from carbon dioxide and around 95 percent from water vapor."

It is important to note the next sentence, however:

"In the stratosphere, the contribution is about 80 percent from carbon dioxide and about 20 percent from water vapor."

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/alternate/page/environment/appd...

(end of last paragraph)

As is always the case in these matters, conflicting sources

Not being an atmospheric scientist I cannot be sure but I feel like the vast majority of the atmosphere's density being in the troposphere temperature effects from the stratosphere would be negligible.
This is a good argument assuming that the Earth's heat fluxes are in balance, but I don't believe this to be the case, what with ice ages, etc.
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I'm planning on working on a web app over Summer. The core idea is for a site where people can post links to useful books (making money through the Amazon Associates scheme) or websites for learning skills, which are then ranked by quality and difficulty. EG, if you visit mywebsite.com/HTML, you'd probably see a link to w3schools.com at the top.

As my site isn't a news site, there's less of a need to 'bury' old links, which gives me a bit more flexibility in how content is rated. What do I use? A star-based voting system, such as Amazon and many others use, or a vote up/down system, as used by Hacker News, Reddit, etc? Though Reddit-style is simpler, I think the Amazon-style gives slightly more information.

There's also the possibility of a hybrid system (for example where down-votes = 0-star-votes, up-votes = 5-star-votes) though that isn't as intuitive and could confuse users.

Opinions? Which would you rather see?

Site 1: 4.87 stars

Site 2: 4.63 stars

Site 3: 4.56 stars

More information, but gets hard to understand with many sites.

Or:
Site 1: 312 up-votes

Site 2: 277 up-votes

Site 2: 213 up-votes

Simpler, but a bit vague. Is 200 up-votes good or bad?
I think the biggest downside may be the difficulty of getting potential customers/users whose needs were not met at first to give you a second try once the offering has improved significantly.
Nice to see something that doesn't complain about the usual "it has too many parentheses"; it shows people are actually taking the time to learn the language.
I haven't read the entire paper yet, but the summary has me downloading the PDF.

I've definitely noticed a relationship like this in my own behavior, and desired ways to manage it effectively. It will be interesting to see if the complete text sheds light on this and provides tools to do so.
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Are US bonds numbered/recorded? If not, a fake could conceivably be perfect.
>> Let your customers find out about you lieing, cheating, or stealing. Then see what happens to your revenue stream.

Your formula for success isn't true in the least. Whole companies have been built on lies and cheating since the world began.

Bell for example, built a whole company after stealing someone elses patent to the telephone.

I'm afraid most customers don't particularly care that much about ethics. At least not to the point that you seem to.
And quoting Karl Denninger, founder of mcs.net.
Sure, in the sense that we don't know much about dark energy, a lot of things are theoretically possible :)
I imagine it's being upvoted because it's bloomberg. When I saw this story elsewhere last week, I assumed that it would turn out that it was a hoax, rumor, or otherwise exaggerated. Since it's now in bloomberg, that seems unlikely.
The original story is at http://dsc.discovery.com/space/slideshows/warpship/ with a couple more pictures an a bit more explanation.
i imagine that counterfeiting a 500M / 1B bond is much different that doing so for a $100 bill. How many institutions can actually accept such a bond? I am actually surprised that they exist in paper form at all.
Not exactly - I was looking for what they've specifically fixed between 3.5b4 and RC1. I suppose I could pull a Bugzilla report, but I was hoping for just a summary.

Thanks for the link, though - it's a good read.
Brian is a pretty regular Clojure blogger; I'd be shocked if he mentioned anything about parentheses. AFAIK, his blog runs on software he wrote in Clojure.
One thing I've noticed, is that they're using the refreshed Firefox icon. Large version can be found at http://people.mozilla.com/~faaborg/files/20090602-firefoxIco... , and discussion about the new icon here: http://blog.mozilla.com/faaborg/2009/06/06/new-firefox-icon-...
I got the same three as well. Those three are not in the list below either.

OpenDNS.org is a great service and is blindingly fast for me. It's also easy to remember 4.2.2.(1-4). Great for when you are out in public wifi and don't want to use some untrusted DNS server that is serving a bunch of clients from an overworked router.
At least in this stage of the game it's simply based on the sent user-agent. I changed Safari's UA to IE 8 and saw the "you're already using IE 8" page. Furthermore, when I visit in Safari on OS X I am prompted to download the incompatible IE 8. Safe to say they aren't using any sophisticated techniques.
In the film Die Hard, there are 'anonymous/untraceable bearer bonds', so maybe.
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I don't think you can suck an electromagnetic wave without bending space-time like a black hole does. These devices will simply be radio opaque.

If you place a perfectly black object on the floor of a room that has a glowing bulb on the ceiling, the room will get relatively teeny bit darker as the carpet won't be reflecting as much light as it was reflecting before but this black object can't suck in light that is not coming its way. So, no matter how many such black objects you place on the floor, the room won't become dark.

Unless you are talking about a Great Wall of China of these Nokia phones that is tall enough to cross ionosphere...
The biggest design rip off I have ever seen.
Thats great to hear :)
And if it is due primarily to carbon why not stop putting out so much carbon? I can't seem to find it right now, but I've seen a study that showed that the temperature changes we've seen do not coincide with sun activity. We can measure these things.

Also, global warming will cause death, disease, and destruction. This is clear from only one of it's effects, sea level rise.
I got the data from people operating businesses on a large scale, that span Russia. It might have been 15%, actually. Its been six years. But I've spent eight months in Russian, learning my terrible Russian. I'm not just making this up.

Do you know anyone like that? This was Moscow, and this was payment to the FSB for 'protection.' Nobody much argued with this at the time, it seemed. It was better to be able to pay the FSB than to have to decide which Krysha to pay.

I'm surprised you find this strange or controversial. How much business have you done at a high level there?

That being said, it sounds like things have improved dramatically. Thats great, and shows how disconnected I am.
From the U.S. Treasury website (http://www.ustreas.gov/education/faq/markets/redemption.html):

"Bonds that are lost, stolen, mutilated or destroyed, can be replaced free of charge as long as it can be established by the Bureau of the Public Debt that the bonds are still outstanding. To assure that bonds can be traced, owners should keep records of bond serial numbers, issue dates, [etc.]"

I think we can do better than appeal to a fictional dramatization as authority.
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I don't feel this was too informative. I would have liked a comparison of clean installs of Leopard and Snow Leopard to compare the speeds and disk footprint, as well as just an upgrade. I'm also disappointed Apple didn't update the Finder.
Sorry, had to reply again.

"I read the post you are replying to as a jab at those who believe change leads to death and destruction."

What I was saying is that global warming will lead to death and destruction.

"We could move the cities inland. "

I love how people say this like it's no biggie. Let's hire some contractors and bam, city moved. LOL. I'm guessing it's a lot easier to reduce are use of fossil fuels than it is to move a few major cities. what do you think?
Not everybody, I was talking about people operating large enterprises. When you talk about knowing the right people, I think you are describing this 'tax.'

As to variance: it was my understanding that the FSB was much more even in its pricing than the chaos and gangs before it.
Unregistered bearer bonds are definitely real. That's what we're talking about.