skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't seem like a water tight argument at all to me.

How about the alternate theory that heating up causes CO2 to be released from the Ocean - the extra CO2 is not the cause of heating, but the result of it.

Way too much energy is being spent on this. Far more imminent threats to peoples lives and freedoms.
I largely agree with that, but downvoted you on principle because I always do that to people who play the "oooo, I'm going to get downvoted, see what a nonconformist I am" card. (Which I think lowers the signal-to-noise ratio both of HN's content and, since unfortunately it sometimes works and garners lots of upvotes, of the rating system.)
"He then takes a one-sided view, accentuates the bad, ignores the good, focuses on the least reasonable religious people he can find, and calls it a day."

The flaw in his arguments is actually deeper: he takes a two-sided view, falling into the fallacy of the excluded middle. If we posit (1) the existence of his memetic engine, and (2) its apparent propensity to self activate, then a good scientist must ask what results from self activation when a basic subsistence meme is not available or needed. In other words, what is the nature of the memetic engine's idle task (to extend his computer metaphor)? Moreover, what type of memetic idle task might be designed by a community of rational minds whose basic survival needs are being met?

We might reasonably predict that the non-subsistence meme pool would fall into a stable pattern that is self-consistent, simply for the sake of having a stable self-consistent framework upon which other social activities can be installed. I would expect it to look like a typical computer programming framework, with a great deal of intricate structure, much of which is not susceptible to trivial performance analysis.

We can even amuse ourselves by looking for other religion-software analogies. Are there any religious patterns analogous to a fixed-point combinator? Introspection? Debugging?
'Mafia Wars' CEO Brags About Scamming Users from Day One
Honestly, it reads like Markov chain-generated text.
Huh? Companies other than Apple haven't been able to make scrolling work nicely because Apple folks don't want to hear Steve Jobs say, er, whatever magic words you have in mind?

What am I missing here?

[EDITED ~1m after posting to add: Perhaps what you mean is that the reason why Apple has been able to do it is that everyone there is scared of having Jobs tell them their user interface isn't good enough. But the previous poster's question wasn't "how come Apple were able to do this astonishingly difficult thing?" but "how come other companies haven't bothered to do this apparently easy thing that would make the user experience so much better?". Jobs's perfectionism can hardly explain that.]
Main reason I switched as well. Memory usage on slicehost was immense. Couple that with the huge bandwidth overage costs compared to Linode, and there's no comparison.
> if permissions are truly being refused because of the "economic value of the data", then the fact that this data is unavailable is quite significant. No one would put up a fight over releasing insignificant data

Its significance is that the people who supply the data can continue charging for it and are able to continue collecting data without being bankrupted.

(Edit: how are you supposed to quote text on Hacker news?)
M-x shell or M-!
>>[Dawkins] created [memes] mainly to attack religions by equating them with viruses.

Huh, it was quite a few years since I read "Selfish Gene" last, but that isn't how I remember it? Where did he state that? (AFAIK, Dawkins has never been a big fan of meme-ism, the theoretical research.)

>>The line between parasite and symbiosis is fuzzy.

A bit, but I definitely remember Dawkins arguing for a simple test of this in evolutionary biology.

>>Even organisms like dwarf tapeworms can help people by reducing allergies so surely religion has done some good.

Parasites like tapeworms was so common that our immune system wasn't optimized for being without them. Does that really qualify as symbiosis?

But sure, religion might not have caused more suffering than tapeworms... :-)
They also have seriously good support #linode on irc.oftc.net
I agree, it does depend on usage and personal needs etc. But you're likely to be able to pay less on hosting.

It's not about 'being a problem', it's about optimizing when there's something better/cheaper available.
Dogma wasn't made by the British.
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Ah... job done in the anglo saxon world, time to move Dawkins' professor chair to Lebanon? :-)

Or maybe not, there they blow up people not appreciated in Syria/Iran.
Point noted. I've edited that part out now.
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Stress Reducing Benefits of Hot Yoga
"I also recall a zombie novel, which was published in serial form online before being published in physical form. Quite good, as I remember. Might have been called Empire - the plot synopsis fits what I remember, but the online serial version doesn't seem to be available any more."

David Wellington (http://www.davidwellington.net/) has written a number of zombie novels that were first published in serialized form online and subsequently in print.
> Apparently, you aren't supposed to know that IPCC's climate change reports are based on raw data that was lost some time in the 1980s.

I honestly don't know to what extent, if any, any of the IPCC's reports rely that data, but strongly suspect saying they're 'based on' it is a significant overstatement of the case.
CRU Emails were Leaked Before they were Hacked. BBC Correspondent Ignored Tip
ITER's cost is inflated because it includes a lot of research that would not take place in working power plant. Based on the physical cost of ITER and the scaling factor in fusion reactors a multi GW design similar to ITER should be close to the cost of fission. However, it has significant political advantages both for non-proliferation reasons and Not In My Back Yard reasons.

