skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The ROI on these devices is spectacular; they drastically reduce truck rolls. They're obviously going to happen.

Without getting into treacherous water, I can also point out that control loops with remote meters are a major part of what the win DOE thinks it will get from the "smart grid": customers will be able to check boxes on their bills to enter into contracts that reduce their usage during peak periods, allowing the power companies to allocate more efficiently.

Having attended a NIST/EPRI workshop, plug-in electric vehicles (on the buy side) and SOHO-scale renewable generators (on the sell side) seemed to be top of mind.

To make these systems all work the way NIST/EPRI seems to want them to, you need more than just a continuous feed of usage data.
I make this comment every month:

There needs to be a comprehensive site that aggregates all the educational videos on the net (lectures, conference talks, screen casts, simple instruction,etc.).
During my typical day, 0 people attempt to contact me by phone, and I spend almost all the time bathed in wireless connectivity. I am out of touch for a total of 40 minutes when I am walking to or from work, and perhaps another half hour when I am off campus for dinner.

I did have an incident very recently when I traveled to a part of campus I don't normally frequent and couldn't find an open access point so that I could request entry to the building. I lost at most half an hour finding an access point nearby, and in the future I can walk directly to the AP if the need arises, so it was a one-time cost.

There is also significant one-time savings from an iPod vs. a smartphone, to the tune of $200-$300.
You mean people might think twice about spending an additional decade in school so they can get a PhD and then move on to an entry level job that pays <40k/yr? ~~~~~crazy~~~~~

I think a different, but similar problem is the crazy student visa policy in the U.S. We happily allow foreign nationals to come study in the U.S. but they aren't allowed to legally work while here, and they can't easily convert that student visa into permanent residency like the vast majority of them probably want to at some point.

Some folks manage to do it, but often as not, you see some poor slob who's been trying to find someplace that'll hire them and sponsor them for an H1-B, and ends up staying in school forever in order to keep their student visa active, all the while sucking up a slot at the school that some other kid could use. And of course in order to keep their student visa active and ensure they can have their best chances to convert it to an H1-B, they don't go back home and they can't see their families.

I've never really understood the logic of the policy. It would make more sense to me if we actively tried to keep these folks, and convert them from school to skilled work force as rapidly as possible.
HDFS and MapReduce have nothing to do with building and maintaining datacenters.
You describe me¹ as adopting voluntary stupidity. Could you give me some pointers as to where I'm being stupid.

When you say "I am a man of faith", followed by "I find macroevolution to be too large a leap based on the evidence I've seen," you're demonstrating that you hold an inconsistent worldview. You demand an arbitrary, apparently-unmeetable standard of "evidence" from your biology teacher, while giving your anecdotal, irreproducible, and wholly subjective experience of "God" a free pass. That's stupid.

However, your writing doesn't suggest any innate cognitive handicaps. That's why I'm assuming the stupidity you exhibited above is voluntary. It's something you could overcome with education and disciplined thinking, if you wanted to.
Consolas has pretty much overtaken all the rest in most of the reviews these days. It's a great font (esp. on OS X)!
Surely you mean Stanford.
Silicon Valley is just an extension of the campus.
yay more email clients: solving the wrong problem
It sounds like Comcast is redirecting to a search page instead of returning NXDOMAIN for non-existing domain names. That is certainly not possible do to and at the same time be standards-compliant.
A Neighborhood of Infinity: Target Enumeration with the Euler Characteristic
SenSage has customer whose database size is up to petabyte. Some of SenSage customer load up to multiple Terabytes in a day.
What most distinguishes Silicon Valley from elsewhere is how much easier it is to find investors - not just VC, but angels who are comfortable putting their money into tech startups.

