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> BTW, they don't call it Global Warming anymore. It's now called Climate Change. You see, since the climate is a dynamical system that is continuously changing, the name "Climate Change" per se has absolutely zero information.

It only has zero information if you give it a massively uncharitable and ignorant reading. A climate per se describes a long term pattern of weather in a region. If that pattern changes, by definition, the climate has changed. Hence, "climate change".

Systems, or "dynamical systems" (whatever that means), are privy to two levels of change: one occurs within the system, the other defines the system. In other words, a system's state may change to another state, or the system may change into another system. Got it?
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Appeal to authority. Please try again, I'm curious.
From the video you linked to:

"The public thinks you have to wait until global warming is proved before you do something, but that's completely ridiculous."

The only thing from this video that suggests Dyson is a skeptic is the title.
Wow. I'm absolutely shocked by this rant and the support it got on Hacker News.

This is karma?

I rise to your troll bait. Bite my shiny metal ass. Flash rocks. HTML5 is for sissies.

Long live Jeff Goldblum.
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I tend to think that no matter how much people like Loic, when $12m gets raised and the product falls flat, somebody somewhere feels like they have a little egg on their face.
Mine has both stylus and touch.

The touch is really so-so, but mostly because normal desktop UIs aren't so good with such a large "pointer".

I think you have your answer for power consumption, but I think my tablet is in the same general range as your X60s and probably there will be more variance depending on usage patterns. My two batteries lasted a full day of class using onenote and occasional hops on wifi to download notes, etc.
The cost of biotech comes from the risk associated with developing a therapeutic and the expense of managing clinical trials. Anyone who does not account for that, and the time it takes to go through regulatory procedures is just misguided. Yes the costs have come down (they always do), but the regulatory burden and risk are not going away anytime soon.
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Thanks. I like launchly. Really nice interface and easy to use. Keeping an eye on it.
Do you listen to NPR? They do a great job of not getting caught up on celebrity stories.

http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=3...

That's Morning Edition's rundown today/yesterday/the morning after his death. In 2 hours (more? not sure how long Morning Edition is, but it's long), they had 4 stories, totaling under 15 minutes. And that's probably double what they've had about any celebrity in 1 show this year.
I like that last part about Max from Hive7. He's a real quality guy and will probably be one of True's best investments.
From the article: "The collapse of the "consensus" has been driven by reality. The inconvenient truth is that the earth's temperatures have flat-lined since 2001, despite growing concentrations of C02."

I'm all for cleaning up emissions, but I'm for it because I like the atmosphere to be clean. Fear tactics are what's been driving "green-[A-Za-z]" for a long time and I think it's important to reexamine and do it for the right reasons.
I'm amazed by that $60 CPM on Simpsons. You need to really get the viewers to take some action to recover that cost. I guess if you get one out of a thousand to switch from Coke to Pepsi then it will have been worth it?
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Very nice, I really like stackless and anyone writing concurrent code in python should use it.
Or better: that his pseudonym will outlive his self as a way to describe and cherish those types of people. _Why as an ideal instead of just a person.
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For starters, I don't like your tone. This is HN, not reddit. Got it?

I stand by my assertion. "Climate Change" is a redundancy. The climate has always been changing. If you reduce the entire complexity of the global climate system to 1 bit, you're not doing any good Science. It's not whether it's changing or not, it's how it is changing. This makes a world of difference.

The laws of Physics haven't changed. What may change is the inputs: solar radiation, C02 and methane emissions from the biosphere, C02 emissions by humans, etc. Since we don't really know the inputs with good precision, and since we can't measure them reliably either, jumping to conclusions based on computer models is ludicrous.

The problem with computer models is that we lack sufficient knowledge on the initial conditions. We would need a whole lot more measurements to be able to come up with reliable computer simulations. Unfortunately, measuring is expensive, while simulating is cheap. Trying to solve the fluid and heat dynamics PDEs on a global scale with incomplete info on initial conditions is not Science, it's voodoo magic.

I repeat: the rules of the game haven't changed. The laws of Physics are still the same. Focus on measuring the inputs that drive the dynamical system, rather than make apocalyptical predictions based on bad computer models.
There is a point in the article though, that it's easier to have a longer password if you can make sure you spell it right. And putting in a "toggle password visible" option is so easy that there's no excuse for not doing it. Customer support will like it, if nothing else.
I have that. Firefox web developer toolbar. It lets you do pretty much anything, including "Forms->Show Passwords".

