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Considering my American thermostat supports both, I wouldn't think this will be a problem.

Making sure Celsius happens is much easier than other international problems. (Say, different currencies, a problem my startup is dealing with now).
My point was that it can take up most of the load in the day and then other methods can take the load at night. Niche does not mean unimportant. Solar could easily produce about 90% of power for some regions (remember, electricity is a valuable export commodity) and other methods will take up the load at night. That is where we are going and that is what the article is about. Once the price gets down low enough solar will become the first choice and other choices will just support it, much like coal or natural gas is that choice at the moment. Economics is a very powerful force.
While I agree with the need to push yourself, and it might have worked for you, I disagree that this is a lame excuse in general.

Good work requires focus. Whether you can work and handle school at the same time also depends on your course load. If you are spending 70 hours a week on classes, an extra 40 hours a week (though not impossible) might not be worth a decrease in performance in both activities.
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Thank you John, RIP
There's some negativity here, but I have to say I'm impressed. This is a nice bit of low hanging fruit for a segway into smarter home technology, something we've been promised for ages but which has consistently failed to deliver IMHO. Add in the green factor and I think this has the potential to be a pretty damn good business with plenty of room for future product growth.
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That's a strange change of tone from their rant in May that signed off with "Go for the tried and true path. Don't be risking your data on NoSQL databases."

http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:G4pI4ZOkzWYJ:w...
I first learned programming writing BBC BASIC; perl is now my weapon of choice but I'm not sure I would have liked it nearly as much had I learned it first.

Interestingly (perhaps) I repeatedly hear from people with language/humanities background that they tried both python and perl and found perl much, much easier to start to get things done with - the more natural-language-ish aesthetic of perl being a strong contributor to that (I'm a pure maths grad but my parents are both Eng. Lit. grads, so I guess I sort of count in the "humanities background" category).

On the other hand, people with non-humanities backgrounds almost always found python easier to start to get things done with, even if they later found perl to be their preference.

Above comments based purely on anecdata; take them for what you will.
Unfortunately, I don't think either of those can be measured empirically.
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Home depot commits to much aisle space to programmable thermostats for them to simply be a new build or even a contractor replacement.

Anecdotally I certainly know several folks who have DIY'ed programmable thermostats into their homes.
i was a powerseller on ebay but decided to stop logging onto ebay 2007, when meg whitman issued that huge price hike. sorry, bad business decision. why should i use ebay if i could list everything on Craigslist for free? plus with the huge price hike i was losing money.
> but the low cost, convenience, and value add of netflix

I still find it much more convenient to head over to TPB (or another tracker of my choice), find a torrent of whatever I want to watch, download (and share) it, and then be able to play it with my favorite media player - as many times as I want.

I don't see what value a streaming service is supposed to add over a local copy. It's a waste of bandwidth as soon as you watch something more than once, and the quality will never reach that of a local copy.

By the way, I'm not exactly poor. Asserting that their financial standing has anything to do with the reason people pirate is a confusion of correlation and causation.
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Yes, it's okay to create, run and save code on the device.

I had functionality early on to allow downloading your own projects through iTunes onto your PC. Apple rejected that so the feature was removed.

(It will be re-added tonight and I will appeal their decision if they reject again, I just didn't want it to delay the initial release.)
This would be amazing if it weren't limited to a few different coloured LEDs. This isn't really heads up in the traditional sense..
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This is the same idea as Personal Banks. The idea is that if you want something, you save up the money, then lend yourself the cash.
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> The problem is that we're all told 'go to college'.

> What we're not told is 'go to college and learn a worthwhile skill'.

I almost agree with this. I think that there is some ideal number of humanities students to be cranked out of universities per year, but we're way over that. As a result, the demand can't meet the supply. In fact, the demand might be reduced due to the troubles involved in filtering through the flood of applicants.

