skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is a difference, though. Wegener had an alternative theory. As far as I can tell, those "skeptics" don't have any good alternative explanation (or data), just a gut feeling. So they are not at all in the same position as Wegener.

Catastrophic claims do no good, that's true. But frivolous skepticism (without a good counter-theory) has policy implications (continuing business as usual, which is unsustainable). The scientists opposing AGW are not being mass criticized for their scientific opinion (because they don't have any), but for the policies they give support to.

I also disagree with your interpretation of climate gate, but let's leave that.
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What a crap article. It seems to be an amalgamation of other popular retellings (looking for more info I found paragraphs copied nearly verbatim) crafted into a 'just so' Hollywood script. No way the writer consulted original sources for this.
I concur. Could a mod please add the year in to the title?
Mentalfloss is a rag on par with Buzzfeed, you shouldn't expect much from it.
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>> The aim of this project is to make the interaction between javascript, jquery and HTML5 easier.

I'm confused by what that is supposed to mean.
Climategate was wholy invented. "Finally, we have the emails! We've got the b@574rd5!" Except the emails contained nothing remotely incriminating. A few poorly worded comments maybe, perhaps some otuspoken opinions, a lack of sufficient transparency, but once the information was out and was transparent there wasn't even even the slightest shred of actual conspiracy or suppression of evidence.

What are they hiding? It turned out, nothing!
>Uber doesn't replace taxis as a service - if my phone is dead, I can only use a taxi, not Uber.

well, good luck, as i obviously didn't have enough luck to successfully use taxi when i tried even with a working phone :)

>To keep the price sustainable, cities limit the supply of taxis. In exchange taxis need to obey some rules (e.g. can't reject people).

And Santa Claus is real.

>It possible that the regulations are too strict,

who cares what regulations are if taxi service is that bad and thus the regulations are worthless? What happened with Uber (AirBNB/etc...) is the classical case from Hegelian dialectic - when situation gets that bad, that "badness" is a fertile soil from which a principally new solution emerges which fundamentally changes the situation - in western world such process is called "disruption". Attempts to reverse the situation after that is, like our Borg friends like to say, futile.
Have you worked in a multi cultural environment to observe the difference of behaviour ?
Can you try and persuade me that TPB wasn't making substantial revenue when you have millions of daily visitors and a hell of a lot of ads? It seems a pretty simple assumption to make. What factors were in place that stopped that revenue flow?
You're arguing against the loaded language used in discussing the blockade, that's fair. So let me just leave this link here [0] for anyone who wants to understand it themselves. I think we can at least all agree that it makes for a tough time for people trying to create a startup.

Regarding the anti-semitism - you really did make that connection to bjorne's comment, unfairly and dangerously, I would say. Bjorne said 'if you are not allowed to mention Israel's ___', which I took to relate to the restriction I imposed on discussion of politics. You made the leap that it was "bigoted, anti-Jewish narratives about Jewish control of speech". I see that you've technically distanced yourself from the actual accusation, but even raising it is implication enough.

I'd suggest that your comment provides a far more dangerous narrative; the one in which any criticism of a state is labelled as racist. I think that America's____(treatment of untried prisoners) is a total disgrace, that doesn't mean I'm anti-christian or anti-american. Let's leave race and religion out of it.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockade_of_the_Gaza_Strip

ps I know I said we shouldn't talk politics, so it's hypocritical of me to get involved, but I feel it's not as big of a deal now this is off the front-page.
I usually add the date when I feel the historical context is important but in this case, I didn't feel it was (bits are still bits, copyright is still a thing, the Paranoia game doesn't appear to be around anymore but it was only used to illustrate the author's point). Anyways, title updated.
Yes, I think that every city should have it. For some cities, e.g. New York, it would obviously be easier to pass. I think that if a cab picks me up on the street, the driver should know where I'm going, and the best way to get there - without typing it into the mobile phone, and constantly pressing the buttons while s/he's driving. Eventually it's going to be replaced with apps, but there are quite a few more pieces missing (e.g. real-time traffic information, frequent updates of road works, and (probably most important of all) perfect voice input/search/commands).
You should install a cache plugin. :)
This is how someone can sell a Keurig machine. That's not espresso and the coffee is a poor value. Seriously folks, is it that hard to make your own coffee that's better than these things?
> what is actually good for me?