I'm pretty sure there's no easy way to make it the default behavior, but you're just 2 clicks away from having it on the page you're viewing.
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Ivan is right. You should try it before you buy (not necessarily using torrents though); most of my friends didn't make it past the 1st week. Some didn't even make it past the 1st hour before completely giving up on it.

If you think an hour a day is too much time to spend on working out, P90x may not be for you.
Over time, nearly all "essential PC components" become obsolete.
'Since 2001' is just 8 years. Climatologists will generally agree that 30 years is the minimum time to consider when talking about global climate change, because of the natural rhythms and fluctuations year to year.

Saying that the last 8 years disproves climate change is like saying that last week was warmer than the week before and therefore we're heading into summer and not into winter.

However, there's probably not too much harm being done in waiting another 10 years before we take this more seriously. 10 years from now if we're having record heatwaves again everywhere, I expect most skeptics will start coming around.
It's not an appeal to authority, it's an appeal to good ideas. Dyson's points are valid. If you dismiss them without even thinking deeply about them, you're pretty much doing what the Inquisition did to Galileo.

Moreover, Dyson's points are based on good Science. He focuses on measurements and data, which are hard evidence. Dyson does not appeal to emotion or fear.
Wouldn't that be in an interesting nature vs. nurture experiment? Imagine: Thirtytwo Jefferson and his brother Thirtyfive Jefferson pledge to carry on the legacy of Kim Jong Il. Forty Jefferson, who has become the Communist Party leader in Manchuria, warns them to tone down their rhetoric about the United States, at the same time as publishing an influential book about how democracy is a fundamentally deficient form of government. Twentytwo Jefferson writes a series of increasingly unhinged tracts about the benefits of LSD, while Twentythree devotes his research career to unearthing relics of the Etruscans in Northern Italy. Eighteen Jefferson moves to San Francisco and becomes notorious for his sexual escapades, one of which involves a group of Costa Rican nuns.
Because any place that involves technological discussions attracts a number of self-styled "objectivists" and libertarians who can't cotton to the idea that collective selfless behavior is needed to solve any problem.
and temperature over the short term is a bad reason to change opinions. skepticism SHOULD be growing because the climate change advocates are using cherry picked statistics and bullying.
You missed the point. This article explains things in greater detail:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/magazine/29Dyson-t.html
Indeed, even though I strongly dislike this type of music, I really, really have to admit that he is an amazing dancer and was trained really, really well.
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Machinists also don't like the metric system much. There's no metric unit that's anywhere close to the mil (thousandth of an inch). So in fabrication work, you're forced to either use large, oddball numbers of micrometers, compromise your design by moving to 1/10 mm precision, or hose your budget by using micrometer-level precision.
I would dare to say that there's much, much more than ideology here. There's an awful lot of propaganda on Global Warming. The facts that are presented are, in a way, manipulated to scare the masses. For me it's more than ideology, it's a matter of principle. I would like to see good, honest and open scientific debate on this topic, and that seems to be impossible. Anyone who questions the validity of the global warming predictions is labeled as a crackpot. This is very dangerous. This kind of dogmatic view is rather similar to the Inquisition.

If everybody had studied the global climate in detail and had arrived at the same conclusions, then the fact that everybody thinks the same way would not be dangerous. After all, everybody thinks the Earth is approximately ellipsoidal, and everybody can measure it. However, very few people have studied the climate in detail, and due to this herd movement, any scientist who questions the predictions the most pessimistic arrive to is attacked. This is unacceptable.
This museum wasn't in Kansas, was it?
You cannot generally copy text from the password controls. They also typically implement API restrictions to prevent retrieving their text programmatically. This is by design.
Can you give a more specific case study where this would save me from a huge mess?
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Jay Parkinson in his comments http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/22852/ on this concludes with:

This is criminal. People are dying every day because life and death healthcare runs on handwritten notes. 100,000 people die every year due to medication errors. Of course! As the number of meds a person is on increases, the more likely a fatal interaction, overdose, or incorrectly written prescription will occur.

What if we "allowed" the airline industry to run on paper? Are we willing to tolerate 400 Air France crashes per year? Why does the medical industry get away with this?

