skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The control wiring for thermostats in the US is almost a common standard (RH/RC/W/Y/G) with 24 VDC. What is it in the UK?
You couldn't in C actually without making assumptions the language doesn't guarantee. The language specifies that you can't guarantee the alphabet is in order like that. Ctypes.h provides functions for checking letters though </pedantic>
Gemifying Ruby standard library
Over the weekend I watched Time Bandits with my 8 year old. How can you beat that?
New Bio Quotes Jobs On God, Gates And Great Design
Honest question: how is this different from Google Wave?
did they steal github's logo?

(edit: nevermind...)
I think Fox News takes it beyond partisan-bias and into extreme propaganda territory.

See for example this:

Universal Health Care is the Jihadists' secret weapon: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMu6wCqdeyQ

Not carrying guns suggests Norway is not a democracy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EX3km583Dw

For News successfully argues in court that it is allowed to lie in its news:
http://www.relfe.com/media_can_legally_lie.html
I wonder whether it'll be more efficient to just have a big dict mapping every character to what it should look like post-escape. (e.g. {'a': 'a', '(': '&#(;', ... })

Then in your loop you're only making dict lookups.
Are we going to see the Mango in action inside a Nokia phone?
Here's something immediately useful for those who can't be arsed reading the whole article:

> People can remove their information from MasterCard's analysis by providing their card number on the "Data Analytics Opt-Out" page at www.mastercard.us/privacy.

There are three different opt-outs available (roughly "stop tracking my browser", "stop tracking my email", and "stop tracking my card"), and apart from a CAPTCHA, it's really very frictionless to opt-out.

Now time to read into how exactly they define "opting out" and what that entails to me and my data.

EDIT: apparently, they're serving those opt-out forms via Akamai, so I get a lovely "SSL Error" page in Chrome when I hard type the "https". Cute.
"Even at their very foundation, Apple stole innovations from the workers at Xerox PARC" You betray you ignorance with that line alone. The workers at Xerox PARC stole those same ideas from people like Engelbart and Sutherland, at the very least Apple paid for them. They also employed a few PARC alumni too.

For the final time Xerox did not invent the UI _or_ even WIMP, they were contributors; just like Apple and Microsoft are.

As for your unbelievably asinine remark; Google distributes "free software and intelligent cloud services". I'm not one for name calling generally, but how that could be construed for anything other the blind fandroid nonsense is beyond me. You are under the mis apprehension that Google act out of altruism. They don't. The offer their services for free for the purpose of gathering data about you to sell to the highest bidder. The rest of us know that AAPL, MSFT and GOOG are not the paragons of virtue that you clearly seem to think that they are, but some of the absolute bullshit that is being present as fact (like the opinion piece that you link to) is verging on stupefying. The facts are out there. Here is a head start,http://pages.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~saul/wiki/uploads/HCIPapers/h..., now go and learn something about the industry you work in.
Please give me your feedback.
Dropping out is probably not for you
I'm impressed that Nest fixes and repaints the wall when you remove your old, large rectangular thermostat.
Grand Theft Auto V Officially Announced, Trailer on November 2
#GTA5 has officially been announced by rockstar!!
Why are Americans leaving good jobs to go solo?
Malware loves Windows Task Scheduler
Tony Fadell on Jobs and Apple’s Legacy (TCTV)
The content providers are going to keep playing these games until the only services left standing are companies they cannot boss around easily. This is going to kill small players and concentrate bargaining power and then come back to bite the content providers in the ass.

(In addition there's all the petty stuff you have to deal with when it comes to the content industry. From branding requirements, to arbitrary limits in video resolution, to who can encode what how and where etc. There are too many lawyers, too many spoilt brats and not enough people who actually care about the product)
I disagree - I speak British English and have never seen Store as a plural possessive before. I think it's just a mistake.
A tale of two disruptions
Commodity traders: trading with US government, Syrian regime, and Libyan rebels
The problem with the Chrome Web Store is that 90% of the apps there are bullshit. Most of them are simply shortcuts to Web App; which is in my opinion quite disappointing. I was expecting to find applications similar to "Quick Note" (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mijlebbfndhelmdpml...).

