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A collection of raw data is full of systematic errors, accidental mistakes, misleading black swans, and false trails (some of which get followed for years before they finally turn out to be false). I've seen several talented, well-trained, and highly experienced scientists fool themselves for decades with their own raw data. That's why it is called raw. That's why you have to analyze data, over and over, until you can't stand it anymore, and only publish the last tiny fraction that comes out: Your best work, the stuff that you're confident in and prepared to stand behind. And that's why there's a lot more to science than just reading a lot of numbers off the front panel of your instrument and sticking them up on the web.

If I were a scientist in a controversial field, where every dropped decimal point, statistical anomaly, and speculative sentence (later to be disproved, and to make even its own author blush with the memory) was liable to be mined out of my notebooks and splashed all over the tabloids, I'd sure as hell refuse to release my raw data. Indeed, I might just decide not to release any data at all, but just switch to another field. That's obviously one of the goals of this campaign of intimidation.
OSX 10.5.8 here and it works on Firefox, but not on Safari 4.

Edit: no, I'm a dope. Safari caches the hell out of the web. Clear everything out, and it should work on Safari 4 (it did here).
Less is more, more or less. If they can get away with hiding unimportant controls, the few important controls left will be more prominent and possibly easier to use.
I believe in the free availability of all publicly-funded research papers.

And I'd be prepared to argue for the free availability of raw data as well, if we lived in a world where it wouldn't be cherry-picked by axe-grinders and used for character assassination. I don't think we live in that world. Maybe someday.
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His comments about cognitive load are valid, and a real concern---a good interface needs to let you focus on the core stuff and not make you remember everything about everything. There are two big weaknesses, though, at slightly different levels of interface.

At the input level, he seems to forget that keyboards (with somewhere between 50 and 100 keys that I can strike exactly and digitally) are fundamentally a better input interface for expert operations than the mouse/trackpad/pointer (with a rasterised but basically more analog feel that makes me "look where I'm going"). GUIs are great but there are relatively few that have the level of keyboard control that you can get with a terminal-based app.

The second is that text apps let me give commands with arguments much more straightforwardly; there is a language I speak, where GUI-based stuff is more like grunting and pointing. Clicking a mouse on a button or menu item is like calling an argumentless function(). Maybe you highlight something first and it's more like an argumentless selection.method(). Being able to type your command out, if it's at all complex, is just simply more powerful, and so text-based interfaces aren't going away any time soon.
It's still fair to doubt that support/performance elsewhere will remain at parity with Windows, and thus not get on that install-and-update treadmill. Microsoft's track record is not great here.

(I only have Flash because I have to; adding another clunker rich media framework with an unclear future is something I'll hold off as long as possible.)
What I'm curious about is if there will be any fake-out attempts. How hard is it to take a convincing picture of such a balloon in a cornfield (or even put one there) and claim phony coordinates?
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Mmm... maybe I'm just feeling flibbly today but I'm not a big fan of this. It makes me feel seasick for some reason.
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If he used tabs it wouldn't be that many.
Carl here (one of the engineers who worked on birdseye),

The web interface to eBird isn't very usable, especially if you want to know what birds are near by and where to go see particular birds. It is however the best repository of bird observation data in North America and we are thrilled to contribute to it.

This release just reads from the eBird database. Our next release will also allow contributions to the database. This will make BirdsEye a great front end for eBird. It's much easier to record observations in the field on a device with GPS etc than to remember everything until you get home.

Right now, eBird is getting over 1 million observations per month and we're hoping that BirdsEye will double or triple that.
How is it erroneous logic to infer human causation in global temperature rise, but not erroneous to infer a solar causation from a temperature correlation between Earth and Mars?

In my mind, the question is not whether human activity affects climate, but how much. It seems absurdly naive to me to think that tens of billions of tons of CO2 combined with widespread deforestation will not have repercussions of any kind.
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There can be absolutely no way the name is a coincidence. :)
He could learn declarative knowledge like that, but not very well.
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H.M.: He'd been a president.

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The primary evidence for Martian warming is a comparison of two photographs, one taken in 1977 and one taken in 1999, in which the planet appears brighter in 1977 than in 1999.

However, the cause of the albedo change was attributed to dust storms, not to a change in climate per se. Further, if there had been climactic change, there were only two datapoints to go on and a line drawn between them -- not exactly the kind of data that anyone on HN should choose to draw conclusions from.

