skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, you seem to be more knowledgeable on the subject than I am and I probably misinterpreted the chart as well. I was just trying to say turbines aren't the end all solution since most places don't seem to have enough wind. But there should definitely be push for using more renewable energy sources and improving the associated technologies.

Also, maybe you can give me some numbers so I can plug them into this formula. What is the wind conversion efficiency for a turbine? What is the typical rotor diameter? And how many turbines per unit area on a typical wind farm?

energy generated per turbine = efficiency * (power per unit area) * area * time

total energy generated = (available area) * (turbines per unit area)

Then I can redo my calculation using 29 PWh as the total energy consumption for the US (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_in_the_United_States). Just curious now, don't want to start an argument or anything.
Something that helped or encouraged people to get the word out about the meetup to interesting, useful, and active people would help. "tweet this" or "post to your Facebook wall" might do the trick.
Non-Errors: they tell you it's wrong but actually it's standard English
Apple and Microsoft are behind H264 now...that will be hard to overcome mostly because the public just wants it to work and doesn't care about the tech behind it.
I must be missing something here: all I see are the slide titles, the code area, and the results underneath. I see no explanatory text anywhere, though the HTML source for each slide is full of it. :-(

Running Firefox 3.6 on Windows XP if that makes any difference.
It is a great server OS.
Rastafarian Vocabulary
Why not just switch to a different host?
And in case you're tempted, you may want to think twice before drinking that ultra-pure, 18 MOhm water you have handy in the lab:

http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/dwq/nutdeminerali...
Yeah, according to people around MIT talking on zephyr we get our water from Fresh Pond.
I don't give my SSN to anyone if I can help it, not even my doctor's office.
Within each grouping, imports should be sorted lexicographically, ignoring case, according to each module's full package path.

import foo
from foo import bar
from foo.bar import baz
from foo.bar import Quux
from Foob import ar

That seems kind of time consuming...
> nameserver 4.4.4.4

Please don't do this unless you're a GTE/Verizon customer. Use your ISP's or run a resolver yourself.
MS releases IronPython tools for Visual Studio 2010
But it's against my programming to impersonate a deity!
I don't think a significant portion of the target audience use ipads.
Interesting, are these also weighted by date? I remember seeing (and posting) comments which are highly ranked which are not on that list.
interesting to get the other side of this. I think I don't initiate contact after an email (depending on what was said in the introduction) because

1) the person who I was introduced to might not be interested

2) the person is likely already swamped with emails, so getting two emails of essentially the same thing seems like an annoyance.

I guess a good way of getting beyond #2 is to add something in a response to increase the targets interest.
Had it not been for all the work done before on freeBSD or the mach kernel design, if the industry needed to rely on the heavy hand of Patent hounds and closed system advocates, the reincarnation of Apple would not be possible. Indeed, Google its current chief rival, could not scale to what is today, if the reliance on open technologies was not to be found.

Apple is playing a delicate balance between its business interests and the support of the industry as a whole, it releases code to the benefit of the public, I am of the personal opinion that it is not enough.

Like Microsoft before it, we know what the pursuit of the ever higher balance sheet, control of market, can do to innovation and technologies. I think everybody hopes that Apple will not go to that extreme, but the lawsuit against HTC, and the extreme paranoid secrecy in which apple conducts itself gives pause, and make people rightly suspicious.

Of course, in the issue of Flash, it seems fairly clear, proprietary technology company can block another proprietary technology. But the language used in the 3.3.1 is so broad it engulfs other possibilities as well, it is the future of other development platforms that is of concern, not just flash.
A Sea of History - Twitter at the Library of Congress
There are machines in Taiwan that do exactly this. It's very convenient, because you can get really hot water for tea just by pushing the right button, or cold water if you press another button.
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You don't have permission to access /hn_comment_embed.user.js on this server.
Can we knock off this "worthless" bullshit? Just because someone has an opinion on something, doesn't mean that their analysis is "worthless". Comments like these cheapen HN.

OnePlusOne, the same can be said about your comment: "The author of the above comment clearly prefers Bing Maps and is so biased in his analysis it is worthless."

If you're going to bitch about bias, do it without inserting your own.
I absolutely agree with you. It's not just about blindly following up on the intro email. It's really about adding color as to why that person should be interested in speaking with you. Thanks for the comment...
Oh, lovely. An auto-play video.
Just this week, zooming in my local city Google map, I was struck by the apparent importance of random small businesses.

At 'z=17', I'm getting a 'dance academy' and similar shops I never heard of, or noticed, labeled at the same level as a huge Sheraton hotel. A nearby residential hotel, which I also never noticed, gets to shout its name in all caps ...
Well sure, if someone does the work for them.