The application shouldn't be in the cloud. It can save data their and requires an Internet connection to work, but the application should be downloaded and make heavy use of Chrome features. Applications should be picked carefully, and only few should be there. Only the good ones stand out.

Actually, it's just a link farm, and a free advertising medium for many Web Apps.
Wow thats one long page.

Seriously though I like it. I just kept scrolling and reading, scrolling and reading. I think this worked well as I had no desire to look in any of the categories and just wanted to browse. And browse I did.
Not exactly the case - documented the struggles for canceling Clear at: http://wp.me/p1CQDI-3i
FWIW it's been a rule of thumb since, well, always not to buy private stuff with your credit card. Issuer banks and sometimes the CC networks themselves are constantly profiling you in order to better assess the risk you pose (and in turn how much credit you ought to have).
Why don't publishers use Helvetica?(2008)
I'm from Perth as well, and this is almost word for word how I respond when people ask me about Perth.
I get the feeling that there's much cooler stuff happening elsewhere more and more these days.
Yep, at a minimum it claims to have a humidity meter.
I came across your site a few months ago and thought it was extremely cool. Great Job! Can you please tell us about your tech stack?

Ultimately, the site didn't solve my problem though, which was to get some reuse out of my lego collections. But that wasn't a shortcoming of your site ... rather, I concluded that Lego has explicitly designed most of their models to be "non-reusable". I.e. even though I have about 10 flagship models (all technic), I don't get 100% completion on any non-trivial set.

As I recall, initially you site didn't have too many MOCs. That might be one way of solving the problem. Consider a gigantic set like the Unimog ... listing a bunch of MOCs made solely from this set would address the problem of reuse.

One more thing ... one of the things I was trying to do using your site was figure out what sets to buy in order to be able to complete the legendary "Motorized Bulldozer" set. Your site says ... if you get X, you'll be 97% complete. if you get Y, you'll be 96.5% complete, etc. That isn't what I wanted to know. Rather, if you said ... buy X and Y to get 100% completion, that would solve my problem. In fact, if you provided options with different combos, that would be even better (due to availability and preferences). E.g.
To get to 100%, buy X and Y, or, buy X and W and K, or, ...

Thanks for creating a great resource for the AFOL community! Good luck!
What it's like to skydive through a thunderstorm
You'd get a better reaction from people if you assumed you're at fault instead of blaming 4 independent browser makers as all being at fault.

nookie here mentions memory use, so why don't you use the profiler in Chrome's web developer tools to find the memory leak (assuming there is a memory leak, as nookie implies). I believe they have some tools to help you in that regard.
Artificial intelligence community mourns John McCarthy
I'm guessing this will have premium pricing, in which case, are the people who care about shaving a few $100 off their energy bill going to have the forsight, disposable income and knowledge of installation to make the purchase?

Cool looking product, but too many barriers to purchase for my liking.
Agreed - the app itself looks fine, but it is trying to enter a very crowded market that has no real barrier to entry. And also no real killer features.

So I worry whether or not there is an actual underlying business model that can sustain such a large team.

Something in there just does not add up.
I can't tell from the site if they have done away with the whole cool/heat switch but it seems like they have, which is awesome.
Groupon loses millions on China venture
Silicon Valley 2.0: The Lean VC
Car Specifications and Reviews
all information about New Car and describe about specifications performances features prices released date and also comparison to other car so you can make the best decision before buying a New Car
Cuidado del Cabello
Yes, I kind of agree, but I don't blame the universities. They merely respond to demand for humanities by teaching them what they want. I don't want to live in the type of place where students are effectively denied their choice even if it is a stupid choice looking from a monetary point of view. If kids with rich parents want to learn greek literature on their parents dime, well, good luck to them and I hope they get laid with their ability to wear a toga with panache.

