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>> water is already present in the atmosphere

> Adding more water has only a short term effect unless it somehow changes that equilibrium.

It doesn't matter. The water already present in the atmosphere absorbs almost all IR radiation. Add anything and you won't get bigger greenhouse effect, assuming it actually works.

> Water has a large greenhouse effect and without that effect Earth would be much colder.

Or not. We don't know it. You said yourself that we don't know if there is any bigger effect taking place. And the greenhouse effect is mainly accepted among climatologists. Physicists who work on thermodynamics don't quite agree the very reasoning about energy balance done by climatologists is credible at all.

> If that effect were to increase Earth would get hotter, but fortunately the excess water simply falls out of the sky instead.

Really? What "excess" do you mean? You know that it's not only the "excess" which causes IR absorption? And if there's little radiation left to be absorbed, adding more greenhouse gases doesn't make the temperature grow.

>> It would, if it was fact

> It is an observation. We can literally observe it happening.

No. It's just a hypothesis that greenhouse effect takes place. We do not have enough data to confirm the effect.

> That does not tell us precisely how it would function under different conditions (such as increased CO2), so for that we must rely on theory.

And there goes f*ck your claim that it was a fact.
From the supported platforms it looks like it should work on a BeagleBone Black (arm, am335x, armv7-a, cortex-a8)--anyone been brave enough to try?
> And always unbundle DNS contract from hosting contract, so you can switch fast, in case your hosting provider sucks.

With Hetzner that is indeed a necessity. They sell cheap iron, but don't expect any support from them and be prepared to move out quickly.
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Ask HN: Film producer in tech town
I'm film producer who recently moved to the bay area looking for suggestions on how/where/when to meet and make friendships with people that would be interested in financing an indie film?

Also, please don't respond with the following suggestions:
"why are you asking a tech community; you're in the wrong place". my response: in the first five minutes of living in SV I'v learned that tech people are connected to tech people who are connected to people with money.
"you should connect with bay area filmmaking communities". my response: I can round up a few crew members (and I have) but filmmakers don't know investors, and if they do they keep them for themselves.
"Kickstarter, duh"... my response: I'm not a celebrity (Braff, cough-cough) and trying to craft a serious film fundraising 10-20K on kickstarter will maybe pay my sound mixer (hyperbole, but you get the point).
"why do you need investors, I know someone who made a film with their iphone for a couple hundred dollars!" my response: I doubt that film has secured a distribution deal or is playing in the theaters. I'm producing a serious film intended to reach Cannes, Sundance, et al.
“aren’t there other resources for filmmakers like grants” my response: There is a host of resources, but my questions has specifically to do with networking in the area I moved to.
"go to a bar you idiot"... my response: which one? I assumed my question implied I'm asking for specific advice and information beyond the obvious.

Once again I am curious if the HN community can offer up advice on meeting people who could executive produce (finance) an indie feature film.

if you read a few sentences of this post and gave up -5 from your humanity. For those that read the entire post you are at least +5 a better person. for those who respond +20. respond with good advice +50. all +s are redeemable upon investment.
I wonder if children with leukemia are related to nightlights?
100% blinds?
Ask HN: Best places other than HN to recruit PHP devs?
Hiya!

So, I'm about to be looking for a new senior dev for the startup I'm running, and we need a slightly unusual skillset.

Obviously I'm going to be posting on HN's "Hiring?" thread, but other than that, I'm wondering if people could suggest any other good places to look for devs who fit the bill.

Specific skills we'll need include PHP, MySQL, some JQuery, and strong statistical math skills - it's the last one that makes this somewhat tricky. It's a remote job, ideally +-5 hr of GMT timezone-wise.

Any suggestions? Have you found a good dev somewhere unexpected in the past?

P.S. Apologies if this comes across as a stealth job ad - really not meant that way. I am honestly looking for places to find applicants, not applicants directly (I figure they'll be reading the monthly "hiring" thread anyway.)
I really wish there would be a section in all app stores which shows a randomized list of "good" apps. I am not sure about exact criteria, but thede should be a good way to discover good and often downloaded apps which are not in the top 10.
> however, during the 12 hour dark phase, animals were exposed to extremely dim light at night (melatonin levels are suppressed), roughly equivalent to faint light coming under a door."

