skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
About unplugging adapters: It is worth noting that the EU mandated more efficient wall warts and as a result all new stuff uses negligible power when idle. But a few years ago when DC conversion was done at 50/60Hz with great masses of copper and iron, it wasn't unusual to have a wart burning 8 watts day in and day out. 70kWhr/year.

As a good rule of thumb for warts: If it is warm to the touch, it is drawing 4 watts or more. If it isn't warm, don't unplug it.

I have a Ryobi drill charger, that if I left it plugged in when idle would use as much power as my high efficiency refrigerator. (A normal refrigerator is about 1800whr/day, so that is quite a bit more than my 200whr/day, but I'm living remotely with an astronomical energy cost.)
What logically follows is that ADHD meds make you bad at hockey
The Curse of a New Building
I object to the "moving back home" and "leaving home" terminology. Even at 40-something years old, I still hear people say they're spending their vacation "going back home".

What is it about the place your parents live that makes it "home"? (Especially when that place isn't even the house you grew up in!)

As I see it, "home" is wherever I live. So "moving back home" is a tautology, and "leaving home" on a permanent basis is an oxymoron.
One step closer. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker%27...
You can do this, because there's enough good plugins that it can be supported.

You're right of course that you cannot support 100% of all custom code ever written for WordPress. But it's a bit heavy-handed to conclude that therefore it cannot be done, don't you think?
Pets as Famous People
Here we’ve got awesome photo mixtures of pets and famous people.
Maybe 'not innovative' would make more sense. WoW is a great game, and I have a ... long and very personal history with it. But it's a Blizzard game; their MO is to make the most average game possible, but make it incredibly polished. Many of my fondest memories are of Blizzard games, but (as of late) they're rarely innovative.

WoW is the gold standard of fantasy MMOs. It just doesn't do anything new or interesting; it only does a small set of things, but does them very, very well.
New Image Upload Support (Stack Overflow and Imgur)
FYI: Article has nothing to do with memory pointers or linked list peeks, and everything to do with DOM attributes of HTML5 elements and attributes.
A used car has already been created which is different from buying a new car every time which takes an insane amount of energy to create.
I didn't get a direct quote wrong. I simply referred to a post where I give the data rather than her opinion. I even explained why in that post - I think her data is correct, but her analysis and presentation are misleading.
Why does the company name matter? Twitter was owned by Obvious Corp. In the early days.
I think you're agreeing with the point, with the caveat that not all domain names are created equal. I too am not a fan of TLD hacking - I figure if you can't get the .com then there are other domains out there.

I'm also a fan of the two-short-easy-to-spell-when-heard-words domain names. My startup, for instance, is GeekStack.
An alternative hypothesis could be

Er, that's the same hypothesis, unless I misread g'parent: better and more stuff is cheaper, so even though incomes (measured by commodities or something) didn't go up much, we're all much better off.
Why hasn't the U.S.P.S. taken over email by now?
Its been ages since the advent of email. Why hasn't the US government transitioned postal service into the Internet age?

It would make spoofing accounts, e-mail scams, and possibly most spam a federal offense.

Social Networking and other sites would be required to operate more ethically to prevent being cited for misuse.

A "Do Not Mail" registry could possibly more easily established.

It would create a stable/easier means of paying bills.

It would allow mail to be more organized both for Gov services and US residents.

It would make your email more attributable to an address, increasing credibility for vital email messages.

More systems admins would be hired by the USPS.

The government could shift its focus from heavy machinery to server architecture.

Locations could be set up to print out email into official and/or notarized copies, eliminating the need for physical mail delivery (eventually).

We wouldn't have to rely on private services (Like HotMail, Gmail, AOL, Yahoo etc.) monopolizing our mail service and then shutting it down if they decide to end the service, of if they fail.

Federal email can be tied to each user's physical address or mobile device, solving problems of identity. (No less private than the current mail system and still protected by Federal Law).