I'm saying that's probably why Chris and Leah haven't fixed it already and probably for many days to come.
No, they don't. The subject is the video content itself. How you play it back is only relevant insofar as it explains why there is so much content.
I wholly support this idea. Definitely allow upvoting and/or polling, which could be used for date/topic/location/etc.

As a side note, I am starting to think we need a set date/time for Chicago meetups (ie, last Wednesday of every month at 7pm).
Yeah, I know. I just wanted to point out that we're not totally helpless here like we would be with closed-source software, and maybe encourage someone to fix it :)
Fixed; Sorry.
4 Stages of a Relationship: Growing from Strangers to Partners for Life
Facebook App Brings Back Data
I find the comments page visually backward.

The comment is in black, with the title in grey, so the first thing that sticks out is the content of the comment. You're automatically jumping into the conversation mid-stream without knowing what it's all about.

You have to concentrate to go to the title first, then the comment.

Also, you end up with the same articles again and again, but contextually broken up. It might be nice to have the page show just the unique entries, and then the most recent comments on that entry which would have made it into the 'comments' page.

Just my thoughts.
No I don't go to that page,
I suspect the reasons above are why.
A nasal spray with 'cuddle hormone' makes men more empathetic
I won't comment on MSFT, because they have a really fucked up attitude towards open standards. But Apple, whether you like it or not, supports open standards (at-least when it comes to browsers). There is no reason why Apple won't support an open format over H264, if the performance is comparable.

If I had stakes at H264 or any proprietary video coded/format. I would be concerned for my future.
Ask HN: Are you with me? Leaving Facebook. 
I'll be deactivating my Facebook account (tainting what I need to) and removing as much information there as possible within the week.

I'm not a hardcore privacy advocate, but I joined Facebook with the understanding that some of what data placed there would stay private. That is what we agreed to.

Facebook has repeatedly violated that trust.
HN RSS feed with 10+ upvote filter
They won the completness category and really deserved it - the little bits of polish made it shine. It's also worth noting they actually wrote it in Sinatra during the competition, not after, a railsrumble 2009 was more a rack rumble ( but that doesn't quite have the same ring to it)
And I just wanted to point out that this isn't a simple 2-3 line fix so people won't get their hopes up trying to see if it's ready every few hours.
A couple of decades ago, they were these cube shaped metal things covered faux wood grain found in dorm rooms.
There are companies which act as proxies, e.g. EuroDNS.
I looked it up, and found the stat. I remembered the 80% wrong, actually 42%. The 80% were for book purchases last year. Should be changed on the post.
Thanks for reading

p.s. here's some more stats: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08...
Those give off radiation too.
here's something else to put it into perspective. The other day ubuntu was a trending topic. I understand it was a big release and all. I'm not a stats pro by any means, but I just can't see how a "mainstream" application with 75 million+ users could have ubuntu as a trending topic.
I was bitten by this (or a similar bug), too. Unfortunately it's a VMware bug and not an Ubuntu bug.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/5...
I think the town was in Oregon, not the midwest.

Rambo pissed now!!
The sad thing is that I almost didn't click on this submission because, glancing at the headline, I felt certain that it was going to lead to some sort of paranoid rant.

Instead it turns out to be a one-hundred-percent-real news issue that affects many of my friends and neighbors [1].

I was nearly a victim of the "Reddit who cried wolf" effect.

I'm glad I can continue to have faith that HN's moderation system is working.

---

[1] This is one time when I'm actually glad to be living in a relatively distant suburb of Boston.
You bring up some really good points. Thanks for the examples. I will check out your blog post as well.
Steve Jobs himself said a couple of days ago:

All video codecs are covered by patents. A patent pool is being assembled to go after Theora and other “open source” codecs now. Unfortunately, just because something is open source, it doesn’t mean or guarantee that it doesn’t infringe on others patents. An open standard is different from being royalty free or open source.

Source: http://blogs.fsfe.org/hugo/2010/04/open-letter-to-steve-jobs...
Nope. I'm not.

Yes, privacy is important. However, the only information that I've ever put on Facebook is information that I'd want everyone else to know. That's why I have a Facebook; to give people who don't know me an idea of who I am and what I'm like, and get a little bit of personal branding out there. For instance, there's at least one little portion of my life that I don't want to be broadcast out to everyone, so it's conspicuously missing.

I don't feel that Facebook told anyone that their data would be private. Maybe I'm just naïve, or a little bit of an exhibitionist.
I did that, except I deleted, not deactivated. I'm not a hardcore privacy guy either, but they got to be a little too much after f8
Well, part of the git workflow is branches. If you embraced these, you could push your full-baked code, your bug-fixes, and everything onto master, and just keep sponsored links code in a branch. You can create a "live" branch that reddit.com runs and merge in master + relevant other branches as necessary. It just seems like things would be a lot easier on both of our ends if at least the bulk of the code tracked the production reddit.com fairly closely.

