skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have 2 of the second gen nests. There is a plate that installs on the wall(with screws and attaches to the wire), then it kind of snaps into place on the mount. It feels pretty substantial, and I don't worry that it will pop off inadvertently. So while the nest itself is nicely built, I feel like the wall plate is kind of chintzy and doesn't really look "professional".
Reason why this story is doing circles again and trending high is because of a colossal, major screw-up, and no one picked up on it but a few readers yesterday.

The 8/31 rawstory "article" originally claimed the carbon dating range was 568 - 545. The 7/22 University of Birmingham press release that the story is loosely based on stated "568 - 645": the reporter copied the range wrong by 100 years and then researched and wrote rest of the article based on that. They've since corrected the number (after it trended on reddit), but not altered the narrative to reflect the change.

So you have an entirely speculative article based off of incorrect facts and sensationalized on that premise, and no one bothered issuing a correction notice because it's obviously sloppy, sloppy work and that'd be too much work or worse, embarrassing. And now, all the lazy regurgitation of trending material from other news outlets is repeating the message whose very first paragraph was so horribly wrong.
I seem to remember reading they re-used paper a lot back then, scraping off old ink. Paper could've been much older than the author.
You don't need to be from a rich family to do these things.

Of course not. Who said so? The point is that coming from wealth increases the odds that you'll end up being the type of person who will follow that program. It's not simply about having the capital; it's what coming from a place where security is guaranteed does to your psyche.
How are statistics used for sports betting
Reissue of the 1975 NASA Graphics Standards Manual
Networking is still invaluable, but capital isn't a necessity in software startups. I do think that either bravery or a nesting egg to fall back on is though.
Anyone have a sense for the kinds of queries this would actually help with?
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There were about a half dozen responses for Dart and 1 for Closure Compiler.
In other words, at least 7 Googlers submitted survey responses.

ouch.
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Let's be real: most people who make fun of Java aren't using a Lisp, and would also make a mess of themselves if they had to program in one.

We use Java at work. Obviously all of the following depends upon your use case.

The main reason we continue to use Java is probably legacy reasons. We have lots of library code. And we're a small shop, so every extra language we program in has a real cost associated with it.

The stability and backwards compatibility is great. We have some libraries we haven't had to touch in almost a decade, being used in apps we just wrote last week. Of course some of them we've updated to use newer Java libraries (such as java.time and java.util.stream in Java 8).

IMHO Java's biggest problem is the community. It's a bit enterprise-y. As long as you don't get caught up in that I think you're OK.

I think the other problem was it went so long between Java 6 and Java 7. With Java 8 there isn't a lot from the likes of Python and Ruby I miss anymore.

For imperative languages, I generally like Go and Python better, because I find them "funner". But once I get past myself, meh. I do think Go gets things a bit more right than Java, but not enough that it merits switching the language we use. Maybe if we had zero code and had to start out fresh.
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The physics behind why a phone didn't fall off a car while driving
True, but then arguably education (and especially several years of heavily-subsidised tertiary education) is part of the safety net, and the safety net certainly contributes towards choice to pursue that education rather than accepting the first shitty informal sector opportunity that enables them to support themselves.

Obviously there are plenty of other social and economic differences between Peru and France, but the fact that even Peru's relatively small number of highly-educated people is still highly likely to be underemployed doesn't exactly speak wonders for the potential of all these entrepreneurially-minded Peruvians to actually create jobs.
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This is probably posted because of their newest feature that was just announced: Chat. https://www.getflow.com/blog/2015/09/chat/
Does the "before_save do" hook happen inside the same transaction as the other object's save method? If not, this could result in some gnarly data consistency issues...
Sol 1091
Thirty-five years back, I went to work as the fourth person in a start-up (that's still in business) and loved the fast-paced environment of a start-up life. Fifteen years ago, I went to work for "BigCo", and while our group was essentially an internally funded start-up, I hated the politics, especially as we acquired other companies and tried to integrate their software products into ours.

The good news is that succeeding at three of the four start-ups left me with enough stock options to fund (my share) of my next start-up with cash. While it's looking like I may not see a return on that investment, the product was certainly something the industry needs/needed. As a small boot-strapped company, it's almost impossible to move an industry.

I'm currently working at a university and we've tailored the culture within our group to be much like you'd find in a start-up (the political machinations of a university can however be brutal). In any case, I think I have a couple more ideas that could be turned into start-ups and enough working years left to build a couple more start-ups. I can't think of anything that's more fun.

In contrast to you, I came from an upper-middle class family with a stay-at-home mom and a go-to-work dad. Things were comfortable when I was at home but I'd have never asked any of my relatives for money to create a start-up and my parents were far more risk averse than I (originally they mildly disapproved of the risks I was taking but seem to have realized I always "left myself an out" so that in the worst possible outcome, I could take care of my wife and kids).

So it might be true that most kids these days have the money to be entrepreneurs, I say it was definitely in my genes. (As an aside, in the '80s I think most of the start-ups I saw were people who were risking almost everything to get started because they had a vision - it's much easier to fail if there are no consequences).
I'd like to see this side by side with a map showing police deaths. I'm inclined to believe that in many cases (certainly not all) that police fear and training, as well as firearm availability has lead us here.
OK, I admit, if you like you can make it much harder than it needs to be.
Fair point. That was a good decision, others I know who went with GAE ended up getting locked in.

