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>> "Seeing the trend for only the last 100 years is useless."

That's why they don't zoom out the graphs. When you can see a few hundred thousand years, you realize the planet is currently nowhere near as warm as it has often been in the past, and that the global average temperature fluctuates a lot. The AGW people want to "prevent" the change, but that's not possible, and the debate has been distracting us from the real challenge: how will we survive and thrive despite the change?
The 'very artificial correction' flap looks like much ado about nothing to me
What if it turns out it'll kill 90% of all humans in say a hundred years? And what if we could have saved everyone if we just wasn't so ignorant?

Now it doesn't really matter if you and I are ignorant, but if everyone is then that's potentially disastrous. You could draw similarities to medicine I think. What if nobody would've taken the first seemingly unnecessary steps towards creating the first vaccine, the first medicine etc etc. Where would be now? Sure there would be more acute things for these first "doctors" to do, but thanks to them we've now saved countless of people.
It's nice how they don't mention that the police found 6 pipebombs.
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How do you know? Can you provide links to some?

Remember that the key is to establish the provenance of the data, perhaps by documenting the circumstances under which it was collected and the people who did the work, rather than just to proffer up a set of numbers.
This article provides strong evidence for a minor and mostly undisputed point. This also proves almost nothing with regards to anthropogenic global warming, since I could write an identical article about H2O (maybe I'd need to tweak some citations).
Actually, as a physicist, I see no leap there. We know the absorption spectra of CO2. We measure an increase in the CO2 in the atmosphere. We measure the how well light penetrates the atmosphere, and we find it does so less well at the wavelengths that CO2 absorbs. At this point, we have a simple theory that is well supported by direct experimental evidence. What more do you need?
It is nearly always possible to imagine alternative explanations for observations in complex systems. Sometimes the only way have any high level of confidence in a theory is to spend years studying the area and then more years researching the specifics of the particular theory. If you have a passion for this area then why don't you go down this path. Otherwise, like most people, you will often have to resign yourself to relying on the opinions of 'experts'. Choose your 'experts' wisely.
Well for a start, you need to know absolute numbers. Are the numbers big enough to make a difference.
You know... I haven't been doing this in my interviewing (okay, I haven't been doing ANY interviewing for 1.5 yrs, but hopefully we'll be hiring again soon). But now, after reading this I think I should.
To me the heart of the current battle isn't scientist vs skeptics who I define as people that will never change their minds regardless of any weight of evidence. Sure not all data is 100% solid, and sure scientists make mistakes, but at the end of the day, we have more than enough data to be convinced about human-caused climate change.

Skeptics are people who disagree blindly and jump at slips as problem with the whole of climate change; this mentality ignores the rest of a substantial number of datasets.

So yes, science vs skeptics it is.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article693... implies the loss happened long before Jones wrote that email, and not on his watch.
True, I don't have a passion for it at all. I find the whole idea that we could be responsible for global warming to be far fetched. The idea that we could do anything to prevent/alter it is also to me, pretty far fetched really. In short I find the whole thing to be mainly a waste of effort. We could be curing diseases or something more useful.
"Money is more than a transfer of value. It's a statement of belief. An ad agency that won't buy ads, a consultant who won't buy consulting, and a waiter who doesn't tip big—it's a sign, and not a good one."

My favourite counter-example: the millionaire who doesn't spend money.

The fact is that the waiter, the consultant, the ad agency and the charity employee have every reason to ignore Seth Godin's judgment of their individual, subjective spending preferences and investment principles.
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how about a more random one... use version control on the disk and do a clean checkout on boot.. big overhead to store the repo and probably not too fast to checkout .. but on the plus side you can include specific files as time goes on ... so the next service pack can be added to your repo when it comes out without having to make an entire new image.
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In the UK there is a chain of stores called John Lewis.

"John Lewis is a co-operative; all employees have a stake in the profits and all workers are called "partners". The staff turnover is well below the national average and assistants get to know their beat and their customers well."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3657242/Spare-John-Lewis-...

It's amazing how well you're treated any of the staff at all of their stores. From the cleaners to shoe-fitters, they all seem to work that little bit harder to make the experience of buying in John Lewis as enjoyable as possible.

