skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely, I suppose I meant that you should try to be aware and get the other person talking. In order to do that you need to find out what that person is interested in. Drilling them with questions isn't really the right approach, rather just steering the conversation in a direction that the other person seems to like.

The very best conversation is going to be when you both happen to be interested in the same topic, in which case there's not much effort or social skill involved. That's easy.

The difficult part is when you're at a situation like the OP mentioned with a lot of "small talk" going on and you are struggling to talk with people, feeling awkward, etc. Perhaps you want to have a friendly conversation with your grandma who is not into computers. Perhaps you're trying to network at a corporate event or you're just trying to chat up a girl/guy, etc. People who are very social are masters of making other people feel that they are interesting. They are usually very skilled at getting you talking.
I have 20-70 data points per hex, at least in the high density regions. While I could have used bigger hexes, I think the difference between a hexbin and a scatterplot is well illustrated.
Weather is a factor here, for example this lasted for a very long period for us humans - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Ice_Age

But then technology advances so fast, so it might be the right stuff.
I think I belong to the 10%. I work as a teacher. I get paid to talk to teenagers, and to get them to think straight and focus their attention. I have been doing this long enough that I have the children of previous students in my class ('my Mum told me about you'). There is pressure (paperwork, deadlines, OFSTED (UK)) but I don't dread getting out of bed in the mornings. It is the opposite of boring where I work, and I spend most of my time with groups of people who stay with me for one or at most two years.

Just in case anyone is looking for an alternative to what they do now...
Journalists routinely confuse energy and power units. Occasionally I write to one of them about it; maybe I'll write to this guy since his email address is readily available.

But yeah, if you look for it you'll see this in maybe 70 or 80% of news stories about power generation.
What kind of redirect is used? Maybe you can get around it by blocking scripts.
And there you have the real answer why it is not used and why uranium/plutonium is. It has very little to do with the economics and safety of energy production.
Like there are many coding free apps for Android and making no money doing it... kids or first timers. I believe in few years there will be less of both, as the first generation doing this has turned bitter and told everyone who cares to listen not to make the same mistake.

Now we are living exceptional times in that cost of hardware to do good work is so cheap that anyone can have a go at photography / programming / ...
In SI, energy is measured in joules, and power is measured in watts. One watt is one joule per second. It's indirect to say "watt-hour", because in effect you're saying joules per second times hours when you could have just said joules.
I like the tabs on the side, that's pretty cool. It would be really great on longer webpages where the user is doing even more scrolling.

cool stuff, man.
The real insight for me is the success of the feed in tariff program. These reward suppliers at higher than market rates for feeding electricity back into the grid. E.g. You get paid retail prices, where you really should only get wholesale, which excludes transmission costs.

For personal generation a well designed feed in tarrif should provide incentive to build solar panels/wind turbines on your roof etc. A million households producing a little power each makes it a lot easier to get to sustainability.
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Actually, only two of those tens of services have anything to do with DRM: apps and iTunes.

For apps: if you stick to free apps, like most Android users do, the point is moot. If your family has more than ten devices, buying a second copy of that $5 app is honestly not a huge burden. If your spouse buys their own apps like any other adult, you can support up to 18 iPhone-toting offspring total, which seems reasonable.

For iTunes: I thought it had DRM-free music now? In which case, you can copy that music on all 200 of your extended family's iPods. What you can't do is let 200 people buy music in your name, but I don't see why you'd want to.

Everything else is unrelated to DRM. It is a mess, yes, but not for DRM reasons.
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That's totally fine. I'm only intending this to be an experiment, and honestly something to hack on in my spare time.

I'm curious though, what would compel you to return?
I suppose they could correctly say "GWh per hour", but it's simpler to just say "GW".
8 is the traditional size of tabs though, isn't it? Seems like a reasonable default. That's partially why some teams (mine included) discourages the use of tabs in source code - its appearance varies depending on what's rendering it, affecting code readability.
I've been looking for a service just like this. Thanks!
Decommission is brutally expensive too.
Then why did BATS not reschedule their IPO again the next day? First impressions, regardless of how illogical they maybe, play a significant role in group behavior.

"Even if their had been a glitch?" Really? 3x the open was postponed, followed by 17 seconds of no quotes/trades on ANY stock from Nasdaq, followed by a crossed quote from same exchange, followed by 3+ hours of no quote in FB from the listed exchange.
I'm a single human being, and unfortunately I need multiple Apple IDs because you can't use the same ID with multiple countries' stores. :(
I've never argued for it being a good metric, only against it being intentionally gamed by any of the sites.
> long-distance seafloor superconducting cables

The strait of Gibraltar is only 14km across. So maybe not all of Europe, but Spain could easily connect with African grids even with conventional equipment.
I don't see the distinction. Tacos cost more per pound than bulldozers, and cost more to produce per additional unit than enterprise software (assuming off-the-shelf and not custom-built).