Startups in the Valley are never more than a couple degrees of separation from someone who's made money in tech, or has friends who did. There's a level of comfort with tech startups that doesn't exist elsewhere. Though there may be plenty of rich people in other areas, they don't have the familiarity with tech to risk their money on a startup when they could buy real estate or whatever.
"What if I buy the phone full-price?" I ask. "Do I pay the same rates, even though I’m not getting a discount for the phone?"

Yes. Same rates, even though I’m no longer amortizing a phone.

There doesn't seem to be much to gain by owning a phone outright if the monthly rates are identical. At the end of your contract, when your phone is paid off, if you don't get cheaper rates by continuing to use it, why not upgrade?

But upgrading your phone and getting another contract just means the same thing will happen 2 years later.

The only thing that can break that cycle is a carrier that offers decent rates independent of a hardware purchase. This kind of carrier doesn't seem to exist in the US.
What Is Your Minimum Viable Market?
You can't delete pages, and people can still mess with your page: it should be locked to targeted underlying user. Also, there's no spreadsheet view, which makes it almost unusable to me: do you expect users to open 100+ tabs?

The wiki is about startups, but you sourced it from data about people. I am not a startup, I am a person.
If I had to guess, Google probably gets so many hits for bad URL's (from hackers and such) that it's not worth the processing power to return custom 404 pages. (Notice how it also has no images?)
For anyone wondering where this is, you have to create an account for it to show up.
If you look at the code he used to test this, its completely CPU-bound, meaning that it requires the GIL to run. And since the GIL is, well, a "GIL," that means that only one can run at any single time.

Therefore, the expected behavior of running these two threads would be to have identical runtimes. That would be the "perfect" case with a GIL. So with this "better" GIL its actually near-perfect in this _simple_ case. (Like the presenter said, there needs to be more tests to study the behavior under heavier tasks)

What you're describing, with the threaded being "twice as fast" assumes that the threads will allow two python-instruction-bound tasks to run concurrently, which would require having no GIL.
This is 2010. I'm using Visual Studio for most of my work and I never had to care about this tabs-vs-space thing. (When I work on Linux I use vim and I believe my macros are set up to use spaces but I'm not completely sure.) I don't even know which one Visual Studio is using and honestly, I don't really care either. It just works. It should be up to the IDE to sort out ridiculously marginal questions such as this.
One Hell of a Workflow
That's right: There will not be many benefits on the user experience side. But there will be a remarkable amount of benefit on the developer's side, I estimate. And it's not just the <video> I'm talking about. In the long run, the front-end as a whole will benefit greatly from the easy addibility of visual, audio and video elements into the web pages. It might offer competitive advantages to those who will make use of it efficiently. How many times have I heard that smart question: "hmm but can you make Flash apps?" Flash has been the only way to design the so called "rich Internet applications" and I've been rejecting to learn Flash for years with an expectation that something better would come up, and that thing has finally come up. JavaScript yes, ActionScript no, thanks.
I think for this endeavour, a wiki works well.

Not everything needs a social network :)
Decent SQL editors (such as PL/SQL Developer for Oracle) have functionality to convert SQL to various formats such as single line or even multi-line strings for various languages.
"Written by David A. Couillard, a student at the University of Minnesota Law School expected to graduate this year, the paper is a concise but thorough outline of where we stand with respect to the application of Fourth Amendment law to Internet computing."

One of the oddities of legal scholarship is that students who have not yet finished their degrees edit most of the professional journals (law reviews) and they can be published in those journals with articles (called "comments" or "notes" by convention) that sometimes are even cited by the Supreme Court. Kudos to this student.
Also take a look at programmableweb.com

They have a comprehensive list of APIs and the mashups built on top of those APIs
I'm sure you can hack together a little input form that creates a webnumbr. :)
I have a slightly weird and probably completely unworkable "idea" that has nothing to do with this particular GIL improvement but with the broader GIL issue.

The problem with removing the GIL seems to be garbage collection. I wonder why it's not possible to introduce a new type of object reference that exempts referenced objects from being garbage collected.

