skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Arrange your life around what you like. That’s it! You’re done. You’ll be happy forever."

Who would have thought that heroin addicts had the secret of life?

Not everything is pleasurable - sometimes you just have to suck it up and take out the f*cking trash. :P
> He just conspired with his fellow scientists for 20 years to frustrate all attempts to bring that fact to light.

Not as far as I know. My recollection is that CRU responded to requests for raw data in the past by saying they didn't have it anymore. Happy to be corrected though.

> 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.

I basically agree, with the caveats that a) climate change theory was actually a fairly marginal concern in the '80s and b) I don't equate failure to live up to the scientific ideal to gross misconduct, as you seem to.
Millionaires try to convince people to spend money?
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As you seem so concerned with the "facts", a more accurate description would be a "hose bomb" as it's made with a garden hose or similar tubing. The effect is more of a firecracker than an actual bomb.
The IPCC does not carry out its own research. See the second paragraph here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intergovernmental_Panel_on_Clim...

The primary source of data used in the IPCC's reports was the data from the UEA/CRU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Jones_%28climatologist%29

As I said above, the extent to which the unverifiable data compromise the IPCC's reports is something that should be determined ASAP.
There are degrees. This error isn't like an English speaker discussing French pronouns and commenting on the pronunciation of "moi" and saying it as "moo-ah". Gladwell's error was like saying it as "moy", rhyming with "toy".

The first error is completely understandable. The second one can't help but change one's perception of the writer... if one has any familiarity at all with the topic being discussed. For those who know nothing about it, it would seem like a triviality, much like "misspelling" the word igon values.
I think the solution is to have multiple colored lights that flash like a game show whenever you finish off a certain task. Makes it seem more important than if you had just made a little mental note of it
The problem is the huge difference between what I want to do right now and where I want my present actions to lead my future. For example, I'm not going to amass wealth by playing marathon sessions of Modern Warfare 2 in my sweatpants, but damned if I don't want to do that instead of sitting down to work on my projects almost every day.
Ok, I didn't make the distinction regarding local function scope. Clojure distinguishes these types of values as "transients", and yes, they definitely provide value in regard to both convenience and performance.
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Lots of Lispers and Smalltalkers would roll their eyes at this. (Some CS research history: Both those languages were OS.)
One of my favorite patterns:

_, username, domain = */([^@]+)@(.+$)/.match("foo@example.com")
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_but it's full of joke ones_

This is a shame. I think if the submitters could be vetted with some serious discussion behind why they were rejected, it could be a pretty decent resource for iPhone developers. You could get a heads up on what triggers a rejection, what seems to just slip by, or the best way to re-submit.

Instead, it has already been taken over by junk.
To respond to Becker's point about the recession ending-don't count on it. There's still a fundamental correction in the economy working itself out right now and the government is doing its best not to let it happen. Banks are still failing, job cuts are still occurring, and there is a lot of debt out there still that needs to be either defaulted on or paid off. Cash for clunkers raised GDP output slightly but that's just one quarter's worth and things are likely to resume on their old course again now.

The establishment is patting themselves on the back right now for saving us all and we'll see if they're right.
That argument is wrong. Adding more C02 into an already IR-opaque atmosphere wouldn't change the amount of IR radiation finally emitted into space (so much is true, but irrelevant), but it still would move the surfaces of the same greenhouse warming (currently ca. 35°C at the surface) into higher parts of the atmosphere, thereby raising air and ground temperatures (which is the relevant point). People who dispute this just dispute their own understanding of thermodynamics.
This kind of article is just playing on the secret desires that everyone has, but there is no substance. Similar to "Four Hour Work Week".

There are some activities that cannot be done from "anywhere in the world" for an extended period of time. Not even Bill Gates can do this. Try to be a pilot, a surgeon, or even a "normal" entrepreneur and you'll see that it doesn't work.
On Android one can switch to C++/NDK for real performance-sensitive components. Other than that most Java use is either in tracking data structures, performing simple operations on them, or else in managing/responding to systems services and events (drawing UIs, responsing to keypresses, reading/writing datastores, etc). In all the latter cases there are so many layers to what happens between initiation and final result that the userland Java code represents a small portion of the total processing time. There would be NO advantage in using C there.