It's up to the students to work out for themselves that they're doing a pointless thing, and that it won't pay off. I suspect this is partly an information problem and partly a societal problem - there's too much emphasis on going to college as a social marker and not enough emphasis of what happens when you finish.

Maybe there's a good website weekend project in there to do an cost/benefit analysis of different types of study which calculates the debt, the 1 year, 5 year and 10 year salary ranges for the graduate, and also compares other non-college trades and vocations for equivalent payoffs.
Summary:

>Groupon's China venture posted a net loss of $46.4 million (£29 million) for the past nine months, generating only $2.1 million in revenue as it fights to gain dominance in the country's highly competitive group buying market.

also

>Groupon's global operations excluding GaoPeng recorded a net less of $214 million for the first nine months of the year, according to the securities filing. That happened despite its revenue reaching $1.1 billion, up from just $140 million in the same period a year ago.
Back in Denmark, de Hevesy did a remarkable thing.
He reversed the chemistry, precipitated out the gold
and then, around January, 1950, sent the raw metal
back to the Swedish Academy in Stockholm.

He "reversed the chemistry"? Really? That sounds very scientific.

Edit: Further research shows that the first reaction is a simple redox[1], which can (probably) be inverted using a galvanic cell[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_regia#Dissolving_gold
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galvanic_cell
Preorder price is 250. About 100 bucks more for professional installation. 25 extra for each additional terminal. It doesn't seem too bad ... I was expecting 500 after watching the video.

My biggest concern is installation. I live in a rental, so I will have to uninstall the Nest with me when I leave. They have a nifty video plus compatibility checking app. Will try it when I get home tonight.
Most probably..
Show HN: instant search for places in Facebook
You must have been visiting a different Sydney to the one I know. Or maybe you were just at Bondi Beach, which is overrun with english and nz expats.

Sydney is very ethnically diverse. Incredibly so.
different != superior.
I remember hearing in one of the first StackOverflow podcast that Jeff wanted to release the software as OS in and indefinite future, guess that Joel did not support that and now they are too successful to consider it again, in any case I can see why it would be disadvantageous after they changed their business model from third party hosted Q&A sites to the Area51 process.
I wonder if they'll provide an API. Are any companies in this space taking a platform-oriented approach to their domestic gizmos? Someone needs to put my home on the command line.
If you want to be super-picky, then char[256] with 1/0 values for each character will be faster than 6 comparisons in the worst case.
It’s the founding CEO’s job to personally email the first 1000 users
Yes but the weather. The weather. I would find it so hard to move there and stay there.
I'm very glad to see this as a Melburnian. With so much emphasis on San Francisco as the startup-mecca, one almost feels disadvantaged living elsewhere in America, let alone in a country like Australia.

Perhaps with things like the new IBM R&D Centre, Melbourne might become a tech-hub in the South East Asian region (although I somewhat doubt it).
They still have Bank Of America then... Don't show this to the people from Occupy Wall Street, they'll be disappointed.
I did not see the price. Looking at it now, I'd say it seems nice in relation to the iPhone price point, but remember what this is. It's just a nicer looking thermostat.

The learning functionality is next to useless for most as they're in and out during the day/evening, so it needs constant changing just like a regular thermostat regardless. Effectively, the patterns can't be learnt. My thermostat is beside my front door. I enter my home, I set it, then again before bed and in the morning again. There's not much to it and I wouldn't cede control for $250+$100. $50, yeah. Maybe even $100 for a cool looking, easy to install device. But not $250.
I didn't intend to come off as snarky and apologise if you feel in anyway aggrieved (you clearly do). I mere intended to point aout that things are never that black and white and often the truth can be found somewhere in-between.
I think you need to be much clearer about the exceptions to your theory, otherwise it's far too easy to refute by example.