It's an interesting case study of a hybrid between ownership and employment.
I lean the same way in this situation. You may find giving one choice gets better results than making the user think too much.
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I wrote a UX review of it. http://poorbuthappy.com/ease/
Arduino is an implementation of the hardware and the toolchain (I think it's AVR based). You can probably stick a PIC/LPC on it and cross-compile the software and have the same result.

Same as you can compile cygwin programs to run on UNIX...
I seriously doubt that those were in the hackspace.

Sounds more like a serious case of having the hackspace in the wrong building with the wrong neighbours.
I find it extremely far fetched that if it was that imminent (Next 100 years), that there's anything we could do to prevent it.
You and many, many other people, are not merely ignorant about the finer points of greenhouse effects. On the contrary, you are all too willing to jump into a discussion about the finer points of greenhouse effects -- a subject which you admittedly are ignorant about -- with counter-arguments based only on a quick gut feeling or guess on your part, and which have already been answered in the conversation that you're jumping into.

Please understand, I'm not just singling you out here; this is an observable and strange pattern of behavior in many different social gatherings, including HN.

Instead of coming up with a question about what you had read, and then doing even a few minutes' diligence to see if there was an answer, you stopped after coming up with the question and pronounced that it "didn't seem like a water tight argument at all". The flaw in thinking that causes that kind of behavior surely carries over into other aspects of your life and career, so it is a big deal to your life.

And furthermore, your children likely learn first by your example. If you think that way, your children are more likely to also, and that's going to have a negative impact on their lives. If nothing else, it will destroy their curiosity, and curiosity is something that should be revered on a forum like HN: it is one of the greatest drivers of human inventiveness and ingenuity.

And ignorance does kill. There are numerous other countries where the example is so blatantly stark that it shouldn't even need citing. In Uganda, for one example, simple water quality improvements would save numerous lives every year [1].

But there's ignorance, and there's willful ignorance, willful ignorance being the more evil of the two. It disregards and dismisses the efforts of those that would advance human society and promote peace. It values its "gut feelings" over research, study, and experimentation. It believes that its "freedoms" are being trampled every time its environment changes, with no acknowledgement of history or context, and no forward thinking for the future.

Those things are a big deal, and they do kill people.

[1]: An in-the-field look at some of the water quality problems in Uganda: http://gondauganda.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html
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Quote from the book:

“In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities,” said Shunryu Suzuki, a Zen Buddhist priest, but “in the expert’s mind there are few.” We are all experts in our own world and the only way to get past that is to become professional beginners. (...)

Quite insightful, "professional beginners!"
When people don't use the products that they're trying to sell it will show. A while ago I met a guy who's created yet-another app to allow people to start a store online. I asked him if he's running a successful store on it yet? He thought my question was irrelevant.

37Signals have always built apps that solve problems they've had.

http://gettingreal.37signals.com/ch02_Whats_Your_Problem.php

If you're working on an app that solves your own problem (and you believe that the problem you have is not unique) then the likelihood that your startup is going to succeed must be much higher.
Well, I don't know who had them, but Sydsvenskan (Swedish newspaper) published the list of impounded goods, and there were 6 pipeboms on there.
Some of these already exist :/
I'm sorry but this seems to be one of the many flaws in this benchmarks. Kudos for your efforts but the graphs are almost meaningless, all things considered.

For example the EC2 instance storage is known to be dog slow. I assume that's the main reason for it looking so bad in your graphs - the picture might change with EBS.

As others have pointed out, synthetic benchmarks are a tricky beast generally. For fairness you should have optimized each host to their max potential - because that's what a regular user would do. But still, the variance in cloud-hosting makes it difficult to obtain representative figures. Slicehost might just have looked awesome in a different week...
A treasure chest of answers has just been gathered up for you, the result of efforts of many other people.

And it has been opened for you.

And your attention has been diverted to it, briefly.

And in that brief moment, you've noticed only one gem, found it not to your liking, and you've walked away, safe and comfortable in your belief that there is no such thing as a chest full of treasure.

Try clicking some links on the site.
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I was all set to get all indignant and bombard you with links to PZ Meyers and the like, when I realized that you're right.