Good luck with the other suggestions in this thread.
Good point. The reason why few to no plants are not black is a very interesting problem, which I haven't heard an answer to.

Still, the number phi has very unique properties, considering its SCF. And the sequence of fibonacci ratios is not an arbitrary sequence converging to it. Whether anything has evolved to utilize this or not, I can not say.
Amazon Prime is about to get worse
EBay has search on ended auctions. It is easy to see what people have paid for something in the past.
It reflects an idea of risks of re-offending and perceived danger.

It may not be perfect, and there are very real issues with making it harder for people to resume a normal life after getting out, but this is actually one of those areas where actions are more in line with actual risks than a lot of policies relating to how past offenders are treated.

Murderers are highly unlikely to carry out another murder - most murders are "one of a kind" heat of passion, not sociopaths killing for the entertainment value or similar. The nature of the victims of murders and the low risk of re-offending makes it relatively low risk to live near someone who has carried out a murder in the past.

Sex-offenders are much more likely to be an ongoing risk to society after being released, and sex-offenders who have previously targeted children are extremely likely to target based on level of access (e.g. parents and close relatives top the list, but other people with close access to a child rank high, such as e.g. a neighbour that manages to become friends with the parents of a child), which is a particular impetus for people to worry about where they live.
Show HN: Whereisco share location, without a history
What is Kurzweil's cuckoo's egg

Do you perhaps mean Cliff Stoll?
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You wire a plastic Nest bracket up[0], the bracket redirects the inputs, and when you place the Nest into the bracket it makes the correct contacts with the back of the thermostat.

Wiring up a Nest isn't too bad, you just need the precious C wire. Most of these fancy thermostats require the C wire for electrical power, and many homes lack it. They have a work around, but it requires re-wiring and you lose some functionality (do not recommend).

PS - No idea why nobody offers an AC adapter as an alternative to the C wire. All the C does is provide electrical power anyway...

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I suppose they'd say that this problem exists however you get the file to the consumer; their business is being the way you get it to them [legitimate users], not piracy-prevention.
You can consistently get $100k in Silicon Valley, New York City, and Washington DC Metro, although you will need Top Secret security clearance for the latter.

It should come as no surprise that the expenses in those areas are much higher. If you settle for a lower salary in an area with lower living expenses, your effective savings rate could be higher.

Also, you don't want those DC jobs. Just say no. The military industrial complex is a soul-eating machine, and it does not respect software professionals.

The problem is that other places have fewer available jobs in the field, and a greater proportion of them are extremely unglamorous. $90k maintaining a stupid, business-line CRUD app may be less attractive than $80k making custom software for medical researchers.
Did you see the blog post from last week on Angular's efforts to help developers transition from 1 to 2?

http://angularjs.blogspot.com/2015/08/angular-1-and-angular-...

As for little/no benefits, that is certainly not true. Angular 2 is going to be better in almost every way from Angular 1 and there are many great apps built off Angular 1. If you haven't tried Angular 2, I suggest giving it a go once the they get to beta.
Thanks for the comment.
Here you can find some more information about that point http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/gum-chewin...
I think our scale and perspective, by being in tech, can be skewed.

Over 540,000 new businesses are started EACH MONTH in the US. The sheer number of them should be evidence enough that the vast majority are not started in the context of privilege, wealth or perhaps even a safety net that protects the would-be-entrepreneur from failure. I just don't think this world view is correct.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonnazar/2013/09/09/16-surpris...

While it is hard to find this data, the following article claims that "472 million entrepreneurs worldwide attempting to start 305 million companies, approximately 100 million new businesses (or one third) will open each year around the world."

That's one hundred million businesses per year world wide launched by nearly half a billion entrepreneurs. I think we can agree there aren't that many wealthy families or entrepreneurs with "I can fail without consequences" safety nets in the world.

http://www.moyak.com/papers/business-startups-entrepreneurs....
This is also why I think people should be very careful before comparing two entrepreneurs, or saying something like: "why is ___ so much less busy than you and more successful?"

Well, because ____'s parents are literally billionaires. I have to work so much harder because my bank account is actually decreasing everyday!
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> Third, I'm forced to draw a rather unfortunate conclusion from this information. The assertion in this article seems deliberately calculated to undermine the historicity of Islam. There is a very sad and shortsighted movement in some corners of military scholarship right now that identifies Islam itself as the enemy, often beginning with Huntington's "clash of civilizations" narrative and ending with some examples of sheer lunacy, such as the recent article by a West Point associate professor arguing that legal human rights scholars are "an Islamist fifth column."

This is an article from a private news source about work done by academics at a private university, saying that the parchment MAY predate the accepted dates of Islam's founding. How do you get from that to military scholarship and an attack on Islam?

It's perfectly possible (leaving aside the deficiencies in the radiocarbon dating) to believe that the accepted dates are incorrect without condemning Islam in any way. People frequently discuss errors in the histories of other religions (e.g. the Old Testament has god giving an incorrect value of Pi) without condemning their followers in any way.

tl;dr: "undermine the historicity of Islam" != "condemning an entire religion"
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Thanks for reaching out Bret. The issue I've found is it's much harder to monitor on an email NOT arriving, than one arriving with specific text. With the latter I can be as lazy as setting up a GMail fiter, with the former... I'd have to build my own reporting system that knows you'll email about 8-9am and if the email doesn't arrive, assume it's failed. That's a lot of overhead.

How to best monitor something doesn't happen (e.g. a scheduled, remote job) is something I've yet to solve.