If a faint light from under a door is able tu suppress melatonin, does this mean utilities such as f.lux are completely useless?
Also interesting to note is the partial redaction of a sentence immediately after the bomb was dropped a few pages later. It's been literally cut out of the paper: http://www.mphpa.org/classic/COLLECTIONS/CG-ASPI/01/Pages/CG...
I don't think it's do much a company could the over reddits marketshare. Its that there's comment sections and forums every where. If/when reddit dies there will be increased traffic to other forms of blogging/commenting/posting. And eventually a new website will fizzle to the top just out of chance (in the same way reddit did).
Hey Tim, love your work on this. I started something called The Sunday Assembly - which is church for the not religious (though plenty of religious folk come too) - and we are in the process of building software which is so similar.

I also looked through the current offerings and thought the market was just not well served. It seems like a huge mistake on someone's part.

Do you have anyone using the software yet? I would be interested in finding out if we could. Super great work!
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Vibrating porridge, that's how I envision quantum phenomena; particles would be the lumps in the purée.

I find that it helps thinking about liquid rather than solid media as it provides better insight for things like "spooky action at a distance", "uncertainty principle" or "probabilistic nature of the waveform", as it dispels the learned intuitions about position and speed of solids that the article speaks about.

There are "particle properties" also that need to be accounted for, and I think of those as "recognizable patterns" measured around an area of interest located where the particle position would be, rather than physical "things" or individual objects.
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We had the same thing at Sunday Assembly. Some folk don't want to have their privacy revealed on FB. Also, it doesn't have great events functionality so that attendees can create their own events.
Yours (at line 19) will fall foul of the "Conservative whitespace collapse" described in the original link.
I agree on some sentiments, but you can learn at big companies also. You will likely learn a lot more tech at a startup but it is unlikely to teach you how large corporates handle various things, such as team work, testing, user requirements. I don't always think they do things the best way, but it can be useful to see how it is done in such places.
Unfortunately this will be yet another proprietary technology from Nvidia that nobody else will use - which means it won't have mass adoption - which means it's ultimately pointless (unless someone else creates an open source version of it).
But the initial app suspension email from Google did say he was violating trademark.
Also, you could then monitor which events people go to, to see which ones lead to the most conversions, then optimise these. I'm really excited by using data to make our Assemblies more effective (though we don't have as clean a metric as baptisms!).
4k screens are expensive to make. If the 4k burden would be taken away from the OEMs and just put on the GPU makers (which would have to deal with the performance drawbacks of 4k displays anyway), then TV manufacturers could start selling 4k TVs instead of 1080p ones by next year, and at the same prices (well, they will probably make them a bit more expensive to take some extra profit, but the point stands). Same with tablet makers, monitor makers and so on.
Remove hard drive and store it as evidence. Obtain new HDD. Install your OS of choice. Restore data from off-site backups.

Moderate risk - mount the both the old HDD and the new HDD (with Windows already installed) under Linux. Copy the data in Linux environment from old drive to new drive. You can use http://puppylinux.org to access Windows drives from Linux. It has a nice graphical file manager for that, so you will find it easy to do. Once done, remove the drive and store as evidence.
NPR has had INTENSE control of their content since the 1970s. They don't need an app for that. They also have staggering amounts of donations and endowment funds. They may, sadly, have more money than they know what to do with.
I guess the trick is how can we to allow for capital infusion for growing companies while at the same time keeping the populace safe from predatory "financial products" and other chicanery which have been solely and purposeful over-designed to be unnecessarily complex, so as to enslave a (financially and mathematically) uneducated populace via illogical financial terms - mostly by people who do very little each day besides striving to find ways to assert their control over others.

i.e. the difference between a real, and progressive VC environment and just another Wall Street magic trick
You don't want to use HTTP or TLS compression when using TLS. Because compression breaks TLS. And then Russian hackers can steal your session ids and CSRF nonces.

But you can minify your HTML at least.
I found this aspect of the build interesting:

"The bare liquid crystal panel was affixed to the base plate, held in direct contact with the first LCD at a fixed lateral offset. As assembled, the front polarizer on the bottom LCD is crossed with the rear polarizer on the top LCD. Rather than remove the polarizers from the thin glass panels, we placed quarter-wave retarder film between the two (American Polarizers APQW92-004-PC-140NMHE): rotating the polarization state to restore the operation of the top LCD."

It's probably extremely basic knowledge for people familiar with polarization, but I didn't know it could be so simple.
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I remember reading an essay about an internet dispute (as I recall, over the term "rule of thumb") where the essay's author wrote (in my paraphrase) "I know nothing about the history or scholarship involved, but I can see that the person on one side, who coincidentally shares my politics, is adhering to scholarly forms, citing sources, etc., and the person on the other side is doing nothing but dismissing it and basically saying 'come on'. I know who to trust here."