The real problem is that universities behave like anything else: they'd rather make a quick buck. They admit way more humanities students than are needed because they can make more money that way. Engineering students cost a lot of money, they're whiny, and they smell bad. (Disclaimer: I was a whiny engineering student.) Why would you want more of them when you could surround yourself with kids who cost less and will pay you tons of money just to get away from their parents?
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The actual paper:
http://dl.packetstormsecurity.net/0610-advisories/Practical_...
Samsung does not have any button:

http://www.engadget.com/photos/samsung-galaxy-tab-10-1-unbox...
Just got the wife's permission and signed up, wish us luck.
I think you mean 5.3 Watt-hours (Wh), 4500 W, and 725 kWh?

http://www.energylens.com/articles/kw-and-kwh
Here's mine, in JavaScript: https://github.com/TikhonJelvis/js-scheme
Live here: http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~tikhon/scheme

I never got macros to work :( Still, the basics like lambdas do work.

The really cute bit is that it lets you include <script language="scheme"> blocks in your html and actually parses them. It even lets the scheme code access JavaScript objects using some special syntax.

There's one of those blocks in the source of the page; be sure to check it out.
> Adding battery packs significantly increase the cost of a system by an order of magnitude.

At current prices. Grid-scale batteries are expensive now because each is a unique specialty product. If we built sodium-sulfur batteries in the same volume as we build gasoline storage tanks, the price would decrease dramatically.

Efficiency gains also matter, because net system efficiency is a geometric process. Consider a 20% efficient solar cell and a 20% efficient battery: the system efficiency is a ghastly 4%. And that's not counting power conversion and transmission.

If the solar cell and battery were boosted to 40% efficiencies (physically possible), then the system efficiency would rise to 16%, a factor of 4 increase. That's halfway through the order of magnitude price problem you give.

Then there's heating and cooling efficiency. American buildings and refrigerators tend to have horrible insulation. In many localities, merely using proper insulation closes the rest of the price gap.
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Steve Jobs and Sean Parker don't actually seem like they'd do well in school. Their temperament and personality types run counter to how school is structured, while in companies people are more capable of getting away with a kind of free-wheeling style.

I'll speak for myself when I say I hate school. It's not about education, I wonder when it was. Not anymore for sure, more about that piece of paper at the end of it all that says "you can get a job now". It's about not having to do the work yourself and on your own initiate. It's about teaching you to be an employee.

I never saw the value in it. If one's considering going for it any time, even once in a college, my advice is GO. Even if you fail, at least you'll sleep a little better at night.

Educations' flaws are deep in the system itself. It comes from the Industrial mentality of worker lines and an Enlightenment paradigm of the mind, both of which at best are fallacious. Education can't be given. You're not extracting valuable skills by bullshitting that English paper.

Education is something you honestly have to desire and seek.
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I don't like the cult around Jobs that is being created.
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It's much easier to go from college to a job, and much harder to go the other way. Drop out if you end up inventing a successful business that's a once in a lifetime thing and pulls you out (think Gates and Zuck, not Jobs), but not for just another job. There are plenty of those where that came from.
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I think you're referring to the 'shopped photos that Apple released of the Samsung Tablet for their court case. There is no button.

And the rest of the tablet is just a screen. There aren't many other ways to design it.
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Looks like (as usual) no flash, no problem, as this hack exploits flash's ignorance of proxies to cause a direct phone-home.

Tor is working as advertised. Flash just can't be made to use the proxy. The title should be "flash exploited to compromise privacy". But that would pretty much describe all articles about flash.
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How does Wikileaks threaten soldiers? It's not as if they have a live feed from the battlefield, or their own satellite. Also, they seem to scan stuff before they release it. This "threat" really seems to be blown out of proportion.

And what if a Jewish soldier is captured in battle and his enemies are avid readers of Stormfront?
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Except when forced to by law. Illinois doesn't allow Microsoft to do that and Illinois residents can cancel with one click.
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They just have to exchange them back into dollars today then. Why wait till tomorrow?
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Do you have a citation for that? I've never visited the Wikileaks site, and now it seems to be down. Edit: oops, never mind, it is at wikileaks.org, not .com - found the BitCoin reference.

