skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
because you cannot host jQuery on your own site, you may or may not need jQuery.

edit: turns out, adblock didn't like logger.js. but the jquery and underscores are still refusing to be served. You may or may not need underscore as well.
1 In 4 Americans Thinks The Sun Goes Around The Earth, Survey Says
Things that go across more than one line more or less don't work; for example, links where you specify the target on another line.
This looks great. I did think the demo would be like http://raphaelcruzeiro.github.io/jquery-notebook/ - might be a good "distraction-free" mode.

Offtopic: where can I learn to make sites that look like this?
You have no contact details in your profile or on writebin.io - someone here has posted an XSS vulnerability.
Obama Pushes "Fast Track" Bill of Non-Public Treaty (TPP) Despite Opposition
The form of evolution I was taught in school was strictly wrong. It's not hard to see why anyone would reject the principle outright.
I can see my apartment! (view looks like it's from the Empire State Building, NYC, looking East)
Climate change models are based on data. Old data, but real data. The concept wouldn't have even occurred to us had real, physical phenomena not suggested it. The deviation of recent data from predictive models does not indicate that nothing is going on an everything is tickety-boo. It merely indicates we don't fully understand what's going on and our models still don't have much predictive power.

So, if we don't fully understand what's going on, what do we do? Nothing? That's idiotic. It's utter paralysis. Would you invest in a tech company that refuses to do anything unless it fully understands the outcome? Sadly, human existence is lived in a perpetual state of trial and error. What we can do is weigh the consequences our actions could have based on our current, best understanding of the situation and then make the best choice we can.

Climate change might not fit our models, but our limited understanding of what's going on indicates there could be dire consequences if we do nothing. Action always has a cost, however. If indeed efforts against climate change have caused poor people to starve (evidence please!), how do we weigh this against massive famines that may occur in the future because of climate change?

Dr. Spencer is jumping to conclusions far more spurious and unsupported than any of the climate scientists he derides. We would do well do ignore him. As such, I am flagging this article. If this is an abuse of the flag feature, please let me know and I will unflag it.
Thanks for pointing this out. Haven't had much time to consider things like this yet.
> Go is a badly designed language.

Wat.

FWIW, Go was designed for productivity, not for breaking new ground. In that respect, it has it well achieved. You just need to program in Go for a bit to realize you don't really need classes or generics or templates.

http://talks.golang.org/2014/research.slide#7
Settlement with the European Commission
Expected CO2 increases would modify the Earth's albedo by 0.4%. Clouds modify it by > 25%.

We can't predict clouds more than five days in advance, under our well-studied present climate conditions.

It is difficult to see why climate modelers are confident they can predict average cloud cover in the future when different climate conditions are in effect.
>"There are also arguments against Pascal's wager that do not apply to climate change. For example, you can postulate an anti-Christianity Hell, where only non-Christians are spared. "

Could one not also postulate that we are approaching a new ice age, and that carbon emissions are keeping the world from freezing over?
I could only think of two current languages that does this or close to this.

1. Is Lua / LuaJIT. Extremely fast. Some Drivers were written from it.

2. Rust with some tinkering.

But I honestly think Hardware -> Application Level should be one languages while scripting to DSL would be another.

And that i personally prefer Rust and Ruby.
>Real question is: does trolling on the internet help mitigate real life tendencies?

Are the effects of Internet trolling better than the effects of real life behavior?
We don't have a solution for reference style links yet, but lists, blockquotes, and code should work.
> but they're absolutely certain that trying to weatherproof our civilization is going to result in collective bankruptcy. Oh yes.

? This is hardly a deep economic forecast. If you force people to engage in expenditures they were otherwise never going to make, it's a pretty safe bet they're not going to be better off. After all, if they were better off for it, why weren't they already going to do it? We can maybe imagine a few scenarios to do with personal health and things like that where paternalism works, but nothing to do with global warming looks like that. Working against global warming is going to be expensive, there's no question about that; the question is whether working against global warming is less expensive than not.
You can flag what you want, but I'm unconvinced by your arguments. You concede that he makes a point and we have no predicitive power when it comes to the climate.

After that you don't really win me back.
Sure there is some evidence - the existence of a guy claiming to be god's son, a bunch of people claiming miracles occurred, etc. These things are weak evidence in favor of christianity - similarly, there is weak evidence in favor of islam, mormonism, etc.

Given that there is no similar evidence for the Anti-Christianity you postulate, the odds don't cancel.

