skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem is that the grant funded climate scientists all get more funding if they raise more alarm about global warming.

This is often asserted, but is it true? Most alarmism that I have seen is coming from the media or activist organizations; the few times I've seen scientist alarm has been when recent measurements have been worse in some way than their models predict.

Further, let's assume the funding relationship is true. Are all these scientists that dishonest? Wouldn't honest ones be reigning in their colleagues? Why haven't we seen this?

> Even more concerning, the distribution of grants, the peer review process, and the IPCC process are controlled by people like Mann and Phil Jones who study the issue like lawyers prosecuting a case, not like scientists proving a case.

They're expected to present and defend their claims in the court of public opinion and in the realm of politics; why are you shocked and appalled that they are doing so?

N.b. they're rather incompetent at public relations, unfortunately...

> Climate science has the same selection of the process as a priesthood, and that kind of selection process will produce the same errors as a religion.

Sure. So does astrophysics, evolutionary biology, ... How is the situation different from any other deep speciality?

> So all we hear about is a "consensus" when that consensus is really just a self-replicating group of believers.

Or, a consensus opinion under attack by politically motivated non-scientists. What test could be applied, or evidence provided, to tell the difference?
I've had much, much better service by having my computers repaired by the local indie Mac shop. They generally were a lot more responsive and friendly, and they did the repairs on-site and billed it back to Apple.

Plus I didn't have to make an "appointment" to lug a G5 or Mac Pro all the way through a shopping mall.
Yeah, I think the domain name age is a real problem, since it creates a barrier to entry for new, better stuff, and slows down the evolution of the internet. Not sure how big the weight is, but combined with 10 years of link building, it can be very hard to topple a more established but inferior site.
I don't see the connection. Not all statements about Apple are wrong because one is. Apple sells about as many desktops to enterprise in a year as the average Best Buy and this is probably part of why.
I recommend ipdb as well. It's IPython's PDB replacement. pip install ipdb
I wish for the both of you to stop doing this, both for your own good and that of HN.
I'm sorry if this is me being dense, but I've tried to read up on this and haven't found one instance yet where data fraudulently appeared in any published article or paper. Can someone point out to me exactly how this is a major blow to the theory of Anthropogenic Global Warming? I mean, I see a lot of smoke and mirrors and pointing and hear a good deal of shouting, but then again, there's a lot of pointing and shouting with regards to Obama's birth certificate.
unfortunately yes.
The internet lowered the barrier to entry for distribution. This means more entries, and that means more competition. More competition means more volatility. More volatility means less stable goliaths. Less stable goliaths means more bargaining power for the little guys. Artists can switch over to self distribution, or using some sort of alternative.
isn't the cloud the same as the web? I mean, before the term "cloud computing" where did people store their web mail?
Tell HN: There will be a Blue moon in December
Array.prototype.each

This is not needed. There's .forEach already.
Why on earth would I want an "e-book kiosk" when I can browse and instantly purchase books on my laptop, my phone, and my Kindle.

Effectively, the Kindle makes everywhere a bookstore.
Just a note: PDF's are not natively supported on the Kindle 2, just the DX.
There's also an ircd

https://gist.github.com/a3d0bbbff196af633995
I have no personal experience and at best perhaps a vague recollection of having read or heard something, but would document images be or in the past have been used also to make discovery as inefficient as permitted for the opposition? Images require a person to analyze, or pre-processing before electronic search and analysis can be performed against them.
Yes. When I write anything in Perl I frequently try to compact what would be several lines in just a few obscure expressions.

But as the Freebsd security head, what do you do to understand a large code base you probably aren't familiar with and its security implications?
>Science does the same thing in many instances. Cellular life is divided into 3 domains: archaea, bacteria, and eukaryote. ALL cellular life is presorted into one of those three domains, and new ones get placed appropriately as discovered.

Actually I must contradict that assertion. It is theoretically possible to observe cellular life that is not adequately described by those three labels. It is highly improbable because the descriptions are the result of thousands of man-years of study, and covers everything we've been able to discover so far. But because the definitions are strict and based on empirical observations, it can be done.

In fact, Achaea is a relatively new sub-category of Prokaryote, because the increasing number of empirical observations stretched the limits of the existing definitions. Scientists found life that failed the Eukaryote test, nominally passed the Prokaryote test, but were really sufficiently different from other Prokaryotes such that a new term was assigned. This is because real effort was made to make the definition of Prokaryote strict and precise based on empirical observations. That leaves open the possibility that unexpected observations (discoveries) will challenge the usefulness of existing definitions. That won't ever happen with MBTI. You can never take a Meyers-Briggs test and have the test fail to categorize. Every test gives you an answer, a personality type that reads like a horoscope. The types are not strict and precise like the definitions of cellular life, they are vague and inclusive like your horoscope. You don't read it and think "interesting new knowledge!" you read it and think "this is so true! This is me!"