That person displaying the ideal scholarly comportment was citing to a crank who claimed to have a piece of the legal code set down by Romulus. You know, the mythical founder of Rome. The scoffing counterparty was pointing out (again, in my exaggerated paraphrase) "a classicist who could show plausible evidence that a historical Romulus existed, much less find part of his code, would be the greatest classicist in the history of the world. If there were a Nobel prize in history, he'd win." And that second person was entirely correct.

There's always a citation available for anything you might want to argue. And if you don't have any knowledge of the field, seeing someone cite a paper you can't understand isn't an improvement over seeing them speak as if they themselves were the highest authority. I'd used that same "the side I like behaves more like real scientists than the side I don't like" argument myself in the past; seeing this came as a bit of a blow.
Compression kills TLS.
Released is better.
I guess the main point is lower production cost. For 4k screen you need 4x more density pixels than a 1080p one, which is difficult to make with a high defect rate, by cascading two 1080p LCD you get as-good results but the cost is very cheap.

Besides you don't need to 4x your display bandwidth, just double 1080p.

Just my guess.
Honestly, I haven't found much luck on any for-hire/freelance oriented site ... they all just "feel" insincere/fake wrt quality of skillset, communication skills, process management, etc. That's one of the things that actually brought me to HN was that people were walking the walk instead of just talking. Semi-related, I'll be keeping an eye out for that posting later ;-)
That does seem amazingly sensitive, but still -- if faint light from under the door (partially?) suppresses melatonin, I would imagine that a 27" monitor would do so significantly more.
Maybe more this than blame the victim.

Could also blame the paperwork and complications we like to create for ourselves so some middleman, middle-company, or politician get their piece.
Because the server isn't dynamically producing web pages?

(I actually moved to this model myself recently - server producing data, client using Angular to display it.)
Mistyped, thanks :).
How exactly are people supposed to pay their debt if they can't get a job because they have debt? An employer doing a criminal background check makes sense, a credit check far less so.
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Also once built and the sea drained, the persons in charge of the dam wield immense power over those who move in and inhabit the new lands revealed. If they see fit, or someone captures the dam, they can hold to ransom all the people living in the new periphery of the Mediterranean Sea.
I'm reading this page here:
http://www.mphpa.org/classic/COLLECTIONS/CG-ASPI/01/Pages/CG...

Just thought I'd share some of my puzzlement here; but it sounded as if they'd dropped a third atomic bomb. I though this unlikely, unless the diary is revealing a secret kept (the drop sounds as if it'd failed), but then I came across this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumpkin_bomb

So, in addition to the nuclear models, they dropped identical conventional bombs of that type as well. Never knew that.
'sigil' referenced Python with "uselessness of lambdas", not Perl.

(If you still wonder -- from your comment history you shouldn't -- try Google: python lambda broken)
According to the timeline, all the applications that got his account suspended were already in place when he got the first notice. So it's not as if he continued doing the same thing - he was sacked by inaction, and the warnings didn't contain sufficient notice that more action (removing the other applications, which hadn't got a warning yet) was required on his part.
Nothing. The American ruling class commands the most sophisticated propaganda apparatus ever seen in human history. Americans will be ground into dust and then they'll blame themselves for it.
It seems to be down at the moment as I keep getting the "We'll be right back!" message. Possibly the HN effect?

Anyway - that aside this is an absolutely brilliant idea and fixes a real pain point for me. After spending so long on the app that I've started to hate it, doing all the screenshots, videos, etc. is bad enough - but then you have to do the website as well and it just makes you feel like - "urgh, really? CSS mangling time? Blergh." I would easily pay some of my hard earned indie cash to just have it done for me. Some thoughts:

- I'm going to want to integrate whatever site you create into my own website, so I just want to download whatever you have and throw it into a div container and have it work. Which means there shouldn't be any/many dependencies on CSS frameworks / JavaScript etc. It should be clean.

- If I'm going to give you my cash I'm going to want to be able to choose from a LOT of different themes so that I can differentiate my app from all the others out there. I don't mind doing some of the simple customization myself (colours, text, etc.). I'm not going to want to pay each time if all it comes down to is changing the logo / picture / text when I could easily do that myself.

- I don't know how you plan to monetize, but I wouldn't pay monthly for this. I just don't churn out apps fast enough (other people might want to though, of course). But I would be prepared to pay a fair bit each time if it looks good enough. I'm thinking £5 for the simple demo shown (chow.appsites.com), up to £25 for something like http://staticapp.co/ - with all the fancy animations and the like.

Anyway - hope it works out and you do well.
It might make sense to check that for people handling large amounts of cash (could potentially be tempted to take it).