Other email services would still be able to flourish and fail despite Feds providing email service, so that you can transfer legal pron without being tracked, don't panic, I'm not talking about the USPS being the only e-mail carrier service here.

I can't believe this hasn't happened yet, would like to hear what the HN community thinks about this.
Ask HN: QRCodes in your local newspaper
Hi - Have any of you seen QRCodes used in your local newspaper for articles or ads? I'm doing some research on QRCodes usage in North American newspapers and would like to know if you've seen them. Let me know here, and Thanks....Keith Erskine
I was expecting more pewpew
How annoying that they continue to refer to Autism as a disease. Autism is a developmental disorder.
There's a single-quote missing in your link after Hitchhiker and before the letter s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_in_The_Hitchhiker + ' + s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy (looks like HN comment filters it out)
Fond memories of the Beagle Bros. poster that hung on the wall next to the Apple ][ 's in my high school's computer lab.
Since the article includes people throughout their 20s, such as 28-year-olds who "came out into" the boom economy of the mid-2000s, the first reason doesn't really ring true to me.
Looks like they check the referrer and redirect you to the original article :(
AirDropper Requests Files via Email and Saves to Your Dropbox
Most American babies are born around August and September:

http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Science/story?id=945911

Which happens to be the cut off date for Kindergarten in many states.

http://users.stargate.net/~cokids/kindergarten_cut-off_dates...

Since most children are born in Aug/September, you'd probably have the most premature births around then too right?

Premature children are 70% more likely to have ADHD:

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/44574.php

Could it be that a lot of premature children happen to come right before the early/mid September deadline at the peak of the "birthing season"?

If the relationship between ADHD and prematurity is correct, these children would face a double whammy...being young for their grade and ADHD.
Counting Wal-Mart cars to forecast earnings
"Hideous abomination"... why is that?
Maybe a click-through should count as an upvote. :)
Let's nip this in the butt before people actually think this is correct. This study confirms ONLY (edit: [redacted]) that development is affected by what kids do with themselves. (Duuuuuh.) It does NOT erase the fact that there are real, empirical differences between the brains of kids with and without ADHD. For example, it doesn't erase the fact that kids with ADHD do have demonstrably abnormal cerebral myelination.

ADHD is actually one of the most researched areas of Pediatric Psychiatry, so before everyone jumps on the Starbucks MD bandwagon, at least do the research. I don't want to be overly rude about this, and I apologize if I am, but it's hard to have patience for intellectual whack-a-mole.
Now I'm wondering how you are taking "support" here. I didn't take it to mean "offer formal support for." That is, there's no phone number or email where someone will respond, is there?

When you say "these sort of projects", I assume you mean open source. When I look at Vim.org or Perl.org, they explain how to get source or binaries and install on various operating systems and distros. There's no differentiation in level of support or otherwise. This may be what you mean by "not supporting", but I found Ruby's explicit division of levels of support surprising.

Tenderlove's note explains things, but again I worry that the wording of the release notice may be off-putting to PHBs. Probably they are not Ruby's target audience - though I see plenty of discussion, books and conferences about Ruby for the Enterprise.

I don't mean to dwell on any of this in a bad way, and again I'm not complaining. I've never seen explicit divisions of support on something like Ruby before, so I posted.
I didnt have any luck compiling ruby trunk this morning with clang on Snow Leopard.
Centralized so you don't have to go to multiple places to get your gaming fix (if you like a lot of games rather than just a couple), gamesaves and badges/achievements are centrally located and saved in the cloud for gaming anywhere and on any platform, no downloads, consistent UI, more games to browse = better discovery of new games.

I'm guessing this service will also have a both a friend list (connected via facebook, twitter or whatever) and/or a lounge or lobby where gamers can make/meet friends and start-up a group game, or just chat in general. Can't really get a critical mass of these at individual game sites.
Multi-core, Threads & Message Passing
Some would claim even further that it is neither a disease nor a disorder of any kind, but rather simply a differernt type of brain that should not be considered diseased, disordered, or broken in any way. Just different. Something to be accepted and learned from.
We must be getting better: The Simplicity Era of TiVo, Apple, Google (and Rails)
I'm a pretty environmental fellow. But I cannot understand the psychology of someone who would harass a stranger about their choices.