More recent photographs suggest that there may be climactic cycles in effect, however the data gathered so far is utterly insufficient to even begin to guess at the systems and behaviors involved in that other planet.

One thing we do know is that Martian atmosphere is dramatically different from Earth's, and it doesn't make any more sense to draw conclusions about the one based on the other than it does to, say, conclude that Windows is subject to the same security vulnerabilities that Macs are.
Considering the trend of splitting articles into several pages, only one or two articles could trigger the limit.
I have Facebook, but for all intents and purposes, I treat it as if it doesn't exist. If your app needs me to log in with Facebook, I won't use it.

Likewise, I have Twitter. I use it daily. However, if your app isn't related to Twitter and needs me to log in with my Twitter account, I won't use it.

Neither of these sites are ones that I particularly want to see turn into a generic identity for the internet.
> I would argue that the real value Stack overflow careers offers is the fact that an employer can not only see your CV

What stops people from linking to their stackoverflow accounts? Many people already link their CV to their github accounts.
Thank you!

That's exactly what I did.
That's what I thought as well... I don't think the slices themselves would be much (if any) more useful than just dissecting the brain normally...
Amazing. As an additional note: their whole website is really beautifully designed...
What about Clojure, circa now? Do you not consider it "production ready"?

I've used both CL and Clojure. I'd prefer either over Blub, but Clojure wins in my opinion.
From my experiences doing both, I've found that if you were to measure your efficiency in an O(n) sorta way, working in an office:

* makes the worst case performance improve

* makes the average a little bit better by virtue of that

* and does not impact (or even worsens) the best case.
Me and two other people built a house without blueprints. We just thought out the internals as we built it, debating the layouts by pretending to take actions on the bare floors. We got most things right, and a couple things wrong (doors in bad spots - why oh why not 2 feet right?). There are very few 90 degree angles (by design). Its an amazing house, very livable, and it suffers the same problem as yours.
This is pretty close to the E2 Treaty Investor visa, which exists already. I have held one of them. Our investment was bringing over a company founded in the UK. The interesting thing was that the majority of the actual investment came from US investors. Then our accountant valued the company, based on the work we had done since the investment, to be significantly higher than what the investment was. This was submitted in the paperwork, and was accepted.

So my one data point says: a good US immigration lawyer and an accountant who understands how to value software companies does do the trick.

The E2 Treaty Investor:

Nationals of qualifying Treaty countries who have made a significant investment in the United States may qualify for E2 Treaty Investor status. Like the E1 visa, there is no set minimum level of investment which may qualify for E2 status, but the lower the investment the less likely one is to qualify. Again, the level of investment must be sufficient to justify the treaty national (or his/her employees) presence in the United States. The investment must be in an operating business – i.e. simply buying property or stocks and bonds does not qualify. Also, a substantial part of the investment must have been made before applying for E2 status.

Source: http://www.workpermit.com/us/investor_e1_e2.htm
Climate scientists rely on (at least, but not limited to) oceanic temperature measurements, satellite measurements, and worldwide ground temperature measurements for current data modeling.

Historical data sources include ice cores, tree ring data, geological data (e.g. evidence of past glacial activity), and coral analysis. To some extent, human sources can also be used for historical data -- journals and old weather station logs -- however, I think those are generally considered to be examples of local weather events rather than climate data.
"At the input level, he seems to forget that keyboards (with somewhere between 50 and 100 keys that I can strike exactly and digitally)"

A GUI does not preclude the use of the keyboard. Keyboards are terrific for entering text and many other things.

" are fundamentally a better input interface for expert operations than the mouse/trackpad/pointer (with a rasterised but basically more analog feel that makes me "look where I'm going")."

This is fundamentally incorrect. See the millions of Photoshop, Visual Studio, Notepad++, GEdit, Eclipse, Microsoft Office, Autodesk, Blender, Visio, Labview, Mathematica, Quickbooks, SAP, Oracle and other users of proprietary application-specific software. Do those users consider themselves to be experts? Do the accountants working at your company consider themselves to be experts? Do you really believe they would be more productive if they had to work in a terminal all day?

"GUIs are great but there are relatively few that have the level of keyboard control that you can get with a terminal-based app."

You suppose that this level of keyboard control is required without providing any basis.

"The second is that text apps let me give commands with arguments much more straightforwardly; there is a language I speak, where GUI-based stuff is more like grunting and pointing. Clicking a mouse on a button or menu item is like calling an argumentless function()."

