skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They might even make the Braille version the authorative one in case of discrepancies. It's easy enough for a sighted person to learn enough Braille to distinguish choices on a voting ballot.
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Yes, we are. The numbers can work in a couple of different ways in a couple different markets. It's neither hype, nor press, but thanks.

I'm surprised Google is able to make residential PV contracts make sense: my guess is that the consumers here are either paying more than the prevailing market rates, or they are locked into a very long contract (20+ years?), or both.

By contrast, we target the commercial market, have shorter contracts (10 years), and guarantee a discount relative to the utility co's.
yes but facebook menus are confusing a lot; i guess design has less role than this article assumes in fb adoption. it may be related to their functional nature with regard audience.
Nobody thinks that having four icons indicates that they finally made the smaller iPod Shuffle-based iPhone? There was speculation last year that they were looking at a smaller lower-priced entry iPhone with limited features based on the Shuffle. I would wear it running, so I'm hoping the four-icon picture isn't just a coincidence.
Specifically, we are used to paying around $0.24/hour for most of our spot instances, but the standard cost of on-demand instances for m1.xlarge instances is $0.68/hour

A good strategy might be to use a reserved instance. For a 3 year term, an upfront payment of $2800 would let them pay $0.24 per hour. $2800 works out to $0.10 per hour more, for a total cost of $0.34 per hour (exactly half the on-demand price).

They apparently do enough capacity planning to know approximately how many servers they need, and they could get slightly below this number in reserved instances, and fill the rest with on-demand instances. Spot instances could also be worked into this mix in lower numbers.
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Someone with more knowledge of this please tell me: Why is physical access to the voting machine innards allowed at all? Why isn't the machine glued shut with some color changing seals to show tampering?

It doesn't seem like poll workers (or anyone other than the manufacturer, for that matter) would need access to the internals. If a machine is broken, send it back or fall back to paper voting.
You should try it with the xkcd color dataset.

http://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/
You mean, why is modal special? Vim has multiple modes to make it easier to perform certain sets of operations. The commands for insertion of text are separated from the command for manipulating the text. It's been years since I've used vim but it certainly does make aspects of a keyboard driven editor easier on the hands than emacs does.
I dunno. I've been using Dropbox for years now, I've got it set up on all my computers, and as of right now I don't really have a pressing reason to switch. Gdrive would have to offer up something new and amazing before I'd want to change over. (And it would have to be something other than lower prices, because I don't back up enough stuff to have to pay for additional storage.)
I am using mailchimp for multiple clients, and AWS simple email sending for some transactional clients; they are all quite helpful. Anyone recommending sendgrid, why is it a better choice?
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Those that sold shovels during the gold rush, made money too.

There's a video of Bill Gates making a mathematical case why solar will not solve our problems. We need another nuclear plant, the name escape but I think it uses all the nuclear waste.
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Why not bring a node down, and then replace it with a node that has more RAM? Are you exceeding the size of a node you can supply (in terms of RAM) for your cluster?

I'd be very curious to know a bit about the character of your data, the size of your cluster, etc. (I've only run test clusters at this point, so hearing from someone doing production work would be informative.)
I'm sure he verified a thousand times the blades are secured, but just looking at the picture gives me chills of one of them coming apart, and the scene captured in "Many faces of death".
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yup, and I was very careful to point out that it was "my" view.
Some web frameworks build wrappers for MySQL. That being said... SQL isn't too hard either! Google is your co-pilot, always.

This summer I was thrown onto an android project with no experience, no in-company mentors, and I barely remembered how to write java. The first two weeks I just did tutorials. I didn't even try to patch them together to actually make a product-- I just did a dozen tutorials which covered different aspects and left them all in my code folder. When it came to actually building my app, I now had a personalized pool of code to grab from! It really helped to be able to go back and reference it.

Also, I think you are not going to be well helped by tutorials. You need a freaking textbook. http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython/html/index.html
You are required to do at least 50% of the exercises for each chapter.

Furthermore, it is important that you master a single language rather than dabble. Once you understand a single language in&out, it will make it much easier to pick up other ones. (My 'mastery' is in python, and I've picked up java, C#, SQL, javascript.)
Is anyone here paying for the Enterprise level Riak? I'd love to hear how they charge and whether you think it's worth it. Currently we're looking towards the Denali release later this year but Riak is looking more interesting by the day.
ought? so it's no longer "one possible way to make things work out financially", but a moral duty?

jeez.
i m moved to gedit and redcar from netbeans on ubuntu for any ruby development. on ubuntu does anyone have any recommendations?
Rails matches a session csrf token against form data to detect if someone is trying to submit a form without a proper token. This session data is stored in a cookie by default.