I'd guess that most people on HN have been online since before Facebook was a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg's eye, and long since before it became popular. They created massive amounts of content, both long-lasting and ephemeral, and did so without the benefit of a Facebook profile. If I understand you correctly, you're saying that they had proto-Facebook profiles, or 'home pages' as they were known, and these served the same basic purpose. I don't think that a home page is a proto-Facebook profile, and I think that this refutes your argument that a profile or substitute profile is a necessary precondition for taking part in online discussion.

Almost every online interaction requires some kind of identity. IRC nicknames, handles or usernames on most websites, the contents of your sig on Usenet or mailing lists; these are all used to identify individuals. But there's no sense in which these need to be 'real' names, or that these different identities need to be correlated across different online social spaces. Plenty of ordinary people used AOL chat years ago without needing a rigid identity as a stepping stone. There might be a case that extremely socially conservative people ('settlers' in 'values modes' theory [1]) might need to feel that they're part of a community of 'real' people in order to interact online, and it's notable that the groups most upset at G+'s 'real names' policy were those least socially conservative, but the causality is tricky here. Either way, I don't think your argument holds up as anything close to a universal argument.

[1] http://www.cultdyn.co.uk/valuesmodes.html - I don't claim this is at all factual, but it's useful in the context of analysing how groups adopt technology differently
Opera Mini 4.4 for J2ME phones now available with improved network features
I'm keen to hear about this type of thing, but co-located space is nothing special. Is there mentoring, access to angel investors and alumni and events like the YC demo day?

I can raise my own $20k seed money and I can find working space. What I can't do is get decent mentoring and access to networks, which, to me is the secret source of YC.

Still, it's early days, I'll keep track of this with interest.
Ask HN: Self Employed NYers, anyone getting bogus tax bills?
A little venting, but I'm really curious if anyone else out there has had these problems.

I was a self employed consultant in NY for 4-5 years and this is the third time in so many years that NY State has said I did not pay my taxes in years past (when I did pay). The first time, it was a pain but I was scared that I had forgotten to. The second time, I got a little pissed off. This third time, I'm irate and sensing a pattern - it seems like they're just losing my taxes and hoping that I'll pay it again and blindly.

The onus is on me to prove that I paid, so I've had to request old bank records and match up check amounts, numbers, and when they cleared. Even then, I have to spend hours on the phone navigating bureaucracy in order to get this cleared out.

I'm just curious if any other self employed folks have run into this and how they've handled it. It's becoming a yearly pain in the ass at best and pretty damn shady at its worst.

Thanks!
It's a great documentary, but...

>And there are no half-measures: designers either love it or hate it. Gary Hustwit's artful film points this out,

...this kind of forced polarisation is common and annoying.

The article is dull, contrarian, and oddly ignorant.
Since they've gone MS I couldn't care less.
Chrome's developer tools never show the memory going above 30mb during the entire game. It's using a heavily optimised engine that creates very little garbage and rarely makes allocations in JS. So the issue appears to be in the browser.
Thanks. Yes unless you have hundreds of sets it appears there is very little chance of getting a 100% complete build. However, some people would argue this is a good thing as it forces you to figure out how to get the extra few % yourself :) I want to add some more functionality here to try and assist people in finding suitable replacement parts.

As for the MOCs, yes originally it had only a few but now that is accelerating. There are 34 right now with about 50 more in my backlog. As it becomes more popular, more people contact me asking to submit their MOCs. I still need to build the self-submit feature!

The idea of listing sets to buy to reach 100% is a good one. I haven't been too sure how much people actually find that section useful. The idea in my mind was "if you buy this set you are effectively getting 2 for 1".

Tech stack: Linux, PostgreSQL, Memcache, PHP with jQuery for front end stuff. Nothing very fancy but the algorithms have been designed (several times!) to be very fast.
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I was thinking about that. The power of the iPod, in retrospect, was getting an entertainment device into every pocket as much as it was being a good MP3 player. It was truly the Minimum Viable Product of the current-gen iPod Touches/iPhones.