I can buy that game programming will push the limits because many games handle large userland models and need to display much onscreen, but for MOST APPS the biggest problems that lead to perceived sluggishness don't come from using Java but instead from lazy programming where devs assume optimal response to indeterminate-time actions and don't get the optimal case ... e.g., freezing a UI while calling a web service w/ a 30-second timeout.
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It might be worth noting that Krugman won his prize "for his analysis of trade patterns and location of economic activity" while Becker got it for studying "a wide range of human behaviour and interaction, including nonmarket behaviour".

In other words, Krugman is the one who actually studies the economy.
The only thing this is analogous to is the mispronunciation of a single syllable english word by a chinese author who doesn't speak english quoting a chinese language passage from another author while discussing their work. And it wouldn't make any sense to criticize that either.

"For those who know nothing about it, it would seem like a triviality"

English is my first language. If a speaker didn't speak english, was quoting a non-english passage from someone else and mispronounced the english word "two" as "swoh" I wouldn't think any less of him or his work, but I would think less of someone who thought it worthy of this kind of criticism.
"Because although I've published books and articles about things most people won't talk about, let alone publish -- my sex life and marriage counseling, my quirky predilections and unpopular politics, my worst mistakes and no-longer-secret yearnings"

Won't talk about? If only.
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Thanks for the info. Bookmarked.
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the division of labor should have a natural schelling point WRT balance between organizational complexity and increased efficiency from specialization. this point moves as humans get better at logistics (computers continue to create an explosion in this area).
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10%, my mistake. Does bingo card creation require a lot of CPU, and, if not, why not move to EC2? I'm also on Slicehost, looking for better deals.
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Yeah, also listed in the police press release. Together with green lasers (not listed as missing from the hackspace), pepperspray and some other questionable stuff ...
Busy guy... In the past year, he also cofounded "Progressive Change Campaign Committee". Which amoung other things, has done great work on health care reform this past summer/fall.
Thanks! In the interest of being frugal, anyone got a coupon they can share :)?
No there where 6 "slangbomber" which is a home made firecracker, not a pipebomb.
I didn't choose my profession based on cash, but now that I have realized the potential to make cash with my talents, it's become my primary motivation.

If you're not getting paid well, or in an environment which has a strong potential to pay you well in the future, what is the point?

There could be a point, like academic or helping people, etc., but a business? SMTM!
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I had always theorized that they did this, but the point of what I said is that I don't think they are anymore, at least not unless they are reporting it via AJAX or something.

The links on the SERP now go directly to the source without going through the redirect. They are probably doing away with that previous system because it is too vulnerable to scamming, for example getting a bunch of people to click and then back out of the competitor's site so that way you can be on top in the search results.
One of the reasons I wish to amass currency is so that I can wirehead myself if the world still sucks when I reach retirement age (and the surgery is available).
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Off the top of my head? The top two are definitely Python.

Holy Grail reached a cult status that LOB never reached, for instance.

Meaning of Life is an odd duck -- most people didn't like it as much overall but love all the scenes in it. I'd still rank it (a bit) over LOB.
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Option #4 has been working very well for me over the past year. I'm a huge fan of VMWare now.

VMWare also lets you take snapshots of your VMs, so that if anything goes wrong, you can revert to an older version.
Excellent analysis. And seriously, would someone trying to hide something document it this carefully?
You could use vim as init as well, it just wouldn't be as much fun, since you couldn't do any programming.
Nice. I am intrigued by the leading underscore, are you just using that as a throwaway variable? You could get the username and domain on their own with:

username, domain = [*/([^@]+)@(.+$)/.match("foo@example.com")][1..-1]

And it is super readable.
Wireheading's great and all, but really what you're talking about is an IV drip of heroin. Why wait? It's cheap, it's available, and the world sucks now!

In all seriousness, I have a certain grudging respect for the directness of the addict's solution to the Happiness Problem. My indoctrination was thorough enough as a child that I've no interest in it for myself, though.
Since I don't have the datasets that underlie this code I can't actually execute it

That's the point. No-one can. Let me tell you, if a bank "lost" their trading data, or a drug company "lost" their clinical trials data, or an engineering firm "lost" the data they verified their avionics with, there would be hell to pay. Why's everyone giving these bozos, whose model materially affects all our lives, a free ride?
Well, sure. He wasn't trying to hide it from his colleagues; they were all in on it.
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Interesting that the paper in Proceedings of the Royal Society B, which discusses "the decline", has amongst its authors Jones and Briffa, two names I've seen associated with the alleged "hiding" of the decline.
Woah.. I want that for Python..
Come on.