Could not make sense of their IRC thing, though. Why not generate a new BitCoin address directly on the page?
Call me old fashioned but I wouldn't want to be a part of something I can't proudly tell my kids about. I know this sounds ignorant but I'm just being honest.
Thanks for that, and I feel horrible with my cheap shot, just hours before the legend himself passed. Lisp is brilliant and has been one of the very few lights we've had to guide us. My heart breaks at the news of John's passing.
I suspect Groupon is fraud. They are a one time ripoff, and after that have no recurring customers. The faster they crash, the faster Silicon Valley can focus on value creating lasting startups.
This is going to sound terribly naive, but I don't know what we have here in Aus. I've got a mortgage, car loan and credit card, but the process for getting them was relatively mundane. I know if you sign up for a phone plan they do a "credit check" but I don't know what it involves. I assume we have something, but I've never had cause to think about it before
I did not in any way wish to insult you or Wendy. I was just making a sarcastic comment about the fact that Wikipedia discourages one from entering information on the site even if one had first hand direct knowledge of said information.

This is one of the more controversial and often debated Wikipedia rules.
This is genius. My parents have a variety of crappy programmable thermostats, none of which they can figure out (or I, given the amount of time I've spent with them… the devices always seem to reset to factory settings eventually).

I will be buying at least one of these.
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Is it me or have they missed the point?

I can't imagine having to lift and put back that keyboard every two minutes. Surely if you need a keyboard you get one, not one that overlays half the screen.
Technology only way out for developing Nations
I want to start a technology company to do research and churn out innovative ways to do stuff in Africa. Technology is the only way to our never-ending issues.

It occurs to most of us in developing nations and should be obvious that adoption of best practices and especially automation technology is the only way out of poverty, perpetual famine, name it!

Easier said than done, the key challenge is getting people to actually embrace said technology. I'm from Kenya, and not too long ago someone introduced a tea-picking machine to boost tea production, a high currency earner for Kenya! But the opposition that was faced was serious! This is the story of the introduction of computers all over again: People saw computers as a threat rather than a tool to boost productivity...

One way to adopt a forgiving culture for technology is to involve would be consumers in the creative process of the technology in question. This will result in total ownership for the technology, and eventual adoption by others!

I have a few projects I've been hoping to have adopted here in Kenya, and my challenge has been as described above. What I've been trying to do is rally support, by creating promotions and competitions to get people involved and thereby adopt said ideas. It isn't always easy, but its fun!

One idea pertains to use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in conservation and other efforts (nairobi-uav.blogspot.com). Buying a UAV and flying in Nairobi is outrageous under the current model (where anything technological is perceived as the enemy), so I thought building one and getting Kenyans to own it would be easier, and so far I've gotten two or three people interested. I'm looking to have a competition to get people involved in a challenge to build a UAV, and win cool stuff! That will also give me an insight into who would be a potential go-to guy when I start-up.

Another pertains to agriculture. We always have famine when the rains fail, and are therefore totally reliant on nature to determine our future, instead of us taking measures to ensure constant food supplies. So I decided to make a farm automation platform with pluggable farm implements, the subject of which is the basis for my research at Warwick University (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/pg/students/esrkan/)

Ultimate, there are people here in Kenya with interesting ideas, and I hope to work with them to dream up new ones for the future!
Awesome. Been working with a lot of APIs, and I also looked for a way to print it out better in terminal. I found an alternative. If you have python, you can pipe it to -mjson.tool and it will pretty print it in the terminal.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/352098/how-to-pretty-prin...
I think it is a fantastic idea. The world needs more people caring about this kind of problems.
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Shall we compare new users of TextEdit to new users of vi?
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Like real estate, the value of college may have peaked.
The whole thing is actually 5 years old, look at the date above...
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The semantics for System F could be explained in roughly a paragraph. Lisp is, more or less, simply typed lambda calculus + code-as-nested-lists + compile-time computation mechanisms; Haskell and ML are System F + various type mechanisms (e.g. typeclasses or modules.)

