skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> apparently media companies don't think it prohibitive to set up some servers and stream reruns.

Hmmm... because it's so easy to do that well? Their arrogance would be amusing if it wasn't so brazenly stupid.

How is it that Jobs and Apple could do iTunes successfully, but Netflix's neck is under Hollywood's boot?
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http://www.apple.com/celebrating-steve/ if you're on a mac. Same time stamp.
What is phantom call effect for cell phone addict
Yeah but if you bought my productivity app, you may have more time for your date.

Or you may have less headaches from your finances.
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For any West Coasters who want to watch the livestream of Patrick's talk, you should probably know that it starts at 6 a.m.
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Thanks. Ok, your peak equivalent hours number for Portland OR using a fixed position is 4, implying an average of 365 * 4 * 4.5k = 6570kWh/year, correct?

The federal DOE site calculator for the same 4.5kWh fixed tilt plant gives 4580 kWh/yr for Portland (http://rredc.nrel.gov/solar/calculators/PVWATTS/version1/US/...), ranging from 142 kWh/mo in December to 578kWh/mo in July. What accounts for the discrepancy between the two calculations?
When did folks realize the true power of "code is data"--that a homoiconic language would let you build a powerful macro system? I don't really get the impression that that idea had taken hold at the time of this paper.
Doing a toy Lisp is a really great way to figure out how to write a compiler without getting caught up in type systems and whatnot.
The article doesn't present it as an absolute. The article just presents it as a humorous data point that leads into a discussion of how you should keep track of this kind of thing instead of just winging it.
Legit question, regardless of the downvotes. The answer, as far as I can see, is that founder and CEO Reed Hastings still has enough clout and power within the organization and its board that he can hold onto his position. However, he's got a lot of repair work to do, and I think he knows it.
Beyond the power price issues there is some value in being able to partially power your residence when the grid is down. Many of the nicer homes in Florida now have fossil-fuel generators since everyone has seen how a hurricane can knock out power for weeks. And grid reliability is likely to decrease due to lack of infrastructure investment.
especially in California - good luck with that
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It's probably pretty rare, but I actually had a reasonable use case for something like this some months ago. Worked around it in other ways in the end.

Wouldn't want to use this for any serious work without any clear license, though...
It took me some thinking to decode it as well. He has ratings numbers per watt-peak of the rating. Watt peak is a normalized output rating for a panel under some conditions and doesn't actually mean it's producing that in a given condition. He has numbers that a brand new 1 watt-peak panel gives 5.3 watts a day of power in a certain location with a certain configuration. He has a 4500Watt peak installation. So he multiplies the 4500 watt peak by the watts per day per watt-peak. The watt-peaks cancel out, giving watts per day. Multiplying further by days per month gives the average watts per month (average per year) for the 4500Wp installation in the given location. Basically, it's correct, but one has to understand that the W, typically called Watts, in the panel rating is not Watts, but a normalized Watt-peak rating of the panel. It is worth noting that solar salesmen will often intentionally confuse the two, leading homeowners to believe that their new installation has much higher capacity than it actually does.
If solar really does drop in price significantly and has a big impact, wouldn't that lessen demand for coal/natgas/etc? A drop in demand will lead to a drop in the price of those fuels everything else held equal.

Of course, maybe the declining supplies of fossil fuels will cause fossil fuel prices to rise. But what about advances that make the extraction and consumption of fossil fuels more efficient?

I'm just throwing these things out there because there's a lot of economic dynamics that could move targets like "grid parity" significantly.
Congrat me, I got a job. Should I quit college now?
So, I got a Web Developer's job. It is pretty good job. I am just 19 years old and I've been programming since ~15 years old. So, they liked me and said that you can come work with us. Problem is, it's full-part job and I need to quit college to work here. And I don't like college that much, because it contains so much theory and it's hard for me. So, what do you think I should do? (my parents yell at me like crazy)...

I really need help, thank you very much.
Very cool, I love the idea of piping JSON. Thank you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
Going through a few pages of results, I don't think I've heard of any of those companies.