A taco has just as large a long-term commitment as any durable good. The taco stand has to deal with more, in fact: if the shell is cracked or they forgot the meat, they have to deal with after-the-sale support. If I come down with e.coli and am hospitalized for two weeks they have an additional degree of commitment and exposure to deal with.

The problem I'm describing isn't with custom-built, built-to-spec goods (like some software), but rather commodity durable goods and materials. Whether I design my widget to be made out of stainless or titanium often depends on pricing, and determining that pricing carries unnecessary overhead which serves neither customer nor manufacturer. The opportunity cost of opening the dialog with the titanium company's salesperson becomes nontrivial, because now I have to wait a few days for them to call me back to tell me it costs more than my alternative. Salespeople should be taking down orders, driving traffic, cajoling hot leads, and negotiating discounts, not performing the work of a javascript in a significantly less capable manner.

Until someone does a double-blind study with identical products, my guarantee is based on anecdotal evidence (and as Bender once said, "I can guarantee you anything you want"). I think it would be fun to experiment with an app store listing with "call for price" as its cost. Would it really be so hard to predict a difference in sales?
Citation please. Your "common opinion" has never actually been backed up with any evidence that I've seen.
1. It it most "considerable chunk"
2. We don't pick solar panels in the forest either.
>Apple leads (far and away) in terms of profit per device, and that is the interesting metric for all large corporations.

And this is exactly why I find it quite baffling that Apple are suing like madmen in the recent years.
If you hash the ip and then use that for colouring the hash function is likely to be surjective (rather than bijective) but perhaps you could still work back to "it was probably one of these x (255?) ips"? If you then open source the code too, do you make it more susceptible to working back to the original ip? Perhaps you'd need some form of salt too?
"HFT makes nothing but money for Nasdaq, and narrows spreads for investors."

HFT makes a pile of money for Nasdaq. But narrows the spread?

Prove it.

Here's one of thousands of examples that shows otherwise.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDriNz8oAlc
When it by earthquake/tsunami I know which plant I'd prefer to be near. The pacific rim would not seem ideal for nuclear power.
I'm no American flag waver, but I think the primary reason Germany had better weapons was that they had years of head start in developing them. It makes me wonder if this is why the US has since spent trillions trying to stay ahead of the weapons curve.
I love the name of the center that developed the chip:

Virtus IC Design Centre of Excellence

:)
I'm sure they're going to use other people's launch vehicles, but space races aren't just about how you get to space. Increasingly, they're going to be about what you do there.
The same can be said for the cost of manufacturing and delivering solar panels.
The main difference is in my opinion the visible action - reaction relationship. If a nuclear power plant blows up, the whole area is going to look for years to come like a scene from a apocalyptic movie, while with coal plants you might have just people to "cough a bit more".

The only thing I do not get is why energy companies are not forced to carry more extensive insurance policies to the long term damages/risks they cause. Pushing this through all the way should provide enough incentives to move towards renewables.
with bitcoin, transfers clear within ten minutes. The fees are dramatically cheaper (domestic wire transfers are at least $10, international are more like $30) and there's no need to 'prove' anything.

With bitcoin, you can also do all this at anytime, not just within the 9-5 Mon-Friday, no holiday bank schedules.
I wouldn't call it a flip-flop but they have eased the requirements for compliance.

Regarding the new guidance, the key quote which the post touches on: "Implied consent is certainly a valid form of consent but those who seek to rely on it should not see it as an easy way out or use the term as a euphemism for “doing nothing" ... An example might be that the user is given a clear and unavoidable notice that cookies will be used and on that basis decides to click through and continue to use the site." [1]

In other words, you need more than privacy policies and browser opt-outs to rely on implied consent.

[1] http://www.ico.gov.uk/news/blog/2012/updated-ico-advice-guid...
High Voltage DC cables:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-voltage_direct_current
Incompetence is a pretty common reason for it. Your case you outline is pretty rare.
And that my friends is one of the reasons why as an Indian I cannot live in my country. People are not mean there , but plain old stupid. Stupidity backed by authority. That DOT site. My god!
I don't know if you were influenced by it, but anonymous text boards are somewhat common on the Japanese internet, and there are a small number of English (and Spanish and German) language derivatives. Unfortunately, even though there are several pieces of text board software, they're all very similar. Seeing something like this which is highly divergent is quite a treat.

Are threads ordered by most recent post or something more complicated?
Same article, but reformatted to make it easier to read (for me at least): http://www.readability.com/articles/ikavpsvz
The hash should be salted with the id of each thread. Anonymity on all threads.
Why not?

Because there's too much fluctuation in solar output in Germany.

