skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The talk of "consensus" emerged because previously there was a concerted effort from vested interests to make the public believe that climate change was a controversial issue amongst the scientific community. This severely muddied the waters of public opinion. So it's important to continue the message of scientific consensus.

The scientific consensus is our best model for reality. That isn't about having faith in any group, it's about having faith in the scientific process. Your example of stomach ulcers only supports that point. Once new evidence was found, the new explanation was quickly adopted into the scientific consensus (so it remained the best model for reality).
> It has destroyed gmail chat with hangouts. Youtube with stupid G+ comment integration.

These are pretty much huge improvements over the previous implementations though?

>They even fuck up the search, even the search!

I've personally found this useful on many occasions. True, I wish they could integrate with Twitter like they did before, but that's going to take coordination with Twitter. What would you improve regarding search/G+?
Genentech asked Kleiner Perkins for a $3.0 million dollar investment back in the 70s to see if it was even possible to accomplish genome splicing. The investment would have paid for building a new lab, new equipment, etc. KP decided to give them $500k and rent the UCLA lab instead. That was a groundbreaking investment (and the VC business had only been around for 15-20 years).

In the current landscape of investing, crowdfunding has become the vehicle for riskier investments that traditional VCs no longer make (because they don't fit 10% x $2 billion = happy LPs) and I'm sure KP knows firsthand about dealing with bio-pharma regulations.

Hats off to Immunity and YC.
I think everyone on the internet should be forced to use their real identity, except for me, because I have a completely legitimate reason for wanting privacy and anonymity!
>>The returns from such cards are so small now its not even worth mentioning.

Well, I dunno about mining BTC specifically but I got a co-worker making about 0.45 - 0.6 BTC a month on a 2 GPU rig from Newegg at $1200. He's using the middlecoin.com pool which rotate-mines different altcoins, converts to BTC and pays out. The rig is on track to paying for itself soon and apparently his electric bill didn't shoot to the moon.
It sounds like you are agreeing with me. Because like you said you would want to discuss it with your doctor before making a decision.
* CSP is actually the header that most security professionals are the most excited by (in my experience) as it gives you more control over what resources are and are not allowed.
Especially when you're thinking of a future where you want to securely 'mash up' content, being able to set policies is essential.

* XFO, it you're doing API first there really is very little reason to frame a page. Maybe Twitter style widget support? But in that case you can have a separate URL for that.

* XCTO, yes, welcome to the 'organic' web :p

* HSTS, the first connect is difficult, maybe one day via DNSSec? But I must confess to know very little about DNSSec.
This makes little sense to me. Bitcoin only? Seems like they would miss out on a lot of business; which from my perspective they want more business from a variety of means(i.e. Amazon Fresh). My Mom and Grandmother do not know what Bitcoin is, let alone how how to acquire it. Bitcoin as an added payment, yes.
Tesla definitely has more potential upside than Chrysler.
the color matches the screen bezel color. silver/gold iphone get white, 5C and space gray get black.

All the phones do come with their background set to one that matches their primary case color though. Motorola does this with the Moto X as well. Definitely a nice 'premium' touch.
BLOAT - Artificially inflate the disk image size of a compiled program.
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Same here. What's up with that?
It depends on the lighting of the room you're in. In a well-lit room or outside (I love hacking outdoors) a light background will reduce eye strain, but when it's darker around it's less suitable. In any case, it's always easier to darken a light screen than to make a dark screen brighter given that you rarely see laptop screens brighter than 300 nits.
If they call it unlimited, it damned well ought to be unlimited.
Dude, you can't just say "there are a lot of things that we don't understand about climate (solar cycles, effects of water vapor, ocean CO2 sequestration, etc.)" and then accuse others of not being serious.

Every point you just mentioned has been dealt to death. And if you really want to be serious about "two orders of magnitude of difficulty", please try to quantify it, and explain why, for example, building more solar and nuclear plants just isn't going to cut it.
I have little respect for Violet Blue. You're talking about someone who changed her name, then sued the pre-existing owner of the domain matching her name for trademark infringement (longer story, a porn actress started using the name "about" the same time as Violet Blue began writing under that pseudonym. EIGHT YEARS LATER, the writer changed her name and went after the porn actress and appears to have this sincere belief that the porn star made a choice to capitalize off of her fame as a blogger).

http://randazza.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/violet-blue-no-name...

"Some Facts from the Opinion:

Violet Blue (the writer) first used the pen name in an online article in 1999; No Name Jane first used the name as a stage name in 2000.
No Name Jane has appeared in hundreds of adult films over the years under the name “Violet Blue”.
Violet Blue legally changed her name to Violet Blue, registered her name as a trademark in early 2008, and promptly filed suit.
The Northern District court granted Violet Blue’s motion for a preliminary injunction, ruling that she had a valid, defendable trademark. (However, the court was not convinced Blue would succeed on the merits of her trademark dilution claim because the Federal Trademark Dilution Act requires that her trademark be famous prior to the time No Name Jane began using it.)"