Who's to say this isn't the same thing with smart homes?
Show HN: I built a map of great freelance designers around the world
Yes, but a lot of the leaks suggest these might be mid-range phones, unfortunately. And a U.S. launch in 2011 seems unlikely.
I see what you're getting at, but IMO this is probably one of the better coded HTML5 games out there. It's written to be fast, low memory overhead and conforming to ECMAScript 5 strict mode. It still doesn't work. I genuinely have no idea how I can improve the quality of the code in this.
Fizzy drinks make teenagers more violent
During the summer we've been, year by year, increasing our temperature by a degree to save on air conditioning costs, this past summer our thermostat was at 79/80 degrees.
I think there's definitely some value in taking time off to figure out where you're going (and where you want to be.)

Keeping your head down and finishing for the sake of finishing is probably not going to end well; you'll be in debt, you will have lost the opportunity cost of your time in school, and you still might not know what you want to do.

Don't be the guy who's in debt from a degree in a field he doesn't want to work in.
did Nolan survive?
If every member of the household has an iPhone, that is.
I second creditboards.com. It can be difficult and demoralizing to find what you need on there, but it's worth it. I've got several collections removed from my own report, and I'll help anybody who asks.

Since you're dealing with a small valid debt -- the first thing to try is the Right Thing. Call the Dr's Office -- not the collections agency -- offer to pay if they will take the bill back from the collections agency. Whether they can do that depends on their arrangement, but for a small Dr's office they probably can. After that, you may need to contact the credit bureau's again, but it should go much better.

If that doesn't work, then you need a VALID complaint for the bureau's. Any discrepancy between the truth and what's on your report is worth trying. If the date is wrong, or the name of the company, anything. Keep trying.

This last part is my opinion, but I don't think you should EVER pay to the collections agency. They will not remove things from your report because you paid. If you ask, then they know they have you over a barrel, and will try to get more money out of you. Pay the original company.

EDIT: Another great weapon is local state law. Collection agencies have to abide by the law of their state, and the law of your state. I'm in Texas -- our laws are very strict on collectors. Your agency is in California -- I believe their laws are strict too.
The simplest test of whether or not you should drop out is this one: If you have to ask someone if you should then you shouldn't.

I think I have a simpler test: Do you have a customer?

Of all the things that you need to do to start a successful business, I think that getting someone to pay you for your work is the hardest. Deceptively hard.

I've seen it all too often: Good technical skills. Check. Good design skills. Check. Work well together. Check. Building cool stuff. Check. Have passion and in the groove. Check. Sell something. Oh shit.

Let's not overlook the single biggest common thread to all those successful startups founded by college dropouts: they already had huge demand, often accompanied by people with checkbooks.

Don't forget the story of Bill Gates' parents telling him that if he dropped out of Harvard, he was on his own. By this point Micro-soft already had several $100K CDs in the bank and he said, "I don't think that'll be a problem."

That would be about the only way I would want to do it.
If these cables are available to hundreds of thousands of personnel, they're also already freely available to other countries, most likely.
That's not sufficient for many home designs, though; you may need to keep the interior temperature into the 40s or 50s to keep the pipes in the wall above freezing, depending on the outside temperature and your house design. One reason the default "away" temperature for many thermostats is actually pretty high, like 55 or 60.
Great story, very funny I thought. Feels like it could be a precursor to the short story Nanny by Philip K Dick (http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/content.asp?Bnum=722).
I would also like to apologize for his words.

Unfortunately even HN has its trolls....
Kate Middleton to Launch New 'All-American' Style? 
Kate Middleton has done wonders for the fashion industry. Her unique wedding dress, which spawned millions of look-alikes to the care, she took in selecting British designers (especially from her favorite shop Reiss, whose website she has crashed twice) whatever Kate wears is suddenly the next must have item.