This functionality is referenced in the security guide.

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/security.html#csrf-countermeas...
"homeowners pay a monthly payment for the system, at a price that’s often less than paying for energy from the grid."

Is Google claiming that this is profitable overall? As in the lifetime costs for installing the solar panels on my house are less than the equivalent cost of electricity from the grid? If so, shouldn't someone be offering to pay me to install this on my house and then selling the electricity back to me directly?
Vim is still free.
Riak 1.0.0 RC2 is out now, and "later this month" is only 3 more days.
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It's better than squirting-water-guns-into–ATMs exploit (was that Diebold?) which can be employed by attackers with nothing but a kindergarten playground education.
It would be interesting to see a comparison of the changes from the Alto and Star to the Macintosh, and the changes from the Macintosh to Windows 1.0-3.0-95.

However, I can never seem to find solid info on the Alto or Star, except occasionally a fond remembrance of awesome equation handling or something similar.
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Maybe but nothing like 2004. The RFK Rolling Stone article, HBO documentaries, hell Black Box Voting was founded that year.

In 2008, the NYT was publishing opinion pieces about
"The Myth of Voter Fraud"
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/13/opinion/13tue1.html

Trust me this will be a front page issue again in 2012
The irony of course is that calling into question the validity of an election is the oldest form of election rigging there is.
Yep, progressive enhancement. Have features that only show up for modern browsers, and announce them separately or at the top of any upgrade/version announcement or changelog.
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Did you have anything lined out as far as a job?

Sublet fell through twice in a week! Did you lose any money?

My biggest problem is that I would need to sell my house before I can move to the Valley. Otherwise, I'd just pack up and go!
Anyone know a reason the auto updater goes from 5.0 -> 6.0.2 -> 7.0?
They are probably subsidizing them. 20 years is a long time, especially when people move often and technology changes.
It's not the same product. It just has the same name.

I'm not saying your deal with Odgaard shouldn't bind.

I'm just saying, if Odgaard from the beginning had said "Textmate 2 will cost $60 and there will be no paid upgrades", that too would be a perfectly fair pricing strategy.

What Marco is hung up on is how underpriced Textmate is relative to the value it provides (unfortunately, it's a text editor for programmers; the price points it competes with create dynamics similar to those of trying to sell ice to Inuits).

I preemptively agree with you that Marco's observation about Textmate's pricing shouldn't bind on you.
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Chrome also uses bdiffs, so updates are significantly smaller.
Simple solution: Optional payment. Keep the promise of a free upgrade, but add the option to pay anyways if someone really likes it (if the current TextMate is any indication, many will).

I wish all software was sold like this: You get the full version for free, no restrictions, no nagging (perhaps a reminder once a month). If you really like it, you get the option to (easily, avoiding PayPal) pay for it. Heck, you might even let people choose the price.

Of course this would work only for software that makes people think: "Hey, someone really spent a lot of effort into making just the right tool for the job". Microsoft Office might not benefit from this method of "voting with your money" - but then that would probably be a good thing too.
Thanks for the suggestions. I like the idea of additional resources. I was also thinking of trying find things on sites like Instructables that use the products I find. Including links to little projects like the one shown in the USB missile link would certainly add a lot of value for the visitors.
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What is interesting to note is the fact that Google is finally paying so much attention to front end engineering, and making its apps look "pretty". I wonder what the reasoning behind this very apparent overall shift in strategy was. Interested to know what others think regarding this shift.
10,000 homes sounds like a lot but it's tiny compared to the US population, only enough to make a press release make the news really. And very tiny next to the world population now approaching the 7,000,000,000 mark. The simple fact is that no energy that needs subsidies or other fiddling in the west is going to fly with anyone else.

Surely they know enough now about thin-cell solar to invest into more R&D for it. Give the 75 million to 75 professors to have 5 new PhD students each and a bag of money for experiments. Given the history so far[1] I don't think a few percentage points more from 375 PhDs is out of the question. Those few points would have a far more dramatic effect in the long-run than just helping to finance installation of current technology for the equivalent of one small town.

[1]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/PVeff%28r...
I think when you've got your release candidate, you're basically done, barring any unexpected surprises. Given stable Riak has been during the beta period, I don't think they're really jumping the gun much.
There are quite a few things that textmate does not have but should have to be a full featured text editor. off the top of my head the main ones are: split screen, better printing control, better plugin system, ability for a real lexer/parser/tokenizer to be plugged into the plugin system(I guess you could get around this by writing your scripts in ruby and shelling out but that seems slow.) Regex for syntax highlighting your files breaks very easily. I might be way off base and all these are easily fixed with some plugin but I haven't found the solution to them yet.
LevelDB is there as the replacement for those who are currently using Innostore as their backend and not for those who have a dataset that fits bitcask.
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The issue is that I am (at least potentially) tracked when I don't visit Facebook due to your ubiquitous Like button.