On the other hand, I suspect an abstract machine for executing Lisp—one that accounted for reader macros and the like—would be of roughly the same complexity as the STG machine.
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Flagging for an inaccurate and sensationalist headline.
Or we could stop this patent nonsense in the first place. They are nothing more than catalysts for petty lawsuits that look little better than kids throwing sand at each other. Or a group of high-school kids bullying a kindergartener, if we'd be talking about one of the many lawsuits from the big players against small businesses.
I remember seeing your tutorial before and thinking it looked like a great exercise. Do you think it would be worthwhile for someone with a moderate Haskell background who wants to learn some Scheme? Or is it best to go into it the other way round?
The angle that you almost never see mentioned in discussions like this is those 0.01 percent of scenarios where "both mother and baby are doing well" isn't true. There are all kinds of risks, complications and gut wrenching, soul searing, life destroying outcomes which you're up for when you play the game of life.
That is indeed unfortunate then. :(
Thanks for the clarification.
The headline is completely inaccurate, and demonstrates the submitter didn't understand the article. Namank, please flog yourself before ever submitting again.

I used to have a crazy setup that caused network traffic of my criteria to be pulled off the wire and sent over Tor.

It used iptables' MARK target and source routing to select the PPP interface. The pppd talked to a slirp (http://slirp.sourceforge.net/); Slirp takes TCP packets and attempts to emulate their effect using regular UNIX socket calls.

Slirp being wrapped in tsocks and Tor, resulted in the desired TCP connections actually occurring over Tor. As for DNS, that could be handled transparently using the same approach, although I never got around to this.

This was all totally transparent to any machines living behind the router.

While a bit contrived, this setup could easily be replicated on either a OpenWRT router, or possibly even a new style of Tor client program, which acted more like a real network interface on the user's machine.

A client configuration like that wouldn't suffer from the problem described in this article.
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Apples and oranges. Can you explain implicit continuation representation in a paragraph?

The simple description of lazy evaluation is graph reduction. ML doesn't even use lazy evalution.
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I couldn't figure what what this things was after skimming over landing page - after watching 'How to use Asana, in 2 minutes' it seems like it's kind of task-list/to-do/reminder thing - which makes me think of Trello. Honest question - how is it different and/or better than Trello?
Are people just clicking to see what happens though?

I shouldn't have to spell out the obvious to HN: an increase in clicks because of blind curiosity rather than an increase in clicks because the value proposition is better understood is meaningless.
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Maybe in IT college is overrated, but when is something about i don't know let say medicine.... If I were sick I'll pay the best doctors I could, I won't be looking for somebody that has a fancy ad or millions of likes or followers or pluses and does not have a degree in medicine....

Maybe in the verge of death I'll look for a shaman...

Overall my point is that college is not overrated for all the careers. The article did not focus only on IT....

And IT is not only about coding
This study is entirely useless because they invalidated themselves from the start by providing the worst possible Perl examples they could. I quote the salient parts:

"participants were given a code sample worksheet for the particular language group they were in. The general idea of the experiment is to give novice users code samples similarly to if a participant was learning to program from home on the Internet.

This code shows one of the code samples provided to participants."

$x = &z(1, 100, 3);

sub z{
$a = $ [0];
$b = $ [1];
$c = $ [2];
$d = 0.0;
$e = 0.0;
for ($i = $a; $i <= $b; $i++){
if ($i % $c == 0) {
$d = $d + 1;
}
else {
$e = $e + 1;
}
}
if ($d > $e) {
$d;
}
else {
$e;
}
}

This ridiculous thing was supposed to help their test subjects learn Perl.

If all their perl samples looked like that it should not be a surprise to anyone that their test subjects were entirely confounded. What is missing in that paper is a description of how they actually sourced their code samples, as well as a list of all code samples provided.
Home automation AND iOS devices would definitly be the next megatrend.

Hopefully they will stick to already existing implementation standards (C-BUS, X10) or develop a free usable standard (beware of patents)

ah, and please offer a RESTful api for the rest of us :)
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I apologize on his behalf. You should know that the majority of the community here isn't trollish like that.