Somehow, that fails to surprise me.
It's interesting but I don't know if I agree with the conclusion that writing this small function in C would make maintenance too hard. How often do you expect to have to change it?
> It is surprising how little attention has been created by this huge PV panel price decrease, from $4.00 a watt to $1.25 in three years.

The sad thing is that First Solar's thin film panels hit $1/watt a few years ago, but you are unable to buy them in the US due to Solar City getting an exclusive and deciding to only leasing them at nowhere $1/watt.
"Tracking is only helpful in sunny areas, certainly not in a cloudy place like Seattle."

This is not strictly correct, tracking does help as the numbers from the DOE calculator show. However, the cost of purchasing, installing, and maintaining a tracking system will cancel out some, or possibly all of the gain. How much so is not clear.

In this case, a 4500Wp fixed angle installation, which appears to be available for around $12,000 not including installation or installation brackets generates 4364kWh per year in Seattle, saving the homeowner $279.30 in annual electric costs given the alleged 6.4¢/kwH rate in Seattle (which seems very low to me). This is equivalent to a 2.3% return on the investment, with, unlike in savings, the principal is non-recoverable and expires after 25 years as the panels reach their end of life.

The numbers are better for other cities true. The DOE calculator gives 5491 kWh/yr for a 4500Wp fixed angle installation in Hawaii, with 18.1 cent electricity. Over a year, the electricity value is $993.87, an 8.2% annual return, but again, with the principle not returned and the investment expiring after 25 years.
Hey, fellow SRCer! (does that acronym still apply?)
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Oh, I certainly don’t begrudge them running the experiment. I just wanted to put a check on the excessively anti-Perl interpretations that I thought were suggested by the title.

A more interesting test to me would be something like seeing how fast experts in a number of languages could extend or find a bug in code by other experts. I think there’s been a little research on this, but I don’t know enough to link to the best of it.

As I said, I dislike Perl’s syntax. But I think that, on the available evidence, it makes sense to see that an an opinion on the level of disliking cilantro, not on the level of disliking geocentric cosmology.
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But catch it right and you dont need to wash it.. okay that didnt really make sense but I've been lucky with a few stocks that got heavily (over)sold in AH and gaped up significantly at the open.

If you grabbed 500 shares of NFLX in AH and it opens at 91 that could be an easy $2500. Super high risk though YMMV.
Hi hhimanshu - I totally mis-understood what you meant - if you were looking to group states into national regions, your link looks pretty good. I was thinking of regions in terms of grouping counties into logical/meaningful state regions. I do that thus far for CA and NY where in each I have about 10 regions.
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Sorry to get your hopes up! =)
We did look at NSManagedObjectContext... but NSManagedObjectContext doesn't support polymorphism.

Yes, it does. For a few reasons:

1) It is passed around as an instance, not a global variable, and as such, each instance can be individually configured to behave differently (such as with a different persistence implementation), while still responding to defined API.

2) NSManagedObjectContext can be subclassed.

3) Apple can improve the implementation (and recommend subclassing in the future) without breaking or modifying any existing client code.

You're confusing 'polymorphism' with subclassing. Related, but not the same.

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Now, I did say that NSManagedObjectContext has many flaws -- and it does, but they're largely unrelated to the use of global variables that we're addressing here.

And, since I'm being downvoted for technical discussion (presumably by you guys or your friends, because I've never seen anything like this to comments like mine on hacker news), I'm going to respond personally:

Your need to find (and listen to) an advisor who has a significant stake in the ObjC space and more experience with API design than you have. You appear to be approaching your API from a Rails-centric perspective, not one rooted in Objective-C application development experience, and certainly not one rooted in the experience of architecting large shipping desktop/mobile applications.

Then again, maybe your target audience are just small throw-away apps, in which case your API is probably fine -- just about any API would be.
> If you bite the hand that feeds you ...

But those organizations don't feed Wikileaks. It's donations that do. In fact, the banks and cc companies are making money off it.

Had they been ordered to shut out Wikileaks through some judicial process I'd have no beef with it.