Eat less food and get more exercise.
I know that in C it is relatively easy to define your own memory management functions (I have written my own, complete with very primitive garbage collector, in an attempt to track down memory leaks before I had heard about Valgrind).

I believe Python essentially does this under the hood by allocating buffers and managing its own memory requests on them (allocating more when it needs more, obviously).

I wonder if it is possible to do this kind of thing in C++? It occurs to me that it might be hard to write platform-independent code which mimics the behaviour of the `new` keyword on a preallocated buffer. A quick Google reveals some syntax[1] that I'd not seen before which allows one to do this, although it looks like your call would look something like:

MyType* instance = new (my_malloc(sizeof(MyType))) MyType();

which is hardly concise. Perhaps a macro called my_new would allow you to text-transform your way there without as many parens or repeats of MyType.

In any case, asking for all your RAM at the beginning, and then re-blanking and re-using it, is certainly much faster for certain problem types (3D games with physics emulation, some scientific problems.)

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8301043/create-objects-in...

disclaimer: This post is about reinventing too many wheels, and should be taken with a pinch of salt! Moving malloc calls out of loops (and replacing them with hand-written zeroing functions) is probably the most useful tip in practise.
The first step is telling your representative(s) that you think torture is bad. They genuinely don't know if you approve of it or not, and they've got the CIA and associated lobby telling them how necessary it is and that if they try to stop it, they're hurting america and in fact they're basically terrorists themselves.

Start by phoning your representative's office. Today. Tomorrow. The day after that. Every day, ask for your representative's statement on CIA torture. Ask why they haven't condemned it more thoroughly; are they in favour of torture? What exactly are they going to do to make sure it doesn't happen again? Really? Just that? That's not enough. What else? Talk to your neighbours, friends, family, colleagues. Ask them to do the same. Send letters. Send eMails. Visit in person. Don't stop.
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Where did we go wrong?

Had unreasonable expectations?
Which makes it an ondemand cost with added latency instead of something that can be done ahead of time.
And quite sexist as well (scientist's gender shouldn't matter).
From what I read in the linked msdn blog link (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2010/10/29/pdc10-myster...) it sure seems like it's a list.
Why not just build an automated post pay system instead of relying on the other person to remember?

At that point, why not setup escrow processes where the sender has to provide proof to release the payment?

This could probably go on and on, as I'm not sure there is a complete answer to centralized vs. decentralized. You likely just have to pick based on what attributes are most important at the time.
Sure it is possible. Just pass the constructor your type:

my_type* t = New( MyType ) ;

Where MyType passes information to New() of what to create.

...

I don't know what I'm downvoted.

This clearly works. The naive solution without macros would have MyType be a simple integer and New() has a switch statement. But it is easy to avoid that.
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In C++ you're supposed to do this with std::allocator and alternatives. This allows you to change the allocator used by vector<>, map<>, etc. Or you use the placement new syntax you found with operator overloading (yes, you can overload "new MyType()")

You're really not supposed to do it with macros.
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>If animals eat all the food that is available to them and reproduce as fast is they are physically capable, then the environment will be denuded, the next generation will starve, and the species will face extinction. All animal species are evolved to avoid this

Isn't this a Tragedy of the Commons? Won't genes that cause individuals to eat more and reproduce more quickly than fellow members of their species confer a relative advantage causing those genes to spread through the gene pool?
std:allocator and overloading new sound like much better alternatives, thank you.
But the article itself states that this difference was not statistically significant, and should therefore be attributed to randomness?
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This is satire.

"WNDR assumes however all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any persons, living, dead, or undead is purely a miracle. - See more at: http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/disclaimer/#sthash.jLfV4f05....
I wonder if AirBnB's businessmodel can stand up against the same test.
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Thanks for that link, a chilling read indeed.

Related: http://harpers.org/archive/2013/11/the-man-who-saves-you-fro...

Its about a cult infiltrator, I found it extremely fascinating.

For even more information, theres a book called "Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace" by Margaret Singer.
The project is a good idea, but the point of having C++ in a shell is a bit odd. I think the whole language doesn't fit so much in an interactive shell though to push commands in very few lines, perhaps somethign that looks more like a ipython notebook would expose better the transformations and results.
Did the Big Bang create a 'mirror universe' where time moves backwards?
This sounded real familiar, so I went and dug up the last one of these I heard of.