Lead under heavy neutron bombardment becomes radioactive as does all other materials with long term heavy neutron bombardment.

PS: If you are interested in fusion I would suggest you look at fusor.net. It's a message board for amateurs but there are some solid posts relating to the amount of neutrons produced per watt of net fusion energy for the better fusion materials. As well as a look into the cost of shielding etc.

Edit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JT-60 JT-60 does not have the facilities to handle Tritium; currently only the JET tokamak has such facilities. In fusion terminology JT60 achieved conditions which in D-T would have provided Q=1.25 where Q is the ratio of fusion power to input power.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEMO DEMO must have linear dimensions about 15% larger than ITER... Subsequent commercial fusion reactors could be built for nearly a quarter of the cost of DEMO if things go according to plan.[2][3]
An explanation for this digression from prolog syntax would have been welcome.
I'd love to see this evolve into something that uses hardware and software decoupling to enable more effective and deep experiments.
That may well have been true for a while but I think the information revolution will eventually make it so easy to organise, collaborate and outsource that the managerial overhead of a corporation will put big companies at a disadvantage.
There is no such thing as a greenhouse gas. Greenhouses build up heat because the glass prevents convection. If you made a car with windows transparent to infrared light, a toddler locked inside would still bake to death on a summer day.

If water and CO2 were actually greenhouse gases, it would be almost as hot outdoors on a humid day as inside a sealed greenhouse. It is vastly cooler outdoors because parcels of the air rise as they become hot, transporting heat towards outer space much faster than radiation can. As the surface becomes hotter, natural convection speeds up, transporting heat somewhat faster.

In all the dispute over AGW, I have not seen a single discussion of the relationship between surface temperature and convective heat transport. Until I see solid data from detailed meteorological micro-simulations, I will continue to treat the AGW hypotheses as unproven. Show us the steepness of your surface temperature-convective heat power curves!
I remain someone who is in the middle about Climate Change because I don't feel I've studied all the factors enough to form a definitive opinion. But one of the thing that always pushes me towards the skeptics side is the fact that advocates (like this author) seem to simply ignore the skeptic's points.

Take his first point where he says "All things being equal, adding greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere will warm it". Look how many times he uses the word "simple" in that section to indicate it is just beyond dispute that more CO2 will make the world dramatically hotter.

The problem is that very point is one of the largest points of dispute. Skeptics point to evidence that light absorption follows a logarithmic curve as the substance absorbing the light increases. Meaning if the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere is already high enough to absorb most of the infrared radiation we wouldn't see a dramatic increase by adding more CO2.

Now you can obviously debate that point and that's where the debate over Global Warming should come in but the fact that this author chooses to skip it completely and present "CO2 = linear heating of the climate" as a given tells me where his bias is. Since the rest of the article is based on his first point being absolute it comes across as ineffective to me.
Published research in any scientific field relies on citations of citations of citations. The data lost dates back to the 1970s, so it's not obvious what relies on it and what doesn't.

I don't think the field of climate science is going to vanish in a puff of logic, the way some of its politicized critics are clearly hoping. But I do think that we ought to wait for a thorough, open audit, rather than assuming that climate science should continue as before with no changes.
My favorite is Reg's easily missed summary of the Sermon on the Mount:

"As far as I can tell, blessed is just about everyone with a vested interest in the status quo"
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"Gained a few pennies" goes without doubt, but that doesn't necessarily translate into hiring. For instance, 'our very own' PG has probably hired fewer people than many people here, although I'm sure he's interviewed way more than most of us have.
Linux mint 8 is here
Devs don't work in a vacuum even though some think they do. If the app was released through the normal app store it probably wouldn't see the light of day in that state. The reviewers would reject it until they fixed it. If they are distributing through enterprise than they would be hauled in to the office to fix it.

No application should be so busy that is consuming all the resources.
No Shirt, No Shoes, No HTTP Service
To satisfy your curiosity I went looking for you. It didn't take long. Chapter One. Figure One. It is the top graph.

http://www.ipcc.ch/graphics/syr/fig1-1.jpg

This is cited as WGI FAQ 3.1 in the text, which if you look here:

http://ipcc-wg1.ucar.edu/wg1/FAQ/wg1_faq-3.1.html

is footnoted as 1) from the HadCRUT3 data set.

HadCRUT3 is (to the best of my understanding) what the dog didn't eat. (You can download it here: http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/ )
A shady character: http://www.dgp.toronto.edu/people/tu/slides/feynman.gif
> If they are distributing through enterprise than they would be hauled in to the office to fix it.