The wonderful thing about this site is that it does such a great job of rounding up all the various global warming denialism and answers it factually and straightforwardly, without an excess of opinion or diatribe.

Even after searching for a bit, I couldn't find anything like that for evolution.

There are always books, though.
Many of these don't pass muster as Modern Perl development, or any professional software development. As a code reviewer, I'd reject everything but <=> and @{[ ... ]} as being too cryptic. <=> passes because it's the standard way to compare numbers in sort routines, and @{[ ... ]} passes because it's the standard way to interpolate lists and function call return values into strings.

}{
Useful for one-liners, but has no use in production code.

=()=
In production code, I'd prefer to see the match results assigned to a named array, and the array used in a scalar context to get the length. Alternatively, I'd accept a comment explaining why there is an assignment to an anonymous array. It had better not call =()= an operator, though.

~~
You can force scalar context using the scalar keyword, which is much clearer.

~-
You can type $x-1, which is much clearer and works for numbers <= 0 too.

-+-
I didn't know "3.99" was an integer... in any case, would probably use printf or sprintf for formatting numbers for display, using explicit formats rather than relying on whatever -+- spits out.

0+
Again, I would use printf or sprintf in most cases where 0+ might be used.
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> How do you know? Can you provide links to some?

http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/ghcn-monthly/index.php

I'm afraid I don't have time to document the circumstances under which they were collected or the people who did the work.
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Quick question: What's the best way for an web game to make sure we have a decently high email delivery rate to inbox for users/invited users? I know its all the rage to just bypass email and just use FB, but we'd like to give the old fashioned way a shot.

We've done everything on this list: http://owocki.com/2008/09/email-deliverability-you-and-your-startup/

- Except the ReturnPath certification and seem to hit Gmail inbox, but not Yahoo/Hotmail. We've also only been testing the servers for the last 24 hours or so, is volume a pre-requisite to delivery or is it something one can manage from day one?

Thanks!
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"quoting others' arguments as a journalist would."

He writes "as a journalist would" because he is a journalist.

I'm not sure why anyone would read his writing as much of anything else, nor why writing as a journalist is a bad thing.
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Right. He didn't lose the data himself. He just conspired with his fellow scientists for 20 years to frustrate all attempts to bring that fact to light. In light of the malfeasance documented in those emails -- packing review boards, intimidating journals, marginalizing critics, etc. -- we have to wonder why.

You would think that a scientist who worked in an especially contentious field, with well-funded political enemies and huge amounts of money at stake, would have taken extraordinary measures to establish his bona fides. That would include making his work especially open and accessible, and being at pains to document every single step in his research. That is the scientific ideal, after all.
"the quality of the ideas is a bit underwhelming."

So the reason for this is that it was a very diverse group, and some of the most talented people in the program just had really terrible ideas. Whenever I'm online I'm always looking for new and interesting ideas, whereas there was another guy in the program who spent all his time online looking movers and shakers in the city who he hadn't yet met. And while his ideas were pretty bad, he was clearly the most successful of any of us, and contributed an enormous amount to the program in other ways.
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It's the UEA's data that has been lost not the IPCC's. UEA == University of East Anglia, IPCC == Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
My understanding is that these are national services, i.e. government run and publicly financed. This is only my understanding -- to the best of my knowledge CRU has not actually responded to inquiries for exactly which countries and services are involved (so even that is secret).

In any case we should surely be able to pay for the data to be publicly accessible if it is just a question of money. To upper bound it, let's say this data is worth a billion dollars. That is still a lot less than estimated mitigation costs (and is likely a very liberal upper bound!). Whatever it costs, funds for a public database should be the first line item on any climate change bill, with NIH-style penalties for failure to deposit government funded research data.
This is great. So line up the radiation measurements against temperature reports and you close the loop. ie, begin to form some sort of hypothesis about radiation and temperature.
If you can't be bothered to know anything about it, then you shouldn't be commenting on it.

For you, global warming has become a religious belief. So, even if articles existed which laid out and cited the risks and benefits of warmer climate (http://skepticalscience.com/global-warming-positives-negativ...), or which showed that humans are indeed very capable of altering their environment (http://skepticalscience.com/Are-humans-too-insignificant-to-...), or that debunked the myth that it won't matter anyway (http://skepticalscience.com/climate-sensitivity.htm), or that global warming can contribute to the spread of diseases (http://www.ebiologynews.com/3137.html) ...