Also, as CUViper suggested, I think that tagging releases and providing tarballs of these is a pretty good idea. Right now, everyone is just like, "I have commit z1z1z1z1, what do you have?", which most people can't easily memorize like a version number.

Tagging "versions" can also help with dependency changes -- for instance, the new codebase uses Cassandra instead of memcached (as I understand it); if you have the last release (currently HEAD on master) tagged as 1.2 or whatever, you can say 1.2 needs these things: x, x, x, x and our new release 1.3 needs these things: x, y, y, x. This really helps people, especially people who use "server" distributions, because many of those have only certain packages and versions for quite a while (see RHEL or Debian), like, 3-6yrs in most cases, some people go longer (some shorter, but not that many imo). master HEAD of course would be the latest and greatest without any necessary warnings, because things are expected to break on a development version. Versioning is pretty important imo.
A contract fundamentally requires consideration in both directions, as well as the agreement element. This need not be money. Obviously it can also be something else of value, or the only contract possible would be a direct swap of funds, which isn't very useful.

This is the case in every jurisdiction in the modern world. I don't care what Wikipedia says: if it disagrees with this, literally ten seconds with any qualified lawyer will tell you that it is wrong.
More style than content.
Smartphones to get novel memory material
Fun with your bank's secret questions & answers
It's the best comments among the most recent 15k items. (Most items are comments.)
Isn't that a Google nameserver?

Oh wait, that's 8.8.4.4. Maybe that's what he meant.

And now I checked the article. That's what it says now.
As soon as tell me how to delete my data for real. Maybe they will let us into the datacenter to help them do it.
Not that we know everything about this situation, but Buffett is known for his honesty and integrity. He would probably consider it his duty, as a part-owner, to defend the company. If it came to light that Goldman is provably guilty of fraud, you can bet he'll stop speaking well of the institution and its CEO--but he would still do his best to save the company. That is what happened when Salomon Brothers, an I-Bank of what Buffett owned a part, was caught manipulating the Treasury market.

Besides, the guy probably isn't to throw his integrity--from which a large part of his $200 billion business derives its value--for a mere $5 billion in warrants. I mean, stranger things have happened, but I'd be very surprised if such a turn of events came to pass.
I've stopped using mine, removed all apps, unfollowed (er, unliked?) all pages.

I'd guess the market is ripe for a fb-type site that, for lack of a better phrase, isn't evil. And doesn't have a horrible ux.
This is really odd, I'm having a bug on chrome windows where the html gets printed out as plaintext. MIME type issues on the server side maybe? Other than that, looks like an interesting read.
Probably not. As cynicalkane says above, Buffett is known for for his personal integrity, and he's not going to throw that away for $5billion.
Since Hurl.It isn't working, thought I'd mention a site I've been using for this for over a decade.

Rex Swain's HTTP Viewer - See exactly what an HTTP request returns to your browser:

http://www.rexswain.com/httpview.html
How about changing your name and birthday a bit

Winston Jonathan Smith -> W.J. Smith

01/03/1980 -> 01/01/1950 (this doesn't even have to be visible)

and not posting any sensitive information on there?
Yeah...

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

Interesting that Safari is "smart" and ignores the content type in this case.
What features should it have? (Or not have?)
My reason isn't entirely the privacy concern, though, I just think their UX and some of their design/application decisions are _horrible_. It's an excruciating site to use if you want to do anything other than the two or three things they _want_ you to do.

* Sharing information: Easy!

* Removing information: Okay, not _too_ hard, but not as easy as sharing it!

* Adding applications/pages: Easy!

* Removing applications: Good luck doing it in less that four clicks, even assuming you know where to look!

* Unliking pages: Where the heck... oh, there it is in little tiny letters way down the left column...

And so on.
Http://www.volunteermatch.org/post/opps_for_org.jsp?orgid=88462&viewType=1
I am torn when it comes to this. In principal I want to. But my friends and family are spread around the world and in many cases FB is the only way I have of keeping in touch with them. My privacy settings are already as high as I can make them but I can't readily leave the silo.
IE had a market share at 95% in 2003. Did they win?

"For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting."
- Gen. George C. Patton
Buzz. None of my friends are using it, however.
Wow. This article has it all:

Hypocracy - They accuse democrats of fear-mongering, then proceed to do it themselves.

Red herrings - He opposes the democrats' use of attaching riders to bills. Of course he doen't mention that this tactic is hardly unique to them, nor is it really relevant.

Blatant disregard of the real issues - He doesn't mention that this amendment is really about leaving the Internet alone, not making things worse. Not one mention of net neutrality.