That's no different from being tracked by Google(DoubleClick). If you don't approve, it's really a matter between you and the web sites you visit.
I am fine with spraying oil on swamp land to eradicate mosquito born illnesses. I can't tell from your comment if you are aware that malaria used to be a problem in the US. It was, and our grandparent's generation solved it. That is what I am congratulating them for.

I have no problem with the third world using the same techniques to eradicate malaria that was used in the US to eradicate malaria.
The simplest distillation of what Marco is saying may be:

Allan Odgaard built a great product but made a calamitous mistake in pricing it relative to the effort he ended up putting into it.

Marco has been auditioning text editors for several months now, and has come to the conclusion that he is happiest with Textmate.

Marco would strongly prefer to help Odgaard fix his pricing mistake over the option of having to switch to a different editor because Odgaard burns out on Textmate completely.
Show HN: Hacker News Android Application
I was frustrated with current native HN Android apps so I created my own. Very clean. No ads or 'Hire Me' messages. Here's what it does:
* Homepage news
* Newest
* Best
* Ask HN
* Comments
* Home screen Widget
* Saving news items for later reading

Download here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.glebpopov.hackernews
Firefox 6 still doesn't have a delicious plugin. Guess I'll stick with firefox 5 for a while.
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By default, Chrome/Win installs in your profile dir instead of the global Program Files so it doesn't need admin to update.
Unfortunately that won't stop Apple from being credited with inventing/popularizing it.
Is there any reasonable way to anonymize your browser fingerprint?

Maybe not totally anonymize, but a lot of the data that gets used for browser fingerprinting relies on flash to work, so if you run without flash on by default (click to flash, or whatever) that should help.
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No louder than a motorcycle race, I'm sure
What APIs do you use?
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I can't believe there are so many cheapskates in here.

It's $60! WHO CARES! It's a tool you presumably use every single hour of your programming life. I refuse to accept that you feel personally violated over an idiot promise the author made six years ago.

Are people really saying that if the dude came out and said, "Hey guys, it's done but… if I keep my original promise, I literally won't be able to afford the bandwidth needed to distribute it" you'd feel personally slighted?

I'm not a fan of paying for dev tools, as I think open source is the way to go (yadda yadda yadda) but you're a professional for crying out loud. You get to write this off on your taxes.
There's something slightly disturbing about this need to airbush your online persona and I think you need to address this in your marketing. Try to focus on the positive aspects of your application, e.g. that some people are so clueless that they portrait themselves as losers/jerks when they in fact are very nice people; your service really helps people.

It seems to me that you are making an assumption that the reviewers are equally competent on reviewing a certain profile, but doesn't this type of work involve individual taste? How can you decide if the profile is good or not without looking at the semiotics of the profile or the identity of the customer? A profile for a New York hipster is probably very different from a blue-collar worker in Germany. Are your reviewers cognizant about these things? If so, maybe you should communicate this in your marketing, i.e. that your reviewers have diverse backgrounds ("We have reviewers who are hipsters, yuppies, hippies, Christians, Asians, African-Americans and more!").

The core issue here is credibility but also the reason why the test panel sucks as a feedback instrument: how people claim to perceive reality differs greatly from how they actually perceive it. Your reviewers might claim that a certain profile is sleazy but that's an opinion formed without the actual context. So highlight the good stuff about your reviewers, transform them into expert on the subject, not just some opinionated randoms. Whether anonymity hurts or strengthens your reviewers is up to you to figure out. In real life we put a lot of trust in acknowledged experts who per definition cannot be anonymous unless they work under the banner of a prestigious organization.
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Use my own: http://hndroidapi.appspot.com . I was considering using api.ihackernews.com , which looks really good, but I wasn't sure how stable and reliable the service is so I created my own on appengine
Pretty cool. It reminds me of what ThinkGeek used to be before it turned into Spencer's for faux-nerds.

One suggestion, mechanical keyboards.

Das Model S
http://www.daskeyboard.com/model-s-professional-silent/

Topre Realforce Tenkeyless
http://elitekeyboards.com/products.php?sub=topre_keyboards,r...

Happy Hacking
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Real men apparently put their mid section in the plane of rotation of not one but eight propellers without so much as a piece of sheet metal inbetween. He must trust the manufacturers of those props and his welding pretty good. Awesome. But very very scary.
Cute! Looks good, etc.