Another interesting result of this line of thinking: a rational Buddhist/Hindu should convert to Islam/Christianity. If Christianity is correct then you avoid burning in hell forever. If Buddhism is correct you reincarnate and get another shot at enlightenment.
would we reason against sending Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck to stop it

Yes, because Tom Cruise could stop it better.
Railscast for Laravel framework.
Don't they do that because the servers tend to have a higher bandwidth connection, and NTP amplification attacks let you make use of that even if your own is slower?
If we're only the cause of 50% of the warming that implies curbing our behavior only has half the impact that it would if we caused 100% of the warming.

No, it does not imply that, not unless we know of a linear relationship between "warming" and "impact." From what I understand, the relationship is far from linear, i.e. our changes can have disproportionate impact.
Hi Chris - it looks like a neat idea. One question: Is this another global namespace, or do you plan to support pet names?
You got "you're" wrong 4 times in that 5 sentence post. I know it's pedantic, but this stuff is important if you're trying to make a good impression in written communication. Why take a chance on looking slightly careless, when it's easy to get it right?

If you think it doesn't matter, you're wrong.
In the full PDF they released today, I thought the screenshot of the "mortgages" search was particularly awful looking, far too many ads and clutter -- even the Google box read like an ad. The rest were interesting. I didn't read enough to find out how to get placed as a third-party alternative. I imagine it uses microformats or some other similar metadata, which will quickly become popular. If there's payment for the third-party links, might I suggest Google that you show fewer AdWords ads? A white sidebar would go a long way to cleaning up these enhanced pages by giving the eyes some space to rest on.
We use LegalShield for our startup. They ROCK for what they cost us.
Google Scholar to the rescue: http://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/trol...
Having a duplicate site would do a lot of damage to my Google search rankings.
Ask HN: Ad-supported mobile operators outside the UK?
The UK has at least two free (as in beer) ad-support mobile operators:

- Ovivo Mobile (http://www.ovivomobile.com/)

- Samba Mobile (http://www.sambamobile.com/)

Their business model is to offer free services in return for either injecting ads into browsing sessions (Ovivo) or offering the customer credit in return for watching video ads (Samba).

Are there companies doing something similar (totally free mobile calls/data, with a cap) in other countries?
I was looking all over for more information, I should have checked the comments first. Thanks!
How to hire in O(NlogN)
This is mostly written out of my frustration but the sentiment is genuine.
The End of Mrs. and Miss
How can this be? Perhaps, their sample is biased? It would really be sad if 25% of Americans really have this misconception - not to mention the similarly high percentages for other countries.
tactfully stated, HN is awesome.
> This is not how I use the word troll or trolling. What this article describes I would simply call 'bullying' or anonymous bullying or in extreme cases harassment.

They literally ask people to self-identify as trolling. And their items sound darn like trolling to me:

> We also included four items relevant to trolling that were interspersed in the other measures: ‘‘I have sent people to shock websites for the lulz’’, ‘‘I like to troll people in forums or the comments section of websites’’, ‘‘I enjoy griefing other players in multiplayer games’’, and ‘‘The more beautiful and pure a thing is, the more satisfying it is to corrupt’’

I mean, come on. There might be things to criticize about this study, but the measure of trolling definitely has 'face validity', as the psych types say.
Advice #1: Get Good at Making money.

Want more elaboration? Jason can explain:
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110301/making-money-small-busi...
The correct way to deal with an error in asynchronous code is to pass an object describing the error as the first argument to the callback.

Sure, but what if the error is thrown at you as an exception in the first place—which happens a fair amount, because that's how the JS runtime tells you when something is wrong? How do you get from there to the callback way?

What the Lisp macro I mentioned does is generate a separate try-catch around each block of code that runs at a different time and thus might throw an exception that would not otherwise get caught. In that way it catches every exception that's thrown, converts it to an error object, and passes the error back through the callback chain. The async library could do the same, albeit with a lot more code. I'm curious why it doesn't.

From a practical perspective, it doesn't make sense to try to catch exceptions in asynchronous code, anyway.

I don't think that's right. Asynchronous code is just synchronous code that runs at different times. Each block of synchronous code can generate exceptions. I agree that if you don't catch them then, they become useless; but you can catch them then. The reason this is not a "practical perspective" in JS is not that it doesn't make sense, it's that the language doesn't support it. Even the minimum code necessary to catch every exception involves so many try-catch blocks as to obscure the rest of the program. So no one writes such code by hand in JS.