I'm thinking this should only for people whose job involves handling large amounts of cash, like bank tellers, armored car drivers or casino employees. The checkout at Walmart or your local greasy spoon, not so much.
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It's still misleading. There's already a term for it. It's "single page web apps". Also they are quite dynamic, as they change the browser state through Javascript and HTTP requests to the server. Nevermind.
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As I said, there would have to be careful study and consideration of the effects, and in all likelihood, it would fail, probably for the reasons you cite.

However, I suspect the modern knee-jerk reaction would be to reject these sorts of ideas out-of-hand, not because of infeasibility, but because of the "preserve at all costs" mentality that has taken hold among many, and then to look for ways to justify the rejection.
Exactly and sadly this is all too common.

Did you know that Xine, the media-player, has a similar thing behind the scenes? I didn't

http://blog.steve.org.uk/did_you_know_xine_will_download_and...
No, I'm fairly certain most of them have eyesight.
I see a rising demand for Swift Android port
NVidia doesn't make displays, so unless you're expecting them to move into that market, your comment doesn't make sense. (Doubly so because this is hardware, not software.)

I expect NVidia to license this to monitor manufacturers to drive up demand for 4k-capable video cards.
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That's valid, but I highly doubt 35% of Americans have jobs like bank tellers or casino employees.
I don't see this bike solving any problems that a simple smartphone mount wouldn't. It seems short sighted to put all of the technology in something as expensive as the frame.
If the KPIs were, say, something to be minimised - does this still hold? For example, I cannot see a way to game "Lower system downtime is better", or "lower load time is better". Or am I fundamentally misunderstanding what a KPI is?
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Do Paypal and Bitcoin work as standard payment processors for applications in the Play store? And Amazon, for non-Kindle devices?

The whole point of the walled garden is that, in order to be able to access a customer base, you have to play by the rules of the gatekeeper (and pay the toll). I'm not comfortable with a market model where the only choice is what garden you want to be in.
Well, display hardware isn't the problem. 4K, 8K, there's no end to it.
Cascaded displays using multiplied layers seem to help achieve benefits like sharpness at super high resolutions & effectively smoother results at low frames per second (staggered) video playback.
This helps remove a major obstacle that high-res display technologies will face in the short term, which is processing power.
Presently, high-end graphics cards can barely crank out 30 FPS at 4K resolutions for games. Also, any compression artifacts etc. in textures are much more pronounced on high-res/big sized displays. While requiring the need to change the workflow (of game development) a little bit, cascaded displays can potentially help render higher resolution, better quality/sharper images at lower frame-rates (i.e. much more cheaply) while still providing that 60fps feel.

Personally, if this takes off, I can see it saving the XBox One's ass, as a lot of the complaints from gamers have been regarding it's inferior capabilities for rendering high-end games (It renders many games at 720p 30 frames/second, while Playstation 4 is able to crank out 1080p for the same titles), and also, play another factor in prolonging the shelf life of the present generation of consoles, by enabling them to deliver much better graphics with the same hardware. Kind of like what Normal Maps (among other things) did for Xbox 360 & PS3, you can see the difference in graphics between a game released in 2005 vs a game released in 2013 on the same hardware. Among a lot of other factors, that was why it took 7 years before we saw the next generation of consoles being released. Comparatively, the Xbox 360 came out within 4 years of the release of the original Xbox.

TL;DR - It's not about the display hardware itself, it's about the ease of rendering graphics to meet the demands of high-end display.
I guess this would also be a nice improvement for smartphones' screens since you would only need to power half the number of pixels for the same equivalent density which will save on the battery
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It's named 'Fast' API. Is it any faster then using Active Model Serializers?
My first unikernel
+1 for too many places rely on band aids. The frustrating thing is that there's no need now. These tools are adoptable by almost anyone and if you use them you shine a giant spotlight into the previously dimly lit area of your system configurations. You get documentation, testability and version control of your infra. It's extremely liberating.

One of the most valuable things has turned out to be the ability to refactor infra as a project evolves. Some task that would have required a few hands and a project manager now becomes a few edits.

I lead a CFEngine team and It never fails to amaze people when I demo end to end life cycle management "that used to take 3 guys 2 days" etc.

P.s. I use ansible at home though: https://github.com/CraigJPerry/home-network
Sure you can.

- lower system downtime = don't do maintenance or do it in a half-assed way

- decrease system load time = make everything possible "optional post-load components", thus reducing load time by factor of, say, 10, and increasing time to combat readiness by a factor of 5.

People can pervert any metric they're measured by. Just look at what companies do to squeeze that last little dollar of profit out of their customers.
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