The ZPM Nocturn was supposed to be a $400 espresso machine that used a fancy thermoblock instead of a boiler to save costs (cheap espresso machines use thermoblocks, but the kickstarter claimed that their design was better enough to compete with a boiler).

This is straight from their kickstarter page: [1]

> There are basically two kinds of home espresso machines on the market today. The affordable models have no good mechanism of temperature or pressure control. These machines can’t pull consistent shots. So if you're serious about espresso, you’ll need one of the higher-end machines - they make great coffee, but they also start around $700.

> [...]

> Our machine will retail for around $400, but it's available to you guys on Kickstarter for only $200!

That was in 2012. Today, they still seem to be at the preorder stage, but their machine is now $800. [2]

[1] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/zpmespresso/pid-control...

[2] http://store.zpmespresso.com/collections/frontpage/products/...
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Isn't plate tectonics one of the classic examples of a Kuhnian Paradigm Shift?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradigm_shift
COW isn't free. You still have to spend the time doing the copy.

Better to zero memory ahead of time.
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> To keep the price sustainable, cities limit the supply of taxis.

Would you mind elaborating on the idea of sustainable pricing?

I ask because it sounds not too far away from, for example, "With the goal of artificially inflating the price of transportation, for the benefit cartel members, we will constrain the supply". See OPEC. This type of collusion is typically considered to be anti-competitive, and not in the best interest of society overall, or of the market counterparties. Silicon Valley's "No Hire List" conspiracy is another example of cartel action to manipulate market price for the cartel's benefit - in that case, illegal.

Why should the government support a specific type of private business (taxi companies) in this way? Competition is a good thing - we ought to encourage taxis and other transportation companies to compete with each other and offer the lowest price. I don't in general want my government to prop up businesses that cannot survive on their own (moral hazard, among other reasons), especially if society can solve the same problems with businesses that thrive naturally. To make this claim, there needs to be an objective way to define what a "sustainable price" is. Can such a thing be defined? (except as follows)

The fair market price is the sustainable price. Anything else is unsustainable and will only persist as long as artificial constraints are applied, such as arbitrary limitations on supply. This is not healthy, and harms the market and the consumer (deadweight loss). A functioning market balances supply and demand naturally through the negotiation of price.

Do other forms of transportation such as long-haul trucking or air travel require limitations on the number of trucks or planes in order for their markets to function effectively? It seems as though they don't. We expect airlines and trucking companies to compete with each other in order to offer the lowest price, and these days consumers select airlines largely on price. Why is regulation to artificially constrain supply necessary for taxis but not trucks or airlines?

It seems to me that such regulation is in fact not necessary, and not in the best interest of society; but is rather regulation that has resulted from "regulatory capture", and protects certain vested interests, at the expense of other transportation companies like Uber and Lyft, as well as the general consumer.

Surge pricing is a good thing, and if regulations prohibit it, then that's another example of undesirable regulatory intervention in a market. Surge pricing is another concept that's effectively standard and well-accepted in air travel: if you travel when it's busy, the fare will cost more. I discussed surge pricing in a previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8720969 The consumer protection issue of fixing taxi fares so that people don't get taken advantage of by unethical cabbies does not apply to Uber.

I am not sure about the insurance issue, but I agree that Uber ought to be required to provide whatever insurance is conventionally required by vehicles in that category. Perhaps that's taxis when comparing to UberX, and private towncars when comparing to Uber.
I just make the coffee the night before and set the brew timer for 5:45am.

Then I wake up with her and get her coffee, as well as my own. I usually go in to work between 8-10.
Reminds me of jwz's problems [1] with broadcasting music via Youtube. When broadcasting from his DNA Lounge, he was greeted with the dreaded "Warning: Your stream will be terminated if you continue broadcasting content that you are not authorized to use."

His take on it:
Because that company is run totally by robots, and there's apparently no mechanism to tell them, "Hey robot, STFU, I pay licensing fees for all of this music and it's totally legal for me to do this."

Indeed, what Colour were his bits?