All I said was that the argument didn't seem water tight. For me, it was like observing that a server stops responding to pings, and concluding there must be a memory leak in the kernel.

I want water tight isolated tests that prove categorically what is happening.

And my main point is that I'd far rather spend effort on things like water quality which you mention, that have a direct measurable impact on peoples lives, rather than spending so much time, effort and money researching climate change.
If you're capturing something you don't want, you can always prefix your match with '?:' to have a non-capturing group.

FWIW, I personally prefer the #match method. Some of the examples in this article just make me want to hurt people. Especially usage of $1, $2, etc.
Maybe the idea is to cater to sexist customers.
I find it a bit odd when people come to meetups for techies with an idea for a web-app that they can't share. I know a guy who's got an idea for a project-management app that sounds pretty cool. It's an extremely crowded area but I still think he's got a shot.

Rather than keeping this idea to himself, I think he should tell everyone about it. Let his ideas spread. Let people adjust to his new take on project management. If 1,000 tech- or business-savvy people are aware of his concept and speak to other people like that on a regular basis then he already has a test-bed of people to launch his product into. At the moment I believe only a handful of people are aware of the product and whilst he's toiling away on the code, no one is being primed to buy.
Nope, it's not worth noting.
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Sounds like a nightmare for everyone involved. A web design / SEO / social network promotion company, fully staffed with freelancers, working in a highly competitive and very low paying industry. It's going to be fun hustling shared-host resellers and the RentACoder crowd for $5 here and $8 there.

Individual/small-business "website design" is a ghetto.
True, money might not be the thing that makes you happy but it shows how your work is valued by the company.
Ask HN: CS major who doesn't want to code. Am I in the wrong major?
I am currently in my 3rd year as a Computer Science major. I choose CS cause I love technology and still do. Its just that I do not see myself in a stereotypical "coding job" cause that is not who I am.<p>I am a very outgoing and people person and am hoping for a job of the business/marketing/management side of a technology company. I am also the founder of the Entrepreneurs Club at Georgia Tech.<p>I look at my job prospects and people want CS major for coding jobs only.<p>Am I in the wrong major?
The second link does say that the UEA work "figured prominently in the IPCC TAR SPM" report. It would be an exaggeration just going by the link to claim that the UEA data was "the primary source of data used in the IPCC's reports".

There are numerous records of temperature data: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumental_temperature_record, so suspect the truth is out there.
Thanks for the comments. I fixed the wording mistake of 3.99 being an integer. You are right about everything you say. @{[]}, <=>, and =()= are acceptable in production code, but the others are not. These other "operators" actually were invented to chop off characters in Perl Golf competitions. This article wasn't meant as "good Perl coding tips and tricks", it was more written for fun.
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I saw Dave McClure give a talk at FOWA 2009 with these slides:

http://www.slideshare.net/dmc500hats/startup-metrics-for-pir...

He takes an even more brutal approach to customer development: you should remove features until your customers scream at you!

This might be a bit too severe but I think that it summarises the core philosophy behind customer development pretty well.
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Sounds about perfect for netbookin'.
But WHY do you want to amass wealth ? If the answer is "to be happy", it's very much the wrong answer, per TFA. If it's "to play MW2", even more obviously so. The same about "to be respected", "to have status", or similar. So ?

PS : I'm an European, US guys seem to have pretty much a stereotype about us all as being "godless communists" who need complicated reasons to work. Well, kind of.
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Because there is a lot of corroborating data and physical evidence to back up what they're saying? No one is giving these folks a free ride. Heck, the article you just quoted from steps into the code in detail to see what this "very artificial" adjustment does.

We take for granted now that no data should ever be thrown away, but even as early as 5 years ago that simply wasn't economically feasible. Heck, even scientific institutions with data of extreme historical significance like NASA has lost key data (first moonwalk raw video) because of cost-cutting measures and bureaucratic SNAFUs.

By the way, the way in which their model is materially affecting our lives is overall positive even if you don't believe in anthropogenic global warming. We have lots of reasons as a post-industrial nation to want to remove our dependence on foreign oil (and other foreign fuel sources which we have failed to stockpile, such as uranium). What's more, we can make a killing in the market if we can design low-overhead renewable energy systems for the rest of the world. So consider that you may disagree with the map but agree on the direction we're going.
My recollection is that CRU responded to requests for raw data in the past by saying they didn't have it anymore.