Because big companies never, ever get by on annoying, but functional software?
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Isn't that simply because work is harder? This is one end of spectrum, and the other one is laying on the beach doing nothing, which becomes tiresome even sooner. Games are somewhere in between--something for the brain to chew on the edge of boredom.
"Emace: A pretty good operating system, but it could use a better text editor."

I can't trace the source of this quip but I'm glad someone has set out to prove the first part of it...
Google Enhances Movie Search For Smart Phones
Great idea, let's talk about it on IRC.
The IPCC and CRU are really starting to look very guilty in their words and actions, whether they are or not. This whole thing reminds me of the 'sexing up' of intelligence reports to justify invasion of Iraq. It started out as a trickle of leaked information and turned into a torrent that eventually led to a lot of people losing a lot of respsect. They need to come clean now, admit their faults and invite others to look at the data and come to independent conclusions.

It's turning into a big mess, and it's not going away. Whoever was behind it knew exactly what they were doing.
Harder in what sense, though? Both playing WoW and programming I sit perched in front of a computer, nearly motionless.

True the quests in WoW are all prepared in nice little chunks and don't require much brain power. But a lot of programming is not really hard, either. Especially for web programming there usually is a cookbook for achieving what you want.

Maybe it just needs to be chopped down into smaller chunks, too.
s/Mediation/Meditation/

Sigh.
Just to add my own data point: I've had the Droid for about a month, and I've never had to force quit the phone, maps, or browser (which I consider the three most important apps). The scrolling on the menus and desktop sometimes feels laggy, but is usually good. The camera button either doesn't work, or I don't know what it's supposed to do (I just use the button on the touch screen). Besides that, I haven't had any problems. I love the keyboard, and I've never dropped a call or accidentally dialed a number in my pocket.
So what was the Kyoto Climate Treaty all about? Governments met in 1997 to agree to economically damaging restrictions to combat global warming. Twelve years later it comes out that the piddling value in national metrological service data sets isn't part of the global sacrifice in the common good and attempts to check how things are coming along are stymied by problems in getting data sets that have been shared globally cleared for general publication.

What we think about excuses depends on when they are offered. If the UEA was talking about needing "permission" from national meteorological service partners in 1996 the excuse would work. In 1998 it would raise eye-brows: surely governments aren't blocking co-operation on meteorology, they have just signed a treaty. Once governments have agreed to cooperate on climate change, this excuse works less and less well as the years go by.

Eventually the excuse morphs into a skeptic's talking point. They can argue that Kyoto was just about politics and nothing to do with science, pointing to the fact that it didn't provide for permission for scientist to publish, and the years rolled by and the omission never got fixed.

How long should we allow, after Kyoto, for meteorological data sharing agreements to be sorted out at the intergovermental level? 5 years? 10 years? 20 years?
It took only the merest effort to find this:

http://skepticalscience.com/co2-lags-temperature.htm

You are right though that there are "far more imminent threats to peoples lives and freedoms". I would place willful ignorance to be chief among those threats.

(See also http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2006/01/idiot_america.php)
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Well, I do not switch because my slice keeps being online and available for almost two years now. "Never change a running system" ;).

I do, however, also have a Linode VPS and will probably go with additional Linode VPS' in the future if the service continues to be stable.

In my humble opinion, Slicehost offered a great deal two years ago but they should adjust their plans in the future or customers will move to competitors.
to speed things along original site is http://applerejectedme.com/ .. but its full of joke ones..
My Grandmother would have described the content of this post as "gossip". And gossip was not something she approved of.

Best filed under "so what?" and ignored.
Has anyone seen something similar to this for science writing? Academic papers, dissertations, etc.
> In 1970, NASA launched the IRIS satellite that measured infrared spectra between 400 cm-1 to 1600 cm-1. In 1996, the Japanese Space Agency launched the IMG satellite which recorded similar observations. Harries 2001 compared both sets of data to discern any changes in outgoing radiation over the 26 year period. The resultant change in outgoing radiation was as follows:

> What they found was a drop in outgoing radiation at the wavelength bands that greenhouse gases such as CO2 and methane (CH4) absorb energy. The change in outgoing radiation over CO2 bands was consistent with theoretical expectations. Thus the paper found "direct experimental evidence for a significant increase in the Earth's greenhouse effect".

Direct experimental evidence. Good enough for ya?
Hmmm - "if you work for a non-profit and you don't give money to charity, what exactly are you doing in this job?" Well, from the charities that I've seen, the money they pay in salaries is far below what the same job in the private sector would pay. Not a fair comparison IMO
I was talking about threats that actually kill people day to day.

If I'm ignorant about the finer points of green house effects, it's not really that big a deal to my life, or that of my children.