Consider the human conditions that MBTI fails to identify. It cannot identify a psychopath. It cannot identify a schizofrenia. It cannot identify alzheimers disease, or any sort of mental illness even due to physical damage to the brain. It cannot, technically even determine whether the subject is human (although that could be a reasonable assumption). If this methodology can not and will not ever be able to distinguish between recognized psychiatric diseases, is it really reasonable to expect that it can differentiate subtle personality traits based on the results of a questionaire? Is it really telling you anything useful about yourself? You could have a serious, potentially dangerous mental condition like bipolar disorder and all the MBTI will tell you is that you "enjoy being with people."

Incidentally whether it's a spectrum or not doesn't change the argument at all. A person who scores 50%/50% introvert/extrovert is not a discovery. The test fully accounts for this.
70 hour workweeks, 3 hour daily commutes, salary below the median for a starting graduate from my alma mater, and debugging code written in India based on instructions translated by Babelfish: all of these I will endure without complaint. But I will not blackbox analyze Perl one-liners. That is just abusive.
Differentiate? More like keep up - there are plenty of great streaming services already out there for the iPhone, Blackberry, Android etc.
Or you could sell them for $1100 and make a profit. The original question wasn't about ways to throw away money.
Perhaps the term "web" is regressing to mean interlinked hypermedia, more so then a general term for applications built using the web + other technologies.
I thought they were bumping the power spec for usb 3.0?
Vine seeds become gliders with 12% descent angle
To get your feeds from Google Reader, just go to Settings->Import/Export and click "Export your subscriptions as an OPML file."

Any competent RSS reader will be able to import that file.

Starred/Shared items have RSS feeds themselves, which can be accessed from Settings->Folders and Tags.
I've voted you up because I agree with the spirit of that, if HN really is nothing but an aggregator for a bunch of quality feeds we might as well shut down the input queue and automate it, that would nicely take care of the spam.

The problem I've got with posting stuff from 'the same feeds' is that it tends to drown out the non-mainstream (and non techcrunch ;)) stuff, which is what really makes HN interesting.

Between all the spam posts and the 'feed pushers' a lot of really good content never makes it to the home page and so is lost to a great many readers.

Personally I've switched to the 'new' page as the homepage of HN long ago, but even there if you look the other way for one or two days it's hard to catch up because of all the fluff.
Books don't have a high markup. Most book stores (online/offline) who are not @ amazon scale make tiny percentages on the total cost of each book.
It seems more accepted that cloud is one of:

* IaaS (infrastructure as a service - think EC2, vps etc)

* PaaS (platform as a service - think GAE/heroku/engine yard, things with an API)

* SaaS (think salesforce, other more end user apps).

each layer (could) build on the one above it (perhaps I wrote it upsite down !).
There's got to be a premium though for knowing if the founders of a company are going to fit in and be productive.
Well, you could use perl6's grammar, which is the closest you can get. Comparing it to python is rather funny:

http://www.python.org/doc/2.5.1/ref/grammar.txt

http://svn.pugscode.org/pugs/src/perl6/STD.pm

If you do a wc, perl6 is about 12-20 times the size of python (depending if you use lines or chars). It would be funny to see the per6 graph...
Weezo
OCR is very good nowadays, so that's not so big a problem - and for big lawsuits (eg patent fights) there are literally hundreds of lawyers hired to comb through the vast array of documents deciding whether they're responsive or not.

The pre-processing is largely automated but there's certainly a portion (maybe 5%?) of documents that need to be hand-classified in the database before they get to the lawyers. It an interesting field - lots of money to be made, intense competition for it, relatively simple technology requirements but a legal industry which has been resistant to technology for quite a long time. Autonomy seems to be the leading software company in this space.
This isn't a webapp, it's a wizard for naive prediction of the date of the singularity (you seem to mix AI with a very narrow form of IA). You're not quite "modeling" a future world. Java sucks for this - why use it, given the current state of javascript and canvas?

This would make an interesting blog post if you distributed the various "viewpoints" on the various questions into a bunch of images.
The node.js chat server that was posted here earlier looks a bit cleaner and easier to follow in my eyes:

http://dhotson.tumblr.com/post/271733389/a-simple-chat-serve...

Any difference in functionality?
I'm curious as to why the might be testing this new channel in the UK rather than the US. Does anyone have any sense of the market share of Amazon in Britain?
Although mine was implicit, I don't see what's wrong with casually thanking people in the HN community for submitting good articles from time to time. Today was especially noticeable because I enjoyed all the articles that came from the same username. I didn't mean to suggest anything else.
My point is that most companies, like Dell, sell their consumer machines at a horrendously low profit margin. They make it up in enterprise sales.