What is needed to make renewable enery viable in Europe (mainly solar, wind, waves) are better energy storage mechanisms and integration of national grids.
try loggr.com maybe? I used it for my logging purposes and it seemed to work pretty well. Not sure how intensive you want your logs to be though
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The amount of time a nuclear reactor is offline for inspection, refueling, repair, etc is far less than the amount of time it is dark.
1. Current renewable power sources need adjusting power (is that how it translates to English?) when it's not shining or windy.
2. Current distribution networks for electricity do not work well enough to transport large quantities of electricity for long distances.
3. Due to getting rid of nuclear, 90% of new electricity production built to Germany before 2020 will be from fossil fuels. (http://thebreakthrough.org/blog/2012/05/germany_returns_to_c...) That is what "the global leader" can achieve. And the fossil fuel plant's are not going to be closed any faster than nuclear plants. Those investments are for the next 60 years, and it's likely that there will be more if/when cleantech can't really deliver out all the things we need.

And that's a pretty good result btw, truly a world champion -level achievement. Meanwhile, Japan's nuclear phaseout is done with 99,999478% in fossils. (The bloomberg links are down where they were calculated before, but should be googlable with "Japan's Use of Oil May Surge by 300000 Barrels a Day" & "Japan Will Use More Coal During Maintenance, Deutsche Bank Says".

Yes, you can get rid of nuclear, but for all intents and purposes, it has always resulted with more dinosaur burning, not less. And that's pretty bad.

Even with all flaws, nuclear is a lot cheaper economically and environmentally as an insurance option than what Germany and most global economies are currently pursuing.
That's an interesting question, and I don't think I have the answer... And if I did I wouldn't tell you and launch my own website ;)

Seriously though, I think it would be hard to get a sense of community on a website where you can't identify the persons that are interacting with you... But of course the whole point is to be anonymous.

PS: what about the pokeball there ?
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Well there's HTC and Samsung for just patents and the basic old crush the competition in the court room that I can think off
Psystar
eMachines
Microsoft

But the "common opinion" is most definitely because of how they really opened the door to this being main stream practice with the Samsung lawsuit.
There are already plans for making Africa the power generator of Europe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec
Yup. The first thing I heard about this game was my friend showing me his automated trade arbitrage spreadsheets.
The threads are ordered by if they are sticky and then the most recent item.

I've looked into ("chan"?) text boards, but they're all in PHP and usually in some huge file with no separation of concerns.
I love the idea of realtime anonymous forums by accident some months ago. I was writing an updated library for Friendfeed's API and decided to write a client for testing, but while rushing through I had left out identifying information from the client.

It was one of the most interesting experiences I've had online; I noticed that I was liking/not-liking things specific people would say, that I normally wouldn't. I had somehow managed to surpass the internal biases I had built up about specific people. Obviously doesn't answer the question of how I'd change if I was acting anonymously, since everyone else could identify me. But for me looking out and interacting largely anonymously with people I already knew was profound.

Personally, I find the color's annoying and cluttered, but it is a decent idea to add some common identity inside a thread. I like the idea in general, and would love to see more things like it.

You're writing was great. I laughed several times during the "Then all hell broke loose" section.
I noticed the same thing. The typeface choice makes it easier to confuse "t" and "l".
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Which?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/20/us-japan-nuclear-t...

Most of those things are by-design made to be sturdy as fuck. And so far, no-one has died from Fuku-radiation?
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I am British but live in Germany. I need two Apple IDs for the same iPad. One for my UK account and one for a German account because you can only subscribe to BBC iPlayer Global on non-UK stores. I don't really use the German iTunes account because Apple forces me to use the store in German, which is viable but certainly not my personal preference.

Programmers have a bad habit of assuming that country of residence == language preference.

A worse practice is IP-to-location and then assuming language preference. Grrrrrr.

Did you know that there are more Catalan speakers in the world than people that speak Norweigan? I used to live in Spain. All websites assume you speak Spanish. That must really piss off Catalan speakers, all 11.5 million or so of them.
So, this is a bit of an aside, but last night I wrote a patch for WebView on iOS to enable WebGL in Safari (which I believe I'm releasing on the Cydia store soon for $1 probably; I figure why not), and the iPad 3 runs this really well: http://i.imgur.com/rs70S.jpg

Smooth as butter, but it seems that everyone uses onmousedown/over/up rather than ontouch* events, so click-to-view type things don't work at all on iOS, meaning you can't rotate the model here. I guess that's simply because WebGL has been 99.9% on the desktop so far, with the few exceptions being Mobile Firefox, Boot2Gecko, and the Playbook browser. Still interesting I think, though.
Interesting collection, but as the intro states: Any kind of CSS goes, as long as it's supported in at least one browser.