I’d like to start a movement. Don’t go to doctors or hospitals that don’t use electronic medical records. They are simply unsafe and hazardous to your health.
okay i'm disappointed then. thanks for that. nice to see theres some perspective i need to learn first.
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The Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) has come up with this online database of women scientists working in the field of agriculture.
Come to think of it, "belittle" doesn't exactly capture what I meant, which is to mark someone as outside the zone of proper discourse. I will change the comment.

No derision at all

That's obviously not true. If it were, people would use the phrase to describe their own views sometimes.
Some remarks:

1) the fact that the senator in question benefits from denying global warming does not mean that the global warming pseudo-science is true. Politicians can never be trusted. Period. And you seem to have fallen under the spell of the ad hominem fallacy.

2) Not all skeptics are the same. My skepticism stems from the fact that I do have a solid education in the sciences (unlike the average citizen), not from the fact that I stand to gain from denying global warming.

3) Last but not least: "most to loose" should be "most to lose". Generally speaking, people with a proper sense of spelling are taken more seriously than those who lack it. Maybe I am being pedantic, but if I were reading your CV and you made spelling errors like this, I would think twice before hiring you. This is an observation, not an attack.
It's a failure all right. 250k a month is simply terrible. I know people with personal blogs who do more than that, much more in some cases.

$12m dollars, 0.25m uniques a month, 24 months. Even assuming that they've had that consistently their whole life, that's 6 million uniques, ever. $2 for each visit to their site. Time to shut down - way past time, even.
This is kind of off topic, but why do you write million as "MM"? I've noticed some people do it; is it a local-convention thing? What does the second M stand for? To me it means "millimetre" and although I can guess from context, just curious about it.

update: OK, answered my own question: It comes from Latin "Mille" meaning "thousand", so MM is a "thousand thousands". Apparently common in finance. Well, now I know!
Conspiracy? Do you mean any 'theory which explains a historical or current event as the result of a secret plot by usually powerful Machiavellian conspirators'? This would indeed be a weird way of describing the arguments and data put forward by a significant number of authoritative scientists of the calibre for instance of MIT's Richard Lindzen. The arguments against global warming hysteria are out in the open for all to examine, discuss and refute if they will. I mentioned Lindzen so here's a recent contribution.

http://portaldata.colgate.edu/imagegallerywww/3503/ImageGall...?

This is conspiratorial?
10,000 hours to master anything... (how many hours have you coded?)
I'll go first. Running @ approx 35,000! It's crazy when you add it up.
Other PC components which are mostly obsolete: Disk controller card, network card, video card.

Sure, there are rare situations where you want more disk/network/video performance than you can get via the support built in to motherboards -- but I'd guess that the vast majority of new computers bought these days have none of the above as separate components.
It does not matter that the number of skeptics is swelling. It would not matter either if the number of warmists were swelling. Science is about observation, experimentation. Science is not about consensus. The truth does not care about what the ignorant masses think.

It does not matter either if the number of skeptic scientists is swelling. What matters is the opinion of the scientists who have studied the global climate. The opinion of the experts is the only one that matters. And since the experts may be wrong, their opinion should be viewed as an opinion, not as an absolute truth.

Moreover, I want to stress something important. This is not a game of "us versus them". The truth does not care for such petty human weaknesses. The climate is an extremely difficult problem, and anyone who's too sure of his / her views is probably not a real expert. And scientists should have the freedom to speak what they think, without fearing being attacked by the gullible masses.

I finish with a quote by Robert Oppenheimer:

"There must be no barriers for freedom of inquiry. There is no place for dogma in science. The scientist is free, and must be free to ask any question, to doubt any asssertion, to seek for any evidence, to correct any errors."
That's an excellent point. I have both listed on my FB (along with sexual alignment). In the UK the first company to try this is going to get their arses handed to them by the courts.
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It's despairing that so much of modern capitalism has moved from "a fair deal at a fair price" to a scam of sorts -- even if it's a legal scam.
You got it. It feels more natural for me to use the financial practice 'MM' than the scientific/computing 'M' for 'mega' when talking about dollars... though I'm sure I've sometimes used 'M'.