And I really doubt they did it out of desire to protect informers et al. I wonder if the banks and Visa were pressured into it.
How can landlords make this an investment that pay off? http://sfbay.craigslist.org/search/apa?query=solar+panels... hardly finds any hits, so I take it "you'll have lower electric bills in this apartment" has not been found an effective way to attract renters.
Ive's words paint an inspiring and vivid picture of the process of creativity and innovation. Its fascinating how he has been able to articulate such an abstract concept!
Key points:

Identity refers to how we reference ourselves, primarily in relation to relationships, experiences, and possessions.

What is your basis for this assertion?
You can describe the execution semantics of a "C" machine or a "Lisp" machine in a paragraph. Can't really do the same for a Spineless Tagless G-Machine...
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They have published their email to vent. You can try that, but I am thinking that you won't get an answer by email.

Note to self: When in hurry, don't do any important tasks.
Felix Salmon's recent write up:

http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2011/10/21/the-groupon...

Overall, then, I think it’s pretty clear that people who think Groupon’s some kind of Ponzi scheme are wrong. There’s a real business here, with a real business model. The big question is whether Groupon can execute...

If I had to make a forecast, I’d say that Groupon is going to be around for the foreseeable future, but that the error bars ... are enormous. It could just slow down ... [or] become that thing everybody wants to be these days, a platform.
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If you liked this story you may like _The Time of Eve_, which is a short animated Japanese science fiction series. It explores many of the same themes. I hadn't read this story before, but I wouldn't be at all surprised to find out the authors of the series had read it.

Viewable on CrunchyRoll, legally, for free:

http://www.crunchyroll.com/time-of-eve/episode-1-akiko-45270...

There are six episodes of about 15 minutes each.
You get one chance in life for most things. As long as you exit gracefully, college will always be there to return to. This job may not be. Take it for the experience. If you hate or it doesn't work out, then go back and finish school.

But don't do it just because someone else tells you to (especially me). Do what you feel is right.
How long have you been in college for?

What are you life goals, what do you want eventually do as a career? What don't you like about college (can you change programs/courses)?

You have lots of options, you should think about this a bit more, don't just take the job because its been offered to you.
Ask HN: Click anywhere to type like OneNote
Are there any plain text editors that support the concept of click anywhere to type (i.e., the user need not space/tab/return to a point on the page/scree, but can just click to insert text where the user wants)? OneNote has this functionality, as does the forgotten OpenDoc word processor WAV, which was a great word processor.
Anonymous communities existed before rigid identity on the web. Those anonymous communities clearly provided some kind of value to their members and, thusly, must be considered useful.

How, then, can you argue that rigid identity is a necessary foundation for the usefulness of pen names and anonymity?

Further, I find your claim that men didn't have an identity prior to the advent of leisure time, frankly, extraordinary and, as such, the claim requires extraordinary evidence. Can you provide such evidence? Hell, even the argument that nomads don't engage in leisure time seems dubious. Wild animals have leisure time.
Identity comes from the concept of identification/classification. These are notions which evolved with modernism in Western society, or the ability to measure things exactly for the sake of predicting and knowing. There is no exact meaning for identity due to its elusive nature, as its meaning belongs to the fluid individual. My post presumes the definition, and yes, that makes it just an assertion.
Here's mine in JavaScript, done as exercise 51 of Chapter 5 of SICP: http://boshi.inimino.org/3box/inimino/projects/SICP/chap_5/E...

It's an incomplete toy level Scheme subset with bugs, but it has HTML5 canvas support and some cute features like showing you the progress of the VM instead of hanging the browser, and call/cc. I'd like to finish it someday.
The Microsoft "gift" is a balloon payment that could potentially slaughter some startups.

What happens if you are a year in development and then the service is not profitable yet after two years post-launch?

Does the SQL server just stop running?
Be aware that traditional web development is going to continue to be more and more automated, cheaper, and commoditized.

I used to make good money as a PHP developer 10 years ago. These days I have been priced out of the PHP job market because I'm competing with every college dropout that's willing to do my job for a lot less.
Its really not about the syntax. Its about writing in AST. Availability of large set of libraries. And especially I find it very difficult to use it for my day to day uses(Places where I use Awk, sed and Perl) or in other words everyday practical needs.

I still don't know How to start learning lisp as a beginner and use it for my day to day needs?

I don't think anybody today has the time to study the science behind lisp and then see where its useful to them.