Apple, however, sells consumer machines at a tremendous profit. The value you think Apple should see in enterprise is negated by their own business model being different from the industry norms.
My BlackBerry is the same way; it will only draw current from the USB socket if it detects the requisite software installed on the computer.
They've been doing it on Wall St. forever..... why not?
10 Biggest Disappointments of the Decade
Looks like it's cuz there is an embedded zoho sheet, try this: http://etherpad.com/Jjj2UqtuDz
Itd be good to get a debugger, connect it to the process and run through the code. You will find a pattern emerging when playing with the application, say, for different clicks of a webapp. After a few days, you will know how the flow works.

That said, Ive been more successful looking at the forums of an open source project, figure out what problems folks have and trying to solve them. You will be amazed to see how much you can learn about the code base and undocumented features solving those problems.
Then people wouldn't want them anymore.
You should be waiting for USB Battery Charging. That is the specification that will define how USB is used as a power source. (Greater amp and removing of different protocol limitations).
my iPhone came with a little transformer that plugs into the wall for charging. obviously there isn't going to be any handshaking there. i was under the impression that all iPhones were like that. are you saying that some aren't?
Is it a web app? Open up Firebug, look for interesting URLs, and grep for segments of the URL. Find the function that implements it, read bottom-up.
Here's an example of cutting out the middle man: http://www.dandywarhols.com/digital-download-store/
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Ok, I see now that the original poster was effectively saying "this is why", not necessarily using the "this" meme that I was confused about. Still, I got my answer and the post has been clarified for me. Thanks, guys.
Most interesting thing I learned from the document: members of Congress get special ID cards. It makes sense, I just never thought about it before.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt Joins Twitter (With An Awful Name)
I'm confused. How is Aardvark worth anything close to $30MM?
The 4 P's of social media marketing
> ... lexical closures also needed the concept of references.

I can't imagine how that could be, unless somehow you mean that "first-class functions require references in Perl 5", which is true only insofar as first-class functions rely on the design concept of references.

If Larry had invented the idea of a reference context (not the most precise term, but I think it's understandable), references would have been unnecessary in Perl 5.
I think I prefer the Scala/LiftWeb one: http://lift-example.appspot.com/chat
Oh right.. thanks!

For some reason, I had it stuck in my mind that forEach() passed the index rather than the element.
Figured, but would have been nice if you listed the one you were thinking of, at the least so we know which technologies. I can recommend some chemistry software conferences, after all, which occur during that time. ;)
On New Year's Eve, no less! How...poetic. Now we've just to figure out what it all means.
Ask HN: Where can I learn about game design?
I have a firm grounding in psychology and want to learn about game design. Can you point me in the direction of an article, book or lecture series which outlines the principles of game design, specifically what common elements make games engaging and addictive?
When you're billing the client $300 an hour to do a job they can't easily take elsewhere, you don't have a lot of incentive to improve efficiency.
... why DO you work 70 hour workweeks with 3 hour commutes for below-market wages? "Because, Japan"?
Doxygen is great when it Just Works, and pretty much useless when it doesn't. Even for languages it groks.

The problem with the Big Code Navigation Tools is that when they're wrong, they're misleading.
I signed up for a membership and did some price comparisons. Anecdotally it looks like One Kings Lane does have "great prices" (I put this in quotes because the items are less than they would be elsewhere for the exact name brand but generic versions of the items can be purchased for less).

From the short NYT article though I don't read "supply chain disruption", I just read "affiliate resale catalog". People have been selling things for a long time without having inventories or warehouses. Do they have a unique tap into the supply chain management of the various retailers that gives them competitive advantage in being able to negotiate the overstock/endlot item prices?
Well ... maybe using a shell to run a command worked differently in 1971. There's $IFS ... job control ...

Okay, yeah, there has never been a shell on which that wouldn't work. WTF bonus points for requring /usr/local/bin, which is almost certainly not where the OS maintainers package it.
They don't look very comparable to me. Unless I'm mistaken, the clojure one communicates with telnet clients who maintain a socket connect, but only relies on the basic libraries which ship with clojure.

The scala one is a webapp that is sitting on top of a lot of specialized machinery provided by lift.

They are both short chat applications in the new cool languages on the JVM, and both are neat code samples, but other than that they don't have much in common.
I think the tech support you had could have been a lot better and I will say that such issues usually pop up for me with dell. Dell does 1 thing right and that is NBD On-Site Warranty.

Also, I don't understand why you had an issue with advance shipping of you Mac.

I bought a macbook pro which was DOA this summer and was in a similar issue where I had just started the job and needed the laptop. I explained this to them and they faxed me a contract which specified that they will send me a replacement and I had return the original within 30 day. They took down my credit card details but I confirmed it with them that my card will only be charged if the laptop is not returned within the 30 day period. I just needed to print that paper, sign it and fax/scan and email it to them which I did. I spoke to Apple on the Monday, got the contract taken care of on Tuesday and had the computer by Wednesday morning.