"Violet Blue is a self-made autodidact" - is a self-made self-teacher?
Ah, but that's about cryptosystems. And its application is really about the continued use of a thing. Kerckhoff's principle doesn't apply so much to a one-off situation. Sticking with a house raid:

We have a plan to raid this house using these entrances, covering those exits with these 10 people. The adversary knowing our plan screws us, but learning it after the fact doesn't help our adversary.

But what if we use the same tactic every time? What if we always cut power immediately before breaching. That's a signal to the adversary. What if we always use the same sniper and he has a known handicap? If the adversary learns these things then they can break our efforts (or reduce the effectiveness) to conduct the raid. And this is where Kerckhoff's principle could be applied.

EDIT: It's not secrets that are the problem, it's keeping the wrong secrets. You can't have my passphrase or my PGP private key(s), but, sure, you can have the AES and RSA algorithms and my public key(s).
As far as I understand, the deniers didn't do it. They just trolled enough to force the additional analysis by the real scientists. The result?

"NIWA's 'seven-station' series has been re-analysed, and independently peer-reviewed, and the result confirms a NZ-wide warming trend."

Practically the same result, nothing that confirms the wishes of deniers.
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Seems like one of the most expensive job posting boards ever? Those are basically recruiter-level fees, is that quality that much higher?
Julia has a community that doesn't feel threatened that their language is waning in popularity in some fields, and therefore doesn't feel the need to defend it every chance they get.
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Those old Usborne programming books were very nicely presented. /Adventure Programs/ http://www.worldcat.org/title/adventure-programs/oclc/104011... and /Fantasy Games/ http://www.worldcat.org/title/fantasy-games/oclc/12824029 had a nice balance between luring you with the game and its setting, and drawing you into how it was implemented as a BASIC program. The high-quality art supported both goals too. (You can see a zipped PDF of /Adventure Games/ here: http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books/pdf/Write_your_own_A... at this site for computer-book abandonware http://www.bombjack.org/commodore/books-generic.htm .) Still, there was a big old gulf between reading the colour section describing the program and actually trying to understand the big program listing at the back. /Introduction to Computer Programing/ http://www.worldcat.org/title/introduction-to-computer-progr... is better in that respect, but unlike /Fantasy Games/ and /Adventure Games/ it stopped short of presenting any program as complex as a full interactive simulation.
>Bitcoin solves a non-existent problem!

Did those posters ever exist? I certainly haven't seen them on Hacker News.
I'm sure the unemployed people made obsolete by robots will be able to afford that.
So wait--you said you almost went back to collecting CC's up front, and that article says it was a better fit than the no-CC trial, so what data did you collect to say otherwise?

You're arguing both sides Brennan. :) I'm confused as hell as to which worked and why.
We do but it doesn't work the same depending on the country.
For example, in France (where we were originally based) and Europe, it's pretty effective if we call the company we target and ask for the right person (thank you Linkedin).
Though, we recently moved in the US and the first calls we made didn't really work. Some people were even pissed that we called them from nowhere and where wondering how we got their phone numbers.
Possibly relevant: We work in mobile advertising
In some (most, I thought, but maybe I'm wrong) terminals, you can only use the control key to generate an actual control character -- i.e. one of ASCII 0-31. The ctrl key basically unsets bit 64 from the typed key, so ctrl-A through ctrl-Z generate ASCII 1-26, ctrl-@ generates ASCII 0 (though traditionally ctrl-spc gives this as well), and ctrl with [ \ ] ^ _ generate the remaining ASCII 27-31. Ctrl-? sometimes generates ASCII 127 (pretending that ctrl actually subtracts 64 instead of unsetting the bit), but otherwise there are no remaining ASCII values left for such extensions as ctrl-%.
I haven't had the smoothest experiences getting plotting in general to work (it's getting progressively better). The plotting in IJulia using PyPlot (matplotlib wrapper) has been good for me.

The Julia plotting packages are Winston, Gadfly, and Gaston. You can find detailed discussions of which one to use on the julia-users mailing list.
Note that this isn't a "getting screwed" story, and the person it happened to isn't complaining that it happened. It's really just a tech-PR piece on how far you have to go to run afoul of these limits. (Look at the paragraphs spent gushing about his setup. Those wouldn't be there if this were rabblerousing.)
I disagree with that representing ambiguity, rather than a perfectly reasonable set of treatment guidelines for different settings.