I'm just not sure this app is capable of telling you something you didn't already know :P.
Thanks and great suggestion -- I'll add one on the next update (tomorrow).
Show HN: Pay-what-you-want for three UX prototyping tools
I thought HN would be interested: we decided to try the Humble Indie Bundle model to sell a bundle of UX tools.

Questions and feedback welcome.
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Firefox does update automatically. By default it checks for updates every 8 hours, downloads the update in the background, and installs it the next time you start Firefox. If you haven't restarted Firefox for 24 hours after an update is downloaded, it'll prompt you to restart. If any of your add-ons will be disabled by the update, Firefox will list those add-ons and ask whether to upgrade or not.

We're working on refining all of this; here are some of the things that may change in the default update behavior in future versions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Silent_Update
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Firefox uses bsdiff to generate binary diffs for updates: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Software_Update:MAR

It's not quite as efficient as the "Courgette" algorithm used by Chrome, but it's much smaller than downloading a full installer. Hopefully we can use Courgette if the patent issues* are resolved.

* http://ipwatchdog.com/2009/10/31/google-sued-for-patent-infr...
The price for information security shortcomings ...
"Bitcask can guarantee one disk seek, whereas LevelDB will do one disk seek per level, so at least from that perspective, it can't be better."

Yep, this is a standard tradeoff. When you want your data to be iterable, you have to take the hit. In practice (I oversee a large cassandra cluster), this hit happens about ~1% of the time, which is either a lot, or a little, depending on your constraints.

"Level also has to look down the entire tree if a key is missing."

This is why Cassandra has a bloom filter on top of a very similar data store.
You should visit an ultra light club, two strokes are pretty common.
If you want to set your login shell to zsh, go to System
Preferences -> Users and Groups. Right-click on your user
account and select Advanced Options. Change the login shell
dropdown to /bin/zsh.

You're better off using `chsh -s /bin/zsh` (or, better yet, `brew install zsh`, append `/usr/local/bin/zsh` to `/etc/shells`, and use that, instead).
Did you use a CMS or did you build this from the ground up?
I like how he states that he was a YC funded company...since they got an interview with YC and took the travel money $400 to invest in building up the company.
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IANAL, but it seems like it can't be done legally. Here's an example I was able to dig up:

http://www.workpermit.com/us/employee.htm#UScandFreelance

And this one makes it sound more grim if you were considering doing it while on a tourist visa:

In the eyes of CBP, the arrangement appears to be a circumvention of work authorization laws by paying a foreign individual in exchange for work, even when payment is made to a foreign account. Furthermore, in the independent contractor situation, the actual “work” often involves consulting, research or analysis that primarily takes place on U.S. soil. If the principal activity happens in the U.S. and the benefit is retained by the U.S. company, it will constitute unauthorized employment by a business visitor.

http://www.shipmangoodwin.com/files/Publication/ec95917d-826...
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I don't recall any of my programming mistakes chopping my head off.
TextMate 2 seems to be limping over the finish line while Sublime Text 2 is already getting in to its stride for the next race.

I think Sublime deserves to take the crown, but a little more polish specific to the Mac version (behaviours, icon) wouldn't hurt.
and is still awesome! I tried textmate for a few weeks and went back to macvim
How does it compare to Notepad++?
The backend uses web.py http://webpy.org/

It's a truly kick-ass framework. I suggest it to anyone doing Python backend work.
Very nice, any chance we'll get an iPhone version?
For no particular reason, the prevailing stance is to avoid paper fallback so they want to preserve the ability for pollworkers to deal with problems themselves. I know, "what could possibly go wrong with that?"

There is nothing in the electronic voting debate that won't make you scratch your head wondering why they don't use known-good techniques. The only time-worthy thing to do is to oppose them until open-source solutions are accepted. Everything else will be a through-and-through scam by Diebold or one of their cohorts.
If you're looking for an updated version of Firequery (http://firequery.binaryage.com/) I patched and submitted a pull request: https://github.com/davemo/firequery/tree/firefox7

Until it's officially accepted you can fork, build it with rake and have yourself a working copy for Firefox 7 :)
I love CloudFlare. They are the next big thing in infrastructure.
Have you had a look at whiskey_disk: https://github.com/flogic/whiskey_disk ?

It assumes you're using git, supports multiple stages out of the box, uses a reset strategy by default instead of having to hack it in etc.

I'm planning on playing with it today.
Rotax also makes a four stroke (the 912).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotax_912

I've flown an ultralight once and hung around an airfield for a while it's an amazing world. The aircraft that class as 'ultralights' these days can be pretty amazing:

http://www.mcp.com.au/sting/

Retractable landing gear on an ultralight? Check ;)

I decided against taking lessons because it felt like I could very easily get addicted to this.

edit: and wikipedia lists another 4 stroke, the 914