The way this works in interactive GUI applications is that they provide input forms and status indications to communicate with the user.

"Being able to type your command out, if it's at all complex, is just simply more powerful, and so text-based interfaces aren't going away any time soon."

Textual command systems and scripting languages are frequently integrated into GUIs. Another natural progression though is for frequently used commands to be represented by interactive widgets and dialogs. The fact that interactive graphical controls for many commands are missing often is simply the case because they have not yet been implemented.

I think that there is definitely some work to go in integrating textual language-based communication with visual interactive systems and exactly what form that will take I cannot say. But I think its important not to throw out the visual, two dimensional, interactive and even multi-user collaborative capabilities we have now but rather to integrate them with finer-grained language-oriented features of textual languages.
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I'm with you. I really really wanted to read (for example) "An observationally based energy balance for the Earth since 1950". However, all of the references to it that I can find are stuck behind paywalls, despite the paper having been authored primarily by NOAA scientists.

I fully support spending tax dollars on scientific research. That said, I think that the results of this particular bit of research have already been paid for.

I'm considering paying the nine bucks and putting it up for download. Any takers?
This is great news. And I wouldn't be surprised if "double or triple" ends up being an underestimate. ;)
Indeed, we figured out recently that it's basically embedded Algol 68... which seems superbly fitting somehow.
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Exactly how I feel. With text-mode interfaces I have the feeling of telling the application what I want it to do in verbal terms, which I find easier to remember than which button or menu selection does what I want.

The author states: The disadvantage I feel most keenly when using a terminal is the cognitive load. I have to keep more in my head when using a terminal/command-line-based interface. Again I find the opposite to be the case. When I use Visual Studio I feel overwhelmed by the GUI. Panels and scroll bars everywhere, buttons, menus, etc. Contrast to Emacs, where I have, very simply, one large area for editing text. I can focus on what I'm doing.

It's sort of a Feng Shui thing: the busy GUI is the cluttered room that drains your positive energy and causes constant low-level stress. The text interface is the well-organized room that has everything you need but it's out of the way until you actually use it.
1/500th of humanity's time is spent on Facebook
More than 350 million active users; Average user spends more than 55 minutes per day on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics)

(6.7 billion * 24 hours)/(350 million * 55 minutes) = 500

It's unclear how they're measuring time spent on the site, but most of Facebook's statistics seem to be honest (they only count active users, etc).
Trite as it is, both text and GUIs have strengths and weaknesses. I don't understand why we can't have both. I'm pissed that I'm forced to use the mouse in Firefox (losing focus bug for many years) and Mac OS (why can't I tab to the button I want to press in a dialog), and I have to dig around the manual to learn the arcana of vim.

IMO the best interface is one where I can point and grunt to do arbitrary things, and while doing so the interface teaches me its own language with prompts and contextual help.
It's the other way around. For things you've decided to write from scratch, especially if they're hard, CL is a dream. There's nothing comparable in my experience [~]: you can build unbelievably powerful and concise programs easily, then just as easily transform them in major ways. It's the ultimate combination of malleability and expressive power. (Oh, and performance, when you need it.) I can think of only three reasons to prefer Ruby over it: (1) you want Rails etc.; (2) you don't like Lisp; (3) you really like Ruby. The latter two are matters of taste, which leaves #1.

[~] I haven't tried Clojure yet. Then again, I don't need to: the JVM is a drawback for me, and I don't need all those Java libraries right now.
I agree with you as well. However, this should be taken into account (wish I could find a reference for this):

"A study done by Bruce Tognazinni when we was at Apple (a company that has had a good track record of designing for the mouse) showed that using the keyboard felt faster but was slower while using the mouse felt slower but was actually faster."
One of the core parts of modern science is reproducable results - to allow anyone to take data, follow through the methods used, and locate errors (or see if something is an anomaly, in the case of experiments). Without it, science is basically meaningless - one must rely on the word of a group of people for their conclusion, and it is essentially pointless to publish the method (as it's impossible for anyone to recreate the research).
I agree with both of you. Mahmud at that point was talking about all those projects that aren't worthwhile, by your (our) crazy definition.

Edit: but yeah, the "coding over a weekend" thing annoys the hell out of me too... but that's orthogonal to Lisp.
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I would prefer a programmer search engine based on Github, where people write code, to StackOverflow, where people talk about code.
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Yeah, plugin laws are certainly an alternative.