It's also a conversation that's pretty orthogonal to most anti-vaccine discussions, so it feels like a bit of a red herring.
Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath
The comparison is fairly skin deep:

* mandatory minimum sentences

* lopsided plea bargains (you can go to jail for anywhere between 18 months to 30 years, depending on whether you take the bargain)

* prosecutors pushing for convictions as a means of adding to their professional scorecard

* rampant fear and paranoia (marijuana is a gateway drug! command line interfaces are scary!)

* using that fear and paranoia to pass draconian (and oftentimes ineffective) legislation via door-in-the-face argument -- propose something obviously ridiculous, and when it's rejected then you propose something that's still overreaching but not enough to cause outrage

* using the above-said legislation to funnel public funds to our congress-critters' friends

Beyond that, the two are essential incomparable.
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I've been wondering about this myself. In a typical, successful B2B cold call, how does the conversation actually go?
Just yesterday I decided to start seriously developing in Julia. High-level languages are a bottleneck for computational biology. We need to be able to write things fast, and have them run fast. So far no language really does this. But Julia looks like the one.

I'm going to put together a BioJulia team is anyone is interested in playing.
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Thanks Lou! Glad it'll help you.
I love Julia, Coming from the Ruby world it was very easy to get into.

It was easy to see how useful and expressive the language was by just doing a few Project Eulers.
And who are those founders supposed to consist of? Exclusively early-20 year olds living with their parents?
Because my landlord sure as hell is not gonna accept 'equity' for rent. Neither does my grocery store or car financing company.
Silly.
LaunchSky imagines grown-up, successful startups as baby pitches
Bitcoin as fiat
Do you not think this sort of thing may be ultimately caused by the prison industry? they need more patrons!
You can actually just put

(server-start)

at the end of your init file, and it'll behave more or less as you intend; if you've got a lot of stuff hanging off after-init-hook, you might do well to hang server-start off it as well.

That said, yeah, it will create a window which if killed will shut down Emacs, so I tend to prefer invoking it with the --daemon option instead; that way, I don't have to worry about accidentally killing Emacs if I kill the wrong frame. (I also call server-start in my init file, but I'm not actually sure that is necessary when invoking Emacs with --daemon.)
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Everyone's answer to that question will be different. In my opinion, there's lots of things to love about Julia.

First class arrays and array literals. It's a wonderful thing… like Matlab but very smartly designed.

The type dispatch system makes so much sense for mathematical work. It's simply how math is done. And Stefan Karpinski (co-creator) often compares it to linguistic grammars, too, which may be a stretch but I think there's some truth to it. It just feels right. And it makes things very extensible, right down to the core language.

And the core language is indeed mostly Julia itself. Compared to NumPy where things are often implemented in C or Cython. I've tried to hack on some Cython things in NumPy and was immediately turned off. It was so hard to debug and run interactively.

Julia's interactivity is wonderful. The IJulia project brings over some of the best user experience of NumPy (in my opinion)… which is not NumPy but IPython.

And the community is so very great and supporting. The package system is such a great asset and really lowers the bar to entry.
> If for nothing else, to protect the people who are looking out for our interests overseas? Like it or not, covert operations and intelligence is important to the long-term operations of a sufficiently large entity.

Just because that's the way things have always been done, does that make it a requirement? Why do we need to spy on others? Why do we need to launch covert attacks on others?

> Saying that we can have no secrets is giving up embedded operatives dealing with people who genuinely have bad intentions.

Yes, I understand that.

> Saying that we can have no secrets would have dramatically changed the outcome of the landings at Normandy and WWII in general.

Did it really? I mean, none of that was do to the Axis powers pretty much dropping the ball and fighting a battle on two fronts and a Führer who didn't listen to his generals (yes, partially because he believed the disinformation we fed)? I'm not saying that secrecy wasn't important to how D-Day was done or Operation Fortitude (the deception operation done before Neptune). We did, however, loose heavy casualties in it and the Germans couldn't move their equipment fast enough to combat us for reasons I said earlier.

It wasn't simply that we kept it a secret and it went off without a hitch.

> That black and white style of argument is ridiculous; that's what I'm saying.

I agree, however, defining that gray is extremely tough. We have attempted to define it in a very narrow context, and look what we're dealing with now. Absolutes are ridiculous, abuse of power because grey is hard to define, though, is bad as well.