We want some thing that we can browse through and straight away go and use now!

Is there a recipe book?
"Perl's syntax is as intuitive to beginners as that of another language whose tokens and keywords were randomly-generated" is verbose, but accurate. The structure of Randomo was entirely based on Quorum, with certain tokens and keywords randomized. The study really only speaks to the "intuitiveness" of the most superficial parts of those languages' syntax, which is something that Quorum happens to focus on:

action z(integer a, integer b,
integer c) returns number
number d = 0.0
number e = 0.0
integer i = a

repeat b - a times
if i mod c = 0 then
d = d + 1
end
else then
e = e + 1
end

i = i + 1
end

edit: I realize the title I gave isn't short enough to post on HN, but I wanted to reply just to make a point about the study, not your title.
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http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/paradigmsDIAGRAMeng101.pdf

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3150277
And now even less than that. (567)
worst year for CompSci.
This is the first year of college. My life goal is to work for myself and I hope to achieve that by the age of 25.
Yeah, somehow Ive's account of sharing time with Steve felt more intimate and genuine. Really enjoyed his segment, both for content and for it's sentiment.
I have been using jsonpipe lots, it is deeply useful. I use it to use RESTful services as if they were system processes. Also try to use it with something like resty (https://github.com/micha/resty) to really make your life easier.
I don't know about recipe books, but for a general introduction I've found Conrad Barski's _Land of Lisp_ to be very good and loads of fun, although the commentary gets a little triumphalist at times. You can grab it through NoStarch or Amazon iirc.
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Finish college.

You NEED that theory stuff. If you don't get it now, it will stunt your growth and will limit how good you'll get at your craft (mainly because you'll keep making rookie mistakes for the rest of your life because you won't understand the theory behind what you're doing).

Quitting something just because it's hard is a very bad habit to get into. All it does is keep you on the bottom rung for the rest of your life. The good things are hard to get. That never changes no matter your age or station in life.

If you really want to do well in life, start researching companies now, while you're still in school. Find out what they're doing. Find out who they're looking for. Get contacts within those companies and talk to them. Build up a contact network. It's WHO you know that gets you in the door, and WHAT you know that keeps you going.
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The source I read said he never got around to chasing down a transcript and nobody complained.

I think it reasonable to require a transcript for new graduates.
Apple's Jobs told Cook not to ask 'What would Steve do'?
God wrote in Lisp code
"Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." - Steve Jobs
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For me making a start up is like making my dream home.I know how the doors,windows,rooms and every single thing will feel like.But no matter how much i know and want to make it.I need a architect to design my idea and a contractor to make it for me.They don't say u should learn it and make it ur self.
I Respect the fact the coder,hacker and developer are bless with the talent to do coding. Start up need a different type of coding it not something a beginner can learn and code.I hate the fact the coders think coding is so simple and everyone can do it.I am a mechanical Engineer and m sure doing a NDT test is the easiest thing on world.Not the case for your.
Dont underestimate coding,It just like any other profession in which one few are good.
You know i tried learning coding and you know wat i realized.I want to learning in the process my doing my first web project will help me learn.
I dont want to underestimate.But having a idea for you dream house or car or food or any other thing is not simple.There are hard working professional doing it everyday.The problem with web is people from every field use it so its common for those people to find a problem they want to solve.
Thank you and peace :-)
Why would you have lost out? Couldn't you sell the house for more than you could have if you hadn't had solar panels installed?
Retire? I don't really expect to ever see it. I enjoyed my free time while I was young, healthy and full of energy. Retirement sounds rather like surrendering to time and decay. If my mind isn't healthy enough for work, how could I enjoy anything else? I'd rather work until I'm gone.

I think we've got this whole life thing backwards. Enjoy your youth and have happy memories. "Retire" when you're dead.
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Ask HN: What's up with invisible threads?
I was looking for updates to this thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3147157

but it is nowhere to be found on HN. Even after several pages, it does not show up.

I searched for it on Google, and that's how I found it, and it apparently is still present in the HN database, but simply does not show up on the first several pages of HN.

I've noticed this before with other threads, and I'm a bit baffled. Was this flagged as spam? If yes, why wasn't it deleted? If no, why is it hidden?
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