Yet it is, I think, code that one wants, because without it you don't have a consistent error model. You end up having one model for first-class errors—the ones you detect and pass to callbacks before an exception has a chance to arise—and a second one for the dregs—the ones that come from any code that didn't know about or follow the callback convention (which, critically, includes the language runtime). The latter kind of error either crashes the server or gets caught by a top-level handler so it "only" crashes the request it was processing. That's a half-baked system.
I read that he's ok with doing all those you mentioned but had problem with adequate compensation with enough ownership in the startup. It's one thing to drink the Koolaid to toil away on someone else's idea and product direction with little or no pay nor sufficient equity. It's another thing to have the wisdom to walk away and pursue your own thing, even if that comes with all the problems of a startup.
I am very much enjoying the new flappy meme. It's pretty cool that a game came and went and became a legend in such a short time. And now the "flappy" adjective is a byword for simple, nearly impossible games.
lmao @ "an degree"
By lifestyle business, I mean one which is a lifestyle, rather one that is tied to the exit strategies of investors. This ranges from a small retail outlet to a growing software firm that is bootstrapped.

The difference is that you are interested in long-term earnings on your revenue, not in making it big by selling shares (either via the stock market or by selling the business). The real difference, I think, is that a lifestyle business is not for sale. And that's a deal breaker if by an investor you want to make money by selling your interest.
>So now I'll have to find myself a bomb shelter and spend the next 20 years writing a web-only language

Eliminate the entire browser and just start distributing x64 "apps" to raw hardware sandboxed virtual machines in Bochs or another emulator. That way people could have as much pixel level control for display purposes as they wanted. Ideally you'd also have some client side OCR so that we could copy and store text from these new websites. Some sites would want to have you download megabytes of "operating systems" before. But there'd be nothing stopping you from making a raw hardware Forth website 1000 times smaller than the next guy if you so desired

http://www.ultratechnology.com/forth.htm

You could bootstrap the whole thing by having bochs run in a asm.js setup, with the graphics frame buffer being spit out to a HTML5 canvas.

http://bellard.org/jslinux/
Unfortunately, because of our past experiences with authoritarian regimes in latin america (I'm in Brazil), we're now stuck with incompetent leftist leaders who believe are heroes of democracy (ironic), and the people, from the poorest worker to the PhD, has been brainwashed into accepting ideologies above real results from the government.
Slight correction (or maybe just clarification) is that the ball of bees generate a temperature of around 47c not just because that's their body temperature, but by vibrating muscles very fast to heat it up. Pretty incredible what nature comes up with.
The prototypical troll: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates

A good troll often expresses no view, and simply asks questions for which no good answer is provided. This is my favorite trolling question: "what evidence, if any, would convince you your theory is wrong?"
Pretty much this. Dropbox works well enough, but this is just a gradual step forward that makes all the difference in my opinion.
You ubuntu users crack me up. How hard is this:

# apt-get --install-suggests install xcfe4

Package info: http://packages.ubuntu.com/saucy/xfce4
A Boy And His Atom: The World's Smallest Movie [video]
Or setting up and keeping a server running.
Someone from Stripe commented on another post that they were working on speeding up the transfers, but I had not heard anything. Maybe they are phasing it in and starting with new accounts.
It would be great to autoindent next line when writing code blocks (that start with 4 space, for example).
And I mean... to paint a little sunshine here, there are also probably plenty of times where we all have made the right decision and it had the best possible outcome in the scenario.
I don't mind a bit of both worlds on this.. my real name is pretty common, not so common that you could never find me with my real name, but on the flip side, my alias is pretty specific to me... if you search for my first or last name, with my online handle, you're pretty likely to find me.

Most of the first page of google results for my alias are me... combined with my name, you get even more. I think adopting an online alias is kind of important, but then again, I started off in the BBS days with dialup boards that were pretty much all local to you.
Along these lines, John Resig recently created http://nodestreams.com/ as a way of composing and conceptualizing stream processing. Pretty nifty.
Mystery of Mars 'doughnut rock' solved
> the existence of a guy claiming to be god's son

Why doesn't such a person show up in Roman records or any one else's records besides Christians then? This is not evidence.

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Evidence_for_the_historical_exi...
It's not the actual cash. Money is actually worthless in and of itself, it's the using of it that makes it worthwhile.

Money gets you access to resources to MAKE things, that is why R&D takes so much money. You have to pay a lot of people to think and work hard - only if it's your money you can pay them to think and work hard on YOUR idea and YOUR dream.

Money also gets you the ability to influence change, politically or otherwise. Right or wrong that is how it works, and deciding you are better than that and not playing the game won't stop that from being true - all that will mean is that it will be that much harder for you to actually influence.