Perhaps every generation has to have a "catastrophe is just around the corner". I remember being taught at school how we'd run out of oil, coal, etc by the year 2000.
The Monome ( http://www.monome.org ) would be a better example of open source hardware. They provide source files to the 40h with schematics, parts lists and firmware ( http://docs.monome.org/doku.php?id=tech:source_files:40h ). The larger monomes are just tiled versions of the 40h. A group of monome users ported the monome to the arduino (I built myself a Arduino-based monome port). There is a great community centered around the monome
No, I can imagine there being many reasons for that (I'm no expert, but you have to admit there's quite a leap there between what was observed, and the explanation).
I'll just reproduce patio11's comment here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=966620

...

1107454306.txt

Professor Jones: Just sent loads of station data to Scott. Make sure he documents everything better this time ! And don’t leave stuff lying around on ftp sites - you never know who is trawling them. The two MMs [Patrick notes: he is referring to McIntyre and McKitrick] have been after the CRU station data for years. If they ever hear there is a Freedom of Information Act now in the UK, I think I’ll delete the file rather than send to anyone.

...

"Fairly Embarassing" doesn't cut it.

Jones announces his intention to delete data in response to FoI requests rather than hand it over. An FoI request was indeed made. The data are discovered to be missing and cannot be recovered. Losing your data is a career-ender in any other scientific field. When you lost the data is irrelevant.

In the context of the other emails, which reveal collusion to control the peer review process, marginalize critics, and censor comments on the very website linked in the original post, it's very clear they were trying to manipulate the scientific process.
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Thanks for that.

However, the inclusion of this graph still doesn't demonstrate that the report is 'based on' the missing raw data. There are plenty of other datasets they could have chosen that would have shown the same thing.
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"He's not the messiah, hes a very naughty boy"
In a private research lab your point is well taken. When it's funded by the public (e.g. NIH) or a charitable foundation you may have other obligations. In many cases the funding agencies now want to see the data easily shared and so that it can be reproduced.
Hedonist GTD
Hmm.. I can't think of one, which ones are you referring to?
I really wish they'd zoom out these graphs. Seeing the trend for only the last 100 years is useless.
Dogma is good, but nothing as cutting as the stoning scene or the mass crucifixion
>> "We already know we should use less energy, be more efficient, use cleaner energy. You can't really argue against those. Anyone who thinks we should continue burning coal/oil/etc forever isn't thinking straight."

If these things were free or at least cheaper than what we're currently doing, we'd already be doing them. The problem is that they're expensive: using less energy means a lower standard of living for most people, being more efficient means spending more initially and hoping for long-term savings, and getting cleaner energy requires massive infrastructure investment today for cleaner energy years from now.

Achieving these goals requires huge investments at a time when no one has the money to invest. We need to know that the investment will be worthwhile, and the AGW-proponents approach of hiding/losing data, making grand "trust us" pronouncements, and ridiculing and suppressing skeptical debate is counter-productive.

In my opinion, we need to be building lots and lots of nuclear power plants using modern safe designs and including breeders so we can keep processing the fuel until there's no usable energy (or waste radiation) left in it. That will give us plenty of clean energy which will help us to deal with whatever climate change occurs, without having to sacrifice our standards of living. And, if it turns out that the climate doesn't change that much, or it's a completely natural change, we won't have wasted our investment; the nuclear power plants are worth having anyway.

All that extra low-cost power brings other benefits too, like lowering the cost of manufacturing efficient cars, homes and products, and making electric vehicles truly viable (and not just fueled by coal/oil/gas at-a-distance).
Theoretically, a password is protected by the fifth amendment only in very limited circumstances, basically when the mere knowledge of it would be evidence against you. If your equipment is seized legally with a court issued warrant, you'd normally be expected to disclose it. However, if your defense is that your system was compromised and encrypted files were put there by an attacker, there is an issue of self-incrimination and fifth amendment protections may apply. It would then be up to the judge to rule on it.(corrections welcome, IANAL)
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But most of them do. That's the point of religion. It is like a primitive form of philosophy and science mixed together.
Explaining code is a simple principle that also works well for debugging, even if you're not explaining it to an interviewer (or even a person):

At our company in the early 1990s one of our programmers
kept a rubber chicken in a file folder. Whenever he got
stuck on a particularly awful debugging problem, he'd
gather us together and then solemnly shake the rubber
chicken over his keyboard. We'd all laugh uproariously.
And often as not a subconscious thought would bubble up
with the solution, or his explanation to us would trigger
one in his mind or ours. I highly recommend this software
development strategy. ;-) Jim Ferrans

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1106683/what-is-this-part...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging
The fact that CO2 is emitted from the oceans as they warm may explain long term trends in temperature. It would not explain short term trends in radiative transfer, or laboratory measurements of CO2's absorption spectrum.

Note that you could write the exact same article replacing "CO2" with "H2O", though you might need to cite slightly different papers.