...you would still ignore them.
I think this is tongue in cheek. Just re-read:

Compare these two examples:

print "these people @{[get_names()]} get promoted"

and

print "these people ", join " ",get_names(), " get promoted"

Clearly, the first example wins for code clarity.
"It's like saying that Star Track is one of your favorite shows"

No, it's not. It's like someone who doesn't know english mispronouncing a single syllable english word while reading an excerpt of a non-english book written by someone else that he quoted in his non-english book. And criticism of it would be just as silly.
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I know it gets a lot of flack here (and not without justification), but if you're serious about geo-arbitrage, Tim Ferris's "Four Hour Work Week" has some good stuff in it.
My wife and I sort of did this. We owned a great house near the beach in California and had "regular" jobs. We moved to the mountains in central Arizona (Sedona), she stopped working and I write and do some software development work.

The trick was cutting expenses: less expensive area to live, bought a much smaller (and well insulated) home, and get our joy not from buying material crap but rather from cooking, hiking, hanging with friends and family.

It is all about deciding what is important to you in life.
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I don't think that's fishy, it sounds like normal hackerdom to me. I have a nice set of lock picks and have enjoyed messing around with opening locks for years and years. For me, it's a perfectly normal part of exploring the man-made world.
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This article is good. However, I wouldn't want to live in Mexico City. The violent crime rate is pretty high (I also think it's the kidnapping capital of the world..but the Philippines may have it beat)
I haven't used them, so I can't recommend them, but I recently saw that Heroku has partnered with a company called SendGrid that does email delivery as a service. It might be worth looking into.

http://sendgrid.com/
An article on living and working abroad by someone who has done neither. I would be delighted to see him take his own advice and write a follow-up post about just how much fun it is to try to live in Thailand as a high-definition podcaster.
I agree with you, although I suspect most of the people criticizing the CRU aren't going to respond well to the suggestion that an extra billion dollars is required for climate research.
3 of those sources are the same (obviously pro-manmade global warming) website. (Probably from people who get government funding to do the research).

It doesn't interest me to learn all about the thoery/(At times it seems like a religion), but I don't think that should stop me from commenting on it.

The issue is, anyone can pull 'facts' out of the air to support either side of the debate. It's not a clear cut thing, it's a heap of theories about what might be going on.

My point was, there's more useful things to investigate/research/worry about.
Even "SLAs with teeth" are pretty useless, speaking as someone who's been involved in negotiating them (on both sides). Like I said, the most useful thing you can get from an SLA is a contract out. Even the NYSE is never going to recoup anything close to their real costs from an outage.

You don't ensure uptime with SLAs, you pick good providers and go for redundancy.
Most of us that are angry over this issue, are NOT blind skeptics.

Personally, I have doubts over AGW, that's not to say I think it's all bullshit, but I have my doubts over some of the claims made, and want to see an open and responsible approach to models, data and results. I am continually angered at being called a 'denier' or 'anti-warmer' just because I don't buy the whole belief system 100%.

Do I think climate change is a serious issue? Yes, Do I think that we'd all be better if we cut back on CO2 emissions? Of course. Do I think that corporations should be held accountable for their effect on the environment? Damned right. Do I think that that there are no other causes? I'm not sure.

Apparently, that makes me a loon, a non-scientist, someone who can't think, a paid shill for the oil industry, a religious fanatic and a rightwing nutjob.
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Ask HN: What's the most interesting data you've found on a used hard drive?
I'm just curious how many people have bought used equipment, drives, magnetic media, etc. from places like eBay, and then recovered something interesting?

For example, I once bought a used server from eBay that was apparently the web server for tijuana.com.
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I wonder if stating that the password it's self is incriminating information would also allow it to fall under Fifth Amendment protection. AKA, the password is a sentence that contains incriminating information.

I it could be argued that pleading the fifth for every single question is allowed under the Fifth Amendment because what information you think might be incriminating is also incriminating information. AKA where on December 2, 1952 and you plead the fifth. But you are willing to say where you where on the December 1, 1952 and December 3, 1952.
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