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"For the world's economy, of course, trillions of dollars are now at stake in pursuit of emissions reductions based on the flawed science that these leaked emails have helped lay b…

You mean the 'business model' of "annoy the piss out of site visitors for sake of more ad views"? Well, it's one approach to trying to rescue the Boston Globe from death. ...one de…

"The team says that an exposure to the plasma of only about 12 seconds reduces the incidence of bacteria, viruses, and fungi on hands by a factor of a million - a number that stand…

FWIW: Googling 'sparklines' right now gives me a first Sponsored Link of: Microsoft.com/Office2010 Microsoft Excel 2010 Beta: Explore the New Features. Get it for Free! ¿Apparently…

What do you mean by "simple math captchas"... where the distorted characters display something like "2 + 3 =" - and I'm supposed to type 5 or five? Or are you simply using a simple…

Yes, data are helpful. Regularly updated data: more so - because they would enable us to see whether/when spammers are adjusting their methods to accommodate our latest obfuscation…

You could add to your (self-answering) question "...would cannibalize their laptop sales..." the phrase: "...and that has perhaps 1/3 the profit margin?" Apple's decision making lo…

As has been argued around the business web, Jobs' absence/incapacity for better part of a year - while Apple continued to develop dramatically better than the rest of the industry …

JSON highlighting... at last. It's like someone finally cares about providing an inspector for daily use!

It might be awesome... at whatever it does. But I have a real UX concern when I land at a site and... WTF: I can't even tell what it is about, what services it offers, is there any…

I don't find (google) much discussion about oauth security issues/concerns since the April 2009 event. And even back in April, there doesn't seem to have been much heat/light here …

So would the point then be that we need to belittle (or abuse or revolt against) IT departments that rest on 20th Century laurels. Or perhaps... embark on educational campaigns aim…

"once you've got cancer 'thinking positive' will probably do very little as you're too far gone" ? I'll try to speak in an even-toned way (as spouse of a nine-year breast cancer su…

Weak, obvious presentation. Six minutes long, first 45 seconds of which wastes you time with saying how great their "speedy presentations are. (what's wrong with this picture?)

Only one email acct? They're free at so many places. I have several (to go with different identities) that all fwd to one location. So for this app I would use * mysite1.com@mymain…

Reality: Marketing has a huge place in headline-writing. Headline-writing is a "science" in itself (funded). What HN can do to serve its members: Omit the marketing/hype when posti…

You mean: "thanks", Rupert. But a sincere thanks to you for explaining to get there via a google search. Which raises questions (besides the 'why am i out of loop'?): • How did you…

?Transported only over land? Apparently Seimans plans to overcome the wetness of the Mediterranean: http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20091015-714009.html

And except that even after logging in... i see only a blank page :(

It's not IE that needs to be disparaged. [By the standards of ~2000 it was pretty good, no?] It's those who declined upgrade it year after year.

I think some balanced discussion about Kohana v. CodeIgniter would be helpful on HN. I haven't followed the debate, but I do find it interesting that the Kohana article on Wikipedi…

I'm no one to assess Jason's gifts of prophecy, so he may be right on target as to what now "looms" as potential disruptor: > Applications will be much less visible. > Service appl…

"Trying" adderal doesn't have to mean illicit adderal. Used under physician supervision he (w/doc) may find a dosage and plan that works for him. YMMV.

Former biofeedback therapist here. The effect of caffeine on muscle tension is measurable: it is impossible for nearly everyone to achieve as deep a muscular relaxation (measured b…

Yes it's interesting. Yes it compares Oracle and MySQL. For balance it would be helpful to have an analysis from a more independent source than Oracle.