There are, broadly, two kinds of environmentalists.

There are the pragmatic environmentalists, who value the environment and seek to find the most effective ways to minimize damaging it through human activity.

Then there are the religious environmentalists. A new type of puritan, religious environmentalists seek to cast individual worth and goodliness in the frame of environmental impact. It's not about results so much as it is about intentions. It is an environmental sin to own a "gas guzzling" truck or SUV, regardless of whether that truck is used for extremely short commutes, or whether the SUV is used to carpool with 3 other people, or whether you walk to work everyday and only use the car on the weekends (and thus have lower per-person per day carbon emissions than the prius or smart car owner who drives alone and commutes from the suburbs).

As this very article shows, such religious fervor is built, as always, on a mountain of ignorance. And the faithful are zealous in spite of rather than because of any practical knowledge in the subject.

There are lots of pragmatic ways we can be reducing humanity's environmental impact, but the religious greenies aren't helping. They are building up resentment that may eventually lead to a backlash.
"20-somethings can fly nuclear bombers, I think they'll do alright with career choices. If we let them."

I also found it interesting that the author examines the question of extending adolescence throughout a person's 20s, but never questions whether everything about our current concept of adolescence is a good idea. pg did a good job of skewering our current educational environment for teenagers and its psychological downsides.

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html

Maybe we should be discussing rolling back some of the things introduced to support our current concept of adolescence, instead of extending it even further.
The treatment for ADHD is Adderall. Regardless of if ADHD is real or not, Adderall is nothing like any Homeopathy treatment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adderall#Performance-enhancing_...
There is a world of difference between liberty and license. I'm hardly the first guy in the room to be labelled politically correct but just because you can doesn't mean you should.

And also, you can't mock (specific) people because of things like their gender or religion anyway. For better or worse, that's usually considered discrimination.
The most popular way (and easy, really) has always been to curl and compile yourself.

And these days RVM is growing up on production servers too, because it's really convenient if you have many apps each with the exact version it requires.
Understanding Discount Auto Insurance
If you are interested in acquiring discount auto insurance, it is very important that you have to know and understand how the providers think.
How is a 60% increase in house size marginal (see my other post), but a 70% increase in cost non-marginal?

Health insurance in 1970 didn't pay for a huge amount of things that it now pays for. For example, MRIs, viagra, birth control, etc. Far more diseases are treatable. I'd love to see her evidence otherwise.

The problem her book raises is that many families take on a riskier financial profile in order to consume more (though given her poor data analysis/presentation skills, I'm obviously skeptical of her conclusions). Her opinion is that costs have risen.

Her data shows that costs (besides taxes) have increased less than income.
Ruby 1.9.1 was never considered stable by many Rubyists. (Find '1.9.1' in this Yehuda Katz interview: http://www.drdobbs.com/blog/archives/2010/06/preparing_for_r... ... which was just the first reference I found.)

Mr. Katz advised in multiple interviews/tweets (if I recall correctly) to wait for 1.9.2, and the community tends to listen. Rails 3 was tested against 1.9.2, not 1.9.1; this provided yet another reason to wait.
The site doesn't offer an alert functionality yet, but it may be included at a later stage.
Every time someone uses the word "democrat" as an adjective, they reveal themselves...

I disagree, although I acknowledge some "prior art" for your claim.

"Democratic" is the adjective form of the noun "democracy", which denotes a political system characterized by voting. In my mind, recycling that term to refer to one political party would imply that the other (i.e, GOP) is not related to our democracy -- and that's false.

they reveal themselves to be more concerned with focus-group phrase mongering and tribal loyalty

I think if you look back at my politics-related comments here, you'll see that I'm an equal-opportuntiy complainer. My ideology certainly does not coincide with either the GOP or the Conservative movement. I'm simply looking for terminology that conveys my meaning better.
Could be some fun for a blog or the hacker monthly magazine.