More impressive and useful would have been a reasonable floor above which the tricks were guaranteed across browsers. ...or at least a compatibility note next to each technique. For example, IE 8 can't handle rounded corners, so infinity, egg, packman, talk bubble, etc do not work at all. Version 8 is as high as Windows XP users can go with IE, so there's a lot of IE 8 out there still.
> Then why did BATS not reschedule their IPO again the next day? First impressions, regardless of how illogical they maybe, play a significant role in group behavior.

Why reschedule? Who is supposed to benefit therefrom? Why are you trying to predetermine winners? It can't possibly matter for the long-term prospects of the stock, unless the sharp money runs out of bankroll.
You could also consider Diablo 3 on account of its auction house (once it actually starts working). It's very fascinating to game the market and turn a profit, and I'm sure there's a lot of things outside of videogames to be learnt from using it.

As of now, the auction house is basically the unofficial endgame of Diablo 3.
But there was significantly more investment in cleantech
than there was in the Internet during the last decade.

While said as an aside, if true, this is incredibly significant. Even if there is an internet bubble, it's hard not to argue that very real, visible progress has been made in web technologies over the last 10 years. Whereas the price of many forms of energy has (if anything) increased in real terms.

A glance at the numbers suggests that the government put more taxpayer money into Solyndra type companies than it did into web startups, and that this was one of the things that drew less scrupulous venture people to the area: use the dumb money from the government for an exit.
The reason is that the costs of a failure of a nuclear power station are such that no insurance company would take on such a risk on commercial basis and even if they did, no energy company would be able/willing to pay the premiums.

It all works only because government(s) get their bombs, energy companies in cahoots with the government get their unrealistically low 'production costs' and the suckers taxpayers pay for any accidents and cleanups, whose costs are therefore never included in the accounting when making the comparisons.

German electors still have some say in the matter and they did their sums.
(spoiler alert)

Not even psychohistory worked in the long run. It fundamentally could not predict the Mule.
Thanks David for sharing your thoughts. It is a really powerful piece. Wish I know Cued Speech to communicate with you.
Why is Cued Speech not more popular. What can be done to popularize Cued Speech? Seems like it has application not only only for the hearing impaired, but for the elderly who require the use of hearing aids to communicate with others.
Full sentence : "It will not be particularly useful to a developer who is comfortable with git, heroku, ftp, or another method of hosting a website."

But the thing is, drapache is for the programmers [1], if you read full readme you will notice, to use drapache you need to understand basics of programming ( maybe js for static pages and python for dynamic pages).

Now, i understand "It's c00l" but the coolness != useful

[1]Readme/.dbpy : Although far from finished, the dbpy framework is enough for beginning programmers to get started building dynamic websites.
They also have preposterous amounts of investment money and a space telescope under construction. Literally under construction; they're making hardware as we speak. Most of what they want to do is still only on paper, but they're a bit further along than your post suggests.
I'm using MD5 for the hash, so I believe that makes it surjective? I could be very wrong though. Salting by the post ID is a very good idea. I might implement that tonight!
iOS should have user accounts. The Apple ID situation is fine for the smaller devices (iPod touch and iPhone), as they are usually only used by a single person and Apps can be shared anyways by temporarily logging into another account.

The iPad, however, is probably more commonly shared among family members. I'd love to read my mail on our iPad, but I certainly don't want my brother to read them. And always typing in my password is definitely less convenient than just waiting for my desktop computer to boot or using my iPhone.
Why pay the extra cost for a laptop if you are always going to use it in one place?
The 3 minute tutorial idea is nice. But the problem of the videos are that the author seems to expect already the viewer to have an idea for an applied project.

For someone who just wants to play with it (apparently OP & me), the structure looks extremely un-inviting. I would love to see some project or research problem as early as possible in the process and not entertain myself with juicy videos such as "how to handle NA (missing values) in r: understand and detect NA, remove NA, replace NA with 0" without knowing what when where and why I can apply that.
They are taught to trust the computer. To let it do its magic. Why then, should they go and learn how it works? For what purpose?

Imagine a world where people actually knew how to code. That means they would have enough skills to do basic math, and science. They would ask questions, rather than accept the answers given. They would challenge authority, rather than sit down and take orders.
Thank you, OP, for reminding us in the U.S. that Memorial Day wasn't meant for barbeques and sales, but for remembering.

R.I.P.

Max Marcus, (1923-1944), KIA, Battle of the Bulge.

George Weissman, (1925-1945), DOW, Germany.

To the uncles I never met and the cousins who never came to be.
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Your post is highly condescending with terms such as "like any other adult".
What happens if you have a file format, or network protocol, that stores timestamps in a 32-bit field?
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In my opinion it has been a long time since external displays and wireless networks were a problem in linux (at least in debian).

More importantly I <3 pandoc!!!
Hang on a second, storage is the limiting factor here. If we had cheap, dense, efficient storage, the rest would work itself out.
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