Also, note that that Monday was WWDC and they managed to solve all this DURING the launch of a the macbook pros and more.

Do send me an email if you want me to send you a copy of the contract(Advance Replacement).
This is interesting, because Google has actually barcoded the business establishment. Just like RedLaser scans a product's barcode and gives you a breakdown of prices around you, you could potentially "scan" the business and get reviews, prices and alternatives.
> [Perl 6] is about 12-20 times the size of python....

The Perl 6 grammar also includes comments and is itself written in Perl 6. A metacircular Python grammar would look different from the existing Python grammar.
But as the Freebsd security head, what do you do to understand a large code base you probably aren't familiar with and its security implications?

I ask someone to explain it to me.

Being FreeBSD Security Officer, I have an uncommon luxury: I have about 200 highly qualified developers available who will stop what they're doing and help me out if I say "so, umm, I sort of need to understand how this code works...".
Or it might have been Klingon.

(Lest I be considered entirely off topic: http://www.perl.com/lpt/a/560 http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=88704 and search "klingon". Better the salariman, than Conway in a playful mood.)
Don't you think that is kind of outside the spirit of the original node.js submission?
Or perhaps a bit too blunt.
Authors usually have houses and bodies and cars to feed, educations to pay for, possibly children, and no social life for months at a time. Their creativity and life are invested in their work.

Amazon invests in a web page (form) for the author and supports that with the same software and hardware that sells diapers and plastic race cars. Anyone could do that, but Amazon's just prominent.

Repeat: anyone could do that ... and giving Amazon a run for their money would make them underdog media darlings. I'm fairly sure you could open a new "DIY author" bookstore on Twitter and make pretty decent money at it, depending on what authors you could get on board.

Bezos appears to be getting cocky. He's about due to become the Gates of online retailers.
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ruby:

http://eigenclass.org/hiki/rcodetools

http://railroad.rubyforge.org/

http://www.pathf.com/blogs/2008/12/read-the-source-luke-a-re...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37105/how-do-you-actually...

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(you'll see lots of questions on stackoverflow: navigate/inspect/read source repo's)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1623906/programmatically-...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/935516/how-does-macos-dev...

python:

http://code.activestate.com/recipes/213898/

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1568544/given-a-python-cl...

emacs, vim, ctags, etags,

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1220456/navigating-effect...
I was thinking along the lines of free.
My take on trading is that it's a zero-sum game, and some people have inside information or particularly good insights into the market. If you are average Joe, or are trading randomly, you would be losing money on every trade.
Twitter only resizes user icon. View this account's icon. Wasted bandwidth
Yes, I read that. It's what inspired this project. My version also supports different rooms. It doesn't support a global list of users, but it does list users in room. The Clojure version has one thread per client (that's what create-server on line 74), and asynchronous writes.

The data model is slightly different, too. Clojure has very powerful concurrency-safe data structures which made my data structure slightly more obvious. It's just a hash table of lists, and the lists contain tuples of [Name, StringWriter].

If you know Javascript and you don't know Clojure, it's probably natural your eyes follow that example more easily. I wouldn't say either version is particularly more convoluted than the other (although it's obvious we both made some decisions that favored brevity over readability).
I think it is pointless to argue with you, as you are speaking of an entirely different culture with an entirely different language group and an entirely different people.

It's like arguing with someone about European Politics, and all his examples are about Ukraine.
Schneier is going to have a field day with this one.
My Apple MP3 player does have a FM radio built-in.

It's a less good example now they've added one to the nano.
Ask HN: Is there a canonical source for image processing papers and information?
I have been looking around for a good place to find image processing information but have not found anything useful. I can find a few papers here or there but either it is way too academic with limited usefulness or it is too basic and not useful.
>And that's the hard point. How to make people understand that something is wrong without making them go defensive. A common "trick" is honest praise. Honest. It must absolutely be honest otherwise it will fail. Something positive. Just find something great, praise it, and only then you can throw your critic, in a humble way. A critic must never feel like a critic, but more like an encouragement.

I have gotten so used to people doing this that I assume that if you praise and then criticize it you are to dishonest to just say what you mean.
One of the predictions of General Relativity is that a spinning massive body will drag neighboring spacetime along with it - that is, impart a bit of the spin to anything nearby. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frame_dragging

This is a very subtle effect if you don't have a neutron star or black hole around, but using gyroscopes built to crazy tolerances, this experiment appears to have demonstrated it (at a head-spinning cost).
Disappointing but not terribly surprising. The programming expertise just isn't there for consumer applications, yet, whereas for HPC many problems come close to being embarrassingly parallel.

Oh well. Another time, perhaps.