Regular feature: things you won't read in other papers.
These articles never seem to mention the word 'laziness.' I mean shouldn't they at least consider that children of recent times have so many leisure pursuits growing up, so many easy way outs, that they get lazy and dependent?
That's very insightful, but it's my guess is that it's not as salient as one would think. Scientists (at least in the lab) will typically use a number of metrics to measure ADHD, most notably cerebral myelination. ADHD tends to involve improper development in this regard (i.e., the brain does NOT myelinate as fast as one would expect). Since the authors posit that younger children may simply be less mature, my suspicion is that they are talking about this. And the obvious thing to do would be to correct for what you talk about (in fact, it's hard to see how they could get into a journal and not do so).
The use of text-shadow is really annoying, please stop doing that. It make the page look as if it is displayed on an uncalibrated monitor.
Is it just me, or do others find contextless titles like this really annoying?

I thought this was going to be a commentary on the state or trend of Lifehacker's editorial direction and/or bias. Instead it's commentary about being annoyed that no one is paying attention to Palm's WebOS mobile platform.
> We decided not to use a email newsletter service such as MailChimp, because they get too expensive when dealing with a couple of thousand subscribers (as we hope to gain soon :).

Good luck, but the odds are stacked against you. When you get a few thousand subscribers is exactly when you need a service to send the emails for you. You will be blacklisted if you're not extraordinarily careful and even at best your deliverability will still be lower than what you'd have through a professional email service. Spammers have made email hell.

I subscribed, let's hope I get it :). No double opt-in yet...
Yes! I love how the sound actually gets "quiet" as they reach the upper atmosphere. ("quiet" in quotes because I don't know that it's really correct to say that when all that's really happening is the sound-carrying medium is becoming less...)
No I mean support in the same sense you do. Their "supported" OS's are obviously just things they have access to, and know that it compiles & tests fine there.

E.g. they only have AIX 5 in "perhaps", that's only in the "Best Effort" category in Perl's case because a few dedicated individuals still build and test on it before release.
Amazon used to have a similar notification service, but they killed it. Anybody know why?
I am starting today. Last 4 months creating, manipulating, and validating an idea until we get enough people to say they would buy it. Another month getting partnerships we need with other companies. The last two weeks up until 2am every morning putting together an MVP for beta users.

And the first user with a problem 3 hours ago.
Hmmm, "scaling" WordPress is an incredibly simple thing to do. Caching and a modern stack is all you need. If you view the source of all of their featured clients and scroll to the bottom you'll see that they're all running the free W3 Total Cache plugin. Throw any of those sites on a commodity host like (mt) or even GoDaddy, with the same plugin, and your users will have a nearly identical experience.

I don't doubt that they're offering a good service, but you can achieve this on your own with the a cache plugin and a reliable hosting service. In todays modern VPS world, $49 and $99 (WP Engine pricepoints) will get you a pretty beefy VPS.

This post is indeed a bit vague on the details, and does feel like a post piece. A disclaimer should have been at the bottom :P

Also, I am curious to know if they're using mod_php with Apache, or FastCGI. The latter of which is more secure. At that point, however, I wonder why they just wouldn't use Nginx + FastCGI for everything and eliminate Apache altogether.

At the opposite side of the spectrum, it does look like they have a few other nice features like being able to snapshot your site and modify things in a staging area, separate from visitors. They don't go into too much detail regarding their backup system, but anything is better than nothing. Interesting to see a new service like this in the WP arena.

Hopefully WP is rewritten in fully OOP PHP5 so that developers can be happier, with some elite caching at the core. For now, it's totally burned me out.
Can you elaborate on the service you did end up using?
Congrats on the launch. I'm preparing to start a newsletter service myself with local content at first, see if people bite.