Then multiple Python interpreters could be started in separate threads, each with its own unmodified GIL, and the only thing they could access would be their own thread local data and those special shared objects.

What this amounts to is basically an implementation of a multi process architecture on top of a multi threaded architecture. The crucial difference is that the memory shared among the interpreters could hold pointers and thus proper in memory data structures and not just a BLOB into which everything has to be serialized as in the case of conventional shared memory.

Of course the shared objects would have to be manually deleted.

One issue I see is that when such a special object is created, all the objects it creates recursively would also have to be allocated in that pool of special objects. But I think it should be possible to use some kind of global flag to special case the allocator.

Well, there is probably a huge number of issues with this kind of trickery and it's definately not a long term solution. But I'd love to use Python much more than I do and the GIL issue is what prevents that for me at the moment.
It's advantageous to be in Silicon Valley if you're going the VC route. If you're going to bootstrap for awhile, SV is quite expensive to live and work in and other cities may actually be a better fit. Agreed though that most other cities outside NY and Boston, and maybe Austin you're going to feel much more isolated.
So a source with no reference value whatsoever no longer appears DIRECTLY as a Google result for certain kinds of searches that might be expected to turn up reliable information. I thought that was a big part of what Page Rank was all about in the first place. Would that the same thing would happen to the many crank pages that turn up in searches on medical topics.
Although I'm interested in 3D vision I'm not very interested in this sort of technology, which is not far removed from 19th century anaglyphs or the cinema crazes of the 1950s. I expect that this has an initial novelty value, which will quickly wear thin.

This is yet another attempt to reinvent TV, which will probably not succeed. Having recently been involved with people in the TV industry it's clear that they're struggling to compete against internet based delivery of video content, and are desperately searching for ways to attract or at least retain conventional TV viewers, and the advertising revenues which go along with that. Ultimately, this is a battle which they're going to lose.
I suppose this is a question for an Australian, but what stops someone from just using google.com instead of the .com.au address? Seems like if I see that warning in the US, the filtering isn't done by origin of the request, at least on this level.
The number of points you get is how many people also want more social engineering stories.
For better or worse, that site is google.com
I quibble with infrared radiation being described as "heat,"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared#Heat

but there is some interesting information on the submitted site.
I'd also add:

harvest, carbonmade, blip.tv, boxee, college humor, clickable, 20x200, hello health, OMGPOP, seamless web, squarespace, stocktwits, vimeo, etc., etc., etc.

There's a good list here:

http://www.mikekarnj.com/blog/2009/12/21/new-york-startup-mo...
I'm not sure how 3D can catch on when so many people seem to have an adverse reaction to it. Lots of people I know who saw Avatar in 3D complained of headaches or feelings of motion sickness. I don't have true stereo vision so the whole effect is lost on me anyway. It just ends up looking blurry and distorted to me. I'm much more interested in 2K displays personally. That's something everyone can appreciate and enjoy.
i see 3 underlying assumptions here (both in your reply and in the original post)
1) You need investors to scale
2) It is easier to find VC money in the Valley
3) Being an early adopter is a critical factor in startup success.
I would disagree with all of these, i think you need a good product and loyal customers, everything else including the "networking edge" of being in the center of the startup universe is secondary in my opinion. Paying customers will let you scale. It is bad to be an "adopter", make your own thing. And its easy to find an investor if you have a good product, no matter where you are.
I'd move from Boston to CA just for the sake of windsurfing.
Likely more expensive for two reasons:

1) Wii board is mass produced in greater volumes.

2) Selling any technology into medicine is a long slow costly process involving multiple stages of approval and testing. Not so for a consumer game.

No 2 isn't going to change any time soon.
can too
Adrian, thanks for doing this. BTW, I set something up on Ning for this purpose and registed the domain mycofounder.com. I'd be happy to transfer both over to you. I've found the Ning pages are a bit easier to edit and search, have nice built in functionality to host pics, etc. If you are interested let me know!

http://mycofounder.ning.com/
Benchmarks are a good idea and we'll certainly post some numbers in the near feature. I've searched for some good standardized data sets and queries/algos for graph databases, but found none, so if somebody here has a pointer, I'll be much appreciated!