But more people seem to be behind net neutrality, so it's more likely to get passed...
Someone whom you aren't paying and aren't treating as a cofounder is a risk not an asset.
I upvoted you for the good link, but I also want to say that I like the way you titled your post. It would be nice if more users would give their post a more concise epithet.
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Because (apparently) there's no option for Alice to join and remove the risks herself. Bob is the sole executive.
I just tried this on my iPhone and it turned into a Droid.
Not to mention burying them is more expensive...
The site completely puked in Opera
it goes beyond CPAN - it would have been nice to have a "batteries-included" version that packs in most useful libraries (like Python's Image, lxml, etc libraries).

The very argument that choice > standardization is something I dont get - even in Rails, you have the choice of not using the default templating engine, JavaScript framework, etc. But it doesnt mean that they dont package it in anyway. This accelerates adoption, since it gets out of your way - and later when you mature as a developer, you can of course customize it wildly.

It may or may not also have the happy side-effect that the quality of the packaged libraries increase, because of a much larger user-base. I'd much rather that people fork mature libraries than hack the one-millionth version of an XML library that just does 2 things.
I believe they will preserve the slices cryogenically.

http://thebrainobservatory.ucsd.edu/hmblog/?p=66
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> Yeah, charing for participation is silly. It reduces the number of potential candidates.

I'd call that a feature. It cuts down on the resume spam. By charging $100 you create a filter to reduce the noise. It makes the people with jobs happier because they don't get as much crap and you make he job hunters happier as it's now easier for them to find jobs.

Everyone wins by charging.
Grudging upvote. One of the most depressing sights I see these days is lecture halls full of students on Facebook. I guess a lot of students don't care about red black trees or strongly connected components, despite ostensibly seeking a CS degree.
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Google is getting so incredibly fast. As I'm reading this, your post is 16 minutes old. I copy/pasted your calculation into google search just to see how well the google calculator would interpret it. Your post here shows up as the first result. Now, I may expect it to show up first but within 16 minutes and assuming nothing else links to this content yet?
You forgot to include Vim in the "Erlang Editors and IDEs" section.
Some minor issues with slightly not safe for work images showing up on terms like 'christmas' but apart from that .. love the interface. Didn't notice the size-o-meter though on first try.
My major beef was the lack of talent - a similar situation to back when I did game mods: some "alphas" shopping around for cofounders/sidekicks, and not too many sidekicks to go around.

The vast majority of the people I met while I was there were simply were not seasoned enough to tackle anything of considerable scope. Yeah, they were technically coders, but most had little experience outside of their CS courses and maybe a little bit of extra hackery on the side. Someone who was fluent in HTML, CSS, JS, and, say, PHP, was practically non-existent... and the ones who were there were the aforementioned "alphas", who were more interested in shopping for cofounders on their project than joining someone else's. In short, Velocity was 10% seasoned coders looking for partners (and not finding any), and 90% dreamers with no significant talent or experience to contribute to anyone's project. I'm making this sound very harsh, but I was very disappointed in the calibre of people they were able to recruit.

In a startup environment, especially one that's operating purely as a small team of founders, you cannot have "the Java guy", everyone has to wear a large number of hats - and this talent pool simply did not exist in Velocity.

I can't help but think the whole concept a dormitory-as-incubator is somewhat misguided. IMHO it would be much better served for everyone to simply have a streamlined collaboration system where entrepreneurially-minded people can find each other, and to provide basic resources (how 'bout some servers instead of flashy phones?) to help them get there. Think JobMine, but for student projects.

Oh, and one more thing: Waterloo is a town filled with tech startups, yet Velocity's only backers seem to be large corporations. This is unproductive - you don't need talks by big-company VPs about how they admire our spirit and independence... we need talks by startup guys who are in the thick of it themselves.
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I think it serves some purpose. Google's homepage is so plain you could almost mistake it for being antiquated and neglected. This little fade effect is a subtle reminder that it's simplistic by design.
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Speaking of, I wonder how many millions an open HN job board could make? The people I'd like to hire are stackoverflow, github, and HN users.
If one is unwilling to share their data and methods, then they should not participate in scientific research. The American Physical Society, for one, expects scientists to "Expose their ideas and results to independent testing and replication by others. This requires the open exchange of data, procedures and materials."* In this case, reproduction is not an option—even by the original authors.

http://www.aps.org/policy/statements/99_6.cfm
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