Which is worse? A government unable to take secretive (hostile) action against other states (or it's own citizens), or one in which we have mass surveillance, secret (kangaroo courts), torture, and secret executions of people not deemed by a public court to be a threat?
Yes, best thing to do is research the hell of them before you make any call or email. Some great articles that I've shared with my team:

http://www.startupmoon.com/how-i-got-meetings-at-twitter-lin...
http://life-longlearner.com/how-to-cold-email-prospects/
http://okdork.com/2013/04/18/cold_email/
Comcast cap doesn't seem to be a hard limit, or wasn't in the past. I managed 4tb in a month before they finally kept calling me and telling me I had a "virus". I'm not even sure how you could transfer 77tb in a month.
Pentagon says 'absolutely no new orders have been placed' for BlackBerry phones
Because everyone in America believes they have a chance to be a leader someday. Better to believe in the dream than to be disgruntled I suppose.
Noticed it too, and it looks city-street are unique combinations (one street by city).
I've typically bought computer stuff from Tiger Direct. About half of my computer parts have came from there for about the last 10 years or so. They aren't the absolute cheapest site online, but I've never had any problem with returns or customer service with them, so I keep with them.
Rails took off among startups because it made it so much more efficient to iterate on design, but node.js is nothing like that. I actually tried node.js for a while and came back to rails because it's simply not convenient enough. Like the guy below said, it's great for certain use cases but overall it doesn't bring much else to the table.
If you have an account with a Simple Choice plan (their postpaid offering). You can also buy day passes if you need to use it beyond the 200MB. Also worth noting this is for "select devices" only, i.e. some tablets. They may not allow using said device as a hotspot.
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"Hi I'm from YOURCOMPANY and I saw you wrote/spoke on/commented about RELEVANTTOPICORTHEME and thought you may be interested in learning more about YOURCOMPANY. I'd love to set up a demo to show you how it can help you with PROBLEM. What day is better for you, Tuesday or Wednesday?"
When companies break the law and people pay: The scary lesson of the Google Bus
Jeff and I were slightly miffed at being called "not language nerds" ;-)
Thanks for the link, Jacob. I'll have to check out Practical Vim. I notice it says that it has more than 100 Vim tips. I guess I would take those tips and put them into my study deck so that I'd actually be able to remember all of them. ;)
Or it gets attention plain and simple. No further deep through required from management, that's all it's needed. I guess few here remember when announcing you were going to have a website got attention (see Ktel records http://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/23/business/market-place-it-s...)
I saw this weeks ago when I thought about posting there and it scared me off - are they saying I was randomly selected to NOT get it for free? That sucks.
Ever see he SNL bit where Tina fey just read word for word quotes from Sarah Palin revealing their complete absurdity? Hilarious and very pointed commentary in one.

Oh yeah. It could work.
>but please don't argue that boys benefit from this by having the chance to be obedient little utilities.

I wasn't arguing anything, merely clarifying the point of that poster.

But since you brought it up, the argument that boys benefit from being exposed to values like acceptance of diversity, and stand to gain by not being exposed to gender prejudice as they learn about the world around them...well it is an argument I not only accept, but embrace.

What a cynical and devious re-framing of the poster's argument btw. Aren't you something.
The article goes off the rails with this sentence: "As a country and a criminal justice system, we’ve been down this road of excessive punishment before: with drugs."

There's no particularly strong connection between computer crimes and drug crimes. As you point out, the comparison is hyperbole, and ignores the deep racial, cultural, and class conflicts at the heart of the drug war. None of those things are really applicable to computer crimes.

Rather, the time Keys is facing is simply a symptom of the broader malaise of the justice system: felony enhancements are too quick to trigger, sentences are too long and the sentencing guidelines offer false precision while reducing necessary judicial discretion.

The article's comparison to California's vandalism law highlights the issue described above: "Under California law, physical vandalism – like spray painting graffiti on a building — can be punished as either a misdemeanor or a felony..." That part is true of the CFAA as well, which is also a misdemeanor unless committed in furtherance of another crime. And the trigger for felony vandalism in California isn't high--above $400 in property damage makes a felony charge available to the prosecutor, as well as a sentence of up to three years in prison. In other words, I don't think it's fair to say that Keys faces more time for his computer crime than if he had physically vandalized a building to the tune of five figures of damage.

Drug crimes are just in a whole different league. Possession with intent to distribute less than 100 grams of heroin can carry a sentence of up to 20 years, or up to 30 years on a second offense. Meanwhile, prison time for computer crimes is still relatively light, unless they are effectively some sort of fraud or theft: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_criminals. Something like this is much more typical: http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/aspiring-medical-s... (three months prison + 7 months of halfway house out of 10 months sought by the prosecution for hacking into AAMC computers with intent to cheat on the MCAT exam).
"Hackers" as a term is beginning to become too overridden to be useful.
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I know the chorus kinda doesn't make sense, but it's only rock and roll (and I like it).
No idea what you mean there.

She was being playful.
As a former kid, I appreciate that.