Citation please? Also, if the CRU has been admitting to the loss of data all along, why didn't they say as much in their statement about the loss?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article693...

Furthermore, why did Jones, Mann, et. al. spend so much time talking about "hiding from" (their words) FoI requests if the data being requested were lost?

I don't equate failure to live up to the scientific ideal to gross misconduct...

Misconduct is peripheral. The scientific ideal is to approach every situation with reasoned skepticism, and then to use experiments to collect evidence that removes as much doubt as possible.

We have just discovered that we have less evidence, and more doubt, than we thought we did. The proper response is to re-establish those results as quickly and conclusively as possible. Lepidopterists do that much, even knowing that their papers will only be read by a handfull of colleagues.

Global warming is a historic issue and requires a historic response, but it seems there are some who want conclusive proof that their is a problem before they will publicly acknowledge that there might be a problem. I can't imagine why. But considering how virulent an argument about "Science" global warming has become, I think we would do well to remember that science is a method, not a set of conclusions.
In this case Seth G. didn't say that you have to give a lot to make it count (as he did with Zig Ziglar life insurance quote).

If you think something is important, for real, you will prioritize and at least give something even if you have little.
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Not at all. If I could choose between either an entrepreneur with an entrepreneurship major or a CS major, the CS major would win hands down every time. It seems a lot of CS/CIS majors prepare you for "coding jobs" in fortune 500 IT, which is a real shame. The degree is what you make of it.
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That is my problem mostly. I love coding and do it for fun. Its just that I can't convince myself to get a desk job where I stare a monitor from 9 to 5.
What's a "stereotypical coding job"? I didn't know such a thing existed..

Working in a 3 person startup in a loft is very different from Fortune 100 IT dept, different still from writing code in a research lab, or freelancing, or out in the "field" in remote places, or programming lathes and CNCs on a machine shop floor. I know people who started with CS degrees doing all of these things.

Since you're still in college, I'd suggest you just finish your degree and try a bunch of different challenges. If you love coding, you'll find a place where you fit in.
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The longer I am a programmer, the more I realize that I love my job because of the actual work I do. Period.

I love the idea that people are trying to get things done, but need a little help from me to get them the tools they need. I love discovering with them what they need and how to get it to them. I love all that data sitting on disks somewhere begging to be used. I love all that data outside of any computer begging to be put on disk. I love the idea that I am master of a little universe that I can see in a 19" square right in front of me. I love manipulating important things, both complex and simple, with just little flicks of my fingers. And most of all, I love seeing something that came from nothing work for the first time. I did that! (Happy dance)

Oddly, not much else matters...

I have worked in the most deploreable conditions at the most difficult times and hardly noticed when the work was good.

OTOH, I have worked in Class A office space with the nicest people and best conditions and was ready to jump out of the window from boredom or frustration.

Yes, the more I think about it the more I realize that it's the work that matters. If it's important enough and I'm allowed to do it, I don't need much else. If it's not, then there is no perfume could that make that pig smell good.
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I recommend Critsend, but I'm partial because it's run by a friend. Heard good things about them though !

http://www.critsend.com
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A while back my consulting co. had a call with her last business about working with them to comply with a regulation we have expertise in. They basically tried to pump us for information so they could do it on their own, presumably with freelancers.

1 year later and they still don't have it working... I guess freelancers don't work out on every project :)
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To be honest, most (professional) jobs nowadays require staring at a monitor 9-5.
Maybe. But your major doesn't have to define who you are or will become - it's just a thing.
This is actually a good point. StackOverflow showed that badges work and not only in games. Probably not for your internal company tracker, but for an open source project, an issue tracker with badges, quests (you've got steps in there already, just follow them!) might be a light-hearted way to get people interested and motivated to contribute to it.
Yahoo / Hotmail may just be temporarily deferring your email rather than rejecting it outright. That list you mentioned is good, seems to have covered most of the important stuff. You might also want to make sure your mail server's IP address is not on any of the black lists. The following is a link to a perl script intended to be run from nagios that checks the following blacklists: dnsbl.sorbs.net, list.dsbl.org, zen.spamhaus.org, fulldom.rfc-ignorant.org, bl.spamcop.net, and blackholes.mail-abuse.org

http://pastebin.ca/1694024