So no, money is worthless, it's the things you can do with it that will find your contentedness.
One day your getting upvoted for a possible empathetic comment. The next your getting knocked down for slight grammatical errors.

Start-up life keep it coming. I've rode your high and lows and will continue to do so til the end!
The Color Run Sues College Photographer After He Asks for Compensation for Image
The problem is exacerbated by the fact that we have no idea what effect the policies have. They could be good, BUT they can also have bad results. I mean bad beyond just the economic implications. Since the climate system has been working a certain way for ~10000 years, I'd say the default position should be that nothing is going to change.

What's missing from your reply is an answer to the data he's showing. A long time criticism of the IPCC is that, well, they're wrong. In the sense that if you compare their numbers with reality, their predictions turn out to be a pile of crap. In a truly absolute sense of the word. The IPCC's 95% certainty bands it gave for 5 years out have been violated EVERY single time (5 times) they made a prediction (for the 6th prediction, the jury is still out until the end of next year. However, it's not looking good).

If they really were 95% sure, that means they had a once in 16 MILLION years streak of bad luck (1/0.05^5 * 5 years) (and unless that 6th prediction works out, and global temperature rises by at least 1.2 degrees in about a year and a half, that will be a once in 320 million years streak of bad luck). That is significantly less believable, in my humble opinion, than the theory that they're just pulling numbers out of their ass (not necessarily intentionally), no matter how unflattering that claim may be to the many smart people working that field.

So in short : yes, I think doing nothing is the correct answer. You can't hope to do a better job doing something versus not doing something in this case, so the best course of action (least cost/maximum benefit) can only be to not do anything. So yes, nothing.

Either that, or switch to climate engineering (ie. change the question : no longer about how to restore "natural" climate, whatever that is. The question becomes : how do we fully bend the climate to our will. That and related questions, like what do we actually want the climate to be (I doubt the answer will be as simple as people think)).

So I don't agree with your flagging this, no. Yes, the article's author is probably not the right person to believe this claim from. But he's right (well, the first few paragraphs). And science is all about what is right, not who.
It's the taking advantage of their lack of options (and need to feed themselves) to pay them less that's the exploitation.

Exploitation is far more nuanced than "working at gunpoint".

But it all has to do with ethical standards. Some are content to get the cheap labor, so they see no problem here.
IANAS but it never made sense to me that global warming would be linear with amount of CO_2, at some point, I figured 95% of the available IR would be absorbed by the atmosphere and doubling the CO_2 would only get us to, like, 97.5%. Then again, we are experiencing some crazy weather patterns recently.

Other effects of CO_2, like ocean acidification can be seen through both direct chemical measurement and by the observed environmental effects on coral reefs.
Hunger is not very different from "gunpoint".

You are working "voluntary" only if you have options.
Well, for one the rules directly state: "If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did." Further, the rules also state that one should flag things which are "spam or offtopic." The list of flag worthy offenses isn't extensive, and I am sure there are other reasons, but something tells me that flagging something simply because you disagree with it is NOT ok.
It has always seemed strange to me too. I have just always chalked it up to being an ubuntu thing.[1] I don't know if it has caught on in other distro-ecosystems but it seemed like it started with Ubuntu; which was peculiar because you do not have to deal with dependency hell--you have apt right there in that little black box!

The other ubuntu curiosity is installing `command-not-found` by default? I never thought you could have something worse than /usr/games/sl in your path, but then ubuntu introduced me to `command-not-found`.

[1] I say this as a 15+ year Debian user.
Say goodbye to Putlocker and hello to the new Firedrive
Yes, see the debunk links in here. Those models normally all have ranges. Since he's in expert, it's a reasonable assumption that he either intentionally choose a graph without errors or he intentionally removed the error bars. Don't know which one would be worse.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site.
If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by going to its page and clicking on
the "flag" link. (Not all users will see this; there is a karma threshold.) If you flag
something, please don't also comment that you did.
Very convincing ad homs.
Why do you feel the need to identify the gender of your users at all?
Baghdad is cool, I guess, I'd rather go to the space station with Debian:

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-international-space-station-lap...
About 8 miles less accurate than MaxMind -- 11 miles wrong vs. Maxmind's 3. I'm always curious: what is the provenance of services like this one / MaxMind — my ISP? Some past inadvertant GPS-enabled requests that leak out?
And I wish religious zealots would be banned in the comments section as well.
Sounds like you're looking for tabIndent.js
I thought that was "hater".