We haven't added pagination, sorting and the likes yet, because we thought they are more of a priority for a server-oriented database. And HyperGraphDB has been exclusively used as an embedded database where large portions of the graph are kept in main memory and such things are done by application code. But I agree it's a valid and common use case and we'll try to add those sooner rather than later. In the meantime, if you want write to the discussion forum with more info about your problem and I'll be happy to help.
Ah, gotcha. I never used Google Groups' web interface, so I forgot it existed.
RAND Corporation: A Stability Police Force for the United States (2009) [pdf]
http://www.google.ca/search?q=http://online.wsj.com/article/...

Click "cached" next to the first link.
It's not really a question of how relevant ED is. The issue is that a government had Google censor something which is well within the bounds of free (albeit offensive) speech.
I think my hostility was more towards the posted article than pipes.
Ask HN: Help me pick a logo for my web app, Preceden
I feel the need to point out that when I submitted a link to khan academy, no one up-voted it. Why is this?

ref. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=911882
Google isn't a pure reference site. It exists to show users things they're searching for. If people want to find the Encyclopedia Dramatica article for Aborigines when searching for "Aborigines and encyclopedia", Google should show it.
Great. I have never heard about this Encyclopedia Dramatica before but now I'll definitely have a read.
I'm working on a web app called Preceden for building simple, powerful timelines. It hasn't been released yet, but should be within the next three weeks.

I posted a project on CrowdSpring for a custom logo design and these are the submissions I received.

Which do you like and why?
It won't help if you have to do stuff over a single shared data structure.
If you think lower prices are necessarily a problem, I have a $50,000 computer to sell you. :-)

By your logic, then inflation is a great thing since it means businesses make more money from their products?
I think it'll be harder to kill of what Silicon Valley has become than what Michigan was:

Michigan was for at least a couple of periods (e.g. before the Great Depression and after WWII when every industrialized consumer economy's factories were largely destroyed, aside from Great Britain) a or the best place in the world to build cars. It stopped being so due to bad management at three companies and bad government at the national level (Wagner Act, CAFE). It was (and maybe still is) a good place to design them, but that requires good management (e.g. look at Toyota's sharp (for them) decline in quality, mostly due to design errors).

California has worse government, which has killed the manufacturing part of Silicon Valley (e.g. are there any production fab lines still operating there?), but I'm not sure its government can kill off the design part of things. To do that it would have to make a middle class existence impossible. And the very nature of SV companies makes it impossible for bad management to kill the local part of its "industry".
Encyclopedia Dramatica is still the top result for a search on "Encyclopedia Dramatica."

http://www.google.com/search?q=Encyclopedia+Dramatica

Currently, lots of good stuff shows up on a search for "Aborigines and encyclopedia,"

http://www.google.com/search?q=Aborigines+and+encyclopedia

so no harm, no foul.
I love DejaVu Sans Mono:

http://dejavu-fonts.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

Which is a variant of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:

http://www.gnome.org/fonts/

However, right now, my new favorite font is Menlo that came with Snow Leopard. It's another variant of Bitstream Vera and it seems to work much better at smaller font sizes. Which is great for limited screen sizes (such as 1280x800 on a smaller laptop).
I have an HD2, replacing an iPhone. The HD2 is the only winmobile phone I would recomend as it meets the windows 7 hardware requirements. It's vastly better at some things than the iPhone but doesn't have the App Store :(. You can still find most applications that you need but games are not as good.
Thanks for giving the specific link to the Australian site for Google, which now shows the search you linked to turning up lots of coverage of the controversy mentioned in the submitted article. That too is a better outcome than having someone blunder on a site not meant to have serious information when performing a search that might be expected to turn up reliable information.
1. The Lever of Riches, by Joel Mokyr
2. Guns Germs and Steel, by Jared Diamond
3. A Farewell to Alms, by Gregory Clark
4. Power and Prosperity, by Mancur Olsen
5. Carnage and Culture, Victor Davis Hanson
6. Capital Ideas, by Peter Bernstein
7. The Geodesic Network, by Peter Huber
Hey guys, no .. it's not me "Jay Liew", although I'm not sure why that would matter.