I suppose the fact that the unit has already been declared as a prefix -- '$' -- also sways the choice away from SI abbriviations just a little. 'M' for 'mega' is usually a unit prefix. So the usage consistent with MB or Mb or MHz or MW for dollars might actually be '12M$', which is just weird.

Everyone seems to use '$12K' for thousands, though, because the Roman M would be too prone to confusion.
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No. from the rules -
"The RMSE for the first "quiz" subset will be reported publicly on the Site; the RMSE for the second "test" subset will not be reported publicly but will be employed to qualify a submission as described below. The reported RMSE scores on the quiz subset provide a public announcement that a potential qualifying score has been reached and provide feedback to Participants on both their absolute and relative performance."

The final call announcement would not go out unless a team beat 10% on the test set. That announcement went out at 4:30pm PST today.

It is still quite possible that the entries can be rejected if the reviewers find the system description lacking or if we are unable to reproduce their result. That clock starts after the 30 days runs out.
I assume you mean total HN karma points of all users, not just of the poster. If the later, everyone's first post would be their best :)
Yet despite all this progress we're still somehow stuck with BIOS.
I thought one of the caveat of the prize was that the winner was not supposed to disclose the algorithm they used, isn't?
if you grab Jquery from Google, you'll get more performance especially in speed, as the browser need to download it only once and then can work with it on all sites

Read more here http://encosia.com/2008/12/10/3-reasons-why-you-should-let-g...
I forgot to answer your first question. We released a new prediction engine a few months ago (http://blog.netflix.com/2009/05/more-accurate-star-predictio...)...

I think it's safe to assume that we wouldn't have used new algorithm(s) if they didn't work well on our ~3B ratings.
I agree with most of these, with the big exception being webcams. Not that I see them going away by any means, but I doubt the author's prediction that they will become universal. There will probably always be plenty of places worth bringing your computer where cameras are not allowed.
I don't know even if you have noticed what the guy says: "Another of Finland's major exports, besides the Opera Web browser, is paper." - OPERA comes from Norway!

Aren't people supposed to do a research before they write?
What really matters is the percentage of Windows machines that have it installed

I know, I've been bitten by that prerequisite. But the question asked was "When is Microsoft going to learn UI lessons from HTML", which has a simple answer.
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They can also target the ads more precisely. Like it or not, there's a lot of data on a lot of people out there that exists solely for doing things like that. All broadcast TV has is context.
Karma be damned! Video in article is best watched while drunk.
I had a similar situation. During a heat wave I filled up the bathtub and sinks with cold water to absorb some of the heat. A few days later they sent someone to check for water leaks in my apartment =).
I have used credit cards and taken out debt before purely to game the system. (e.g. used my low interest student/bank loans as an investment source) I didn't loose money but I found there are always hidden costs and any loan creates a weight on the mind that is not healthy. I now just buy everything in cash.
Many companies succeed despite having no exposure on TechCrunch. This one failed despite having permanent placement on TC. Makes one wonder what the true value of TC coverage is, no?
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Most of the data is twitter driven. The underlying question is whether or not live content is good content?
The comments on that post are reasonable, but the comments on the linked stories about

the most negative people in my thirty years of programming

are really god awful. That's pretty screwed up community there.
See, I don't think you're correct about webcams.

Most of these other technologies have been supersceded by something superior - the Webcam is a simple video input device.

Unless someone figures a superior method to get your image digitised into a machine (for example, 3D imaging, sort of like how Microsoft is trying to commoditize the 3D camera with project natal) - I really don't see these going anywhere anytime soon.

I suspect the author's predictions will ring true in this regard, with webcams becoming more advanced and being included in more devices.
~35K here too.
On the contrary, they are supposed to publish it.
No doubt in 100 years or so nutrition science will finally get to the point of saying, in essence, prepare and eat foods that have a long tradition among groups of people who managed to stay in excellent health.

I've gone ahead and started eating that way now. I'll be long dead before nutrition science actually comes up with dietary recommendations that they don't overhaul or reverse ten years later.
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There is also libcoro. In fact I think there's two of them ;-)

First is http://www.freebsdsoftware.org/devel/libcoro.html

Second is part of the excellent Coro Perl module: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Coro/
There are advancements here, such as EFI. All Intel Mac's use EFI now.
Wow, Michael Jackson really was a hacker. He coordinated a DDOS attack to occur shortly after his death!