I'm studying a dozen of services and any reason to solidify one against another will help. I'm mostly concerned about filtering/categorizing the inputs into geographical or zip codes and I can't figure out the best service with flexibility like that. Campaign monitor is the closest to that.

Also, are you bootstrapping the initial costs alone? server, email splash etc. and have you registered the business yet? You can probably claim those expenses.

Too many questions, sorry! :P
Alright, I'm in. One question: are you going to have tailored emails based on the categories I selected to be notified about, or are you just gathering this info to help you make decisions about what content to include overall?
The main thing I got from this article is that (according to the pictorial) there is an unending supply of hipsters in New York.
If someone set up a similar service using a Tahoe LAFS storage server or some similar technology so that the service provider could not read your entries, would you use it?
The guy who calculated the likelihood ratio was writing in a blog post in response to a bunch of mainstream articles which failed to do so. And then he was quoted in SingularityHub, which I would hope would be a bit better-informed than typical science journalists.

If this is the dawn of a new era, then the defining trait of this new era is that people outside the mainstream can make themselves heard, thanks to the internet. I'll happily change my mind about that if I see someone like the BBC mention posterior probabilities in an article about this.
Is this a chart of individual tests for "HTML5" feature support, so that you could start using them today (providing graceful degradation)? Why, yes it is.

Does it say so anywhere on the chart? Let me check…
definitely an interesting read. I'm a android user and i do agree with many points mentioned here. However, rooting an android isn't hard and the article also assumes default apps rather than ones that can be installed to achieve certain features. eg. non-google backup; there are several apps that backup to the cloud (mybackup pro, wavesecure, etc)
that said i clearly didnt know webos strengths and it would be good it webos had more phones to choose from.
I once refused to work for a company for ideological reasons. Not a right-left question, but more of a "would you work for the RIAA" kind. I finally accepted an offer that was a 5% worse and not so technically interesting.

I've also systematically rejected a good number of offers in certain kind of companies (that was also time ago, when the job market was hotter) for fear to be discriminated in the workplace. This is a problem that's specific of my country, so I won't bother you with it, but I consider it political, to a point.

I'm happy to work with any kind of people, but I can't stand people that constantly try to bully you into something. I really prefer not to be chosen than to end in a place that I'm uncomfortable in.
Numbers don't count
If we're talking about greenhouse gases, then MPG is the only important measure. For one, the vast majority of the gases coming out of the tailpipe are going to be CO2 and H2O (aside from pre-existing constituents of the atmosphere). All of the other gases aren't going to have a significant impact on the greenhouse effect.

So to a very close first approximation: MPG = carbon emission per mile = greenhouse impact per mile.

Indeed, a more polluting vehicle (say a really dirty old diesel engine) would if anything have less of an effect on the greenhouse. Since it's particulate emissions would promote an offsetting cooling effect.
" I mean, do you really want children getting married and having children at an age when they're too young to handle the responsibilities? "

I mostly agree with your sentiment, that perhaps society now is better equipped to handle the youth. but if 17-25 is too young to be having kids, don't you think it a bit odd that those are the most fertile years? I think most folks associate "adult" with "responsibility". and having a kid induces a lot of responsibility.
My biggest excuse right now is a well paying contract that sucks away my energy. Every day I struggle with staying on the project or just leaving and doing my own things.

I've been working on a small iphone app side project. If it gets a little traction in the app store I will feel much better about doing my own stuff!
http://www.imdb.com/search/text?realm=name&field=bio&...

Also, Ashton Kutcher was a biochemical engineering student before acting. Kinda close.
Check out Fusion Ads (http://fusionads.net/) and The Deck (http://decknetwork.net/) for vetted, pretty, and usually at least somewhat relevant ads that are online. Banner ads and cluttered pages usually suck, but I've probably clicked on 80% of the Fusion/Deck ads I've seen.