[1] http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2014/09/03.html
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What I would like to know is:

Is there any individual human who can reliably distinguish between 16 and 24 bit audio? If somebody believes they can, where can I send them to establish whether it's true or not?
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"but damn would that be a sight to behold"

I imagine it would be quite something to experience as well!
div class="eleven columns"

I'd rather keep my styling in my stylesheet. Using mixins rather than styling classes allows a developer to look in a single place - the SCSS - to determine how something looks.
> People with persumably better ears ("musicians"...

I's expect musicians to generally have worse hearing than similarly-aged non-musicians, especially in the non-young demographic. Although it's a moot point as it looks like the results were driven by chance rather than hearing ability.
Here are some more tips:

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- turn relative numbers on by default
- force yourself to only move vertically using relative numbers
- force yourself to only move horizontally using [fF,;]
1 down, 99999 left.
How about just falling back to Gnutella P2P for the torrent hosting layer.
Well, I would opt in for something simple/more centralized that works today, instead of having something that works perfectly in thoery after 5 years... All the current projects seem to be the latter type.
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Pluto missiles also appear in Missile Gap, also by Charlie Stross - ballistic missiles have stopped working for quite an interesting reason....

NB A Colder War also gives me the creeps - largely for the point about what certain entities actually do with the souls they eat...
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Their first problem was: They bought a Keurig.

The second problem was: They didn't sell or get rid of said Keurig.

The third problem was: They tried to polish a turd. It's still a turd, just a bit now covered up.
I'm genuinely curious about this witch hunt against Uber. Is this Social Justice Warriors vs Uber? Or just invested like Peter Thiel from Lyft doing a coordinated attack against Uber?
This thing is really great. Been playing around with it for a few days and threw away my old .emacs. It's that good.

One pro is that it will make plenty of excellent emacs packages easily discoverable.
It usually doesn't take very long. It's like a compulsion for some people.
>That essay by Paul Graham about 'mean people' is looking downright prophetic right about now.

None of this crap changes the fact that Uber is a massively successful service and is beloved by consumers. Big companies get sued all the time. Apple(and just about every other company) manufacture the products people love in China where the workers are under horrible conditions, arguably ethically worse than anything Uber has ever done. So no, mean people don't fail any more than any other kind of person does. People just love to hate them.
I don't think that the post you were responding to was really arguing that the size of the hash was the significant factor for legality. It was instead pointing out that treating the distribution of such short hashes as illegal is absurd. There is nothing to prevent a government from making laws against, say, the distribution of bomb making information. Governments have done so. Such laws are still absurd in a world where there is no practical way to limit the distribution of such ideas. A government might just as well make a law against the darkness that occurs after the sun goes down.
GRA-1 for sure, we then tried at least another one in France (need to dig into emails to find out which) and was kind of the same
This means they heard the difference - it is not possible to be significantly less accurate than 50% without hearing a difference.

For small sample sizes being far of is quite likely, for example the chances for getting at most 1/3 of 31 (11 or less) 50/50 guesses right is 1 in 14.
> “who have to deal with black employees find this not true”.

Sigh... Ever notice how this is never put within a context? That's because it was never released, who knows why he said it and what it was related to.

That to me means someone is playing games.

Point one is considered true, re intelligence, most people in this area believe this but many won't say it out loud.

Whether it could be used re policy who knows, but people are dying in Africa, how many are dying due to rich westerners sensibilities such that they won't even discuss it?
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The article does state that the difference is statistically significant: "Curiously, the musician group seemed to select the 16-bit dithered Vivaldi as the "better" sounding version (p-value 0.047)."
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Seriously, a mobile-unfriendly website??!
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I haven't tried Swift yet, so I'm posting this just to know what other experiences people have.
yeah but they share data with adjacent three letter agencies at least it was done so with War On Drugs policing cartel - they had to furnish received information from NSA as if they have discovered it.
I'm a happy Dell Latitude user for about 4years know and I can't imagine to switch brand. The next-day-service (at least in Germany) is great, in case you experience any issues. I only had to use it once due to a mechanical problem with closing the lid. Apart from that, never had any real issues and the build quality is sufficient.
I agree that sample sizes are small, and there is no proper analysis done - the difference can be only from a chance.

But the article states the difference is statistically significant and then draws a wrong conclusion from it (not accurate => can't differentiate).
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