All in all, I'd say that this is partisan crap that doesn't belong on the front page.
Faster ZeroConf resolution.

Link-local and DHCP along with DNS-SD on mDNS or DNS-LLQ seem plenty fast to me — can you expand on that?
Oddly enough, it is a custom in Taiwan to serve warm water. I totally don't get it because Taiwan in the summer is, as you said, really hot and muggy.

I was visiting someone in a mental institution in Taiwan and the nurses kept giving him warm cups of water when he really wanted a cold cup of water. Hilarity ensued.
I mentioned a few things that bug me in the above reply-to-myself...

Should:
- Be able to export all friend/contact information anytime. CSV is fine.

- Be able to _easily_ block/remove applications & notifications. It's fine people can create "which star trek appliance are you?" quizzes, but let's make it _easy_ for these to be removed from my feed if I don't want to see them.

- Maybe have a more twitter style follow where it does not need to be a mutual follow. Obviously less information is shared if I don't follow back; etc. Just pondering this, it might or might not be better.

I actually don't think there's _that_ many things. There are a few key things that, if done right, would make it a better facebook. I'm just stabbing in the dark though.

Can this post be considered a YC application? ;-)
How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings
MIT is still using zephyr? I didn't think it would still be in use 15 years later.
Every kid should watch these videos before they spend their parents' hard earned money on the business school.
Ask HN: Mac users, do you get AppleCare for your Macs?
If so, do you find that it's usually worth it or is it just peace of mind?
Great data but that's such a poorly designed chart. Three nearly identical blues and a green? sigh
I recently deleted mine.

I had it for a long time, and I just felt like it was keeping the most brain dead relationships barely alive. I was constantly seeing people in real life and saying, "oh yeah, I read that on facebook." I didn't like that, and the privacy concerns were just the last straw.

So yeah, I'm with you.
With some collation and searching on my part.
I agree with a lot of what you're saying, and I'll miss Facebook for the very reason you like it, too.

But I'm often more worried about what my friends do that can effect the amount of information out there, about me. Facebook makes it easy to inadvertently share information about your friends. That, I don't like.

I'd love a replacement Facebook, one that is a little bit like Facebook used to be: relatively simple, unintrusive and benign. I want fine-grained control over what I can share, and not to have to worry about what will be given away. Or at least know upfront what will be. Opting IN to things is great.

Basically, Facebook has treated me (and those who feel similarly) like crap.
To think about it, this isn't all that surprising

Facebook has to many users that a lot of people use google to get to Facebook (some just blindly clicking on the first link: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_wants_to_be_yo...)

To me it seems like Twitter just hasn't spread to the computer illiterate crowd, so this kind of graph is unsurprising.
This is a great article. Some choice bits:

> What happened? One standard answer is that advertisers overpaid for ad placement in the past, and now the Gray Lady, confronted with precise readership metrics, is finally getting paid the pittance she always deserved. This seems implausible: could perpetually rationalizing, efficiency-maximizing capitalism really have misjudged the efficacy of print advertising for more than a century?

> Today we Google ourselves to see what the world knows about us; tomorrow we’ll just watch the ads. The outlines of this can already be discerned in Gmail’s sometimes tactless data mining of your emails: write a friend that your cat has died and you learn, cruelly, of discounts on litter.

> And it’s often proposed that the dignity of games therefore lies in their future utility: play Doom now so you can pilot a Predator drone later, or learn to reduce your workforce with a click of a mouse. But the most potent allure of games surely lies in their fantasized, not their realistic, relationship to work. Here, control is angstless, effortless, and enormous: you can watch rioters take to the streets of your Roman city for two minutes of gametime, send out the police, cut taxes, shelter the rich, and watch your city blossom with gentrified villas some five minutes later. There is no game, at least not yet, in which you accomplish the mission only to learn you’ve been torturing an innocent man, or get passed over for promotion. Neither is your guitar heroism cut short by an overdose of heroin or rooted in coping with your abusive father. Here is a very un-labor-force-like experience of meaningful activity.
That's true--I think Facebook is more popular than Twitter, but not necessarily to the magnitude search query traffic would suggest.
I've never really used it for much, so I don't see much gain in deleting it.
This is cute. I like the hard driving music, plus it teaches kids useful stuff. The $2,000 "Buffet Bucks" seems like a good hook for users too.
Those basic ones allowing communication: essentially directed and non-directed asynchronous sharing.

And those you 1) opt-in for 2) pay for.

There's a long list I have, but that's a startup for another day. (Or for a time a month from now... when school lets out.)
In a lot of cases old hammers are better, especially when working metal. Most are cast now, rather than forged. The situation with anvils is even worse, with only one company that I'm aware of still making forged anvils.

I suppose that the blacksmith market's a bit saturated though, and anvils tend to last a rather long time.