I've watched the flurry of activity and up until this moment people are still editing .. hanging out on the Google Docs. I'm sure it's been a real learning experience for everyone who participated, especially those who have been watching closely. I wonder if I should write up a "lessons learned" blog post.

If you step back you'll see that it's amazing how the HN community got together to collaborate and provide feedback, and now people attempting to improve on the initial idea of all the co-founder data in a flat table on Google Docs spreadsheet.

Ultimately we'll see if the market decides if they want something other than a flat tabular data or not.

That's why we're all here, right? We want to "make something people want".

p.s. shoutout to Paul from UCSD who's graduating and is helping out 280 North (I met him for coffee after we found each other, thanks to the Google Docs).
Menlo looks nice. There is a comparison between both at http://8.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kozenpQvKP1qzus90o1_500.png
"cases like Smith v. Maryland, in which the courts argued that people generally gave up an expectation of privacy with regard to their phone records simply through the act of dialing their phone"

This seems wrong, why stop at the number, one could argue that you give up your expectation of privacy with respect to your voice and data which is transmitted through the phone company equipment as well.
I have been using Envy Code R. From time to time, I change my font. I guess I need some variety.

I have a pet project of reproducing the IBM 3270 terminal font. I love those 6's and 9's.
Taking into account the number of people who actually see my comment.
Race and Merit at MIT
Man, this article is priceless. This would have really helped to have when I was last recruiting - although I did end up finally negotiating myself to a comfortable position... took three months though.
As I live in Ireland I use google.ie. I often accidentally type maps.google.ie or mail.google.ie, to be greeted with a 404. Seems like a fairly easy problem to fix.
I just don't know what to say anymore. As an Australian, I am ashamed and baffled at the way my government has been handling Internet policy lately.

Their treatment of the issues betrays a astounding naivety that I find of increasing concern. On the face of it, it's always for a good cause... won't somebody think of the children! We need to censor all the bad sites on the Internet! Some guy feels slighted by a racial slur on some website that no one takes seriously! We must ban it from Google! We can't be seen to be endorsing racism!

The sentiment is always admirable but the reaction betrays an complete misunderstanding of both the online culture and the technological infrastructure that supports it.

The sad thing is I know first hand that there are people in the Australian Government who can and do give better advice that should ostensibly lead to better government decisions in the online space. It just seems like their voices are being disregarded. I suspect the main reasons for this are:

a) Certain politicians refusal to accept that the reality of the Internet does not fit their limited understanding of it.

b) Politician's desire to use the Internet as a political football.

Perhaps it really is time to move to Estonia.
Looks like a light solution that could potentially disrupt the heavier IndabaMusic solution (they still don't have live jamming capability - they're focused on collaborative mixing, not collaborative playing).
You would like Mathematics and its History by John Stillwell

http://www.amazon.com/Mathematics-its-History-John-Stillwell...
A followup from the same blog from the next day is here: http://flyingfrogblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/naive-parallelism...
Citation needed about how things were "in the old days."
Valuable information, concisely explained. Thank you.

I have now learnt that I have 100 shares of preferred founder's stock in my own company which has 100 shares outstanding!

This is equally as useful for potential employees at a startup as those looking to recruit. I will certainly be referring back to this one when the time comes to talent hunt!
"However, the newspaper industry has been losing quality at a rate equaled only by their loss of readers and one influences the other. "

Citation needed.